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Background and purpose: Routine collection of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) may provide valuable real-world data on quality of life (QoL) and treatment tolerability, complementing clinical outcomes. This study evaluated the feasibility of launching a semi-automated, department-wide PROM collection program at a large tertiary radiotherapy centre. Patients and methods: Patients ≥ 18 year
Background: Current research addressing recovery and everyday occupations among individuals with severe mental illness tends to focus on people of working age, whereas those aging with such conditions receive little attention. Whether younger and older users of mental health services differ regarding how they perceive their everyday occupations, personal recovery and quality of life seems unknown.
The development of techniques to culture and differentiate adult and pluripotent stem cells into diverse cell types over the past decades has sparked an increasing interest in the use of cells for organ regeneration. Such therapies aim to replace lost or damaged cells with functional ones. This can be achieved either through tissue engraftment of therapeutic cells or via their paracrine effects on
Quantitative Adverse Outcome Pathways (qAOPs) can support next-generation risk assessment by integrating new approach methods (NAMs) for deriving points of departure. To be useful, a qAOP should be chemical-agnostic. However, existing qAOP studies often pool multichemical data without adequately addressing cross-chemical heterogeneity. Consequently, pathway relationships become obscured by heterog
Background: Social prescribing (SP) has emerged as a non-medical strategy to enhance cancer survivors’ well-being by addressing psychosocial challenges through diverse interventions. Despite growing evidence of benefits, a comprehensive synthesis of intervention effectiveness and implementation barriers remains limited. This scoping review updates current evidence on SP interventions, outcomes, an
From Concepts to Action: Building on the foundational work of our 2025 workshop, this second edition shifts from exploring what sustainability means in HRI to producing actionable outcomes for the community. Last year, we identified strong but often unacknowledged engagement with social and environmental sustainability, alongside gaps in shared language and practical frameworks. This year, we focu
Proteins make complex life possible, yet our understanding of their emergence remains limited. What are the informational limits of protein folding, and how did the first proteins emerge? Protein simplification studies—in which contemporary folds are built from limited alphabets, symmetrized, fragmented, or shortened—have provided key insights into these questions. These studies use design constra
Background: Ventricular fibrillation (VF) during acute ischemia is linked to increased dispersion of ventricular repolarization (DOR), which is considered a robust marker of arrhythmic susceptibility. In previous works, we showed that a time-warping-based index quantifying morphological changes from the T-wave peak to the T-wave end over a PCA transform lead, dPCAw,Tpe, outperformed the T-peak-to-
OBJECTIVE: To improve health conditions among hypogonadal men ≥70 years of age using testosterone undecanoate (TU) injections, progressive strength training, and oral supplements of vitamin D, calcium, and protein.METHODS: This study is a 1-year follow-up of a double-blind RCT lasting 20 weeks, including 148 older men ≥70 years old with low testosterone levels and mobility problems. During 52 week
BACKGROUND: Due to increasing older populations worldwide, injuries, disabilities and deaths caused by falls among the elderly represent a growing human and societal problem. We aimed to improve health among men of at least 70 years of age with low-normal to low testosterone and mobility problems by using testosterone undecanoate (TU) injections, progressive strength training, and oral supplements
BackgroundEarly Absenteeism Guide for Lifelong Education (EAGLE) is an early, school-based intervention designed to help school personnel address emerging school absenteeism. EAGLE aims to support early identification, strengthen school–parent collaboration, and guide parents in managing school attendance through a holistic assessment framework.ObjectiveThis qualitative exploratory study investiga
This thesis examines the discursive mechanisms through which prominent technology founders mobilise entrepreneurial identity to construct and legitimise visions of political governance in their public discourse. Drawing on Faircloughian Critical Discourse Analysis and the concept of ideological entrepreneurship, the study analyses a corpus of public texts produced by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk betw
This thesis examines the lived experiences of women in Rosengård, Malmö, a neighborhood that has been labeled as dangerous in Swedish public discourse and categorized as an “especially vulnerable area” by the Swedish police in 2015. Rosengård bears a stigmatized reputation based on negative media representation, institutional labeling and both political and public discourse. Drawing on eleven semi
This thesis examines the profitability effects of a systemic supply chain disruption such as COVID-19 through the inventory intensity and supply chain exposure levels of affected firms. Prior research has largely explored these aspects separately, whereas this thesis combines inventory and exposure variables to investigate both their individual and joint effects. Using a sample of US-based publicl
This study aims to determine whether financial development has an impact on capital structure, and whether this effect varies across industries. This is of particular interest due to ties between capital structure choice and firm performance. Panel data between 2010 and 2019 of 20,284 firms operating in 46 countries of varying financial development was used for a fixed effects regression. Financia
Syftet med denna studie är att öka kunskapen om mellanchefers roll i organisatoriska förändringar. Studien fokuserar särskilt på hur mellanchefer nära den operativa verksamheten upplever, tolkar och hanterar förändringsarbete i praktiken. Studien utgår från teorier om meningsskapande och organisatoriskt lärande för att analysera hur mellanchefer tolkar förändringar, hanterar osäkerhet och skapar f
