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Background: Left ventricular (LV) dysfunction is well documented in the critically ill. We assessed 1-year mortality in relation to cardiac biomarkers and LV function parameters by echocardiography in patients with shock. Methods: A prospective, observational, cohort study of 49 patients. B-natriuretic peptide (BNP), high-sensitive troponin T (hsTNT) and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) were a

Global regulatory circuits together with more specific local regulators play a notable role when cells are adapting to environmental changes. Lactococcus lactis is a lactic acid bacterium abundant in nature fermenting most mono- and disaccharides. Comparative genomics analysis of the operons encoding the proteins and enzymes crucial for catabolism of lactose, maltose and threhalose revealed an obv

This thesis is a critical discourse analysis of ten articles from three Swedish newspapers about the 2011 revolution in Egypt. The purpose of the study is to see if any postcolonial discourses can be found in the reporting and, if so, how we can understand the consequences of these for the way we think about people’s identities and about the future of Egypt. In the thesis’ analysis three postcolo

En person som stammar får ofta lära sig att tala långsamt, för att på så sätt minska sin stamning. Betyder det att hög talhastighet alltid försvårar stamningen? Och ökar i så fall stamningsgraden linjärt med talhastigheten?

Klimatrelaterad migration är en betydande och oundviklig konsekvens av klimatförändringarna, och något som kommer att ske alltmer i takt med att klimatrelaterade händelser och katastrofer sker med ökad frekvens och magnitud. Olika stater har bidragit olika mycket till de antropogena klimatförändringarna, med vilka riskerna är ojämnt fördelade mellan stater och områden världen över. Vidare är vissaMigration is a considerable, as well as an inevitable, consequence of climate change. As the frequency and dimension of climate change events increase, climate induced migration will increase as well. Not all states have contributed equally to the anthropogenic climate change, nor do they face the same risks connected with it. Furthermore, climate change does not affect everyone within a state in

Personer med HIV utsätts för stigmatisering och diskriminering inom hälso- och sjukvård. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att belysa sjuksköterskors attityder vid bemötande av personer med HIV både från sjuksköterskors samt HIV-positiva personens perspektiv. tio vetenskapliga artiklar som behandlade problemområdet lästes och analyserades, varav fem berörde sjuksköterskors perspektiv och fem p

Functionalization of a TB analogue through a six step synthesis has been performed, collecting valuable material for further synthesis towards a heptakis TB analogue and characterization of intermediates. Previous work in the Wärnmark group has produced this heptakis TB analogue and this project focused on following the worked out procedure and improving it where possible. The synthesis started fr

Traditionally in climate change politics there has been a tension between development and environmental protection. To solve this issue sustainable development can and is widely used as a strategy. This thesis analyses the Kyoto protocol looking at the representation and the potential existence of this tension. Idea analysis is used as the method of analysing the Kyoto protocol as this is a suitab

Combinatorial optimization provides a powerful framework for solving complex optimization problems with general-purpose solvers by modelling the problem in an abstract language. Due to breakthroughs in algorithms to solve combinatorial optimization problems in last decades, combinatorial optimization has become a valid approach to solve many real world problems efficiently. Key application areas a

Background: The Earth Hologenome Initiative (EHI) is a global endeavor dedicated to revisit fundamental ecological and evolutionary questions from the systemic host–microbiota perspective, through the standardized generation and analysis of joint animal genomic and associated microbial metagenomic data. Results: The first data release of the EHI contains 968 shotgun DNA sequencing read files conta

A family of eukaryotic proline racemase-like genes has recently been identified. Several members of this family have been well characterized and are known to catalyze the racemization of free proline or trans-4-hydroxyproline. However, the majority of eukaryotic proline racemase-like proteins, including a human protein called C14orf149, lack a specific cysteine residue that is known to be critical