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OBJECTIVE: Firstly, is the negative psychological effect of obesity also present in the whole population of obese and overweight children? Secondly, what tools could be recommended to measure the psychological effects of obesity? DESIGN: Review. METHODS: Quality of life or self-esteem is often used in evaluating the psychological effects of obesity. Test instruments used have been instruments for
T cell homeostasis is largely controlled by a balance between cell death and survival and anomalies in either process account for a number of diseases linked to excessive or faulty T cell growth. Yet, the influence that cells outside the immunological system have on these processes has only recently received attention. Accumulated evidence indicate that homeostasis of the CD4+ and CD8+ T cell pool
Secondary metabolites from fungi have become a major source of chemical innovation in programs searching for lead molecules with bioactivities, especially over the last 50 years. In this review, we discuss the fundamental considerations in the discovery of molecules for agricultural and medicinal uses. This group of organisms possesses a strong potential for scientific and industrial communities.
Gene therapy has reached the forefront of studies and research over the last 30 years because of its potential for curing, treating, and preventing diseases associated with DNA mutations. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are two examples of very common polygenic and multifactorial diseases. The huge amount of scientific literature on this topic reflects a growing general interest in the possibilities of
Versioning of components in a system is a well-researched field where various adequate techniques have already been established. In this paper, we look at how versioning can be extended to cover also the structural aspects of a system. There exist two basic techniques for versioning - intentional and extensional - and we propose a unified extensional versioning model for versioning of both compone
Secreted and transmembrane mucins are important components of innate defence at the body's mucosal surfaces. The secreted mucins are large, polymeric glycoproteins, which are largely responsible for the gel-like properties of mucus secretions. The cell-tethered mucins, however, are monomeric but are typically composed of two subunits, a larger extracellular subunit which is heavily glycosylated wh
Objective: The longitudinal epidemiological development of the new variant of Chlamydia trachomatis was studied after appropriate testing procedures had been introduced when the strain was detected in 2006. Methods: The number of cases of the new variant of C trachomatis was followed from 2007 through 2011 from the laboratory records. Testing for C trachomatis is centralised to one laboratory wit
Forskningsområdet kring employer branding har vuxit till ett nyckelområde inom strategisk kommunikation. Forskningen har varit otillräcklig när det gäller att studera det praktiska arbetet med employer branding i relation till offentlig och privat sektor. Denna uppsats syftar till att analysera vilka budskap organisationer väljer att kommunicera och hur de använder utförandestrategier som employerThe field of employer branding has grown from attracting little interest into a key subject within strategic communication. The research is fairly inadequate when it comes to studying the practical work of employer branding in the context of the public and private sectors. This paper aims to analyse what messages organizations choose to communicate and how they use strategies such as employer bran
Many bacterial pathogens interfere with the contact system (kallikrein kinin system) in human plasma. Activation of this system has two consequences: cleavage of high-molecular-mass kininogen (HK) resulting in release of the potent proinflammatory peptide bradykinin, and initiation of the intrinsic pathway of coagulation. In this study, two species of the Gram-negative anaerobic commensal organism
The focus of this study is the frozen ethnic conflicts emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These conflicts have been long disregarded by the EU and popped into European foreign policy agenda relatively recently. Thus the study tries to understand, first the security concerns that the unresolved state of these conflicts bear also for the EU security and what policy instruments the Union
The interactions of the ECM (extracellular matrix) protein asporin with ECM components have previously not been investigated. Here, we show that asporin binds collagen type I. This binding is inhibited by recombinant asporin fragment LRR (leucine-rich repeat) 10-12 and by full-length decorin, but not by biglycan. We demonstrate that the polyaspartate domain binds calcium and regulates hydroxyapati
Genom EU-förordningen 650/2012 om internationella arvsfrågor har nationalitetsprincipen bytts mot hemvistprincipen med avseende på vilket lands arvsregler som ska tillämpas inom EU. Ingen harmonisering har dock skett av arvsrätten inom EU, och i den situation att en person byter hemvistland inom EU blir det således angeläget att jämföra ländernas arvsregler och vid behov upprätta testamente. Åtski
Denna studie ämnar att öka förståelsen för hur Volvo Cars, som ett multinationellt företag, stärker sitt varumärke genom att strategiskt knyta an till den nationella identiteten och tillhörande myter för att kommunicera svenskhet och mångkultur. Studiens empiriska material består av tre reklamfilmer i Volvos kampanj Made by Sweden, som utifrån ett kvalitativt perspektiv analyseras med hjälp av semThe aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how Volvo Cars, a multinational company, strengthen their brand by strategically relating to national identity and its corresponding myths in order to communicate swedishness and multiculturalism. The study’s empirical material consists of three advertising films from Volvo’s campaign Made by Sweden which from a qualitative perspective is a
Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BM-MSCs) are critical for hematopoiesis and have been largely explored for potential stem cell therapies in a variety of diseases. This will inescapably create the need for long term storage via cryopreservation. Nevertheless, the effect of cryopreservation on primary human BM-MSCs remains largely unknown. We demonstrated that the surface marker expression pa
