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Introduction Patient outcome measures are required to assess the quality of healthcare. Tools for a patients' self-assessment of quality of recovery, during perioperative care, have been developed during the last decade. The Postoperative Quality of Recovery Scale (PostopQRS) questionnaire is one of the most well-accepted and validated tools available. Here we assess the PostopORS questionnaire in

Aim. The epidemiology of critical limb ischemia (CLI) is insufficiently studied, and treatment of risk factors for atherosclerosis has received less attention in CLI patients than in patients with coronary or precerebral atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to establish the incidence of CLI and the quality of risk factor treatment in Swedish CLI patients. Methods. During 14 months, 316 conse

Abstract Perforations are one of Tetra Paks oldest inventions of how to open their carton packages. They have been a part of Tetra Briks product portfolio for over 30 years and quality testing is important. Bad openability, with plastic residues covering the torn hole, is a problem that needs to be addressed. When tearing a package with perforation all people do it differently. By using a mechan

The purpose of this thesis is to visualize whether there is a correlation between the intellectual capital and the market value among Swedish companies, listed on the Stockholm stock exchange. The purpose is furthermore to enlighten if there are factors that might alter the strength of this correlation. By using these results the aim is to further examine a possible indicator for leveraging the ef

BACKGROUND: In Sweden there is a socioeconomic divide between white and blue collar workers with respect to the risk for premature exit from working life. Disability pension has long represented a major reason behind early exits.OBJECTIVE: The present investigation aimed at studying the effect on socioeconomic groups of new guidelines issued by the Swedish government in 2006, limiting the possibil

As a part of the greening of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy in 2013, Ecological Focus Areas (EFA) became mandatory for many European farmers, with the aim to enhance on-farm biodiversity. However, their effects on biodiversity have been disputed. In this interdisciplinary effort, we assessed the effects of current and alternative formulations of EFA regulations in Sweden. By complementing eco

Background: Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-2α associates with poor outcome in neuroblastoma and glioblastoma, and gain-of-function mutations in the EPAS1 gene (encoding HIF-2α) have been reported in paragangliomas and pheochromocytomas. Specific targeting of a druggable hydrophobic pocket in the HIF-2α PAS-B domain with PT2385 have demonstrated promising clinical results for clear cell renal cell

Levels of the selective autophagy substrate p62 have been established in recent years as a specific readout for basal autophagic activity. Here we compared different experimental approaches for using this assay in Drosophila larvae. Similar to the more commonly used western blots, quantifying p62 dots in immunostained fat body cells of L3 stage larvae detected a strong accumulation of endogenous p

Uppsatsen analyserar hur arbetstagares rätt att uttrycka och utöva sin religion vägs mot arbetsgivarens rätt att leda och fördela arbetet. Religionsfrihet utgör en grundläggande mänsklig rättighet som har ett starkt skydd både i internationell som nationell lagstiftning. Rätten att hysa en tro är absolut och kan inte begränsas. Däremot finns det undantag som möjliggör en begränsning av rätten att The thesis analyzes how employees' right to express and practice their religion is balanced against the employer´s right to manage and allocate work. Freedom of religion constitutes a fundamental human right that has strong protection under both international and national legislation. The right to hold a belief is absolute and cannot be restricted. However, there are exceptions that allow for

Utredningen om påföljder återfall och verkställighet lämnade genom sitt betänkande, SOU 2024:48, ett förslag om en ny tidsobestämd frihetsberövande påföljd med preventiv utformning som en del av arbetet mot återfallsbrottsligheten. Straffet kallas för säkerhetsstraff och ska gå att utdöma i ett begränsat antal kvalificerade situationer där behovet av samhällsskydd är särskilt påtagligt. PåföljdensThe Inquiry on Sanctions, Recidivism and Enforcement left a proposal to introduce a new sanction through their report SOU 2024:48. The sanction is an indefinite custodial sentence with a preventative structure and is meant to counteract recidivism and ensure protection of members of society against serious crime. The proposed sanction is called 'security penalty' in Swedish and is supposed

The field of paleodemography focuses on reconstructing demographic patterns from past populations. Typically, sex and age data are collected from the target population and used for these reconstructions. Normally, the data is collected using morphological means of skeletal analysis. Morphological methods of analysis, especially estimation of age in adult individuals, have been scrutinized. Develop

Citrus production is increasingly constrained worldwide by rising soil salinity, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. In Tunisia, the expansion of saline soils represents a major abiotic stress limiting orchard productivity. The identification of salt-tolerant rootstocks has therefore become a priority, especially as alternatives to sour orange (SO, Citrus aurantium L.), which is highly sus

The binary system of hexaethylene glycol n-hexadecyl ether (C16EO6) and water ((H2O)-H-2) has a complex, temperature-dependent lyotropic phase sequence, in the concentration region of 48-62 wt %. On cooling it shows the sequence lamellar phase, L-alpha, random mesh phase Mh(1)(0), rhombohedral mesh phase, Mh(R (3) over bar hm), bicontinuous cubic phase, V-1(Ia (3) over bar hd), and a two-phase hex

The objective of this study was to investigate whether the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA), which binds to HLA class II and T-cell receptor Vβ chains, can direct cytotoxic T cells to lyse cytokine-stimulated endothelial cells (EC). In addition, we wanted to determine whether SEA- primed cytotoxic T cells could be targeted to EC surface molecules as a means of a novel cancer immunot

Aim: Vegetation structure is a key determinant of animal diversity and species distributions. The introduction of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has enabled the collection of massive amounts of point cloud data for quantifying habitat structure at fine resolution. Here, we review the current use of LiDAR‐derived vegetation metrics in diversity and distribution research of birds, a key group f