Background People with serious respiratory illness frequently have a high symptom burden and may be prescribed supplemental oxygen therapy with the aims of reducing the severity of breathlessness and improving health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the effectiveness of oxygen therapy versus no oxygen on 1) breathlessness, 2) HRQoL and 3) ad

The Rohingya crisis is a profound human rights and humanitarian disaster, representing one of the most severe contemporary instances of statelessness. This condition is characterised by the systematic denial of nationality and fundamental rights, largely facilitated by Myanmar's discriminatory state-institutionalised practices and its Citizenship Law of 1982, which excludes the Rohingya from r

The current agricultural model is criticized for its imperialist character and focus on productivity, and it affects peasants and small-scale farmers. However, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), adopted in 2018, could have an impact. The question in focus is: What contribution can the UNDROP, as a soft law instrument, make to

Lake ecosystems are increasingly affected by climate change, leading to prolonged periods of elevated water temperatures. This warming reduces surface water density, intensifying thermal stratification and trapping cold water in deeper layers. Consequently, cold-water fish and other organisms are confined to limited deep-water habitats. Understanding lake thermal structure is crucial for effective

Mellan övervuxna spår, väderbitna tegelfasader och tomma hallar undersöker vi i detta examensarbete kraften i postindustriella platser, inte som statiska element från det som varit, utan som en generativ grund för det som kan komma att bli. Vi rör oss i spänningsfältet mellan bevarande och förnyelse, där vårt arbete ifrågasätter dualiteterna gammalt/nytt, produktion/boende och minne/utveckling, vBetween overgrown tracks, weathered brick facades and empty halls, this thesis explores the power of post-industrial sites, not as static elements of the past, but as a generative basis for what might be. We operate in the tension between preservation and regeneration, where our work questions the dualities of old/new, production/living and memory/development, which often characterise discussions

As the population ages, the risk of loneliness increases,especially when reduced mobility or illness leads to isolation from community and social life. At the same time 7 percent of Danes live with major disabilities, yet the built environment often overlooks their needs. Age and disability alike reveal how architecture continues to fall short of true inclusion. This thesis is an experiment in r

Drought is one of the most costly disasters worldwide. The complexity of nonlinear relationships between drought variables and drought severity during drought events poses significant challenges for accurate drought monitoring and prediction. Drought research in Morocco has been dominated by linear and conventional statistical methods, such as the pearson correlation. Although some earlier researc

The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions from 15,845 tracked individuals across 121 species) to provide a global assessment of space use of

Kreativt skrivande har haft ett begränsat utrymme i svenskundervisningen på gymnasiet sedan Gy11. Det har lett till att många svensklärare inte arbetar med kreativt skrivande utan fokuserar på de typer av texter som finns omnämnda i ämnesplanen, där sakprosatexter har störst utrymme. I och med den nya ämnesplanen Gy25 återintroduceras kreativt skrivande som en obligatorisk del av undervisningen.

Läroplanens öppna och delvis implicita formulering gällande språkhistoria för kursen Svenska 3 på gymnasiet bidrar till ett brett tolkningsutrymme, vilket i praktiken kan leda till betydande variationer för undervisningen. Samtidigt som tolkningsutrymmet möjliggör anpassningar riskerar det även att nedprioritera ämnesområdet till förmån för annat. Studiens syfte är att kartlägga hur svensklärare pThe curriculum’s open and partly implicit formulation regarding language history in the course Swedish 3, contributes to a broad scope for interpretation, which in practice can lead to significant variations in teaching. While this interpretive flexibility allows for adaptation, it also risks deprioritizing the subject area in favor of other content. The aim of the study is to explore how upper se

Föreliggande examensarbete ämnar belysa och problematisera lyssneläsningsbegreppet utifrån den mediala debatten i Svenska Dagbladet och genom intervjuer av tre specialpedagoger och tre svensklärare på gymnasial nivå. Syftet innefattar att lyfta fram olika erfarenheter och framställningar av lyssneläsning med tematisk ingång för att sedan diskutera möjliga didaktiska implikationer. Resultaten visarThis study aims to illuminate and problematize the concept of listening-while-reading based on the media debate in Svenska Dagbladet and through interviews with three special needs education teachers and three Swedish teachers at upper secondary level. Through thematic analysis of both articles and interviews themes of experiences and perceptions about listening-while-reading can be highlighted an

The ringing and controlling of previously marked birds are invaluable tools for studying the survival, productivity, and movement of birds. To maximize the value of ringing data, it is important to minimize any potential biases. For some species, such as nestbox-breeding owls, ringing records are typically heavily skewed toward females because they generally are easier to catch. The use of traditi

Background: The aim was to explore independent wheeled mobility in children with CP, and identify predictors of early independent wheeled mobility and changes over time across birth cohorts. Methods: We included data from the Norwegian Quality and Surveillance Registry for Cerebral Palsy (NorCP) comprising 11,565 assessments of 1780 children born in 2002–2019. Variables included demographic data,

We hypothesize that predictable variations in environmental conditions caused by night/day cycles created opportunities and hazards that initiated information dynamics central to life’s origin. Increased daytime temperatures accelerated key chemical reactions but also caused the separation of double-stranded polynucleotides, leading to hydrolysis, particularly of single-stranded RNA. Daytime solar

Animal locomotion is constrained by Newtonian laws of motion and therefore biomechanics is a useful approach for quantitative analysis of force and power requirements. Aerial locomotion in vertebrates is no exception, and arguably the most significant developments are to be found in this journal. Evolutionary birds and bats are very successful groups, doubtless largely because of their ability to

Background: Keeping the umbilical cord intact the first minutes after delivery is beneficial for both term and preterm infants. However, this may be challenging in caesarean sections (CS) due to lack of mobile resuscitation equipment, maintenance of sterility or concern for excessive maternal blood loss. The objective of this study was to develop and pilot-test extra-uterine placental transfusion

Proenkephalin (PENK) is assumed to be freely filtered by the glomerulus, thus potentially useful for estimating glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). Recently developed eGFR-equation based on PENK and creatinine has not been validated against existing cystatin C-based equations. This study aimed to test the hypothesis of free filtration of PENK. Also, the PENK-creatinine based eGFR-equation was valid

A ferrous complex bearing tris(carbene)borate ligands with imidazol-2-ylidene donors has been characterized by experimental and computational methods. Despite the pronounced destabilization of metal centered states by the exceptionally σ-donating ligand, the high-energy 3MLCT state of [Fe(ii)(phtmeimb)2] is rapidly deactivated by the barrierless conversion to the 3MC state.