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White matter hyperintensities (WMH) in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) have been associated with impaired executive functioning, although contradictory findings have been reported. The aim of this study was to examine whether WMH location influenced the relation between WMH and executive functioning in MCI participants (55-90 years) in the European multicenter memory-clinic-based DESCRIPA study, w
Objective. To study the effect of an educationally oriented intervention programme, with the recommendations from the National Board of Health and Welfare as a base. Design. A prospective intervention study. Setting. Six day-care centres in Vaxjo, Sweden. Three centres comprised the intervention group and three constituted the control group. Subjects and main outcome measures. The parents and pers
Incomplete taxon sampling has been a major problem in resolving the early divergences in birds. Five new mitochondrial genomes are reported here (brush-turkey, lyrebird, suboscine flycatcher, turkey vulture, and a gull) and three break up long branches that tended to attract the distant reptilian outgroup. These long branches were to galliforms, and to oscine and suboscine passeriformes. Breaking
This study was aimed at increasing our understanding of environmental and parental factors influencing mode choice for children's journeys to organized leisure activities. Three hundred and fifty-seven Swedish parents of 8-11-year-old children completed a questionnaire and kept a travel diary. The design of urban environment, in which the families lived, was assessed by a group of five experts. By
Measurements are presented from proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of root s = 0.9, 2.36 and 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events were collected using a single-arm minimum-bias trigger. The charged-particle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity and the relationship between the mean transverse momentum and charged-particle multi
The paper's target is the historically influential betting interpretation of subjective probabilities due to Ramsey and de Finetti. While there are several classical and well-known objections to this interpretation, the paper focuses on just one fundamental problem: There is a sense in which degrees of belief cannot be interpreted as betting rates. The reasons differ in different cases, but there'
We present a set of spectrally and temporally resolved clinical fluorescence data-with two separate excitation wavelengths-that was recorded in vivo. We demonstrate that data in the spectral and temporal domains are in certain ways coupled and provide a method for integrated and effective parameterization of spectrally and temporally resolved fluorescence (i.e., time-resolved emission spectra). Th
CCR5-using (R5) human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) strains cause CD4+ T-cell loss in most infected individuals, but mechanisms underlying cytopathicity of R5 viruses are poorly understood. We investigated mechanisms contributing to R5 envelope glycoprotein (Env)-mediated cellular apoptosis by constructing a panel of retroviral vectors engineered to co-express GFP and R5 Envs derived from
Thermodynamic parameters are presented here illustrating the effects caused by the two anticancer active metal complexes cisplatin and oxaliplatin after introduction into four closely related RNA and DNA duplexes. The duplexes used are blunt end, fully complementary 15-mer duplexes with a centrally located either GG- or GNG (here: N = T or U) binding site. For all duplexes, a common trend of reduc
Digital X-ray radiogrammetry (DXR) calculates peripheral bone mineral density (BMD) from hand radiographs. The short-term precision for direct DXR has been reported to be highly satisfactory. However, long-term precision for this method has not been examined. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine the long-term in-vitro precision for the new direct digital version of DXR. The in-vitro precisio
Kriminalpolitiken och det stigande gängvåldet var bland de mest diskuterade frågorna inför valet 2022 i Sverige. I syfte att lösa dessa problem sökte politiker och media vägledning i den danska lagstiftningen. Efter valet ingicks Tidöavtalet, en partiöverskridande överenskommelse i syfte att bilda regeringsunderlag. I avtalet föreslogs en kriminalisering av deltagande i kriminella gäng. Uppsatsen The criminal policy and the rising gang violence were among the most debated issues leading up to the 2022 election in Sweden. In order to address these problems, politicians and the media sought guidance from Danish legislation. After the election, the Tidö Agreement was concluded, a cross-party agreement aimed at forming a government coalition. The agreement proposed the criminalization of parti
Den 1 Juli 2021 trädde ett flertal ändringar i föräldrabalken i kraft. En av ändringarna tog sikte på vad domstolen särskilt ska beakta i vårdnadstvister, vid avgörande om vårdnaden ska vara ensam eller gemensam. Domstolarna ska enligt 6 kap. 5 § andra stycket föräldrabalken lägga särskild vikt vid föräldrarnas förmåga att sätta barnets behov främst samt ta ett gemen-samt ansvar i frågor som rör bThe first of July 2021 several changes of the Swedish parental code came into force. One of the changes regarded what the court should pay special attention to in custody disputes when deciding if the custody should be sole or joint. According to 6 Ch. section 5 second paragraph in the Swedish pa-rental code, the courts must especially consider the parents’ ability to put the child's needs fir
Bakgrund och syfte: Det råder olika uppfattningar kring rödhårigas respons på smärta och behov av analgetika och hypnotika inom forskning och klinik. Forskning som studerat rödhåriga personers respons på hypnotika har visat varierande resultat där behovet har varit både ökat och minskat. Vissa menar även att rödhåriga personer har en högre smärttröskel och mindre effekt av analgetika medan andra sBackground and purpose: There are different perceptions about redheads' response to pain and their need of analgesics and hypnotics, both within research and clinical practice. Research that has studied redheads’ response to hypnotics has shown varying results where the need of such both has increased and decreased. Some people go as far as to say that redheads have a higher pain threshold and
The application of digital twins in the city setting is emerging, the massive amounts of data and algorithms used raise the concern of algorithmic bias. This research focuses on examining how city scale digital twin practitioners prioritize the pragmatic, ethical, and moral domains in data management processes and when encountering algorithmic bias. It aims to provide insights for practitioners an
Intimate partner violence is the most common type of violence against women, and is a problem for women of all ages, backgrounds, social classes, religions and preconditions. This study analyses the language and discourses used in a selection of Swedish educational material and guides for social workers regarding intimate partner violence against women in substance abuse or addiction. Through a cr
Political participation among Japanese youth has been on a steady decline since the peak of the major activist and protest movements of the 60s and 70s. Legislation, restrictions, and social realities have also contributed to the strained relationship between youth and politics. The past few decades have been characterized by mistrust and dishonesty as a result, affecting youths’ willingness to pa
Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur musikdistributionen ser ut idag och hur den kan komma att se ut i framtiden ur ett musikförlags, en musikproducents och en etablerad artists perspektiv. Undersökningen är en kvalitativ intervjustudie med fördefinierade förslag till in-tervjufrågor med efterföljande transkription och systematisk analys av intervjuutfallet. Informanterna utgjordes av en repreMusic distribution today and tomorrow - from the perspective of the music publisher, the music producer and the artist. The purpose of this study was to assess how a music publisher, a music producer and an established artist experience the music distribution of today and how, in their specific perspectives, it may look like in the future. This qualitative study is based upon in depth interviews w
Although heavy on labor and equipment, thus not often applied, cryoanalysis of frozen hydrated biological specimens can provide information that better reflects the living state of the organism, compared with analysis in the freeze-dried state. In this paper we report a study where the cryoanalysis facility with cryosectioning capabilities at Materials Research Department, iThemba LABS, South Afri
OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between total tooth loss and bone mineral density to determine whether the former can be used as a surrogate marker of the latter. DESIGN: A community based cross-sectional survey. SETTING: The community-study area of the Faculty of Medicine, Galle. PARTICIPANTS: A group of randomly selected 327 women volunteers aged 32 to 97 years. MEASUREMENTS: Anthropometr
