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This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as behavioural and biological perspectives. The different parts of the book provide discussions of current practice, probabilistic forecast

The aim of this study was to investigate the health and job satisfaction in Swedish elderly care. The data was collected by doing semi-structured interviews with employees at an elderly care facility in an average sized Swedish city. Participants were chosen randomly, but it was made sure that the balance between formally educated and non-formally educated personnel was nearly equal. The Human Res

The last decades have seen a renewed interest in the study of argumentation in archaeology, particularly in response to the overproduction of weak and unreliable interpretations and explanations. Concurrently, recent appeals for scientific transparency and efficiency in the management of archaeological information in digital form have stressed the necessity of explicitly showing the processes foll

After giving an introduction to the basics of transfer pricing with a focus on intangibles, this paper aims to establish the nature of residual profits and what needs to be considered when such profits are generated. It will become clear that residual profits are an economic concept rather than an element of tax law which is why, first, a connecting link needs to be found between these two discipl

Galectins are a family of carbohydrate recognition proteins involved in modulation of cell signaling and cell adhesion. galectin-9 especially is involved in regulation of the immune response. In this work, galectin-9N inhibitors have been designed, synthesized and evaluated. The aim was to synthesize compounds with higher affinity than currently known compounds. Three compounds were synthesized wi

It is beneficial for both investors and companies to avoid the detrimental consequences of overpricing during an initial public offering (IPO). Prospectuses are an important source of information for potential investors. Through Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) we extract topics from the summary section of prospectuses S-1 for companies holding an IPO in the U.S. in 2019-2020. We represent the un

Since 1983 it is made possible in swedish law that the custody of a child who has been living under a certain time in the same foster care family is transferred from the parents to the foster parents to obtain security and a ensure the childs possibility to stay with their foster parents when the child consider the foster home as its own. This is an exception compared to the main principle of reun

Searches for the Higgs boson decays H→ee and H→eμ are performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=13 TeV at the LHC. No significant signals are observed, in agreement with the Standard Model expectation. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, the observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level on the bran

This article examines the literary evidence for a settlement in Phrygia named Leonton Kephalai, i.e. Lions´Heads. According to preserved literary sources, of which there are only three, Leonton Kephalai was an important military stronghold from the Achaemenid period until the end of the Roman Republic, but the settlement may have been occupied for longer. Furthermore, one literary source specifial

We write with great concern in response to the recent systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) by Uhre et al.1 Although the authors’ results consistently support the clinical efficacy of CBT for pediatric OCD, we expect that, much like ourselves, readers will be confused by the discordant and inappropriate conclusion

p-Cresol was oxidized by hydrogen peroxide in a reaction catalysed by horseradish peroxidase and the low molecular weight products were investigated. In aqueous media Pummerer's ketone (I) was the dominating product but in organic media the product distribution was quite different; 2,2'-dihydroxy-5,5'-dimethyldiphenyl (II) was the main low molecular weight product. Similar product distributions we

The Learning with Errors problem (LWE) is one of the main candidates for post-quantum cryptography. At Asiacrypt 2017, coded-BKW with sieving, an algorithm combining the Blum-Kalai-Wasserman algorithm (BKW) with lattice sieving techniques, was proposed. In this paper, we improve that algorithm by using different reduction factors in different steps of the sieving part of the algorithm. In the Rege

A 37-year-old man sustained occlusion of the right coronary artery after a bicycle accident with blunt chest trauma over the left scapula. Acute coronary angiography was performed because of chest pain and ST-segment elevation. Despite surgically successful acute revascularization the patient developed a transmural inferior wall infarction. Coronary artery occlusion after blunt chest trauma is rar

This paper explores a widely employed instrument of regional innovation policy: the innovation incubator. It proposes that incubation approaches are moving away from a ‘traditional’ approach strongly premised on physical infrastructure and high-technology, to a more interactive, participatory and social mode of innovation, in line with broader developments in innovation policy and theory. To pract