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Coronary artery disease is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. While early identification and treatment of major cardiovascular risk factors are crucial, recent data suggest the possibility of non-invasively detecting early stages of coronary atherosclerosis and potentially stabilizing or even reversing the burden of atherosclerosis with innovative and existing treatments. Moreover,
Companion AI chatbots are increasingly used to provide friendship, emotional support, and quasi-romantic relationships, with reported benefits for loneliness and mental health. At the same time, recent suicides and other serious harms allegedly linked to such systems expose gaps in existing ethical and legal frameworks. This article interrogates these gaps through four lenses: anthropomorphism, em
The book is a summary of excursion guides for the Lund University course NGEA 04 “Ecosystem analysis”—a field course week held on Öland 2000 to 2025. The guide serves as an introduction and overview of basic information about certain physical geographical environments, features, and general physiographic and ecological traits of southern Öland. Primarily, it offers a general introduction to the is
BACKGROUND: Shiga toxin (Stx) is the main virulence factor of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, a food-borne pathogen that colonizes the intestine causing gastroenteritis and, in severe cases, hemolytic uremic syndrome. Stx was shown to induce ATP release in vivo and in vitro and blockade of purinergic P2X receptors inhibited its cytotoxicity. Here we investigated the intracellular signaling eve
Introduction: The recent Covid-19 pandemic has renewed interest in studying the impact of environmental factors on the airborne transmission of viral infectious diseases. Human rhinovirus is the main cause of acute respiratory infections, primarily driven by young children who have an average of 6 -10 infections annually, while healthy adults typically experience 2–3 infections per year. Although
Paper on the Hungarian-Jewsih doctor Miklós Nyiszli who was forced to assist Joseph Mengele in medical experiments in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
After the wider deglaciation of Northern Europe, pioneer reindeer populations started to move into southern Scandinavia; however, this process is poorly understood. In this paper we aim to reconstruct dispersal processes of reindeer into southern and western Sweden from the Late Palaeolithic through to the Early Mesolithic, when reindeer disappear from the record. Has presence of reindeer in south
Quantitative laser-based diagnostics like Raman spectroscopy are essential for studying high-temperature processes, but their application in intensely luminous and transient environments such as plasma torches is severely limited by overwhelming background emission. This study focuses on the quantitative thermometry of a 7 kW atmospheric air plasma jet, an environment where such measurements are n
This thesis consists of three self-contained papers that study the role of culture in economics by examining how culture shapes responses to policies, how public interventions influence cultural identity, and how cultural persistence affects economic behavior and policy outcomes. The first chapter examines the political consequences of symbolic changes to public space in Spain, focusing on the ren
Many forms of small-size radars suffer from minor clock oscillations due to crystalline impurities in their internal clocks, causing time-varying clock offsets between the transmitter and the receivers. This offset causes a bias and an increased variance in the positioning of close-range targets, limiting the achievable accuracy well beyond the expected estimation limitations. Furthermore, an appr
The article explores how the pursuit of sustainability in screen media production intersects with incentivized industry mobility within the Baltic Sea region. It illuminates an under-researched area of screen mobility by focusing on Swedish mobile productions benefitting from the tax incentive scheme in Lithuania. The authors conceptualize recent tendencies in screen mobility as the Nordic–Baltic
The ALICE Collaboration reports measurements of the large relative transverse momentum (kT) component of jet substructure in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sNN=5.02 TeV. Enhancement in the yield of such large-kT emissions in head-on Pb-Pb collisions is predicted to arise from partonic scattering with quasiparticles of the quark-gluon plasma. The analysis utilizes
This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub-Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant-based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and development. We find that rural capitalists in each colony ad
Localizer orientation can significantly impact the automatic tube-current modulation (ATCM) in computed tomography (CT). The purpose of this study was to introduce a methodology for assessing ATCM consistency and to compare the outcomes in image noise and radiation dose between a single anterior–posterior (AP) localizer and a combination of lateral and AP (LAT + AP) localizers. A total of 299 pros
Here we report an investigation of ultrathin tin oxide films on Pt3Sn(111) using low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM), microspot low-energy electron diffraction (μ-LEED), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), surface X-ray diffraction (SXRD), and high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Oxidation at ∼390–410 °C produces triangular, two-dimensional oxide islands that nucleate rapidly
The most prevailing hypothesis regarding mechanisms behind specific language impairment today is the hypothesis of general limitations of processing capacity. Such an hypothesis can hardly be tested by available language assessment tools, especially not by instruments in use for clinical assessment of the lexical-semantic domain in children. Reduced naming speed is by some researchers considered a
Additive manufacturing (AM) makes it feasible to realise complex lattice structuresthat provide structural flexibility through engineered structural design rather thanrelying solely on material softness. Across sectors such as furniture, healthcare,protective equipment, and robotics, such flexibility is a core functional requirement,that influences comfort, fit, impact response, lightweighting, an
Background:Preparing for the end of life is believed to help mitigate emotional suffering for both patients and their caregivers. However, empirical evidence on the emotional benefits of feeling prepared for death remains limited.Aim:This study uses data from the international iLIVE project to examine how perceived end-of-life preparedness is associated with emotional suffering among patients and
