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Objectives. Using prospectively collected registry data to investigate sick leave (sickness benefit and sickness compensation) over a 7-yr period in patients with AS in comparison with population-based controls matched for age, sex and residential area. Methods. We investigated 122 (21 women and 101 men) outpatients with AS in South Sweden, born 1942 or later, from rheumatology specialist care for
Objective . To evaluate the clinical performance in a paediatric population of the Lund-Malmo creatinine-based glomerular filtration rate (GFR) prediction equations, primarily developed for adults. Material and methods . Iohexol clearance was used as the gold standard in 85 paediatric Caucasian patients (0.3-17 years; 37 F/48 M). One Lund-Malmo equation was based on age and gender (LM) and one inc
Conclusion: Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) is present in the adenoids in young children and might play a role in the immunological response behind the development of otitis media with effusion (OME). Objectives: To investigate the expression of the TLRs TLR4 and TLR7 in adenoids from children with OME and to compare the results with data obtained from healthy controls. Subjects and methods: This was
Agile methods have the recent years gained ground within the software industry by being lean and flexible, and one of the companies having adopted agile methods is the fast‐growing Swedish developer of mobile applications Tactel AB. The company was interested in enhanced knowledge within the agile area, specifically about Scrum, and with one of its development teams – Mobical – in focus, Tactel wa
For a Chinese high school graduate to be able to apply for university they must first take part in the yearly gaokao, the college entrance examination. The province where a student has his or her household registration determines where they can sit for the exam and also in which quota they are put when the university slots are allocated. This system causes difficulties for the children of migrantw
The main goal of this research was the development of GIS and Remote Sensing based methodology for environmental monitoring of bio- restoration activities of disturbed vegetation cover along oil pipeline corridor. For the achievement of the main goal, high – resolution multispectral IKONOS and FORMOSAT satellite images acquired during vegetation peak seasons in 2007 and 2008 were processed by poly
Uppsatsen redogör för rättsreglerna kring omplacering och turordning vid arbetsbristuppsägningar. Det finns ett omfattande regelverk kring anställningsskyddet i Sverige. Det reglerar hur arbetsgivare ska uppträda då uppsägningar ska äga rum. Det krävs saklig grund för att en arbetsgivare ska ha rätt att säga upp en arbetstagare. Detta framgår tydligt ur 7§ anställningsskyddslagen. För att sakligThis essay describes the legal rules regarding relocation and order of priority in connection with termination of employment due to redundancy. There are comprehensive regulations on employment protection in Sweden. It regulates how employers should act when the redundancies will take place. It requires grounds for dismissal for an employer to have the right to terminate an employee. This is evid
Home based work is considered as work with low economic value and low waged. The Home base work is also preserved to be a principal way to earn a living for women. The traditional home based works for instance thread making, weaving, dairying, basket making etc., were such kind of work which carried out at home, still exists particularly in developing countries. Since a huge number of home base wo
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: – The prognosis for functional independence after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) relies largely on patients' initial clinical status, age, and extent of the bleeding. However, some patients have poor outcome despite initially being in good clinical condition. The aim of this study was to analyze factors related to unfavorable outcome in patients with good clin
Considering the unstable condition of water resources in Iran and many other countries in arid and semi-arid regions, groundwater studies are very important. Therefore, the aim of this study is to model groundwater potential by qanat locations as indicators and ten advanced and soft computing models applied to the Beheshtabad Watershed, Iran. Qanat is a man-made underground construction which gath
Forest fire is known as an important natural hazard in many countries which causes financial damages and human losses; thus, it is necessary to investigate different aspects of this phenomenon. In this study, performance of four models of linear and quadratic discriminant analysis (LDA and QDA), frequency ratio (FR), and weights-of-evidence (WofE) was investigated to model forest fire susceptibili
The steel industry emits 2,400–2,713 Mt CO2 and 12 Mt of fugitive methane globally each year, yet progress towards decarbonization has been limited. In this Review, we examine the potential, feasibility and barriers to decarbonization of the steel sector. The blast furnace–basic oxygen furnace (BF–BOF) accounts for ~72% of global steel production and has the highest carbon emission intensity of ex
This essay uses the Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) approach to quantify the effects of monetary policy. Traditional methods to estimate the effects of monetary policy, such as Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models, have yielded unsatisfactory results, mainly due to sparse information sets included in the models. Augmenting the VAR model with factors summarizing the information of a va
The purpose of this study was to identify if and how the personal perspectives and views of social workers active within local social services departments in Sweden might affect how they carry out the transfer of children’s custody from biological to foster parents. The general discourse in child welfare in Sweden gives predominance to a family preservation perspective in which foster care placeme
OBJECTIVE: Deliberate colonization of the lower urinary tract has been proposed as treatment against recurrent urinary tract infection - UTI. The bacteria chosen has to be able to colonize the urinary tract for longer periods without causing symptoms, and should be able to prevent manifest superinfections. MATERIALS: Sixteen patients (9 women and 7 males), all having a history of recurrent symptom
Background: An early detection of Osteoarthritis is urgently needed and still not possible until today. The aim of the study was to assess whether molecular biomarkers of cartilage turnover are associated with longitudinal change in knee cartilage thickness during a 2 year period in individuals with increased risk of developing knee osteoarthritis. A secondary aim was to assess whether prior knee
