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Purpose: We aimed to study the influence of fast-track care programs in total hip and total knee replacements (THR and TKR) at Swedish hospitals on the risk of revision and mortality within 2 years after the operation. Methods: Data were collected from the Swedish Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Registers (SHAR and SKAR), including 67,913 THR and 59,268 TKR operations from 2011 to 2015 on patients with

Resting mouse B lymphocytes were stimulated in vitro with lipopolysaccharide, Sepharose-coupled anti-kappa antibodies or a combination of the two. B lymphocytes stimulated with anti-kappa entered the cell-cycle with more rapid kinetics and at a higher frequency than did the corresponding cell population stimulated with lipopolysaccharide. Using cell cycle analysis after DNA staining combined with

Integration of emerging membrane processes [i.e., forward osmosis (FO), membrane distillation (MD), reverse electrodialysis (RED)] and mature membrane processes [i.e., reverse osmosis (RO)] can address the need for efficient desalination solutions. Utilization of different membrane units in pre- and post-treatment stages allows lowering the energy requirements and environmental impacts of the proc

Purpose: To explore school-aged children's experiences about their best interests and participation in care during a hospital admission. Design and methods: A descriptive qualitative design involving in-depth, iterative inductive review of child responses to generate key words that led to identification of categories and themes. The study was guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights o

The transformation of the energy systems will call for new turbomachinery designs for harvesting low-grade heat. The word “low-grade” has many definitions and ranges from levels where steam is the preferred selection to very low grades where specially adopted ORC technology is used. In this work, turbomachinery for cascading the steam cycle with a very low-temperature ORC technology is studied. Th

In recent years the possibility to increase maximum length and weight of heavy goods vehicles to allow for High Capacity Vehicles (HCVs) has been debated in Sweden. Proposals to increase maximum weight to 74 tonnes, and length to 34m have caused controversy. Key arguments among proponents are that HCVs will bring about benefits, such as: increasing energy efficiency and decreasing CO 2 emissions,

Twenty-four strains of Mobiluncus mulieris and 27 strains of Mobiluncus curtisii were tested with respect to 6 different biochemical characteristics: arginin-decarboxylase activity, beta-galactosidase activity, synergistic hemolysis with Staphylococcus aureus, hydrolysis of hippurate, migration through soft agar and reduction of nitrate. Antigens of the same strains, prepared by ultrasonication, w

Follicular helper T cells (Tfh) are specialized helper T cells that are predominantly located in germinal centers and provide help to B cells. The development and differentiation of Tfh cells has been shown to be regulated by transcription factors, such as B-cell lymphoma 6 protein (Bcl-6), signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) and B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein-1 (Bl

In mice, B1 and marginal zone (MZ) B-cells play an important role in prevention of autoimmunity through production of regulatory cytokines and natural antibodies. There is limited knowledge about the human counterparts of these cells. We therefore investigated functions of MZ-like B-cells and the frequency of circulating MZ-like and B1-like B-cells in healthy controls (HC), as well as in patients

Sustainability reporting has become both a necessity and a potential competitive advantage for many contemporary corporations. However, unlike many industrial operators, real estate owners and investors have not yet seen the need tofollow or report their environmental performance on any large scale. This lack of pro-activeness is both peculiar and problematic considering that the built environment

Previously established immunogenic (tum-) clones of an ENU (ethyl-N-nitrosourea)-induced rat glioma, N32, were compared to the original tumor concerning their capacity to induce T lymphocyte responses after in vivo immunization and in vitro restimulation of responder spleen cells in mixed lymphocyte tumor culture (MLTC) assays. Quite unexpectedly, original N32 (tum+) in vivo primed spleen cells pr

The quinoline-3-carboxamides (Q compounds) are a family of small molecules with immunomodulatory functions that have shown efficacy in various murine models of inflammatory diseases. One such compound has demonstrated antitumor effects in murine models. Q compounds bind to S100A9, thereby preventing its ligation to TLR4 and RAGE. S100A9 is a small molecule which has shown to have a role in the est

Biodegradable patches made of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) were recently shown to limit postoperative pericardial adhesions when inserted into the pericardium in sheep. The present study was carried out to evaluate the presence of post-operative retrosternal adhesions after cardiac surgery in patients operated on with the PHB patch compared with those operated on without the insertion of such a patch

This chapter examines changes to safe third country law and practice from 2010 to 2020 focusing on Europe, Australia, North, and South America. These developments have received little academic attention, particularly from a comparative perspective. We argue that in all four regions there has been a significant weakening of protection standards in the safe third country context, with the thresholds

Vacuum cleaner motor is an air cooled single-phase induction motor with impeller. Its compact design can result in more than 2 kW of input power per 1 kg of mass. It can operate only if an air flow is cooling the motor; otherwise it is overheated and destroyed. A large production volume of a vacuum cleaner motor classifies it as a mass production product. In the past its development has been mostl

The characteristics of the stellar populations in the Galactic bulge info and constrain the Milky Way's foation and evolution. The metal-poor population is particularly important in light of cosmological silations, which predict that some of the oldest stars in the Galaxy now reside in its centre. The metal-poor bulge appears to consist of ltiple stellar populations that require dynamical analyses

Research on telomeres in the fields of ecology and evolution has been rapidly expanding over the last two decades. This has resulted in the formulation of a multitude of, often name-given, hypotheses related to the associations between telomeres and life-history traits or fitness-facilitating processes (and the mechanisms underlying them). However, the differences (or similarities) between the var