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Mitt och ditt : etnologiska perspektiv på ägandets kulturella betydelse

Boken syftar till att öka kunskapen och förståelsen för ägandets kulturella betydelse och organisation. Hur sociala relationer, maktförhållanden, identiteter, ideal och normer påverkas och påverkar vad som uppfattas som mitt, ditt och vårt diskuteras med hjälp av aktuell etnologisk forskning om gemenskapande och gränser i villaträdgården och måltiden, mikropraktiker i samband med lånade prylar, cy

Assistive technology policy : a position paper from the first global research, innovation, and education on assistive technology (GREAT) summit

Increased awareness, interest and use of assistive technology (AT) presents substantial opportunities for many citizens to become, or continue being, meaningful participants in society. However, there is a significant shortfall between the need for and provision of AT, and this is patterned by a range of social, demographic and structural factors. To seize the opportunity that assistive technology

Identification and characterization of diverse coherences in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex

The idea that excitonic (electronic) coherences are of fundamental importance to natural photosynthesis gained popularity when slowly dephasing quantum beats (QBs) were observed in the two-dimensional electronic spectra of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) complex at 77 K. These were assigned to superpositions of excitonic states, a controversial interpretation, as the strong chromophore–environment

Wideband Sparse Reconstruction for Scanning Radar

Recently, the generalized sparse iterative covariance-based estimation algorithm was extended to allow for varying norm constraints in scanning radar applications. In this paper, further to this development, we introduce a wideband dictionary framework which can provide a computationally efficient estimation of sparse signals. The technique is formed by initially introducing a coarse grid dictiona

Stabilization of Polar Nanoregions in Pb-free Ferroelectrics

The formation of polar nanoregions through solid-solution additions is known to enhance significantly the functional properties of ferroelectric materials. Despite considerable progress in characterizing the microscopic behavior of polar nanoregions (PNR), understanding their real-space atomic structure and dynamics of their formation remains a considerable challenge. Here, using the method of dyn

Revisiting out-of-pocket requirements : Trends in spending, financial access barriers, and policy in ten high-income countries

Background: Countries rely on out-of-pocket (OOP) spending to different degrees and employ varying techniques. The article examines trends in OOP spending in ten high-income countries since 2000, and analyzes their relationship to self-assessed barriers to accessing health care services. The countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland

The development and evaluation of a hydrological seasonal forecast system prototype for predicting spring flood volumes in Swedish rivers

Hydropower makes up nearly half of Sweden's electrical energy production. However, the distribution of the water resources is not aligned with demand, as most of the inflows to the reservoirs occur during the spring flood period. This means that carefully planned reservoir management is required to help redistribute water resources to ensure optimal production and accurate forecasts of the spring

Knee dGEMRIC at 7 T : Comparison against 1.5 T and evaluation of T1-mapping methods

Background: dGEMRIC (delayed Gadolinium Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Image of Cartilage) is a well-established technique for cartilage quality assessment in osteoarthritis at clinical field strengths. The method is robust, but requires injection of contrast agent and a cumbersome examination procedure. New non-contrast-agent-based techniques for cartilage quality assessment are currently being deve

Evidence of High-Order Nonlinearities in Supercontinuum White-Light Generation from a Gold Nanofilm

White-light supercontinuum generation can be readily observed when gold nanostructures are irradiated with short pulses of light. It is believed that the nanostructures enhance the optical fields, which facilitates the supercontinuum white-light generation from the surrounding environment or the substrate. Here, we investigate the different nonlinear processes that contribute to the generation of

Associations between the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and sleep parameters vary by age

Objective: To examine whether the relationship between the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and various sleep parameters [sleep duration, symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), and sleep disturbances] varies by age. Methods: Waist circumference, blood pressure, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and fasting glucose were used to determine MetS status in a cohort (N = 19,691) of mi

Proneurotensin Predicts Cardiovascular Disease in an Elderly Population

Context: The gut hormone neurotensin promotes fat absorption, diet-induced weight gain, and liver steatosis. Its stable precursor-hormone fragment "proneurotensin" predicts cardiometabolic disease in middle-aged populations, especially in women. Objective: To test if proneurotensin predicts cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes development in an elderly population and whether there are gender

Greater carbon allocation to mycorrhizal fungi reduces tree nitrogen uptake in a boreal forest

The central role that ectomycorrhizal (EM) symbioses play in the structure and function of boreal forests pivots around the common assumption that carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) are exchanged at rates favorable for plant growth. However, this may not always be the case. It has been hypothesized that the benefits mycorrhizal fungi convey to their host plants strongly depends upon the availability of C

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Interview with fiction writer Mai Jia about his novel Decoded

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Review of the Danish translation of Mai Jia's novel Decoded (Afkodet)

Impact of age and comorbidity on risk stratification in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

Recent reports from worldwide pulmonary hypertension registries show a new demographic picture for patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), with an increasing prevalence among the elderly. We aimed to investigate the effects of age and comorbidity on risk stratification and outcome of patients with incident IPAH. The study population (n=264) was categorised into four age gr

A parametric model for the changes in the complex valued conductivity of a lung during tidal breathing

Classical homogenization theory based on the Hashin-Shtrikman coated ellipsoids is used to model the changes in the complex valued conductivity (or admittivity) of a lung during tidal breathing. Here, the lung is modeled as a two-phase composite material where the alveolar air-filling corresponds to the inclusion phase. The theory predicts a linear relationship between the real and the imaginary p

Measurement of differential cross sections and W + /W − cross-section ratios for W boson production in association with jets at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper presents a measurement of the W boson production cross section and the W+/W− cross-section ratio, both in association with jets, in proton-proton collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is performed in final states containing one electron and missing transverse momentum using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb−

The Gaia -ESO Survey : Open clusters in Gaia -DR1: A way forward to stellar age calibration

Context. Determination and calibration of the ages of stars, which heavily rely on stellar evolutionary models, are very challenging, while representing a crucial aspect in many astrophysical areas. Aims. We describe the methodologies that, taking advantage of Gaia-DR1 and the Gaia-ESO Survey data, enable the comparison of observed open star cluster sequences with stellar evolutionary models. The