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Dysfagi kan innebära en påtagligt försämrad livskvalitet. För de allra flesta är en förändrad kostkonsistens helt nödvändig för att sväljningen skall kunna ske på ett säkert och effektivt sätt. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka om livskvaliteten förändrades hos personer med sväljningsproblem efter att de blev rekommenderade kostkonsistens anpassad efter aktuell dysfunktion. Studien i
This paper is a qualitative scrutiny of two crisis evaluations conducted by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). The purpose is to investigate rhetoric used to analyse and assess the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa from a crisis management and disaster preparedness perspective. A modified grounded theory method is utilised. The qualitative method rests upon
This Masters thesis in Social Anthropology is based on fieldwork carried out among the Matses in the Peruvian Amazon. The study examines local notions of male and female personhood, illness and medicine as well as how these are changing in the current context characterized by an increasing integration of Matses and national society. By combining theories on social reproduction and the person as an
INTRODUCTION: Early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critical for timely intervention as disease-modifying treatments emerge. Speech-based digital biomarkers offer scalable options for remotely capturing speech-derived functional changes associated with early cognitive decline, but validation across real-world populations remains limited.METHODS: We evaluated the speech biomarker for cogni
The Siljan-Orsasjön Basin in south-central Sweden hosts two prominent lakes. A 100 m deep channel extends approximately 52 km across the basin but does not form a continuous connection between the lakes today. Geophysical mapping, including multibeam bathymetry and sub-bottom profiling, revealed several landslide areas associated with the steep slopes of this channel and redistributed mass-wasted
Problempresentation: Vietnam drabbas av i genomsnitt 5-6 tyfoner varje år, och dessa kan orsaka stor förödelse och många dödsfall när de passerar in över land. När en tyfon passerar medför det högt vattenstånd, höga vågor, starka vindar och kraftiga regnfall. Om högt vattenstånd sammanfaller med höga vågor orsakar det översköljning samt erosion av strandvallar och sanddyner längs kustlinjen. Detta
My thesis uses Anna Tsing’s metaphorical concept friction to investigate the interaction between the Egyptian national government, the international, national and local development organizations, and a local Bedouin community. My research is based on fieldwork in South Sinai, Egypt from August until December 2010. My thesis tries to explore an alternative understanding of sustainability, inspired
The study of Precambrian dyke swarms, sill provinces and large igneous provinces on the Kalahari craton in southern Africa has expanded greatly since the pioneering work initiated almost four decades ago. The main contributors to this progress have been a large number of precise U–Pb crystallization ages of mafic rocks, published in a number of recent papers. This information is compiled here into
Background: The FreeStyle Libre glucose sensor has caused many cases of allergic contact dermatitis, and isobornyl acrylate (IBOA) in this sensor has been identified as one of the culprit allergens. Objectives: To report on the presence of IBOA in devices produced by Medtronic, namely, Enlite sensor and insulin infusion set Paradigm MiniMed Quick-set. Patients and Methods: Five patients reacting t
BACKGROUND: Owing to the wide spread perception of a possible benefit from paclitaxel in the second-line situation the Nordic Gynecologic Oncology Group (NGOG) conducted two prospective phase II studies of paclitaxel single agent treatment (175 mg/m2, three-hour i.v. infusion with standard pre-medication every third week) in patients with relapsing or progressing epithelial ovarian cancer followin
Three new genera Coppinsidea, Vandenboomia and Wolseleyidea are described and the genera Ivanpisutia, Lecaniella and Myrionora are resurrected on the basis of a phylogenetic analysisof multi-locus sequence data of the Ramalinaceae including the nuclear protein-codingmarker rpb2, the internal transcribed spacer and a fragment of the small mitochondrialsubunit. The genus Hertelidea was positioned wi
Climate change is expected to increase the incidences of extremes in environmental conditions. To investigate how repeated disturbances affect microbial ecosystem resistance, natural lake bacterioplankton communities were subjected to repeated temperature disturbances of two intensities (25 °C and 35 °C), and subsequently to an acidification event. We measured functional parameters (bacterial prod
The Taymyr Peninsula constitutes the eastern delimitation of a possible Kara Sea basin ice sheet. The existence of such an ice sheet during the last global glacial maximum (LGM), i.e. during the Late Weichselian/Upper Zyryansk, is favoured by some Russian scientists. However, a growing number of studies point towards a more minimalistic view concerning the areal extent of Late Weichselian/Upper Zy
Contamination of the water and sediment with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) was studied for the lake impacted by the release of PFAS-containing aqueous film forming foam (AFFF). PFAS concentrations were analyzed in lake water and sediment core samples. ΣPFAS concentrations were in the range of 95-100 ng L-1 in the lake water and 3.0-61 µg kg-1 dry weight (dw) in sediment core samples,
In this article, the effects of convex dimple streamwise arrangements on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of protrusion-grooved channels are determined, and five streamwise positions of convex dimples are considered. In addition, research on the transverse-circular-protrusion-grooved channel is also performed to serve as a contrast. The results indicate that replacing the transverse-circ
Environmental research infrastructures are often built on a large number of distributed observational or experimental sites, run by hundreds of scientists and technicians, financially supported and administrated by a large number of institutions. It becomes very important to acknowledge the data sources and their providers. There is also a strong need for common data citation tracking systems that
