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Introduction: The acoustic environment in the intensive care unit patient room, with high sound levels and unpredictable sounds, is known to be poor and stressful. Therefore, the present study had two aims: to investigate staff knowledge concerning noise in the intensive care unit and: to identify staff suggestions for improving the sound environment in the intensive care unit patient room. Method
Indonesia had a taxation reform that was started from 2001 and ended in 2008. The taxation reform transformed both the tax regulation and tax institution. This study evaluates the impact of the taxation reform in Indonesia in 2008 to the tax compliance level of taxpayer, both corporate and personal taxpayer, in Indonesia and what factors that influence Indonesian tax compliance after the taxation
Projections estimate that by 2050 hundreds of millions to a billion people will migrate elsewhere due to environmental reasons. The increasing frequency and intensity of natural hazards posed by climate change, as well as the slow-onset degradation of habitats all over the planet, will drive more and more species to migrate towards more habitable and safe environments. While much of the literature
Many modern psychological theories still assume that humans know about themselves to a wide and accurate extent, in line with the early classical cognitive frameworks. Other competing frameworks, such as dynamic cognition, propose that intelligent behavior can arise from an interaction between the brain, body, and environment, without the need of manipulating explicitly represented knowledge-state
Plastic has brought great benefits to human life, but it has also given rise to serious environmental problems as “microplastic” threatening the living organisms. Due to the promising properties, the polymer poly (ethylene) terephthalate (PET) has been widely used for packaging and textiles industries with large annual demand and low recycle rate. The imbalance between the production and recycling
Lung cancer and chronic lung diseases impose major disease burdens worldwide and are caused by inhaled noxious agents including tobacco smoke. The cellular origins of environmental-induced lung tumors and of the dysfunctional airway and alveolar epithelial turnover observed with chronic lung diseases are unknown. To address this, we combined mouse models of genetic labeling and ablation of airway
Dispersal distance, measured as the number of territories between place of birth and place of first breeding, was analysed within and between sexes in juvenile marsh tits in relation to factors potentially caiusing variation in dispersal pattern. Dispersal distance of males was positively influenced by both population density and hatching date. In females, dispersal distance were positively relate
Key observational indicators of climate change in the Arctic, most spanning a 47 year period (1971–2017) demonstrate fundamental changes among nine key elements of the Arctic system. We find that, coherent with increasing air temperature, there is an intensification of the hydrological cycle, evident from increases in humidity, precipitation, river discharge, glacier equilibrium line altitude and
Echoes of Empire: Nationalism and Identity in the Late Ottoman Era (1898-1918) delves into the complex and transformative period of the late Ottoman Empire, exploring the rise of nationalistic movements that reshaped its multi-ethnic landscape. This book provides a detailed examination of the various national identities that emerged - with a special focus on Kurdish nationalism - their struggles f
This chapter acts as an introduction to the book by introducing fundamental concepts relevant to the debate. It aims to provide a structure to think about the topic. A structure that has also influenced the structure of the book. Moreover, it provides a background to the debate and summarise the most important findings of the different chapters.
Arabinoxylan (AX) with varying arabinose to xylose (A/X) ratios of 0.85, 0.57 and 0.39 was extracted from wheat bran, and the conformations of the AX polysaccharides dispersed in water were investigated using small-angle X-ray scattering. The persistence length (Lp) and the conformation statistics (expressed by the Flory exponent v or the mass fractal) of the AX varied with their A/X ratios. The L
In this paper we suggest that attention to the social practice of prepping, with its particular focus on how people navigate uncertain and potentially disastrous futures, can help broaden our understanding of forced migration. We argue that the emerging literature on doomsday prepping provides a particularly interesting vantage point from which to study the relationship between forced migration, t
Användningen av artificiell intelligens ökar inom många områden i det samtida samhället, inklusive datorsynssystem som bygger på maskininlärning och artificiella neuronnätverk. Dessa system omformar handlingsmöjligheter och beskrivs ofta som ”svarta lådor” som utmanar etablerade former av vetenskaplig förståelse och teknisk kontroll. Det är därför viktigt att förstå de aktiviteter genom vilka sådaThe uses of artificial intelligence are increasing across many areas of contemporary society, including computer vision systems involving machine learning and artificial neural networks. These systems rearrange action possibilities and are often described as “black boxes” that challenge conventional modes of scientific understanding and engineering control. It is important to understand the activi
In an era where online interactions increasingly shape social dynamics, the pervasive issue of cyberbullying poses a significant threat to the well-being of individuals, particularly among vulnerable groups. Despite extensive research on text-based cyberbullying detection, the rise of visual content on social media platforms necessitates new approaches to address cyberbullying using images. This d
