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Background: The WHO and the World Bank ask countries to report the national volume of surgery. This report describes these data for Sweden, a high-income country. Methods: In an 8-year population-based observational cohort study, all inpatient and outpatient care in the public and private sectors was detected in the Swedish National Patient Register and screened for the occurrence of surgery. The

An approach to reduce CO2 emissions while simultaneously keeping the soot emissions down from compression ignition (CI) engines is to blend in short chained oxygenates into the fuel. In this work, two oxygenated fuel blends consisting of diesel, gasoline and ethanol (EtOH) in the ratio of 68:17:15 and 58:14:30 have been utilized and studied in a single cylinder light duty (LD) CI engine in terms o

The aim of this study is to assess personal exposure to Particle Number Concentrations (PNC) in four size ranges between 0.3 and 10 μm, and particulate matter (PM1; PM2.5; PM4; PM10) in order to evaluate possible genotoxic effects through a comet assay in buccal cells. A convenience cohort of 30 individuals from a Brazilian medium-sized city was selected. These individuals aged between 20 and 61 a

Rhombomys opimus (R. opimus), a social rodent, is the main reservoir host for zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) in most parts of the Middle East and central Asia. The difficulties in monitoring rodent population patterns have hindered the effective application of preventive measures of ZCL. This study presents a spatially explicit agent-based simulation model of R. opimus behaviors that is in

A major problem in CTG analysis is that detectionof a suspicious pattern in short intervals so that one can reducethe damage caused by a delay of an automatic monitoringsystem. In this paper, we aim for improving intrapartumsurveillance based on signal processing and machine learningtechniques. We evaluate a classification method on a real dataset.

BACKGROUND:: Exposure to second-hand smoke has been shown to be associated with increased cardiovascular mortality in several, but not all, epidemiologic studies. Our aim was to investigate the risk of circulatory death associated with exposure to second-hand smoke in never-smokers in a very large prospective study, the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. A secondary aim

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Bakgrund: Hippoterapi och hästsimulator har vuxit fram som kompletterande interventioner vid neurologisk rehabilitering genom att utnyttja hästens eller simulatorns tredimensionella rörelsemönster. Tidigare forskning pekar generellt på förbättrad balans, gång, grovmotorik och funktionsförmåga vid flera neurologiska tillstånd. Den optimala behandlingsdosen för att uppnå önskade och varaktiga effekt

”’Till livet!’: Fallet, identitetstematik och den Andre i tre pjäser av August Strindberg” undersöker fallmotivet som spatial händelse samt dess konsekvenser i tre pjäser av August Strindberg: Lycko-Pers resa (1882), Fröken Julie (1888) och Ett drömspel (1902). Ämnesvalet grundar sig i iakttagelsen att Strindberg återkommande använder rumsligt vertikala uttryck – något som tidigare inte har ägnats

This study assesses the performance of buildings affected by climate change under future climate predictions for three time-periods until the end of the 21st century. Objects studied are residential multi-storey buildings, originally built before 1970 and retrofitted during the last decade. A total of four actual retrofit projects, as they were performed, in Denmark and Germany were assessed in th

Syftet med studien var att analysera den kringliggande problematiken för energiproducenters beslutsfattningsprocess när de utvärderar investeringar i energieffektiviseringsåtgärder för uppvärmningssystem i vattenkraftsbaserade produktionsenheter i Sverige. Studien har utgått ifrån de dokumenterade barriärerna för investeringar i energieffektiviseringsåtgärder och applicerar konceptet om EnvironmenThe purpose of this study was to analyze the problems surrounding the decision making process for a energy producer when dealing with (potential) energy efficiency measures. This work creates the basis of a investment prioritizing structure directed at heating systems within Swedish hydro power based production facilities managed by Vattenfall. The research was called for by Vattenfall, as the org

This is an inquiry into how aspects of the present human reality came to being and thereby also an investigation into limitations and potentialities of this “present”. An important argument in this essay is that there exists a mutually affective relationship between culture and politics and that this relationship implies both possibilities and constraints. With this in mind I try to critically inv

In this study, we have analyzed the spatial and temporal correlation between the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the climate in Iraq, with a focus on precipitation, temperature, and number of Mediterranean cyclones. It was found that the influence of the NAO varies per climate indicator. For example, the influence is greater on precipitation than on temperature. One conclusion of the study is

Kognitiva funktionella aktiviteter vid lindrig kognitiv svikt, före och efter träningsintervention, enligt formuläret Functional Activities Questionnaire. Bakgrund: Idag lider många av mild kognitiv svikt (MCI). Tillståndet kan påverka flera kognitiva funktioner och därmed ha en inverkan på det dagliga livet. I nuläget finns ingen behandling men tidigare studier har visat att träning kan ha en p

The main goal of the project was to decrease the cooling time of a diamond anvil cell (DAC) by modifying an existing design. Modifications included change of materials, overall dimensions and a significant reduction of mass together with additional suggestions for decreased cool time. The initial design was known to function with current materials and dimensions. The first step of the thesis was

Sammanfattning Bakgrund. Fysisk inaktivitet är en oberoende riskfaktor för global ohälsa och ökar årligen i prevalens. Rörelse, som tidigare i människans historia varit självklart för överlevnad, har idag utvecklats till något som kräver tydliga motiv och personliga strategier för de hinder som föreligger för fysisk träning. Regelbunden fysisk träning har för många människor visat sig vara svårt a