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The aim of this study was to examine how women who have been in an alcohol addiction describe their experiences of being a woman who has an alcohol addiction and the possible shame and stigma related to it. We used Goffman's theory about stigma, narrative theory, and Judith Butler's theory of gender. The study was to be carried out based on their narrative in the form of autobiographies. O

Användningen av Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale möjliggör undersökning av mening i livet i form av ett tredelat konstrukt. Syftet med föreliggande examensarbete var att undersöka huruvida mening i livet respektive personlighetsfaktorer har samband till livstillfredsställelse. Vidare undersöktes om personlighet har betydelse för relationen mellan mening i livet och livstillfredsställelseThe application of the Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale enables the assessment of meaning in life as a tripartite construct. The aim of this study was to examine how meaning in life and personality factors relate to life satisfaction. A second objective was to investigate whether personality had a significant impact on the relation between meaning in life and life satisfaction. A cross-s

The purpose of this study was to examine social workers' experiences with New Public Management (NPM) in social childcare and their experiences with practicing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child correlated with the effects of New Public Management. The method chosen for this study was qualitative semi-structured interviews with six social workers from two different cities in southern

The cultivation of ethnographic discovery is not only about being insightful in the field by paying attention to unexpected events and unforeseen social processes. We should also search for potentially surprising or disturbing findings after the fieldwork. This can provide additional ways to create an original and sustainable understanding of research material. In this chapter, we discuss a study

Large-scale human exome sequencing can identify rare protein-coding variants with a large impact on complex traits such as body adiposity. We sequenced the exomes of 645,626 individuals from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico and estimated associations of rare coding variants with body mass index (BMI). We identified 16 genes with an exome-wide significant association with BMI, incl

Abstract: Citizen-state relations can be more than just a political relationship. It can also be emotional. Where there is an articulated balance between citizen tax obligations and state welfare services, there arises a combination of redistribution and reciprocity between citizen and state. This fiscal compact has an emotional component. This emotional component becomes indignation when people p

A promise of genomics in precision medicine is to provide individualized genetic risk predictions. Polygenic risk scores (PRS), computed by aggregating effects from many genomic variants, have been developed as a useful tool in complex disease research. However, the application of PRS as a tool for predicting an individual's disease susceptibility in a clinical setting is challenging because PRS t

Effects of xylooligosaccharides (XOSs) as well as a mixture of XOS, inulin, oligofructose, and partially hydrolyzed guar gum (MIX) in mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD) were studied. Control groups were fed an HFD or a low-fat diet. Special attention was paid to the cecal composition of the gut microbiota and formation of short-chain fatty acids, but metabolic parameters were also documented. The XOS

As no one symptom can predict disease severity or the need for dedicated medical support in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we asked whether documenting symptom time series over the first few days informs outcome. Unsupervised time series clustering over symptom presentation was performed on data collected from a training dataset of completed cases enlisted early from the COVID Symptom Study

The present survey study focuses on potential benefits of the SI-PASS experience for former Leaders in their professional life after graduating from higher education. This topic has received little attention previously with the few studies made being limited in number of participants and different in approaches used and in questions asked. The present survey was sent to 279 former SI-PASS Leaders

In order to tap the energy saving and climate mitigation potential of buildings, transaction costs of implementing energy efficient technologies need to be better understood and ultimately reduced. The objective of this paper is to identify and analyze the nature and scale of transaction costs resulting from the application of the passive house concept in energy efficient renovations. Related conc