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OBJECTIVES: This study provides a detailed analysis of the global and regional burden of cancer due to occupational carcinogens from the Global Burden of Disease 2016 study.METHODS: The burden of cancer due to 14 International Agency for Research on Cancer Group 1 occupational carcinogens was estimated using the population attributable fraction, based on past population exposure prevalence and rel

The presence of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) in pancreatic endocrine cells is well established. Nevertheless, recent advances are only now unraveling the signaling network involving 5-HT that partly regulates the release of hormones emanating from the islets of Langerhans. It is widely accepted that failure of the pancreatic β-cell to release sufficient amounts of insulin is the main cul

ALS is characterized by the degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons. In about 70% of patients with ALS the disease has an spinal onset, while about 30% of the patients have a bulbar onset.  Cognitive dysfunction and behavioral changes are seen in about 50% of the patients, and 15% develop frontotemporal dementia.  There is no single test that provides the ALS diagnosis. The diagnosis is base

This chapter examines mobilisation around sexuality and gender identity in Southeast Asia through an examination of how the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement in Vietnam has pursued full recognition and equal rights for all, regardless of sexuality and gender. As the chapter details, the Vietnamese LGBT movement is composed of informal activist groups and networks as well as f

Control charts have typically been constructed using estimators obtained under assumptions of data independence and a given distribution of data. Here, I deal with cases in which neither of these conditions are satisfied. In particular, I consider the case of data obtained from a first-order autoregressive (AR(1)) time series model that have been contaminated by outlying process observations. I fi

Plastics contribute the most to the ever-growing buildup of pollution in Earth’s water bodies. In the aquatic environment, plastic essentially exists in multiple forms before and following passage to nature depending on its synthetic pathway and succeeding degree of fragmentation or degradation, and includes bulk material, as well as nanosized particles. It is of utmost importance to understand th

Rätten till tystnad är en av de viktigaste rättigheterna som syftar till att skydda en tilltalad från tvång och påtryckningar från de brottsbekämpande myndigheterna. Rättigheten är däremot inte absolut, utan en tilltalad kan ibland åläggas en så kallad förklaringsbörda. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om förklaringsbördan i brottmål uppfyller rättssäkerhetskravet som ställs i en rättsstat. MThe right to silence is one of the most important rights which serves to pro-tect the accused from coercion from law enforcement. However, the right to silence is not an absolute right. The accused can sometimes be obligated to satisfy a so-called “burden of explanation”. The purpose of this essay is to examine if the burden of explanation lives up to the criteria of legal certain-ty, as demanded

Causality is a fundamental requirement for physical consistency in many-body approximations. In the context of Green's functions, causality requires a positive spectral function and analyticity in the upper half of the complex-frequency plane. These properties are not guaranteed by approximate methods, and formal proofs of causality for the underlying approximation schemes are often difficult

Background: Growing evidence indicates that young migrants are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence, however most research has focused on instances of sexual violence occurring in conflict zones and during transit. Much less attention has been given to the vulnerabilities to and experiences of sexual violence among young migrants in Europe.Objectives: To understand the scientific evidence re

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the emerging Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) in Europe. The first objective is to explore different perspectives and understanding of the bio-economy and its key components. This provides the foundations for the second objective, which is to critically discuss the bio-economy in terms of positive and negative impacts as well as dr

A summary and critical examination of Leben Jesu Forschung in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden