Popular Abstract in English The current interest in improving the nutritional benefits of food products and the need to recover undeveloped crops prompted us to study two plant roots: parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) and yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius). Parsnip is a root native to Europe and Asia, and is often used for culinary purposes and to feed livestock. Parsnip was a popular vegetable in the MiddThe physicochemical properties of two root suspensions, parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) and yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius), were studied and compared at different concentrations and after being subjected to processes such as homogenization and heating. The study and the evaluation of the physicochemical properties of these plant materials in the form of pastes might help to increase the interest in t

Economies in transition (EiTs) (e. g. Ukraine (UA), Belarus, Lithuania (LU), Moldova, etc.) face broad needs for energy security enhancement, energy diversification, revitalisation of agriculture and improvements in the state of the environment. Development of national bioenergy potentials can contribute to delivering solutions to these problems. However, EiTs face technical, political, financial,

The paper is in part an evaluation of using virtual focus groups in existing commercial platforms as a research method, in part a pilot study on motives and perceptions of Facebook users concerning political participation in social media. Two focus groups were set up in the commercial social network Facebook, consisting each of six participants, all of them residing in Sweden. One of the groups co

Popular Abstract in Swedish Liposuction och kontrollerad kompressionsbehandling av armlymfödem efter bröstcancerbehandling Behandlingen av bröstcancer är kirurgisk. Förutom att bröstet avlägsnas innefattar behandlingen ofta borttagning av lymfkörtlar i armhålan samt strålbehandling. Detta leder till att flödet av lymfa från armen kraftigt försämras med svullnad som följd (lymfödem). Detta inträffLiposuction and controlled compression therapy in the treatment of arm lymphedema following breast cancer About one-third of all women treated for breast cancer develop arm lymphedema. The cancer itself is a worry, but the swollen and heavy arm is an additional handicap for the patients, both physical and psychosocial. Previous surgical and conservative treatments have not always given satisfacto

Case commentary | “Decision on the Apparent Conflict of Interests in relation to the Legal Representative of Victims a/0015/08...a/0035/08, Prosecutor v. Katanga and Ngudjolo Chui, Case No ICC-01/04–01/07, Pre-Trial Chamber I, 16 July 2008”

Due to the gravitational influence of density fluctuations driven by magneto-rotational instability in the gas disk, planetesimals and protoplanets undergo diffusive radial migration as well as changes in other orbital properties. The magnitude of the effect on particle orbits can have important consequences for planet formation scenarios. We use the local-shearing-box approximation to simulate an

Popular Abstract in Swedish Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Personer som drabbats av cancer och autoimmuna sjukdomar ökar i vårt samhälle, vilket främst beror på förbättrade verktyg att identifiera sjukdomarna, en ökad medvetenhet, och på att vi lever allt längre. Att antalet diagnoser och även antalet överlevande ökar ställer höga krav på sjukvården samtidigt som kostnaderna ökar för samhälleAbstract The number of cancer and autoimmune disease diagnoses increases in our society, which place high demands on the health care system. Being able to tailor treatments for each individual patient is called "Personalized medicine", and could revolutionize the care in the future. This type of medicine requires biomarkers that could be used for diagnosis, prognosis and choice of therapy. In our

Wastewater treatment processes are inherently dynamic because of the large variations in the influent wastewater flow rate, concentration and composition. Moreover, these variations are to a large extent not possible to control. The adaptive behaviour of the involved microorganisms imposes further difficulties in terms of time-varying process parameters. Mathematical models and computer simulation

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Popular Abstract in Swedish En cancerpatient kommer till sjukhuset för att genomgå en strålbehandlig. Sjukhusets personal tar bilder av patienten och identifierar tumörens placering och utbredning. Bilderna läggs in i ett datorprogram, som i sin tur simulerar en strålbehandling. Strålningsapparaten, dvs. linjäracceleratorn, har flera justerbara parametrar; strålfältets storlek, vinkeln på den infaPolymer gel dosimetry has been used since the 1990s, and several studies have shown that this detector system can be used for verification of static absorbed dose distributions in three dimensions (3D). Its unique properties, such as high resolution, normal tissue equivalence and independency of energy, field size and direction of the incident radiation, should also be advantageous for dosimetric