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Localizer orientation can significantly impact the automatic tube-current modulation (ATCM) in computed tomography (CT). The purpose of this study was to introduce a methodology for assessing ATCM consistency and to compare the outcomes in image noise and radiation dose between a single anterior–posterior (AP) localizer and a combination of lateral and AP (LAT + AP) localizers. A total of 299 pros

Background:Preparing for the end of life is believed to help mitigate emotional suffering for both patients and their caregivers. However, empirical evidence on the emotional benefits of feeling prepared for death remains limited.Aim:This study uses data from the international iLIVE project to examine how perceived end-of-life preparedness is associated with emotional suffering among patients and

Performance Walk with Interconnected BodiesIn Community Walk, it is the garments that set the framework. In pairs, you move out into the landscape—physically connected by a specially designed costume created by the playful artist Charlotte Østergaard. She guides you in exploring and challenging the costume together.The costume creates a new relation between you, shaping how you move forward. You f

Denna rapport undersöker relationen mellan arkitektur och identitet genom en jämförande studie av Västra Hamnen i Malmö, Sverige, och Beirut waterfront vid Beiruts kust, Libanon. Genomanalys av bostads design, arkitektoniska uttryck, material och utformning av offentliga rum belyses hur stadsbyggnad kan skapa eller underminera känslan av tillhörighet, minne och identitet i olika kulturella och kliArchitecture plays a crucial role in shaping not only the physical fabric of cities but also the emotional and psychological experiences of those who inhabit them. It holds the power to evoke memory, identity, and a sense of belonging, especially in cities with complex histories or contrasting urban trajectories. Having the privilege to feel at home in two cities so geographically distant yet emot

The book is a summary of excursion guides for the Lund University course NGEA 04 “Ecosystem analysis”—a field course week held on Öland 2000 to 2025. The guide serves as an introduction and overview of basic information about certain physical geographical environments, features, and general physiographic and ecological traits of southern Öland. Primarily, it offers a general introduction to the is

This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub-Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant-based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and development. We find that rural capitalists in each colony ad

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has made it easier than ever to create chatbots capable of generating human-like responses to user inputs. Moreover, improvements in text-to-speech and speech-to-text make it possible to converse with these systems, not just in text but also through speech. These improvements have led to an increase in chatbot applications across various contexts, such

Numerous studies show an association between military pressures and fiscal development, often based on cross-national correlations between wars and fiscal outcomes (e.g., tax ratios). However, investments in fiscal capacity may take time to yield higher tax revenues, obscuring the importance of factors that contributed to those investments. This article shifts attention from fiscal outcomes to the

Many audio applications, including echo-cancellation and active noise control, rely on the availability of accurately estimated room impulse responses (RIRs). For these applications, it is common that the source signal is short and primarily consists of speech or music, which may cause the estimation of the RIR to be poorly conditioned. Although priors on the amplitudes of the RIR could in princip

Childhood stunting (height‑for‑age z‑score < −2) remains a global public health challenge, and national averages often mask subnational clustering and spatial heterogeneity of underlying determinants. Across four papers, this thesis integrates geocoded household data with gridded geospatial surfaces from nationally representative survey data to map stunting hotspots, quantify spatially varying and

Iridium ditelluride (IrTe2) as a two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) has attracted significant attention as a promising catalyst for oxygen evolution reactions (OERs). Although its electrochemical performance has been explored, detailed surface–state analyses are essential to fully elucidate the underlying catalytic mechanisms. Here, we fabricated surface-modulated IrTe2 th

We consider a game with two players, consisting of a number of rounds, where the first player to win rounds becomes the overall winner. Who wins each individual round is governed by a certain urn having two types of balls (type 1 and type 2). At each round, we randomly pick a ball from the urn, and its type determines which of the two players wins. We study the game under three regimes. In the fir

Advances in liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry have significantly improved proteomic analyses of human plasma. However, information at the level of intact proteoforms remains limited due to the high dynamic range of protein abundance and the complexity of post-translational modifications. To address this challenge, we introduce soluble plasma proteoform analysis via acetonitrile precipitation

The present study was motivated by the unusually large differences in solubility observed between two polymorphic forms of an antibiotic active pharmaceutical ingredient, oxytetracycline hydrochloride. These differences significantly exceed typical polymorphic solubility variations. Through detailed structural analysis, we demonstrate that forms I and II are not true polymorphs but pseudopolymorph

Background: Whole Transcriptome Sequencing (WTS) is a comprehensive alternative to targeted panels for detecting gene fusions and splice variants. To integrate WTS into clinical diagnostics, we compared its performance against established fusion assays (Archer FusionPlex and TSO500 RNA). Methods: WTS was evaluated in an initial cohort of 64 FFPE tumor samples, and quality control (QC) thresholds w