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As a doctoral student, you have many opportunities to gain international experience during your doctoral studies. You can, for example, collect data for your thesis or participate in staff training. You can also teach at a partner university. Exchanges carried out in Europe (EU/EEA) within the framework of Erasmus+, the EU's education programme, are supported with scholarships. The size of the sch
BACKGROUND Men and women with type 1 long QT syndrome (LQT1) exhibit time-dependent differences in the risk for cardiac events. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that sex-specific risk for LQT1 is related to the location and function of the disease-causing mutation in the KCNQ1 gene. METHODS The risk for life-threatening cardiac events (comprising aborted cardiac arrest [ACA] or sudden cardiac death [SCD]
Abstract The benefit of exercise for breast cancer-treated women is well documented. However, studies of cardiovascular fitness training for women with breast cancer-related arm lymphedema are rare. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of intensive pole walking on arm lymphedema in women treated for breast cancer. Thirty-five women with unilateral lymphedema were included and t
The aim of the study was to assess the role of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) in patients diagnosed with BCR-ABL1-positive acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Fifty-seven patients (median age, 48 years, range: 19-67) with BCR-ABL1 positive AML undergoing SCT were identified. The majority of the patients (70%) received a TKI before the transplant. At SCT 48 patients were in CR (45 in CR1), wh
Growth of the smooth muscle in the rat portal vein was initiated by an increased transmural pressure. After 7 days, the cross-sectional area of the vessel wall and the maximal active force of the longitudinal muscle layer had increased twofold. Electron microscopy showed that the cell cross-sectional area was increased, suggesting cellular hypertrophy. Increased amounts of intermediate (10 nm) fil
Smågruppsverksamhet och ett systematiskt användande av förbättringsverktyg brukar räknas till förutsättningarna för en varaktig förbättringsprocess. Det räcker emellertid inte med att bilda grupper och utbilda i förbättringsverktyg, det måste finnas en motivation hos medarbetarna att vara aktivt delaktiga i förbättringsarbetet. I denna avhandling presenteras en studie där medlemmar i förbättringsg
Inverse modeling techniques used to quantify surface carbon fluxes commonly assume that the uncertainty of fossil fuel CO2 (FFCO2) emissions is negligible and that intra-annual variations can be neglected. To investigate these assumptions, we analyzed the differences between four fossil fuel emission inventories with spatial and temporal differences over Europe and their impact on the model simula
Primary health care resources for rehabilitation and secondary prevention after myocardial infarction - a questionnaire survey Background: During the first year after a cardiac event, many patients are offered participation in a cardiac rehabilitation programme, after which the patients are often not given the opportunity to continue to attend rehabilitation and secondary prevention programmes. Ai
ActiGraph acceleration data are processed through several steps (including bandpass filtering to attenuate unwanted signal frequencies) to generate the activity counts commonly used in physical activity research. We performed three experiments to investigate the effect of sampling frequency on the generation of activity counts. Ideal acceleration signals were produced in the MATLAB software. There
Firms’ stock return volatility varies across countries, and the factors driving the volatility can contribute both positively and negatively to economic growth. We show that across 3,673 firms during the time interval 2001 to 2016, stocks of Swedish firms have on average lower volatility compared to stocks of foreign European firms of similar size, age, and market-to-book value. The lower volatili
P fertilizers are made from phosphate rock, which is a finite resource. It was added to the EU list of critical raw materials in 2014. The phosphorus in P fertilizers could potentially be substituted by a substance called struvite, which can be recovered from sewage sludge. In 2019, the EU updated and included struvite into fertilizer regulation 1009/2019 which made distribution of struvite possib
This thesis aims to examine how resilience can contribute to the understanding of state governance of municipal civil preparedness in Sweden. Against the backdrop of a worsened security environment, climate-related risks, pandemics and other cross-border crises, issues concerning preparedness and societal resilience have become increasingly central in both research and policy. The study is conduct
Vegetation growth in Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a crucial process for quantifying ecohydrological modelling, as it influences evapotranspiration, interception, soil erosion and biomass production. The simplified version of Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) in SWAT was originally designed for temperate regions and naturally based on temperatur
Background. Seeking to clarify the parent-offspring transmission of Major Depression (MD) and type I Bipolar Disorder (BD), we examined offspring MD and BD risk in five informative parental pairs: Unaffected x MD, Unaffected x BD, MDxMD, MDxBD and BDxBD. Methods. We identified 289,637 individuals born in Sweden 1970-1990, followed through 2018, from parents with MD and/or BD identified from Swedis
PurposeStreptococcus agalactiae causes severe infections. Time to blood culture positivity (TTP) has been suggested as a marker of disease severity. This study investigated the clinical characteristics of S. agalactiae bacteraemia and the association between TTP and outcomes.MethodsThis retrospective population-based study included adult episodes of S. agalactiae bacteraemia in southern Sweden, fr
The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which young Chinese consumers are making conspicuous consumption of fashion products. With China's increasingly rapid economic development, the income and consumption levels of the Chinese middle class are rising. Younger people, thanks to higher household income levels, also have more wealth at their disposal. Thus young Chinese are alloca
