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Anmälningar av nyutkomna böcker i nordiska språk och äldre nordisk litteratur

Background Hip replacement as a routine procedure was introduced in Lithuania in 1991. At Klaipeda Hospital, one of the 2 hospitals at which this was begun, the arthroplasties were followed prospectively from the start. This study concerns the 10-year results from a country with no previous experience of hip replacement. The results are compared with those from a hospital with considerable experie

Concentrations of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and human kallikrein 2 (hK2) were investigated in blood samples that had been obtained from men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) decades later. The studies were based on a cohort comprising 22,444 men who, in 1974?1986, were early middle aged and represented a non-PCa-screened population. The results clearly demonstrate a very strong c

In adult soft tissue sarcoma (STS) of the extremities and trunk wall, improved prognostic factors are needed to identify patients at high-risk for metastasis. Various factors are included in the many prognostic systems currently in use and the prognostic value of immunohistochemical (IHC) expression of biological markers is unclear. The tissue-preserving, high throughput tissue microarray (TMA) te

Ett terminologisk förslag till tredelning av textbegreppet i första hand ägnat att handha texttraditioner som rymmer större eller mindre variation: textverk = den abstrakta storhet som i olika manifestationer uppfattas som ett och samma verk (ett slags motsvarighet till fonemet), textvittne = den specifika manifestationen av ett textverk, textbärare = den konkreta (och därmed multimodala) bäraren

The Driving to Learn project explored possible achievements of training people with cognitive disabilities in a joystick-operated powered wheelchair utilizing the grounded theory approach. Theoretical sampling led the concomitant collection and analysis of data. During a period of 12 years, 45 participants with profound cognitive disabilities, aged 12 months to 52 years, were engaged in the projec

Entrepreneurship is considered a central force of economic development, as it generates growth and serves as a vehicle for innovation and change., Tourism is one of the economic sectors in which a great degree of involvement is needed by the entrepreneurial sector: diversification of tourism products and services is needed to cope with increased demand for new types of tourism needs. These include

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The aim of this thesis was to evaluate risk factors for bone fragility and fractures in postmenopausal women in a long-term perspective. The study period spanned from the age of 48 to age 82 and is thus unique in its length. The studied sample was homogeneous and consisted of 390 north European women from a population-based cohort. At the start of the study, general health and lifestyle parameters