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Objective To evaluate any association of the presence and severity of nine major symptoms (pain, tiredness, drowsiness, nausea, appetite, breathlessness, depression, anxiety, and perceived well-being) with sleep quality and duration in elderly men.Design and setting Cross-sectional analysis within the population-based VAScular and Chronic Obstructive Lung disease study (VASCOL) conducted in southe
BackgroundBreathlessness is a common and distressing symptom across a wide range of medical conditions. Different aspects (dimensions) of breathlessness can be assessed using the Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile (MDP) and Dyspnoea-12 (D12) questionnaires. We aimed to examine whether the order of completing MDP and D12 affects the breathlessness responses in people with cardiorespiratory disease.M
In this podcast mini-series, we talk with members of the Breaking Up Silos project, which is a research project involving researchers from Sweden and The Netherlands and practitioners in the cities of Stockholm and Amsterdam. The project aims to increase the understanding of how the EU's mission for climate-neutral cities can break up silos and provide innovative governance approaches and tools t
In the active exploration of novel biobased semicrystalline polyesters to replace petrochemical plastics, AB-type aromatic condensation polymerizations are relatively rarely investigated but gain growing attention due to the straightforward synthesis of AB-type monomers from diverse asymmetric biobased feedstocks. However, achieving high molecular weights through AB-type melt polycondensations is
The need for large-scale production of highly accurate simulated event samples for the extensive physics programme of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider motivates the development of new simulation techniques. Building on the recent success of deep learning algorithms, variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks are investigated for modelling the response of the cent
Hur skapar man samsyn och samarbete i en kommunal koncern där förvaltningar tidigare tänkte i stuprör? I Höganäs växte en kultur av gemensamt ansvar fram genom vardagliga berättelser och budgetprocessen. Den här artikeln berättar historien om hur kommunen etablerade en koncernledningsgrupp för att styra sin samlade verksamhet. Eller var det egentligen en koncernkultur som växte fram?
Årsredovisningens förvaltningsberättelse är mer än formaliteter. Den ska ge en tydlig bild av verksamheten och ge underlag för framtida beslut. Här finns stora möjligheter att höja kvaliteten ytterligare. Forskare vid Ekonomihögskolan, Lunds universitet, ger konkreta tips för hur berättelsen kan bli tydligare och mer användbar.
Försörjningsberedskap är återigen centralt för Sverige och man inser att samhällsviktiga försörjningskedjor består av såväl olika slags myndigheter som privata, ofta globala, företag. För att höja beredskap, behövs ett mer gemensamt arbete med risker och kontinuitetshantering i försörjningskedjor. Det finnas dock stora samverkansutmaningar i detta privat-offentliga gränssnitt. Artikeln beskriver e
With the projected increase in the number of hydrogen-fueled trucks, it can beexpected that it will become more common for such vehicles to be involved in road collisions. Even if hydrogen vehicles are designed with a quick-closing valve on tanks in accordance with UN/ECE R134, a small volume of hydrogen will be contained downstream of this valve and in the fuel-cell recirculation system and thereWith the projected increase in the number of hydrogen-fueled trucks, it can be expected that it will become more common for such vehicles to be involved in road collisions. Even if hydrogen vehicles are designed with a quick-closing valve on tanks in accordance with UN/ECE R134, a small volume of hydrogen will be contained downstream of this valve and in the fuel-cell recirculation system and ther
Background and hypothesis Knowledge regarding access to first kidney transplantation (KT) and subsequent KT in patients commencing kidney replacement therapy (KRT) in childhood is limited. Methods Using European Renal Association (ERA) Registry data, we investigated European patients who started KRT below 20 years of age between 1978 and 2019. Access and determinants to first, second, and third KT
One of the key skills of any scientist is noticing what’s going on. Both in the experiment one’s performing and in one’s data: is there something interesting, reason to doubt one’s data or suspect that one’s theoretical description is insufficient? Many experiments developed for undergraduate teaching still focus on quantitative evaluation. Here we take a different approach where careful observati
The Danube fluvial terrace in Velika Vrbica is situated at the westernmost edge of the Wallachian basin, Serbia. The profile is positioned in a gully valley with a base consisting of point bar sands interlayered with overbank clay deposits, which are together covered by loess sediments. The investigated loess-paleosol sequence (LPS) has a height of 11.15 m and has been sampled at 5 cm intervals fo
Word accents are restricted by a word’s morphological structure but also distinguish lexical meanings in minimal pairs. We investigated how early tonal information carried by morphophonemic word accents influences rapid lexical access in native speakers. We also asked whether tone-bearing words are decomposed into morphemes and word accents, or retrieved holistically via full-form neural represent
Climate change is one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss. Among vertebrates, amphibians are one of the more sensitive groups to climate change due to their unique ecology, habitat requirements, narrow thermal tolerance and relatively limited dispersal abilities. We projected the influence of climate change on an endemic toad, Malabar Tree Toad (Pedostibes tuberculosus; hereafter MTT) from t
Fine-grained windblown deposits (loess) in which fossil soils (palaeosols) are preserved are excellent records of past climate. However, so far paleoclimate reconstruction studies conducted on such loess-palaeosol sequences (LPS) in SE Europe were focused on the climate changes of the last one or two glacial-interglacial cycles, while almost no attention has been directed to the climate of the cur
The topic of this thesis is how to infer geometric information using sound data. Achieving this requires solving several subproblems. First, signal processing of the recorded sound is needed to compute measurements of primitive geometric relations. Secondly, robust estimation is needed to go from primitive geometric measurements to more useful higher-level information such as the locations of micr
Rationale: There is no consensus on criteria to include in an asthma remission definition in real life. Factors associated with achieving remission after biologic initiation remain poorly understood. Objectives: To quantify the proportion of adults with severe asthma achieving multidomain-defined remission after biologic initiation and identify prebiologic characteristics associated with achieving
Thermal runaway in lithium-ion battery cells poses significant safety risks due to rapid heat generation and potential thermal propagation within a battery system. This study investigates the total heat released and the fraction of energy contained in gas and particles ejected during thermal runaway using a purpose-built calorimeter setup. The results show that the fraction of ejected heat is sign
