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Collaborating with highly skilled professionals in participatory design of machine learning (ML) and visualization tools presents unique challenges. This paper reflects on interdisciplinary projects involving medicine, biology, and the social sciences, where ML was introduced to support complex data analysis and segmentation tasks, sometimes from the outset and other times as a later addition. Des
This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabeth
BACKGROUND: Beetles (Coleoptera) display exceptional dietary diversity and occupy a wide range of ecological niches, often involving close associations with plants and microbes. Ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae; Scolytinae and Platypodinae) exemplify ecological specialization by cultivating mutualistic fungi within galleries excavated in their host trees' xylem, with the fungi serving as their main
Welcome to Folkparken in the university town of Lund, Sweden, a public park with a public brutalist building which currently serves as a meeting place for the local neighbourhood. In this chapter, we study the contested history of Folkparken through a queer theoretical framework based on the conceptual pair of “support” and “coherence”, exploring how spatial, social, and legislative resources are
In light of the current climate- and biodiversity crises, the political interest in peatlands has increased dramatically as these ecosystems hold the potential to address several urgent societal challenges. In Denmark, a political agreement from 2024 aims to restore 140.000 hectares of agricultural peatlands by 2030. The main goal is to reduce GHG emissions from agriculture and decrease nitrogen r
There is a general consensus that children and adolescents should ideally travel to school actively and independently. Yet, in many parts of the world, real and perceived traffic risks represent a major barrier to walking, cycling, or the use of scooters. As the perspectives of children and adolescents on perceived dangers are insufficiently understood, this quantitative-qualitative study compares
Methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) is a prototypical soft-lattice semiconductor whose orthorhombic and tetragonal polymorphs can coexist and interconvert under optical excitation or changes in temperature. The mixed-phase regime attracts attention because of the carrier transfer between phases, which enables optoelectronic functionalities such as optical gain. Here, we investigate carrier dynamic
Perceived stigmatization places a large psychosocial burden on patients with some skin conditions. Little is known about the experience of stigmatization across a wide range of skin diseases. This observational cross-sectional study aimed to quantify perceived stigmatization and identify its predictors among patients with a broad spectrum of skin diseases across 17 European countries. Self-report
Background: Itch as the most common symptom in dermatology has been shown to be related to psychological factors such as stress, anxiety and depression. Moreover, associations were found between perceived stigmatization and itch. However, studies investigating the differences between patients with dermatoses with and without itch regarding perceived stress, stigmatization, anxiety and depression a
The microbial ability to recover metabolism after perturbation events ensures ecosystem functional stability in a changing climate, where multiple climatic stressors increasingly occur in sequential and seasonally cyclic patterns. While prior exposure to a specific stress can enhance microbial resilience to that stress, whether this resilience extends to different stressors remains largely unexplo
Objective: The aim of this research is to identify germline genetic variants that predispose to uveal melanoma (UM) using data from nine studies involving 5839 individuals with UM (3853 novel) and 349,863 healthy controls. Methods: Five novel UM genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were performed and included for meta-analysis with four previously published UM GWAS. A fixed-effects inverse-varia
While prostate cancer (PrCa) is highly heritable, the genes associated with PrCa survival after diagnosis remain poorly understood. We aimed to identify genes associated with PrCa-specific survival through transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) using genetic predictors of gene expression in the prostate. We used the Transcriptome-Integrated Genetic Association Resource (TIGAR) to train expr
AIMS: To study the associations of dietary intake of A and E vitamins, as well as plasma retinols, carotenoids, and tocopherols in relation to development of islet autoimmunity and progression to T1D.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study followed 7659 newborns with genetic susceptibility to T1D for 6 years in the USA, Finland, Germany, and Swe
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Vitamin K dependent proteins are involved in numerous biological processes, including coagulation, cancer development and inflammation, but their profile and functions in many patient groups and conditions are still unknown. The aim of this study was to describe vitamin K dependent proteins in patients undergoing head and neck free flap surgery, with the hypothesis that thes
ContextIn recent decades, breastfeeding rates and the duration of breastfeeding among American womenhave been increasing. A consequence of longer breastfeeding, however, is that it is more likely tooverlap with subsequent pregnancies, and the implications of this arrangement for pregnancyoutcomes is not well understood.MethodsCox proportional hazards models were used to investigate the association
