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Background: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) is the first of a series of annual updates of the GBD. Risk factor quantification, particularly of modifiable risk factors, can help to identify emerging threats to population health and opportunities for prevention. The GBD 2013 provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new

Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are common Gram-negative pathogens associated with an array of pulmonary diseases. All three species have multiple adhesins in their outer membrane, i.e. surface structures that confer the ability to bind to surrounding cells, proteins or tissues. This mini-review focuses on proteins with high affinity for the components of t

It is well known that one of the features of long-memory processes is that they tend to have what looks like trends and cycles. A consequence of this property is that it is difficult to distinguish a long-memory process from a nonstationary process. In this paper, we study the impact of the periodicity and trend on different methods for estimating the long-memory processes parameter d.

The Council Presidency offered Sweden a possibility to contribute not only to a number of important issue areas but also to what we may call the ‘foreign policy’ side of the EU.A general question was, of course, what sort of impact Sweden could make in this field, given its background as a nonaligned and small state — a country generally regarded as hesitant in terms of supranational policy-making

Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where a potential for economic, social and personal development is increasingly a function of interaction with others different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization induces parents to want to instill tolerance in their children, the main idea being that this would equip t

This article discusses the rise of "anticorruptionism" as part of a general trend in "ethical globalization", and offers an anthropological framework for studying anticorruption movements. Focus is on the organization Transparency International and its operation as an international NGO and its local branches, especially in the Balkans.

Board evaluations can contribute to effective boards and improved corporate financial performance. The increasing interest in the practice of board evaluations, however, calls for a more systematic and careful approach than has been employed in the past. While most attention has primarily been focused on the content of board evaluations, this article outlines the features of various possible board

This paper describes the development of a method based on measurements of the radar cross section (RCS) in the forward direction to determine the extinction cross section for the 2.5 – 38 GHz frequency range. A conventional anechoic chamber designed for monostatic measurements is used for forward RCS measurements. The extinction cross section is then calculated from the measured forward RCS using

Popular Abstract in Swedish Trots att vi har ett mycket sofistikerat immunförsvar är infektionssjukdomar ett stort problem för alla flercelliga organismer. Varför har vi inte under evolutionens gång lyckats finna ett sätt att överlista virus, bakterier och andra parasiter? En förklaring är att immunförsvaret är kostsamt, dvs att ett kraftfullt immunförsvar inte bara ger fördelar i form av ökat skyA central assumption of theories of the ecology and evolution of immunological defence is that defence has not only benefits (in the form of resistance against parasites), but also costs. The aim of my studies was to investigate the nature and magnitude of costs of the vertebrate immune system, and to examine some of the consequences of these costs. First, I investigated the energetic cost of the