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Background: There is an urgent need to evaluate the quality of healthcare systems to improve and deliver high-quality care. Clinical registries have become important platforms for performance measurements, improvements, and clinical research. Hence, the quality of data in registries is crucial. This study aimed to assess the validity of data in the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Register (SCRCR). Metho
Several novel urinary kidney damage biomarkers predict the progression of kidney disease. However, the relations of these biomarkers to atherosclerosis, a major consequence of kidney disease, are less studied. Urinary levels of several biomarkers, including kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1), osteopontin, epidermal growth factor, and Dickkopf-3, were assessed in participants enrolled in the Swedish
I mången biografi över Stalin finns resonemang om de långtgående konsekvenserna av att människor, i höga likväl som blygsamma befattningar, gjorde allt i sin makt för att blidka diktatorn Stalin. På samma gång bidrog stalinismen till karriärmöjligheter för hårt arbetande, obrottsligt lojala och ambitiösa personer i Sovjetunionen. Vad som har benämnts som ”Stalins nya medelklass” utmärktes i mångt
The WT1 protein, a product of the Wilms’ tumour 1 gene (WT1) is a zinc finger transcription factor implicated in a number of cellular processes particularly involved in the development of the urogenital system. Mutations in this gene have been implicated in abnormal development of the urogenital system resulting in syndromes such as the Denys-Drash, WAGR and Frasier and in the childhood kidney mal
The bottleneck of Big Data today is the analysis of large amounts of information, including data mining, inference and prediction. Entrepreneurship researchers who want to take advantage of Big Data, need tools and workflows to find important trends and patterns within massive data sets, and understand "what the data tell us." Here, we apply gradient boosting to big, register-based data, and estab
This paper investigates the use of corpora, with a specific focus on concordances,in teaching and learning as a foreign language in classrooms in Vietnam. Students who used concordances obtained more correct answers than those who did not, and they could develop activeness in exploring words structures and grammatical rules.
Shallow lakes such as Lake Krankesjön are characterized by their extended littoral zones, usually covered by submersed and emergent vegetation. In paper 1, I investigated the relationship between turbidity and macrophyte growth (Chara spp.) during spring and summer in Lake Krankesjön and found that the colonization of the lake bed by macrophytes was dependent on turbidity on a non-linear way. Also
