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Purpose: The aim of this study was to translate the health-related quality-of-life questionnaire EORTC QLQ-LMC21 into Swedish and to test its clinical and psychometric reliability and validity in patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer (CRC) undergoing surgical treatment. Methods: The Swedish versions of the EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-LMC21 were administered to 250 patients with liv

The recent more or less complete return and recovery in Skåne, southern-most Sweden, of epiphytic bryophyes known to have suffered from atmospheric pollution in the mid 1900’s, e.g. Zygodon rupestris, Antitrichia curtipendula, Leucodon sciuroides, Orthotrichum lyellii, O. speciosum and O. stramineum, is here discussed and illustrated on maps. However, apart from these successful recoveries, at lea

Molecular studies have contributed greatly to our understanding of evolutionary processes that act upon virtually every aspect of living organisms. However, these studies are limited with regard to extinct organisms, particularly those from the Mesozoic because fossils pose unique challenges to molecular workflows, and because prevailing wisdom suggests no endogenous molecular components can persi

Sepsis is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world, and is an overreaction by the immune system due to pathogen invasion of the bloodstream. The interactions, particularly the protein interactions, between the host and pathogen are fundamental for the outcome of the disease. However, some of the protein interactions are unknown and those that are known have been studied as

Parlay/OSA is a service architecture for current and next generation telecommunication networks. A gateway provides the applications with abstracted network functionality via Application Programming Interfaces. This facilitates the creation of telecommunication services and applications from independent software developers. The gateway translates the requests for abstracted functionality to teleco

I juni 2025 presenterades statens offentliga utredning SOU 2025:66 En straffreform, som innehåller omfattande förslag till förändringar av det svenska påföljdssystemet. Ett av förslagets uttalade mål är att hela straffskalornas spännvidd ska komma till större användning. Detta ska realiseras genom ändringar av den allmänna bestämmelsen om straffvärdebedömning i 29 kap. 1 § brottsbalken. Förslaget In June 2025 the Swedish government presented SOU 2025:66, a report containing extensive proposals for changes to the Swedish system of criminal sanctions. One of the goals of the proposal is to increase the use of the full range of penalty scales. This is to be achieved through amendments to the general provision on the assessment of penal value in Chapter 29, Section 1 of the Swedish Penal Code.

I dagens Sverige aktualiseras allt oftare frågan om hur straffrätten ska förhålla sig till allvarlig brottslighet som begås av barn och unga. Det är inte ovanligt att barn under straffbarhetsåldern involveras i kriminalitet, vilket har gett upphov till en kriminalpolitisk debatt om barns straffrättsliga ansvar. En mindre uppmärksammad aspekt i denna diskussion rör emellertid vilket ansvar vuxna i In contemporary Sweden, questions increasingly arise as to how criminal law should respond to serious crimes committed by children. It is not uncommon for minors below the age of criminal responsibility to be drawn into criminal activity, a development that has given rise to an extensive criminal policy debate concerning children’s criminal liability. A less examined aspect of this debate, however

The Tajik health system is characterized by improving health outcomes over the last 20 years, but also major inefficiencies in health care delivery and large difficulties for people to access affordable essential health care. The benefits package (BP) is a key tool for prioritizing state budget allocations toward health interventions that most effectively enhance health system performance. This ar

Den 1 juli 2020 infördes hedersmotiv som försvårande omständighet i 29 kap. 2 § 10 p. BrB. Lagändringen syftade till att tydligare markera brottslighetens särskilda klandervärdhet när gärningen begåtts med hedersmotiv och att möjliggöra ett strängare straff för sådan brottslighet. Mot denna bakgrund undersöker uppsatsen om bestämmelsen har fått det genomslag i rättstillämpningen som lagstiftaren aOn 1 July 2020, honour motives were introduced as an aggravating circumstance in Chapter 29, Section 2, point 10 of the Swedish Criminal Code. The amendment aimed to more clearly emphasise the particular blameworthiness of criminal conduct when an offence is committed with an honour motive and to enable harsher punishment for such crimes. Against this background, this essay examines whether the pr

The accumulation of biofilms in porous media is likely to influence the overall hydraulic properties and, consequently, a sound understanding of the process is required for the proper design and management of many technological applications. In order to bring some light into this phenomenon we present a mechanistic model to study the variably saturated hydraulic properties of bio-amended soils. Sp

The effect of mineral fertilization and its application pattern on microbial activity and the subsequent CO2 and CH4 emissions arising from soil organic matter (SOM) or added substrate remains unclear. We quantified the decomposition of 13C-labeled straw and the priming effect (PE) governed by the N and P fertilizer application pattern during a 100-day experiment in a flooded soil. Straw addition

Eighty-three patients with high risk ocular hypertension were followed between 9 and 120 months with computerized threshold perimetry every three months in a prospective clinical study. Twenty eyes developed definite glaucomatous visual field defects. Analysis of these cases showed that definite field loss was preceded by increased variability of measured threshold values. Already at this early st

Summary: The Natura 2000 network of protected sites is one of the means to address the issue of biodiversity conservation in Europe. Protected under the habitat directive, EU member states have to undertake surveillance of habitats and species of community interest and report every six years on habitat range and distribution, conservation status and the future prospects of the habitats within and

Within the framework of a Swedish national experiment with different types of Intelligent Speed Adaptation, 300 vehicles are being equipped with an active gas pedal in the city of Lund. The active gas pedal provides drivers with counter-force whenever they try to exceed the pre-set speed limit. During the experiment the equipment will be continuously set on the actual speed limit. The vehicles wil

A recurrent problem in ecology and conservation biology is to estimate the risk of population extinctions. Extinction probabilities are not only imperative for conservation and management, but may also elucidate basic mechanisms of the regulation of natural populations. The usual way of modelling stochastic influence on population dynamics has been to assume that the external noise is uncorrelated

Digital research data is often advanced as a trouble-free concept and used to describe the material of research at all stages in a research process. However frequently such framing lacks understanding of the roles of disciplinary and organisational cultures, and of what the various practices, including those of funding policy and university administration, involved in shaping what research data ar

Mathematical optimization is becoming increasingly important for engineering in general and control in particular. This thesis deals with numerical methods, primarily direct collocation, and symbolic methods, primarily block-triangular ordering and tearing, for numerical solution of general dynamic optimization problems involving dynamical systems modeled by large-scale differential-algebraic equa

Artikeln analyserar hur Augustinus i Sermo 9 hanterar människolivets paradoxer och svårigheter i relation till Guds löfte om evigt liv.Augustine mainly addressed men of the upper and middle classes. Their wives are assumed to be present (and, frequently, to be more pious than their husbands), but are seldom directly addressed. Servants and beggars are not addressed either, but stood to benefit from admonitions to the men in the audience, e.g. that they should give alms regularly and not sexually abuse their subordinates. All this

Background: The aim of this study was to provide a descriptive account of carbapenem resistance and risk factors for mortality from invasive Acinetobacter infections in the south of Sweden.Methods: Blood isolates with growth of Acinetobacter species between 2010 and 2019 in Skåne county were subtyped using MALDI-TOF and subjected to susceptibility testing against clinically relevant antibiotics. A