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This study investigated the presence of microplastics (MPs, >5 μm to <2 mm) in biofertilizers and estimated their mass input to Swedish agricultural soils. Collective samples from representative biogas facilities were analyzed using optical microscopy and optical photothermal infrared (O-PTIR) spectroscopy, with selected MPs examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The highest MPs concentra

Contemporary urban development has produced a consistent blind spot: the systematic exclusion of productive activities from the city. While recent decades have delivered dense, attractive, and programmatically “mixed” environments, this mix has largely been limited to housing, offices, and consumption. Production, making, repairing, storing, and recycling has been relocated elsewhere.The 2017 Annu

Importance In randomized trials, early prophylactic hydrocortisone improved survival without bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) with few adverse effects in extremely preterm infants. Large scale implementation data are needed to evaluate clinical effects and safety. Objective To examine the association between early prophylactic hydrocortisone and survival without BPD at 36 weeks’ postmenstrual age

Taurine, an amino sulfonic acid abundant in seafood and meat, has been proposed to have a potential role in the prevention of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) due to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. However, the association between dietary taurine intake and MASLD remains unclear in human populations. Also, data on dietary taurine intake among adult

Background: Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) is a key driver of aberrant angiogenesis in inflammatory conditions and cancer, making it an attractive therapeutic target. Nevertheless, its function can be affected by the complex immune responses and tumor microenvironment (TME). Hence, combinatorial treatment approaches that simultaneously target iNOS and immune-modulatory signaling are strong

Sedan RUT-avdraget infördes 2007 har sektorn för hushållsnära tjänster expanderat, och personer över 65 år utgör idag en av de största användargrupperna (Riksrevisionen 2020:34). Ett växande antal företag erbjuder tjänster som riktar sig till äldre och deras anhöriga. Utifrån intervjuer med RUT-företag, arbetsgivarorganisationer och fackförbund är syftet med artikeln att analysera omsorgstjänstern

"If on a winter’s night an architect" was developed and presented within the Milano International Design Studio (MInDS) at Politecnico di Milano as an intensive workshop focused on model production.The work was produced exclusively through physical models, understood not as representations of predefined designs but as tools for thinking. Through iterative processes of making, testing, and reconfig

Antibiotic resistance poses a global threat. Antibiotics are administered to 80-90% of terminally ill patients but evidence of their effectiveness in improving survival or symptom relief at the end of life (EOL) is scarce. To determine the proportion of deceased patients that continue antibiotic treatment after documented EOL discussion and the decision to prioritise symptom relief over active tre

The diagnostic accuracy of AIDOC-VO, the first commercial artificial intelligence tool for intracranial large-and medium-vessel occlusion (LVO/MeVO) detection on head-and-neck CT angiography (CTA), was evaluated in a multicenter emergency setting. A prospective diagnostic-accuracy study of 3,031 adult CT angiograms (mean age, 67.3 years ± 16.4 [SD]; 1,549 females) acquired March-July 2024 across a

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for heart failure (HF) is underutilized in primary care, particularly among older adults with chronic stable HF. This prospective quality improvement study, Heart Failure in Southern Sweden (HISS), evaluated the impact of a cross-disciplinary implementation project combining cardiology and primary care expertise to enhance GDMT adheren

Cohesionless loose granular material (CLGM), defined by the absence of interparticle cohesion and a fragile packing structure, are highly sensitive to mechanical disturbances and exhibit fluid-like dynamics under shear. This study investigates the nonlinear behavior arising from the interaction between an auger drill and CLGM through a combination of laboratory experiments and discrete element met

The hypothalamus and sex hormones are closely linked to primary headache disorders. Migraine is the most prevalent disabling neurological disorder, affecting up to 15% of the global population, with enormous socioeconomic and personal impacts. It ranks second among years lived with disability (YLD), with women being the most affected, experiencing a threefold higher prevalence than men. Women repo

This study explores causes for uncertainty that social workers experience when making assessments ofout of home placements in foster or institutional care. Uncertainty is often considered to be an integralpart of professional decision making, and the reason why professions are needed at all. Most researchhas concentrated on investigating how uncertainty is approached in education, professions, and

We present an extension of the SPL-BEV (Soccer Player Localization for Bird’s-Eye-View) method, introducing Decomposable Tiled SPL-BEV (DTSPL-BEV), a variant designed to enable efficient inference on embedded devices. We show specialized tiling algorithms that enable inference on a given devices with some known memory limitations, while also ensuring the same detection results as running inference

This article examines the emerging migration corridor between Uzbekistan and Sweden based on interviews, focus groups, and data from a survey conducted in both countries in 2024. Although small in scale, this corridor is analytically significant for understanding the diversification of Uzbek migration beyond Russia and Turkey. Findings show that demographic pressures, limited employment, and envir