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PurposeEconomic claims after surgery may be regarded as an alternative surrogate outcome for long-term deprived quality of life. This study reports economic claims of chronic pain following inguinal hernia repair.MethodsConsecutive data on economic claims following inguinal hernia repair was collected from the nationwide Danish Patient Compensation Association. Patients’ claims were stratified int
This thesis investigates the global landscape of indicators used to measure climate resilience within Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services through a systematic mapping and gap analysis. As climate change increasingly threatens water security and public health, there is an urgent need for theoretically grounded monitoring frameworks to evaluate systemic resilience across diverse contexts.
The objective of the research is to investigate how Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, uses its Guidebook for Children in Return to reconcile the violence of deportation and Frontex human rights violations with a humanitarian self-image. Through an intersectional lens, the analysis focuses on how race and gender are represented and how this representation contributes to sustainin
Purpose: The persistent congestion and prolonged waiting times of trucks at maritime container terminals undermine port performance and supply chain efficiency. Ensuring smooth truck flows is essential for ports to fulfill their economic and social roles in global trade, creating significant pressure on operators to deliver reliable service. To support these efforts, it is crucial to identify
The aim of the study was to explore the meaning attributed by specialist ambulance nurses to the process of establishing and maintaining a caring relationship in the prehospital context.BackgroundPrevious studies suggest that some patients may feel overlooked or not taken seriously in encounters with the ambulance service. Even brief caring relationships in prehospital care can support well-being,
Multiple myeloma (MM) and related malignancies develop from an asymptomatic precursor condition, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), detectable via blood testing. The benefits and harms of population-based MGUS screening remain uncertain. We conducted a nationwide screening study for monoclonal gammopathies and a randomized trial of follow-up strategies in Iceland (Iceland S
Abstract published in relation to the Nordic COnference on Forensic Medicine.
Immune tolerance induction (ITI) to eradicate an immune response against factor VIII (FVIII) has been used in hemophilia A (HA) with various success rates, costs, and treatment burden. The present study aimed to identify markers predictive of ITI success. Data were accrued from 237 patients with severe HA (FVIII level < 1%), history of persistent FVIII inhibitors ≥ 1 BU/mL and having performed ITI
Factors limiting fat cell expandability remain scarcely explored, and comprehensive functional comparisons of adipose depots in humans are limited. In the present study, we collected visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) paired-samples from 22 patients with obesity undergoing elective Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Whole tissue samples were used to determine adipoc
BACKGROUND: Recent advancements in single-cell transcriptomic analyses have greatly expanded our understanding of cellular diversity in adipose tissue, indicating transcriptionally distinct subpopulations of adipocytes. Here we sought to rigorously test such heterogeneity at the protein level.METHODS: A data-driven imaging platform was tailored to assess cellular protein levels based on immunofluo
People spend much of their adult lives within organizations, where they experience varying degrees of voice, participation, and autonomy in their everyday work. The political consequences of how this everyday authority is organized, however, have remained largely unexamined. This thesis asks whether the way work is structured shapes employees' understanding of democracy and their participation
This thesis studies the analytic structure of steady two-dimensional water waves using methods from complex analysis. For incompressible, inviscid, irrotational flows, the velocity field can be described by a complex potential that is analytic in the fluid domain. This analytic structure allows the use of conformal mapping and analytic continuation techniques to study the geometry of the free surf
This thesis explores the use of birding citizen science data and statistical modelling methods to support the construction of indicators for human-nature relationships. Motivated by the broader aspirational framework of the Nature Relationship Index, the study investigates how voluntary bird observation records can be processed into spatial and temporal measures suitable for statistical analysis,
Tillämpningar är en del av alla matematikkurser i gymnasieskolan. Matematik kan tillämpas på många olika ämnen, däribland fysik. Frågorna som undersöktes i denna studie var hur tillämpningarna av matematik på fysik används i matematikundervisning i gymnasieskolan och lärarnas inställning till användandet av fysik i matematikundervisning. Detta gjordes via semistrukturerade intervjuer. Fem verksamm
This study explores how female managers in Icelandic technology companies describe their career journeys and the turning points that shaped their progression into senior management. Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using the Gioia methodology. The findings show that none of these women planned their way into leadership. Instead their careers were shaped by unexpected op
