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Objective. With the increase in robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery there is a concomitant rising demand for training methods. The objective was to establish face and construct validity of a novel virtual reality simulator (dV-Trainer, Mimic Technologies, Seattle, WA) for the use in training of robot-assisted surgery. Methods. A comparative cohort study was performed. Participants (n = 42) were
Recently, there has been much interest in activity-induced phase separations in concentrated suspensions of “active Brownian particles” (ABPs), self-propelled spherical particles whose direction of motion relaxes through thermal rotational diffusion. To date, almost all these studies have been restricted to 2 dimensions. In this work we study activity-induced phase separation in 3D and compare the
Regional climate models (RCMs) are used for forecasting future climate including precipitation characteristics. Performances of five different RCMs for predicting the precipitation characteristics for Gothenburg, Sweden were evaluated against the daily observed precipitation over the period 1961 to 2009. Statistical analysis was done on annual, monthly, multi-daily, and daily data. The statistical
Objective: The aim of this study was the validation of the criteria defining a significant mucocutaneous-bleeding history in type 1 von Willebrand disease (VWD). Subjects and methods: To avoid selection bias, 42 obligatory carriers (OC) of type 1 VWD were identified from a panel of 42 families with type 1 VWD enrolled by 10 expert centers. OC were identified by the presence of an offspring and ano
I Mylonitzonen, strax utanfor Buahalvön ligger Norra Horten, en mantelderiverad mafit som intruderat i samband med uppsmältingsprocesser relaterade till en östliga subduktionshändelse mellan 1.69-1.55 Ga. Intrusionen består av två huvudbergarter, metagabbro och hornbländit. Hornbländiten är ett kumulat av metagabbron. Kumulatets kemiska sammansättning pekar på att en fraktionering av olivin föregåIn the Mylonite zone, south of the Bua peninsula lies Norra Horten, a mantle derived mafic body that intruded in association with melting processes related to eastward subduction between 1.69-1.55 Ga. The intrusion consists of two main rock types, metagabbro and hornblendite. The hornblendite is a cumulate of the metagabbro. The cumulate´s chemical composition suggests that a fractionation of oliv
Rätthyra.nu want to help people who have paid an exorbitant rent for their sublet flat to get back their rightful share of the rent. In Sweden there are 140 000 households that are subletting and approximately 10-15% of them is paying an exorbitant rent. We have noted the general reluctance to not pursue matters like this and throughout 2010 Malmö Rent Tribunal received only 35 cases, which is a c
ABSTRACT Authors: Lina Bengtsson, Pär Eriksson Title: Homelessness – Five life stories Supervisor: Carina Tigervall Assessor: Anders Östnäs The purpose of this essay was to describe and analyze five persons process to and from homelessness in order to gain a deeper understanding of why Sweden, with it's well-developed welfare state, still has a problem with homelessness. To answer this questio
The Chinese economy has been growing with a pace and duration that the world has never seen before. Since 1978, the country has been facing a constant economic growth for more than 30 years. One of the pillars of the economy is the automotive industry; an interesting mixture of Joint Ventures and independent companies. The competition is cut throat and has even been more intense after the China’s
After World War II Sovjet took over Poland with the plan of making it a socialist state in all its meanings, religious as well. That meant changing it from Roman Catholic to secular which turned out to be harder than expected because of the position of the church. The church was a symbol of the nation and a savior of the people and the communist party understood that this would be a process of tra
The aim of the study is to examine what kind of help the elderly get, if the elderly get the help they want, how the staff treat them and how much contact they have with others than the home-help staff. Further the study looks on how the well-being of the elderly was affected by the relationship with the home-help staff and contact with other people than the home-help staff. To conduct the study i
Apart from a single study of the early Katian delta C-13 chemostratigraphy in two regions in China, no investigations of the Sandbian and Katian chemostratigraphy have been published from anywhere in Asia. A recent study of the conodont biostratigraphy of the classical Ordovician succession on Langkawi Islands, peninsular Malaysia, showed the presence there of strata coeval with those having the G
Successful establishment and range expansion of non-native species often require rapid accommodation of novel environments. Here, we use common-garden experiments to demonstrate parallel adaptive evolutionary response to a cool climate in populations of wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) introduced from southern Europe into England. Low soil temperatures in the introduced range delay hatching, which
Real-time PCR (qPCR) is the cornerstone of DNA analysis, enabling detection and quantification of minute nucleic acid amounts. However, PCR-based analysis is limited, in part, by the presence of inhibitors in the samples. PCR inhibition has been viewed solely as failure to efficiently generate amplicons, i.e. amplification inhibition. Humic substances (HS) are well known inhibitors of PCR amplific
Arabidopsis thaliana has two isoforms of alpha-glycan phosphorylase (EC 2.4.1.1), one residing in the plastid and the other in the cytosol. The cytosolic phosphorylase, PHS2, acts on soluble heteroglycans that constitute a part of the carbohydrate pool in a plant. This study aimed to define a physiological role for PHS2. Under standard growth conditions phs2 knock-out mutants do not show any clear
This paper describes a development process concerning the active involvement of staff of different professions in developing and implementing methods for assessment of activities of daily living (ADL) in home-based geriatric rehabilitation. Although a variety of established ADL instruments exist, at the time for this study no I-ADL (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living) instrument suitable for
The anaerobic fermentation of deproteinized whey with beta-galactosidase coimmobilized with Saccharomyces cerevisiae in calcium alginate gel beads for the production of ethanol has been studied in a continuous horizontal packed bed reactor (HPBR). The results are compared with batch experiments in a stirred tank reactor. The immobilized yeast cells are exposed to conditions that vary with time and
De narkotikarelaterade dödsfallen i Sverige är näst högst per capita i hela EU. Samtidigt har Sverige en väldigt strikt strafflagstiftning gällande just narkotikabrott. Oavsett om det här är ett samband eller inte väcker det många frågor om hur lagstiftningen egentligen fungerar. I den här undersökningen utreds hur det paternalistiska inslaget i den svenska narkotikalagstiftningen har konstrueratsThe number of drug related deaths in Sweden is second to worst in all of EU. The legislation on drug related crimes is simultaneously very strict. This certainly raises some questions regarding the legislation, regardless of whether there is an actual correspondence between these two facts. This essay will focus on the construction and justification of the paternalistic element in the Swedish drug
