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In the event of an accidental release of radioactive elements from a nuclear power plant, it has been shown that the radionuclides contributing the most to long-term exposure are 134Cs and 137Cs. In the case of nuclear power plant fallout, with subsequent intake of radionuclides through the food chain, the internal absorbed dose to target tissues from protracted intake of radionuclides needs to be
INTRODUCTION: Childbirth is a life-changing event where fathers desire being involved. As fathers take a more active role, fear of childbirth can arise. The aim of this study was to explore fathers' experiences of childbirth fear during pregnancy and after the birth of their baby.METHODS: This was a qualitative longitudinal prospective study that included 14 interviews with seven fathers, one duri
Sentences with quantified expressions involve mental representations of sets of individuals for which some property holds (the reference set), as well as of sets for which the property does not hold (the complement set). Both sets can receive discourse focus with negative quantifiers, while the reference set is strongly preferred with positive quantifiers, complement set focus however being possib
OBJECTIVE: The presence of tachycardia in critically ill patients is frequently used as an indication of severity of illness and to guide treatment decisions but can be influenced by body temperature, thus confounding its interpretation. There are few data available on the relationship between body temperature and heart rate in critically ill patients. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of prospective
Background: Fluid resuscitation after uncontrolled hemorrhage might promote rebleeding and irreversible shock. Tranexamic acid is a procoagulant drug that limits blood loss after surgery of the hip, knee, and heart. We hypothesized that pretreatment with tranexamic acid reduces the rebleeding in uncontrolled hemorrhage and thereby allows safe administration of crystalloid fluid resuscitation.Metho
Purpose: To explore school-aged children's experiences about their best interests and participation in care during a hospital admission. Design and methods: A descriptive qualitative design involving in-depth, iterative inductive review of child responses to generate key words that led to identification of categories and themes. The study was guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights o
This study examines painted copies from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to gain a richer understanding of the phenomenon of copies and of copying as a common artistic practice. The study findings suggest that copies painted in Sweden in the seventeenth century were, in general, free copies. In that century, the Swedish economy was booming, and a semi-regulated art market had developed, and
Aerial thermal imagery has been recently applied to quantitative analysis of several scenes. For the mapping purpose based on aerial thermal imagery, high accuracy photogrammetric process is necessary. However, due to low geometric resolution and low contrast of thermal imaging sensors, there are some challenges in precise 3D measurement of objects. In this paper the potential of thermal video in
Thermoresponsive polymers have received significant research attention as smart materials with particular interest in biomedical applications. The composition and architecture are known to strongly influence the thermoresponsive properties of the materials. For example, the strong overlap of end-grafted polymer chains in polymer brushes leads to a broader collapse transition relative to linear ung
Many novel modulated radiation treatment techniques are sensitive to patient motion which may degrade the dose distribution considerably. As there may be a simultaneous movement of the tumour and treatment machine, undesired heterogeneities in the dose distribution can be resulted. Methods to estimate the dosimetric effect of motion and treatment deliveries for both photons and protons are needed.
This paper establishes a posterior convergence rate theorem for general Markov chains. Our approach is based on the Hausdorff α-entropy introduced by Xing (Electronic Journal of Statistics 2:848–62, 2008) and Xing and Ranneby (Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 139 (7):2479–89, 2009). As an application we illustrate our results on a non linear autoregressive model.
This research studied the preferences reported by women and men about their Ideal Body Image for the Opposite Sex (IBIOS), and its association with body mass index (BMI). It also analysed the preferences of each sex for a woman's ideal body image (W-IBI) and a man's ideal body image (M-IBI). A total of 450 participants aged 18-70 years with different weights were studied. Their IBIOS was assessed
Up to 8% of all patients with colorectal cancer have peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) as the only site of disease at some point in time. Traditional treatment by limited palliative surgery and systemic chemotherapy has poor results with few patients surviving longer than 3 years. Complete cytoreductive surgery combined with Hyperthermic Intra Peritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC), using Mitomycin C, follo
A series of experiments was undertaken in the province Scania in southern Sweden with the aim to acquire a better knowledge about the electrical resistivity of the soil surrounding heating and water distribution pipes, in order to assess the risk of corrosion. Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) and moving multi-depth electrostatic arrays have been applied to determine the resistivity distribu
A novel way to formalise the problem of preemptive feedback scheduling is presented, based on discrete-time linear dynamic systems. Despite its extreme simplicity, the obtained formalism is suitable both for representing (and therefore dynamically analysing) existing scheduling methods, and for synthesizing new ones in a totally system-theoretical perspective. Also, by further specialising the cla
K2-19 hosts a planetary system composed of two outer planets, b and c, with size of 7.0 ± 0.2 R⊕ and 4.1 ± 0.2 R⊕, and an inner planet, d, with a radius of 1.11 ± 0.05 R® A recent analysis of Transit-Timing Variations (TTVs) suggested b and c are close to but not in 3:2 mean motion resonance (MMR) because the classical resonant angles circulate. Such an architecture challenges our understanding of
