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Lojalitetsarbete : Hur visar en advokat lojalitet mot sin klient

I alla vardagliga situationer och relationer gör sig inblandade personers känslor påminda på olika sätt. Det kan få en stor inverkan på utfallet av mänskliga möten i skilda sammanhang. I den ”juridiska världen” har detta länge varit en icke-fråga. Juridiken är till sin natur rationell och objektiv och det gäller juristen också. Så har det sagts. Men detta är av allt att döma en grov förenkling. I

An Analysis of a Method to Estimate the Effect on Wind on Natural Ventilation in Large Spaces

The influence of wind is only occasionally accounted for in fire safety engineering, still the effect of wind on, for example, the performance of a smoke management system can be large. A simple analytical method to account for the effect of wind on mass flow through horizontal openings for natural ventilation is compared to results from CFD simulations in this paper. It is seen that the correspon

A Round Robin of Fire Modelling for Performance Based Design

Nine participants, representing eight different Swedish fire consultancy firms participated in a Round Robin study where two different fire scenarios were simulated with the Fire Dynamics Simulator. The participants were given clear instructions on the building layout and heat release rate for the two scenarios. Still, the results demonstrate a significant variation in time to sprinkler system act

Arson in Swedish Schools : A Societal Problem on the Rise

In 2007, Brandforsk – the Swedish Fire Research Board – initiated a research program to provide an overview of research needs coupled to ”arson” in Sweden. A total of six different Swedish universities and research institutes were involved in different projects in the research program. These projects involved both technical aspects fire detection and fire compartmentation as well as sociological i

Adjuvant Treatment of Graves' Disease with Diclofenac : Safety, Effects on Ophthalmopathy and Antibody Concentrations

BACKGROUND: Orbital morphological changes are often present in patients with Graves' disease (GD) already at diagnosis, and cyclooxygenase type 2 (COX-2) is overexpressed in active Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO).OBJECTIVE: To investigate if adjuvant treatment of GD with the COX inhibitor and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) antagonist diclofenac decreases the development of ophth

A novel vitronectin-binding protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa for effective infection of the airways

Objectives Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative species that causes chronic and acute infections of the lung, skin, urinary tract and eyes. Most P. aeruginosa isolates are highly resistant to antibiotics and difficult to eradicate due to biofilm formation. The bacterium is known to utilize host proteins by diverse strategies in order to enhance its virulence. Vitronectin is a glycoprotein tha

Vitronectin is produced in the lung upon infection by respiratory pathogens, and is utilized to evade the innate immunity

Bacterial extracellular vesicles (EVs) are shed during growth by the respiratory pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Haemophilus influenzae. Vesicles trigger release of antimicrobial compounds and proteins of the complement, which are partly regulated by vitronectin. We hypothesized that vitronectin is elevated in the lungs during pneumonia, that respiratory epithelial cells produce vitronectin u

Farmland conservation

This book is meant as a guide to the evidence available for different conservation interventions and as a starting point in assessing their effectiveness. The assessments are based on the available evidence for the target group of species for each intervention. The assessment may therefore refer to different species or habitat to the one(s) you are considering. Before making any decisions about im

Tumor-tracking radiotherapy of moving targets; verification using 3D polymer gel, 2D ion-chamber array and biplanar diode array

The aim of this study was to carry out a dosimetric verification of a dynamic multileaf collimator (DMLC)-based tumor-tracking delivery during respiratory-like motion. The advantage of tumor-tracking radiation delivery is the ability to allow a tighter margin around the target by continuously following and adapting the dose delivery to its motion. However, there are geometric and dosimetric uncert

Radiotherapy delivery during motion

This paper discusses the 3D dosimetric consequences of radiotherapy delivery during two kinds of motion, (i) the respiratory motion by the patient and (ii) the motion by the gantry while rotating around the patient. Respiratory motion primarily compromises treatments in the thorax and abdomen regions. Several strategies to reduce respiratory motion effects have been developed or are under developm

RapidArc treatment verification using polymer gel dosimetry

The aim of this study was to verify a novel volumetric arc therapy technique, RapidArc". Polymer gel dosimetry system was used to measure the advanced inhomogeneous 3D dose distribution produced using the technique RapidArc". A preclinical installation of the novel beam delivery approach was set up on a linear accelerator at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen. A prostate treatment plan was delivered to

Reduced production and uptake of lactate are essential for the ability of WNT5A signaling to inhibit breast cancer cell migration and invasion

Here we investigated the impact of WNT5A signaling on aerobic glycolysis and evaluated its effects on breast cancer cell migration/invasion. WNT5A signaling reduced migration and lactate production and caused selective down-regulation of the glycolytic enzyme phosphofructokinase platelet-type (PFKP). These events occurred in parallel with a WNT5A-induced inhibition of β-catenin signaling. Support

Wild-goose chase, no predictable patient subgroups who benefit from meniscal surgery : patient-reported outcomes of 641 patients 1 year after surgery

BACKGROUND: Despite absence of evidence of a clinical benefit of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM), many surgeons claim that subgroups of patients benefit from APM.OBJECTIVE: We developed a prognostic model predicting change in patient-reported outcome 1 year following arthroscopic meniscal surgery to identify such subgroups.METHODS: We included 641 patients (age 48.7 years (SD 13), 56% men)