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Mental illness and criminal behavior : individual characteristics related to criminal conduct among violent offenders with schizophrenia
(2000-05-26)
During the last decades, interest has increased in structured risk assessment of future violence as well as in research addressing the link between schizophrenia and violence. The overall aim of this study was to extend ...
Viral dynamics and evolution following primary HIV-1 infection
(2000-11-24)
The knowledge of the early events during primary HIV-1 infection (PER) is of great importance for the understanding of the pathogenesis of HIV-1. A major problem in studies on PHI is the limited amount of data accessible ...
Human salmonellosis : impact of travel and trade from a Swedish perspective
(2006-09-08)
of import rules, but also how this trend could be broken by active information. In Paper II, we showed the risk of travel-associated salmonellosis to be highest in East Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Children aged 0-6 years were at higher risk than...
Genetic studies of congenital upper limb anomalies
(2014-03-03)
The overall aim of the work reported in this thesis is to improve epidemiological and genetic knowledge of congenital upper limb anomalies (CULA). To accomplish the specific aims of each paper several different methods and ...
Immune and autoimmune responses to HIV-1 in mucosa and other tissues
(1999-10-08)
The aim of these studies was to evaluate routes and devices for administration of HIV-1 DNA vaccines. In particular we were interested in mucosal routes for the induction of immunity at mucosal surfaces.
We studied ...
Regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism and development by small, non-coding RNAs : implications for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus
(2018-05-23)
microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of epigenetic post-transcriptional regulators. These short (~22 nucleotides) non-coding RNAs can potently reduce protein abundance through direction of the RNA-induced silencing complex to ...
Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in children and adults: aspects on central and peripheral blocks
(2012-05-03)
responsible for this unexpected difference, the pattern of secondary intraspinal spread of LA was observed by US during a 15 minute post-injection period in 16 infants < 6 months of age in Study IV, which also included measurements of intraspinal pressure...
Expectations and reality of registered nurses working in residential care homes
(2007-09-21)
The overall aim of the thesis is to study the expectations of the co-workers on Registered Nurses and to study the Registered Nurses descriptions of their working experiences in order to obtain an understanding of the ...
Every bug counts : neonatal colonization and infection of Gram-negative bacilli : aspects on antibiotic resistance in Sweden and Ecuador
(2020-09-18)
(adjusted OR, 95% CI: 1.6-9.4) to die before discharge compared to the uninfected matched control group. Overall, 6.5% (7/107) of the isolates were multidrug-resistant. The incidence of both GNB-EOS and GNB-LOS was lower than reported in previous studies...
On gender dysphoria
(2017-03-10)
Gender identity refers to an innate and deeply felt psychological identification as a female, male, or some other non-binary gender. Gender identity may be congruent or incongruent with the sex assigned at birth. Gender ...