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Adolescents' encounters with public space : safety and mobility in relation to individual and contextual factors in Sweden
(2011-01-14)
Background: Public space, areas to which everyone has access, is especially important for adolescents. Their mobility, e.g. when travelling to school, and perceived safety and security in that environment impacts on their ...
MHC-class I restricted peptide-based immunomodulation of CD8+ T and NK cells
(2012-09-06)
The main aims of the immune system are to protect the host from potential threats by distinguishing self from non-self and altered-self. T cells and NK cells play a key role in the identification and elimination of threats ...
Cancer and calcium : epidemiological studies of cancer incidence and survival
(2011-03-15)
Studies have shown that there could be an association between dietary calcium and cancer, and more specifically it has been suggested that serum calcium is involved in the etiology of cancers of the prostate. In order to ...
Intersubject variability in the processing of fearful faces in healthy adults
(2012-08-02)
Threatening stimuli have a privileged status in the brain, meaning they receive priority in the processing stream. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective where quickly and accurately identifying threat is necessary ...
Childhood cancer and school
(2011-10-19)
The school situation is one area identified as being affected during and after treatment for childhood cancer and only studied to a limited extent. A contributing factor to that school absence is not always recommended is ...
Web-based studies of lifestyle factors and immune function
(2011-01-17)
-reporting URTI compared with low levels of physical activity (<45 MET-hours/d) (IRR 0.82, 95% CI 0.69-0.98). In addition, highly stressed people, particularly men, appeared to benefit more from physical activity than those reporting lower stress levels...
Breakfast habits among European adolescents : the healthy lifestyle in Europe by nutrition in adolescence (HELENA) study
(2011-08-24)
The aim of this thesis was to study the associations of individual and socioenvironmental factors with breakfast habits among adolescents on a European level.
Methods: The HELENA-study (Healthy Lifestyle in Europe ...
Spatial control of postsynaptic proteins : a role in brain plasticity
(2012-11-26)
Neurons communicate via synapses; the strength of each synapse is defined both pre and postsynaptically. Presynaptically, the strength of the synapse is defined by which neurotransmitter is being released and how much. On ...
Antioxidants from diet and supplements in relation to cardiovascular disease
(2012-05-23)
in whole plasma (r=0.29) and ORAC in the lipophilic part of plasma (r=0.32). Total Antioxidant Capacity of diet was inversely associated with the risk of myocardial infarction (HR in the highest quintile as compared to the lowest = 0.80, 95% CI: 0.67-0...
Adult and pediatric trauma : outcomes and health-related quality of life
(2012-11-16)
was the source for the third and fourth study. The third study measured HRQL using the PedsQL 4.0 in a cohort of children 6 years after injury and determined the relationship within subgroups in the cohort. The fourth study measured child HRQL in a sample...