Evaluering av medisinsk behandling: Hva vet vi, og hvordan bør kunnskapen håndteres?

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Jan Magnus Bjordal

2009-09-01

Full Text Available Kunnskap om effekten av medisinsk behandling fremskaffes i kliniske studier. Godt planlagte og gjennomførte randomiserte, placebokontrollerte studier tillegges størst vekt når data skal vurderes. De datamengdene vi besitter når det gjelder forskjellige behandlinger kan oppsummeres i oversikter eller terapianbefalinger som ofte blir normative for klinisk praksis. Dette stiller store krav til evalueringsprosedyrene. I denne oversiktsartikkelen diskuteres i innledningen noen eksempler på at kunnskapsgrunnlaget er blitt feiltolket. Deretter omtales kvalitetskriterier som legges til grunn i vurderingen av data, og den metodologiske basis for meta-analyser. Usikkerhetsmomenter og potensielle fallgruver ved bruk av meta-analyser omtales. Meta-analysens fortrinn eksemplifiseres ved bruk av data om behandling av korsryggsmerter, hvor det nylig er utarbeidet kliniske retningslinjer som etter vår oppfatning er beheftet med feil eller mangler. Meta-analysen har vesentlige fortrinn fremfor mindre formaliserte metoder for oppsummering av kunnskap om terapi ved sykdom

Musik og billeddannelse (GIM med PTSD-ramte flygtninge: Introduktion til tre single case-studier

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Bolette Daniels Beck

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Mange flygtninge kommer fra kulturer med helt andre forestillinger og begreber om årsager til og forventninger om behandling af psykisk lidelse end man almindeligvis anvender i psykiatrien. F.eks. er psykisk lidelse i mange mellemøstlige kulturer forbundet med skam, og udtrykkes måske derfor snarere i form af fysisk smerte. For at et behandlingsforløb skal lykkes, er der behov for kulturel sensitivitet hos behandleren, når der skal samarbejdes med tolken, skabes et møde på tværs af kulturer samt etableres en fælles forståelse af behandlingens formål og proces.

Atrial fibrillation in the Danish population

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Hansen, Morten Lock

2010-01-01

. Evidensgrundlaget for at oral antikoagulations behandling (AK – behandling) nedsætter risikoen for tromboemboli er særdeles veldokumenteret. Derfor bør der i en korrekt behandling af patienter med atrieflimren, indgå en vurdering af, om der er indikation for AK – behandling. Flere studier har påvist en langsom og...... vaklende implementeringen af AK - behandlingen i daglig klinisk praksis. Mange atrieflimren patienter med indikation får ikke AK – behandling og mange uden indikation får det! Brug af AK - behandlingen kompliceres også af, at mange patienter med atreiflimren har indikation for trombocythæmmende behandling......, eksempelvis ved iskæmisk hjertesygdom. Hvor stor en blødningsrisiko man påfører patienten ved at kombinere clopidogrel, acetylsalicylsyre eller begge behandlinger med AK - behandling, er usikkert. I denne afhandling fokuseres på faktorer relateret til AK – behandling og de kliniske konsekvenser associeret til...

Inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthesis by azathioprine in a macrophage cell line.

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Moeslinger, Thomas; Friedl, Roswitha; Spieckermann, Paul Gerhard

2006-06-20

Azathioprine is used as an anti-inflammatory agent. Although there are numerous data demonstrating cytotoxic and immunosuppressive properties of azathioprine and its metabolite 6-mercaptopurine, the mechanism of the anti-inflammatory action of azathioprine has not yet been fully clarified. During our study, we investigated the effects of azathioprine on the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in lipopolysaccharide stimulated murine macrophages (RAW 264.7) by measurement of iNOS protein (immunoblotting), iNOS mRNA (semiquantitative competitive RT-PCR), and NO production (nitrite levels). Azathioprine (0-210 muM) induces a concentration dependent inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthesis (IC50: 33.5 muM). iNOS protein expression showed a concentration dependent reduction as revealed by immunoblotting when cells were incubated with increasing amounts of azathioprine. Azathioprine decreases iNOS mRNA levels as shown by semiquantitative competitive RT-PCR. In contrast, 6-mercaptopurine showed no inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthesis. Azathioprine did not reduce iNOS mRNA stability after the addition of actinomycin D. Enzymatic activity assays with increasing concentrations of azathioprine (0-210 muM) showed no statistically significant inhibition of iNOS enzyme activity compared to cell lysates without azathioprine. Nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB p65 subunit and binding of NF-kappaB p50 subunit from nuclear extracts to a biotinylated-consensus sequence was unaffected by azathioprine treatment. iNOS inhibition by azathioprine was associated with a decreased expression of IRF-1 (interferon regulatory factor 1) and IFN-beta (beta-interferon) mRNA. Azathioprine induced iNOS inhibition seems to be associated with an action of the methylnitroimidazolyl substituent. This suggests a route to the rational design of nontoxic anti-inflammatory agents by replacing the 6-mercaptopurine component of azathioprine with other substituents. The inhibition of

Förändrat omhändertagande av patienter med uretärsten : - Lärdomar från ett förbättringsarbete

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Khatami, Annelie

2014-01-01

Bakgrund: Omkring 10-15 % av befolkningen, oftast i arbetsför ålder, riskerar att någon gång drabbas av njursten. Nationella riktlinjer för njurstensbehandling saknas, men studier stödjer behandling inom 48 timmar för snabb symtomlindring och minskade besvär för patienten. Inom studerad verksamhet var tiden från diagnos till behandling lång och återinläggningarna var många, varför ett förbättringsarbete initierades. Syfte: Syftet med förbättringsarbetet var att halvera tiden från diagnos till...

Azathioprine treatment during lactation

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Christensen, L.A.; Dahlerup, J.F.; Nielsen, M.J.

2008-01-01

BACKGROUND: Thiopurines are widely used to maintain remission in inflammatory bowel disease. Treatment during pregnancy is generally recommended to improve the chance of a normal birth outcome, but advice concerning breastfeeding is conflicting. Aim To estimate the exposure of breastfed infants...... to 6-mercaptopurine, as a metabolite of azathioprine, from maternal milk. METHODS: Eight lactating women with inflammatory bowel disease receiving maintenance therapy with azathioprine 75-200 mg daily were studied. Milk and plasma samples were obtained 30 and 60 min after drug administration and hourly...... for the following 5 h. RESULTS: The variation in the bioavailability of the drug was reflected in a wide range of peak plasma values of 6-mercaptopurine within the first 3 h. A similar curve, but with an hour's delay and at significantly lower concentrations varying from 2-50 microg/L, was seen in maternal milk...

Risk of non-melanoma skin cancer in myasthenia patients treated with azathioprine

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Pedersen, E G; Pottegård, A; Hallas, J

2014-01-01

The association between use of azathioprine and risk of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in patients with myasthenia was evaluated in a nationwide setting. Treatment of autoimmune myasthenia frequently involves long-term exposure to immunosuppressants, including azathioprine. Use of azathioprine...

Protective effect of pumpkin seed oil against genotoxicity induced by azathioprine

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S.A. Elfiky

2012-10-01

Full Text Available Pumpkin is a leafy green vegetable; it belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. Pumpkin seed oil supplementation can prevent changes in plasma lipids and blood pressure. The present study was conducted to evaluate the protective effect of pumpkin seed oil against cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of azathioprine. Oral administration of pumpkin seed oil either before or after treatment of azathioprine was effective in the reduction of the frequencies of Mn-PCEs, decreased the DNA fragmentation, total sperm abnormalities and significantly increased sperm count, percentage of PCEs, and enhanced the ratio of PCEs to NCEs. However, random amplified polymorphism of DNA (RAPD showed distinct differences in animal groups intoxicated with azathioprine before and after pumpkin seed oil treatment, which reflected a DNA protective effect of pumpkin seed oil. Depletion of glutathione content in the testis was also observed in azathioprine treated mice, which was improved by an oral administration of pumpkin seed oil either before or after treatment with azathioprine.

Azathioprine as a treatment option for uveitis in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

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Goebel, J C; Roesel, M; Heinz, C; Michels, H; Ganser, G; Heiligenhaus, A

2011-02-01

To investigate the therapeutic value of azathioprine as monotherapy or combined with other immunosuppressive drugs for uveitis in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). A retrospective multicentre study including 41 children with JIA (28 (68.2%) female) with unilateral or bilateral (n=28) chronic anterior uveitis. Azathioprine was used to treat uveitis that was active in patients receiving topical or systemic corticosteroids, methotrexate or other immunosuppressive drugs. The primary end point was assessment of uveitis inactivity. Secondary end points comprised dose sparing of topical steroids and systemic corticosteroids, and immunosuppression. At 1 year, uveitis inactivity was achieved in 13/17 (76.5%) patients by using azathioprine as systemic monotherapy and in 5/9 (56.6%) as combination therapy. During the entire azathioprine treatment period (mean 26 months), inactivity was obtained in 16/26 patients (61.5%) with monotherapy and in 10/15 (66.7%) when combined with other immunosuppressives (p=1.0). With azathioprine, dosages of systemic immunosuppression and steroids could be reduced by ≥ 50% (n=12) or topical steroids reduced to ≤ 2 drops/eye/day in six patients. In three patients (7.3%), azathioprine was discontinued because of nausea and stomach pain. Conclusions Azathioprine may be reconsidered in the stepladder approach for the treatment of JIA-associated uveitis. The addition of azathioprine may also be beneficial for patients not responding properly to methotrexate.

Intensiv musik- og psykomotorisk gruppeterapi m. flygtninge

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Telcs, Cathrine

2014-01-01

Evaluering af gruppemusikterapi i kombination med psykomotorisk behandling med 3 traumatiserede flygtninge ved hjælp af spørgeskemaer ( WHOQOL) og interviews.......Evaluering af gruppemusikterapi i kombination med psykomotorisk behandling med 3 traumatiserede flygtninge ved hjælp af spørgeskemaer ( WHOQOL) og interviews....

The effects of real-time telemedicine video consultations between nurses and patients with severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

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Sorknæs, Anne Dichmann

Formålet med ph.d. studiet var at undersøge effekten af telekonsultationer som supplement til konventionel behandling sammenlignet med konventionel behandling hos udskrevne patienter med KOL med fokus på genindlæggelser, dødelighed, sundhedsøkonomi, sygeplejerskers og patienters oplevelse af tele...

Azathioprine hypersensitivity presenting as a neutrophilic dermatosis in a man with ulcerative colitis.

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Yiasemides, Eleni; Thom, Graham

2009-02-01

We report a case of a 46-year-old man with ulcerative colitis being treated with oral prednisolone and azathioprine. Two weeks after the initiation of azathioprine he presented with fever, fatigue, myalgias and arthralgias and a painful cutaneous eruption that was most marked in a sun-exposed distribution. This was accompanied by loose, non-bloody diarrhoea. Histopathological assessment of a skin biopsy supported a diagnosis of a neutrophilic dermatosis. The azathioprine was temporarily withheld and oral prednisolone was increased as it was thought that the neutrophilic dermatosis was associated with the underlying ulcerative colitis. The patient's symptoms and cutaneous eruption resolved quickly and azathioprine was re-introduced. Within 24 h, systemic symptoms returned along with a florid recrudescence of his cutaneous eruption. This rapidly improved upon withdrawal of azathioprine.

Teknologiers mellemkomst i ambulant behandling og egenomsorg

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Ballegaard, Stinne Aaløkke; Aarhus, Rikke

2009-01-01

Vigtige tendenser i den danske sundhedssektor i disse år er centralisering af behandling og øget egenomsorg. Teknologi ses ofte som en del af denne udvikling, omend der eksisterer både dystopiske og utopiske forestillinger om, hvorvidt teknologi fremmedgør eller støtter patienten. I denne artikel...

Skattemæssig behandling af virtuelle valutaer

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Kjærsgaard, Louise Fjord; Weber, Katja Dyppel

2018-01-01

Udbredelsen og anvendelsen af virtuelle valutaer er stigende, og der synes derfor behov for en analyse af den skattemæssige kvalifikation og behandling heraf. Skatterådet har ved to lejligheder haft mulighed for at foretage denne analyse; i henholdsvis SKM2014.226.SR om Bitcoins og SKM2017.520.SR...

Azathioprine versus Beta Interferons for Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: A Multicentre Randomized Non-Inferiority Trial

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Massacesi, Luca; Tramacere, Irene; Amoroso, Salvatore; Battaglia, Mario A.; Benedetti, Maria Donata; Filippini, Graziella; La Mantia, Loredana; Repice, Anna; Solari, Alessandra; Tedeschi, Gioacchino; Milanese, Clara

2014-01-01

For almost three decades in many countries azathioprine has been used to treat relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. However its efficacy was usually considered marginal and following approval of β interferons for this indication it was no longer recommended as first line treatment, even if presently no conclusive direct β interferon-azathioprine comparison exists. To compare azathioprine efficacy versus the currently available β interferons in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, a multicenter, randomized, controlled, single-blinded, non-inferiority trial was conducted in 30 Italian multiple sclerosis centers. Eligible patients (relapsing-remitting course; ≥2 relapses in the last 2 years) were randomly assigned to azathioprine or β interferons. The primary outcome was annualized relapse rate ratio (RR) over 2 years. Key secondary outcome was number of new brain MRI lesions. Patients (n = 150) were randomized in 2 groups (77 azathioprine, 73 β interferons). At 2 years, clinical evaluation was completed in 127 patients (62 azathioprine, 65 β interferons). Annualized relapse rate was 0.26 (95% Confidence Interval, CI, 0.19–0.37) in the azathioprine and 0.39 (95% CI 0.30–0.51) in the interferon group. Non-inferiority analysis showed that azathioprine was at least as effective as β interferons (relapse RRAZA/IFN 0.67, one-sided 95% CI 0.96; p<0.01). MRI outcomes were analyzed in 97 patients (50 azathioprine and 47 β interferons). Annualized new T2 lesion rate was 0.76 (95% CI 0.61–0.95) in the azathioprine and 0.69 (95% CI 0.54–0.88) in the interferon group. Treatment discontinuations due to adverse events were higher (20.3% vs. 7.8%, p = 0.03) in the azathioprine than in the interferon group, and concentrated within the first months of treatment, whereas in the interferon group discontinuations occurred mainly during the second year. The results of this study indicate that efficacy of azathioprine is not inferior to that of �

Dilemmaer i musikterapeutisk behandling af en traumatiseret flygtning med musikerbaggrund

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Bolette Daniels Beck

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Denne artikel præsenterer et single case-studie af et receptivt musikterapiforløb med en 55-årig syrisk flygtning, som har været udsat for fængsling og tortur på grund af sine aktiviteter som protestsanger og musiker. Der beskrives problemstillinger og dilemmaer relateret til at anvende musik, der både kan trigge traumer, men også vække indre ressourcer. Kortlægning af patientens forskellige personlighedsdele og musikkens evne til integration af dem vil blive belyst gennem teorien om strukturel dissociation.

Nonmelanoma skin cancer risk awareness in azathioprine-treated myasthenia gravis patients.

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McGurgan, Iain J

2015-10-01

Increased rates of NMSC (nonmelanoma skin cancer) have recently been reported in people with MG (myasthenia gravis) receiving azathioprine treatment. Guidelines on azathioprine for patients with dermatological and gastrointestinal disorders stress the importance of NMSC risk awareness and prevention. The aim of this study is to assess whether MG patients are being informed of this risk.

Orale senfølger af behandling for hoved-halscancer

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Assaad, Hala; Dynesen, Anja Weirsøe; Thisted, Lise Bjerrum

2014-01-01

Forebyggelse af orale senfølger af behandling for hoved-hals-cancer er vigtig for orale funktioner og livskvalitet Patienter, der er strålebehandlet for hovedhals-cancer, oplever betydelige senfølger i mundhulen; herunder xerostomi og hyposalivation, oral candidose, ubehag og smerte fra mundslimh...

A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of thiopurine methyltransferase genotyping prior to azathioprine treatment: the TARGET study.

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Newman, William G; Payne, Katherine; Tricker, Karen; Roberts, Stephen A; Fargher, Emily; Pushpakom, Sudeep; Alder, Jane E; Sidgwick, Gary P; Payne, Debbie; Elliott, Rachel A; Heise, Marco; Elles, Robert; Ramsden, Simon C; Andrews, Julie; Houston, J Brian; Qasim, Faeiza; Shaffer, Jon; Griffiths, Christopher E M; Ray, David W; Bruce, Ian; Ollier, William E R

2011-06-01

To conduct a pragmatic, randomized controlled trial to assess whether thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) genotyping prior to azathioprine reduces adverse drug reactions (ADRs). A total of 333 participants were randomized 1:1 to undergo TPMT genotyping prior to azathioprine or to commence treatment without genotyping. There was no difference in the primary outcome of stopping azathioprine due to an adverse reaction (ADR, p = 0.59) between the two study arms. ADRs were more common in older patients (p = 0.01). There was no increase in stopping azathioprine due to ADRs in TPMT heterozygotes compared with wild-type individuals. The single individual with TPMT variant homozygosity experienced severe neutropenia. Our work supports the strong evidence that individuals with TPMT variant homozygosity are at high risk of severe neutropenia, whereas TPMT heterozygotes are not at increased risk of ADRs at standard doses of azathioprine.

Development and in vivo evaluation of chitosan beads for the colonic delivery of azathioprine for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

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Helmy, Abdelrahman M; Elsabahy, Mahmoud; Soliman, Ghareb M; Mahmoud, Mahmoud A; Ibrahim, Elsayed A

2017-11-15

Azathioprine is a highly efficient immunosuppressant drug used for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Systemic administration of azathioprine results in delayed therapeutic effect and serious adverse reactions. In the current study, we have developed, for the first time, colon-targeted chitosan beads for delivery of azathioprine in colitis rabbit model. Several characterizations were performed for the azathioprine-loaded beads (e.g. drug encapsulation efficiency, drug loading capacity, yield, size, shape and compatibility with other ingredients). The in vitro release profiles of acid-resistant capsules filled with azathioprine-loaded beads showed that most of azathioprine was released in IBD colon simulating medium. The therapeutic effects of azathioprine-loaded beads and azathioprine crude drug were examined on acetic acid-induced colitis rabbit model. Improved therapeutic outcomes were observed in the animals treated with the azathioprine-loaded beads, as compared to the untreated animal controls and the animals treated with the azathioprine free drug, based on the clinical activity score, index of tissue edema, mortality rate, colon macroscopic score and colon histopathological features. In the animals treated with the azathioprine-loaded beads, the levels of the inflammatory mediators, myeloperoxidase enzyme and tumor necrosis factor-α, were significantly reduced to levels similar to those observed in the normal rabbits. Furthermore, the activities of the antioxidant enzymes, superoxide dismutase and catalase, were restored considerably in the animals treated with the drug-loaded beads. The azathioprine-loaded beads developed in the current study might have great potential in the management of IBD. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Protective effect of pumpkin seed oil against genotoxicity induced by azathioprine

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Elfiky, S.A.; Elelaimy, I.A.; Hassan, A.M.; Ibrahim, H.M.; Elsayad, R.I.

2012-01-01

Pumpkin is a leafy green vegetable; it belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. Pumpkin seed oil supplementation can prevent changes in plasma lipids and blood pressure. The present study was conducted to evaluate the protective effect of pumpkin seed oil against cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of azathioprine. Oral administration of pumpkin seed oil either before or after treatment of azathioprine was effective in the reduction of the frequencies of Mn-PCEs, decreased the DNA fragmentation, total ...

Fransk hjerteorm - en lumsk parasit

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Petersen, Heidi Huus

2017-01-01

Infektion med fransk hjerteorm kan give hunde alvorlige hjerte- og lungeproblemer og kan være livstruende, hvis den ikke opdages og behandles i tide.......Infektion med fransk hjerteorm kan give hunde alvorlige hjerte- og lungeproblemer og kan være livstruende, hvis den ikke opdages og behandles i tide....

Experiences with 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine therapy in pediatric patients with severe ulcerative colitis.

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Kader, H A; Mascarenhas, M R; Piccoli, D A; Stouffer, N O; Baldassano, R N

1999-01-01

The effectiveness of 6-mercaptopurine combined with azathioprine in treating severe ulcerative colitis has been shown in several adult studies. Reported pediatric experiences are rare. The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety and the potential efficacy of 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine in the treatment of active ulcerative colitis in a pediatric population. The medical records of patients with active ulcerative colitis who were under observation at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and its satellite clinics from January 1984 through December 1997 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were included who had received a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, who met no criteria for Crohn's colitis, and who had received treatment with 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine. They were then analyzed for the development of side effects, the indication to use 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine, and the ability to discontinue corticosteroid use in those patients taking 5-acetylsalicylic acid products who were corticosteroid-dependent or whose disease was refractory to treatment. Excluded from the corticosteroid analyses were patients who underwent surgery for their disease and patients treated with 5-acetylsalicylic acid only. Statistical analysis was performed by the Kaplan-Meier survival curve and paired Student's t-test. In a review of 200 medical records of patients with active ulcerative colitis, 20 patients met the criteria. The patients' average age at the initiation of treatment with 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine was 13.8 years. Sixteen patients (80%) were corticosteroid dependent and 3 (15%) had ulcerative colitis refractory to corticosteroid treatment. One patient had severe colitis treated with 5-acetylsalicylic acid only. Discontinuation of corticosteroid was accomplished in 12 (75%) of 16 patients. The median time to discontinuation of corticosteroid after initiation of 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine therapy was 8.4 months. Eight patients

Stability of renal allograft recipients after conversion from cyclosporine to azathioprine.

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Carpenter, C B; Milford, E L; Kirkman, R L; Strom, T B; Lazarus, J M; Tilney, N L

1985-08-01

Forty-eight patients with stable renal function after allotransplantation have been converted from CsA/prednisone to azathioprine/prednisone to assess the short- and long-term effects upon renal function. Virtually all patients show an initial improvement in serum creatinine levels. Three patients developed chronic renal failure after 12 to 21 months, and three died of pneumonia 7, 12, and 19 months later. The mean serum creatinine level at latest follow-up (seven to 36 months) was 2.5 +/- 1.5 mg/dL for all 48 patients. Of interest, a control group of 21 patients not converted to azathioprine had serum creatinine levels of 2.5 +/- 0.8 mg/dL, over a follow-up period of five to 25 months. It is not immediately apparent that either group will have a superior overall outcome, although patients on azathioprine seem to have more of a risk for graft loss. More data are needed with various dosage schedules, and with randomized controls.

Tilgængelige boliger - indretning

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Sigbrand, Lone; Jensen, Philip Henrik

Anvisningen behandler indretning af boliger, så de er tilgængelige for personer med funktionsnedsættelser.Denne anvisning behandler indretning af boliger, så de er tilgængelige for personer med funktionsnedsættelser. Ved at følge anvisningen sikrer man sig, at man lever op til kravene om tilgænge...

Use of azathioprine and the risk of cancer in inflammatory bowel disease

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Pasternak, Björn; Svanström, Henrik; Schmiegelow, Kjeld

2013-01-01

interval: 0.83, 1.25) or increasing cumulative received doses (increase in rate ratio per 365 additional defined daily doses = 1.06, 95% confidence interval: 0.89, 1.27) were not. In subgroup analyses, azathioprine use was associated with increased risk of lymphoid tissue cancer (rate ratio = 2.40, 95......Increased risks of lymphoma and skin cancer associated with thiopurine use among patients with inflammatory bowel disease have been shown, but data on the overall cancer risk are limited. We conducted a historical cohort study of 45,986 patients with inflammatory bowel disease (of whom, 5,197 (11.......9 (interquartile range: 3.5-12.0) person-years of follow-up, 2,596 incident cases of cancer were detected. Azathioprine use was associated with an increased risk of overall cancer (rate ratio = 1.41, 95% confidence interval: 1.15, 1.74), whereas former use of azathioprine (rate ratio = 1.02, 95% confidence...

Enkeltcenteropgørelse af nyretransplanterede patienters nyrefunktion og immunsuppressive behandling

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Frederiksen, Anne Mette; Hansen, Jesper Melchior; Ewers, Bettina

2008-01-01

(131 males, 110 females) was equal. The average patient age was 52 years (SD 12), the average glomerular filtration rate 43 ml/min/1.73 m2 (range 6-114 ml/min/1.73 m2), and the average graft age was 8.3 years (range 0-28 years). Hyperparathyroidism was highly prevalent (64%). The majority of patients...... (74%) were treated with triple-drug immunosuppression, in most cases (46%) with the combination prednisolone-ciclosporine-azathioprine. During recent years, azathioprine has been increasingly replaced by mycophenolate mofetil. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of kidney-transplanted patients...

An adherent nerve root – Classification and exercise therapy in a patient diagnosed with lumbar disc prolapse

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Melbye, Martin

2010-01-01

Patienter med diskusprolaps får oftest besked på, at det ikke skal gøre ondt for at gøre godt, i forbindelse med behandling og genoptræning. Der findes dog en ganske lille gruppe patienter som udvikler en restriktiv tilstand, hvor der dannes adhærencer ved nerveroden, i forbindelse med opheling a...... prolapsen. Tilstanden remodelleres med smertefulde hjemmeøvelser som gradvist progredieres over nogle måneder. En ny case-rapport i Manual Therapy dokumenterer fysioterapidiagnostik, klinisk ræsonnering og behandling af en patient med denne lidelse. Udgivelsesdato: 2010...

Fluconazol og amning

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Pedersen, Andreas James Thestrup; Hessellund, Anne; Bergmann, Troels Korshøj

2016-01-01

Når lokalbehandling til candidainfektion ikke er nok, er næste valg systemisk behandling. Men hvad, hvis kvinden ammer? Kan systemisk behandling med tablet fluconazol anvendes? Svaret er ja – men langvarig behandling (> 2 uger) bør undgås. Fluconazol vil udskilles i brystmælk, men mængden af...... fluconazol, som barnet derved indtager, er lav....

Oplevelsesøkonomi

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Madsen, Jan Halberg

Bogen behandler dominerende teorier og værktøjer i alle led af værdikæden og belyser oplevelsesøkonomiens potentialer og mangfoldighed med eksempler og cases fra forskellige brancher. Teorierne behandles ud fra en praksisnær tilgang med cases og eksempler som fx Læsø Salt, Astrid Lindgren Verden,......, Hard Rock Cafe, Smukfest, Hverringe Gods og Eksperimentarium....

Resected Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Patient with Crohn's Disease on Azathioprine

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Heron, Valérie; Fortinsky, Kyle Joshua; Spiegle, Gillian; Hilzenrat, Nir; Szilagyi, Andrew

2016-01-01

Hepatocellular carcinoma rarely occurs in patients without underlying cirrhosis or liver disease. While inflammatory bowel disease has been linked to certain forms of liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma is exceedingly rare in these patients. We report the twelfth case of hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with Crohn's disease. The patient is a 61-year-old with longstanding Crohn's disease who was treated with azathioprine and was found to have elevated liver enzymes and a new 3-cm liver mass on ultrasound. A complete workup for underlying liver disease was unremarkable and liver biopsy revealed hepatocellular carcinoma. The patient underwent a hepatic resection, and there is no evidence of recurrence at the 11-month follow-up. The resection specimen showed no evidence of cancer despite the initial biopsy revealing hepatocellular carcinoma. This case represents the third biopsy-proven complete spontaneous regression of hepatocellular carcinoma. Although large studies have failed to show a definite link between azathioprine and hepatocellular carcinoma, the relationship remains concerning given the multiple case reports suggesting a possible association. Clinicians should exercise a high degree of suspicion in patients with Crohn's disease who present with elevated liver enzymes, especially those on azathioprine therapy. PMID:27403102

The Holocaust and Collective Memory in Scandinavia

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Lammers, Karl Christian

2011-01-01

Artiklen behandler Holocaust's plads i den kollektibve erindring i Skandinavien, og den viser hvorledes den "gode historie": redningen af de danske jøder i oktober 1943 i lang tid bestemte omgangen med Holocaust.......Artiklen behandler Holocaust's plads i den kollektibve erindring i Skandinavien, og den viser hvorledes den "gode historie": redningen af de danske jøder i oktober 1943 i lang tid bestemte omgangen med Holocaust....

Azathioprine use during pregnancy: Unexpected intrauterine exposure to metabolites

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de Boer, Nanne K. H.; Jarbandhan, Soeresh V. A.; de Graaf, Peer; Mulder, Chris J. J.; van Elburg, Ruurd M.; van Bodegraven, Adriaan A.

2006-01-01

INTRODUCTION: The use of azathioprine (AZA) in the treatment of autoimmune diseases during pregnancy are believed to be relatively safe, particularly taking into account the potential risks for mother and fetus should the underlying disease become active due to withdrawal of this thiopurine.

Endoscopic and histologic healing of Crohn's (ileo-) colitis with azathioprine

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D'Haens, G.; Geboes, K.; Rutgeerts, P.

1999-01-01

The correlation between disease activity and endoscopic findings in Crohn's disease is poor. Corticosteroids induce symptom relief without consistent improvement of endoscopic lesions. Our aim was to examine the effect of azathioprine therapy on healing of inflammatory lesions in patients with

Ross - for altid?

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Blume, Peter Erik

2011-01-01

Med baggrund i Jens Ewalds bog om Alf Ross omtaler artiklen en række de problemstillinger, som bogen behandler, samt vurderer den betydning, Ross har haft og måske fortsat har. Afslutningsvis betones den juridiske biografis betydning.......Med baggrund i Jens Ewalds bog om Alf Ross omtaler artiklen en række de problemstillinger, som bogen behandler, samt vurderer den betydning, Ross har haft og måske fortsat har. Afslutningsvis betones den juridiske biografis betydning....

Resected Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Patient with Crohn’s Disease on Azathioprine

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Valérie Heron

2016-05-01

Full Text Available Hepatocellular carcinoma rarely occurs in patients without underlying cirrhosis or liver disease. While inflammatory bowel disease has been linked to certain forms of liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma is exceedingly rare in these patients. We report the twelfth case of hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with Crohn’s disease. The patient is a 61-year-old with longstanding Crohn’s disease who was treated with azathioprine and was found to have elevated liver enzymes and a new 3-cm liver mass on ultrasound. A complete workup for underlying liver disease was unremarkable and liver biopsy revealed hepatocellular carcinoma. The patient underwent a hepatic resection, and there is no evidence of recurrence at the 11-month follow-up. The resection specimen showed no evidence of cancer despite the initial biopsy revealing hepatocellular carcinoma. This case represents the third biopsy-proven complete spontaneous regression of hepatocellular carcinoma. Although large studies have failed to show a definite link between azathioprine and hepatocellular carcinoma, the relationship remains concerning given the multiple case reports suggesting a possible association. Clinicians should exercise a high degree of suspicion in patients with Crohn’s disease who present with elevated liver enzymes, especially those on azathioprine therapy.

Quantitative determination and sampling of azathioprine residues for cleaning validation in production area.

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Fazio, Tatiana Tatit; Singh, Anil Kumar; Kedor-Hackmann, Erika Rosa Maria; Santoro, Maria Inês Rocha Miritello

2007-03-12

Cleaning validation is an integral part of current good manufacturing practices in any pharmaceutical industry. Nowadays, azathioprine and several other pharmacologically potent pharmaceuticals are manufactured in same production area. Carefully designed cleaning validation and its evaluation can ensure that residues of azathioprine will not carry over and cross contaminate the subsequent product. The aim of this study was to validate simple analytical method for verification of residual azathioprine in equipments used in the production area and to confirm efficiency of cleaning procedure. The HPLC method was validated on a LC system using Nova-Pak C18 (3.9 mm x 150 mm, 4 microm) and methanol-water-acetic acid (20:80:1, v/v/v) as mobile phase at a flow rate of 1.0 mL min(-1). UV detection was made at 280 nm. The calibration curve was linear over a concentration range from 2.0 to 22.0 microg mL(-1) with a correlation coefficient of 0.9998. The detection limit (DL) and quantitation limit (QL) were 0.09 and 0.29 microg mL(-1), respectively. The intra-day and inter-day precision expressed as relative standard deviation (R.S.D.) were below 2.0%. The mean recovery of method was 99.19%. The mean extraction-recovery from manufacturing equipments was 83.5%. The developed UV spectrophotometric method could only be used as limit method to qualify or reject cleaning procedure in production area. Nevertheless, the simplicity of spectrophotometric method makes it useful for routine analysis of azathioprine residues on cleaned surface and as an alternative to proposed HPLC method.

Testicular lymphocytic vasculitis treated with prednisolone and azathioprine.

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Kanzawa, Yohei; Imai, Yukihiro; Mizuno, Yasushi; Nishioka, Hiroaki

2017-07-01

Testicular vasculitis is a rare condition and little is known about its morphological features. Herein, we report a case of testicular lymphocytic vasculitis, which is rarely documented, in an elderly man. He presented with left testicular swelling and fever, but without any signs of other organ involvement. He was effectively treated with prednisolone and azathioprine. This case report offers information related to the disease course and the importance of biopsy.

Effect of intensive multifactorial treatment compared with routine care on aortic stiffness and central blood pressure among individuals with screen-detected type 2 diabetes

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Johansen, Nanna Borup; Charles, Morten; Vistisen, Dorte

2012-01-01

Baggrund: Interventionsstudier med kardiovaskulære endepunkter kræver meget store studie populationer og/eller en lang opfølgningstid. Intermediære endepunkter som ligger i den kausale gangsti mod klinisk relevante endpunkter er derfor brugbare redskaber til at vurdere effekten af behandling i...... studie som mangler tilstrækkelig kardiovaskulære tilfælde. Aorta stivhed er et anerkendt intermediært endemål i kliniske studier. I ADDITION Danmark studiet fik en del af deltagerne ved 6 års opfølgningsundersøgelsen undersøgt aortisk stivhed, målt ved karotid-femoral pulsbølge hastighed. Vi undersøgte...... herigennem effekten af intensiv multifaktoriel behandling sammenlignet med rutine behandling i almen praksis. Resultater: Patienterne in intensiv gruppen havde en 0,51 m/s (95%CI: -0,96; -0,05; p-værdi:0.03) sammenlignet med rutine behandlingsgruppen. Ekstrapolering af disse resultater på basis af en meta...

Critical Components in Microfluidic Systems for Drug Delivery

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Bitsch, Lennart

2006-01-01

Formålet med denne afhandling har været at evaluere mulighederne for at anvende mikrofluide systemer til medicinsk behandling. Vi har især fokuseret på sikkerhed i reciprokerende pumper, med henblik på en kontinuer insulin behandling, og har identificeret mikroventiler som værende kritiske......-mikroventil. Sammenlignet med systemer der benytter passive ventiler opnår vi et markant højere sikkerhedsniveau med en drejeventil. Teknologien bygger på konstruktion med bløde inkompressible gummimaterialer, og hårde overflader. Grundlæggende studier af dynamisk friktion mellem gummi og en hård overflade viser...... dreje-mikroventiler med gode pakninsgsegenskaber. De overvejende fordele ved nedskalering af mekaniske systemer er mere kompakte, lavenergi-apparater. Vi har vist muligheden for at lave dreje-mikroventiler med lavt energiforbrug og gode pakningsegenskaber ved konstruktion og test af en demonstrator med...

Behandling af hydatidose med albendazol

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Magnussen, P; Gelletlie, R; Bygbjerg, Ib Christian

1989-01-01

of the patients had varying degrees of liver involvement which were reversible. Neutropenia did not occur. Various parameters for assessing the therapeutic effect are mentioned. Albendazol appears to be effective in the treatment of non-operable hydatid disease and to prevent recurrence after surgery....

Behandling af insulinom med alkoholsklerosering

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Schnack, Christina; Christensen, Carina Ørts; Beck-Nielsen, Henning

2012-01-01

The efficacy and safety of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided alcohol ablation of an insulinoma in a patient not candidate for surgery is being evaluated. A 89 year-old male patient with insulinoma and serious cardiac disease was treated with EUS-guided alcohol ablation. The only complication...... was a slight degree of pancreatitis. Two months after the ablation values of plasma glucose and serum pro-insulin were normalized. EUS-guided alcohol ablation is a safe and efficient alternative to surgical resection of insulinomas in poor surgical candidates....

Trækonstruktioner

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Larsen, H.J.; Riberholt, H.

Denne anvisning behandler materialer til trækonstruktioner og beregning af sædvanlige elementer og konstruktioner i henhold til Trænormen fra 2003 med tillæg. Forbindelser behandles i SBI-anvisning 194: Trækonstruktioner. Forbindelser. Anvisningen er tænkt anvendt af projekterende og som lærebog på...

Case report - curved femoral osteotomy for management of medial patellar luxation

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Allpass, Maja; Miles, James Edward

2015-01-01

Medial patellaluxation kan forårsages af femoral varus hos hund. Førhen har patienter med excessiv femoralvarus været korrigeret ved en lateralt placeret femoral kile-ostektomi. Her præsenteres en case, hvor en buet osteotomi blev anvendt til behandling af medial patellaluxation.......Medial patellaluxation kan forårsages af femoral varus hos hund. Førhen har patienter med excessiv femoralvarus været korrigeret ved en lateralt placeret femoral kile-ostektomi. Her præsenteres en case, hvor en buet osteotomi blev anvendt til behandling af medial patellaluxation....

Use of azathioprine for non-thymoma myasthenia and risk of cancer

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Pedersen, E G; Pottegård, Anton; Hallas, J

2013-01-01

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To evaluate the association between the use of azathioprine and risk of cancer in patients with non-thymoma myasthenia gravis (MG) in a nationwide setting. METHODS: Case-control study based on population-based registries. Cases were patients with MG with a first time...

AZALEP a randomized controlled trial of azathioprine to treat leprosy nerve damage and Type 1 reactions in India: Main findings.

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Lockwood, Diana N J; Darlong, Joydeepa; Govindharaj, Pitchaimani; Kurian, Royce; Sundarrao, Pamidipani; John, Annamma S

2017-03-01

Leprosy Type 1 reactions are difficult to treat and only 70% of patients respond to steroid treatment. Azathioprine has been used as an immune-suppressant and we tested its efficacy in treating leprosy T1R. Randomised controlled trial adding azathioprine to steroid treatment for leprosy reactions. This trial was conducted in four leprosy hospitals in India. Patients with a new leprosy Type 1 reaction affecting either skin or nerve were recruited. They were given a 20 week course of oral prednisolone either with placebo or azathioprine 50mg for 24, 36 or 48 weeks. Outcomes were measured using a verified combined clinical reaction severity score (CCS) and the score difference between baseline and end of study calculated. An intention to treat analysis was done on the 279 patients who had an outcome. 345 patients were recruited, 145 were lost due to adverse events, loss to follow up or death. 36% needed extra steroids due to a recurrence of their skin and/or nerve reaction. 76% of patients had improvements in their CCS the end of the study, 22% had no change and 1.1% deteriorated. Adding azathioprine to steroid treatment did not improve CCS. So the improvements were attributable to treatment with steroids. We analysed the skin, sensory and motor scores separately and found that skin improvement contributed most with 78.9% of patients having skin improvement, azathioprine treatment for 48 weeks improved sensory scores it also improved motor scores but so did treatment with prednisolone alone. We identified significant adverse effects attributable to steroid treatment. When azathioprine and Dapsone were given together significant numbers of patients developed significant anaemia. Azathioprine is not recommended for the treatment of leprosy reactions and does not improve steroid treatment. Recurrent reactions are a major challenge. We have also identified that 65% of patients with sensory and 50% with motor nerve damage do not improve. Future studies should test giving

Patients' Obligation, Embodiment, Motives, and Self in Hypertension - a Qualitative Study from General Practice (PhD thesis)

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Sångren, Henrik

Resume: Afhandlingen besk‘ftiger sig med hvordan patienter oplever at blive diagnosticeret med forh›jet blodtryk (hypertension). Unders›gelsen unders›ger hvilke motiver der bev‘ger patienter til at acceptere medicinsk behandling af deres forh›jede blodtryk, og hvorledes de oplever livet med hyper...

Europæiske menneskerettigheder

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Werlauff, Erik

Bogen behandler de europæiske menneskerettigheder, således som de udspringer af Den Europæiske Menneskeretskonvention, EMRK. Menneskerettighedernes historiske og sociale baggrund forklares, og EMRK-retsgrundlaget sammenholdes med den danske Grundlov og med EU-retten, herunder med den omstændighed...

Long-term follow-up of cyclophosphamide compared with azathioprine for initial maintenance therapy in ANCA-associated vasculitis

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Walsh, M.; Faurschou, M.; Berden, A.

2014-01-01

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Treatment with azathioprine within 3 months of remission induction with cyclophosphamide is a common treatment strategy for patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis. This study comprised patients undergoing long-term follow-up who were randomly allocated to azathioprine...... after 3-6 months or after 12 months of cyclophosphamide treatment. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: Patients from 39 European centers between 1995 and 1997 with a new diagnosis of ANCA-associated vasculitis that involved the kidneys or another vital organ were eligible. At the time...

Familie Sygepleje til hjertesvigtspatienter i ambulant regi: Sygeplejerskernes erfaringer

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Voltelen, Barbara; Konradsen, Hanne; Østergaard, Birte

Baggrund: Patienter med hjertesvigt og deres familier oplever mange udfordringer forbundet med at leve sygdommen. Forskning har vist at familier ønsker at blive medinddraget i behandlingen af og omsorgen for deres kære. Sygeplejersker har en vigtig rolle i forbindelse med hjertesvigt behandling o...

Almen og praksisnær kompetenceudvikling for voksne

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Hviid, Marianne Kemeny; Keller, Hanne Dauer; Rasmussen, Annette

Rapporten sammenfatter og diskuterer erfaringer og resultater fra forskningsdelen i projektet KOM-UD (Kompetenceudvikling i udkantsområder). Rapportens kapiteler behandler forskellige aspekter af arbejdet med praksisnær (og oftest virksomhedsrettet) almen voksenundervisning med brug af resultater...

Azathioprine reduces the risk of audiometric relapse in immune-mediated hearing loss.

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Mata-Castro, Nieves; Gavilanes-Plasencia, Javier; Ramírez-Camacho, Rafael; García-Fernández, Alfredo; García-Berrocal, José Ramón

2018-03-01

Current schemes for treatment of immune-mediated hearing loss with sporadic short-course, low-dose corticosteroids, are insufficient. To determine the role of azathioprine in the control of auditory impairment, a longitudinal, observational, descriptive study was performed with 20 patients treated with azathioprine (1.5-2.5mg/kg/day into two doses) for 1year. The loss of 10dB on two consecutive frequencies or 15dB on an isolated frequency was considered as relapse. The mean age of the patients was 52.50years (95%CI: 46.91-58.17), half were women. Bilateral affectation was 65%. 75% had organ specific disease and 25% had systemic autoimmune disease. The difference between baseline PTA (46.49dB; DS18.90) and PTA at 12months (45.47dB; DS18.88) did not reach statistical significance (P=.799). There was a moderate positive correlation between female sex and the presence of systemic disease (R=.577). By applying Student's t for paired data, a significant difference (P=.042) was obtained between the PTA in frequencies up to 1000 Hz (PTA125-1000Hz). The relative incidence rate of relapse per year was .52 relapses/year (95%CI: .19-1.14]). The median time to audiometric relapse-free was 9.70months (DS1.03). Azathioprine maintains the hearing threshold, decreases the risk of relapse, and slows down the rate at which patients relapse, altering the course of immune-mediated inner ear disease. Copyright © 2018 Sociedad Española de Otorrinolaringología y Cirugía de Cabeza y Cuello. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

Randomiseret klinisk undersøgelse af effekten af kognitiv adaptationstræning: design og metodediskussion

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Hansen, Jens Peter; Østergaard, Birte; Nordentoft, Merete

2009-01-01

  Kognitiv adaptations træning er afprøvet gennem randomiserede studier i udlandet, men er ikke afprøvet på nydebuterede patienter, som modtager intensiv pleje og behandling. I denne artikel præsenteres et forskningsprojekt, som skal afgøre om kognitiv adaptations træning er velegnet i en dansk...... kontekst som supplement til nuværende tilbud til patienter med debuterende skizofreni. Studiet gennemføres som et randomiseret multicenter forsøg, hvor 164 konsekutivt inkluderede patienter fordeles til henholdsvis kognitiv adaptations træning og standardbehandling. Effekten af interventionen evalueres med......, fordelingsprocedure, bortfald, udvælgelse af patienter og sammenlignelighed mellem tilknyttede centre. Dette studie er det første studie, hvor kognitiv adaptations træning sammenlignes med et ambulant tilbud bestående af psykiatrisk behandling kombineret med hyppige hjemmebesøg ved distriktssygeplejersker. Studiet...

Primary CNS lymphoma in a patient treated with azathioprine

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Glesner, Matilde Kanstrup; Ocias, Lukas Frans; Larsen, Thomas Stauffer

2014-01-01

with surrounding oedema. There was cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis, and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA was detected in the spinal fluid by PCR. A brain biopsy confirmed the suspicion of primary brain lymphoma. EBV-associated primary brain lymphoma is a relevant differential diagnosis in patients with long......A 33-year-old man treated with azathioprine for 12 years for Crohn's disease presented with headache, nausea and vomiting accompanied by difficulty in putting words together and slight mental confusion. Prednisolone and antibiotics were without effect. MRI of the brain showed multiple focal lesions...

Behandling med kosmetiske bløddelsfyldere

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Thyssen, Jacob Pontoppidan; Christensen, Lise H; Zachariae, Claus O C

2007-01-01

An increasing number of patients undergo soft-tissue augmentation. The quality depends on the applied filler substance, the compliance of the patient and the physician. Long-term adverse reactions are referred to as nodules or granulomas. Nodules following degradable gels and polyacrylamide...... hydrogel are always caused by bacteria. Nodules following inert, hydrophobic silicone gel and combination gels may emerge years after the injection. They are often caused by a low-grade infection with ensuing enhanced fibrosis and treatment requires a specialist....

Behandling af Tourettes syndrom med aripiprazol

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Stenstrøm, Anne Dorte; Sindø, Ingrid

2008-01-01

Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a motoric disorder characterised by multiple motor and vocal tics. The treatment for patients with moderate to severe TS includes antipsychotic medication. A case report is described in which a 20 year-old male had taken antipsychotic medication since the age of five......, due to TS. The initial treatment consisted of pimozide and risperidone, both of which had an unsatisfactorily efficacy on tics and side effects in the form of weight gain and sedation. The patient is now treated with aripiprazole and there is a marked reduction of tics and no side effects...

Impotens forarsaget af behandling med methotrexat

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Penninga, Ida Elisabeth Irene; Larsen, H.K.; Andersen, S.E.

2008-01-01

impotence nine months after initiation of treatment. Two weeks after discontinuation of MTX the impotence subsided, but when MTX treatment was reintroduced, the impotence returned after two months. Only a few other cases of impotence associated with MTX have been described previously Udgivelsesdato: 2008/1/28...

Bilateral akillesseneruptur efter behandling med ciprofloxacin

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Attarzadeh, Amir Pasha; Ryge, Camilla

2013-01-01

We report a case of spontaneous non-traumatic bilateral rupture of the Achilles tendons following ciprofloxacin treatment. A 54-year-old man presented with spontaneous Achilles tendon rupture on the left side, tendinitis and partial tear on the right side following few days of treatment with cipr......We report a case of spontaneous non-traumatic bilateral rupture of the Achilles tendons following ciprofloxacin treatment. A 54-year-old man presented with spontaneous Achilles tendon rupture on the left side, tendinitis and partial tear on the right side following few days of treatment...... with ciprofloxacin 500 mg twice daily and long-term treatment with prednisolon 10 mg once daily. This rare side effect caused by concurrent treatment with steroids and ciprofloxacin should be kept in mind. Any signs of tendinitis following this treatment should arouse the physicians' suspicion towards ciprofloxacin....

“Behandl dig selv med honning"

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Mejrup, Kristian; Bjerring-Nielsen, Mattias

2015-01-01

Abstract: This article has a twofold purpose: to investigate the symbolic richness and abundant sweetness of honey and to employ ‘honey treatment’ as a strategy for reading the honeycombapocalypse comprised in the Jewish legend of Joseph and Aseneth. This text tells of Aseneth’s encounter with a ...... entirely perturbed and paralysed. In fact, her free speech and wits remain as if protected by a honeysweetened agency. The article emphasizes the necessity of a ‘conversion’ by the reader enabling him to grasp the sublime potential of the aesthetics of sweetness....

A stakeholder approach to green innovation management

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Ulhøi, John Parm

Artiklen handler om interessentledelse: hvordan virksomhedsledere hele tiden må arbejde med de mange krav og forventninger, der stilles til dem fra forskellige interne og eksterne interessenter. Der præsenteres en analytisk metode (SPOT-analysen), som behandler, hvordan ledelsen med fordel kan in...

Review af Business Process Reengineering litteraturen fra 1990-98

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Wit, Camilla Kølsen de

1998-01-01

Formålet med papiret er dels at biddrage med et overblik over centrale kilder om BPR, og dels at kommentere udviklingen i litteraturens behandling af hhv. BPR begrebet og BPR projektet. Reviewet er bygget op om en kronologisk tabel, der opsummerer kildernes hovedsynspunkter....

Revisors kompetence - efteruddannelse

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Kiertzner, Lars

2010-01-01

Nærværende artikel behandler efteruddannelseskravene for revisorer. Først præsenteres kravene for godkendte revisorer i afsnit 1 om de kompetencekrav, der stilles for at opnå godkendelse, og i afsnit 2 om efteruddannelseskravene, som de med virkning fra 1.1. 2009 er udmøntet i revisorloven (RL), ...... revisor har en af specialistuddannelserne - CIA m.v. - er der derimod sådanne krav, der dog ikke behandles her. Udgivelsesdato: April 2010...

Towards applied integrationism

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Nielsen, Charlotte Marie Bisgaard

2011-01-01

Forsøg med Aspergerklasser fortsættes i Danmark. Artiklen giver bud på hvorfor Aspegere og lærere i konventionelle sammenhænge oplever kommunikationsproblemer i et integrationelt perspektiv og skitserer rammerne for en dybere behandling af emnet med inddragelser af perspektiver som Asperger...

Foreløbige retsmidler

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Werlauff, Erik

2008-01-01

Artiklen behandler foreløbige retsmidler ved EF-domstolen, fx mod Danmarks fortsatte byggeri af Storebæltsbroen i strid med fællesskabsretlige udbudsregler eller mod ikrafttrædelsen af en forbundslov om tyske motorvejsafgifter i strid med kravet om ligebehandling af inden- og udenlandske vognmænd...

Depression og placebo

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Christensen, Kaj Sparle

2016-01-01

Metaanalyser har længe dokumenteret, at effekten af behandling med antidepressive lægemidler er begrænset sammenlignet med effekten af placebobehandling. Antidepressive lægemidler er kun sikkert virksomme hos svært deprimerede personer. Psykoterapi og antidepressive lægemidler er lige effektive h...

Afløbsinstallationer

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Ovesen, K.; Faldager, I.; Nielsen, V.

Denne SBI-anvisning gennemgår hele afløbsområdet og giver beskrivelser, dimensioneringsvejledninger og eksempler med udgangspunkt i Norm for afløbsinstallationer, DS 432, 2.udgave 1994. I anvisningen behandles spildevands-, regnvands- og drænvandsinstallationer både i forbindelse med separat- og...

Psykiatrisk og klinisk psykologisk assessment

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Poulsen, Stig Bernt; Simonsen, Erik

2017-01-01

i centrum og med en bred videnskabelig tilgang. Alle psykiske lidelser i WHO´s diagnoseliste ICD-10 bliver gennemgået med fokus på årsagsforhold, forekomst, diagnostik og behandling, og der refereres desuden til diagnoserne i den nyeste udgave af den amerikanske diagnoseliste (DSM-5). Fremstillingen...

Azathioprine desensitizes liver cancer cells to insulin-like growth factor 1 and causes apoptosis when it is combined with bafilomycin A1

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Hernández-Breijo, Borja; Monserrat, Jorge; Román, Irene D.; González-Rodríguez, Águeda; Fernández-Moreno, M. Dolores

2013-01-01

Hepatoblastoma is a primary liver cancer that affects children, due to the sensitivity of this tumor to insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). In this paper we show that azathioprine (AZA) is capable of inhibiting IGF1-mediated signaling cascade in HepG2 cells. The efficiency of AZA on inhibition of proliferation differs in the evaluated cell lines as follows: HepG2 (an experimental model of hepatoblastoma) > Hep3B (derived from a hepatocellular carcinoma) > HuH6 (derived from a hepatoblastoma) ≫ HuH7 (derived from a hepatocellular carcinoma) = Chang Liver cells (a non-malignant cellular model). The effect of AZA in HepG2 cells has been proven to derive from activation of Ras/ERK/TSC2, leading to activation of mTOR/p70S6K in a sustained manner. p70S6K phosphorylates IRS-1 in serine 307 which leads to the uncoupling between IRS-1 and p85 (the regulatory subunit of PI3K) and therefore causing the lack of response of HepG2 to IGF-1. As a consequence, proliferation induced by IGF-1 is inhibited by AZA and autophagy increases leading to senescence of HepG2 cells. Our results suggest that AZA induces the autophagic process in HepG2 activating senescence, and driving to deceleration of cell cycle but not to apoptosis. However, when simultaneous to AZA treatment the autophagy was inhibited by bafilomycin A1 and the degradation of regulatory proteins of cell cycle (e.g. Rb, E2F, and cyclin D1) provoked apoptosis. In conclusion, AZA induces resistance in hepatoblastoma cells to IGF-1, which leads to autophagy activation, and causes apoptosis when it is combined with bafilomycin A1. We are presenting here a novel mechanism of action of azathioprine, which could be useful in treatment of IGF-1 dependent tumors, especially in its combination with other drugs. - Highlights: • Azathioprine activated Ras/ERK/TSC-2/mTOR/p70S6K signaling pathway in HepG2 cells. • Azathioprine inhibited IGF-1-mediated signaling cascade. • Azathioprine induced autophagy leading to cell cycle

Azathioprine desensitizes liver cancer cells to insulin-like growth factor 1 and causes apoptosis when it is combined with bafilomycin A1

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Hernández-Breijo, Borja [Departamento de Biología de Sistemas, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Universidad de Alcalá, 28871 Alcalá de Henares (Spain); Monserrat, Jorge [Departamento de Medicina y Especialidades Médicas, Universidad de Alcalá, 28871 Alcalá de Henares (Spain); Román, Irene D. [Departamento de Biología de Sistemas, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Universidad de Alcalá, 28871 Alcalá de Henares (Spain); González-Rodríguez, Águeda [Departamento de Biomedicina y Biotecnología, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Universidad de Alcalá, 28871 Alcalá de Henares (Spain); Fernández-Moreno, M. Dolores [Departamento de Biología de Sistemas, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Universidad de Alcalá, 28871 Alcalá de Henares (Spain); and others

2013-11-01

Hepatoblastoma is a primary liver cancer that affects children, due to the sensitivity of this tumor to insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). In this paper we show that azathioprine (AZA) is capable of inhibiting IGF1-mediated signaling cascade in HepG2 cells. The efficiency of AZA on inhibition of proliferation differs in the evaluated cell lines as follows: HepG2 (an experimental model of hepatoblastoma) > Hep3B (derived from a hepatocellular carcinoma) > HuH6 (derived from a hepatoblastoma) ≫ HuH7 (derived from a hepatocellular carcinoma) = Chang Liver cells (a non-malignant cellular model). The effect of AZA in HepG2 cells has been proven to derive from activation of Ras/ERK/TSC2, leading to activation of mTOR/p70S6K in a sustained manner. p70S6K phosphorylates IRS-1 in serine 307 which leads to the uncoupling between IRS-1 and p85 (the regulatory subunit of PI3K) and therefore causing the lack of response of HepG2 to IGF-1. As a consequence, proliferation induced by IGF-1 is inhibited by AZA and autophagy increases leading to senescence of HepG2 cells. Our results suggest that AZA induces the autophagic process in HepG2 activating senescence, and driving to deceleration of cell cycle but not to apoptosis. However, when simultaneous to AZA treatment the autophagy was inhibited by bafilomycin A1 and the degradation of regulatory proteins of cell cycle (e.g. Rb, E2F, and cyclin D1) provoked apoptosis. In conclusion, AZA induces resistance in hepatoblastoma cells to IGF-1, which leads to autophagy activation, and causes apoptosis when it is combined with bafilomycin A1. We are presenting here a novel mechanism of action of azathioprine, which could be useful in treatment of IGF-1 dependent tumors, especially in its combination with other drugs. - Highlights: • Azathioprine activated Ras/ERK/TSC-2/mTOR/p70S6K signaling pathway in HepG2 cells. • Azathioprine inhibited IGF-1-mediated signaling cascade. • Azathioprine induced autophagy leading to cell cycle

Sjældne medfødte sygdomme og deres orale manifestationer

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Lauridsen, Eva; Gjørup, Hans

2018-01-01

Behandlingen af patienter med medfødte sjældne sygdomme kan have orale, dentale eller kraniofaciale associerede afvigelser og være meget kompleks. Her beskrives kliniske og radiologiske karakteristika og principper for behandling af patienter med ektodermal dysplasi, cleidocranial dysplasi, osteo......, osteogenesis imperfecta og hereditær rakitis...

Håndtering af illikviditet i APV modellen

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Brandt, Mads; Dalgaard, Rune; Plenborg, Thomas

2014-01-01

Denne artikel behandler illikviditetspræmien i forbindelse med værdiansættelser. Mere præcist udledes den korrektion af illikviditetspræmien, der skal foretages, for at sikre konsistens i værdiansættelsen med henholdsvis Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) og Adjusted Present Value (APV) modellen. Artiklen...

Elevers læring gennem undersøgelse og faglig læsning

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Negendahl, Kim; Daugbjerg, Peer

2014-01-01

Med afsæt i Prof. Jens Rasmussens (2013) argumenter for undervisningsdifferentiering vha. præstationsstandarder behandles differentiering af naturfagsundervisnings målsætning for alle skolens elever. Fokus vil være på læreres arbejde med undervisningsplaner og opstillede mål i forhold til undervi...

Highly selective solid phase extraction and preconcentration of Azathioprine with nano-sized imprinted polymer based on multivariate optimization and its trace determination in biological and pharmaceutical samples

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Davarani, Saied Saeed Hosseiny, E-mail: ss-hosseiny@cc.sbu.ac.ir [Faculty of Chemistry, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., P.O. Box 19839-4716, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Rezayati zad, Zeinab [Faculty of Chemistry, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., P.O. Box 19839-4716, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Taheri, Ali Reza; Rahmatian, Nasrin [Islamic Azad University, Ilam Branch, Ilam (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

2017-02-01

In this research, for first time selective separation and determination of Azathioprine is demonstrated using molecularly imprinted polymer as the solid-phase extraction adsorbent, measured by spectrophotometry at λ{sub max} 286 nm. The selective molecularly imprinted polymer was produced using Azathioprine and methacrylic acid as a template molecule and monomer, respectively. A molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction procedure was performed in column for the analyte from pharmaceutical and serum samples. The synthesized polymers were characterized by infrared spectroscopy (IR), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). In order to investigate the effect of independent variables on the extraction efficiency, the response surface methodology (RSM) based on Box–Behnken design (BBD) was employed. The analytical parameters such as precision, accuracy and linear working range were also determined in optimal experimental conditions and the proposed method was applied to analysis of Azathioprine. The linear dynamic range and limits of detection were 2.5–0.01 and 0.008 mg L{sup ‐1} respectively. The recoveries for analyte were higher than 95% and relative standard deviation values were found to be in the range of 0.83–4.15%. This method was successfully applied for the determination of Azathioprine in biological and pharmaceutical samples. - Graphical abstract: A new-nano sized imprinted polymer was synthesized and applied as sorbent in SPE in order to selective recognition, preconcentration, and determination of Azathioprine with the response surface methodology based on Box–Behnken design and was successfully investigated for the clean-up of human blood serum and pharmaceutical samples. - Highlights: • The nanosized-imprinted polymer has been synthesized by precipitation polymerization technique. • A molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction procedure was performed for determination of Azathioprine. • The Azathioprine

Highly selective solid phase extraction and preconcentration of Azathioprine with nano-sized imprinted polymer based on multivariate optimization and its trace determination in biological and pharmaceutical samples

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Davarani, Saied Saeed Hosseiny; Rezayati zad, Zeinab; Taheri, Ali Reza; Rahmatian, Nasrin

2017-01-01

In this research, for first time selective separation and determination of Azathioprine is demonstrated using molecularly imprinted polymer as the solid-phase extraction adsorbent, measured by spectrophotometry at λ max 286 nm. The selective molecularly imprinted polymer was produced using Azathioprine and methacrylic acid as a template molecule and monomer, respectively. A molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction procedure was performed in column for the analyte from pharmaceutical and serum samples. The synthesized polymers were characterized by infrared spectroscopy (IR), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). In order to investigate the effect of independent variables on the extraction efficiency, the response surface methodology (RSM) based on Box–Behnken design (BBD) was employed. The analytical parameters such as precision, accuracy and linear working range were also determined in optimal experimental conditions and the proposed method was applied to analysis of Azathioprine. The linear dynamic range and limits of detection were 2.5–0.01 and 0.008 mg L ‐1 respectively. The recoveries for analyte were higher than 95% and relative standard deviation values were found to be in the range of 0.83–4.15%. This method was successfully applied for the determination of Azathioprine in biological and pharmaceutical samples. - Graphical abstract: A new-nano sized imprinted polymer was synthesized and applied as sorbent in SPE in order to selective recognition, preconcentration, and determination of Azathioprine with the response surface methodology based on Box–Behnken design and was successfully investigated for the clean-up of human blood serum and pharmaceutical samples. - Highlights: • The nanosized-imprinted polymer has been synthesized by precipitation polymerization technique. • A molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction procedure was performed for determination of Azathioprine. • The Azathioprine-molecular imprinting

Person-centered care

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2014-01-01

Partnerskaber i den psykiatriske behandling, hvad vil det sige? Det kan du se mere om i denne lille film der bygger på interviews med en gruppe unge med ny-diagnosticeret skizofreni. Filmen formidler hvad brugerinvolvering er fra et patientperspektiv, og hvilke værdier mødet mellem patienter og s...

An audit of thiopurine methyltransferase genotyping and phenotyping before intended azathioprine treatment for dermatological conditions

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Vestergaard, T; Bygum, A

2009-01-01

, and (iii) duration of treatment. Secondary outcome measures were the effect of the drug, any reported side-effects and reasons for not starting azathioprine. Results. TPMT assays were undertaken in 212 patients, of whom 90.6% were TPMT wild type and the remaining 9.4% were TPMT heterozygous. None...

Azathioprine-associated acute myeloid leukemia in a patient with Crohn's disease and thiopurine S-methyltransferase deficiency

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Yenson, P.R.; Forrest, D.; Schmiegelow, K.

2008-01-01

risk of hematologic toxicity and leukemogenesis. We present such a patient who was a slow metabolizer for azathioprine, and developed a rapidly lethal form acute myeloid leukemia after relatively low dose exposure to the drug. There was prominent hemophagocytic activity in the bone marrow...

Behandling af pilonidalcyster med neodynium-yttriumaluminiumgranat-laser

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Lindholt, Christine S; Lindholt, Jes S; Lindholt, Jan

2008-01-01

A 23 year-old woman with a nonsupporative pilonidal cyst was successfully treated causally with Nd-YAG laser, and without any recidivate after 9 months follow-up. The mechanism is presumed to be that YAG-laser has a wave-length of 1064 nm. Consequently, the wave penetration through the skin is de...... is deeper than most other lasers before the energy is absorbed in melanin and oxyhaemoglobin, so the contents of the cyst can be reached and destroyed. The treatment could be a very attractive alternative to open surgery. Udgivelsesdato: 2008-Jun-23...

Behandling af pilonidalcyster med neodynium-yttriumaluminiumgranat-laser

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Lindholt, Christine S; Lindholt, Jes Sanddal; Lindholt, Jan

2008-01-01

A 23 year-old woman with a nonsupporative pilonidal cyst was successfully treated causally with Nd-YAG laser, and without any recidivate after 9 months follow-up. The mechanism is presumed to be that YAG-laser has a wave-length of 1064 nm. Consequently, the wave penetration through the skin is de...... is deeper than most other lasers before the energy is absorbed in melanin and oxyhaemoglobin, so the contents of the cyst can be reached and destroyed. The treatment could be a very attractive alternative to open surgery....

Behandling af diabetes mellitus med biologiske laegemidler

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Larsen, Claus Morten; Mandrup-Poulsen, Thomas

2008-01-01

Biologic therapeutics are currently not approved for the treatment of patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. However, promising results from recent randomized controlled studies suggest that biologic therapeutics have therapeutic potential. This article summarizes the causal steps of the patho......Biologic therapeutics are currently not approved for the treatment of patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. However, promising results from recent randomized controlled studies suggest that biologic therapeutics have therapeutic potential. This article summarizes the causal steps...... of the pathogenesis of type 1 and type 2 diabetes which are targeted by biologic therapeutics and reviews the treatment results. Udgivelsesdato: 2008-Jun-9...

Behandling af ideopatisk hypereosinofilt syndrom med imatinib

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Sørensen, Anne Louise; Larsen, Herdis

2008-01-01

We here report a case of idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome with prompt response to treatment with imatinib. The patient presented with chest pain, myalgias, fatigue and weakness. Blood tests and bone marrow examination revealed striking eosinophilia. Clonal or reactive disorders were excluded...

Behandling af svaer hypovolaemi med hypertont saltvand

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Rask, H; Nielsen, S L; Crawford, M E

1996-01-01

of hypovolaemia HS instantaneously expands plasma volume and improves central haemodynamics through increased filling pressures and direct myocardial stimulation. HS, as compared to isotonic fluids, causes precapillary vasodilation, reduction of cell oedema and decreased haematocrit and hence improves regional...... and capillary perfusion. Furthermore HS-infusion has been shown to attenuate reperfusion injury and restore cell function in cells damaged during hypovolaemic shock. Animal experiments as well as clinical studies on the use of HS are reviewed. A short description of the pathophysiology of acute hypovolaemic...

Angioneurotisk ødem i forbindelse med behandling med angiotensinkonverterende enzym-haemmer

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Johansen, E C; Johansen, J B; Døssing, H

1996-01-01

Angioneurotic oedema secondary to angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is a rare condition, but it is a side effect which is likely to be seen more frequently because of the increased use of these drugs in the treatment of heart failure and hypertension. We report two cases which...

Use of azathioprine and corticosteroids during pregnancy and birth outcome in women diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease

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Veie Plauborg, Anne; Hansen, Anne Vinkel; Garne, Ester

2016-01-01

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to describe prescription patterns for azathioprine and corticosteroids for pregnant women with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) before, during, and after pregnancy and to describe pregnancy outcomes. METHODS: A cohort composed of all singleton pregnancies in...

Kommende standarder for revisors ydelser - "Efter clarity"

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Kiertzner, Lars

2011-01-01

Atiklen præsenterer på et overordnet niveau kommende standarder med videre fra IAASB. Formålet er at give et samlet overblik over, hvad der kan forventes i de kommende år. Den første og største del af artiklen behandler allerede igangsatte projekter, der befinder sig et sted i tilblivelsesprocess...... ISA 700 om revisionspåtegningen ISA 720 om andre oplysninger i regnskaber og ISRE 2400 om review. Andre projekter om vejledninger (IAPS), andre erklæringsopgaver og beslægtede opgaver behandles kun perifert....

Hverdagens Erobring

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Tireli, Üzeyir

"I sin bog Hverdagens erobring: Etniske minoritetsunge i europæiske storbyer (1999) forsøger Tireli at indkredse sådanne temaer som etniske minoritetsunges risiko for en følelsesmæssig og social eksklusion i et samfund, der behandler dem diskriminatorisk, over for etnisk diaspora, nye identitetsk......"I sin bog Hverdagens erobring: Etniske minoritetsunge i europæiske storbyer (1999) forsøger Tireli at indkredse sådanne temaer som etniske minoritetsunges risiko for en følelsesmæssig og social eksklusion i et samfund, der behandler dem diskriminatorisk, over for etnisk diaspora, nye...... identitetskonstruktioner, flerkulturelle fællesskaber samt religionens politisering i takt med nyracismens fremmarch i Europa [...] Tireli er interesseret i de etniske minoriteters vilkår som sådan, samtidig med at han i lighed med Røgilds og Mørck gør op med de essentialistiske kulturanalyser, de konfronteres med. Dette......; byens tiltrækningskraft med den dyrt købte frihed i fritiden og de risici, de unge må lære at tackle i byens rum, samt forholdet til kærlighed, kvinder og selvidentitet. Derigennem afdækker Tireli både kompleksiteten og variationen i de måder, hvorpå de etniske minoritetsunge forvalter hverdagslivets...

Improving Ion Computed Tomography

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Hansen, David Christoffer

2014-01-01

Strålebehandling med brug af ioner, kendt som partikelterapi, giveren mere præcis og skånsom behandling end traditionel stråleterapi med hårde røntgenstråler. Dette skyldes, at partiklerne bremses ned og stopper inden i patienten. Dermed bliver området på den anden side af tumoren ikke, eller kun...

Biologiske beskyttelsesområder i Nationalparkområdet, Nord- og Østgrønland

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Aastrup, Peter; Boertmann, David

Denne rapport er et supplement til og en opdatering af en tidligere udsendt rapport (Aastrup et al. 2005). Opdateringen har til formål at præsentere den viden som er fremkommet siden den første rapport, samt at behandle en række spørgsmål som er fremkommet i forbindelse med det videre arbejde med...

Paradoxical elevated thiopurine S-methyltransferase activity after pancytopenia during azathioprine therapy: potential influence of red blood cell age

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de Boer, Nanne K. H.; van Bodegraven, Adriaan A.; de Graaf, Peer; van der Hulst, Rene W. M.; Zoetekouw, Lida; van Kuilenburg, André B. P.

2008-01-01

There is an increased risk of developing bone marrow depression and infections during azathioprine therapy for inflammatory bowel disease. Patients with low or absent thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) activity have an increased risk of developing myelotoxicity. We describe a patient who

Hovedlinjer i erhvervsstrafferetten, 6. udg

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Greve, Vagn; Langsted, Lars Bo

Bogen omhandler de generelle betingelser for strafansvar og beskrivelse af en række af de forbrydelser, der typisk begås i forbindelse med erhvervsudøvelse. Hertil kommer en gennemgang af retssystemets behandling af straffesager om erhvervskriminalitet....

Dødelig venlafaxinforgiftning

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Pedersen, Julie Steen; Munck, Lars Kristian

2014-01-01

Venlafaxin er en serotonin- og noradrenalingenoptagelseshæmmer, der er godkendt til behandling af depressioner og angsttilstande. Symptomer ved forgiftning er serotonergt syndrom, generaliserede krampeanfald, rabdomyolyse samt akut lever-, hjerte- og nyresvigt. Der findes ingen antidot. Med afsæt i...

Logistiksystemer og Logistikomkostninger

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Nielsen, Steen; Mortensen, Ole

Indlægget behandler begrebet "logistikomkostninger" sådan som disse er defineret i tysk teori. Der ses bl.a. på formålet med logistikomkostninger, hvordan de registreres, hvordan de inddrages i forskellige beslutninger og hvordan disse kan afrapporteres....

Radical Orthodoxy and Post-Structuralism: An Unholy Allaince

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Albinus, Lars

2009-01-01

Artiklen behandler det ambivalente forhold mellem Radical Orthodxy og fransk post strukturalisme. Gennem en fremstilling af specielt Foucault-receptionen argumenterer artiklen for, at alliancen med en moderne fornuftskritik bryder af på halvvejen for at forsvare en doxologisk traditionsforståelse...

Hvordan diagnosticerer man astma hos børn?

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Hermann, Christian

1997-01-01

Astma og astmatisk bronkit har ens symptomatologi og behandling og kan med vore dages effektive og bivirkningssvage medicin selv i de lettere grader behandles. Symptomerne kender vi i praksis fra op mod 1/3 af småbørnene, kunsten består i at stille behandlingsindikationen. Der opridses overvejende...... udfra kliniske kriterier enkle retningslinier, der nyder konsensus blandt danske almenmedicinere og pædiatere til hjælp i den daglige håndtering af sådanne symptomer i almen praksis. Til slut understreges, at opsporing af astma og astmatisk bronkitis naturligt hører hjemme i almen praksis, og...

Predicting effects and risk of relapse into depression: The Danish ECT/MRI project

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Gbyl, Krzysztof; Rosenberg, Raben; Larsson, Henrik Bo Wiberg

Formål: Vi ønsker at undersøge hjernen hos patienter med svær depression før og efter elektrokonvulsiv terapi (ECT), samt ved en kontrol efter 6 måneder med det formål at: 1. undersøge hjernevævet så en evt. skadelig effekt af ECT-behandling kan udelukkes 2. belyse mekanismerne bag ECT for at fin...

Spirometry utilization among Danish adults initiating medication targeting obstructive lung disease

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Koefoed, Mette

2013-01-01

litteraturen, at mange af disse patienter får medicinsk behandling for deres symptomer uden yderligere undersøgelser, selvom symptomer og klinisk undersøgelse ikke med tilstrækkelig sikkerhed kan prædiktere, hvem der har astma og eller KOL. Spirometri er anbefalet som Gold Standard for at bekræfte eller...... den diagnostiske proces og at blive udsat for unødig medicinsk behandling. Litteraturen tyder på, at mange medicinbrugere ikke bliver undersøgt med spirometri og muligvis ikke har obstruktive lungelidelser. Dette kvalitetsproblem bør afdækkes, og associationer med manglende spirometri i denne gruppe...... bør klarlægges, så interventioner kan målrettes. Formål: Blandt nye brugere af obstruktiv lungemedicin var formålet at: • Afdække i hvor høj grad spirometri var udført indenfor det første år, efter at medicineringen var påbegyndt • Afdække om patientkarakteristika såsom socioøkonomisk og demografisk...

Hatten af for Cohens skønheder og skyggesider

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Mortensen, Lise Majgaard

2011-01-01

Der er højt til loftet i Aarhus Teaters nye teaterkoncert, som behandler selveste Leonard Cohens lyriske univers. Det er svært at lade være med at sammenligne forestillingen her med Nick Cave Teaterkoncerten, der gik sin sejrsgang i 2007 og 2008. Men det skal man ikke. Instruktøren er den samme....... Men hvor ’Nick Cave’ var rå, grim, provokerende og uanstændig, er ’Leonard Cohen’ en skrøbelig gentleman med en skyggeside....

Rehabilitation in Parkinson’s Disease

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Rose, Martin Høyer

Parkinsons sygdom (PD) er en progredierende neurodegenerativ sygdom med gradvis udvikling af motoriske og non-motoriske symptomer. Dopaminerg behandling udgør en effektiv symptomatisk behandlingsform, men indebærer risiko for langtidsbivirkninger i form af svært behandlelige fluktuationer i...

"»Saa at jeg har efterlevet en Historieskrivers uden at overtræde en Borgers Pligt«

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Olden-Jørgensen, Sebastian

2012-01-01

Ifølge sine egne idealer for god historieskrivning måtte Ludvig Holberg afbalancere sine pligter som borger (= politiske hensyn) med sine pligter som historieskriver (= videnskabelige hensyn). Denne potentielle konflikt kan studeres de steder i hans historiske forfatterskab, hvor han behandler en...

Alternative Veier

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Kruse, Tove Elisabeth; Salamonsen, Anita

reflektioner omkring patienters brug af og erfaringer med alternativ behandling. Patientorganisationer, organisatoner for alternative behandlere og organisationer for læger og medicinstuderende har læst bogens patienthistorier og deres perspektiver lægges frem. Til slut i bogen diskuteres betydningen af de...

Ejeraftalens selskabsretlige virkning

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Werlauff, Erik

2009-01-01

Artiklen behandler spørgsmålet om, hvilken retsvirkning en aktionær- eller anpartshaveroverenskomst (med seneste sprogbrug fra betænkning nr. 1498/2008: en "ejeraftale" eller "kapitalejeraftale") har for et selskabs generalforsamling og bestyrelse. Det konkluderes, at ejeraftalen kan blive "selv-...

Epilepsi og orale manifestationer

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Jacobsen, Pernille Endrup; Haubek, Dorte; Østergaard, John Rosendahl

2016-01-01

Risiko for sygdom I mundhulen hos patienter med epilepsy Epilepsi er en kronisk neurologisk lidelse, der ofte vil kræve medicinsk behandling for at holde patienterne fri for anfald. Lidelsen kan have betydning for patientens psykosociale og kognitive udvikling, der indirekte kan have betydning...

Valutasikring og insiderhandel : belyst juridisk, finansielt og regnskabsmæssigt

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Clausen, Nis Jul; Pedersen, Frank; Thinggaard, Frank

Valutasikring og insiderhandel behandler de tre vigtige emner fra Danmarkshistoriens første dom om insiderhandel med aktier: finansiel valutasikring, sikring i årsregnskabet og reglerne om insiderhandel. Ved eksempler analyseres, om det virkelig er rigtigt, at oplysninger om tab på kommercielle v...

Sammenligning af sertindols og olanzapins effekt på kognition

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Nielsen, René Ernst

Der er gennem de senere år kommet tiltagende fokus, både nationalt og internationalt, på de kognitive deficits der ses hos patienter med skizofreni. Det er kendt at den farmakologiske behandling har indflydelse på kognition funktion, men det er endnu ikke fyldestgørende klarlagt hvorledes de enke...... enkelte atypiske antipsykotika påvirker kognitiv funktion. Der vil blive beskrevet studiedesign for SEROLA studiet, som sammenligner sertindol og olanzapin med kognition, målt med CANTAB, som primært outcome....

Muskuloskeletal behandling af 11-årig med artrogrypose

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Thomsen, Maria Morandi; Thomsen, Stig Aaberg; Due, Pernille

2010-01-01

A two-year-old patient was diagnosed with arthrogryposis because of inflected knees (15-20 degrees) and stiff hamstrings. All joints and reflexes were normal. Activities were described as age-appropriate, but the patient walked with inflected knees and increased lumbal lordosis. Physiotherapy...

Behandling af postoperative, kolorektale anastomosestenoser med selvekspanderende plastikstent

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Lykke, Jakob; Meisner, S.

2008-01-01

We report two cases of a benign post-operative stricture of the recto-sigmoid colon managed by insertion of a self-expanding coated plastic stent (SEPS). Both patients presented symptoms of stenosis which dilatation did not relieve. Both patients refused surgical intervention. Instead...... the strictures were managed by insertion of a SEPS. The clinical symptoms disappeared after SEPS insertion. We conclude that SEPS may represent a possible therapeutic tool in selected cases with benign post-operative stenosis of the recto-sigmoid colon Udgivelsesdato: 2008/4/7...

Trombosering af mekanisk mitralklapprotese under behandling med dabigatran

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Thomsen, Jakob Hartvig; Kjaergaard, Jesper; Saust, Laura Trolle

2014-01-01

Dabigatran has been approved for prevention of thromboembolic complications in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. We present a case of thrombosis of a mechanical prosthetic mitral valve during anticoagulation with dabigatran, switched from warfarin. The patient presented with cardiogenic shock, was...

Behandling af invert papillom med endonasal endoskopisk sinuskirurgi

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Andersen, Pia Juul; Kjeldsen, Anette Drøhse; Pedersen, Arne Toft

2002-01-01

INTRODUCTION: Inverted papilloma is a benign sinonasal tumour and has a marked tendency to recur after surgical excision. The tumour may be associated with malignancy and during growth it may destroy surrounding tissue. The treatment is either lateral rhinotomy or endoscopic sinus surgery. The aim...... of the study was to describe the course of all patients treated with endoscopic sinus surgery at the ENT Department at Vejle County Hospital during the period 1 January to 31 December 1999. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty-eight journals of patients diagnosed with inverted nasal papillomas were reviewed...... with carcinoma. We did not see any serious side effects to the treatment. DISCUSSION: Endoscopic sinus surgery in combination with Caldwell-Luc can be recommended as an alternative treatment to lateral rhinotomy in patients with inverted papillomas. Preoperative staging with CT or MR-scanning, experienced...

Behandling af patienter med Guillan Barré syndrom

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Oliel, Vibeke S.

2011-01-01

Resumè Guillain Barrés syndrom er en autoimmum sygdom karakteriseret ved motorisk, sensorisk og autonom dysfunktion. I Danmark rammes omkring 80 personer i alle aldre årligt af sygdommen. Akut inflammatorisk polyradikoloneuropati rammer de perifere nervers nerveskeder og medfører progredierende...

Behandling af kroniske sygdomme hos patienter med demens

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Pedersen, Hanne; Klinkby, Kristian Skikkild; Waldorff, Frans Borch

2017-01-01

, polypharmacy and chronic pain. Ongoing goal setting is important, and advance care planning is recommended. In general, comorbidity must be carefully and holistic assessed and managed according to each patient's general status of health and stage of dementia. As the dementia develops, focus should primarily...

Graviditet i livmoderhalsen kan behandles konservativt med methotrexat

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Sørensen, Marie; Clausen, Helle Vibeke

2011-01-01

with systemic methotrexate. The patient with the living cervical ectopic pregnancy had stable vital signs during the period of treatment. The patient with the fetal pole was admitted with heavy vaginal bleeding and anaemia and was stabilised before treatment was initiated. She was stable throughout......Two cases of cervical ectopic pregnancy after in vitro fertilization embryo transfer were managed conservatively. One living cervical ectopic pregnancy was treated with intra-amniotic and systemic injection of methotrexate, and the other cervical ectopic pregnancy with a fetal pole was treated...

Behandling af metforminassocieret laktatacidose med hæmodialyse

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Schousboe, Karin; El Fassi, Daniel; Secher, Erik Lilja

2012-01-01

Metformin-associated lactate acidosis is rare but serious and characterized by metabolic acidosis and elevated lactate. We describe a single-institution experience of four cases in one year. Despite pH levels of 6.85 to 7.12 and lactate levels of 11-28 mmol/l three of the patients survived. Two o...... of the patients had normal kidney function previous to hospitalization. Treatment includes fluid replacement, IV sodium bicarbonate and haemodialysis....

Comparison of the efficacy of azathioprine and rituximab in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder

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Nikoo, Zahra; Badihian, Shervin; Shaygannejad, Vahid

2017-01-01

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) often follows a relapsing course. As disability in NMOSD is attack-related, effective treatments are needed. We aimed to compare the efficacy of azathioprine (AZA) and rituximab (RIT) as maintenance therapy in NMOSD patients. An open, randomized...... = 0–7). Patients were randomized into two groups, which did not differ according to age, gender distribution, and disease duration. In the AZA group, 35 patients [20 aquaporin-4 (AQP4)-IgG positive] were started on 50 mg/day oral AZA and increased to 2–3 mg/kg/day (with oral prednisolone as adjunctive...

Taxis als Konzept der systemisch funktionalen Linguistik (SFL)

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Holsting, Alexandra Emilie Møller

På baggrund af den systemisk funktionelle lingvistiks behandling af "hypotaktiske ekspansionssætninger" (det der traditionelt betegnes og betragtes som adverbialsætninger) foreslås en alternativ inddeling der kan tage højde for de grammatiske forskelle som ikke kan forklares med udgangspunkt i de...

Early literacy and inclusion

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Jensen, Anders Skriver

Dette paper behandler skriftsprogstilegnelse med særligt henblik på inklusion. Det analyserer aktuel dansk policy, og giver et eksempel på inkluderende praksis vha. en såkaldt sproghistorie (EASE-projektet). Dette paper diskuterer også et amerikansk paper om inklusion og skriftsprogstilegnelse, o...

Industry and the environment-practical applications of environmental management approaches in business proceedings of the 3rd conference of the Nordic Business Environmental Management Network, March 28-30, 1996, Aarhus, Denmark

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Ulhøi, John Parm; Madsen, Henning

1996-01-01

Bogen indeholder refereed papers fra en international miljøledelseskonference ved Scandinavian Center Århus, arrangeret af forfatterne. Konferencen havde delegerede fra ialt 17 lande. Bogen, der indledes med en indledning skrevet af redaktørerne, er inddelt i en række hovedafsnit, der behandler e...

Homing Interactions

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Borup Lynggaard, Aviaja

2012-01-01

. Denne bygger på en forståelse af mobilitet i relation til design, der er behandler de etnografiske data og hjemlighedskarakteristikaene. Ligeledes er der et bidrag i mangfoldigheden af ”Connecting interaction” eksperimenterne, samt i at studere velhavende med høj rejseaktivitet som inspiration...

Biodiversitet i dyrket skov

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Petersen, Flemming Rune

. Rapportens anden del er en gennemgang af fire væsentlige indgreb, der påføres skovøkosystemerne ved dyrkningspraksis. Rapportens tredje del behandler særlige driftstyper, der fremmer et stort naturindhold i danske skove, med udgangspunkt i Naturskovsstrategiens beskrivelse af "gamle driftsformer"....

Evaluering af 'Tankerne på plads og hverdagen tilbage' - et kursusforløb for modermærkekræftramte

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Haslam, Trine Lolk

af modermærkekræft til at genvinde trygheden og kontrollen i deres liv, ved at gøre dem bedre i stand til at forstå, acceptere og håndtere deres sygdom og behandling, samt at reducere de modermærkekræftramtes brug af sundhedsvæsenet til det nødvendige. Således ønskes det at påvirke adfærd på kort og...... behandlingen samt give en tilbagemelding på operationsforløbet. På kurset underviser desuden en psykolog, der behandler de psykologiske aspekter ved det at få en livstruende sygdom, hvilket ligeledes er af stor betydning for kursisterne. Desk study underbygger dette ved at pointere, at patientskole med...... formidling af viden via forskellige metoder, giver positiv effekt. Analysen i forbindelse med programteori 2 underbygger at kurset er tilrettelagt og gennemført som gruppebaseret undervisning, hvilket jf. desk study bidrager til øget egenomsorg. Den procesorienterede dialogiske tilrettelæggelse og...

A cluster-randomised, parallel group, controlled intervention study of genetic prostate cancer risk assessment and use of PSA tests in general practice--the ProCaRis study

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Kirkegaard, Pia; Vedsted, Peter; Edwards, Adrian

2013-01-01

PSA-testen er det bedste og mest anvendte værktøj til at opspore prostatacancer. Testen er dog behæftet med fejlkilder, som kan føre til overflødig udredning, diagnosticering og behandling. Ved udredning tages biopsier med risiko for behandlingskrævende infektion. Behandlingen for prostatacancer...... fører ofte til vandladningsproblemer og impotens, og den har ikke vist sig specielt effektiv i behandling af den aggressive prostatacancer. Risikoen for overdiagnostik og overbehandling betyder, at PSA-testen ikke anvendes til generel screening for prostatakræft. Alligevel får mange patienter taget en...... PSA-test - ofte flere gange - måske fordi de ser sig selv som værende i særlig risiko. I ProCaRis-studiet får udvalgte praksis i Region Midtjylland mulighed for at tilbyde en genetisk risikovurdering for prostatakræft til patienter, som skal have en PSA-test. Den genetiske risikovurdering kan afgøre...

Myalgisk encefalopati (ME)/ Chronic fatigue syndrome(CFS) : i et historisk perspektiv

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Næverlid, Camilla

2009-01-01

Sammendrag Bakgrunn: ME/CFS blir definert som en ervervet kronisk sykdom med dyptgripende fysisk og psykisk utmattelse. Sykdommen har en kompleks systemisk karakter og fører ofte til livslang funksjonshemning eller invalidisering. Den opptrer gjerne sammen med symptomer på andre sykdommer (comorbiditet). Det er en usikkerhet rundt dette syndromet - da både når det gjelder definisjon, utbredelse, etiologi og behandling. Det er ingen registrering over syndromets utbredelse verken i Norge...

Evaluering for læring

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Bent B. Andresen

2006-05-01

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I fokus er løbende evalueringer af blended e-læring. Sammen med deres vejledere evaluerer deltagerne typisk deres arbejde med problemstillinger og med at nå mål og tilfredsstille forventninger. Spørgsmålet er, hvordan denne evalueringspraksis bedst kan tilrettelægges. Det er temaet i artiklen. Evalueringer foretages ofte på grundlag af eksamener og samtaler bordet rundt om et e-læringsforløbs samlede værdi. Sigtet er bagudrettet. Artiklen giver et bud på en praksis, som er fremadrettet og mere langsigtet. Især behandles evaluering for læring, som har til formål at skabe passende udfordringer for alle deltagere samt differentiere deres undervisning og vejledning – og dermed øge kvalitet af deres læring. Endvidere behandles spørgsmålet om, hvordan man løbende kan indsamle evalueringsdata og følge op på analyser heraf.

Bereavement care in general practice

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Guldin, Mai-Britt; Vedsted, Peter; Jensen, Anders Bonde

2013-01-01

I dette studie testes effekten af en klinisk intervention over for håndtering af sorg i almen praksis. Interventionen handlede om, at tidlig identifikation af komplicerede sorgreaktioner via praktiserende læge kan være med til at sikre behandling til behandlingskrævende sorgreaktioner, der volder...

Når specialer gør en forskel

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Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Lone; Iversen, Torben; Konnerup, Ulla

2008-01-01

I denne antologi fremlægger og diskuterer en række forskere deres konkrete erfaring med og overvejelser over didaktisk design og brugen af digitale medier i forskellige undervisnings- og læringskontekster fra grundskole til universitetsniveau. Bogens tre dele behandler: Børns og unges brug af dig...

School Classes for Talented Pupils

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Rasmussen, Annette; Rasmussen, Palle

Det hævdes ofte, at der er behov for særlige indsatser for at stimulere de mest talentfulde elever i skolen. I artiklen behandles dette spørgsmål i sociologisk perspektiv, på baggrund af følgeforskning i forbindelse med en "talentklasse" i Nordjylland....

Fichte

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Nielsen, Carsten Fogh

2016-01-01

af en udefrakommende andethed. Disse tre temaer behandles med udgangspunkt i tre tekster, som Fichte skrev og publicerede umiddelbart før og under sin ansættelse som professor ved universitetet i Jena i perioden 1794- 1799: "Über den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehre oder der sogenannten Philosophie...

Sygepleje mellem pakker og personer

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Sandholm Larsen, Niels

2010-01-01

og af problemer med at rekruttere og fastholde sundhedsfaglig arbejdskraft. Som følge af demografiske ændringer antages særligt behandling og rehabilitering af kronisk syge ældre at udgøre et voksende indsatsområde. Sygeplejerskernes faglige organisation har været aktiv i etablering af kommunale...

The new circus performance ABSINTH in Las Vegas

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Eigtved, Michael

Paperet behandler fem mulige postitioner hvorfra en konkret nycirkusforestilling, (Absinth, der spillede i oktober 2017 i et telt på pladsen for Cesars Palace, Las Vegas, USA) kan analyseres med henblik på at undersøge brugen af provokationer, komik og fornærmelser af publikum som kunstnerisk str...

Noninvasiv ventilationsbehandling i akutafdelinger

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Sørensen, Dorthe

2017-01-01

også gives som continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), dvs. en ikke-cyklisk ventilation med et konstant tryk og luftflow, der svarer til en eksspiratorisk modstand, og derfor også er uden egentlig inspiratorisk støtte (2,3). NIV-behandling ved akut respirationssvigt anvendes i dag præhospitalt (4...

Sparring på evaluering af Destination Trivsel

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Schulz, Anette

, konklusion – hvor udsagn fra elever i henholdsvis indskolingen, mellemtrinnet og udskolingen indledningsvist behandles separat og deskriptivt. Efterfølgende er data analyseret med afsæt i en kryds-case-analyse, hvor der på baggrund af den deskriptive analyse koblet til de respektive målgrupper er udledt en...

Fissurforsegling, SEAL og infiltrationer

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Dige, Irene

Fissurforsegling har været en almindelig del af tandplejens behandlingsspektrum i cariesforebyggelse og -behandling siden 1970’erne. I takt med et fald i cariesforekomsten i den danske befolkning i denne periode, er der sket en ændring i indikationerne for fissurforsegling fra at være et overveje...

De hjemsøgende og de hjemsøgte

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Baake-Hansen, Martin

Afhandlingen behandler spørgsmålet om vores forhold til hjemstavnen, om følelsen af nostalgi, om oplevelsen af eksil, og om den ambivalente forestilling om hjemkomst - med udgangspunkt i tre vigtige, tysksprogede forfatterskaber fra det 20. århundrede, der deler et både intenst og sammensat forho...

Behandling med dopaminagonister og udvikling af hjerteklapsygdom hos patienter med hyperprolaktinæmi

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Steffensen, Charlotte; Mægbæk, Merete Lund; Laurberg, Peter

2014-01-01

Treatment with dopamin agonists, particularly cabergoline, is the primary and preferred therapy for prolactinomas and symptomatic hyperprolactinaemia due to its effectiveness and tolerability. However, an association has been demonstrated between fibrotic heart valve disease and high-dose dopamin...... agonist use in patients with Parkinson's disease in several echocardiographic studies. Such observations have prompted a number of studies of valvular function in cabergoline-treated hyperprolactinaemia patients. These studies have failed to show an increased prevalence of clinically significant valvular...

Patient med nedsat leverfunktion fik myoklonier under behandling med selektive serotoningenoptagelseshæmmere

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Forsberg-Gillving, Mimmi; Bode, Matthias; Sindrup, Søren Hein

2015-01-01

Side effects such as myoclonus and tremor are rare when treating with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). We present a case where a patient with known liver cirrho-sis and in treatment with citalopram developed myoclonus, tremor and gait difficulties. The symptoms were reduced when t...... the SSRI dose was decreased. In patients with unexplained movement disorders the usage of SSRIs should be considered as a cause. Furthermore, treatment with SSRIs should be carefully assessed in patients with reduced liver function.......Side effects such as myoclonus and tremor are rare when treating with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). We present a case where a patient with known liver cirrho-sis and in treatment with citalopram developed myoclonus, tremor and gait difficulties. The symptoms were reduced when...

Impact of early detection and treatment of diabetes on the 6-year prevalence of cardiac autonomic neuropathy in people with screen-detected diabetes

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Charles, Morten; Fleischer, J; Witte, Daniel Rinse

2013-01-01

Baggrund: Der er begrænset viden om hvordan tidlig multifaktoriel behandling forbedrer konsekvenser af diabetes. Kardiel autonom neuropati (KAN) hos personer med diabetes indikerer omfattende skade på det autonome nervesystem og er relateret til mortalitet og livskvalitet. I dette studie fra...... ADDITION Danmark undersøgte vi effekten af tidlig opsporing og efterfølgende intensive behandling af type 2 diabetes i almen praksis på hyppigheden af kardiel autonom neuropati 6 år efter diagnose. Resultater: Prævalensen af tidlig KAN var 15,1% i rutine behandlingsgruppen (RG) og 15.5% i intensive...... kardiovaskulære risikofaktorer er således ikke nok til at forebygge at mange diabetes patienter udvikler KAN....

Granulocyte-Monocyte Apheresis in Steroid-Dependent, Azathioprine-Intolerant/Resistant Moderate Ulcerative Colitis: A Prospective Multicenter Study

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Gianni Imperiali

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Background. Granulocyte-monocyte apheresis has been proposed for the treatment of ulcerative colitis, although it is limited by costs and variability of results. Aim. To assess effectiveness of granulocyte-monocyte apheresis in patients with steroid-dependent, azathioprine-intolerant/resistant moderate ulcerative colitis. Methods. Consecutive patients fulfilling inclusion criteria were prospectively enrolled, treated by apheresis, and followed up for 12 months. The primary end point of the study was steroid-free clinical remission at 12 months, with no need for biologic therapy or surgery. Results. From January to December 2013, 33 patients were enrolled. After one year of follow-up, 12 (36% patients had clinical remission, were steroid-free, and had no need for biological therapy or surgery; 3 (9% cases showed a clinical response (but not clinical remission. Moreover, 12 (36% patients required biologic therapy, 4 (12% underwent colectomy, and in the other 2 (6% a reduction, but not withdrawal, of steroid dose was achieved. Conclusions. Our study shows that a standard course of granulocyte-monocyte apheresis is associated with a 36% steroid-free clinical remission in patients with steroid-dependent, azathioprine-intolerant or resistant moderate ulcerative colitis. Apheresis might represent an alternative to biologic therapy or surgery in this specific subgroup of patients. This trial is registered with Clinicaltrial.gov NCT03189888.

Senhjerneskade i et forståelsesperspektiv

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Nielsen, Charlotte Marie Bisgaard

2015-01-01

sker der, når personer med senhjerneskade i praksis møder sundhedsprofessionelles normer, krav og ønsker om at behandle eller udbedre skaden? Det engelske låneord for ‘selvhjulpet’; ’how-abled’ (Raudaskoski, 2013) versus ‘handicappet’/hhv. ’disabled’ beskriver bedst artiklens forudsatte forståelse af...

A study of young Parisian speech

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Hansen, Anita Berit

2012-01-01

Fransk talt i Paris har gennem århundrede udgjort en model for den øvrige franske befolkning. Udtalen er dog på ingen måde fri for variation eller forandring. Artiklen behandler udtalen hos 9 unge parisere (såvel studerende som personer med kort teknisk uddannelse), der tydeligvis deltager i flere...

Azathioprine and mercaptopurine in the management of patients with chronic, active microscopic colitis

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Münch, A; Fernandez-Banares, F; Munck, L K

2013-01-01

BACKGROUND: Microscopic colitis (MC) is a common chronic diarrhoeal disease, and remission can be induced with budesonide. However, diarrhoea relapses frequently when budesonide is tapered and a few patients become budesonide intolerant. AIM: To examine retrospectively the effect of azathioprine ...... leading to cessation of treatment. However, further studies are needed to explore the efficacy, acceptance, tolerance and safety of MP in patients with chronic, active MC refractory to budesonide....... patients (46%) obtained clinical remission. Thus, the overall response rate to thiopurines was 19/46 (41%). The main side effects were nausea/vomiting and abnormally elevated liver enzymes. CONCLUSIONS: In this retrospective case series, the majority of chronic, active MC patients were intolerant to AZA...

Kompetencestrategi

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Drejer, Anders; Riis, Jens Ove

fortæller, hvordan man kan arbejde med virksomheders kompetencer i dialog med produkt-markedsområdet. For at give en mere detaljeret forståelse af, hvad kompetencer består af, beskriver forfatterne fire indholdselementer til en bred definition af kompetenceer som et samspil mellem mennesker, teknologi......, organisation og kultur. Bogen placerer kompetencer i deres rette, strategiske sammenhæng og giver svar på centrale spørgsmål om, hvordan man arbejder med virksomhedens kompetenceer i praksis. Bogen giver en ramme for en bred behandling af virksomheders kompetence og anviser modeller og metoder til...

Advancing PubMed?

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Wildgaard, Lorna Elizabeth; Lund, Haakon

2016-01-01

the efficiency of biomedical literature searches. PubMed remains the primary resource for biomedical literature, and as PubMed makes the Medline data and Entrez PubMed Programming utilities freely available, any developer can produce alternative tools to search the database. The authors question if PubMed still...... provides the superior search interface for systematic searches or if the innovativeness of third-party tools provide alternatives worth considering. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach In all, 76 third-party tools that build on PubMed content were identified in a PubMed...... search and in published studies known to the authors. Only tools that provided free access to the broad PubMed content and designed specifically to enhance the search were included, reducing the set to 16 tools. The functionality of each tool within the scenario of a systematic search was compared across...

A Theory of Ritual

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Sørensen, Jørgen Podemann

2008-01-01

Et forsøg på at forene teorier om myte og ritual, teorier om offer og teorier om liminalitet i en overordnet teori. Dens anvendelighed søges demonstreret med særligt henblik på antikkens religionshistorie. Bl.a. behandles Attismyten og Kybelekulten, det græske slagtoffer (Vernant), det delfiske o...

Klasseledelse, inklusion og differentiering

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Jørgensen, Christina; Mottelson, Martha

2014-01-01

Kapitlet behandler forholdet mellem de tre begreber klasseledelse, inklusion og differentiering og ser på, hvordan de folder sig ud i folkeskolens praksis. Der tages afsæt i en definition af klasseledelse som alle de redskaber, læreren tager i anvendelse med henblik på at få timen til tage form p...

”Hospitalet bliver aldrig et godt sted”

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Haa, Berit Pedersen; Aagaard, Hanne

2014-01-01

Ved ankomsten i Skadestuen er børn ofte chokerede, utrygge, angste og har smerter. De træder ind et ukendt sted, hvor der er fremmede lyde og lugte - og hvor de skal undersøges og behandles. Formålet med udviklingsprojektet ”Hospitalsklovne i Skadestuen” er at undersøge, hvorvidt hospitalsklovne ...

Translation as Transformation

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Klitgård, Ebbe

2008-01-01

Artiklen behandler de to tidligste oversættelser af Chaucer i Danmark, professor T.C. Bruuns oversættelse af Popes version af Chaucers The Wife of Bath's Prologue fra 1823, og skolebestyrer Louise Westergaards hæfte med oversættelse og referater af Chaucer fra 1853. Jeg viser hvordan en klassisk ...

Florence Nightingale som symbolsk overgangsfigur i lærebøger for sygeplejersker - et lille stykke sygeplejehistorie

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Jørgensen, Emmy Brandt

2009-01-01

Artiklen er et lille indlæg om, hvordan man har anvendt Florence Nightingale i danske lærebøger for sygeplejersker som en legitimeringsfigur i forbindelse med forandringer inden for det danske hospitalsvæsen. Perioden, der behandles, er tiden før og efter skiftet til den kliniske medicin i Danmark...

Gruppemusikterapi med patienter med borderline-personlighedsforstyrrelse i dagbehandlingsregi

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Hannibal, Niels

2008-01-01

Denne artikel er første redegørelse for de erfaringer, som er gjort med gruppemusikterapi (GMT) for patienter med borderline-personlighedsforstyrrelse (BPF) i dagbehandlingsregi på Aalborg Psykiatriske Sygehus. Artiklen indeholder både konkrete anvisninger til aktiviteter og interventioner, liges...

PubMedReco: A Real-Time Recommender System for PubMed Citations.

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Samuel, Hamman W; Zaïane, Osmar R

2017-01-01

We present a recommender system, PubMedReco, for real-time suggestions of medical articles from PubMed, a database of over 23 million medical citations. PubMedReco can recommend medical article citations while users are conversing in a synchronous communication environment such as a chat room. Normally, users would have to leave their chat interface to open a new web browser window, and formulate an appropriate search query to retrieve relevant results. PubMedReco automatically generates the search query and shows relevant citations within the same integrated user interface. PubMedReco analyzes relevant keywords associated with the conversation and uses them to search for relevant citations using the PubMed E-utilities programming interface. Our contributions include improvements to the user experience for searching PubMed from within health forums and chat rooms, and a machine learning model for identifying relevant keywords. We demonstrate the feasibility of PubMedReco using BMJ's Doc2Doc forum discussions.

Palliativ behandling af patienter med terminal kronisk obstruktiv lungesygdom

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von Plessen, Christian; Nielsen, Thyge L; Steffensen, Ida E

2011-01-01

Terminal chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and advanced cancer have similar prognosis and symptom burden. However, palliative care of patients with terminal COPD has been neglected in Denmark. We describe the symptoms of terminal COPD and suggest criteria for defining the palliative...... phase of the disease. Furthermore we discuss the prognostic and ethical challenges for patients, their families and their caregivers. Finally, we summarize the current evidence for palliative treatment of dyspnoea and ways to evaluate response to treatment....

Karkirurgisk behandling hos patienter med påvirket nyrefunktion

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Hensler, M K; Forrest, M; Lorentzen, Jørgen Ewald

1994-01-01

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of surgery for renal artery stenosis in patients with impaired renal function. The design was a retrospective investigation with follow-up. The material consisted of 42 such patients operated at Rigshospitalet between 1980 and 1990. Renal functi...

Den haemostatiske balance under behandling med nyere p-pillepraeparater

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Petersen, K R; Skouby, S O; Sidelmann, Johannes Jakobsen

1994-01-01

and concentration of tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor. The ratio between thrombin-antithrombin-III-complexes and fibrin degradation products were unchanged signifying no effect of hormonal intake on the balance between thrombin formation and fibrin resolution. In conclusion, the dynamic balance between...... generation and resolution of fibrin was undisturbed during treatment with both hormonal compounds and our findings do not provide evidence for increased risk of thrombosis in normal women....

Omkostningseffektivitet ved behandling af type 1-diabetes med insulinpumpe

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Nørgaard, Kirsten; Sohlberg, Anna; Goodall, Gordan

2010-01-01

This study's aim was to project the long-term clinical and economic outcomes of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) treatment compared to multiple daily injections (MDI) in type 1 diabetes patients in Denmark.......This study's aim was to project the long-term clinical and economic outcomes of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) treatment compared to multiple daily injections (MDI) in type 1 diabetes patients in Denmark....

Behandling af juvenile angiofibromer med partikelembolisering og endoskopisk kirurgi

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Thuesen, Anne Daugaard; Jakobsen, John; Nepper-Rasmussen, Jørgen

2005-01-01

INTRODUCTION: Juvenile angiofibroma is a benign, rich vascular nasal tumor, and the biggest complication in surgery is the great loss of blood. Since 1997, Odense University Hospital (OUH) has used preoperative particle embolization and endoscopic surgery to combat this problem. MATERIALS...... and may be considered to be satisfactory. DISCUSSION: Endovascular embolization of juvenile angiofibromas followed by endoscopic surgery is considered to be the preferred treatment method today....

Palliativ behandling af patienter med terminal kronisk obstruktiv lungesygdom

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von Plessen, Christian; Nielsen, Thyge L; Steffensen, Ida E

2011-01-01

Terminal chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and advanced cancer have similar prognosis and symptom burden. However, palliative care of patients with terminal COPD has been neglected in Denmark. We describe the symptoms of terminal COPD and suggest criteria for defining the palliative ph...... phase of the disease. Furthermore we discuss the prognostic and ethical challenges for patients, their families and their caregivers. Finally, we summarize the current evidence for palliative treatment of dyspnoea and ways to evaluate response to treatment....

Palliativ behandling af patienter med terminal kronisk obstruktiv lungesygdom

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von Plessen, Christian; Nielsen, Thyge L; Steffensen, Ida E

2011-01-01

Terminal chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and advanced cancer have similar prognosis and symptom burden. However, palliative care of patients with terminal COPD has been neglected in Denmark. We describe the symptoms of terminal COPD and suggest criteria for defining the palliative...

Denmark. Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Programme

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Barfod, S.; Saunders, J.; Wutzke, S.

1998-01-01

Artiklen omtaler de danske resultater af en spørgeskemaundersøgelse blandt praktiserende læger i 16 lande. Af de 304 besvarelser angiver 91%, at de højst behandler 2 patienter om måneden for alkoholproblemer. Læger med erfaring i alkoholbehandling, og læger, der arbejder mest, spørger oftere dere...

Udenomssnak: Sådan gør Martin Henriksen

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Gabrielsen, Jonas

2011-01-01

EU-kommissionens formand José Manuel Barroso forslog i går onsdag, at EU-landene skal hjælpes med at behandle de mange asylansøgninger fra nordafrikanske flygtninge. Det forslag debatterede Martin Henriksen (DF) i Deadline 17 aftenen før – men ikke uden først at omdefinere debatten fra fælles...

Kunstens Psykologi og Sansningens Primat

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Levin, Kasper

2012-01-01

. Spørgsmålet er imidlertid om ikke kunstpsykologien udelukker sig selv fra væsentlige indsigter ved på denne måde at behandle kunstværker som traditionelt empiriske eller repræsentationelle genstande. Med udgangspunkt i en analyse af Sigmund Freuds tilgang til kunst vil jeg pege på filosoffen Gilles Deleuze...

Kapitalforhøjelse - realitet og formalitet?

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Vang, Ann Rask; Booker, Thomas

2014-01-01

I TfS 2014, 474 har Højesteret tilsidesat to faktisk gennemførte kapitalforhøjelser. Artiklen behandler spørgsmålet om civilrettens binding i skatteretlig henseende med udgangspunkt i den nylig afsagte højesteretsafgørelse og TfS 2006, 1062 (»Elevatordommen«). Artiklen giver herefter nogle bud på...

Kosmopolitiske indikationer

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Rold, Mette

2010-01-01

opretholdt i en fortsat dynamisk og normativ diskussion af pædagogisk teori. Afhandlingen går i dybden med fænomenologerne Løgstrup og Lévinas, anskuet i lyset af Immanuel Kants og Martin Heideggers grundlæggende ideer. Løgstrup og Lévinas behandler filosofisk spørgsmålet om den menneskelige subjektivitet...

Prevention of mouse-rat brain xenograft rejection by a combination therapy of cyclosporin A, prednisolone and azathioprine

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Pedersen, E B; Poulsen, F R; Zimmer, J

1995-01-01

Embryonic mouse hippocampal tissue was grafted as tissue blocks to the hippocampal region of adult rats and the effect of two different immunosuppressive treatments compared. Immunosuppression with cyclosporin A, prednisolone and azathioprine or with cyclosporin A alone was compared with placebo....... Transplants in the trimedication group displayed distinct cell and neuropil layers and only minimal cellular infiltration by leukocyte common antigen-expressing cells, whereas grafts in cyclosporin A- and placebo-treated groups were densely infiltrated. The results are discussed in relation to the need...

Succesfuld behandling af svær dabigatranoverdosering med idarucizumab hos en patient med nyresvigt

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Poulsen, Christina Gjerlev; Bestle, Morten; Boesby, Lene

2017-01-01

In the course of an uncomplicated sigmoidostomy a 63-year-old male who had severe comorbidity developed a critical bleeding due to dabigatran intoxication induced by acute kidney injury. Massive blood transfusions, tranexamic acid, Octaplex and haemodialysis were not effective. Administration...

Behandling med valproat under graviditet: beskrivelse af fire cases med føtalt valproatsyndrom

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Sabers, Anne; Larsen, Katja; Blichfeldt, Susanne

2009-01-01

INTRODUCTION: Treatment with valproate is associated with an increased risk of teratogenicity compared to other antiepileptic drugs and can cause a complex of serious symptoms usually referred to as "foetal valproate symdrome" which is characterised by major and minor malformations in association...... are born of mothers with epilepsy. The 677C-T mutation does not seem to be a useful genetic marker of this syndrome. Udgivelsesdato: 2009-Jan...

Behandling med valproat under graviditet: beskrivelse af fire cases med føtalt valproatsyndrom

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Sabers, Anne; Larsen, Katja; Blichfeldt, Susanne

2009-01-01

INTRODUCTION: Treatment with valproate is associated with an increased risk of teratogenicity compared to other antiepileptic drugs and can cause a complex of serious symptoms usually referred to as "foetal valproate symdrome" which is characterised by major and minor malformations in association...... are born of mothers with epilepsy. The 677C-T mutation does not seem to be a useful genetic marker of this syndrome. Udgivelsesdato: 2009-Jan-19...

Facilitated Work Based Learning - analyseret i et pragmatisk perspektiv

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Thomassen, Anja Overgaard

Ph.d.-afhandlingen behandler, med afsæt i John Deweys (1859-1952) pragmatisme, Facilitated Work Based Learning (FWBL) der er en tilgang til efter/videreuddannelse. På baggrund af konkrete uddannelsesforløb gennemført ud fra FWBL analyseres de udfordringer der opstår omkring gennemførelse af...... mødes for at samarbejde. Afhandlingen bidrager med et nyt begreb kaldet "den tredje kontekst" der tydeliggør, hvordan uddannelse, der gennemføres i en virksomhed, kan forstås. Ligeledes udvikles der, med afsæt i Deweys pragmatisme, en model der tydeliggør, hvorledes kompetenceudvikling kan understøttes...

Iyare et al., Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. (2015) 12(5):79-83 ...

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litter birth weight and the functional integrity of the liver of pregnant rats. ..... effects of Hibiscus, Rosmarinus and Salvia on azathioprine-induced toxicity in ... Acetaminophen-induced liver damage in mice: effects of some medicinal plants on the.

Bruk av urtemedisiner blant gravide i Mali : Intervju av 72 healere i Bamako, Siby og Dioila

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Al-Zayadi, Waled

2012-01-01

WHO’s rapport fra 2001 viser til at hele 75 % av Mali sin populasjon bruker tradisjonell medisin. Det er beregnet til å være 1 medisinmann pr 500 innbyggere. Hovedmålet med denne oppgaven var å undersøke tradisjonelle medisinmenns behandling av sykdom og plager i svangerskapet i Mali. Det er lite som vites om bruk av urtemedisiner blant gravide i Mali. Det er heller ingen studier gjort fra healerens side. Studien var med på å kartlegge hvilke urter som brukes til den enkelte plagen. I ette...

Tilfredshedsundersøgelse af Palliativt Team Fyn

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Paulsen, Maja Skov

2007-01-01

Behandling af døende patienter i eget hjem kan være en vanskelig og udfor­ drende opgave. Målet med behand­ lingen skifter fra kurativt til lindrende, hvilket udfordrer selvopfattelsen som be­ handler, og samtidig vil palliativ behand­ ling ofte rumme komplicerede medicinsk faglige problemstillin...... problemstillinger samt eksisten­ tielle spørgsmål. Gennem de senere år er der etableret specialiserede palliative teams med udgående funktioner som støtte til de primære behandlere af dø­ ende mennesker....

Om retsafgift i sager om prøvelse af myndighedsudøvelse

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Waage, Frederik

2013-01-01

Artiklen behandler de særligt lempelige regler for beregning af retsafgifter i sager om prøvelse af myndighedsudøvelse, jf. retsafgiftslovens § 1, stk. 4, 2. pkt. og § 2, stk. 3, 2. pkt., med henblik på en nærmere afklaring af, hvornår en retssag vedrører myndighedsudøvelse i retsafgiftslovens fo...

Effects of mechanical weed control in spring cereals - flora, fauna and economy

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Navntoft, Søren; Esbjerg, Peter; Ørum, Jens Erik

At mekanisk ukrudtsbekæmpelse kan erstatte kemisk behandling vides fra økologisk produktion, men til hvilken pris? - og hvad med fuglerederne? Nu er det påvist, at strigling som efterlader 15 g (tørret) ukrudt pr m2 kan sikre nytteinsekter for en samlet merudgift på kun 0,75 hkg vårkorn pr. ha. D...

Kan lignin omdannes til flydende brændstof?

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Nielsen, Joachim Bachmann; Jensen, Anders; Felby, Claus

2015-01-01

Ved en solvolytisk omdannelse af plantematerialet lignin til et flydende brændstof behandles det ved høj temperatur og højt tryk i et passende opløsningsmiddel. En sådan proces kan gennemføres ikke-katalytisk og være med til at skabe flydende brændsler baseret på vedvarende energikilder. Her...

Stofmisbrugsbehandling blandt grønlændere i Danmark

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Baviskar, Siddhartha

2016-01-01

undersøgelsen af en forløbsanalyse af en udvalgt gruppe på 221 grønlændere over en 5-årig periode, 2007-2011. Denne gruppe ankom for første gang til Danmark i 2007 og opholdt sig i landet i alle årene til og med 2011. Dermed opnår vi viden om både graden af sårbarhed blandt grønlænderne på stofmisbrugsområdet...... målt i forhold til de øvrige danskere, og hvordan grønlændernes sårbarhed ændrer sig over tid i Danmark. Oplysninger vedrørende stofmisbrugsbehandling stammer fra Register over stofmisbrugere i behandling (SIB), som er et register over borgere, der gennem deres kommune er visiteret til behandling...

Private sundhedsforsikringer og holdninger til det universelle skattefinansierede sundhedssystem

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Dejgaard, Thomas Engel; Pedersen, Jesper Møller

Vi kender historien: Antallet af borgere med en privat sundhedsforsikring er eksploderet siden 2002. Over 1.000.000 danskere har nu et regulært alternativ til behandling i det offentlige. Men er der tegn på, at borgerne også vælger den offentlige sundhedssektor fra? Vi tager temperaturen på...... borgernes holdninger til det danske sundhedssystem, der er blevet forandret væsentligt det sidste årti. Vi ønsker at undersøge, om de nye private forsikringsordninger har udkrystalliseret sig i forandringer i borgernes holdninger. For en lang række danskerne har nu et reelt alternativ til behandling i det...... offentlige. Vi bruger ISSP 2006 Role of Government (indsamlet 2008) til at undersøge forsikrede og ikke-forsikrede borgeres holdninger til sundhedssystemet....

Fatal hæmofagocytisk lymfohistiocytose og mononukleose hos en patient med colitis ulcerosa

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Juul Ingvardsen, Charlotte; Ballegaard, Vibe Cecilie; Homøe, Preben

2012-01-01

We report a case of Epstein-Barr virus primo infection with the development of lethal haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in a 22 year-old man, who was being treated with azathioprin for colitis ulcerosa. HLH is a rare, life-threatening disease, which is caused by an inappropriate activatio...

Fatal hæmofagocytisk lymfohistiocytose og mononukleose hos en patient med colitis ulcerosa

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Juul Ingvardsen, Charlotte; Ballegaard, Vibe Cecilie; Homøe, Preben

2012-01-01

We report a case of Epstein-Barr virus primo infection with the development of lethal haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in a 22 year-old man, who was being treated with azathioprin for colitis ulcerosa. HLH is a rare, life-threatening disease, which is caused by an inappropriate activation...

Musikterapi med børn med svær autisme - en litteraturgennemgang

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Ulla Holck

2003-03-01

Full Text Available Faglitteratur om musikterapi med børn med autisme er omfattende og indeholder såvel kvalitative case-beskrivelser som kvantitative forskningsundersøgelser. I artiklen gennemgås faglitteraturen systematisk med henblik på at specifi cere musikterapiens effekt og virkemåder i forhold til denne målgruppe. Vægten ligger på børn med svær autisme, men litteratur om voksne højtfungerende personer med autisme inddrages også. Forskningslitteraturen viser, at det især er inden for områderne koncentration, visuel opmærksomhed, respons og initiativ, samt brug af stemme og tur-tagning, at musikterapi har en effekt. Case-litteraturen begrunder denne effekt med musikkens evne til at være redundant, anvendelse af imitation og responsfremmende teknikker (overraskelse etc., fælles opbyggede samspilsformer, samt det temporale-interaktive element i improvisatorisk musikterapi. Ud fra en interaktionsteoretisk indfaldsvinkel sammenkobles effekten endvidere med, at den musikalske interaktion hjælper musikterapeuten til at fastholde et dynamisk udtryk, hvilket er afgørende i forhold til en klientgruppe, der ofte giver ´flad´ eller stærkt afvigende feedback.

Nostalgitrip med Pikachu

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Konzack, Lars

2016-01-01

Sommeren 2016 vil blive husket for den omsiggribende dille, Pokémon Go, med over 100 millioner downloads. Tusindvis af især børn og unge, men også forældre med barnevogne og hele familier, kunne pludselig ses på gader og stræder, i parker og grønne områder med en smartphone i hånden på jagt efter...

Early pregnancy azathioprine use and pregnancy outcomes.

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Cleary, Brian J

2012-02-01

BACKGROUND: Azathioprine (AZA) is used during pregnancy by women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), other autoimmune disorders, malignancy, and organ transplantation. Previous studies have demonstrated potential risks. METHODS: The Swedish Medical Birth Register was used to identify 476 women who reported the use of AZA in early pregnancy. The effect of AZA exposure on pregnancy outcomes was studied after adjustment for maternal characteristics that could act as confounders. RESULTS: The most common indication for AZA use was IBD. The rate of congenital malformations was 6.2% in the AZA group and 4.7% among all infants born (adjusted OR: 1.41, 95% CI: 0.98-2.04). An association between early pregnancy AZA exposure and ventricular\\/atrial septal defects was found (adjusted OR: 3.18, 95% CI: 1.45-6.04). Exposed infants were also more likely to be preterm, to weigh <2500 gm, and to be small for gestational age compared to all infants born. This effect remained for preterm birth and low birth weight when infants of women with IBD but without AZA exposure were used as a comparison group. A trend toward an increased risk of congenital malformations was found among infants of women with IBD using AZA compared to women with IBD not using AZA (adjusted OR: 1.42, 95% CI: 0.93-2.18). CONCLUSIONS: Infants exposed to AZA in early pregnancy may be at a moderately increased risk of congenital malformations, specifically ventricular\\/atrial septal defects. There is also an increased risk of growth restriction and preterm delivery. These associations may be confounded by the severity of maternal illness.

Interview med børn

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Interview med børn handler om børneinterview i forbindelse med forskning. Bogen er tænkt som inspiration til og afsæt for metodiske refleksioner i forbindelse med inddragelse af børn som informanter.......Interview med børn handler om børneinterview i forbindelse med forskning. Bogen er tænkt som inspiration til og afsæt for metodiske refleksioner i forbindelse med inddragelse af børn som informanter....

Virtuelt skrivebord med open office

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Nielsen, Kurt Gammelgaard

2009-01-01

SDUs erfaringer med projektet Port 22: en virtuel platform med Open Office som kontorpakke til studerende.......SDUs erfaringer med projektet Port 22: en virtuel platform med Open Office som kontorpakke til studerende....

Mediator Complex Subunits MED2, MED5, MED16, and MED23 Genetically Interact in the Regulation of Phenylpropanoid Biosynthesis.

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Dolan, Whitney L; Dilkes, Brian P; Stout, Jake M; Bonawitz, Nicholas D; Chapple, Clint

2017-12-01

The phenylpropanoid pathway is a major global carbon sink and is important for plant fitness and the engineering of bioenergy feedstocks. In Arabidopsis thaliana , disruption of two subunits of the transcriptional regulatory Mediator complex, MED5a and MED5b, results in an increase in phenylpropanoid accumulation. By contrast, the semidominant MED5b mutation reduced epidermal fluorescence4-3 ( ref4-3 ) results in dwarfism and constitutively repressed phenylpropanoid accumulation. Here, we report the results of a forward genetic screen for suppressors of ref4-3. We identified 13 independent lines that restore growth and/or phenylpropanoid accumulation in the ref4-3 background. Two of the suppressors restore growth without restoring soluble phenylpropanoid accumulation, indicating that the growth and metabolic phenotypes of the ref4-3 mutant can be genetically disentangled. Whole-genome sequencing revealed that all but one of the suppressors carry mutations in MED5b or other Mediator subunits. RNA-seq analysis showed that the ref4-3 mutation causes widespread changes in gene expression, including the upregulation of negative regulators of the phenylpropanoid pathway, and that the suppressors reverse many of these changes. Together, our data highlight the interdependence of individual Mediator subunits and provide greater insight into the transcriptional regulation of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis by the Mediator complex. © 2017 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved.

IMPLANT FOR TREATMENT OF SKELETAL DEFORMITIES

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2011-01-01

Den foreliggende opfindelse vedrører en implantat til behandling af skeletale misdannelser bestående af en hul stang med mindst ét åbent ende, en osmotisk membran, der dækker mindst en del af den indvendige vægge nævnte stang, et stempel og et rum afgrænset af nævnte stempel og nævnte osmotiske m...

Serious Mental Illness and Risk for Hospitalizations and Rehospitalizations for Ambulatory Care-sensitive Conditions in Denmark:

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Davydow, Dimitry; Ribe, Anette Riisgaard; Pedersen, Henrik Søndergaard

2015-01-01

Antallet af akutte indlæggelser for kroniske sygdomme har i de senere år været stigende i den vestlige verden. De mange indlæggelser har medført øgede udgifter i sundhedsvæsenet, selvom nogle af disse indlæggelser potentielt kunne være undgået med forebyggelse og behandling i det nære sundhedsvæs...

På tur til engen

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Achton, Ophelia

På tur til er en indskolingsserie til natur/teknik-undervisningen med tilhørende vejledning. Seriens titler dækker tilsammen de væsentligste trinmål i Fælles Mål 2009 til 2. klasse. På tur til Engen behandler både ferskvands- og saltvandsengens specielle kårfaktorer og fortæller kort om de...... vigtigste planter og dyr, som findes i engen....

Fra Oklahoma! til Beauty and the Beast

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Nielsen, Steen Kaargaard

2010-01-01

Artiklens formål er at bidrage til en belysning af Original Broadway Cast-albummets historiske udvikling til og som distinkt fonografisk undergenre i den amerikanske produktion af musical-album. På baggrund af en kort introduktion til amerikansk musical-musik som fonografisk fænomen med definition...... konventionaliseringen af det kommercielle OBC-album behandles primært i en økonomisk, industrikulturel og teknologisk kontekstualisering....

IT og Innovation

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Nordbjerg, Finn Ebertsen; Andersen, Poul

IT og innovation behandles ud fra tre perspektiver: IT-udviklingsprocesser, IT og lærende organisation og IT-understøttelse af en innovativ didaktik. Vi beskriver nogle ideer til, hvordan arbejdsformer anvendt i forbindelse med ITudviklingsprocesser kan inspirere en innovativ didaktik. IT...... beskrives nogle idéer til, hvordan IT-værktøjer kan understøtte innovative læreprocesser....

MedSun Reports

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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services — The Medical Product Safety Network (MedSun) is an adverse event reporting program launched in 2002. The primary goal for MedSun is to work collaboratively with the...

El embarazo no exacerba la dermatomiositis

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Alfredo Berrocal

1999-07-01

Full Text Available We report four pregnancies in three dermatomyositis female patients who had their disease under control from beginning, during the course of their pregnancies, and the Postpartum period. Two females were off steroids and one received prednisone and azathioprine until week 16th of pregnancy when azathioprine was taken off, remaining only on prednisone, Neither case had a disease relapse. All babies were alive and full term newbornes, they also were adequate for gestational age and none had congenital malformations. ( Rev Med Hered 1999; 10: 125-128 .

Determination of 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine in plasma by high-performance liquid chromatography.

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Ding, T L; Benet, L Z

1979-07-21

Using 1-ml plasma samples, levels of 6-mercaptopurine (6MP) as low as 5 ng/ml and azathioprine (AZA) as low as 40 ng/ml can be detected using a high-performance liquid chromatography reversed-phase column procedure following extraction. Both compounds were stable in frozen plasma for seven weeks. AZA stability in blood was temperature dependent; the half-lives of AZA breakdown to 6MP at 37 degrees were 28 and 46 min in blood drawn from two rhesus monkeys. Plasma levels of 6MP were measured in a rhesus monkey following 6MP (1.47 mg/kg) and AZA (3 mg/kg) intravenous administration. 6MP levels were also measured in three renal transplant patients on daily 50- and 100-mg AZA doses. Peak levels (45-75 ng/ml) were reached within an hour and 6MP levels were detected for up to 7 h.

The MedDRA paradox.

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Merrill, Gary H

2008-11-06

MedDRA (the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology) is a controlled vocabulary widely used as a medical coding scheme. However, MedDRA's characterization of its structural hierarchy exhibits some confusing and paradoxical features. The goal of this paper is to examine these features, determine whether there is a coherent view of the MedDRA hierarchy that emerges, and explore what lessons are to be learned from this for using MedDRA and similar terminologies in a broad medical informatics context that includes relations among multiple disparate terminologies, thesauri, and ontologies.

Vulvær intraepitelial neoplasi

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Hansen, Signe Østergaard; Vorbeck, Christina Steen; Meinert, Mette

2018-01-01

Vulva dysplasi skal anses for en præmalign tilstand. Ny histologisk inddeling af vulva dysplasi fra januar 2018: HSIL (High grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion) i vulva og Vulvær intraepitelial neoplasi, differentieret VIN (dVIN) Vi anbefaler medicinsk behandling med imiquimod som 1. valg. Dog ...... der stor recidivrate både ved medicinsk og kirurgisk behandling. English summary: Vulva intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) is a rare but premalignant condition. VIN has two etiological pathways: a human papillomavirus (HPV)-dependent pathway, vulvar HSIL, affecting young women, and an HPV......-independent pathway, differentiated VIN (d-VIN), associated with lichen sclerosus, affecting older women. D-VIN is more aggressive than vulvar HSIL. In case of symptoms, a biopsy should be performed. The recurrence risk is high at 25-50% regardless treatment type. We recommend treatment with imiquimod as first choice...

Advanced Functionalities for Highly Reliable Optical Networks

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An, Yi; Berger, Michael Stübert; Clausen, Anders

2013-01-01

Denne afhandling behandler to felter indenfor optiske løsninger til netværk i f.eks. luftfartøjer. Det ene felt er fokuseret på at afdække hvilke applikationer der med fordel kan benytte silicium fotoniske komponenter til kost effektive løsninger i netværk med lille rækkevidde. Det andet felt fokuserer på at implementere avancerede løsninger som vil kunne højne driftssikkerheden og dermed brugbarheden af optiske netværk.En kost effektiv sender baseret på en direkte moduleret laser (DML) kombi...

Analysis of PubMed User Sessions Using a Full-Day PubMed Query Log: A Comparison of Experienced and Nonexperienced PubMed Users

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2015-01-01

Background PubMed is the largest biomedical bibliographic information source on the Internet. PubMed has been considered one of the most important and reliable sources of up-to-date health care evidence. Previous studies examined the effects of domain expertise/knowledge on search performance using PubMed. However, very little is known about PubMed users’ knowledge of information retrieval (IR) functions and their usage in query formulation. Objective The purpose of this study was to shed light on how experienced/nonexperienced PubMed users perform their search queries by analyzing a full-day query log. Our hypotheses were that (1) experienced PubMed users who use system functions quickly retrieve relevant documents and (2) nonexperienced PubMed users who do not use them have longer search sessions than experienced users. Methods To test these hypotheses, we analyzed PubMed query log data containing nearly 3 million queries. User sessions were divided into two categories: experienced and nonexperienced. We compared experienced and nonexperienced users per number of sessions, and experienced and nonexperienced user sessions per session length, with a focus on how fast they completed their sessions. Results To test our hypotheses, we measured how successful information retrieval was (at retrieving relevant documents), represented as the decrease rates of experienced and nonexperienced users from a session length of 1 to 2, 3, 4, and 5. The decrease rate (from a session length of 1 to 2) of the experienced users was significantly larger than that of the nonexperienced groups. Conclusions Experienced PubMed users retrieve relevant documents more quickly than nonexperienced PubMed users in terms of session length. PMID:26139516

Evaluering af ordning med psykologbehandling af personer med let til moderat depression

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Fjeldsted, Rita; Christensen, Kaj Sparle

Herværende rapport evaluerer den pr. 1.4.2008 indførte ordning med mulighed for henvisning til psykologbehandling med 60 % tilskud for patienter med let til moderat depression. Evalueringen har betjent sig af flere gensidigt supplerende metoder: spørgeskemaundersøgelser overfor patienter, psykolo......Herværende rapport evaluerer den pr. 1.4.2008 indførte ordning med mulighed for henvisning til psykologbehandling med 60 % tilskud for patienter med let til moderat depression. Evalueringen har betjent sig af flere gensidigt supplerende metoder: spørgeskemaundersøgelser overfor patienter...... tidligere evaluering af forsøgsordning af psykologbehandling af depression i perioden 2005-06. 18.419 personer i alderen 18-37 år blev henvist til psykolog i den undersøgte ordning i perioden 1.2.2009 – 31.1.2010, svarende til en henvisningshyppighed på 1,6 % af baggrundsbefolkningen i samme aldersgruppe....... Ordningen giver mulighed for én rehenvisning, og 9 % blev rehenvist i perioden. Spørgeskemaresultater viser, at kun 33 % af de henviste falder ind under henvisningskriteriet ” let til moderat depression” på tidspunktet for opstart af psykologbehandling, 39 % har ingen tegn på depression, og 28 % har svær...

Behandling af centralnervesystemlymfom efter transplantation med monoklonalt antistof og ganciclovir

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Hansen, P.B.; Al-Farra, G.

2010-01-01

A 35-year-old female was diagnosed with a primary central nervous system posttransplant Epstein-Barr-virus-associated lymphoproliferative disorder three years after a renal transplantation. The histological diagnosis of the brain tumour was a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The patient had had...... diabetes mellitus for 28 years and was treated with four weekly doses of the monoclonal antibody rituximab, the antiviral drug ganciclovir and high-dose prednisolone, and the immune suppression was reduced. After four weeks of treatment, a control magnetic resonance image showed complete regression...

Behandling med antidepressiva på geriatriske afdelinger. Forekomst og journalforing

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Rosholm, Jens-Ulrik; Mortensen, Hanne Hollaender; Svensson, Birthe Hjorth

2003-01-01

INTRODUCTION: The aim of the present study was to describe the occurrence of antidepressant treatment in geriatric departments in Denmark and assess the notes of the patient records in connection with prescription. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Patient records for consecutively referred patients in seven...

Bedre prognose af cystinose ved behandling med cysteamin og nyretransplantation

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Oczachowska-Kulik, Anna Ewa; Lund, Allan; Skovby, Flemming

2011-01-01

Cystinosis is a rare, autosomal recessive disease with cystine deposits in different tissues. First signs come from kidneys and eyes, but during progression of the disease other organs can also be affected. Previously, patients with cystinosis had a very poor prognosis, but it is now considerably...

Behandling af blødende øsofagusvaricer med selvekspanderende metalstenter

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Dahlerup, Jens F; Kruse, Aksel; Grønbaek, Henning

2007-01-01

We report that haemostasis was obtained by the use of SEMS in two patients with bleeding oesophageal varices which failed conventional therapy (vasoactive drugs, antibiotics, endoscopy, and Sengstaken balloon tamponade). One patient subsequently died of sepsis; the other was treated with TIPS...

Legionella pneumoni hos patienter, der er i behandling med infliximab

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Vinter, Hanne; Nielsen, Henrik Ib

2009-01-01

Therapy with tumour necrosis factor-alfa inhibitors is widely used in various inflammatory disorders, but adverse events from severe infections with intracellular pathogens may occur. We describe two cases of severe pulmonary legionellosis in patients treated with infliximab for Crohn's disease a...... and psoriasis, respectively. We conclude that legionella infections are probably more frequent in patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy with tumour necrosis factor-alfa inhibitors than in the background population. Udgivelsesdato: 2009-Jan-19...

Myopati hos en patient i behandling med simvastatin og fluconazol

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Pedersen, Jens Kristian; Lydolph, Magnus Christian; Somnier, Finn

2016-01-01

A 69-year-old female was admitted due to progressive loss of muscle strength following addition of fluconazole to long-term simvastatin treatment. Rhabdomyolysis was suspected and both drugs were discontinued. Forced diuresis was initiated together with a short course of prednisolone. After 21...

Behandling af peritoneal karcinose med laparoskopisk intraperitoneal kemoterapi under tryk

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Graversen, Martin; Pfeiffer, Per; Mortensen, Michael Bau

2016-01-01

Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) is a new treatment option in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). PIPAC has proven efficacious in the treatment of PC from ovarian, colon and gastric cancer. PIPAC has a favourable profile regarding safety for patients and occupati......Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) is a new treatment option in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). PIPAC has proven efficacious in the treatment of PC from ovarian, colon and gastric cancer. PIPAC has a favourable profile regarding safety for patients...

Hvordan kan mindfulness-basert behandling hjelpe for pasienter med tinnitus?

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Valle, Linda

2014-01-01

Tinnitus is a common and severe disorder presenting big health issues for the many people affected. The fact that not all people are affected by their tinnitus, have been a puzzle for scientists. This has led to an expanded psychological view of tinnitus over time. Tinnitus as a functional disorder, is first of all a medical disorder, and treatment has been oriented from an audiological perspective. Studies and neurophysiology has shown tinnitus to be a transdiagnostic disorder, which mean th...

Sammensvorne designere med succes

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Dickson, Thomas

2005-01-01

Den danske tegnestue Komplot Design har for nylig oplevet den ære, at to af deres stole bliver brugt i cafeerne på det nyindrettede Museum of Modern Art i New York. Men det er ikke kun med møbler, de har succes - tegnestuen kaster sig med iver over mange slags produkter.......Den danske tegnestue Komplot Design har for nylig oplevet den ære, at to af deres stole bliver brugt i cafeerne på det nyindrettede Museum of Modern Art i New York. Men det er ikke kun med møbler, de har succes - tegnestuen kaster sig med iver over mange slags produkter....

Processeringsoptimering med Canons software

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Precht, Helle

2009-01-01

. Muligheder i software optimering blev studeret i relation til optimal billedkvalitet og kontrol optagelser, for at undersøge om det var muligt at acceptere diagnostisk billedkvalitet og derved tage afsæt i ALARA. Metode og materialer Et kvantitativt eksperimentelt studie baseret på forsøg med teknisk og...... humant fantom. CD Rad fantom anvendes som teknisk fantom, hvor billederne blev analyseret med CD Rad software, og resultatet var en objektiv IQF værdi. Det humane fantom var et lamme pelvis med femur, der via NRPB’ er sammenlignelig med absorptionen ved et femårigt barn. De humane forsøgsbilleder blev...

PubMed-EX: a web browser extension to enhance PubMed search with text mining features.

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Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han; Dai, Hong-Jie; Lai, Po-Ting; Huang, Chi-Hsin

2009-11-15

PubMed-EX is a browser extension that marks up PubMed search results with additional text-mining information. PubMed-EX's page mark-up, which includes section categorization and gene/disease and relation mark-up, can help researchers to quickly focus on key terms and provide additional information on them. All text processing is performed server-side, freeing up user resources. PubMed-EX is freely available at http://bws.iis.sinica.edu.tw/PubMed-EX and http://iisr.cse.yzu.edu.tw:8000/PubMed-EX/.

Cyklisme - en selvfølge

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Braagaard Harders, Anne Katrine

2014-01-01

Cyklisme i fremtiden? Ja, helst, men det kræver måske, at vi er nødt til at holde op med at snakke om cyklisme som noget særligt og noget der skal behandles separat. Vi er nødt til at forstå mobilitet i byen i sin helhed, for hvert transportmiddel påvirker hinanden og byen og det gør deres...

Ulykke med hækkesaks

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Leth, Peter Mygind

1996-01-01

Snitsår med blødning fra en overskåret pulsåre på armen forekommer hyppigt ved selvmordsforsøg, men har sjældent et dødeligt forløb. Her gives et eksempel på en isoleret partiel overklipning af a.ulnaris ved en ulykke med en hækkesaks med dødelig forløbende blødning.......Snitsår med blødning fra en overskåret pulsåre på armen forekommer hyppigt ved selvmordsforsøg, men har sjældent et dødeligt forløb. Her gives et eksempel på en isoleret partiel overklipning af a.ulnaris ved en ulykke med en hækkesaks med dødelig forløbende blødning....

Livline til virkeligheden

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Sanne Storm

2003-03-01

Full Text Available Denne artikel er en oversættelse af mit foredrag på verdenskongressen i musikterapi i Oxford 2002. Den er baseret på mit speciale »Livline til virkeligheden - første skridt i enpsykoterapeutisk behandling« (Storm 2002. Artiklen tager udgangspunkt i en case med en alvorligt psykisk syg kvinde, der er indlagt for første gang på psykiatrisk sygehus til Obs. pro forskizofreni, og som i indlæggelsesperioden desuden har udviklet et stort ordmobiliseringsbesvær. Den musikterapeutiske behandling beskrives. Gennem analyser af tre udvalgte musikeksemplerdokumenteres den terapeutiske udvikling i musikterapi fra et ubevidst og præ-verbalt stadie til et bevidst og verbalt stadie, - en såkaldt psykisk re-organisering. Første og tredie musikeksempelanalyseres udfra morfologiske principper, og her inddrages dele af Daniel Sterns udviklingsteori som teoretisk platform til forståelse af patientens psykologiske problemstilling. Andet musikeksempelanalyseres med fokus på patientens stemme og på nodetransskriptionen af sangen, sådan som sangen synges. Til analyse af stemmen anvender jeg et stemmeassessmentskema jeg selv har udviklet og senere videreudviklet i samarbejde med Stephan Skov (Storm & Skov 2000. I en efterbehandling af tredie analyse, der omfatter en analyse af en klinisk improvisation, udledes en ny hypotese om, hvordan den kliniske improvisation gennemgår forskellige faser frem mod en re-organisering, og hvilken rolle og funktion musikken og musikterapeuten har.

Jagten på afkast, DONG, illikviditet og performanceevaluering

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Bechmann, Ken L.

2014-01-01

I denne leder diskuteres alternative investeringer i lyset af de forskellige artikler, der haves i dette nummer af Finans/Invest. Med udgangspunkt i artiklen om jagten på afkast samt en rapport fra Finanstilsynet om alternative investeringer starter lederen med at beskrive omfanget og den stigende...... fokus, der er på alternative investeringer, og diskuterer endvidere de udfordringer som investorerne har i forhold til specielt risikoen. Lederen nævner her politisk risiko som ét eksempel på en kompliceret risiko og fremhæver her blandt andet hele forløbet omkring DONG som et aktuelt eksempel....... Illikviditet er en anden central risiko, som investorerne må forholde sig til i forbindelse med alternative investeringer. Artiklen om illikviditet i dette nummer viser, at det også er behæftet med udfordringer at behandle illikviditet i forbindelse med værdiansættelse....

Co-Design: Alzheimer og værdighed

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Brandt, Eva; Risak, Gudrun; Otterstrøm Nørgaard, Andrea

2012-01-01

”Alzheimers er ikke en identitet, det er en sygdom!” fortalte en netop Alzheimer diagnosticeret mand. Udtalelsen illustrerer hvordan mange med Alzheimer bliver opfattet og behandlet. De bliver stigmatiserede og konsekvensen er ofte social isolation. Denne artikel rapporterer fra studenterprojekter....... Via en overordnet co-designtilgang har de undersøgt hverdagens udfordringer, forhåbninger og bekymringer hos mennesker, der lever med Alzheimers enten som ramt eller som pårørende. Ved at designe forskellige ’dialogværktøjer’ er de kommet med konkrete bud på, hvordan dialog omkring hverdagsliv med...... Alzheimers kan finde sted. Et værdigt liv og en værdig behandling forudsætter at kendskabet til sygdommens mange ansigter udbredes. Designere kan her bidrage med noget vigtigt. Designere har greb og kompetencer til at kunne etablere og håndtere designprocesser, der involverer patienter, pårørende...

Relevansen af nyere psykodynamisk teori for det klinisk musikterapeutiske arbejde med psykiatriske patienter med personlighedsforstyrrelser

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Hannibal, Niels

2007-01-01

Denne artikel beskriver et rationale for anvendelse af musik i en psykoterapeutisk kontekst. Det eksplicitte og implicitte forandringsniveau i psykoterapi med patienter med borderline-personlighedsforstyrrelse (BPF) diskuteres herpå med henvisning til to forskellige syn på terapeutisk forandring:...

Gruppemusikterapi med patienter med borderline-personlighedsforstyrrelse i dagbehandlingsregi

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Niels Hannibal

2008-05-01

Full Text Available Denne artikel er første redegørelse for de erfaringer, som er gjort med gruppemusikterapi (GMT for patienter med borderline-personlighedsforstyrrelse (BPF i dagbehandlingsregi på Aalborg Psykiatriske Sygehus. Artiklen indeholder både konkrete anvisninger til aktiviteter og interventioner, ligesom den i et teoretisk perspektiv redegør for forskellige processer og reaktioner, der kan iagttages i behandlingen. Artiklen konkluderer, at GMT i sin nuværende form kan bidrage til udvikling af BPF-patienters evne til mentalisering og affektregulering, til opbygning af en gruppefølelse og fremme af interpersonel læring, ligesom GMT kan udvikle alliance til terapi generelt og GMT specifikt.

The big six, regnskabsbrugerne og FASBs nye regler om derivater

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Thinggaard, Frank

1997-01-01

Artiklen har flere formål. Dels at præsentere FASBs første forslag til den regnskabsmæssige behandling af samtlige derivater. Dels at analysere og sammenligne de enkelte big six revisions-firmaers holdning til forslagets vigtigste emner samt at sammenligne dette med kommentarerne fra en repræsent......Artiklen har flere formål. Dels at præsentere FASBs første forslag til den regnskabsmæssige behandling af samtlige derivater. Dels at analysere og sammenligne de enkelte big six revisions-firmaers holdning til forslagets vigtigste emner samt at sammenligne dette med kommentarerne fra en...... repræsentant for brugerne. Artiklen viser, at revisionsfirmaerne generelt er meget enige i deres bedømmelse af reglerne. De fleste er ikke modstandere af at værdiansætte derivater til fair value. Kritikken går på behandlingen af gevinsterne og tabene, hvor de er bange for den volatilitet, der kan komme i...... virksomhedernes resultater. Især for gevinster og tab på derivater, der sikrer fremtidige cash-flows. Artiklen forklarer nærmere, hvad modstanden består i, hvilket giver en dybere forståelse for, hvordan reglerne virker. Artiklen viser, at brugerne ikke er nær så kritiske som the big six....

MedPAC Data Book

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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services — MedPACs Data Book is the result of discussions with congressional staff members regarding ways that MedPAC can better support them. Some of the information it...

The MEDIATOR genes MED12 and MED13 control Arabidopsis root system configuration influencing sugar and auxin responses.

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Raya-González, Javier; López-Bucio, Jesús Salvador; Prado-Rodríguez, José Carlos; Ruiz-Herrera, León Francisco; Guevara-García, Ángel Arturo; López-Bucio, José

2017-09-01

Arabidopsis med12 and med13 mutants exhibit shoot and root phenotypes related to an altered auxin homeostasis. Sucrose supplementation reactivates both cell division and elongation in primary roots as well as auxin-responsive and stem cell niche gene expression in these mutants. An analysis of primary root growth of WT, med12, aux1-7 and med12 aux1 single and double mutants in response to sucrose and/or N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid (NPA) placed MED12 upstream of auxin transport for the sugar modulation of root growth. The MEDIATOR (MED) complex plays diverse functions in plant development, hormone signaling and biotic and abiotic stress tolerance through coordination of transcription. Here, we performed genetic, developmental, molecular and pharmacological analyses to characterize the role of MED12 and MED13 on the configuration of root architecture and its relationship with auxin and sugar responses. Arabidopsis med12 and med13 single mutants exhibit shoot and root phenotypes consistent with altered auxin homeostasis including altered primary root growth, lateral root development, and root hair elongation. MED12 and MED13 were required for activation of cell division and elongation in primary roots, as well as auxin-responsive and stem cell niche gene expression. Remarkably, most of these mutant phenotypes were rescued by supplying sucrose to the growth medium. The growth response of primary roots of WT, med12, aux1-7 and med12 aux1 single and double mutants to sucrose and application of auxin transport inhibitor N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid (NPA) revealed the correlation of med12 phenotype with the activity of the auxin intake permease and suggests that MED12 acts upstream of AUX1 in the root growth response to sugar. These data provide compelling evidence that MEDIATOR links sugar sensing to auxin transport and distribution during root morphogenesis.

Surrealistiske collager

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Paldam, Camilla Skovbjerg

Surrealismen er en af de avantgardebevægelser, der trods sine snart 100 år bliver ved med at drage og fascinere. Denne bog giver en indføring i de væsentligste sider af 1920’ernes og 30’ernes surrealisme gennem et fokus på surrealistisk collage i både litteratur og billedkunst. Med inddragelse af....... Dette eksemplificeres gennem nedslag i temaer som byen, barndommen, kvinden, monstret og mannequindukken, som surrealisterne var dybt optagede af. Endvidere behandler bogen surrealisternes udbredte interesse for det mytiske og mystiske, hvor collage bliver et vigtigt led i forsøget på at finde og skabe...

Rusmidler og mundhulen

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Pedersen, Anne Marie Lynge

2016-01-01

millioner af dødsfald, især alkoholmisbrug. Cannabis er det mest almindeligt anvendte illegale stof i hele verden, men der produceres til stadighed nye stoffer på verdensmarkedet. Litteraturen om virkningerne af illegale stoffer på den orale sundhed er relativ sparsom på grund af vanskeligheder med...... bruksisme. Desuden er det velkendt, at overdreven indtagelse af alkohol øger risikoen for oral cancer betydeligt. Det er vigtigt, at tandlæger har et indgående kendskab til de kliniske manifestationer ved misbrug og de medicinske risici, der kan være ved behandling af patienter med misbrug, men også...

Guide til gode spørgeskemaer

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Olsen, Henning

Spørgeskemaundersøgelser bliver ofte brugt til at dokumentere forskellige forhold og begrunde politiske beslutninger. Men resultaterne kan være forbundet med stor usikkerhed. Det kræver omhu og stor sproglig formåen at udarbejde spørgeskemaer. Seniorforsker Henning Olsen har i flere år arbejdet med...... viden om, hvordan folk forstår sproglige meddelelser og genkalder sig informationer. I guiden behandles emner som fx styrende problemstillinger og spørgsmåls fokus og neutralitet, formulering af åbne eller lukkede spørgsmål og svarkategorier, tematiske spørgeforløb, aflastning af svarpersoners...

Leg med vision

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Munk, Mette; Bertelsen, Katrine

2011-01-01

Bogen henvender sig primært til det pædagogiske personale med målgruppen daginstitutioner. Bogen skal stimulere arbejdet med at gøre bevægelse til en integreret del af kulturen i daginstitutioner - at få det pædagogiske personale til - at sætte ord på og spørgsmålstegn ved deres pædagogiske bevæg...

God fondsledelse

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Feldthusen, Rasmus Kristian

2014-01-01

Artiklen behandler temaet god fondsledelse i såvel erhvervsdrivende som ikke-erhvervsdrivende fonde. Emnet er relevant eftersom fonde har en markant anderledes struktur end andre selskabsformer, hvilket især gør sig gældende med hensyn til ejerstrukturen. For det første er fonde selvejende, hvilket....... Erhvervsstyrelsen samt kritisk revision af fondens revisor. Artiklen inddrager Erhvervsfondsudvalgets rapport og forslag til nye lovbestemmelser samt udkast til anbefalinger om god fondsledelse....

God fondsledelse

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Feldthusen, Rasmus Kristian

2013-01-01

Artiklen behandler temaet god fondsledelse i såvel erhvervsdrivende som ikke-erhvervsdrivende fonde. Emnet er relevant eftersom fonde har en markant anderledes struktur end andre selskabsformer, hvilket især gør sig gældende med hensyn til ejerstrukturen. For det første er fonde selvejende, hvilket....... Erhvervsstyrelsen samt kritisk revision af fondens revisor. Artiklen inddrager Erhvervsfondsudvalgets rapport og forslag til nye lovbestemmelser samt anbefaling om god fondsledelse....

Lærere arbejder med landskabsdannelse

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2012-01-01

Valg af materiale/medie/form: YOUtube videoklip. Valg af arbejdsform: Lærere der er igang med at afprøve praktisk undersøgende arbejde med danske landskabsformer. Begrundelse for valg af materiale/medie/form/arbejdsform: Ultrakort videoklip valgt så 1) lærerne kan dele med kolleger, 2) øvrige...

Current use of pharmacogenetic testing: a national survey of thiopurine methyltransferase testing prior to azathioprine prescription.

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Fargher, E A; Tricker, K; Newman, W; Elliott, R; Roberts, S A; Shaffer, J L; Bruce, I; Payne, K

2007-04-01

Azathioprine is an immunosuppressant prescribed for the treatment of inflammatory conditions and after organ transplantation. Risk of neutropaenia has limited the effective use of azathioprine (AZA) and driven requirements for careful monitoring and blood tests. Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) is a genetically moderated key enzyme involved in the metabolism of AZA that can be used to stratify individuals into different levels of risk of developing neutropaenia. Two techniques can be used to measure TPMT status: enzyme-level testing (phenotype testing) and DNA based testing (genotype testing). To identify the current uptake of TPMT enzyme-level testing, TPMT genotype testing, and, the role of guidelines; to inform the prescribing and monitoring of AZA. A survey was mailed to a consultant dermatologist, gastroenterologist, and rheumatologist at every NHS Hospital Trust in England. The survey comprised mainly closed questions exploring: use of AZA and monitoring; use of TPMT enzyme-level testing and genotype testing; and, the role of guidelines to guide prescribing practice. A 70% (n=287) response rate was obtained. The majority of respondents reported prescribing AZA (99%, n=283). Prescribing and monitoring patterns differed between individual respondents and between the three disciplines. TPMT enzyme-level testing was reportedly used by 67% (n=189) of respondents, but this differed by discipline (dermatologists 94%, gastroenterologists 60%, rheumatologists 47%). In 91% of cases enzyme-level testing was carried out prior to prescribing AZA. Genotype testing is not typically available to NHS clinicians but 15 clinicians (six dermatologists, six gastroenterologists, three rheumatologists) reported using it. Most consultants (82%) reported using guidelines to inform their AZA prescribing and monitoring (dermatologists 81%, gastroenterologists 75%, rheumatologists 94%). Two-thirds of the consultants surveyed in England are using TPMT enzyme-level testing, prior to

Azathioprine Intolerance in Japanese Patients with Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-associated Vasculitis

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Morishita, Michiko; Watanabe, Haruki; Yan, Minglu; Zeggar, Sonia; Hiramatsu, Sumie; Ohashi, Keiji; Miyawaki, Yoshia; Katsuyama, Eri; Katsuyama, Takayuki; Takano Narazaki, Mariko; Toyota Tatebe, Noriko; Sunahori Watanabe, Katsue; Kawabata, Tomoko; Sada, Ken-Ei; Wada, Jun

2017-01-01

Objective To assess the safety of azathioprine (AZA) in Japanese patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV). Methods We retrospectively enrolled 67 consecutive AAV patients who had initiated AZA treatment from January 2006 to August 2014 at Okayama University Hospital. We evaluated the development of severe adverse events (AEs), AZA discontinuation due to total AEs (severe AEs included) within 1 year, and AZA-associated risk factors. Results The patients' median age was 70 years old. Forty-nine women and 18 men participated at the initiation of the study. Fifty-eight (87%) patients experienced AEs, and 36 experienced severe AEs (21 hepatic and 11 cytopenic severe AEs). Thirty-one (46%) patients discontinued treatment because of AEs. Abnormal hepatic laboratory test results at the treatment initiation were more frequent in patients with hepatic severe AEs and were associated with treatment discontinuation. The leukocyte and neutrophil counts at the treatment initiation were lower in the patients who discontinued treatment because of cytopenic AEs than in those who continued treatment. Only two patients experienced flare-ups during treatment. Conclusion The AE-associated AZA discontinuation rate in Japanese AAV patients was relatively high. AZA use warrants caution in patients with abnormal hepatic laboratory test results or low leukocyte or neutrophil counts. PMID:28674351

Azathioprine induced Epstein-Barr virus positive mucocutaneous ulcer: A case report

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Arneja S

2018-02-01

Full Text Available Introduction: Epstein-Barr virus positive mucocutaneous ulcer (EBVMUC is a rare, newly described provisional entity in the 2016 Update of World Health Organization classification of lymphoid neoplasms. The histomorphological and immunophenotypical and molecular features overlap with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL and can be mistaken for the same. Case report: A 70-year-old male, a known case of diabetes mellitus and hypertension, was diagnosed with Wegener’s granulomatosis (granulomatosis with polyangiitis in 2007. He was treated with prednisolone and cyclophosphamide, the latter drug was replaced with azathioprine in 2010. He was apparently well since then, until he presented in 2016 with an anal ulcer with a fistula tract formation, the ulcer on histomorphology and immunohistochemistry was diagnosed as EBVMUC. Discussion: EBVMUC was first described in patients with iatrogenic induced immunosuppression.They have later been found to be associated with various other causes of immunosuppression, like solid organ transplant recipients and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, common factor in all these being immunosuppression. Conclusion: The importance of recognizing this entity lies in its morphological and immunophenotypic overlap with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL and unlike latter, most often complete resolution of disease occurs with reduction of immunosuppressive dose. Therefore, correct recognition of the entity is essential to avoid overtreatment as lymphoma.

Med Kingo på dybt vand

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Arndal, Lars Stubbe

2014-01-01

Tag med digteren Thomas Kingo ud på dybt vand i selskab med lektor og mag.art. Lars Arndal, der kaster nye perspektiver på Kingos forlisdigt Hierte-Suk. Arndal kommer hermed også med et bud på, hvordan man som lærer kan invitere eleverne med på opdagelse i digtet...

Musikterapi i psykiatrien – Klinisk praksis, forskning og formidling

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Lars Ole Bonde

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Fra og med 2012 er Musikterapi i psykiatrien med støtte fra FKK forvandlet fra et trykt årsskrift med lang produktionshorisont til et open access tidsskrift med langt kortere ekspeditionstid. Lanceringenaf tidsskriftet og dets nye hjemmeside markeres med denne artikel, hvori der gøres status over den situation, musikterapien i den danske psykiatri befinder sig i netop nu. Der gøres rede for antallet af musikterapeuter ansat i psykiatriens forskellige sektorer og institutioner, klientpopulationer der behandles eller serviceres, og det diskuteres hvilke styrker og svagheder der præger musikterapien i psykiatrien netop nu. Desuden belyses musikterapeuternes teoretiske orientering, konkrete behandlingsformer, henvisningskriterier og diagnostiske forhold. Endelig gøres der statusover igangværende dokumentations- og forskningsprojekter samt publikationer fra de seneste 5 år. Undersøgelsen er baseret på tre delundersøgelser foretaget blandt medlemmer af netværket MIP i 2008, 2009 og 2011.

Characterizing bovine host responses to mastitis pathogens by targeted proteomics

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Bislev, Stine Lønnerup

Mastitis, som er betændelse i yverkirtlen forårsaget af indtrængende patogener, udgør en betydelig udfordring for dyresundhed- og velfærd i malkekvægsbesætninger. Identifikation af følsomme diagnostiske mastitismarkører vil kunne hjælpe med at stille en tidligere diagnose og gavne effekten af...... behandling. Patogenspecifikke biomarkører, der kan måles direkte i mælk, er lovende for at diagnosticere mastitis i de tidligste stadier af sygdommen. Dermed kan den korrekte antibiotika behandling påbegyndes, så snart en infektion i yveret opdages. Den massive tilstedeværelse af de dominerende...... hinanden. For at opfylde dette formål blev der udviklet en SRM metode rettet mod proteiner, som formodes at spille en stor rolle i mastitis. Under udviklingen af SRM metoden blev der først udvalgt 20 biomarkørkandidater, der relaterer til inflammation og mastitis. Derefter skulle der udvælges peptider, som...

Voksenuddannelse og regional udvikling

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Rasmussen, Palle

2008-01-01

Med udgangspunkt i regionale og lokale forskelle uddannelsesforskelle behandler artiklen uddannelsers rolle i regional udvikling. Der lægges særlig vægt på forskellige former for voksenuddannelse. Hvad betyder udviklingen mod vidensamfundet for udviklingen i erhverv, beskæftigelse og sociale...... forhold? Hvilken rolle spiller uddannelse i centerområder og udkantsområder? Hvordan kan uddannelse og læring bidrage til regional udvikling? Hvilke roller kan voksenuddannelse have i denne sammenhæng?...

Yrkesforberedelse eller fagopplæring med fagbrev? Med design og håndverk som kontekst

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Bjørn Magne Aakre

2013-09-01

Full Text Available Artikkelen drøfter forholdet mellom yrkesforberedelse og fagopplæring med utgangspunkt i den kombinerte studieretningen formgivingsfag som ble innført i Norge i 1994. I 2006 ble den delt i et programfag under studiespesialiserende fag, og et nytt yrkesfaglig program med betegnelse design og håndverk. Hvilke interesser lå til grunn for endringene, hvor dyptgripende ble de og hvilke overveieleser kan en gjøre i ettertid om forholdet mellom yrkesforberedelse og fagopplæring? Artikkelen søker å svare på spørsmålene ut fra relevante dokumenter og to kvantitative undersøkelser med elever og lærere som informanter. Artikkelen konkluderer med at innholdet forble nokså likt, antall elever ble halvert og at frafallet økte. Det konkluderes videre med at mange forhold bidrar til å legitimere et fag og dets innhold som henholdsvis skolefag, vitenskapsfag eller yrkesfag. Legitimeringen preges ofte av motstridende motiver og interesser, og sjelden bare faglige begrunnelser.

Redox regulation of the MED28 and MED32 mediator subunits is important for development and senescence.

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Shaikhali, Jehad; Davoine, Céline; Björklund, Stefan; Wingsle, Gunnar

2016-05-01

Mediator is a conserved multi-protein complex that acts as a bridge between promoter-bound transcriptional regulators and RNA polymerase II. While redox signaling is important in adjusting plant metabolism and development, the involvement of Mediator in redox homeostasis and regulation only recently started to emerge. Our previous results show that the MED10a, MED28, and MED32 Mediator subunits form various types of covalent oligomers linked by intermolecular disulfide bonds in vitro. To link that with biological significance we have characterized Arabidopsis med32 and med28 mutants and found that they are affected in root development and senescence, phenotypes possibly associated to redox changes.

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Behandling af højt blodtryk hos patienter med akut apopleksi

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Olsen, T S; Jørgensen, H S; Garde, E

1995-01-01

The study was performed to investigate how often reduction of high blood pressure (> or = 220 mmHg systolic and or > or = 120 mmHg diastolic) was attempted in patients with acute stroke or transient ischemic attacks (TIA). Of 1351 consecutive patients with acute stroke or TIA 119 had high blood...... encephalopathy. It is concluded that reduction of high blood pressure in patients with stroke or TIA is attempted too often. As autoregulation is commonly impaired in acute stroke, reduction of systemic blood pressure may enhance ischaemic tissue damage. Reduction of blood pressure in acute stroke should...... pressure on admission. In 15 patients the stroke was so severe that treatment was not considered. In the remaining 104 patients reduction of the blood pressure was attempted in 28 (27%); in 23 patients immediately following admission. None of the patients had symptoms or signs of hypertensive...

Forskelle i behandling af børn med idiopatisk trombocytopenisk purpura

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Edslev, Pernille Wendtland; Kjærsgaard, Mimi; Rosthøj, Steen

2010-01-01

INTRODUCTION: Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a rare immune-mediated bleeding disorder that usually takes a self-limiting and benign course. Due to the risk of intracranial haemorrhage, treatment regimens tend to be active. We present treatment data from 17 paediatric departments...

Hjertestop forårsaget af massiv lungeemboli under behandling med tranexamsyre

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Gybel, Mikkel; Kristensen, Kjeld; Roseva-Nielsen, Natasha

2013-01-01

Pulmonary embolism (PE) as the direct cause of cardiac arrest is well known but probably under-diagnosed. Treatment of menorrhagia with antifibrinolytics is a well documented treatment modality and it is considered safe although thromboembolic complications have been reported. We describe a case ...

Adjuverende medicinsk behandling tilpatienter med lokoregionalt recidiv af brystkræft

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Farooq, Farah Choudary; Kamby, Claus

2016-01-01

randomized trials of adjuvant medical treatment with chemotherapy, anti-hormonal and anti HER2 treatments for patients radically treated for ILRR. Certain groups of patients may benefit from adjuvant systemic treatment. However larger randomized trials are needed.......There is 10-30% risk of developing isolated locoregional recurrence (ILRR) after mastectomy for primary breast cancer. Currently, there is no standard treatment for ILRR and therefore patients with ILRR cause an oncological task. This review investigates existing literature concerning relevant...

Mulig forbedret behandling af kolorektal cancer med sentinel lymph node-diagnostik

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Burgdorf, Stefan Kobbelgaard; Eriksen, Jens Ravn; Gögenur, Ismail

2014-01-01

Possibly improved treatment of colorectal cancer by sentinel lymph node mapping Prognosis for colorectal cancer is dependent on radical surgical intervention. Chemotherapy in patients with advanced disease has improved the survival. A considerable proportion of the patients going through radical...... surgery will subsequently relapse. Adjuvant chemotherapy is reserved for patients with lymph node metastases, why undetected malignant lymph nodes will result in understaging and exclusion from the possible benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy. With sentinel lymph node mapping it may be possible to detect...... and resect more malignant lymph node and maybe even avoid extensive resections....

Mulig forbedret behandling af kolorektal cancer med sentinel lymph node-diagnostik

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Burgdorf, Stefan Kobbelgaard; Eriksen, Jens Ravn; Gögenur, Ismail

2014-01-01

Possibly improved treatment of colorectal cancer by sentinel lymph node mapping Prognosis for colorectal cancer is dependent on radical surgical intervention. Chemotherapy in patients with advanced disease has improved the survival. A considerable proportion of the patients going through radical...... surgery will subsequently relapse. Adjuvant chemotherapy is reserved for patients with lymph node metastases, why undetected malignant lymph nodes will result in understaging and exclusion from the possible benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy. With sentinel lymph node mapping it may be possible to detect...

MANUAL FOR PROCESORIENTERET MUSIKTERAPI MED PERSONER MED BPD.

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Niels Hannibal

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Denne artikel introducerer et musikterapeutisk behandlingskoncept kaldet: Procesorienteret Musikterapi (PROM. PROM er et forsøg på at formulere en principiel ramme for musikterapi i psykiatrien, som dels tager udgangspunkt i 17 års klinisk erfaring, dels stiler mod at være ”best practice”. PROM indeholder beskrivelser af manualens unikke, essentielle men ikke unikke, acceptable og ikke acceptable dele. Den unikke del af PROM skal kunne implementeres til alle målgrupper, mens de øvrige dele af manualen rettes til i forhold til en specifik målgruppe. Denne udgave af PROM er specifikt rettet i mod musikterapi for patienter med personlighedsforstyrrelser. Manualen indgår også som en del af et pilotprojekt, der har til formål at udvikle en protokol for et internationalt RCT projekt med samme målgruppe

Sociale indsatser til mennesker med ADHD

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Bengtsson, Steen; Alim, Winnie; Holmskov, Henriette

Igennem de seneste år har flere og flere fået stillet diagnosen ADHD, som er en adfærdsmæssig forstyrrelse. Mennesker med ADHD har meget forskelligt støttebehov, og rapportens formål er at skabe overblik over de eksisterende sociale indsatser og tilbud til børn, unge og voksne med ADHD. Langt de...... ansvar for sociale end for terapeutiske tilbud i forhold til gruppen med ADHD. Mange voksne med ADHD beskriver, at det kræver mange ressourcer at få den fornødne støtte fra kommunen, mens forældre til børn med ADHD oplever det som nemmere at få adgang til de rette støttetilbud. Men begge grupper møder...... mange udfordringer som fx manglende koordinering og hyppige sagsbehandlerskift. Rapporten er udarbejdet i tilknytning til Servicestyrelsens projekt ’Ny og forstærket indsats til børn, unge og voksne med ADHD’ og er finansieret af Socialministeriet....

Plasma exchange combined with azathioprine in multiple sclerosis using serial gadolinium-enhanced MRI to monitor disease activity: a randomized single-masked cross-over pilot study

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Sørensen, P.S.; Wanscher, B; Szpirt, W

1996-01-01

the whole trial, and three patients discontinued the trial, two during the run-in period of azathioprine treatment and one at the introduction of PE. The primary efficacy variables were the number of gadolinium-enhancing lesions and the occurrence of new enhancing lesions on serial MRI performed every 3...... in the two periods. Although the total MS lesion load on MRI was significantly lower (p beneficial effect of PE or encourage a subsequent large...

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Depression and risk of hospitalisations and rehospitalisations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions in Denmark

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Davydow, Dimitry S; Fenger-Grøn, Morten; Ribe, Anette Riisgaard

2015-01-01

Dette studie viser, at danskere med depression oftere end andre bliver hospitalsindlagt for kroniske sygdomme, som måske godt kunne være behandlet i det nære sundhedsvæsen uden indlæggelse. Den samme gruppe har også en højere risiko for at blive genindlagt inden for 30 dage. Resultaterne viser......, at risikoen for indlæggelse var 2,35 gange højere hos danskere med depression. Forskerne har set på de såkaldte preventable hospitalizations – altså indlæggelser, som måske kunne være undgået, hvis forebyggelse og behandling havde fungeret optimalt, herunder at patienten havde fulgt lægens anvisninger...

Pels og bæredygtighed - i Kina?

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Skjold, Else

2016-01-01

'erne etablerede minkproduktion i Danmark. Som sådan behandler kapitlet et materiale som har stor betydning i den skandinaviske kultur- og handelshistorie. Titlen på forskningsprojektet var "Pels og bæredygtighed" – en titel som i sig selv vil være provokerende for mange mennesker i kølvandet på den...... sammenligning med eksempelvis Skandinavien. Alligevel påpeges det i kapitlet hvordan praksisser omkring produktion og forbrug af pels i Kina kan pege på eksempler til efterfølgelse der ligger helt i tråd med den bæredygtige agenda som i stadigt stigende grad påvirker den øvrige beklædningsindustri....

Praktische handleiding PubMed : hét boek om snel en doeltreffend te zoeken in PubMed

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Etten-Jamaludin, van F.; Deurenberg, H.W.J.

2010-01-01

Praktische handleidng PubMed is de eerste Nederlandstalige gids die op overzichtelijke wijze op de uitgebreide mogelijkheden van PubMed ingaat. PubMed (www.pubmed.gov) biedt gratis toegang tot MEDLINE en is de meest gebruikte medische zoekmachine. In deze geheel herziene derde editie van Praktisch

Towards PubMed 2.0.

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Fiorini, Nicolas; Lipman, David J; Lu, Zhiyong

2017-10-30

Staff from the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the US describe recent improvements to the PubMed search engine and outline plans for the future, including a new experimental site called PubMed Labs.

Endostatin (EntreMed).

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Grosios, K

2000-07-01

EntreMed has licensed the worldwide rights to the angiogenesis inhibitor Endostatin, a 20 kDa C-terminal fragment of collagen XVIII, from the Children's Hospital of Boston, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. It is being developed as a potential cancer treatment and may also be useful in certain types of blindness and arthritis [227427]. EntreMed filed an IND for Endostatin in June 1999 [334125] and as of September 1999, phase I trials were underway [341462]. As of April 2000, the company had initiated plans for testing low doses of Endostatin in cancer patients using continuous infusion and sc administration in a further phase I study to be conducted in Europe [361594]. A phase I trial of Endostatin which will evaluate the safety and efficacy of Endostatin at a range of doses in no more than 100 cancer patients has been initiated. The trial will take place at the University of Texas MD Anderson Medical Center and the University of Wisconsin Cancer Center in Madison. The National Cancer Center will be sponsoring the trial, which is expected to be completed in late 2000. As of March 2000, there had been no serious adverse events attributable to Endostatin administration. The first report from this trial is expected in autumn 2000 [341462], [366312]. The mechanism of action for Endostatin remains unclear, although reports from the 91st AACR Meeting in April 2000 showed that recombinant human endostatin bound to a number of tropomyosin cDNAs in a library screen [362039]. In preclinical studies, repeated administration of Endostatin consistently shrank primary tumors and did not produce any drug resistance. In mice, a variety of tumors which had progressed to 1 to 2% of total body weight, regressed to microscopic, dormant lesions following Endostatin treatment [231418], [231470], [270673]. Types of cancers which respond to Endostatin include lung, skin, vascular and fibrosarcomas. Toxicology studies in cynomolgus monkeys showed that bolus injections of

Hvordan er det å leve med CRPS?

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Hovind, Thomas

2014-01-01

Hensikten med denne studien er å se på hvordan pasienter med komplekst regionalt smertesyndrom (CRPS) opplever å leve med tilstanden og hvordan disse pasientene har opplevd å bli møtt i helsevesenet. CRPS er en langvarig tilstand med sterke smerter som kan medføre økt smerterespons, redusert funksjon og nedsatt livskvalitet hos pasientene. Studien er en kvalitativ undersøkelse basert på dybdeintervju av fire pasienter med CRPS. Pasientene ble rekruttert fra en smerteavdeling i Nord-Norge og u...

The MedCLIVAR Network

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Lionello, Piero; Medclivar sg, The

2013-04-01

The MedCLIVAR initiative was first proposed at the 2003 European Geosciences Union assembly in Nice, France. In 2005, it was endorsed by the International Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) office. Subsequently, the MedCLIVAR Research Network Project was formally approved by the European Science Foundation and launched in May 2006 with the support of funding agencies from 12 countries. Since then, MedCLIVAR has served as a scientific network to promote interaction among different scientific disciplines and to develop a multidisciplinary vision of the evolution of the Mediterranean climate through studies that integrate atmospheric, marine, and terrestrial climate components at time scales ranging from paleoreconstructions to future climate scenarios. Presently, the network continues dealing with scientific issues including past climate variability; connections between the Mediterranean and global climate; the Mediterranean Sea circulation and sea level; feedbacks on the global climate system; and regional responses to greenhouse gas, air pollution, and aerosols. Its present activities include the publication of a newsletter, the organization of the next MedCLIVAR conference in 2014 and the publication of a special issue of Regional Environmental Change devoted to the climate of the Mediterranean region.

Evidensbaseret viden om compliance blandt deprimerede HIV-smittede

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Tind, Anitha Malling

2009-01-01

Formålet med dette speciale er at undersøge, om depression blandt HIV-smittede fører til utilstrækkelig compliance af HAART, og om antidepressiva kan mediere denne negative effekt. I den forbindelse er der foretaget en systematisk litteraturgennemgang med henblik på at indsamle, sortere, evaluere...... kvalitet. I alt 10 studier er identificeret. Det drejer sig om 5 kohortestudier, 2 randomiserede klinisk kontrollerede studier og 3 tværsnitsundersøgelser. Af de inkluderede studier er 3 nedgradueret grundet metodiske mangler. De 10 studier er ikke homogene i forhold til måling af depression og compliance......, hvilket nedsætter deres komparativitet. Studierne viser, at der er evidens for, at depression føre til utilstrækkelig compliance af HAART blandt HIV-smittede, og at behandling med antidepressiva medierer denne negative effekt....

Redefining the MED13L syndrome.

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Adegbola, Abidemi; Musante, Luciana; Callewaert, Bert; Maciel, Patricia; Hu, Hao; Isidor, Bertrand; Picker-Minh, Sylvie; Le Caignec, Cedric; Delle Chiaie, Barbara; Vanakker, Olivier; Menten, Björn; Dheedene, Annelies; Bockaert, Nele; Roelens, Filip; Decaestecker, Karin; Silva, João; Soares, Gabriela; Lopes, Fátima; Najmabadi, Hossein; Kahrizi, Kimia; Cox, Gerald F; Angus, Steven P; Staropoli, John F; Fischer, Ute; Suckow, Vanessa; Bartsch, Oliver; Chess, Andrew; Ropers, Hans-Hilger; Wienker, Thomas F; Hübner, Christoph; Kaindl, Angela M; Kalscheuer, Vera M

2015-10-01

Congenital cardiac and neurodevelopmental deficits have been recently linked to the mediator complex subunit 13-like protein MED13L, a subunit of the CDK8-associated mediator complex that functions in transcriptional regulation through DNA-binding transcription factors and RNA polymerase II. Heterozygous MED13L variants cause transposition of the great arteries and intellectual disability (ID). Here, we report eight patients with predominantly novel MED13L variants who lack such complex congenital heart malformations. Rather, they depict a syndromic form of ID characterized by facial dysmorphism, ID, speech impairment, motor developmental delay with muscular hypotonia and behavioral difficulties. We thereby define a novel syndrome and significantly broaden the clinical spectrum associated with MED13L variants. A prominent feature of the MED13L neurocognitive presentation is profound language impairment, often in combination with articulatory deficits.

Redefining the MED13L syndrome

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Adegbola, Abidemi; Musante, Luciana; Callewaert, Bert; Maciel, Patricia; Hu, Hao; Isidor, Bertrand; Picker-Minh, Sylvie; Le Caignec, Cedric; Delle Chiaie, Barbara; Vanakker, Olivier; Menten, Björn; Dheedene, Annelies; Bockaert, Nele; Roelens, Filip; Decaestecker, Karin; Silva, João; Soares, Gabriela; Lopes, Fátima; Najmabadi, Hossein; Kahrizi, Kimia; Cox, Gerald F; Angus, Steven P; Staropoli, John F; Fischer, Ute; Suckow, Vanessa; Bartsch, Oliver; Chess, Andrew; Ropers, Hans-Hilger; Wienker, Thomas F; Hübner, Christoph; Kaindl, Angela M; Kalscheuer, Vera M

2015-01-01

Congenital cardiac and neurodevelopmental deficits have been recently linked to the mediator complex subunit 13-like protein MED13L, a subunit of the CDK8-associated mediator complex that functions in transcriptional regulation through DNA-binding transcription factors and RNA polymerase II. Heterozygous MED13L variants cause transposition of the great arteries and intellectual disability (ID). Here, we report eight patients with predominantly novel MED13L variants who lack such complex congenital heart malformations. Rather, they depict a syndromic form of ID characterized by facial dysmorphism, ID, speech impairment, motor developmental delay with muscular hypotonia and behavioral difficulties. We thereby define a novel syndrome and significantly broaden the clinical spectrum associated with MED13L variants. A prominent feature of the MED13L neurocognitive presentation is profound language impairment, often in combination with articulatory deficits. PMID:25758992

Tang med omtanke

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Schlundt, Jørgen

2013-01-01

Befolkningen bør kende både mulige positive og negative effekter af fødevarer, før de spiser dem. Det mener Jørgen Schlundt, DTU Fødevareinstituttet, med henvisning til Ole G. Mouritsens kritik af instituttets udmeldinger om tang i det seneste nummer af Aktuel Naturvidenskab.......Befolkningen bør kende både mulige positive og negative effekter af fødevarer, før de spiser dem. Det mener Jørgen Schlundt, DTU Fødevareinstituttet, med henvisning til Ole G. Mouritsens kritik af instituttets udmeldinger om tang i det seneste nummer af Aktuel Naturvidenskab....

TwiMed: Twitter and PubMed Comparable Corpus of Drugs, Diseases, Symptoms, and Their Relations.

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Alvaro, Nestor; Miyao, Yusuke; Collier, Nigel

2017-05-03

Work on pharmacovigilance systems using texts from PubMed and Twitter typically target at different elements and use different annotation guidelines resulting in a scenario where there is no comparable set of documents from both Twitter and PubMed annotated in the same manner. This study aimed to provide a comparable corpus of texts from PubMed and Twitter that can be used to study drug reports from these two sources of information, allowing researchers in the area of pharmacovigilance using natural language processing (NLP) to perform experiments to better understand the similarities and differences between drug reports in Twitter and PubMed. We produced a corpus comprising 1000 tweets and 1000 PubMed sentences selected using the same strategy and annotated at entity level by the same experts (pharmacists) using the same set of guidelines. The resulting corpus, annotated by two pharmacists, comprises semantically correct annotations for a set of drugs, diseases, and symptoms. This corpus contains the annotations for 3144 entities, 2749 relations, and 5003 attributes. We present a corpus that is unique in its characteristics as this is the first corpus for pharmacovigilance curated from Twitter messages and PubMed sentences using the same data selection and annotation strategies. We believe this corpus will be of particular interest for researchers willing to compare results from pharmacovigilance systems (eg, classifiers and named entity recognition systems) when using data from Twitter and from PubMed. We hope that given the comprehensive set of drug names and the annotated entities and relations, this corpus becomes a standard resource to compare results from different pharmacovigilance studies in the area of NLP. ©Nestor Alvaro, Yusuke Miyao, Nigel Collier. Originally published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (http://publichealth.jmir.org), 03.05.2017.

PubMed Informer: Monitoring MEDLINE/PubMed through E-mail Alerts, SMS, PDA downloads and RSS feeds

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Muin, Michael; Fontelo, Paul; Ackerman, Michael

2005-01-01

Summary PubMed Informer is a Web-based monitoring tool for topics of interest from MEDLINE/PubMed primarily designed for healthcare professionals. Five tracking methods are available: Web access, e-mail, Short Message Service (SMS), PDA downloads and RSS feeds. PubMed Informer delivers focused search updates and specific information to users with varying information-seeking practices. PMID:16779344

A marvel of precision: MedAustron

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Anaïs Schaeffer

2013-01-01

MedAustron, which is currently being built in Austria, will be one of the most advanced centres for ion beam therapy and research in Europe. It is based on the same design as the Italian National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO), which in turn is based on the CERN-led Proton Ion Medical Machine Study (PIMMS). MedAustron should welcome its first patient at the end of 2015.   Layout of the MedAustron accelerator complex.  With three ion-sources, a linac, a synchrotron and four irradiation rooms (see picture), MedAustron is a huge accelerator complex. Among other equipment, it comprises 300 magnets of 30 different types, all designed at CERN but produced at different sites: “We are working with five main suppliers from Europe and Russia,” explains Thomas Zickler, leader of the MedAustron magnet group. “All the magnets come to CERN to undergo a series of strict acceptance tests.” From the interfaces, to the electrical insulation, the co...

The Arabidopsis mediator complex subunits MED16, MED14, and MED2 regulate mediator and RNA polymerase II recruitment to CBF-responsive cold-regulated genes.

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Hemsley, Piers A; Hurst, Charlotte H; Kaliyadasa, Ewon; Lamb, Rebecca; Knight, Marc R; De Cothi, Elizabeth A; Steele, John F; Knight, Heather

2014-01-01

The Mediator16 (MED16; formerly termed SENSITIVE TO FREEZING6 [SFR6]) subunit of the plant Mediator transcriptional coactivator complex regulates cold-responsive gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana, acting downstream of the C-repeat binding factor (CBF) transcription factors to recruit the core Mediator complex to cold-regulated genes. Here, we use loss-of-function mutants to show that RNA polymerase II recruitment to CBF-responsive cold-regulated genes requires MED16, MED2, and MED14 subunits. Transcription of genes known to be regulated via CBFs binding to the C-repeat motif/drought-responsive element promoter motif requires all three Mediator subunits, as does cold acclimation-induced freezing tolerance. In addition, these three subunits are required for low temperature-induced expression of some other, but not all, cold-responsive genes, including genes that are not known targets of CBFs. Genes inducible by darkness also required MED16 but required a different combination of Mediator subunits for their expression than the genes induced by cold. Together, our data illustrate that plants control transcription of specific genes through the action of subsets of Mediator subunits; the specific combination defined by the nature of the stimulus but also by the identity of the gene induced.

Hemossiderose pulmonar idiopática tratada com azatioprina: relato de caso em criança Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis treated with azathioprine in a child

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Clemax Couto Sant`Anna

2007-12-01

Full Text Available A hemossiderose pulmonar idiopática (HPI, principal causa de hemossiderose pulmonar em crianças, cursa com sangramento alveolar intermitente e presença de hemossiderófagos no escarro ou no lavado gástrico. O tratamento é baseado nos corticoesteróides e citostáticos, em condições especiais. Descreve-se o caso de uma menina de sete anos com HPI, que conseguiu controle parcial da doença mediante altas doses de corticoesteróide. O tratamento, no entanto, necessitou ser suspenso gradualmente visto a paciente ter desenvolvido fácies cushingóide. Foi iniciada a associação da azatioprina ao corticóide até a substituição total por azatioprina isolada, cujo uso foi mantido por quatro anos, com ótimo resultado.Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis (IPH, the main cause of pulmonary hemosiderosis in children, is characterized by intermittent alveolar bleeding and hemosiderin-laden macrophages in sputum and in gastric lavage. The treatment is based on corticosteroids and cytotoxic drugs, under special conditions. We describe the case of a 7-year-old girl with IPH who achieved partial clinical remission with high doses of corticosteroids. However, the treatment had to be discontinued because the patient developed Cushing's syndrome. Treatment was started with an azathioprine-corticosteroid combination and then changed to azathioprine alone, which was maintained for four years, with excellent results.

Mødet med det Andet

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Marchwinski, Alena

2002-01-01

Da Christen Købke i 1830 malte sitt bilde fra Kunstakademiets avstøpningssamling på Charlottenborg, skildret han en situasjon som vordende danske kunstnere hadde vært fortrolige med i flere generasjoner: en ung mann betrakter en avstøpning av en antikk skulptur. Med utgangspunkt i kombinasjonen a...

Et felteksperiment med Kærlighed i Kaos

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Christensen, Christiane Præstgaard; Scavenius Sonne-Schmidt, Christoffer

Som et nyt tilbud til danske forældre med børn med ADHD og ADHD-lignende vanskeligheder har ADHDforeningen udviklet forældretræningsprogrammet Kærlighed i Kaos, hvor frivillige hjælper forældre til børn med ADHD, der står med et særligt vanskeligt opdragelsesarbejde. Denne rapport har til formål......, når forældrene stiller krav til børnene. Resultaterne i denne rapport har interesse for fagpersoner, behandlere, undervisere, beslutningstagere, frivillige organisationer, foreninger og de mange nuværende og kommende familier, som dagligt kæmper med adfærdsvanskeligheder – såsom ADHD. Effektmålingen...

Redefining the MED13L syndrome

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Adegbola, Abidemi; Musante, Luciana; Callewaert, Bert; Maciel, Patricia; Hu, Hao; Isidor, Bertrand; Picker-Minh, Sylvie; Le Caignec, Cedric; Delle Chiaie, Barbara; Vanakker, Olivier; Menten, Björn; Dheedene, Annelies; Bockaert, Nele; Roelens, Filip; Decaestecker, Karin

2015-01-01

Congenital cardiac and neurodevelopmental deficits have been recently linked to the mediator complex subunit 13-like protein MED13L, a subunit of the CDK8-associated mediator complex that functions in transcriptional regulation through DNA-binding transcription factors and RNA polymerase II. Heterozygous MED13L variants cause transposition of the great arteries and intellectual disability (ID). Here, we report eight patients with predominantly novel MED13L variants who lack such complex conge...

Med det sociale som designmateriale

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Brandt, Eva; Binder, Thomas

2016-01-01

Samarbejde, samskabelse og social nysgerrighed er i dag en præmis for den nyskabende designer. Det sociale er det nye designmateriale som unge designere giver sig i kast med når f.eks. Emmy Linde samarbejder med plejehjemsbeboere, deres pårørende, plejepersonale og fysioterapeuter for at designe ...

Virksomhedens personalearbejde

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Virksomhedens personalearbejde er et tema som dækker over forskellige tilgange til ledelse og administration af de menneskelige ressourcer i organisationen. Både den personaleadministrative tilgang og Human Ressource Management (HRM) - tilgangen præsenteres i bogen. Et af hovedsynspunkterne i bogen...... er, at der ikke findes generelle principper for ledelse og administration af de menneskelige ressourcer i den enkelte organisation. Bogens ide er at samle udvalgte centrale emner med relevans for virksomhedens personalearbejde i praksis. Følgende emner behandles: Virksomhedens personalearbejde i...

Niklas Luhmann

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Harste, Gorm; Harste, Hannah

2018-01-01

Kapitlet introducerer til Niklas Luhmanns sociologi om selvreferentielle kommunikationssystem og anvender den til fortolkningen af sundhedssystemet. Hvorledes kommunikaerer sundhedssystemet om sundhed og sygdom? Hvorledes skal de to "koder" for behandling forstås, og hvilke positioner sætter de...... patienter og borgere i? Kapitlet analyserer, hvordan sundhedssystemet adskiller sig fra andre af samfundets funktionssystemer som retssystemet, det politiske system, massemedierne, undervisningssystemet, forskningssystemet osv. Afslutningsvist markerer kapitlet, hvorledes Luhmanns systemteoretiske...... perspektiv kan sammenlignes med Michel Foucaults, Pierre Bourdieus og Jürgen Habermas' perspektiver på sundhed....

Udfordringerne fra globalisering og migration:Interaktion mellem kønslighed og kulturel mangfoldighed

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Siim, Birte

2008-01-01

Globalisering og migration har forøget mamgfoldighed og uligheder inden for og mellem nationerne og har skabt nye problemer for offentlige politikker og nye behov for at regulere politiske og socio-økonomiske problemer nationalt og globalt. Artiklen behandler disse udfordringer med særlig fokus på samspillet mellem køn og mangfoldighed. Det dobbelte formål er først at nyvurdere begreber om medborgerskab, nationalitet og tilhørsforhold i lyset af lokale og globale relationer og multikulturalis...

EU's tiltræden til EMRK - et sisyfosarbejde?

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Bang Fuglsang Madsen Sørensen, Henning

2015-01-01

EU-Domstolen afviste med opinion 2/13 den 18. december 2014 at lade EU tiltræde EMRK på grundlag af et udkast til en tiltrædelsesaftale. I artiklen behandles baggrunden for og det konkrete indhold i EU-Domstolens afvisning, hvorefter det undersøges, i hvilket omfang EMD fremover kan forventes...... at respektere EU-rettens forrang og dermed undlade at holde medlemsstaterne ansvarlige for påståede krænkelser som følge af medlemsstaternes forpligtelser efter EU-retten....

Autenticitetsstrategier i Robinson Ekspeditionen 2000

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Anne Jerslev

2002-09-01

Full Text Available Iscenesættelse af autenticitet i realityserien Robinson Ekspeditionen er en overordnet tekstuel strategi, som bibringer en fornemmelse af ægt- hed og spontanitet. Artiklen giver eksempler på, hvorledes debattørerne på Robinson Ekspeditionens hjemmeside behandler programmets del- tagere, som om de er «sig selv«, samtidig med at de vurderes på en pa- rameter, der handler om ægthed og falskhed. Debatten på hjemmesiden handler bl.a. om «autenticitetshunger«, og artiklen diskuterer, hvorledes det lykkes for programmet at formidle en iscenesat, men samtidig uin- strueret form for dokumentarisme, samtidig med at deltagerne fungerer som spilfigurer i en stramt redigeret fortælling, der baserer sig på fikti- onens koder.

Human melioidosis reported by ProMED

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Katherinn Melissa Nasner-Posso

2015-06-01

Conclusions: Internet-based reporting systems such as ProMED are useful to gather information and synthesize knowledge on emerging infections. Although certain areas need to be improved, ProMED provided good information about melioidosis.

Musikalsk leg med formgivning, timing og vitalitetsformer

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Holck, Ulla

2015-01-01

Ifølge de Udviklingsorienterede Social-Pragmatiske Interventionsformer til børn med Autisme Spektrum Forstyrrelse er en legende indfaldsvinkel, hvor man følger barnets lead, den mest effektive til at engagere yngre børn med autisme eller børn med svær autisme i et gensidigt samspil. Artiklen...

Med-E-Tel

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Lievens, Frank; Jordanova, Malina

2006-01-01

.... The Med-e-Tel 2006 conference program covered over 130 presentations on topics such as homecare and health management, healthcare challenges, tele-education, eHealth in developing countries, telecardiology...

Med-E-Tel

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Lievens, Frank; Jordanova, Malina

2006-01-01

..., and more. The Med-e-Tel 2006 exhibition showcased products and technologies in the areas of medication compliance, home telehealth and vital sign monitoring, clinical software, electronic medical records...

Hvorfor vækkelse?

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Gottfredsen, Rikke

2010-01-01

I Danmark har vækkelsesbevægelsen været en lille ø i det religiøse landskab siden oplysningstiden, men indenfor de sidste fem år har særligt to foreninger tiltrukket sig opmærksomhed. Disse, Faderhuset og Evangelist, har på baggrund af nye og anderledes virkemidler givet stof til avisoverskrifter......, Tv-aviser, dokumentar- og magasinprogrammer. Både Evangelist og Faderhuset har deres inspiration fra den pentekostalekarismatiske bevægelse i USA. Denne bevægelse har siden 1970’erne haft stor succes i Latinamerika og Afrika, hvilket kan være umiddelbart forståeligt på baggrund af den udbredte......? For at besvare disse, indleder jeg opgaven med at præsentere foreningen Evangelist og derefter skitsere foreningens historiske baggrund. Herefter introduceres feltarbejdet som behandles med en kort ritualanalyse og, mere indgående, med opgavens styrende typologiske analyse. Afslutningsvis diskuteres analysernes...

At lede med latter

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Møller, Mette

2014-01-01

"Det sagde hun også i går!" Platte vitser, der lægger op til den karakteristiske 'bodom-tchi'-trommelyd, behøver ikke være lederens eneste forsøg på at udvise humoristisk sans på talerstolen. For humor kan være meget andet og gøre meget mere for lederen end at score billige point med en spontan s...... spøg. Humor kan skabe klarhed over en pointe, skabe lederens image og skabe sammenhold i organisationen. Uden trommelyd, men med mange andre effekter i spil....

Predicting clicks of PubMed articles.

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Mao, Yuqing; Lu, Zhiyong

2013-01-01

Predicting the popularity or access usage of an article has the potential to improve the quality of PubMed searches. We can model the click trend of each article as its access changes over time by mining the PubMed query logs, which contain the previous access history for all articles. In this article, we examine the access patterns produced by PubMed users in two years (July 2009 to July 2011). We explore the time series of accesses for each article in the query logs, model the trends with regression approaches, and subsequently use the models for prediction. We show that the click trends of PubMed articles are best fitted with a log-normal regression model. This model allows the number of accesses an article receives and the time since it first becomes available in PubMed to be related via quadratic and logistic functions, with the model parameters to be estimated via maximum likelihood. Our experiments predicting the number of accesses for an article based on its past usage demonstrate that the mean absolute error and mean absolute percentage error of our model are 4.0% and 8.1% lower than the power-law regression model, respectively. The log-normal distribution is also shown to perform significantly better than a previous prediction method based on a human memory theory in cognitive science. This work warrants further investigation on the utility of such a log-normal regression approach towards improving information access in PubMed.

Risiko for anastomoselækage ved postoperativ behandling med nonsteroide antiinflammatoriske stoffer

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Klein, M.; Gögenür, Ismayil; Rosenberg, J.

2010-01-01

strength and reduced deposition of hydroxyproline. Retrospective human studies have reported increased leakage rates after postoperative diclofenac and celecoxib treatment. We recommend that diclofenac and celecoxib be omitted from analgesic regimens after colorectal surgery involving an anastomosis...

Kardiovaskulære risici ved behandling med nonsteroide antiinflammatoriske lægemidler

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Schmidt, Morten; Fosbøl, Emil Loldrup; Torp-Pedersen, Christian

2016-01-01

cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors has been associated with a substantial vascular risk but increasing concern also relates to traditional NSAIDs, in particular diclofenac. This review summarizes the current evidence regarding the cardiovascular safety of NSAIDs and presents recommendations for their use....

Sekundær prævention af apopleksi med effektiv antihypertensiv behandling

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Boye Knudsen, Signe; Strandgaard, Svend; Paulson, Olaf B

2013-01-01

In this meta-analysis, four of five placebo-controlled studies showed that antihypertensive treatment prevented stroke recurrence, most markedly in a study with a combination of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and a diuretic. Studies with beta-blockers were not included. Two head......-to-head comparisons of a calcium antagonist and an angiotensin receptor antagonist showed no clear difference. Danish studies show that approximately 60% of patients with stroke are hypertensive one year after discharge from hospital. Antihypertensive treatment should be started or intensified in such patients....

Sekundær prævention af apopleksi med effektiv antihypertensiv behandling

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Knudsen, Signe Boye; Strandgaard, Svend; Paulson, Olaf B.

2013-01-01

In this meta-analysis, four of five placebo-controlled studies showed that antihypertensive treatment prevented stroke recurrence, most markedly in a study with a combination of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and a diuretic. Studies with beta-blockers were not included. Two head......-to-head comparisons of a calcium antagonist and an angiotensin receptor antagonist showed no clear difference. 
Danish studies show that approximately 60% of patients with stroke are hypertensive one year after discharge from hospital. Antihypertensive treatment should be started or intensified in such patients....

Manglende evidens for skadelig effekt på knogleheling ved behandling med NSAID

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Janum, Susanne; Kristensen, Billy Bjarne

2012-01-01

The use of NSAIDs for postoperative pain management following orthopaedic surgery or during conservative treatment of fractures is controversial. Experimental animal models suggest NSAIDs inhibit bone healing. In a review of the literature, there was no clinical evidence to support categorical...... discard of NSAID for postoperative pain relief in uncomplicated cases. However, NSAID should be considered a potentiel risk factor of impaired bone healing and avoided in patients with a high risk of pseudoarthrosis. Recommended daily doses should be respected and duration of treatment should be limited....

Irreversibel nyreinsufficiens under behandling med angiotensin I konverterende enzymhaemmer ved bilateral nyrearteriestenose

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Kamper, A L

1989-01-01

A case of irreversible renal failure during treatment with enalapril in bilateral renal artery stenosis is described. In the use of converting enzyme inhibitors, caution and monitoring of renal function during treatment is advised....

Risiko for anastomoselækage ved postoperativ behandling med nonsteroide antiinflammatoriske stoffer

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Klein, M.; Gögenür, Ismayil; Rosenberg, J.

2010-01-01

Anastomotic leakage is the most serious complication following colorectal resection. Recently, focus has been on possible effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Animal studies have found a correlation between treatment with NSAIDs and increased leakage rate, impaired anastomotic...... strength and reduced deposition of hydroxyproline. Retrospective human studies have reported increased leakage rates after postoperative diclofenac and celecoxib treatment. We recommend that diclofenac and celecoxib be omitted from analgesic regimens after colorectal surgery involving an anastomosis...

Sekundær prævention af apopleksi med effektiv antihypertensiv behandling

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Boye Knudsen, Signe; Strandgaard, Svend; Paulson, Olaf B

2013-01-01

In this meta-analysis, four of five placebo-controlled studies showed that antihypertensive treatment prevented stroke recurrence, most markedly in a study with a combination of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and a diuretic. Studies with beta-blockers were not included. Two head...

Manglende evidens for skadelig effekt på knogleheling ved behandling med NSAID

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Janum, Susanne; Kristensen, Billy Bjarne

2012-01-01

discard of NSAID for postoperative pain relief in uncomplicated cases. However, NSAID should be considered a potentiel risk factor of impaired bone healing and avoided in patients with a high risk of pseudoarthrosis. Recommended daily doses should be respected and duration of treatment should be limited....

Aktiv kontra passiv forvaltning

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Bechmann, Ken L.; Pedersen, Lasse Heje

2017-01-01

Fordele og ulemper ved aktiv og passiv forvaltning har fået fornyet opmærksomhed blandt andet i forbindelse med den forestående implementering af MiFID II. Som bidrag til denne diskussion indeholder dette nummer af Finans/Invest tre artikler, der behandler aktiv og passiv forvaltning fra...... forskellige vinkler. Denne leder forklarer, hvorfor valget mellem aktiv og passiv forvaltning er mere kompliceret, end hvad man kunne tro ved første øjekast, og konkluderer, at der vil være plads til - og behov for - begge typer forvaltning....

Technical development of PubMed Interact: an improved interface for MEDLINE/PubMed searches

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Muin, Michael; Fontelo, Paul

2006-01-01

Abstract Background The project aims to create an alternative search interface for MEDLINE/PubMed that may provide assistance to the novice user and added convenience to the advanced user. An earlier version of the project was the 'Slider Interface for MEDLINE/PubMed searches' (SLIM) which provided JavaScript slider bars to control search parameters. In this new version, recent developments in Web-based technologies were implemented. These changes may prove to be even more valuable in enhanci...

Behandling af defaekationsblokade som følge af dyb fossa recto-genitalis med total baekkenbundsrekonstruktion med Prolene-net

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Møller, P; Monrad, H; Kehlet, H

1992-01-01

of the patients. The condition had not been diagnosed despite previous hospital contact for many years in two of the patients. Complete reconstruction of the pelvic floor with prolene net was performed. Subsequent defaecography showed normalization of defaecation without rectal compression and with relief...... of the abdominal pain and dependence on morphine in two of the patients. Rectal compression resulting from an abnormally deep recto-genital fossa should be included in the differential diagnostic deliberations in patients with severe constipation and defaecation blockage. Complete reconstruction of the pelvic...

Pulmonary infection in patients with cyclosporine, azathioprine, and corticosteroids after cardiac transplantation

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Murayama, Sadayuki; Ikezoe, Junpei; Godwin, J.D.; Marglin, S.I.; Allen, M.D.

1991-01-01

Between November 1985 and November 1989, 54 patients have undergone 55 cardiac transplants, 5 of whom died during operation or one week after transplantation. The remaining 49 patients with a minimum follow-up of 5 months were studied to examine pulmonary infection clinically and radiologically while receiving triple drug immunosuppression consisting of cyclosporine, azathioprine, and prednisolone. Pulmonary infection occurred in 14 patients (29%) with a total of 21 occasions. Causative organisms were identified in 9 occasions, with the most common organism being Cytomegalovirus (CMV). One patient died of pulmonary infection with Aspergillus. Causative organisms occurring in the remaining 12 occasions of pulmonary infection were unknown, which did not lead to death. Because pulmonary infection of unknown organisms rapidly responded to convensional antibiotics, it seemed to have been caused by bacteria. Pulmonary infection of unknown organism occurred 13.2±3.2 months after transplantation, as compared with 3.3±1.0 months in pulmonary infection of known organisms. Chest plain radiographic features fell into four types: (1) interstitial shadow seen in pulmonary infection of CMV, Pneumocystis carinii, or Hemophilia influenza, (2) patchy, and basilar and lobular consolidation shadows in bacterial pneumonia, (3) localized nodular shadow in aspergillosis, and (4) multiple patchy and confluent opacity patterns occurring in herpes simplex viral infection. Pulmonary infection of influenza bacteria for one patient and pulmonary infection of unknown organisms for 4 patients were difficult to identify from pulmonary infection of CMV. (N.K.)

Grateful Med: getting started.

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Shearer, B; McCann, L; Crump, W J

1990-01-01

When a local medical library is not available, it is often necessary for physicians to discover alternate ways to receive medical information. Rural physicians, particularly, can make use of a computer program called Grateful Med that provides access to the same literature available to physicians in large cities. This program permits the user to perform database searches on the National Library of Medicine database (MEDLINE), corresponding to the primary index to medical literature, Index Medicus. In this article, we give the procedure for procuring a National Library of Medicine password and for making efficient use of the Grateful Med program.

Human melioidosis reported by ProMED.

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Nasner-Posso, Katherinn Melissa; Cruz-Calderón, Stefania; Montúfar-Andrade, Franco E; Dance, David A B; Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J

2015-06-01

There are limited sources describing the global burden of emerging diseases. A review of human melioidosis reported by ProMED was performed and the reliability of the data retrieved assessed in comparison to published reports. The effectiveness of ProMED was evaluated as a source of epidemiological data by focusing on melioidosis. Using the keyword 'melioidosis' in the ProMED search engine, all of the information from the reports and collected data was reviewed using a structured form, including the year, country, gender, occupation, number of infected individuals, and number of fatal cases. One hundred and twenty-four entries reported between January 1995 and October 2014 were identified. A total of 4630 cases were reported, with death reported in 505 cases, suggesting a misleadingly low overall case fatality rate (CFR) of 11%. Of 20 cases for which the gender was reported, 12 (60%) were male. Most of the cases were reported from Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia, with sporadic reports from other countries. Internet-based reporting systems such as ProMED are useful to gather information and synthesize knowledge on emerging infections. Although certain areas need to be improved, ProMED provided good information about melioidosis. Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

MED-SUV Data Life Cycle

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Sangianantoni, Agata; Puglisi, Giuseppe; Spampinato, Letizia; Tulino, Sabrina

2015-04-01

The MED-SUV project aims to implement a digital e-infrastructure for data access in order to promote the monitoring and study of key volcanic regions prone to volcanic hazards, and thus improve hazard assessment, according to the rationale of Supersite GEO initiative to Vesuvius- Campi Flegrei and Mt Etna, currently identified as Permanent Supersites. The present study focuses on the life cycle of MED-SUV data generated in the first period of the project and highlights the managing approach, as well as the crucial steps to be implemented for ensuring that data will be properly and ethically managed and can be used and accessed from both MED-SUV and the external community. The process is conceived outlining how research data being handled as the project progresses, describing what data are collected, processed or generated and how these data are going to be shared and made available through Open Access. Data cycle begins with their generation and ends with the deposit in the digital infrastructure, its key series of stages through which MED-SUV data passes are Collection, Data citation, Categorization of data, Approval procedure, Registration of datasets, Application of licensing models, and PID assignment. This involves a combination of procedures and practices taking into account the scientific core mission and the priorities of the project as well as the potential legal issues related to the management and protection of the Intellectual Property. We believe that the implementation of this process constitutes a significant encouragement in MED-SUV data sharing and as a consequence a better understanding on the volcanic processes, hazard assessment and a better integration with other Supersites projects.

The Arabidopsis Mediator Complex Subunits MED16, MED14, and MED2 Regulate Mediator and RNA Polymerase II Recruitment to CBF-Responsive Cold-Regulated Genes[C][W][OPEN

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Hemsley, Piers A.; Hurst, Charlotte H.; Kaliyadasa, Ewon; Lamb, Rebecca; Knight, Marc R.; De Cothi, Elizabeth A.; Steele, John F.; Knight, Heather

2014-01-01

The Mediator16 (MED16; formerly termed SENSITIVE TO FREEZING6 [SFR6]) subunit of the plant Mediator transcriptional coactivator complex regulates cold-responsive gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana, acting downstream of the C-repeat binding factor (CBF) transcription factors to recruit the core Mediator complex to cold-regulated genes. Here, we use loss-of-function mutants to show that RNA polymerase II recruitment to CBF-responsive cold-regulated genes requires MED16, MED2, and MED14 subunits. Transcription of genes known to be regulated via CBFs binding to the C-repeat motif/drought-responsive element promoter motif requires all three Mediator subunits, as does cold acclimation–induced freezing tolerance. In addition, these three subunits are required for low temperature–induced expression of some other, but not all, cold-responsive genes, including genes that are not known targets of CBFs. Genes inducible by darkness also required MED16 but required a different combination of Mediator subunits for their expression than the genes induced by cold. Together, our data illustrate that plants control transcription of specific genes through the action of subsets of Mediator subunits; the specific combination defined by the nature of the stimulus but also by the identity of the gene induced. PMID:24415770

Tandlæger og personer med en spiseforstyrrelse

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Gehrt, Charlotte Astrid; Christensen, Lisa Bøge; Klinker, Sabine

2016-01-01

Mødet mellem tandlæge og patient med spiseforstyrrelse Introduktion og formål: Det er velkendt, at tandlæger kan spille en rolle i forhold til tidlig identifikation af en spiseforstyrrelse. Der erimidlertid begrænset viden om, hvilke forventninger tandlæger og personer med en spiseforstyrrelse har...... til mødet med hinanden i klinikken, og hvordan dette opleves. Undersøgelsens formål var derfor at få viden om mødet mellem tandlæger og personer med en spiseforstyrrelse. Materialer og metoder: Undersøgelsen var en tværsnitsundersøgelse baseret på to spørgeskemaer udarbejdet til henholdsvis tandlæger...... og personer med en spiseforstyrrelse. I alt 1.405 tandlæger deltog, mens 260 personer med en spiseforstyrrelse besvarede spørgeskemaet. Resultater: Tandlægerne havde større selvrapporteret viden om orale komplikationer ved en spiseforstyrrelse end om spiseforstyrrelser generelt. Størstedelen af...

Fast ejendom III

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Munk-Hansen, Carsten

Bogen er det tredje bind af tre planlagte bind om fast ejendom: I Overdragelsen, II Bolighandlen og III Ejerbeføjelsen. Fremstillingens giver et grundigt overblik over centrale områder af en omfattende regulering af fast ejendom, med angivelse af litteratur, hvor læseren kan søge yderligere...... oplysning. En ejer af fast ejendom er på særdeles mange områder begrænset i sin råden sammenlignet med ejeren af et formuegode i almindelighed. Fremstillingen tager udgangspunkt i ejerens perspektiv (fremfor samfundets eller myndighedernes). Både den privatretlige og offentligretlige regulering behandles......, eksempelvis ejendomsdannelsen, servitutter, naboretten, hævd, zoneinddelingen, den fysiske planlægning, beskyttelse af natur, beskyttelse af kultur, forurening fra fast ejendom, erstatning for forurening, jordforurening, ekspropriation, byggeri og adgang til fast ejendom....

Hvad skal vi med Etisk Råd?

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Ploug, Thomas; Gjerris, Mickey

2012-01-01

Det Etiske Råd har for os at se en væsentlig rolle at spille i et åbent og demokratisk samfund som det danske. Vi skal være med til at skabe grobund for de værdidiskussioner, som skal forme fremtidens samfund. Etik er at være i dialog – ikke at kaste med mudder.......Det Etiske Råd har for os at se en væsentlig rolle at spille i et åbent og demokratisk samfund som det danske. Vi skal være med til at skabe grobund for de værdidiskussioner, som skal forme fremtidens samfund. Etik er at være i dialog – ikke at kaste med mudder....

OvidSP Medline-to-PubMed search filter translation: a methodology for extending search filter range to include PubMed's unique content.

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Damarell, Raechel A; Tieman, Jennifer J; Sladek, Ruth M

2013-07-02

PubMed translations of OvidSP Medline search filters offer searchers improved ease of access. They may also facilitate access to PubMed's unique content, including citations for the most recently published biomedical evidence. Retrieving this content requires a search strategy comprising natural language terms ('textwords'), rather than Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). We describe a reproducible methodology that uses a validated PubMed search filter translation to create a textword-only strategy to extend retrieval to PubMed's unique heart failure literature. We translated an OvidSP Medline heart failure search filter for PubMed and established version equivalence in terms of indexed literature retrieval. The PubMed version was then run within PubMed to identify citations retrieved by the filter's MeSH terms (Heart failure, Left ventricular dysfunction, and Cardiomyopathy). It was then rerun with the same MeSH terms restricted to searching on title and abstract fields (i.e. as 'textwords'). Citations retrieved by the MeSH search but not the textword search were isolated. Frequency analysis of their titles/abstracts identified natural language alternatives for those MeSH terms that performed less effectively as textwords. These terms were tested in combination to determine the best performing search string for reclaiming this 'lost set'. This string, restricted to searching on PubMed's unique content, was then combined with the validated PubMed translation to extend the filter's performance in this database. The PubMed heart failure filter retrieved 6829 citations. Of these, 834 (12%) failed to be retrieved when MeSH terms were converted to textwords. Frequency analysis of the 834 citations identified five high frequency natural language alternatives that could improve retrieval of this set (cardiac failure, cardiac resynchronization, left ventricular systolic dysfunction, left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, and LV dysfunction). Together these terms reclaimed

Website-analyse

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Thorlacius, Lisbeth

2009-01-01

eller blindgyder, når han/hun besøger sitet. Studier i design og analyse af de visuelle og æstetiske aspekter i planlægning og brug af websites har imidlertid kun i et begrænset omfang været under reflektorisk behandling. Det er baggrunden for dette kapitel, som indleder med en gennemgang af æstetikkens......Websitet er i stigende grad det foretrukne medie inden for informationssøgning,virksomhedspræsentation, e-handel, underholdning, undervisning og social kontakt. I takt med denne voksende mangfoldighed af kommunikationsaktiviteter på nettet, er der kommet mere fokus på at optimere design og...... planlægning af de funktionelle og indholdsmæssige aspekter ved websites. Der findes en stor mængde teori- og metodebøger, som har specialiseret sig i de tekniske problemstillinger i forbindelse med interaktion og navigation, samt det sproglige indhold på websites. Den danske HCI (Human Computer Interaction...

Ti år med formidlingspligt

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Meyer, Gitte

2014-01-01

Jubilæet blev markeret ved et symposium - men hvor var journalisterne, og hvor var forskerne? For få uger siden lagde TV 2 hus til et symposium om videnskab, formidling, journalistik og spin. Danske Videnskabsjournalister og Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber tog med arrangementet et behjertet...... initiativ. De ville gøre status efter ti år med lovfæstet formidlingspligt på universiteterne. Samtidig lagde de op til et kritisk blik på universitetsverdenens kommunikationsafdelinger...

Bygningsdele med celluloseuld og høruld

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Hansen, Ernst Jan de Place

2001-01-01

Resume af rapport med eksempler på bygningsdele med papir- eller hørisolering, der overholder bygningsreglementerne, udarbejdet af Dansk Brandteknisk Institut under Energistyrelsens udviklingsprogram "Miljø- og arbejdsmiljøvenlig isolering"...

Social indsats til borgere med erfaring fra salg af sex

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Mehlsen, Line; Amilon, Anna; Henriksen, Theresa Dyrvig

2017-01-01

Formålet med denne guide er at give endnu flere kommuner inspiration og vejledning til, hvordan man kan implementere og arbejde med CTI-forløb over for borgere med prostitutionserfaring. Manglende viden om borgere med prostitutionserfaringer gør det svært for kommunerne at hjælpe borgerne med de ...

Specifik mutation med nålestiksoperation

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Holme, Inger; Wendt, Toni; Brinch-Pedersen, Henrik

2014-01-01

Mutanter af byg er vigtige i forskningen og benyttes også, når der forædles nye sorter til dyrkning. Hidtil har det kun været muligt at inducere mutationer tilfældige steder i genomet. Med helt ny teknologi benyttes proteiner med betegnelsen TALENs til at inducere mutationer i helt specifikke...

Med sjefen på Facebook: En studie av ledere som er "venner" med sine ansatte

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Jensen, Anita

2014-01-01

MR690 Masteroppgave i organisasjon og ledelse - utdanningsledelse Formålet med studien er å belyse hvordan aktiv bruk av sosiale medier, i dette tilfellet Facebook, påvirker relasjoner mellom mennesker. Hva skjer når en tar i bruk en websjanger som i utgangspunktet er umiddelbar og uformell, til jobbrelatert og mer formell kommunikasjon? Er det sjangeren eller relasjonen som endres? Søkelyset rettes mot ledere som er “venner” med sine medarbeidere, og problemstillingen er...

Geograf med GIS som ledetråd

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Nielsen, Søren Zebitz

2013-01-01

Fra speciale om kortlægning af luft forurening med NO2 i troposfæren målt fra satellit til PhD studerende med fokus på forståelsen af menneskers bevægelsesmønstre i byer. GIS og geodata er den røde tråd der binder de brede interesser indenfor geografi en sammen for denne forskerlærling.......Fra speciale om kortlægning af luft forurening med NO2 i troposfæren målt fra satellit til PhD studerende med fokus på forståelsen af menneskers bevægelsesmønstre i byer. GIS og geodata er den røde tråd der binder de brede interesser indenfor geografi en sammen for denne forskerlærling....

PubMed searches: overview and strategies for clinicians.

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Lindsey, Wesley T; Olin, Bernie R

2013-04-01

PubMed is a biomedical and life sciences database maintained by a division of the National Library of Medicine known as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It is a large resource with more than 5600 journals indexed and greater than 22 million total citations. Searches conducted in PubMed provide references that are more specific for the intended topic compared with other popular search engines. Effective PubMed searches allow the clinician to remain current on the latest clinical trials, systematic reviews, and practice guidelines. PubMed continues to evolve by allowing users to create a customized experience through the My NCBI portal, new arrangements and options in search filters, and supporting scholarly projects through exportation of citations to reference managing software. Prepackaged search options available in the Clinical Queries feature also allow users to efficiently search for clinical literature. PubMed also provides information regarding the source journals themselves through the Journals in NCBI Databases link. This article provides an overview of the PubMed database's structure and features as well as strategies for conducting an effective search.

A study on PubMed search tag usage pattern: association rule mining of a full-day PubMed query log.

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Mosa, Abu Saleh Mohammad; Yoo, Illhoi

2013-01-09

The practice of evidence-based medicine requires efficient biomedical literature search such as PubMed/MEDLINE. Retrieval performance relies highly on the efficient use of search field tags. The purpose of this study was to analyze PubMed log data in order to understand the usage pattern of search tags by the end user in PubMed/MEDLINE search. A PubMed query log file was obtained from the National Library of Medicine containing anonymous user identification, timestamp, and query text. Inconsistent records were removed from the dataset and the search tags were extracted from the query texts. A total of 2,917,159 queries were selected for this study issued by a total of 613,061 users. The analysis of frequent co-occurrences and usage patterns of the search tags was conducted using an association mining algorithm. The percentage of search tag usage was low (11.38% of the total queries) and only 2.95% of queries contained two or more tags. Three out of four users used no search tag and about two-third of them issued less than four queries. Among the queries containing at least one tagged search term, the average number of search tags was almost half of the number of total search terms. Navigational search tags are more frequently used than informational search tags. While no strong association was observed between informational and navigational tags, six (out of 19) informational tags and six (out of 29) navigational tags showed strong associations in PubMed searches. The low percentage of search tag usage implies that PubMed/MEDLINE users do not utilize the features of PubMed/MEDLINE widely or they are not aware of such features or solely depend on the high recall focused query translation by the PubMed's Automatic Term Mapping. The users need further education and interactive search application for effective use of the search tags in order to fulfill their biomedical information needs from PubMed/MEDLINE.

Mars 2020 Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI2)

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Bose, Deepak; Wright, Henry; White, Todd; Schoenenberger, Mark; Santos, Jose; Karlgaard, Chris; Kuhl, Chris; Oishi, TOmo; Trombetta, Dominic

2016-01-01

This paper will introduce Mars Entry Descent and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI2) on NASA's Mars2020 mission. Mars2020 is a flagship NASA mission with science and technology objectives to help answer questions about possibility of life on Mars as well as to demonstrate technologies for future human expedition. Mars2020 is scheduled for launch in 2020. MEDLI2 is a suite of instruments embedded in the heatshield and backshell thermal protection systems of Mars2020 entry vehicle. The objectives of MEDLI2 are to gather critical aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics and TPS performance data during EDL phase of the mission. MEDLI2 builds up the success of MEDLI flight instrumentation on Mars Science Laboratory mission in 2012. MEDLI instrumentation suite measured surface pressure and TPS temperature on the heatshield during MSL entry into Mars. MEDLI data has since been used for unprecedented reconstruction of aerodynamic drag, vehicle attitude, in-situ atmospheric density, aerothermal heating, transition to turbulence, in-depth TPS performance and TPS ablation. [1,2] In addition to validating predictive models, MEDLI data has highlighted extra margin available in the MSL forebody TPS, which can potentially be used to reduce vehicle parasitic mass. MEDLI2 expands the scope of instrumentation by focusing on quantities of interest not addressed in MEDLI suite. The type the sensors are expanded and their layout on the TPS modified to meet these new objectives. The paper will provide key motivation and governing requirements that drive the choice and the implementation of the new sensor suite. The implementation considerations of sensor selection, qualification, and demonstration of minimal risk to the host mission will be described. The additional challenges associated with mechanical accommodation, electrical impact, data storage and retrieval for MEDLI2 system, which extends sensors to backshell will also be described.

Circulating and in situ lymphocyte subsets and Langerhans cells in patients with compositae oleoresin dermatitis and increased ultraviolet A sensitivity during treatment with azathioprine

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Baadsgaard, O.

1986-01-01

Circulating and in situ lymphocyte subsets and Langerhans cells in four patients with compositae oleoresin dermatitis and increased ultraviolet A sensitivity before and during treatment with azathioprine were estimated. It was found that the number of Leu 6+ Langerhans cells decreased during therapy. This decrease was accompanied by a reduction in the number of Leu 2a+, Leu 3a+, Leu 4+, DR+, and Leu M2+ cells in the blood and a reduction in the number of Leu 2a+, Leu 3a+, Leu 4+, and DR+ cells in the skin. Concomitantly with the changes in the number of immunocompetent cells, the eczema cleared

Med Antony Beevor i Ardennerne

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Christensen, Claus Bundgård

2015-01-01

Den storsælgende amerikanske historiker Antony Beevor tager i sin gennemgang af Anden Verdenskrigs slag denne gang læserne med til de sneklædte skove i Ardennerne, hvor tyskerne iværksatte deres sidste store offensiv på Vestfronten.......Den storsælgende amerikanske historiker Antony Beevor tager i sin gennemgang af Anden Verdenskrigs slag denne gang læserne med til de sneklædte skove i Ardennerne, hvor tyskerne iværksatte deres sidste store offensiv på Vestfronten....

Ud at se med Erasmus

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Frandsen, Pernille

2009-01-01

Få lidt luft under vingerne, kom ud at møde udenlandske kolleger og se, hvordan man også kan lave uddannelsesbibliotek. Med begejstring fortæller tre bibliotekarer om deres oplevelser i det store udland – alt sammen finansieret af Erasmus.......Få lidt luft under vingerne, kom ud at møde udenlandske kolleger og se, hvordan man også kan lave uddannelsesbibliotek. Med begejstring fortæller tre bibliotekarer om deres oplevelser i det store udland – alt sammen finansieret af Erasmus....

Ud med Freud, Marx og Lacan

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Clasen, Mathias

2009-01-01

Det er på høje tid, at humanister løsriver sig fra deres forældede teorier. Freud, Marx og Lacan skal erstattes med evolutionspsykologi, biologi og kognitionsvidenskab.......Det er på høje tid, at humanister løsriver sig fra deres forældede teorier. Freud, Marx og Lacan skal erstattes med evolutionspsykologi, biologi og kognitionsvidenskab....

Djur som stöd i demensvården : Hur personer med demenssjukdom påverkas av djur i omvårdnaden

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Olménius, Fanny; Boström, Anna

2017-01-01

Bakgrund: Varje år insjuknar uppskattningsvis 25 000 personer i Sverige i någon form av demenssjukdom. Behovet av anpassad vård för denna specifika grupp kräver nya och även utvecklade omvårdnadsmetoder. I nuläget finns ingen botande behandling för de olika demenssjukdomarna, utan fokus ligger vid att mildra besvären av sjukdomsbundna symtom. Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) och Animal-assisted activity (AAA) har blivit allt mer populärt inom olika områden av omvårdnadsarbete. Djur kan inverka p...

Til julefrokost med Bjørn & Okay

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Smith-Sivertsen, Henrik

2012-01-01

I denne artikel vises med udgangspunkt i en beskrivelse af et specifikt arrangement med det danske danseorkester Bjørn & Okay, hvordan man optræder inden for denne særlige musiktradition. Bjørn & Okays performative udgangspunkt er, at de, trods en status som landskendt orkester med mange hits, i ...... the audience and constantly telling them what to do. At the same time he and the other musicians actively bond with the audience, both onstage and offstage, which helps building the spirit of community, which is the clear goal of the musical performance....

Selskabsloven med kommentarer

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Schaumburg-Müller, Peer; Werlauff, Erik

Selskabsloven med kommentarer er bibelen på området for kapitalselskaber. Den er et juridisk arbejdsredskab for praktikere, rådgivere, forskere og studerende. Bogen indeholder en komplet opdatering af kommentarerne i forhold til de mange ændringer i selskabsloven siden 1.-udgaven, men bygger i øv...

100 år i bevægelse

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Jacobsen, Kurt

Fysioterapi er i dag en anerkendt del af det danske sundhedsvæsen. Fysioterapeuter behandler årligt omkring 700.000 patienter på sygehuse, i kommuner og privat praksis, og har ph.d.-grader, er professorer og udfører forskning på højeste internationale niveau. Sådan har det ikke altid været...... havde fra begyndelsen en stærk standsfølelse, og i 100 år i bevægelse fortælles første gang historien om, hvorledes de satte en udvikling gang, der kom til at præge det danske sundhedsvæsen og vores forståelse af sundhed. I årtier kæmpede massøserne for anerkendelse som faggruppe, inden de i 1952 kunne...... kalde sig fysioterapeuter. De kæmpede med lægerne om kontrollen over faget, til de i 1968 fik statsautorisation. De kæmpede for en akademisk uddannelse, som de fik i 2002, og for retten til på egen hånd at stille diagnoser og behandle patienter, hvilket først blev en realitet så sent som i 2007. 100 år...

Automation med pneumatiske servodrev - status og fremtid

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Sørensen, Paul Haase

1996-01-01

Der er råd for problemer med ulineariteter. Med de nyeste metoder kan der lineære driftsområde udvides. Men pneumatikkomponenter skal være af høj kvalitet, når positionering skal være nøjagtig....

Opfattelser af integration blandt unge med migrantbaggrund

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Skytte, Marianne; Bryderup, Inge

2014-01-01

I artiklen formidles analyser af otte interview med unge med migrantbaggrund. Der er fokus på de unges oplevelser og opfattelser af integration. Der er tale om komplekse processer og vekselvirkninger i forholdet mellem de samfundsmæssige kategoriseringer og individernes selvopfattelser. De unge o...

Forandringslæring med autismediagnoser?

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Gustafson, Kari Ingrid; Mørck, Line Lerche

2013-01-01

Artiklen drøfter en række aktuelle spørgsmål omkring læring hos børn og unge med autisme-spektrum-forstyrrelses diagnoser. Der introduceres til en social praksisteoretisk forståelse af forandringslæring, der diskuterer forandring ikke kun i relation til en persons identitet, men også aktuelle og...... potentielle forandringer, når det gælder overskridelse af binær logik i autisme versus normalitet, samt i relation til at overskride individualiserede og dualistiske problem-forståelser af fejl og mangler ved det autistiske barn. Det illustreres, hvordan disse former for dualistisk tænkning er forankret i et...... Rasmus’ ændringer i læring, selvforståelse og tilhørsforhold perspektiveres med andre ASF-diagnostiseredes læring udforsket bl.a. gennem gruppeinterviews i regi af Asperger-foreningen. Artiklen byder således på et alternativ i form af at forstå forandringslæring som overskridende læring, med langt større...

Personer med handicap

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Larsen, Brian; Jonassen, Anders Bruun; Høgelund, Jan

Regeringens Arbejdsmarkedskommission kommmer medio 2009 med forslag til, hvordan den samlede arbejdsindsats varigt kan øges gennem reformer på arbejdsmarkedet. En måde det kan ske på, er ved at begrænse antallet af personer, der står uden for arbejdsmarkedet som følge af helbredsproblemer. Rappor...

Websiteanalyse

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Thorlacius, Lisbeth

2014-01-01

Studier i design og analyse af æstetiske aspekter i planlægning og brug af websites har kun i et begrænset omfang været under reflektorisk behandling. Det er baggrunden for dette kapitel, som indleder med en gennemgang af æstetikkens rolle i webdesign for derefter at se på genrer og stilarter i...... webdesign. Efterfølgende opstilles en model til analyse af visuel kommunikation på websites. Modellens teoretiske grundlag vil blive introduceret, og dens praktiske anvendelse vil blive demonstreret ved en sammenlignende analyse af Københavns Kommunes og multikunstner Henrik Vibskovs hjemmesider og Facebook-sider....

Nyd det! Nyd det!

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Jantzen, Christian; Østergaard, Per

2007-01-01

utilsigtet konsekvens af en række faktorer, der i fællesskab bibringer det indtryk, at det er godt at nyde. Vekselvirkningen mellem modernitetens strukturelle vilkår og oplevelsesorienteringen er, at der er frembragt en teknik, et sprog og en ideologi for den ønskværdige måde at nyde på.......Artiklen behandler de mentalitetshistoriske forudsætninger for den moderne hedonisme, som er kendetegnet ved forbrugere, der kyndigt manipulerer med deres sanser, fantasier og behovstilfredsstillelse for at opnå maksimal nydelse. Den moderne oplevelsesorientering skal ses som en dybest set...

Forskning i musikterapi

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Pedersen, Inge Nygaard

2012-01-01

. Musikterapi kan dog primært reducere de negative symptomer (herunder emotionel og social tilbagetrukkethed, samt svigtende evner til kontakt og kommunikation). Idet medicin og anden behandling kun i mindre grad indvirker på de negative symptomer, er det væsentligt, at musikterapi påviseligt kan reducere disse....... Antallet af musikterapisessioner er dog vigtigt for effekten, idet 3-10 sessioner kun giver mindre og kortvarige ændringer, hvorimod 16-51 sessioner giver betydningsfulde og længerevarende ændringer. For at fremme patientens motivation og evne til at være i kontakt og kommunikere med andre mennesker...

Hälsofrämjande fysisk aktivitet hos personer under adjuvant cancerbehandling relaterad till fatigue, livskvalitet samt self-efficacy

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Zetterlund, Johanna

2016-01-01

Bakgrund Cancerdrabbade lider ofta av cancerrelaterad fatigue (CRF) och försämrad livskvalitet under och efter behandling. Hälsofrämjande fysisk aktivitet (HFA) kan minska risken för dessa negativa konsekvenser. HFA påverkas bl.a. av träningsrelaterad self-efficacy, dvs tilltron till egen förmåga att vara fysisk aktiv. Syfte Att undersöka HFA hos personer under adjuvant cancerbehandling vid diagnos och efter sex månader samt att undersöka om de med en stabil HFA hade lägre CRF, högre livskval...

Fortællingen

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Hejlsted, Annemette

Fortællingen - teori og analyse introducerer til teorier om fortællingen og præsenterer et sæt af analytiske tilgange til fortællinger af enhver art. Bogen lægger vægt på læsersynsvinklen og retter opmærksomheden mod de vilkår for menings- og betydningsdannelse, der kendetegner fortællingen. Begr....... Begreber om plot, fortællingens verden, karakterer, fortæller, modus og genre behandles, og deres anvendelse demonstreres på dansk og nordisk litteratur - med inddragelse af eksempler fra film og tv-reklamer....

Indeklima - Materialer - Byggeri

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Jensen, Jens Kristian Jehrbo

I dette hæfte behandles emnerne INDEKLIMA MATERIALER BYGGERI med henblik på at opnå en forståelse af de begreber, der har betydning for menneskets velvære. Nogle af de vigtigste indeklimabegreber gennemgås og materialers fordele og ulemper belyses. Emner som afgasning, materialevalg, depoteffekt...... efter behov. Hæftet erstatter det tidligere hæfte: "Noget om indeklima - især om materialer" fra 1988. Renskrivningen er foretaget af Mette Bjerring, og tegninger og fotos er færdiggjort af Ingrid Christensen. Begge bedes modtage min hjerteligste tak. Juli 1992. Jens Kr. Jehrbo Jensen...

Study Labs Kortlægningsrapport UCSJ

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Jørnø, Rasmus Leth Vergmann; Hestbech, Astrid Margrethe; Gynther, Karsten

2015-01-01

Rapporten er en delleverance i det regionale forprojekt S​tudy Labs,​der udføres som et samarbejde mellem Holbæk, Odsherred og Kalundborg kommune og University College Sjælland (UCSJ). Samarbejdet er delvist medfinansieret af Region Sjælland. Rapporten behandler projektets etableringsfase...... for at nå de kommunale målsætninger. De potentielle målgrupper er blevet kortlagt. Samtidig er undersøgelser i brugergrupperne blevet gjort håndgribelige i form af Personaer. Kommunerne har, faciliteret af Educationlab, gennemført designworkshops og er fremkommet med designs for Study Labs, der som...

Stata - En praktisk introduktion

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Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar

Denne guide introducerer læseren til statistikprogrammet Stata og gennemgår, hvordan Stata anvendes til vicenskabelig analyse af kvantitave data. Gennem en række eksempler og øvelser guides læseren igennem datahåndtering, basale uni- og bivariate analyser samt lineær regression. Derudover behandles...... emner som fx illustration af resultaterne fra interaktionsmodeller. Bogen er skrevet til studerende, der ikke tidligere har arbejdet med statistiksoftware, og er således velegnet i metode- og statistikundervisningen på BA-niveau. Den er også velegnet til erfarne brugere af andre programmer og til Stata...

Duer ikke! Væk!: En undersøgelse af individets fremtoning og adfærd på Tinder.

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Vognsen, Karen Marie Veje; Hansen, Nick Krarup; Sloth, Andreas; Oftebro-Svendsen, Kristoffer; Bannebjerg, Laura Emilie

2016-01-01

Denne projektrapport behandler emnerne 'Individets adfærd og relations-dannelse' på det sociale medie 'Tinder'. Med afsæt i en række udvalgte teoretikere, har vi undersøgt, hvorvidt tinder giver brugerne anledning til en overfladisk adfærd. Derudover har vi set nærmere på Tinders system og opbygning, og undersøgt hvordan disse påvirker brugerne, når de møder hinanden for første gang. Projektet anvender både primær og sekundær data, samlet gennem litteratur, kvalitative og kvantitative metoder...

Ukraine i fokus sammen med Georgien

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Fledelius, Karsten

2017-01-01

Der er god grund til at sammenligne Ukraine og Georgien, nu fokuslande for Danmark, og der er god grund til at støtte disse to eks-sovjetiske stater med i høj grad parallelle problemer.......Der er god grund til at sammenligne Ukraine og Georgien, nu fokuslande for Danmark, og der er god grund til at støtte disse to eks-sovjetiske stater med i høj grad parallelle problemer....

Behandling med duodenal-jejunal bypass-sleeve ved svær overvægt

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Rohde, Ulrich; Gylvin, Silas; Vilmann, Peter

2014-01-01

Overweight and obesity are risk factors for several co-morbidities reducing life expectancy. Conservative treatment of obesity is generally ineffective in the long-term. Bariatric surgery has proven effective, but is associated with potential complications. Duodenal-jejunal bypass sleeve is a novel...

Behandling af uraemisk osteodystrofi med laegemidler, som påvirker calcium-fosfor-omsaetningen

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Vestergaard, Peter; Eiken, Pia A

2012-01-01

This review discusses the mineral bone disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease. We focus on the management of these conditions by administration of calcium, vitamin D (ergocalciferol and cholecalciferol), vitamin D receptor activators (calcitriol, alphacalcidiol), phosphate binders and ...... and calcimimetics (cinacalcet)....

Diagnostik og behandling af kvinder med urin-inkontinens på danske gynaekologiske afdelinger

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Vejtorp, M; Fischer-Rasmussen, W; Blaabjerg, J

1990-01-01

The routine practice in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontinence was investigated by means of a questionnaire to which all 32 departments replied. Miction charts were employed routinely in 17 departments and for selected patients in eight departments. Weighing of diapers was employed...

Et Patientperspektivistisk Studie i Brug af Alternativ Behandling hos Danske Patienter med Diabetes

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Gerbild, Helle Nygaard

2008-01-01

clients, however, are positioned as user of both complementary and alternative medicine and conventional treatments, such as biological, homeopathic, and traditional Chinese medicine. The main factors that drive them to this are the aim, the hope, the belief, and knowledge how to cure diabetes. Conclusion......: The study shows that the decisive difference of how diabetics are positioned as to complementary and alternative self-care is the way in which they have the strength and hope, believe and knowledge of how to cure disease which by people in general is regarded as chronic.......Background and objectives: There have not earlier been studies focusing on experiences of Danish diabetic patients using Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) – considered from the patients’ point of view. The existing studies mostly based on quantitative methods of patients with diabetes...

Blødningskomplikationer ved behandling med clopidogrel og acetylsalicylsyre efter akut koronart syndrom

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Kjær, Janus; Larsen, Christian Hastrup; Poulsen, Tina Svenstrup

2006-01-01

INTRODUCTION: The Clopidogrel in Unstable Angina to Prevent Recurrent Events (CURE) study showed that patients with unstable angina pectoris (UAP) and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) benefit from combined therapy with acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and clopidogrel. However, only...... patients entering clinical randomized trials were studied. We sought to assess whether the risk of bleeding increased after the introduction of the CURE criteria in an unselected population of Danish patients with NSTEMI or UAP. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The CURE criteria were implemented in the Department...

Akut iliofemoral venøs trombose bør behandles med kateterbaseret trombolyse

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Broholm, Rikke; Just, Sven; Jørgensen, Maja

2012-01-01

Treatment of acute iliofemoral deep venous thrombosis (DVT) with catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) has been performed in Denmark since 1999. The purpose of CDT is to dissolve thrombus and to restore the venous lumen as fast as possible and thereby save venous valve function and prevent...... postthrombotic syndrome. Danish studies have shown that treatment of acute iliofemoral DVT using CDT results in good patency, preserves venous valve function, reduces the frequency of PTS, and is associated with a higher quality of life....

Organisation af behandling og opfølgning af patienter med type 2-diabetes

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Drivsholm, Thomas Bo; Snorgaard, Ole

2012-01-01

The organization of treatment and control of type 2 diabetic patients in Denmark has undergone a major development within the last decade. From being based on local hospital guidelines, treatment and control have moved towards a more organized collaboration between primary and secondary care based...... on common national guidelines. Quality indicators from primary and secondary care are collected routinely, and gradually an increasingly precise depiction is documented in the National Indicator Project....

Effektivisering av arbetet med rumsbeskrivningar

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Enström, Magnus

2016-01-01

För att ta byggbranschen till nästa steg i utvecklingen är BIM det naturliga steget. Iteorin tycks många av lösningarna som medföljer implementationen av BIM varaenkla att förstå och skapa, i praktiken ligger dock de tekniska lösningarna långt ifrånen full implementation i branschen. I arbetet med olika typer av beskrivningar inomett byggprojekt har utvecklingen med hjälp av BIM stått still länge. Då det inte finnsnågot vedertaget sätt att utnyttja en BIM-modells information för att fylla oli...

Fang CO2 med Aminosyrer

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Lerche, Benedicte Mai

2010-01-01

Med såkaldte “carbon capture-teknikker” er det muligt at rense røgen fra kulfyrede kraftværker, således at den er næsten helt fri for drivhusgassen CO2. Kunsten er at gøre processen tilstrækkeligt billig. Et lovende fangstredskab i denne proces er aminosyrer.......Med såkaldte “carbon capture-teknikker” er det muligt at rense røgen fra kulfyrede kraftværker, således at den er næsten helt fri for drivhusgassen CO2. Kunsten er at gøre processen tilstrækkeligt billig. Et lovende fangstredskab i denne proces er aminosyrer....

Frihet & struktur : en kvalitativ studie av skolelivskvalitet hos ungdom med Tourette syndrom

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Siverts, Torstein

2005-01-01

Sammendrag. Tittel: Skolelivskvalitet hos ungdom med Tourette Syndrom Med bakgrunn i egen erfaring fra arbeid med elever med Tourette Syndrom i grunnskolen, og i studier i spesialpedagogisk teori og empiri, etterstrebes det i denne studien å utvikle økt forståelse for hva slags erfaringer fra og perspektiver på sitt skoleliv elever med denne funksjonshemmende lidelsen har. Med grunnlag i analyser av intervjuer med elever om deres erfaringer og perspektiver, har jeg prøvd å b...

Spilleregler i musikterapi med børn

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Holck, Ulla

2005-01-01

Artiklen gennemgår udvalgte eksempler på anvendelse af spilleregler i musikterapi med børneklientgrupper. Efter en kort introduktion af Priestleys syn på analytisk musikterapi med børn, præsenteres læseren således for en række caseeksempler fra faglitteraturen, der giver indblik i udformning og a...

Forsøg med Hi-Con altanelement

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Hansen, Lars Pilegaard

Denne rapport beskriver forsøg udført på Laboratoriet for Bærende Konstruktioner, Aalborg Universitet med et altanelement leveret af Hi-Con Aps, Hjallerup. Forsøgene er udført i september 2002. Forsøgene omfatter en statisk prøvning, hvor altanelementet blev belastet med sandsække og nedbøjningerne...

Rutsjende dug - breddeopgave 73 med didaktisk kommentar

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Jensen, Jens Højgaard

2017-01-01

Mit formål med artikelserien om breddeopgaver er - udover at gøre opmærksom på RUCs fysikuddannelse - dobbelt: Dels udvælger jeg opgaverne, så de kan have interesse som fysikproblemer i egen ret. Dels udvælger jeg dem med henblik på at kunne knytte didaktiske overvejelser til dem af interesse for...

Digital kommunikation med den offentlige sektor

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Berger, Jesper Bull; Andersen, Kim Normann

til. I denne undersøgelse sættes der fokus på myndighedernes besvarelse af den digitale post. Digital post blev bl.a. etableret som et alternativ til almindelig e-mail for at det offentlige kan kommunikere med borgere og virksomheder på en sikker måde, dvs. uden at uvedkommende kan få adgang til...... følsomme oplysninger. Fokus for undersøgelsen er hvordan håndterer myndighederne besvarelserne i den digitale postkasse: svarer de på digital post og e-mail, hvor hurtigt svarer de og er svarene brugbare? Undersøgelsen medtager myndighedernes besvarelse af digital post og e-mail, dels for at kunne...... sammenligne de to digitale kanaler og for at kunne sammenligne med en tidligere undersøgelse af digital kommunikation med det offentlige. Herudover er der tidligere gennemført en undersøgelse af e-mail svar og svartider i New Zealand og Australien. De danske resultater fra e-mail undersøgelsen, men ikke...

Azathioprine-induced Acute Pancreatitis in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases—A Prospective Study on Incidence and Severity

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Mohl, Wolfgang; Bokemeyer, Bernd; Bündgens, Burkhard; Büning, Jürgen; Miehlke, Stephan; Hüppe, Dietrich; Maaser, Christian; Klugmann, Tobias; Kruis, Wolfgang; Siegmund, Britta; Helwig, Ulf; Weismüller, Joseph; Drabik, Attyla; Stallmach, Andreas

2016-01-01

Background and Aims: Azathioprine [AZA] is recommended for maintenance of steroid-free remission in inflammatory bowel disease IBD. The aim of this study has been to establish the incidence and severity of AZA-induced pancreatitis, an idiosyncratic and major side effect, and to identify specific risk factors. Methods: We studied 510 IBD patients [338 Crohn’s disease, 157 ulcerative colitis, 15 indeterminate colitis] with initiation of AZA treatment in a prospective multicentre registry study. Acute pancreatitis was diagnosed in accordance with international guidelines. Results: AZA was continued by 324 [63.5%] and stopped by 186 [36.5%] patients. The most common cause of discontinuation was nausea [12.2%]. AZA-induced pancreatitis occurred in 37 patients [7.3%]. Of these: 43% were hospitalised with a median inpatient time period of 5 days; 10% had peripancreatic fluid collections; 24% had vomiting; and 14% had fever. No patient had to undergo nonsurgical or surgical interventions. Smoking was the strongest risk factor for AZA-induced acute pancreatitis [p pancreatitis is a common adverse event in IBD patients, but in this study had a mild course in all patients. Smoking is the most important risk factor. PMID:26468141

TPMT genetic variants are associated with increased rejection with azathioprine use in heart transplantation.

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Liang, Jackson J; Geske, Jennifer R; Boilson, Barry A; Frantz, Robert P; Edwards, Brooks S; Kushwaha, Sudhir S; Kremers, Walter K; Weinshilboum, Richard M; Pereira, Naveen L

2013-12-01

Azathioprine (AZA) is an important immunosuppressant drug used in heart transplantation (HTX). Consensus guidelines recommend that patients with thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) genetic variants be started on lower AZA dose because of higher active metabolite levels and risk of adverse events. However, in-vitro lymphocyte proliferation assays performed in participants with inactive TPMT alleles have suggested that AZA use may result in decreased immunosuppressant efficacy as compared with wild-type (WT) individuals. The objective of this study was therefore to determine the effect of TPMT genetic variation on AZA efficacy or prevention of rejection in HTX recipients treated with AZA. We genotyped 93 HTX recipients treated with AZA and measured erythrocyte TPMT enzyme activity. Acute rejection was monitored by routine endomyocardial biopsies. There were 83 WT and 10 heterozygote (HZ) HTX recipients. TPMT activity level was lower in HZ compared with WT (13.1±2.8 vs. 21±4.5 U/ml red blood cell, Prejection earlier (Prejection score was higher (P=0.02) than WT. AZA was discontinued more frequently in HZ (P=0.01) because of rejection. The incidence of leukopenia was similar between the groups (40 vs. 43%, P=1.0). HTX recipients with TPMT genetic variant alleles who are treated with AZA develop acute rejection earlier, more frequently, and of greater severity. These patients, despite having lower TPMT enzymatic activity, should be monitored carefully for possible increased risk of acute rejection.

Mellem nyliberalisme og terror - Interview med Chantal Mouffe

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Hansen, Allan Dreyer; Sonnichsen, André

2012-01-01

Interview med Chantal Mouffe om Hegemony and Socalist Strategy, modstandere og fjender en ny multipolær verdensorden og demokrati......Interview med Chantal Mouffe om Hegemony and Socalist Strategy, modstandere og fjender en ny multipolær verdensorden og demokrati...

Effektelektronik - teknologi med energibesparelser og forbedret performance

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Blaabjerg, Frede

2004-01-01

Lige siden transistoren blev opfundet, har det altid været ønskeligt at kunne anvende en sådan til at styre store strømme/spændinger i elektriske systemer. Det er teknologisk også sket, først med tyristorer til styring af store effekter, men siden hen også med den bipolare transistor MOSFET, samt...

Ny viden begynder med forhindringer

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Johansen, Martin Blok

2017-01-01

Pædagogik og pædagogisk arbejde diskuteres typisk inden for rammerne af det at hjælpe, støtte, simplificere og kompleksitetsreducere. Hvis man ønsker at vide noget om forhindringer, modstand og vanskeligheder som pædagogiske muligheder, så er udbuddet derimod forsvindende småt. Og når sådanne...... begreber endelig tages op, så benævnes de typisk blot, men bliver sjældent defineret. Hvad menes der med modstand, vanskeligheder eller kompleksitet? Med afsæt i en kort gennemgang af eksisterende forskning på området forsøger denne artikel at give et bud på en mulig definition af begrebet forhindring...

Inkludering av ungdom med minoritetsbakgrunn i NIF-organisert idrett

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Mari Kristin Sisjord

2014-10-01

Full Text Available Norges Idrettsforbund og Olympiske og Paralympiske Komité (NIF har en uttalt målsetting om en åpen og inkluderende idrett. Hvordan kommer dette til uttrykk i den praktiske virksomheten? Denne artikkelen, som bygger på data fra en undersøkelse om likestilling og mangfold i den organiserte idretten (NIF, retter søkelyset mot arbeid med inklusjon av ungdom med minoritetsbakgrunn på ulike organisasjonsnivå i NIF: særforbund, idrettskretser og idrettslag. Datamaterialet er kvalitative intervju med representanter fra ulike organisasjonsnivå. Resultatene viser at NIFs overordnede politikk i varierende grad nedfelles i særforbundenes virksomhet, i idrettskretsene og i idrettslagene. Av særforbundene skiller Fotballforbundet og Klatreforbundet seg ut som aktive pådrivere i arbeidet med inkludering. Mange idrettslag oppfattet slike spørsmål som lite aktuelle i sitt rekrutteringsområde. Representanter for lag som hadde erfaring med inkludering og rekruttering av minoritetsungdom, tilkjennega varierte erfaringer og synspunkter.

Hvad skriver vi om - topik på sætningsniveau

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Borchmann, Simon

2007-01-01

umiddelbart både forekommer intuitivt rigtige og generaliserbare. Afsøger man imidlertid sprogbrugen mere bredt, viser det sig at referentkriteriet divergerer med realiseringen af aboutnessrelationen som et pragmatisk universale. Det er det problem der behandles med denne artikel.                       I...... afsnit 1 analyserer jeg hvordan termen topik bruges i sprog- og sprogbrugsbeskrivelsen, og opstiller i forlængelse heraf en overordnet definition af topik. I afsnit 2 præsenterer jeg en oversigt over sprogvidenskabelige redegørelser for topik på sætningsniveau og godtgør at disse redegørelser generelt...... for beskrivelsen af realiseringen af topik på sætningsniveau. Resultatet er følgende: Hvis vi antager at sætningens emne angiver det der gives information om med sætningen, så kan emnet ikke - som man hidtil har antaget - realiseres af et refererende udtryk; det fordrer en langt større del af sætningens sproglige...

Hannah Arendt og pædagogikken

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Korsgaard, Morten Timmermann

Hannah Arendt er en af det 20. århundredes store politiske tænkere. Hovedværkerne Det totalitære samfundssystems oprindelse, Menneskets vilkår og Eichmann i Jerusalem er centrale skrifter i den politiske filosofi og behandler vigtige emner som totalitarisme, menneskelig handling og ondskab. Derfor...... er Arendts ganske vist få og sporadiske ─ men ikke mindre vigtige ─ tanker om pædagogikken også en smule oversete. Og ikke nok med det: De fleste pædagogiske fortolkere af Arendt læser med Arendt mod Arendt i stedet for at følge Arendts tænkning om skole og opdragelse til ende. Det forsøger dette...... lille skrift at råde bod på. Arendts tanker om pædagogikken udgør nemlig et væsentligt alternativ til de tanker om pædagogik, der er fremherskende i dag, og giver et nyt perspektiv på pædagogikken. Bogen argumenterer bl.a. for, at man med ideerne om læringssamfundet og konkurrencestaten helt glemmer...

Hvordan påvirker valgkampen vælgerne?

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Hansen, Kasper Møller

) Valgkampen filtreres gennem vælgerens grundlæggende værdier i lyset af deres politiske opmærksomhed og viden. 5) Valgkampen behandles løbende i vælgernes politiske valg, men glemmes dernæst umiddelbart. 6) Valgkampen forstærker genveje til politiske valg som partiernes stereotype placering på venstre...... radio, kombineret med en politisk konsensuskultur med mindretalsregeringer, sætter en anden praksis end i et first-past-the-poll system.             Men valgkampen synes ikke at være bagud i forhold til dens professionalisering, form og indhold, som tilfældet var i 1990.             Den internationale......-højre skalaen og basale følelsesmæssige affektioner for kandidaterne. Med udgangspunkt i en telefonundersøgelse indsamlet i valgkampen 2005 er det lykkedes at finde nogle tendenser, der viser, at valgkampen skabte mistillid til politikerne, men også øget opfattelse af vælgernes egen kompetence og deres...

Professionalisme med innovativt potentiale

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Nielsen, Inger Marie

To teoretiske sværvægtere bliver koblet sammen i Inger Marie Larsen-Nielsen arbejdspapir om professionalisme med innovativt potentiale. De to teoretikere er læringsteoretikeren John Dewey og socialpsykologen Georg Herbert Mead, som er sat sammen i en teoretisk forståelsesramme omkring professionel...

Comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar literature searches.

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Anders, Michael E; Evans, Dennis P

2010-05-01

Literature searches are essential to evidence-based respiratory care. To conduct literature searches, respiratory therapists rely on search engines to retrieve information, but there is a dearth of literature on the comparative efficiencies of search engines for researching clinical questions in respiratory care. To compare PubMed and Google Scholar search results for clinical topics in respiratory care to that of a benchmark. We performed literature searches with PubMed and Google Scholar, on 3 clinical topics. In PubMed we used the Clinical Queries search filter. In Google Scholar we used the search filters in the Advanced Scholar Search option. We used the reference list of a related Cochrane Collaboration evidence-based systematic review as the benchmark for each of the search results. We calculated recall (sensitivity) and precision (positive predictive value) with 2 x 2 contingency tables. We compared the results with the chi-square test of independence and Fisher's exact test. PubMed and Google Scholar had similar recall for both overall search results (71% vs 69%) and full-text results (43% vs 51%). PubMed had better precision than Google Scholar for both overall search results (13% vs 0.07%, P PubMed searches with the Clinical Queries filter are more precise than with the Advanced Scholar Search in Google Scholar for respiratory care topics. PubMed appears to be more practical to conduct efficient, valid searches for informing evidence-based patient-care protocols, for guiding the care of individual patients, and for educational purposes.

Best, Useful and Objective Precisions for Information Retrieval of Three Search Methods in PubMed and iPubMed

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Somayyeh Nadi Ravandi

2016-10-01

Full Text Available MEDLINE is one of the valuable sources of medical information on the Internet. Among the different open access sites of MEDLINE, PubMed is the best-known site. In 2010, iPubMed was established with an interaction-fuzzy search method for MEDLINE access. In the present work, we aimed to compare the precision of the retrieved sources (Best, Useful and Objective precision in the PubMed and iPubMed using two search methods (simple and MeSH search in PubMed and interaction-fuzzy method in iPubmed. During our semi-empirical study period, we held training workshops for 61 students of higher education to teach them Simple Search, MeSH Search, and Fuzzy-Interaction Search methods. Then, the precision of 305 searches for each method prepared by the students was calculated on the basis of Best precision, Useful precision, and Objective precision formulas. Analyses were done in SPSS version 11.5 using the Friedman and Wilcoxon Test, and three precisions obtained with the three precision formulas were studied for the three search methods. The mean precision of the interaction-fuzzy Search method was higher than that of the simple search and MeSH search for all three types of precision, i.e., Best precision, Useful precision, and Objective precision, and the Simple search method was in the next rank, and their mean precisions were significantly different (P < 0.001. The precision of the interaction-fuzzy search method in iPubmed was investigated for the first time. Also for the first time, three types of precision were evaluated in PubMed and iPubmed. The results showed that the Interaction-Fuzzy search method is more precise than using the natural language search (simple search and MeSH search, and users of this method found papers that were more related to their queries; even though search in Pubmed is useful, it is important that users apply new search methods to obtain the best results.

Borgerstøtte. Et alternativt program og praktik i psykiatrien

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Hansson, Birgitte

velfærdsinstitutioner, hvis praksis grundlæggende bygger på det medicinske paradigme. Forskningen peger bl.a. på, at i mødet mellem individer og velfærdsinstitutioner opstår der en proces, hvor der skabes psykiatriske patienter. Konstruktionen af begrebet psykisk sygdom med tilhørende diagnoser, interventionsformer og...... behandling sker med udgangspunkt i det medicinske paradigme. Praktikken er at borgerens situation bliver afklaret ud fra institutionelt fastlagte diagnoser og forståelsesrammer og borgeren indpasses i kategorier i forhold til de handlingsmodeller og behandlingsmetoder de psykiatriske institutioner råder over....... En psykiatrisk velfærdsinstitution afspejler altid et bestemt program og måde at anskue verden på, som influerer på de professionelles handlinger. En praktik, hvor menneskets problemer oversættes til et systemsprog. Det institutionelle program og praktik forudsætter at borgerne tilpasser sig...

MedRate: a wearable against child mortality

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2018-01-01

In humanitarian environments, when treating the main causes of child mortality, there are two key vital constants not easily measurable: the heart beat of the foetus and respiration rate of children. During the CERN Medtech:Hack, my team came up with MedRate, an inexpensive wearable able to monitor both. Collaboration is required to make MedRate a reality. Would you join us for a more fair fight against child mortality?

The MedAustron project: an example of large-scale technology transfer

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Antonella Del Rosso & Michael Benedikt

2013-01-01

In January this year, CERN’s Director-General Rolf Heuer handed over the first ion source to the MedAustron therapy centre in the town of Wiener Neustadt in the presence of the Austrian authorities. This milestone marks the beginning of the transition from the development and design phase to the commissioning of the new facility.   Handover of the ion source to MedAustron on 11 January, 2013. From left to right: Michael Benedikt (Project Leader MedAustron at CERN), Karlheinz Töchterle (Austrian Federal Minister of Science and Research), Erwin Pröll (Governor of Lower Austria), Rolf Heuer (Director-General CERN), Klaus Schneeberger (Lower Austrian State Parliament, Head of EBG MedAustron Council). The goal of the MedAustron project is the construction of an ion-therapy and research centre, based on a synchrotron accelerator complex, in Austria (for more about the technical part of the MedAustron project, click here). “MedAustron will be the first large-sca...

Dexamethasone and azathioprine promote cytoskeletal changes and affect mesenchymal stem cell migratory behavior.

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Natália Schneider

Full Text Available Glucocorticoids and immunosuppressive drugs are commonly used to treat inflammatory disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, and despite a few improvements, the remission of IBD is still difficult to maintain. Due to their immunomodulatory properties, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs have emerged as regulators of the immune response, and their viability and activation of their migratory properties are essential for successful cell therapy. However, little is known about the effects of immunosuppressant drugs used in IBD treatment on MSC behavior. The aim of this study was to evaluate MSC viability, nuclear morphometry, cell polarity, F-actin and focal adhesion kinase (FAK distribution, and cell migratory properties in the presence of the immunosuppressive drugs azathioprine (AZA and dexamethasone (DEX. After an initial characterization, MSCs were treated with DEX (10 μM or AZA (1 μM for 24 hrs or 7 days. Neither drug had an effect on cell viability or nuclear morphometry. However, AZA treatment induced a more elongated cell shape, while DEX was associated with a more rounded cell shape (P < 0.05 with a higher presence of ventral actin stress fibers (P < 0.05 and a decrease in protrusion stability. After 7 days of treatment, AZA improved the cell spatial trajectory (ST and increased the migration speed (24.35%, P < 0.05, n = 4, while DEX impaired ST and migration speed after 24 hrs and 7 days of treatment (-28.69% and -25.37%, respectively; P < 0.05, n = 4. In conclusion, our data suggest that these immunosuppressive drugs each affect MSC morphology and migratory capacity differently, possibly impacting the success of cell therapy.

Arbejdspladsvurdering i små virksomheder med 1-4 ansatte

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Hasle, Peter; Esben, Dalskinn

En analyse af mulighederne for at gennemføre arbejdspladsvurdering i mikrovirksomheder med 1-4 ansatte.......En analyse af mulighederne for at gennemføre arbejdspladsvurdering i mikrovirksomheder med 1-4 ansatte....

PubMed Interact: an Interactive Search Application for MEDLINE/PubMed

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Muin, Michael; Fontelo, Paul; Ackerman, Michael

2006-01-01

Online search and retrieval systems are important resources for medical literature research. Progressive Web 2.0 technologies provide opportunities to improve search strategies and user experience. Using PHP, Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), PubMed Interact allows greater functionality so users can refine search parameters with ease and interact with the search results to retrieve and display relevant information and related articles. PMID:17238658

Fascians funktion och olika fysioterapeutiska interventioners effekt på fascian

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Hackman, Mikaela

2017-01-01

Fasciabehandlingar är ett relativt nytt område inom fysioterapin, även om intresse för ämnet funnits redan under antikens tid. Forskningsmetoderna har i dag blivit bättre och vi kan undersöka vävnader som varit omöjliga att undersöka tidigare, på grund av tek-nikbrist. Syftet med det här arbetet är att ta reda på vad forskningen idag kommit fram till i fråga om fascia, ffa då det handlar om smärta, och hur fysioterapeuten kan ha nytta av kunskapen vid behandling av klienter. Den första forskn...

Agerhønens biologi og bestandsregulering

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Kahlert, Johnny A.; Asferg, Tommy; Odderskær, Peter

Landskab". Rapporten behandler fire hovedemner: 1) udviklingstendenser i europæiske agerhønebestande over de sidste 50-60 år, 2) generel biologi, 3) årsager til den observerede bestandsudvikling og 4) forvaltning af agerhøne i forskellige europæiske lande. Selvom rapporten i udgangspunktet anskuer...... afskydning. En gennemgang af agerhønens biologi viser nogle særlige karakteristika: Agerhøne er en art med relativ kort gennemsnitlig levetid (under ét år), men lægger til gengæld mange æg (10-20). Arten er dermed relativ følsom overfor ændringer i reproduktionsforhold (æg og kyllinger). Bestandsdynamikken...

Sin Nombre

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Cristoffanini, Pablo Rolando

2012-01-01

steder, de aldrig har stiftet bekendtskab med. Og når man besøger stederne i virkeligheden, vil filmenes typer og stereotyper påvirke mødet og kontakten. I denne artikel vil jeg vise, hvordan en film, Sin nombre (spansk: Uden navn), behandler to af den globaliserede verdens grundlæggende spørgsmål: a...... kun vedkommende, fordi den tager vigtige samfundsmæssige og eksistentielle spørgsmål op, men også fordi den, som kritikerne har påpeget, rent æstetisk er af høj kvalitet. Farver, lyd og de intense scener støtter en god fortælling....

Spiseforstyrrelser

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Dynesen, Anja Weirsøe; Gehrt, Charlotte Astrid; Vammen, Katrine Schjødt

2017-01-01

Spiseforstyrrelser er blandt de mest alvorlige sygdomme blandt unge kvinder. Tidlig igangsættelse af behandling er afgørende for prognosen. Dette vanskeliggøres imidlertid af, at personer med en spiseforstyrrelse ofte ikke har erkendt eller skjuler deres sygdom. Da orale komplikationer som dental...... erosion og hævede spytkirtler ofte er eneste objektive tegn på en spiseforstyrrelse, kan tandlægen i nogle tilfælde være den første sundhedsprofessionelle, der får en mistanke om, at en patient lider af en spiseforstyrrelse. Italesættelse af mistanken om en spiseforstyrrelse er vanskelig, og patienten bør...

Delta 2.0

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Skott, Jeppe; Skott, Charlotte Krog; Jess, Kristine

DELTA 2.0 er en ny og helt opdateret udgave af Delta, der i ti år været brugt i matematiklærernes grund-, efter- og videreuddannelse. DELTA 2.0 er seriens almene fagdidaktik. Der er også fagdidaktiske overvejelser i de øvrige bøger i serien, men de er knyttet til specifikt matematisk indhold. DELTA...... 2.0 behandler mere generelle matematikdidaktiske problemstillinger såsom læringsteoretiske overvejelser i forbindelse med matematik, centrale aspekter af det at undervise i matematik og digitale teknologier som værktøj til at støtte elevers faglige læring af matematik....

En definitionssandhed med modifikationer

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Holtermann, Jakob v. H.; Olsen, Henrik Palmer

2013-01-01

Denne artikel indgår i den debat om retskildebegrebet, der tidligere har været rejst af Jens Ravnkilde. Forfatterne påviser flere svagheder i Ravnkildes argumentation, herunder at han ignorerer hele den internationale diskussion på området, samtidig med at han baserer sit eget angiveligt nyudvikl...

Analys av nickel med ICP-MS

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Wallman, Karin; Löfgren, Stefan; Sonesten, Lars; Demandt, Christian

2009-01-01

Vid en granskning av nickelhalter för perioden 1985-2007 upptäcktes ett nivåskifte i tidsserierna på flera stationer mellan 2001 och 2002. Skiftet visade sig bero på att prover innan 2002 inte korrigerades för kalciuminterferens, medan prover under åren 2002-2007 korrigerades. Syftet med denna rapport är att utreda om resultaten före 2002 i efterhand kan korrigeras för kalciuminterferensen. Från 2002 finns ett antal prover (N=347) med resultat som både är kalciumkorrigerade och som inte är de...

Tur-samspil i musikterapi med børn med svære kommunikationsvanskeligheder

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Holck, Ulla

2006-01-01

Tur-samspil udgør en vigtig grundsten i den tidlige sociale og kommunikative udvikling, og optræder ofte i musikterapeutiske samspil med kommunikationssvage børn. Artiklen præsenterer relevante begreber fra faglitteraturen om tur-samspil i voksendialoger (de såkaldte Konversationsanalyser), som k...

Musikterapi med kontakt- og kommunikationssvage børn

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Frederiksen, Britta Vinkler

2009-01-01

I artiklen beskrives, hvordan musikterapi er med til at støtte en målrettet udviklingsproces hos børn, med diagnoser som Asperger syndrom, autisme, opmærksomhedsforstyrrelser, ADHD o.lign. Musikkens kvaliteter beskrives og illustreres gennem vignetter fra terapiforløb, der alle er foregået i Klinik...

Ødelæg alt muligt med et bogstav

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Konzack, Lars

2017-01-01

En gang imellem griber en raptus SoMe-Danmark, og så fyldes alles feed med samme slags indhold. Senest overspringshandlede vi med hashtagget #oedelaeg1filmed1bogstav - og alle mulige afledninger af det....

PubMed Medical Publications From Libya | Bakoush | Libyan ...

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We also used the same method to obtain data on the PubMed medical publications from Tunisia, Morocco and Yemen. Tunisia had the largest number of PubMed publications among the studied countries: 20.4 publications per million population per year and 7.2 publications per year per one billion US$ GDP. Libya had ...

MedlinePlus FAQ: MedlinePlus and MEDLINE/PubMed

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... What is the difference between MedlinePlus and MEDLINE/PubMed? To use the sharing features on this page, ... latest health professional articles on your topic. MEDLINE/PubMed: Is a database of professional biomedical literature Is ...

GOClonto: an ontological clustering approach for conceptualizing PubMed abstracts.

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Zheng, Hai-Tao; Borchert, Charles; Kim, Hong-Gee

2010-02-01

Concurrent with progress in biomedical sciences, an overwhelming of textual knowledge is accumulating in the biomedical literature. PubMed is the most comprehensive database collecting and managing biomedical literature. To help researchers easily understand collections of PubMed abstracts, numerous clustering methods have been proposed to group similar abstracts based on their shared features. However, most of these methods do not explore the semantic relationships among groupings of documents, which could help better illuminate the groupings of PubMed abstracts. To address this issue, we proposed an ontological clustering method called GOClonto for conceptualizing PubMed abstracts. GOClonto uses latent semantic analysis (LSA) and gene ontology (GO) to identify key gene-related concepts and their relationships as well as allocate PubMed abstracts based on these key gene-related concepts. Based on two PubMed abstract collections, the experimental results show that GOClonto is able to identify key gene-related concepts and outperforms the STC (suffix tree clustering) algorithm, the Lingo algorithm, the Fuzzy Ants algorithm, and the clustering based TRS (tolerance rough set) algorithm. Moreover, the two ontologies generated by GOClonto show significant informative conceptual structures.

National trivselsdag med fokus på bevægelse

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Holt, Anne-Didde

2016-01-01

breaks”, skriver tre elever. Trivselsdagen gav ligeledes anledning til at dele de gode erfaringer, der indtil nu er udsprunget af ’Trivsel og Bevægelse i Skolen’ - P1 Morgen, P4 Fyn og TV-avisen bragte historier fra dagen på Glamsbjergskolen i Assens, mens P4 Midt og Vest besøgte Haldgård Skole i...... til at fordybe sig i, videreudvikle og vise omverdenen, hvordan der arbejdes med at fremme trivsel gennem bevægelse. Eleverne arbejdede bl.a. med at udvikle og afprøve brain breaks, som er små pauser med bevægelsesaktiviteter, der lægges ind i løbet af den stillesiddende undervisning. Formålet var...... for dem. ”Vi synes brain breaks er vigtige fordi med brain breaks får vi meget mere energi og fordi at man får et bedre forhold til sine klassekammerater, som man måske ikke snakker med så tit. Man kan holde til mere og det er vigtigt at få en pause til at tænke så derfor vil vi gerne have flere brain...

The MedAustron Project at CERN, Status Report, May 2013

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Benedikt, M; Gutleber, J

2013-01-01

MedAustron is a light ion-therapy and research centre based on a synchrotron accelerator complex under construction in Austria. It is the first large-scale accelerator facility in Austria. For the implementation of the required accelerator technologies, the county of Lower Austria and the company EBG MedAustron have set up dedicated agreements with CERN. These cover the assistance of CERN for the design and manufacturing follow-up of accelerator components and training of MedAustron personnel. CERN contributed to the MedAustron construction in particular by providing domain expertise, infrastructure, and manpower in relation with the design, the tendering and procurement processes.\

Orientering og banelægning med Google Earth og Condes

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Jørgensen, Henrik Taarsted; Piaster, Thomas Gabriel

2011-01-01

Et e-læringsmodul på Danmarks undervisningsportal, som handler om hvordan man kan arbejde med banelægning indenfor o-løb. Med udgangspunkt i de to gratisprogrammer Google Earth og Condes lærer man gennem modulet, hvordan man indtegner poster og hvordan eleverne kan gøre det samme.......Et e-læringsmodul på Danmarks undervisningsportal, som handler om hvordan man kan arbejde med banelægning indenfor o-løb. Med udgangspunkt i de to gratisprogrammer Google Earth og Condes lærer man gennem modulet, hvordan man indtegner poster og hvordan eleverne kan gøre det samme....

Poetisk sortsyn med lys for enden

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Larsen, Peter Stein

2015-01-01

Ursula Andkjær Olsens digtsamling " Udgående fartøj" indledes med den følgende prægnante passage, der kan læses i sin helhed som " ugens digt" her på siden: " jeg har brugt tid på at tyde/ sprede dumpe fornemmelser / fra mit fjerne indre (...)......Ursula Andkjær Olsens digtsamling " Udgående fartøj" indledes med den følgende prægnante passage, der kan læses i sin helhed som " ugens digt" her på siden: " jeg har brugt tid på at tyde/ sprede dumpe fornemmelser / fra mit fjerne indre (...)...

At skrive med video

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Holmboe, Peter

2018-01-01

Det kræver særlige kompetencer at skrive en digital tekst, så modtageren kan læse og bruge den. Derfor er det vigtigt at stimulere og udvikle elevernes skrivekompetence med både viden og værktøjer. Digital skrivedidaktik præsenterer teori om skrivekompetence og digital skrivning. Derudover...

Exome sequencing identifies highly recurrent MED12 somatic mutations in breast fibroadenoma.

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Lim, Weng Khong; Ong, Choon Kiat; Tan, Jing; Thike, Aye Aye; Ng, Cedric Chuan Young; Rajasegaran, Vikneswari; Myint, Swe Swe; Nagarajan, Sanjanaa; Nasir, Nur Diyana Md; McPherson, John R; Cutcutache, Ioana; Poore, Gregory; Tay, Su Ting; Ooi, Wei Siong; Tan, Veronique Kiak Mien; Hartman, Mikael; Ong, Kong Wee; Tan, Benita K T; Rozen, Steven G; Tan, Puay Hoon; Tan, Patrick; Teh, Bin Tean

2014-08-01

Fibroadenomas are the most common breast tumors in women under 30 (refs. 1,2). Exome sequencing of eight fibroadenomas with matching whole-blood samples revealed recurrent somatic mutations solely in MED12, which encodes a Mediator complex subunit. Targeted sequencing of an additional 90 fibroadenomas confirmed highly frequent MED12 exon 2 mutations (58/98, 59%) that are probably somatic, with 71% of mutations occurring in codon 44. Using laser capture microdissection, we show that MED12 fibroadenoma mutations are present in stromal but not epithelial mammary cells. Expression profiling of MED12-mutated and wild-type fibroadenomas revealed that MED12 mutations are associated with dysregulated estrogen signaling and extracellular matrix organization. The fibroadenoma MED12 mutation spectrum is nearly identical to that of previously reported MED12 lesions in uterine leiomyoma but not those of other tumors. Benign tumors of the breast and uterus, both of which are key target tissues of estrogen, may thus share a common genetic basis underpinned by highly frequent and specific MED12 mutations.

Further confirmation of the MED13L haploinsufficiency syndrome

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van Haelst, M.M.; Monroe, G.R.; Duran, K.J.; van Binsbergen, E.; Breur, J.M.P.J.; Giltay, J.C.; van Haaften, G.W.

MED13L haploinsufficiency syndrome has been described in two patients and is characterized by moderate intellectual disability (ID), conotruncal heart defects, facial abnormalities and hypotonia. Missense mutations in MED13L are linked to transposition of the great arteries and non-syndromal

Death, dying and informatics: misrepresenting religion on MedLine.

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Rodríguez Del Pozo, Pablo; Fins, Joseph J

2005-07-01

The globalization of medical science carries for doctors worldwide a correlative duty to deepen their understanding of patients' cultural contexts and religious backgrounds, in order to satisfy each as a unique individual. To become better informed, practitioners may turn to MedLine, but it is unclear whether the information found there is an accurate representation of culture and religion. To test MedLine's representation of this field, we chose the topic of death and dying in the three major monotheistic religions. We searched MedLine using PubMed in order to retrieve and thematically analyze full-length scholarly journal papers or case reports dealing with religious traditions and end-of-life care. Our search consisted of a string of words that included the most common denominations of the three religions, the standard heading terms used by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL), and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. Eligible articles were limited to English-language papers with an abstract. We found that while a bibliographic search in MedLine on this topic produced instant results and some valuable literature, the aggregate reflected a selection bias. American writers were over-represented given the global prevalence of these religious traditions. Denominationally affiliated authors predominated in representing the Christian traditions. The Islamic tradition was under-represented. MedLine's capability to identify the most current, reliable and accurate information about purely scientific topics should not be assumed to be the same case when considering the interface of religion, culture and end-of-life care.

Hvad SKER der med drikkevandet i USA?

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Ramsay, Loren Mark

2017-01-01

Forskellige lande har forskellige traditioner indenfor drikkevandsbehandling. Denne beretning fra ”Water Quality Technology Conference” i USA er set med en særlig vinkel, da forfatteren er amerikansk statsborger, men har arbejdet i den danske vandbranche i mere end 25 år.......Forskellige lande har forskellige traditioner indenfor drikkevandsbehandling. Denne beretning fra ”Water Quality Technology Conference” i USA er set med en særlig vinkel, da forfatteren er amerikansk statsborger, men har arbejdet i den danske vandbranche i mere end 25 år....

Food-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis - Kasuistik med hydrolyseret valleprotein

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Junker Christensen, Morten

2013-01-01

Formål / Introduktion: Patienter med Food-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis (FDEIA) eller løbershock kan udvikle livstruende allergiske reaktioner (anafylaksi), når de kombinere fysisk anstrengelse med samtidig indtagelse af et normalt tolereret fødeemne - oftest hvede. Hydrolysering af prot...

Beskrivelse af næringsstofomsætning med metabolomics

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Hedemann, Mette Skou

2010-01-01

I et forsøg med mink med lav eller høj foderkonvertering er der blevet taget blodprøver på tre tidspunkter. Blodprøverne er blevet taget i en periode, hvor minkene er blevet fodret restriktivt (en prøve) og i en periode med ad libitum fodring (to prøver). Blodprøverne blev analyseret ved hjælp af...... fra restriktivt fodrede mink end i plasma fra ad libitum fodrede mink - betain og carnitin. Derudover er der en lang række andre metabolitter, som også findes i forskellig koncentration som endnu ikke er identificeret....

Retrieval of diagnostic and treatment studies for clinical use through PubMed and PubMed's Clinical Queries filters.

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Lokker, Cynthia; Haynes, R Brian; Wilczynski, Nancy L; McKibbon, K Ann; Walter, Stephen D

2011-01-01

Clinical Queries filters were developed to improve the retrieval of high-quality studies in searches on clinical matters. The study objective was to determine the yield of relevant citations and physician satisfaction while searching for diagnostic and treatment studies using the Clinical Queries page of PubMed compared with searching PubMed without these filters. Forty practicing physicians, presented with standardized treatment and diagnosis questions and one question of their choosing, entered search terms which were processed in a random, blinded fashion through PubMed alone and PubMed Clinical Queries. Participants rated search retrievals for applicability to the question at hand and satisfaction. For treatment, the primary outcome of retrieval of relevant articles was not significantly different between the groups, but a higher proportion of articles from the Clinical Queries searches met methodologic criteria (p=0.049), and more articles were published in core internal medicine journals (p=0.056). For diagnosis, the filtered results returned more relevant articles (p=0.031) and fewer irrelevant articles (overall retrieval less, p=0.023); participants needed to screen fewer articles before arriving at the first relevant citation (p<0.05). Relevance was also influenced by content terms used by participants in searching. Participants varied greatly in their search performance. Clinical Queries filtered searches returned more high-quality studies, though the retrieval of relevant articles was only statistically different between the groups for diagnosis questions. Retrieving clinically important research studies from Medline is a challenging task for physicians. Methodological search filters can improve search retrieval.

Cancer i øjenregionen

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Prause, J.U.; Heegaard, S.; Toft, Peter Bjerre

2002-01-01

oftalmologi, cancer, tumor, øjenlåg, conjunctiva, cornea, hud, øjets indre, orbita, diagnostik, behandling......oftalmologi, cancer, tumor, øjenlåg, conjunctiva, cornea, hud, øjets indre, orbita, diagnostik, behandling...

Nye steder med liv og sjæl?

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Stender, Marie

planlæggere, der har skabt dem, udforskes stedernes tilblivelsesproces og sociale liv. Det nye sted opfattes af både beboere og professionelle som en bar mark, og mange kræfter sættes ind på at genfortrylle det med et skær af liv, identitet og historie fra start. Hånd i hånd med branding, virtuelle fora...

Spilleregler i musikterapi med voksne

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Holck, Ulla

2005-01-01

Artiklen gennemgår udvalgt faglitteratur, der på et overordnet plan beskriver typer af spilleregler i musikterapi med (fortrinsvis) voksne klientgrupper. Udgangspunktet er Priestleys anvendelse af begrebet, og hendes inddeling af spilleregler i forhold til forskellige teknikker gennemgås, efterfu...

Forskning i musikterapi - børn med en Autisme Spektrum Forstyrrelse

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Holck, Ulla

2011-01-01

Der er forskningsmæssig evidens for, at musikterapi med børn med en autisme spektrum forstyrrelse (ASF) har en signifikant effekt. Cochrane reviews påviser, at musikterapi fremmer verbal og navnlig nonverbal kommunikation hos børn med ASF. En RCT-undersøgelse viser endvidere en signifikant effekt...

Det Ambiente

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Schmidt, Ulrik

Det ambiente er iscenesættelsen af en karakteristisk sanseoplevelse, der er kendetegnet ved fornemmelsen af at være omgivet. I dag bliver begrebet om det ambiente mest anvendt i forbindelse med musikgenren ’ambient musik’. Det ambiente er dog ikke essentielt knyttet til det musikalske, men må...... forstås som et betydeligt bredere fænomen i den moderne æstetiske kultur, der spiller en væsentlig rolle i oplevelsen af moderne transportformer, arkitektur, film, lydkunst, installationskunst og digitale multimedieiscenesættelser. En forståelse af det ambiente er derfor centralt for forståelsen af en...... moderne æstetiseret oplevelseskultur i almindelighed. Da det ambiente ikke hidtil har været gjort til genstand for en mere indgående teoretisk behandling, er der dog stor usikkerhed omkring, hvad fænomenet overhovedet indebærer. Hovedformålet med Det ambiente – Sansning, medialisering, omgivelse er derfor...

En systematik for ideudviklingsformater

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Brian Lystgaard Due

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Inden for medie- og kommunikationsforskningen har der været sporadisk fokus på de ideudviklingsprocesser, der ligger bag udviklingen af medie- og kommunikationsløsninger. Men præcis viden om, hvordan ideer på møder i kommunikationsafdelinger fremsættes og behandles i autentisk interaktion mangler. Gennem en række eksempler udvikles i artiklen en sammenhængende systematik for, hvilke formater deltagere bruger når de 1 fremsætter ideer, responderer 2a positivt (affilierende eller 2b negativt (disaffilierende, og hvordan ideer 3a accepteres eller 3b kritikhåndteres. Artiklen bygger på data fra tre forskellige danske kommunikationsafdelinger, der har arbejdet med at udvikle nye kommunikationsprodukter. Artiklen præsenterer en række formater, der er blevet fremanalyseret med videoetnografisk og konversationsanalytisk metode. Artiklens formål er at give et overblik over de mest almindelige formater under ideudviklingsmøder.

Death, dying and informatics: misrepresenting religion on MedLine

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Fins Joseph J

2005-07-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background The globalization of medical science carries for doctors worldwide a correlative duty to deepen their understanding of patients' cultural contexts and religious backgrounds, in order to satisfy each as a unique individual. To become better informed, practitioners may turn to MedLine, but it is unclear whether the information found there is an accurate representation of culture and religion. To test MedLine's representation of this field, we chose the topic of death and dying in the three major monotheistic religions. Methods We searched MedLine using PubMed in order to retrieve and thematically analyze full-length scholarly journal papers or case reports dealing with religious traditions and end-of-life care. Our search consisted of a string of words that included the most common denominations of the three religions, the standard heading terms used by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL, and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH used by the National Library of Medicine. Eligible articles were limited to English-language papers with an abstract. Results We found that while a bibliographic search in MedLine on this topic produced instant results and some valuable literature, the aggregate reflected a selection bias. American writers were over-represented given the global prevalence of these religious traditions. Denominationally affiliated authors predominated in representing the Christian traditions. The Islamic tradition was under-represented. Conclusion MedLine's capability to identify the most current, reliable and accurate information about purely scientific topics should not be assumed to be the same case when considering the interface of religion, culture and end-of-life care.

Late-onset Rise of 6-MMP Metabolites in IBD Patients on Azathioprine or Mercaptopurine.

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Munnig-Schmidt, Erik; Zhang, Mei; Mulder, Chris J; Barclay, Murray L

2018-03-19

The thiopurines azathioprine and mercaptopurine remain pivotal maintenance treatments in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, up to 15%-20% of patients preferentially produce the hepatotoxic metabolite 6-methylmercaptopurine (6MMP) at the expense of the therapeutic 6-thioguanine nucleotides (6TGN). This metabolic shunting usually begins within 3 months of therapy. We noted patients developing shunting many months or years after starting treatment and aimed to determine how often this late shunting occurs and whether this could be explained by patient factors or concomitant medications. The New Zealand database of thiopurine metabolite results from 2002 to 2016 (19085 6TGN/6MMP pairs from 7130 patients) was interrogated to identify patients developing a 6MMP/6TGN ratio >20 after at least 4 months treatment. Dosing history, concomitant therapy, and comorbidity data were assessed. Fifteen percent of database patients developed preferential 6-MMP production, and of these, 29 patients had late-onset shunting with sufficient data available for validation. This extrapolates to 90 patients in total, representing 1.7% of IBD patients on thiopurines, or 10% of all those with preferential 6-MMP production. Time from starting therapy to shunting was 5 months to 10.4 years (median, 21 months). Eleven patients had abnormal liver function when shunting was recognized, all with 6MMP >5900 pmol/8 × 108 red blood cells. No common factors were found to explain the late onset. Some IBD patients develop preferential 6MMP production many months or years after commencing therapy. This is important when considering frequency of metabolite monitoring, failure of therapy, or abnormal liver function. 10.1093/ibd/izx081_video1izx081.video15746667546001.

Middelhav og maskinæstetik

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Sommer, Anne-Louise

2004-01-01

Artiklen behandler den modernistiske franske arkitekt le Corbusiers relation til middelhavet og inspirationen fra den antikke arkitekturtradition.......Artiklen behandler den modernistiske franske arkitekt le Corbusiers relation til middelhavet og inspirationen fra den antikke arkitekturtradition....

Farlig sex med engle

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Mejrup, Kristian

2013-01-01

De fleste af os tænker ikke på engle som kønnede væsner med en seksualitet, og selv om vi er i stand til at acceptere engle i alle mulige afskygninger, fra juletræets tyksakker i glitrende guld til frygtindgydende skikkelser i de bibelske skrifter, så er vi tilbøjelig til at ignorere spørgsmålet ...

Hvad skal vi med Trump-satire?

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Møller, Mette

2017-01-01

Trump-satire er et stort hit, og særligt en lang række satiriske videohilsner til Trump fra lande verden over får folk til at trække på smilebåndet. Men hvorfor er det så sjovt at gøre grin med Trump, og hvad kan vi bruge den politiske humor til?......Trump-satire er et stort hit, og særligt en lang række satiriske videohilsner til Trump fra lande verden over får folk til at trække på smilebåndet. Men hvorfor er det så sjovt at gøre grin med Trump, og hvad kan vi bruge den politiske humor til?...

Ion Sources for MedAustron

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Lettry, J; Wallner, J; Sargsyan, E; CERN. Geneva. BE Department

2010-01-01

The MedAustron Ion therapy center will be constructed in Wiener Neustadt (Austria) in the vicinity of Vienna. Its accelerator complex consists of four ion sources, a linear accelerator, a synchrotron and a beam delivery system to the three medical treatment rooms and to the research irradiation room. The ion sources shall deliver beams of H31+, C4+ and light ions with utmost reliability and stability. This paper describes the features of the ion sources presently planned for the MedAustron facility; such as ion source main parameters, gas injection, temperature control and cooling systems. A dedicated beam diagnostics technique is proposed in order to characterize ECR ions beams; in the first drift region after the ion source, a fraction of the mixed beam is selected via moveable aperture. With standard beam diagnostics, we then aim to produce position-dependant observables such as ion-current density, beam energy distribution and emittance for each charge states to be compared to simulations of ECR e-heating...

Cøliaki og mad uden gluten

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Borre, Mette; Rasholt, Mia; Rasmussen, Jüri Johannes

Denne pjece henvender sig til dig, der hos lægen eller på sygehuset har fået konstateret cøliaki, eller som har et barn med cøliaki. Pjecen kan også bruges, når familie, venner, daginstitution, skole og andre skal informeres om sygdommen. Cøliaki er en sygdom i tyndtarmen. Sygdommen behandles liv....... Begynder man på diæten, inden diagnosen er stillet, begynder tyndtarmen at hele, og man risikerer at skulle spise gluten i en længere periode igen, før diagnosen kan stilles. Det kan være svært, hvis man har fået det bedre under diæten....

Pulmonary infection in patients with cyclosporine, azathioprine, and corticosteroids after cardiac transplantation; Clinical and radiographic assessment

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Murayama, Sadayuki; Ikezoe, Junpei; Godwin, J.D.; Marglin, S.I.; Allen, M.D. (University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA (United States))

1991-07-01

Between November 1985 and November 1989, 54 patients have undergone 55 cardiac transplants, 5 of whom died during operation or one week after transplantation. The remaining 49 patients with a minimum follow-up of 5 months were studied to examine pulmonary infection clinically and radiologically while receiving triple drug immunosuppression consisting of cyclosporine, azathioprine, and prednisolone. Pulmonary infection occurred in 14 patients (29%) with a total of 21 occasions. Causative organisms were identified in 9 occasions, with the most common organism being Cytomegalovirus (CMV). One patient died of pulmonary infection with Aspergillus. Causative organisms occurring in the remaining 12 occasions of pulmonary infection were unknown, which did not lead to death. Because pulmonary infection of unknown organisms rapidly responded to convensional antibiotics, it seemed to have been caused by bacteria. Pulmonary infection of unknown organism occurred 13.2{+-}3.2 months after transplantation, as compared with 3.3{+-}1.0 months in pulmonary infection of known organisms. Chest plain radiographic features fell into four types: (1) interstitial shadow seen in pulmonary infection of CMV, Pneumocystis carinii, or Hemophilia influenza, (2) patchy, and basilar and lobular consolidation shadows in bacterial pneumonia, (3) localized nodular shadow in aspergillosis, and (4) multiple patchy and confluent opacity patterns occurring in herpes simplex viral infection. Pulmonary infection of influenza bacteria for one patient and pulmonary infection of unknown organisms for 4 patients were difficult to identify from pulmonary infection of CMV. (N.K.).

Hovedpointer fra telefon survey med D&I kandidater og aftagere

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Brodersen, Søsser; Lindegaard, Hanne

2010-01-01

Som en anden fase i D&I evalueringen gennemførtes en telefon survey med alle færdige D&I kandidater (i perioden september til november 2009). Formålet med denne telefon survey var at kortlægge kandidaternes karriereforløb: mønstrer, entre på arbejdsmarkedet og hvor søger de job, beskæftigelsesmøn......Som en anden fase i D&I evalueringen gennemførtes en telefon survey med alle færdige D&I kandidater (i perioden september til november 2009). Formålet med denne telefon survey var at kortlægge kandidaternes karriereforløb: mønstrer, entre på arbejdsmarkedet og hvor søger de job......, beskæftigelsesmønstrer samt hvilke kompetencer de mener at have anvendt og ikke anvendt fra studiet i deres job. Telefon survey formen blev valgt for dermed at få muligheden for at få nogle kvantitative informationer frem. I alt blev 72 D&I kandidater interviewet ud af 78 mulige, dvs. vi opnåede en svarprocent på 92......,3 % . Spørgsmålene var forberedt på forhånd således at kandidaterne blev stillet de samme spørgsmål. Derudover gennemførtes en telefon survey med 14 aftagere af D&I kandidater (identificeret gennem telefon surveyen med kandidaterne, således at de repræsenterede store virksomheder, mindre virksomheder...

Software-Enabled Distributed Network Governance: The PopMedNet Experience.

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Davies, Melanie; Erickson, Kyle; Wyner, Zachary; Malenfant, Jessica; Rosen, Rob; Brown, Jeffrey

2016-01-01

The expanded availability of electronic health information has led to increased interest in distributed health data research networks. The distributed research network model leaves data with and under the control of the data holder. Data holders, network coordinating centers, and researchers have distinct needs and challenges within this model. The concerns of network stakeholders are addressed in the design and governance models of the PopMedNet software platform. PopMedNet features include distributed querying, customizable workflows, and auditing and search capabilities. Its flexible role-based access control system enables the enforcement of varying governance policies. Four case studies describe how PopMedNet is used to enforce network governance models. Trust is an essential component of a distributed research network and must be built before data partners may be willing to participate further. The complexity of the PopMedNet system must be managed as networks grow and new data, analytic methods, and querying approaches are developed. The PopMedNet software platform supports a variety of network structures, governance models, and research activities through customizable features designed to meet the needs of network stakeholders.

Å forske med kunsten kollaborativt i en fortellerforestillingsproduksjon

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Mette Bøe Lyngstad

2018-03-01

Full Text Available I denne artikkelen viser forskerne, som også er fortellere, hvordan de i utviklingen av sin egen fortellerforestilling forsket med kunsten. Artikkelforfatterne forsøker å vise en selvrefleksivitet og metodologisk bevissthet gjennom hele kunstproduksjonen. De undersøker hvordan en gjennom å forske med kunsten kollaborativt kan koble historiske fakta, fiksjonsfortelling og livsfortelling i en kunstproduksjon. Forskningsartikkelen tar for seg kunstproduksjonens ulike faser som brainstormfase, innsamlingsfase, fortellertekniske fase og utforskingsfase i scenerommet.

Mediator Subunit Med28 Is Essential for Mouse Peri-Implantation Development and Pluripotency.

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Full Text Available The multi-subunit mammalian Mediator complex acts as an integrator of transcriptional regulation by RNA Polymerase II, and has emerged as a master coordinator of development and cell fate determination. We previously identified the Mediator subunit, MED28, as a cytosolic binding partner of merlin, the Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2 tumor suppressor, and thus MED28 is distinct in having a cytosolic role as an NF2 interacting protein as well as a nuclear role as a Mediator complex subunit. Although limited in vitro studies have been performed on MED28, its in vivo function remains unknown. Employing a knockout mouse model, we describe for the first time the requirement for Med28 in the developing mouse embryo. Med28-deficiency causes peri-implantation lethality resulting from the loss of pluripotency of the inner cell mass accompanied by reduced expression of key pluripotency transcription factors Oct4 and Nanog. Further, overexpression of Med28 in mouse embryonic fibroblasts enhances the efficiency of their reprogramming to pluripotency. Cre-mediated inactivation of Med28 in induced pluripotent stem cells shows that Med28 is required for their survival. Intriguingly, heterozygous loss of Med28 results in differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells into extraembryonic trophectoderm and primitive endoderm lineages. Our findings document the essential role of Med28 in the developing embryo as well as in acquisition and maintenance of pluripotency during reprogramming.

Graduating med-peds residents' interest in part-time employment.

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Fix, Amy L; Kaelber, David C; Melgar, Thomas A; Chamberlain, John; Cull, William; Robbins, Brett W

2011-01-01

As part-time work is becoming more popular among the primary care specialties, we examined the demographic descriptors of med-peds residents seeking and finding part-time employment upon completion of residency training. As part of the 2006 annual American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Graduating Med-Peds Residents Survey, we surveyed the graduating residents of all med-peds programs about their interest in and plans for part-time employment. A total of 199 (60%) of the residents responded. Of the resident respondents applying for nonfellowship jobs, 19% sought part-time positions and 10% actually accepted a part-time position. Female residents were significantly more likely than male residents to apply for part-time jobs (26% vs. 7%, P = .034). Sixty percent of female residents immediately seeking work and 58% of those going on to fellowship reported an interest in arranging a part-time or reduced-hours position at some point in the next 5 years. Part-time employment among med-peds residents applying for nonfellowship positions after graduation is similar to the current incidence of part-time employment in other fields of primary care. A much higher percentage of med-peds residents are interested in arranging part-time work within 5 years after graduation. This strong interest in part-time work has many implications for the primary care workforce. Copyright © 2011 Academic Pediatric Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Time-dependent migration of citations through PubMed and OvidSP subsets: a study on a series of simultaneous PubMed and OvidSP searches.

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Boeker, Martin; Vach, Werner; Motschall, Edith

2013-01-01

To quantitatively describe (1) differences between search results derived at consecutive time points with the PubMed and OvidSP literature search interfaces over a five day interval, and (2) the migration of citations through different subsets to estimate the timeliness of OvidSP. PubMed-Identifiers (PMIDs) of the following subsets were retrieved from PubMed and OvidSP simultaneously (within 8 h) at 11 days in March and April 2010 including 5 consecutive days: as supplied by publisher, in process, PubMed not MEDLINE, and OLDMEDLINE. Search results were compared for difference and intersection sets. The migration of citations on individual level was determined by comparison of corresponding sets over several days. The "in process" set was stable with about 446,000 - 452,000 citations; a small fraction of up to 3 % of the total subsets were in PubMed only and OvidSP only subsets. About 96 % of the ca. 10,500 citations in the OvidSP only subset migrated within 2 days out of the "in process" subset. The database of OvidSP is updated within a period of two days.

Sport og medierettigheder

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Jakobsen, Søren Sandfeld

2014-01-01

Kapitlet behandler en række medie-, immaterial- og konkurrenceretlige aspekter ved overdragelse af tv-rettigheder til store sportsbegivenheder.......Kapitlet behandler en række medie-, immaterial- og konkurrenceretlige aspekter ved overdragelse af tv-rettigheder til store sportsbegivenheder....

Jokar et al., Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. (2016) 13(1):40-44 ...

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Jokar et al., Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. ... Shiraz- Iran.3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine and maternal- fetal ..... Ann Intern Med 2001; 135(5):344–51. 7. ... Clin Geriatr Med.2008; ... Indian J. Med Res.

Susceptibility of MED-Q1 and MED-Q3 Biotypes of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Populations to Essential and Seed Oils.

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Samuel Fogné, Drabo; Olivier, Gnankine; Bassolé, Imael H N; Nébié, Roger Charles; Laurence, Mouton

2017-06-01

Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a major pest of many agricultural and ornamental crops in tropical and subtropical regions causing damages that result in important economic losses. Insecticides are commonly used in greenhouses or fields to control B. tabaci populations leading to rapid evolution of resistance that render treatments inefficient. Therefore, and for environmental and human health concerns, other approaches must be developed for this pest management. In the present study, we compare, using the leaf dip method, the toxicity of three essential oils (Cymbopogon citratus, Ocimum americanum, and Hyptis spicigera) and three seed oils (Lannea microcarpa, Lannea acida, and Carapa procera) with three chemical insecticides (acetamiprid, deltamethrin, and chlorpyrifos-ethyl) on adults. Two B. tabaci biotypes (MED-Q1 and MED-Q3) belonging to the Mediterranean species and collected in Burkina Faso were used. Essential oils were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-flame ionization detector. We showed that these two biotypes have different levels of resistance to the three insecticides, MED-Q3 being more sensitive than MED-Q1. Moreover, they differ in the frequency of resistance alleles to insecticides, especially for organophosphates, as these alleles are almost fixed in MED-Q1. On the other hand, the two biotypes prove to be more susceptible to the plant extracts than to insecticides except for chlorpyrifos-ethyl, with essential oils that showed the highest insecticidal activities. Monoterpenes content were the most abundant and showed the highest insecticidal activities. Our results indicated that essential oils, but also seed oils, have the potential to constitute an alternative strategy of pest management. © The Authors 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

Forskningsbaseret viden kan bruges i praksis

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Braad, Mette; Bahnsen, Iben Bøgh; Axelsen, Hanne Clement

2013-01-01

Evidensbaseret praksis blev trænet i et samarbejde mellem sygeplejestuderende, kliniske vejledere og undervisere på sygeplejerskeuddannelsen i Aalborg. Resultatet af samarbejdet kommer nu præmature børn i CPAP-behandling til gode i form af systematisk soignering, aflastning og gel-behandling omkr......Evidensbaseret praksis blev trænet i et samarbejde mellem sygeplejestuderende, kliniske vejledere og undervisere på sygeplejerskeuddannelsen i Aalborg. Resultatet af samarbejdet kommer nu præmature børn i CPAP-behandling til gode i form af systematisk soignering, aflastning og gel...

Afkølingstid - breddeopgaver 45-46 med didaktisk kommentar

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Jensen, Jens Højgaard

2011-01-01

Mit formål med artikelserien om breddeopgaver er – udover at gøre opmærksom på RUCs fysikuddannelse – dobbelt: Dels udvælger jeg opgaverne, så de kan have interesse som fysikproblemer i egen ret. Dels udvælger jeg dem med henblik på at kunne knytte didaktiske overvejelser til dem af interesse...

Måltidet på hospitalet - Behandling eller bespisning af ældre

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Røjel, Terkel Søndergaard

2016-01-01

The purpose of this master thesis is to examine the field of research with relevance to the topic geriatric malnutrition in order to propose recommendations that can stimulate the appetite, increase food intake, and stabilize the nutritional status of the geriatric patient at risk of malnutrition. For this purpose searches were conducted in the bibliographical databases: PubMed, PsycINFO and Sociological Abstracts along with various other resources. Based on these searches an analysis of the ...

Differential expression of Mediator complex subunit MED15 in testicular germ cell tumors.

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Klümper, Niklas; Syring, Isabella; Offermann, Anne; Shaikhibrahim, Zaki; Vogel, Wenzel; Müller, Stefan C; Ellinger, Jörg; Strauß, Arne; Radzun, Heinz Joachim; Ströbel, Philipp; Brägelmann, Johannes; Perner, Sven; Bremmer, Felix

2015-09-17

Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) are the most common cancer entities in young men with increasing incidence observed in the last decades. For therapeutic management it is important, that TGCT are divided into several histological subtypes. MED15 is part of the multiprotein Mediator complex which presents an integrative hub for transcriptional regulation and is known to be deregulated in several malignancies, such as prostate cancer and bladder cancer role, whereas the role of the Mediator complex in TGCT has not been investigated so far. Aim of the study was to investigate the implication of MED15 in TGCT development and its stratification into histological subtypes. Immunohistochemical staining (IHC) against Mediator complex subunit MED15 was conducted on a TGCT cohort containing tumor-free testis (n = 35), intratubular germ cell neoplasia unclassified (IGCNU, n = 14), seminomas (SEM, n = 107) and non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCT, n = 42), further subdivided into embryonic carcinomas (EC, n = 30), yolk sac tumors (YST, n = 5), chorionic carcinomas (CC, n = 5) and teratomas (TER, n = 2). Quantification of MED15 protein expression was performed through IHC followed by semi-quantitative image analysis using the Definiens software. In tumor-free seminiferous tubules, MED15 protein expression was absent or only low expressed in spermatogonia. Interestingly, the precursor lesions IGCNU exhibited heterogeneous but partly very strong MED15 expression. SEM weakly express the Mediator complex subunit MED15, whereas NSGCT and especially EC show significantly enhanced expression compared to tumor-free testis. In conclusion, MED15 is differentially expressed in tumor-free testis and TGCT. While MED15 is absent or low in tumor-free testis and SEM, NSGCT highly express MED15, hinting at the diagnostic potential of this marker to distinguish between SEM and NSGCT. Further, the precursor lesion IGCNU showed increased nuclear MED15

Searching PubMed for molecular epidemiology studies: the case of chromosome aberrations

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Ugolini, Donatella; Neri, Monica; Knudsen, Lisbeth E

2006-01-01

to environmental pollutants. The search, done on the PubMed/MedLine database, was based on a strategy combining descriptors listed in the PubMed Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Thesaurus and other available tools (free text or phrase search tools). 178 articles were retrieved by searching the period from January 1...

Maintenance treatment with azathioprine in ulcerative colitis: outcome and predictive factors after drug withdrawal.

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Cassinotti, Andrea; Actis, Giovanni C; Duca, Piergiorgio; Massari, Alessandro; Colombo, Elisabetta; Gai, Elisa; Annese, Vito; D'Albasio, Giuseppe; Manes, Gianpiero; Travis, Simon; Porro, Gabriele Bianchi; Ardizzone, Sandro

2009-11-01

Whether the duration of maintenance treatment with azathioprine (AZA) affects the outcome of ulcerative colitis (UC) is unclear. We investigated clinical outcomes and any predictive factors after withdrawal of AZA in UC. In this multicenter observational retrospective study, 127 Italian UC patients, who were in steroid-free remission at the time of withdrawal of AZA, were followed-up for a median of 55 months or until relapse. The frequency of clinical relapse or colectomy after AZA withdrawal was analyzed according to demographic, clinical, and endoscopic variables. After drug withdrawal, a third of the patients relapsed within 12 months, half within 2 years and two-thirds within 5 years. After multivariable analysis, predictors of relapse after drug withdrawal were lack of sustained remission during AZA maintenance (hazard ratio, HR 2.350, confidence interval, CI 95% 1.434-3.852; P=0.001), extensive colitis (HR 1.793, CI 95% 1.064-3.023, P=0.028 vs. left-sided colitis; HR 2.024, CI 95% 1.103-3.717, P=0.023 vs. distal colitis), and treatment duration, with short treatments (3-6 months) more disadvantaged than >48-month treatments (HR 2.783, CI 95% 1.267-6.114, P=0.008). Concomitant aminosalicylates were the only predictors of sustained remission during AZA therapy (P=0.009). The overall colectomy rate was 10%. Predictors of colectomy were drug-related toxicity as the cause of AZA withdrawal (P=0.041), no post-AZA drug therapy (P=0.031), and treatment duration (P<0.0005). Discontinuation of AZA while UC is in remission is associated with a high relapse rate. Disease extent, lack of sustained remission during AZA, and discontinuation due to toxicity could stratify relapse risk. Concomitant aminosalicylates were advantageous. Prospective randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm whether treatment duration is inversely associated with outcome.

A.R.T. – Aggression Replacement Training

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Harbo, Lotte Junker; Domben, Eskil

2015-01-01

Artiklen indeholder en kort introduktion, eksemplificeret ved case, af det manualbaserede program til behandling af udadreagerende unge Aggression Replacement Training.......Artiklen indeholder en kort introduktion, eksemplificeret ved case, af det manualbaserede program til behandling af udadreagerende unge Aggression Replacement Training....

Ion sources for MedAustron

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Lettry, J.; Penescu, L.; Wallner, J.; Sargsyan, E.

2010-01-01

The MedAustron Ion therapy center will be constructed in Wiener Neustadt (Austria) in the vicinity of Vienna. Its accelerator complex consists of four ion sources, a linear accelerator, a synchrotron, and a beam delivery system to the three medical treatment rooms and to the research irradiation room. The ion sources shall deliver beams of H 3 1+ , C 4+ , and light ions with utmost reliability and stability. This paper describes the features of the ion sources presently planned for the MedAustron facility, such as ion source main parameters, gas injection, temperature control, and cooling systems. A dedicated beam diagnostics technique is proposed in order to characterize electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion beams; in the first drift region after the ion source, a fraction of the mixed beam is selected via moveable aperture. With standard beam diagnostics, we then aim to produce position-dependant observables such as ion-current density, beam energy distribution, and emittance for each charge states to be compared to simulations of ECR e-heating, plasma simulation, beam formation, and transport.

MedAustron board visits CERN

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MED, COMP, multilayered and NEIN: an overview of multiple epiphyseal dysplasia

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Lachman, Ralph S. [International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry, UCLA School of Medicine, Radiological Services, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles, CA (United States); International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Krakow, Deborah; Cohn, Daniel H.; Rimoin, David L. [International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry, UCLA School of Medicine, Radiological Services, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

2005-02-01

This overview covers the group of disorders that presents radiographically as multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED). The disorders include ''classic MED'' (Ribbing and Fairbank types): MED that is caused by mutations in the cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP), type IX collagen, and matrilin 3 genes (MATN3); and MED with multilayered patella, brachydactyly, and clubbed feet resultant from mutations in gene defect diastrophic dysplasia (DTDST). The recently identified gene/molecular abnormalities in these disorders have made more exact identification possible in many cases, although clinical testing is not always available. However, there are specific radiographic findings that allow the accurate diagnosis to be made, thus potentially guiding which molecular defect(s) should be investigated. The modes of inheritance of these distinct MED conditions are not identical. When a specific diagnosis is made, proper genetic counseling as well as prognostication, management issues and complications can be delineated to the patient and family. This review will include the mechanics of diagnostic and molecular triage for these disorders. (orig.)

The inclusion of an online journal in PubMed central - a difficult path.

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Grech, Victor

2016-01-01

The indexing of a journal in a prominent database (such as PubMed) is an important imprimatur. Journals accepted for inclusion in PubMed Central (PMC) are automatically indexed in PubMed but must provide the entire contents of their publications as XML-tagged (Extensible Markup Language) data files compliant with PubMed's document type definition (DTD). This paper describes the various attempts that the journal Images in Paediatric Cardiology made in its efforts to convert the journal contents (including all of the extant backlog) to PMC-compliant XML for archiving and indexing in PubMed after the journal was accepted for inclusion by the database.

Gaps in affiliation indexing in Scopus and PubMed.

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Schmidt, Cynthia M; Cox, Roxanne; Fial, Alissa V; Hartman, Teresa L; Magee, Martha L

2016-04-01

The authors sought to determine whether unexpected gaps existed in Scopus's author affiliation indexing of publications written by the University of Nebraska Medical Center or Nebraska Medicine (UNMC/NM) authors during 2014. First, we compared Scopus affiliation identifier search results to PubMed affiliation keyword search results. Then, we searched Scopus using affiliation keywords (UNMC, etc.) and compared the results to PubMed affiliation keyword and Scopus affiliation identifier searches. We found that Scopus's records for approximately 7% of UNMC/NM authors' publications lacked appropriate UNMC/NM author affiliation identifiers, and many journals' publishers were supplying incomplete author affiliation information to PubMed. Institutions relying on Scopus to track their impact should determine whether Scopus's affiliation identifiers will, in fact, identify all articles published by their authors and investigators.

Med politiet i ’virkeligheden’: Reality-tv og kriminalitet

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Ib Bondebjerg

2002-09-01

Full Text Available Kriminalstoffet på tv bliver ofte anklaget for at spekulere i vore lavere instinkter, og med reality kommer vi tættere end nogensinde på sam- fundets bund og det utrættelige politi, som har til opgave at opretholde lov og orden. Artiklen gennemgår en lang række af de senere års kri- minalprogrammer og diskuterer dokumentarismens former med en særlig belysning af æstetik, retorik og synsvinkel i undergenrerne »reality magasin« og »reality soap«. Lars Engels’ serie »Historier fra en politistation« tages op til særlig debat, fordi Engels – vanen tro – arbejder med en mindre iscenesættelse og ukommenteret virkelig- hedsgengivelse, end vi finder det i andre »reality soaps«.

Planning and scheduling algorithms for the COSMO-SkyMed constellation

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Bianchessi, Nicola; Righini, Giovanni

2008-01-01

The COSMO-SkyMed satellite constellation for the observation of the Earth is made of four satellites equipped with radar instruments and is intended for dual use, i.e. for security as well as for environmental monitoring purpose. The planning and scheduling problem for the COSMO-SkyMed constellation

The enlightenment and religion, knowledge and pedagogies in Europe

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Winther-Jensen, Thyge

2009-01-01

Artiklen behandler indflydelse strømninger inden for pædagogik, religion og vidensopfattelse i tiden under og op til Oplysningstiden.......Artiklen behandler indflydelse strømninger inden for pædagogik, religion og vidensopfattelse i tiden under og op til Oplysningstiden....

Herodotos and Hemerodromoi

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Nielsen, Thomas Heine; Schwartz, Adam; Christensen, Dirk Lund

2009-01-01

Artiklen behandler de oldgræske 'hemerodromoi' - militære langdistanceilbud - i almindelighed og den athenske hemerodromos Pheidippides' løb fra Athen til Sparta i år 490 f.Kr., idet både historiske og fysiologiske forhold tages under behandling....

Micophenolat Mofetil Versus Azathioprine: Effects on Renal Graft Function in Early Posttransplant Period

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Farid Ljuca

2009-05-01

Full Text Available All conventional immunosuppressive tree drugs-protocols are based on Cyclosporine; consisting of low doses of Cyclosporine (CsA, Azathioprine (AZA or Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF and Prednisolone, AZA has been used in clinical transplantation for more than 30 years and was the first immunosuppres-sive agent to achieve widespread use in organ transplantation. MMF was introduced in clinical practice in 1995 after several clinical trials proved that it was more efficient than AZA for prevention of acute rejection episodes. Our aim was to evaluate influence of AZA and MMF on renal graft function in early post-transplant stage. Study recruited 74 patients who underwent kidney transplantation in University Clinical Centre Tuzla. All patients received CsA and corticosteroid-based immunosuppression, as a part of triple immunosuppressive regiment, 40 patients received AZA and 34 MMF. In order to assess renal graft function, following parameters were evaluated: glomerular filtration rate GFR (ml/min creatinine clearance (CrCl (ml/min, 24 h urine output (ml/day, and from the serum potassium, sodium, urea and creatinine (mmol/dm3. Significantly higher average values of 24 hour urine output were recorded during first seven postoperative days in patients receiving MMF compared to those treated with AZA. Serum creatinine values showed statistically significant decrease, starting with the second postoperative day, in MMF vs. AZA group (168,7±70,5 vs. 119,9±42,6; p<0,0007. GFR was significantly higher in MMF compared to the AZA group of patients. On the first post-transplant day CrCl was higher in AZA group (24,3±10 vs. 17,5±7,3; p=0,01, next six days situation is reversed CrCl is significantly higher in the MMF group (43,7±15 vs. 53, 4±22, 8 p=0,006. MMF vs. AZA therapy was associated with protective effect against worsening of renal function in first seven post-transplant days.

Vejbygning i områder med permafrost

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Jørgensen, Anders Stuhr

2009-01-01

Siden begyndelsen af 1990’erne er der registreret en markant stigning i den årlige middeltemperatur i Nunavik, Québec Canada. Dette har ført til en reduktion i udbredelsen af permafrost, hvilket truer stabiliteten af lufthavne og veje i området. I sommeren 2007 blev en teststrækning opført i...... Tasiujaq Lufthavn for at studere effekten af tre forskellige metoder, som skal være med til at reducere optøningen af permafrost under landingsbanen. De tre metoder, som er blevet undersøgt, er konvektionskøling (air convection embankment), varmeudtrækning (heat drain) samt et forsøg med ændring af...

Grønnere skibsfart med modstandsdygtige motorer

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Lassen, Lisbeth

2015-01-01

Udledningen af forurening fra skibsmotorer skal sænkes kraftigt i de kommende år, og derfor står den maritime industri overfor helt nye krav til blandt andet hvilke brændstoffer, man kan bruge. På grund af de nye regler, der begrænser skibenes energiforbrug, er man også begyndt at sejle med nedsa...... foregår i samarbejde med DTU Kemiteknik og MAN Diesel & Turbo....... hastighed. Både de nye brændstoftyper og den nedsatte hastighed giver problemer for skibsmotorerne, problemer som projektet SULCOR, Sulfuric Acid corrosion in Large Marine Diesel Engines, netop har modtaget 16 millioner kr. fra Innovationsfonden til at begynde at løse. Projektet ledes af DTU Mekanik og...

Projekt Frit Sind hjælper mennesker med social angst

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Moutamid, Mina El

2017-01-01

Social angst er en almindelig, men overset lidelse, som ofte er forbundet med isolation. Mange fortæller ikke om den angst, de oplever, til andre og kommer til at leve et liv med begrænsninger, som de kunne være foruden, hvis de fik hjælp. Angsten betyder også, at det kan være svært at komme...... hjemmefra og opsøge hjælp hos SIND eller andre rådgivninger. Frit Sind er et nyt tilbud i København til disse mennesker og har fokus på de specifikke behov, mennesker med social angst har....

Primary EBV-positive Hodgkin's lymphoma of the CNS under azathioprine treatment. Case report and review of the literature

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Henkenberens, Christoph; Christiansen, Hans; Franzke, Anke; Raab, Peter; Oschlies, Ilske; Klapper, Wolfram

2014-01-01

Retrospective and prospective cohort studies suggest that central nervous system involvement occurs in approximately 0.5 % of patients with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma. The isolated primary intracranial manifestation of Hodgkin's lymphoma is an extremely rare finding, with few cases reported in the literature. Little is known about the optimal treatment and prognosis of these tumors. Here, we present a case report with a review of the literature. A 47-year-old Caucasian man with persistent frontal headache and unspecific vertigo for half a month was diagnosed with nodular space-occupying lesions in the cerebellum. His medical history included multiple sclerosis, which was treated for 20 years with the immunosuppressive drug azathioprine. Further staging revealed no additional lesions suspected of being malignant. The patient underwent total tumor resection. Immunohistopathological examination showed Epstein-Barr virus-associated classic Hodgkin's lymphoma. Diagnostic bone marrow punction excluded lymphoma involvement of the bone marrow. The patient had no B symptoms. Consequently, the patient was classified as having stage I E A disease according to the Modified Ann Arbor Classification of Hodgkin Lymphoma and received systemic chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy for the former cerebellar tumor region. He was in complete clinical remission at the last follow-up 9 months after the initial diagnosis. This case report and literature review suggest that multimodal treatment leads to a remarkable clinical outcome in Hodgkin's lymphoma with intracranial involvement. (orig.) [de

Primary EBV-positive Hodgkin's lymphoma of the CNS under azathioprine treatment. Case report and review of the literature

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Henkenberens, Christoph; Christiansen, Hans [Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Klinik fuer Strahlentherapie und Spezielle Onkologie, Hannover (Germany); Franzke, Anke [Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Klinik fuer Haematologie, Haemostaseologie, Onkologie und Stammzelltransplantation, Hannover (Germany); Raab, Peter [Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Institut fuer Diagnostische und Interventionelle Neuroradiologie, Hannover (Germany); Oschlies, Ilske; Klapper, Wolfram [Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Institut fuer Pathologie, Sektion Haematopathologie, Kiel (Germany)

2014-09-15

Retrospective and prospective cohort studies suggest that central nervous system involvement occurs in approximately 0.5 % of patients with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma. The isolated primary intracranial manifestation of Hodgkin's lymphoma is an extremely rare finding, with few cases reported in the literature. Little is known about the optimal treatment and prognosis of these tumors. Here, we present a case report with a review of the literature. A 47-year-old Caucasian man with persistent frontal headache and unspecific vertigo for half a month was diagnosed with nodular space-occupying lesions in the cerebellum. His medical history included multiple sclerosis, which was treated for 20 years with the immunosuppressive drug azathioprine. Further staging revealed no additional lesions suspected of being malignant. The patient underwent total tumor resection. Immunohistopathological examination showed Epstein-Barr virus-associated classic Hodgkin's lymphoma. Diagnostic bone marrow punction excluded lymphoma involvement of the bone marrow. The patient had no B symptoms. Consequently, the patient was classified as having stage I{sub E}A disease according to the Modified Ann Arbor Classification of Hodgkin Lymphoma and received systemic chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy for the former cerebellar tumor region. He was in complete clinical remission at the last follow-up 9 months after the initial diagnosis. This case report and literature review suggest that multimodal treatment leads to a remarkable clinical outcome in Hodgkin's lymphoma with intracranial involvement. (orig.) [German] Retrospektive und prospektive Kohortenstudien deuten daraufhin, dass eine Beteiligung des zentralen Nervensystems (ZNS) in etwa bei 0,5 % der Patienten mit fortgeschrittenem Hodgkin-Lymphom auftritt. Die isoliert primaer intrakranielle Manifestation des Hodgkin-Lymphoms ist extrem selten, mit wenigen bisher bekannten Faellen. Wenig ist auch ueber die optimale

Et eller andet med sprog

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Adamsen, Billy; Nielsen, Charlotte Marie Bisgaard; Dam Christensen, Mie

2012-01-01

bedre sted, intet mindre. - Jeg frygter at de kommer til at kede sig på et reklamebureau med fx at lave kampagner og drikke champagne. Så jeg prøver at tale dem fra det. De skal finde ud af, hvem de er og hvad de gerne vil bruge deres liv på. Rådgiver for statsministeren Billy Adamsen har en phd i...

A synergetic hybridization of adsorption cycle with the multi-effect distillation (MED)

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Thu, K.

2014-01-01

Multi-effect distillation (MED) systems are proven and energy efficient thermally-driven desalination systems for handling harsh seawater feed in the Gulf region. The high cycle efficiency is markedly achieved by latent energy re-use with minimal stage temperature-difference across the condensing steam and the evaporating saline seawater in each stage. The efficacies of MED system are (i) its low stage-temperature-difference between top brine temperature (TBT) and final condensing temperature, (ii) its robustness to varying salinity and ability to handle harmful algae Blooming (HABs) and (iii) its compact foot-print per unit water output. The practical TBT of MED systems, hitherto, is around 65 C for controllable scaling and fouling with the ambient-limited final condenser temperature, usually from 30 to 45 C. The adsorption (ADC) cycles utilize low-temperature heat sources (typically below 90 C) to produce useful cooling power and potable water. Hybridizing MED with AD cycles, they synergistically improve the water production rates at the same energy input whilst the AD cycle is driven by the recovered waste heat. We present a practical AD + MED combination that can be retrofitted to existing MEDs: The cooling energy of AD cycle through the water vapor uptake by the adsorbent is recycled internally, providing lower temperature condensing environment in the effects whilst the final condensing temperature of MED is as low as 5-10 C, which is below ambient. The increase in the temperature difference between TBT and final condensing temperature accommodates additional MED stages. A detailed numerical model is presented to capture the transient behaviors of heat and mass interactions in the combined AD + MED cycles and the results are presented in terms of key variables. It is observed that the water production rates of the combined cycle increase to give a GOR of 8.8 from an initial value of 5.9. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

MedBlock: Efficient and Secure Medical Data Sharing Via Blockchain.

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Fan, Kai; Wang, Shangyang; Ren, Yanhui; Li, Hui; Yang, Yintang

2018-06-21

With the development of electronic information technology, electronic medical records (EMRs) have been a common way to store the patients' data in hospitals. They are stored in different hospitals' databases, even for the same patient. Therefore, it is difficult to construct a summarized EMR for one patient from multiple hospital databases due to the security and privacy concerns. Meanwhile, current EMRs systems lack a standard data management and sharing policy, making it difficult for pharmaceutical scientists to develop precise medicines based on data obtained under different policies. To solve the above problems, we proposed a blockchain-based information management system, MedBlock, to handle patients' information. In this scheme, the distributed ledger of MedBlock allows the efficient EMRs access and EMRs retrieval. The improved consensus mechanism achieves consensus of EMRs without large energy consumption and network congestion. In addition, MedBlock also exhibits high information security combining the customized access control protocols and symmetric cryptography. MedBlock can play an important role in the sensitive medical information sharing.

Vekst, metabolisme og ølbrygging med melkesyrebakterier og gjær

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Kvam, Guro

2017-01-01

Ølbrygging er et håndverk forbundet med lange tradisjoner, med røtter tilbake til det 12. århundrets Europa. Før dagens mikrobiologiske teknikker ble oppfunnet var all øl spontangjæret med en kompleks sammensetning av ulike gjær- og bakteriestammer. I dag produseres fremdeles enkelte av disse ølsortene under navn som lambic, geuze eller Berliner weisse, og interessen for slike ølsorter har økt betraktelig de siste årene. Mange bryggerier benytter i dag kjente kulturer av gjær og melkesyrebakt...

Role for the MED21-MED7 Hinge in Assembly of the Mediator-RNA Polymerase II Holoenzyme*

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Sato, Shigeo; Tomomori-Sato, Chieri; Tsai, Kuang-Lei; Yu, Xiaodi; Sardiu, Mihaela; Saraf, Anita; Washburn, Michael P.; Florens, Laurence; Asturias, Francisco J.; Conaway, Ronald C.

2016-01-01

Mediator plays an integral role in activation of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcription. A key step in activation is binding of Mediator to Pol II to form the Mediator-Pol II holoenzyme. Here, we exploit a combination of biochemistry and macromolecular EM to investigate holoenzyme assembly. We identify a subset of human Mediator head module subunits that bind Pol II independent of other subunits and thus probably contribute to a major Pol II binding site. In addition, we show that binding of human Mediator to Pol II depends on the integrity of a conserved “hinge” in the middle module MED21-MED7 heterodimer. Point mutations in the hinge region leave core Mediator intact but lead to increased disorder of the middle module and markedly reduced affinity for Pol II. These findings highlight the importance of Mediator conformation for holoenzyme assembly. PMID:27821593

Metodik til studiet af strategiske ledelsesprocesser i organisationer

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Jørgen Gulddahl Rasmussen

2010-10-01

Full Text Available Denne artikel handler om at skabe viden om en hverdagspraksis, der sjældent er sat ord på. Den behandler de ledelsesprocesser, der i virksomheder producerer strategi og omsætter sådanne strategier i produktive handlinger. Det er processer, der i små og mellemstore virksomheder er præget af intuition og af meget uformelle samspil mellem virksomhedsledere og medarbejdere. Metodikken er en videreudvikling af de metoder til produktion af kvalitative data, som FIRM-gruppen har eksperimenteret med gennem nogle år. Artiklen kan ses som en afrapportering af et flerårigt metodeudviklingsarbejde. Da erfaringer fra sådanne virksomheder viser, at strategiske processer i høj grad udvikler sig gennem uformel kommunikation, og at lederes intuition spiller en meget stor rolle, arbejder metodikken med en struktureret udviklingsdialog mellem et mindre antal virksomhedsledere med strategiske opgaver og forskere. Denne udviklingsdialog har til formål at følge og forstå de processer, der skaber ledernes egne praksisrelaterede ”teorier” for strategisk handling. Efter en præsentation af temaet gennemgås metodikkens praktiske fremgangsmåde med undersøgelser i en række virksomheder, opbygning af cases i samarbejde med ledere fra disse virksomheder, diskussion af disse og foreløbige konklusioner hen mod de næste trin i metodikken. Artiklen er skrevet samtidigt med arbejdet på et igangværende forskningsprojekt og vil derfor både være en præsentation og en udvikling af muligheder og vanskeligheder i metodikken.

Den fuldt åbne MOOC med afsæt i aktuelle deltagere

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Hansbøl, Mikala; Erkmann, Malene; Munksgaard, Marianne Eilsø

2015-01-01

I dette afsnit præsenterer vi nogle af erfaringerne fra arbejdet med fire versioner af Videnskabsteori MOOC’en. Erfaringerne tager afsæt i vores kvalitative undersøgelser af deltagerperspektiver (UCSJ undervisere og MOOC deltagere) på MOOC-understøttet undervisning i, og læring af, anvendt...... videnskabsteori. MOOC litteraturen havde indtil 2013 primært beskæftiget sig med universitetsuddannelse, og der var stort set ikke skrevet noget om MOOCs i en dansk sammenhæng. Kjærgaard et al. (2013) leverede et første dansk bidrag, der kobler MOOCs med professionshøjskolerne i Danmark. Arbejdet med...... Videnskabsteori MOOC’en har især taget afsæt i en interesse i at forstå samspillet mellem deltagerforudsætninger, interesser og behov, og læringsmulighederne med MOOC’en. På den baggrund udpeger vi nogle væsentlige designelementer, der kan medtænkes i fremtidige udviklinger af tilsvarende fuldt åbne MOOCs...

PubMed had a higher sensitivity than Ovid-MEDLINE in the search for systematic reviews.

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Katchamart, Wanruchada; Faulkner, Amy; Feldman, Brian; Tomlinson, George; Bombardier, Claire

2011-07-01

To compare the performance of Ovid-MEDLINE vs. PubMed for identifying randomized controlled trials of methotrexate (MTX) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We created search strategies for Ovid-MEDLINE and PubMed for a systematic review of MTX in RA. Their performance was evaluated using sensitivity, precision, and number needed to read (NNR). Comparing searches in Ovid-MEDLINE vs. PubMed, PubMed retrieved more citations overall than Ovid-MEDLINE; however, of the 20 citations that met eligibility criteria for the review, Ovid-MEDLINE retrieved 17 and PubMed 18. The sensitivity was 85% for Ovid-MEDLINE vs. 90% for PubMed, whereas the precision and NNR were comparable (precision: 0.881% for Ovid-MEDLINE vs. 0.884% for PubMed and NNR: 114 for Ovid-MEDLINE vs. 113 for PubMed). In systematic reviews of RA, PubMed has higher sensitivity than Ovid-MEDLINE with comparable precision and NNR. This study highlights the importance of well-designed database-specific search strategies. Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

How Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners Use PubMed

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Quint-Rapoport, Mia

2007-01-01

Background PubMed is the largest bibliographic index in the life sciences. It is freely available online and is used by professionals and the public to learn more about medical research. While primarily intended to serve researchers, PubMed provides an array of tools and services that can help a wider readership in the location, comprehension, evaluation, and utilization of medical research. Objective This study sought to establish the potential contributions made by a range of PubMed tools and services to the use of the database by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners. Methods In this study, 10 chiropractors, 7 registered massage therapists, and a homeopath (N = 18), 11 with prior research training and 7 without, were taken through a 2-hour introductory session with PubMed. The 10 PubMed tools and services considered in this study can be divided into three functions: (1) information retrieval (Boolean Search, Limits, Related Articles, Author Links, MeSH), (2) information access (Publisher Link, LinkOut, Bookshelf ), and (3) information management (History, Send To, Email Alert). Participants were introduced to between six and 10 of these tools and services. The participants were asked to provide feedback on the value of each tool or service in terms of their information needs, which was ranked as positive, positive with emphasis, negative, or indifferent. Results The participants in this study expressed an interest in the three types of PubMed tools and services (information retrieval, access, and management), with less well-regarded tools including MeSH Database and Bookshelf. In terms of their comprehension of the research, the tools and services led the participants to reflect on their understanding as well as their critical reading and use of the research. There was universal support among the participants for greater access to complete articles, beyond the approximately 15% that are currently open access. The abstracts provided by PubMed were

Professionel praksis i botilbud for mennesker med udviklingshæmning

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Engen, Mie

I dag varetager man i Danmark hovedsageligt omsorgen for mennesker med udviklingshæmning, der har behov for hjælp og støtte på døgnbasis, i § 107/108 boformer oprettet efter Lov om Social Service og Almenboliglovens § 105. Formålet med den professionelle praksis i boformerne er at varetage disse ...

Med-Ro Hybrid desalination as option to supply fresh water in BABEL Islands Province

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Siti Alimah; Sudi Ariyanto; June Mellawati; Budiarto

2011-01-01

Med-Ro hybrid desalination systems are combining both thermal (Med) and membrane (Ro) desalination processes with power generation systems. This configuration has more economical and operational benefits in comparison with single desalination plant. Hybrid configurations are characterized by flexibility in operation, specific energy consumption (33.50 kWh/m 3 ) is lower than Med (36.54 kWh/m 3 ) and high plant availability. The objective of study is to analyze the Med-Ro hybrid desalination as an option to add supply fresh water in Babel Islands Province, in terms of technology and economy aspects. The result of study showed that adopting nuclear power plants as dual-purpose for power generation and producing fresh water is has economic competitiveness than fossil-fired generation plants. Med-Ro hybrid configuration, with feed Ro from heat rejection of Med system is suitable as fresh water supply add option because increase of Ro feed temperature will increase flux. Economic analysis of water cost are performed using the Deep-3.2. Water cost of hybrid Med-Ro desalination with energy of NPP (0.581 $/m ) is lower than that of Med water cost (0.752 $/m ) . Water cost of hybrid Med-Ro with energy of NPP (0.581 $/m ) is lower than that of water cost of energy with fossil-fired generation plants (0.720 $/m 3 ). (author)

Europa

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Hansen, Ole Erik

2000-01-01

Artiklen behandler, hvordan Europa blev centrum for den globale økonomiske udvikling, og hvilken rolle nationalstaterne har spillet for Europas udvikling. Derudover behandles det, hvordan den europæiske integrationsproces kan ses som et forsøg på at genskabe Europas centrale politiske og økonomis...

Inger og Johannes Exner

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Jensen, Thomas Bo

Monografi om Inger og Johannes Exners arkitektur. Bogen behandler indgående Exners inspirationer samt deres teorier vedrørende kirkearkitektur og restaurering.......Monografi om Inger og Johannes Exners arkitektur. Bogen behandler indgående Exners inspirationer samt deres teorier vedrørende kirkearkitektur og restaurering....

Antithrombotic drugs and interactions in ischemic heart disease

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Charlot, Mette Gitz

2011-01-01

Antithrombotisk behandling er en hjørnesten i moderne kardiologi og indgående viden om de præcise virkninger og bivirkninger af lægemidlerne er vigtig for at sikre hjertepatienter den optimale behandling. Denne ph.d. afhandling belyser vigtige problemstillinger omkring anvendelsen af antithrombot...

Behandling med acetylsalicylsyre kan forebygge præeklampsi hos gravide kvinder i højrisiko

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Käehne, Line Vedel; Lundin, Ingeborg Christina Rørbye

2017-01-01

intrauterine growth restriction, preterm birth and perinatal death. No major side effects, including risk of malformations or miscarriage, are reported. It is important that general practitioners are aware of women who have an increased risk of developing pre-eclampsia, so that treatment with 100 mg...

Skandinaviske kliniske retningslinjer for præhospital behandling af patienter med svære hovedtraumer

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Juul, Niels; Sollid, Snorre; Sundstrøm, Terje

2008-01-01

Head trauma causes the death of many young persons. The number of fatalities can be reduced through systematic management. Preventing secondary brain injury together with the fastest possible transport to a neurosurgical unit has been shown to be effective in reducing mortality and morbidity. Evi...

Digital kommunikation med den offentlige sektor

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Berger, Jesper; Andersen, Kim Normann

2013-01-01

Denne rapport sammenfatter hovedresultaterne af en undersøgelse gennemført i juni måned 2013 om besvarelse af e-mail og digital post i den statslige, regionale og kommunale sektor. Allerede med eDag3 1. nov. 2010 skulle alle myndigheder have oprettet en digital postkasse, som borgerne kunne skrive...... til. I denne undersøgelse sættes der fokus på myndighedernes besvarelse af den digitale post. Digital post blev bl.a. etableret som et alternativ til almindelig e-mail for at det offentlige kan kommunikere med borgere og virksomheder på en sikker måde, dvs. uden at uvedkommende kan få adgang til...... følsomme oplysninger. Fokus for undersøgelsen er hvordan håndterer myndighederne besvarelserne i den digitale postkasse: svarer de på digital post og e-mail, hvor hurtigt svarer de og er svarene brugbare? Undersøgelsen medtager myndighedernes besvarelse af digital post og e-mail, dels for at kunne...

Digital kommunikation med den offentlige sektor

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Berger, Jesper Bull; Andersen, Kim Normann

Denne rapport sammenfatter hovedresultaterne for styrelser og statslige organisationer af en undersøgelse gennemført i sommeren 2013 om besvarelse af e-mail og digital post i den statslige, regionale og kommunale sektor. Allerede med eDag3 1. nov. 2010 skulle alle myndigheder have oprettet en...... digital postkasse, som borgerne kunne skrive til. I denne undersøgelse sættes der fokus på myndighedernes besvarelse af den digitale post. Digital post blev bl.a. etableret som et alternativ til almindelig e-mail for at det offentlige kan kommunikere med borgere og virksomheder på en sikker måde, dvs....... uden at uvedkommende kan få adgang til følsomme oplysninger. Fokus for undersøgelsen er hvordan håndterer myndighederne besvarelserne i den digitale postkasse: svarer de på digital post og e-mail, hvor hurtigt svarer de og er svarene brugbare? Vi har også undersøgt besvarelse af e-mail, dels...

TV-Hybridgenrer mellem fakta og fiktion

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Jørgen Stigel

1986-08-01

Full Text Available I denne artikel behandler Jørgen Stigel de seneste års ud- vikling i nogle af fjernsynets genrer. Hans synsvinkel er den, at TV-mediet først nu er ved at etablere sine "egne" genrer, f.eks. faktion og docu-drama - der ved første øje- kast tager sig ud som blandinger af de genrer, vi kender fra andre medier. Efter en indledende diskussion af de vil- kår, der gælder for faktaformidling i et stadig mere under- holdningspræget TV-univers, analyserer Jørgen Stigel nogle nyere danske eksempler på dybdeborende research-journali- stik, med hovedvægten på Sten Baadsgaard og Jørgen Peder- sens udsendelse om Tvind.

MedRapid--medical community & business intelligence system.

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Finkeissen, E; Fuchs, H; Jakob, T; Wetter, T

2002-01-01

currently, it takes at least 6 months for researchers to communicate their results. This delay is caused (a) by partial lacks of machine support for both representation as well as communication and (b) by media breaks during the communication process. To make an integrated communication between researchers and practitioners possible, a general structure for medical content representation has been set up. The procedure for data entry and quality management has been generalized and implemented in a web-based authoring system. The MedRapid-system supports the medical experts in entering their knowledge into a database. Here, the level of detail is still below that of current medical guidelines representation. However, the symmetric structure for an area-wide medical knowledge representation is highly retrievable and thus can quickly be communicated into daily routine for the improvement of the treatment quality. In addition, other sources like journal articles and medical guidelines can be references within the MedRapid-system and thus be communicated into daily routine. The fundamental system for the representation of medical reference knowledge (from reference works/books) itself is not sufficient for the friction-less communication amongst medical staff. Rather, the process of (a) representing medical knowledge, (b) refereeing the represented knowledge, (c) communicating the represented knowledge, and (d) retrieving the represented knowledge has to be unified. MedRapid will soon support the whole process on one server system.

Improving accuracy for identifying related PubMed queries by an integrated approach.

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Lu, Zhiyong; Wilbur, W John

2009-10-01

PubMed is the most widely used tool for searching biomedical literature online. As with many other online search tools, a user often types a series of multiple related queries before retrieving satisfactory results to fulfill a single information need. Meanwhile, it is also a common phenomenon to see a user type queries on unrelated topics in a single session. In order to study PubMed users' search strategies, it is necessary to be able to automatically separate unrelated queries and group together related queries. Here, we report a novel approach combining both lexical and contextual analyses for segmenting PubMed query sessions and identifying related queries and compare its performance with the previous approach based solely on concept mapping. We experimented with our integrated approach on sample data consisting of 1539 pairs of consecutive user queries in 351 user sessions. The prediction results of 1396 pairs agreed with the gold-standard annotations, achieving an overall accuracy of 90.7%. This demonstrates that our approach is significantly better than the previously published method. By applying this approach to a one day query log of PubMed, we found that a significant proportion of information needs involved more than one PubMed query, and that most of the consecutive queries for the same information need are lexically related. Finally, the proposed PubMed distance is shown to be an accurate and meaningful measure for determining the contextual similarity between biological terms. The integrated approach can play a critical role in handling real-world PubMed query log data as is demonstrated in our experiments.

A functional portrait of Med7 and the mediator complex in Candida albicans.

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Tebbji, Faiza; Chen, Yaolin; Richard Albert, Julien; Gunsalus, Kearney T W; Kumamoto, Carol A; Nantel, André; Sellam, Adnane; Whiteway, Malcolm

2014-11-01

Mediator is a multi-subunit protein complex that regulates gene expression in eukaryotes by integrating physiological and developmental signals and transmitting them to the general RNA polymerase II machinery. We examined, in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans, a set of conditional alleles of genes encoding Mediator subunits of the head, middle, and tail modules that were found to be essential in the related ascomycete Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Intriguingly, while the Med4, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17, 21 and 22 subunits were essential in both fungi, the structurally highly conserved Med7 subunit was apparently non-essential in C. albicans. While loss of CaMed7 did not lead to loss of viability under normal growth conditions, it dramatically influenced the pathogen's ability to grow in different carbon sources, to form hyphae and biofilms, and to colonize the gastrointestinal tracts of mice. We used epitope tagging and location profiling of the Med7 subunit to examine the distribution of the DNA sites bound by Mediator during growth in either the yeast or the hyphal form, two distinct morphologies characterized by different transcription profiles. We observed a core set of 200 genes bound by Med7 under both conditions; this core set is expanded moderately during yeast growth, but is expanded considerably during hyphal growth, supporting the idea that Mediator binding correlates with changes in transcriptional activity and that this binding is condition specific. Med7 bound not only in the promoter regions of active genes but also within coding regions and at the 3' ends of genes. By combining genome-wide location profiling, expression analyses and phenotyping, we have identified different Med7p-influenced regulons including genes related to glycolysis and the Filamentous Growth Regulator family. In the absence of Med7, the ribosomal regulon is de-repressed, suggesting Med7 is involved in central aspects of growth control.

Health informatics research in Australia: retrospective analysis using PubMed

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Kumara Mendis

2007-01-01

Discussion Australian HI publications in PubMed increased consistently throughout the period 1970-2005, which is on a par with world trends in HI publications. In Australia, most HI publications are in general medical journals. Lack of consistency in author names and failure to include the country name and even the state are the main obstacles to PubMed bibliometric analysis.

Murværk opmuret med vådmørtler

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Hansen, Klavs Feilberg

Vådmørtler benyttes i størstedelen af det murede nybyggeri. Egenskaberne af murværk opmuret med vådmørtel er i dag kun mangelfuldt dokumenteret. Denne rapport beskriver en metode til bedre dokumentation af de styrkemæssige egenskaber ved murværk opmuret med vådmørtel. Første del af rapporten genn...

Kvalitative Interviews med D&I Censorer, Undervisere, Kandidater og Studerende

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Brodersen, Søsser; Lindegaard, Hanne

2010-01-01

Som en opfølgning på telefon surveys blev der i tredje fase af D&I evalueringen gennemført en række kvalitative interviews med udvalgte censorer, undervisere, kandidater og studerende. Formålet med de kvalitative interviews har været at undersøge om: - D&I studerende og kandidater gennem forløbet i...

Hvad stiller vi op med samfundsneurosen?

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Jensen, Niels Rosendal

2008-01-01

Pædagogisk og socialt arbejde er som aldrig før udsat for evaluering, accountability, akkreditering m.v.  Det fjerner opmærksomheden fra kerneopgaven, at de professionelles ydelser forbedres. Forhistorien opridses kort, og klummen afrundes med at pege på tre mulige veje ud af samfundsneurosen: et...

Solar-assisted MED treatment of Eskom power station waste water

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Roos, Thomas H.; Rogers, David E. C.; Gericke, Gerhard

2017-06-01

The comparative benefits of multi-effect distillation (MED) used in conjunction with Nano Filtration (NF), Reverse Osmosis (RO) and Eutectic Freeze Crystallization (EFC) are determined for waste water minimization for inland coal fired power stations for Zero Liquid Effluent Discharge (ZLED). A sequence of technologies is proposed to achieve maximal water recovery and brine concentration: NF - physico-chemical treatment - MED - EFC. The possibility of extending the concentration of RO reject arising from minewater treatment at the Lethabo power station with MED alone is evaluated with mineral formation modelling using the thermochemical modelling software Phreeq-C. It is shown that pretreatment is essential to extend the amount of water that can be recovered, and this can be beneficially supported by NF.

Enabling multi-level relevance feedback on PubMed by integrating rank learning into DBMS.

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Yu, Hwanjo; Kim, Taehoon; Oh, Jinoh; Ko, Ilhwan; Kim, Sungchul; Han, Wook-Shin

2010-04-16

Finding relevant articles from PubMed is challenging because it is hard to express the user's specific intention in the given query interface, and a keyword query typically retrieves a large number of results. Researchers have applied machine learning techniques to find relevant articles by ranking the articles according to the learned relevance function. However, the process of learning and ranking is usually done offline without integrated with the keyword queries, and the users have to provide a large amount of training documents to get a reasonable learning accuracy. This paper proposes a novel multi-level relevance feedback system for PubMed, called RefMed, which supports both ad-hoc keyword queries and a multi-level relevance feedback in real time on PubMed. RefMed supports a multi-level relevance feedback by using the RankSVM as the learning method, and thus it achieves higher accuracy with less feedback. RefMed "tightly" integrates the RankSVM into RDBMS to support both keyword queries and the multi-level relevance feedback in real time; the tight coupling of the RankSVM and DBMS substantially improves the processing time. An efficient parameter selection method for the RankSVM is also proposed, which tunes the RankSVM parameter without performing validation. Thereby, RefMed achieves a high learning accuracy in real time without performing a validation process. RefMed is accessible at http://dm.postech.ac.kr/refmed. RefMed is the first multi-level relevance feedback system for PubMed, which achieves a high accuracy with less feedback. It effectively learns an accurate relevance function from the user's feedback and efficiently processes the function to return relevant articles in real time.

PubMedPortable: A Framework for Supporting the Development of Text Mining Applications.

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Döring, Kersten; Grüning, Björn A; Telukunta, Kiran K; Thomas, Philippe; Günther, Stefan

2016-01-01

Information extraction from biomedical literature is continuously growing in scope and importance. Many tools exist that perform named entity recognition, e.g. of proteins, chemical compounds, and diseases. Furthermore, several approaches deal with the extraction of relations between identified entities. The BioCreative community supports these developments with yearly open challenges, which led to a standardised XML text annotation format called BioC. PubMed provides access to the largest open biomedical literature repository, but there is no unified way of connecting its data to natural language processing tools. Therefore, an appropriate data environment is needed as a basis to combine different software solutions and to develop customised text mining applications. PubMedPortable builds a relational database and a full text index on PubMed citations. It can be applied either to the complete PubMed data set or an arbitrary subset of downloaded PubMed XML files. The software provides the infrastructure to combine stand-alone applications by exporting different data formats, e.g. BioC. The presented workflows show how to use PubMedPortable to retrieve, store, and analyse a disease-specific data set. The provided use cases are well documented in the PubMedPortable wiki. The open-source software library is small, easy to use, and scalable to the user's system requirements. It is freely available for Linux on the web at https://github.com/KerstenDoering/PubMedPortable and for other operating systems as a virtual container. The approach was tested extensively and applied successfully in several projects.

AliBaba: PubMed as a graph.

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Plake, Conrad; Schiemann, Torsten; Pankalla, Marcus; Hakenberg, Jörg; Leser, Ulf

2006-10-01

The biomedical literature contains a wealth of information on associations between many different types of objects, such as protein-protein interactions, gene-disease associations and subcellular locations of proteins. When searching such information using conventional search engines, e.g. PubMed, users see the data only one-abstract at a time and 'hidden' in natural language text. AliBaba is an interactive tool for graphical summarization of search results. It parses the set of abstracts that fit a PubMed query and presents extracted information on biomedical objects and their relationships as a graphical network. AliBaba extracts associations between cells, diseases, drugs, proteins, species and tissues. Several filter options allow for a more focused search. Thus, researchers can grasp complex networks described in various articles at a glance. http://alibaba.informatik.hu-berlin.de/

Validation of search filters for identifying pediatric studies in PubMed

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Leclercq, Edith; Leeflang, Mariska M. G.; van Dalen, Elvira C.; Kremer, Leontien C. M.

2013-01-01

To identify and validate PubMed search filters for retrieving studies including children and to develop a new pediatric search filter for PubMed. We developed 2 different datasets of studies to evaluate the performance of the identified pediatric search filters, expressed in terms of sensitivity,

Glassy carbon electrodes modified with a film of nanodiamond-graphite/chitosan: Application to the highly sensitive electrochemical determination of Azathioprine

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Shahrokhian, Saeed; Ghalkhani, Masoumeh

2010-01-01

A novel modified glassy carbon electrode with a film of nanodiamond-graphite/chitosan is constructed and used for the sensitive voltammetric determination of azathioprine (Aza). The surface morphology and thickness of the film modifier are characterized using atomic force microscopy. The electrochemical response characteristics of the electrode toward Aza are investigated by means of cyclic voltammetry. The modified electrode showed an efficient catalytic role for the electrochemical reduction of Aza, leading to a remarkable decrease in reduction overpotential and enhancement of the kinetics of the electrode reaction with a significant increase of peak current. The effects of experimental variables, such as the deposited amount of modifier suspension, the pH of the supporting electrolyte, the accumulation potential and time were investigated. Under optimal conditions, the modified electrode showed a wide linear response to the concentration of Aza in the range of 0.2-100 μM with a detection limit of 65 nM. The prepared modified electrode showed several advantages: simple preparation method, high stability and uniformity in the composite film, high sensitivity, excellent catalytic activity in physiological conditions and good reproducibility. The modified electrode can be successfully applied to the accurate determination of trace amounts of Aza in pharmaceutical and clinical preparations.

Glassy carbon electrodes modified with a film of nanodiamond-graphite/chitosan: Application to the highly sensitive electrochemical determination of Azathioprine

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Shahrokhian, Saeed, E-mail: shahrokhian@sharif.ed [Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11155-9516 (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Institute for Nanoscience and Technology, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Ghalkhani, Masoumeh [Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11155-9516 (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

2010-04-15

A novel modified glassy carbon electrode with a film of nanodiamond-graphite/chitosan is constructed and used for the sensitive voltammetric determination of azathioprine (Aza). The surface morphology and thickness of the film modifier are characterized using atomic force microscopy. The electrochemical response characteristics of the electrode toward Aza are investigated by means of cyclic voltammetry. The modified electrode showed an efficient catalytic role for the electrochemical reduction of Aza, leading to a remarkable decrease in reduction overpotential and enhancement of the kinetics of the electrode reaction with a significant increase of peak current. The effects of experimental variables, such as the deposited amount of modifier suspension, the pH of the supporting electrolyte, the accumulation potential and time were investigated. Under optimal conditions, the modified electrode showed a wide linear response to the concentration of Aza in the range of 0.2-100 muM with a detection limit of 65 nM. The prepared modified electrode showed several advantages: simple preparation method, high stability and uniformity in the composite film, high sensitivity, excellent catalytic activity in physiological conditions and good reproducibility. The modified electrode can be successfully applied to the accurate determination of trace amounts of Aza in pharmaceutical and clinical preparations.

Trafikulykker med ældre bilister - litteraturundersøgelse

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Siren, Anu Kristiina

Andelen af ældre mennesker er i disse år hastigt stigende i de industrialiserede lande, herunder i Danmark. Som følge heraf vokser antallet af ældre bilister, og nutidens ældre forbliver aktive og mobile langt op i årene. Da mobilitet er en vigtig del af dagligdagen, skal transportsystemet blandt...... antal ældre trafikanter vil medføre flere sikkerhedsmæssige problemer. Tværtimod ser det ud, som om sikkerheden generelt vil øges i takt med det voksende antal ældre trafikanter. Denne positive udvikling er dog ikke ensbetydende med, at der ikke fortsat skal fokuseres på ældrevenlige løsninger i...

Test og prøvelser

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Test i forskellige former og afskygninger spiller i dag en markant rolle indenfor mange forskellige områder i samfundet. De bliver anvendt til at evaluere og bedømme børn, unge og voksne i forskellige kontekster og med forskellige formål og konsekvenser. I mange tilfælde er der tale om test, hvis...... udfald – direkte eller indirekte - vil kunne få vidtrækkende følger for dem, der testes. Test kan sætte sig spor livet igennem og udsætte de testede for prøvelser, idet de påvirker deres selvopfattelser og udstikker bestemte livsbaner og muligheder. Med afsæt i uddannelsesområdet sætter denne bog fokus...... på test i historisk og nutidig belysning. Den behandler spørgsmål som: Hvordan kom test ind i feltet? Hvilke test anvendes? Hvem tester man? Hvorfor vil man gerne teste? Hvad er de direkte og indirekte sociale konsekvenser af at anvende test? Besvarelsen af disse spørgsmål kan på den ene side bidrage...

Predicting effects and risk of relapse into depression

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Gbyl, Krzysztof; Rosenberg, Raben; Larsson, Henrik Bo Wiberg

Formål: Vi ønsker at undersøge hjernen hos patienter med svær depression før og efter elektrokonvulsiv terapi (ECT), samt ved en kontrol efter 6 måneder med det formål at: 1. undersøge hjernevævet så en evt. skadelig effekt af ECT-behandling kan udelukkes 2. belyse mekanismerne bag ECT for at finde...... prædiktorer for gunstige resultater, tidligt tilbagefald og for bivirkninger 3. undersøge omfanget af og baggrunden for påvirkningen af hukommelsesfunktionen Metode: I studiet planlægger vi at undersøge 60 patienter henvist til ECT på Psykiatrisk Center Glostrup, Amager og København pga. svær depression....... Desuden vha. den mest moderne MR-teknik at belyse om ECT kan skade hjernevævet. De nævnte prædiktorer vil muliggøre at behandlingen af de sværeste depressioner vil kunne forbedres og individualiseres i langt højere end i dag, hvorved sygdomsprognosen kan forbedres betydeligt. Vi forventer yderligere...

Den moderne tyske roman 1909-35

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Ved siden af klassikken og romantikken er den tidlige modernisme vel nok den betydeligste periode i tysksproget litteratur. Det skyldes ikke mindst den perlerække af romaner, der udkom i første tredjedel af det 20. århundrede, og hvoraf mange i dag fremstår som indiskutable højdepunkter i såvel...... tysk som europæisk roman- og litteraturhistorie. I Den moderne tyske roman 1909-35 behandles en række af disse romaner for første gang samlet på dansk. Bogen består af otte romanfortolkninger samt en indledende artikel om den moderne romans historie og særpræg. Alle artikler er skrevet med et solidt...... interesserede læser. I overensstemmelse med dens formidlende sigte er der kun medtaget fortolkninger af romaner, der foreligger på dansk i en tidssvarende oversættelse. Af hensyn til den litteraturhistoriske bredde er der desuden kun medtaget én roman af samme forfatter.Bogen indeholder analyser af: Robert...

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI): Complete Flight Data Set

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Cheatwood, F. McNeil; Bose, Deepak; Karlgaard, Christopher D.; Kuhl, Christopher A.; Santos, Jose A.; Wright, Michael J.

2014-01-01

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) entry vehicle (EV) successfully entered the Mars atmosphere and landed the Curiosity rover safely on the surface of the planet in Gale crater on August 6, 2012. MSL carried the MSL Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) Instrumentation (MEDLI). MEDLI delivered the first in-depth understanding of the Mars entry environments and the response of the entry vehicle to those environments. MEDLI was comprised of three major subsystems: the Mars Entry Atmospheric Data System (MEADS), the MEDLI Integrated Sensor Plugs (MISP), and the Sensor Support Electronics (SSE). Ultimately, the entire MEDLI sensor suite consisting of both MEADS and MISP provided measurements that were used for trajectory reconstruction and engineering validation of aerodynamic, atmospheric, and thermal protection system (TPS) models in addition to Earth-based systems testing procedures. This report contains in-depth hardware descriptions, performance evaluation, and data information of the three MEDLI subsystems.

Mediator MED23 regulates basal transcription in vivo via an interaction with P-TEFb.

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Wang, Wei; Yao, Xiao; Huang, Yan; Hu, Xiangming; Liu, Runzhong; Hou, Dongming; Chen, Ruichuan; Wang, Gang

2013-01-01

The Mediator is a multi-subunit complex that transduces regulatory information from transcription regulators to the RNA polymerase II apparatus. Growing evidence suggests that Mediator plays roles in multiple stages of eukaryotic transcription, including elongation. However, the detailed mechanism by which Mediator regulates elongation remains elusive. In this study, we demonstrate that Mediator MED23 subunit controls a basal level of transcription by recruiting elongation factor P-TEFb, via an interaction with its CDK9 subunit. The mRNA level of Egr1, a MED23-controlled model gene, is reduced 4-5 fold in Med23 (-/-) ES cells under an unstimulated condition, but Med23-deficiency does not alter the occupancies of RNAP II, GTFs, Mediator complex, or activator ELK1 at the Egr1 promoter. Instead, Med23 depletion results in a significant decrease in P-TEFb and RNAP II (Ser2P) binding at the coding region, but no changes for several other elongation regulators, such as DSIF and NELF. ChIP-seq revealed that Med23-deficiency partially reduced the P-TEFb occupancy at a set of MED23-regulated gene promoters. Further, we demonstrate that MED23 interacts with CDK9 in vivo and in vitro. Collectively, these results provide the mechanistic insight into how Mediator promotes RNAP II into transcription elongation.

The performances of standard and ResMed masks during bag-valve-mask ventilation.

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Lee, Hyoung Youn; Jeung, Kyung Woon; Lee, Byung Kook; Lee, Seung Joon; Jung, Yong Hun; Lee, Geo Sung; Min, Yong Il; Heo, Tag

2013-01-01

A tight mask seal is frequently difficult to obtain and maintain during single-rescuer bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilation. The ResMed mask (Bella Vista, NSW, Australia) is a continuous-positive-airway-pressure mask (CM) designed for noninvasive ventilation. In this study, we compared the ventilation performances of a standard mask (SM) and a ResMed CM using a simulation manikin in an out-of-hospital single-rescuer BVM ventilation scenario. Thirty emergency medical technicians (EMTs) performed two 2-minute attempts to ventilate a simulation manikin using BVM ventilation, alternatively, with the SM or the ResMed CM in a randomized order. Ventilation parameters including tidal volume and peak airway pressure were measured using computer analysis software connected to the simulation manikin. Successful volume delivery was defined as delivery of 440-540 mL of tidal volume in accord with present cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines. BVM ventilation using the ResMed CM produced higher mean (± standard deviation) tidal volumes (452 ± 50 mL vs. 394 ± 113 mL, p = 0.014) and had a higher proportion of successful volume deliveries (65.3% vs. 26.7%, p < 0.001) than that using the SM. Peak airway pressure was higher in BVM ventilation using the ResMed CM (p = 0.035). Stomach insufflation did not occur during either method. Twenty-nine of the participants (96.7%) preferred BVM ventilation using the ResMed CM. BVM ventilations using ResMed CM resulted in a significantly higher proportion of successful volume deliveries meeting the currently recommended range of tidal volume. Clinical studies are needed to determine the value of the ResMed CM for BVM ventilation.

Indsats for forældre til børn med ADHD

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Neubert, Katja

2012-01-01

Et nyt review, udarbejdet af forskergruppen omkring Morris Zwi, undersøger om interventionsprogrammer til forældre til børn med ADHD er effektive, når det gælder reducering af børnenes ADHD-relaterede adfærd og associerede problemer som eksempelvis indlæringsproblemer. Reviewet peger på, at en...... indsats til forældre til børn med ADHD kan have en gavnlig effekt på børnenes adfærd. Interventionen kan også være med til at sænke stressniveauet hos forældre til disse børn, og forbedre forældrenes selvtillid....

CDAPubMed: a browser extension to retrieve EHR-based biomedical literature

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Perez-Rey David

2012-04-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Over the last few decades, the ever-increasing output of scientific publications has led to new challenges to keep up to date with the literature. In the biomedical area, this growth has introduced new requirements for professionals, e.g., physicians, who have to locate the exact papers that they need for their clinical and research work amongst a huge number of publications. Against this backdrop, novel information retrieval methods are even more necessary. While web search engines are widespread in many areas, facilitating access to all kinds of information, additional tools are required to automatically link information retrieved from these engines to specific biomedical applications. In the case of clinical environments, this also means considering aspects such as patient data security and confidentiality or structured contents, e.g., electronic health records (EHRs. In this scenario, we have developed a new tool to facilitate query building to retrieve scientific literature related to EHRs. Results We have developed CDAPubMed, an open-source web browser extension to integrate EHR features in biomedical literature retrieval approaches. Clinical users can use CDAPubMed to: (i load patient clinical documents, i.e., EHRs based on the Health Level 7-Clinical Document Architecture Standard (HL7-CDA, (ii identify relevant terms for scientific literature search in these documents, i.e., Medical Subject Headings (MeSH, automatically driven by the CDAPubMed configuration, which advanced users can optimize to adapt to each specific situation, and (iii generate and launch literature search queries to a major search engine, i.e., PubMed, to retrieve citations related to the EHR under examination. Conclusions CDAPubMed is a platform-independent tool designed to facilitate literature searching using keywords contained in specific EHRs. CDAPubMed is visually integrated, as an extension of a widespread web browser, within the standard

Observing floods from space: Experience gained from COSMO-SkyMed observations

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Pierdicca, N.; Pulvirenti, L.; Chini, M.; Guerriero, L.; Candela, L.

2013-03-01

The COSMO-SkyMed mission offers a unique opportunity to obtain all weather radar images characterized by short revisit time, thus being useful for flood evolution mapping. The COSMO-SkyMed system has been activated several times in the last few years in occasion of flood events all over the world in order to provide very high resolution X-band SAR images useful for flood detection purposes. This paper discusses the major outcomes of the experience gained, within the framework of the OPERA Pilot Project funded by the Italian Space Agency, from using COSMO-SkyMed data for the purpose of near real time generation of flood maps. A review of the mechanisms which determine the imprints of the inundation on the radar images and of the fundamental simulation tools able to predict these imprints and help image interpretation is provided. The approach developed to process the data and to generate the flood maps is also summarized. Then, the paper illustrates the experience gained with COSMO-SkyMed by describing and discussing a number of significant examples. These examples demonstrate the potential of the COSMO-SkyMed system and the suitability of the approach developed for generating the final products, but they also highlight some critical aspects that require further investigations to improve the reliability of the flood maps.

Børn med ADHD skaber øget konflikt om morgenen

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Lange, Anne-Mette

2017-01-01

Dækning af ny forskning fra videnskabelige præsentationer på den femte Internationale ADHD Congress i Vancouver, 2017. http://propatienter.dk/sygdomme/psyken/280-born-med-adhd-skaber-oget-konflikt-om-morgenen.html......Dækning af ny forskning fra videnskabelige præsentationer på den femte Internationale ADHD Congress i Vancouver, 2017. http://propatienter.dk/sygdomme/psyken/280-born-med-adhd-skaber-oget-konflikt-om-morgenen.html...

The medical dictionary for regulatory activities (MedDRA).

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Brown, E G; Wood, L; Wood, S

1999-02-01

The International Conference on Harmonisation has agreed upon the structure and content of the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) version 2.0 which should become available in the early part of 1999. This medical terminology is intended for use in the pre- and postmarketing phases of the medicines regulatory process, covering diagnoses, symptoms and signs, adverse drug reactions and therapeutic indications, the names and qualitative results of investigations, surgical and medical procedures, and medical/social history. It can be used for recording adverse events and medical history in clinical trials, in the analysis and tabulations of data from these trials and in the expedited submission of safety data to government regulatory authorities, as well as in constructing standard product information and documentation for applications for marketing authorisation. After licensing of a medicine, it may be used in pharmacovigilance and is expected to be the preferred terminology for international electronic regulatory communication. MedDRA is a hierarchical terminology with 5 levels and is multiaxial: terms may exist in more than 1 vertical axis, providing specificity of terms for data entry and flexibility in data retrieval. Terms in MedDRA were derived from several sources including the WHO's adverse reaction terminology (WHO-ART), Coding Symbols for a Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms (COSTART), International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 9 and ICD9-CM. It will be maintained, further developed and distributed by a Maintenance Support Services Organisation (MSSO). It is anticipated that using MedDRA will improve the quality of data captured on databases, support effective analysis by providing clinically relevant groupings of terms and facilitate electronic communication of data, although as a new tool, users will need to invest time in gaining expertise in its use.

Retrieving clinical evidence: a comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar for quick clinical searches.

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Shariff, Salimah Z; Bejaimal, Shayna Ad; Sontrop, Jessica M; Iansavichus, Arthur V; Haynes, R Brian; Weir, Matthew A; Garg, Amit X

2013-08-15

Physicians frequently search PubMed for information to guide patient care. More recently, Google Scholar has gained popularity as another freely accessible bibliographic database. To compare the performance of searches in PubMed and Google Scholar. We surveyed nephrologists (kidney specialists) and provided each with a unique clinical question derived from 100 renal therapy systematic reviews. Each physician provided the search terms they would type into a bibliographic database to locate evidence to answer the clinical question. We executed each of these searches in PubMed and Google Scholar and compared results for the first 40 records retrieved (equivalent to 2 default search pages in PubMed). We evaluated the recall (proportion of relevant articles found) and precision (ratio of relevant to nonrelevant articles) of the searches performed in PubMed and Google Scholar. Primary studies included in the systematic reviews served as the reference standard for relevant articles. We further documented whether relevant articles were available as free full-texts. Compared with PubMed, the average search in Google Scholar retrieved twice as many relevant articles (PubMed: 11%; Google Scholar: 22%; PGoogle Scholar: 8%; P=.07). Google Scholar provided significantly greater access to free full-text publications (PubMed: 5%; Google Scholar: 14%; PGoogle Scholar returns twice as many relevant articles as PubMed and provides greater access to free full-text articles.

Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia (MED: A Rare Type of Skeletal Dysplasia

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Mohammad Imnul Islam

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED is a congenital disorder of skeletal development that primarily affects the ends of long bones, causing progressive joint and bone inflammation and short stature. Mutations in several genes are responsible for pathogenesis of this disease. We are reporting a case of MED who presented with the complaints of multiple swelling of the joints which was associated with pain during movement for last seven years. The patient had flexion deformity of all the affected joints along with restriction of movement. These were associated with kyphosis, pectus carnitum, knock-knee and short stature. Radiological findings were suggestive of MED. Counseling was done with the parents regarding the etiology, progression and outcome of the disease.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bsmmuj.v5i1.11025 BSMMU J 2012; 5(1:57-60 

Arbetet med arbetsgivarvarumärkets attraktivitet : En kvalitativ intervjustudie i tre företag om hur arbetet med "Employer branding" ser ut och implementeras i företag.

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Drugge, Marie; Bernelind, Diana

2013-01-01

Arbetet med att stärka ett arbetsgivarvarumärkes attraktivitet, både internt och externt, det alltmer välbekanta begreppet “Employer branding”, är ett vanligt förekommande koncept i dagens organisationer. Syftet med studien är att försöka ta reda på vad fenomenet “Employer branding” är och hur organisationer kan bedriva arbetet med att göra sitt arbetsgivarvarumärket attraktiv på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Tieto, COWI och Klarna AB är de företag som deltar i studien. Begreppen legitimitet o...

Sjuksköterskors upplevelse vid vård av patienter med substansbrukssyndrom

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Hanna, Johansson; Frida, Zetterman

2016-01-01

Bakgrund Tidigare forskning visar att sjuksköterskor har förutfattade meningar om patienter med en stigmatiserande diagnos. Sjuksköterskor stigmatiserar och har negativa attityder som påverkar deras vård av dessa patienter. Individer med substansbrukssyndrom är en grupp som är särskilt utsatt för stigmatisering i samhället. Dessa individer påträffas inom samtliga specialiteter inom vården. Denna studie fokuserar därför på sjuksköterskors upplevelse av patienter med substansbrukssyndrom. Syfte...

[Use of PubMed to improve evidence-based medicine in routine urological practice].

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Rink, M; Kluth, L A; Shariat, S F; Chun, F K; Fisch, M; Dahm, P

2013-03-01

Applying evidence-based medicine in daily clinical practice is the basis of patient-centered medicine and knowledge of accurate literature acquisition skills is necessary for informed clinical decision-making. PubMed is an easy accessible, free bibliographic database comprising over 21 million citations from the medical field, life-science journals and online books. The article summarizes the effective use of PubMed in routine urological clinical practice based on a common case scenario. This article explains the simple use of PubMed to obtain the best search results with the highest evidence. Accurate knowledge about the use of PubMed in routine clinical practice can improve evidence-based medicine and also patient treatment.