It has been argued that sports contexts may be suitable venues for reducing intercultural hostility, including its more extreme forms, yet empirical evidence remains scarce. The present study investigated the main and ...

Introduction Physical activity may reduce the development of breast cancer. Whereas hypercoagulability has been linked to adverse outcomes in breast cancer patients, the effects of physical activity on their hemostatic ...

Accountability is a multifaceted concept fraught with ambiguity. In contributing to the critical literature on transparency and accountability, this paper explores how accountability in extractive resource governance is ...

Background Equity is described as an ideal in user involvement in research and is mentioned in the health service literature and in several guidelines. However, equity is described as being difficult to obtain and the ...

Background: The Informed Health Choices (IHC) Key Concepts are principles for evaluating the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects. The Key Concepts provide a framework for developing learning-resources to help ...

Background: Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) is common, but evidence of cognitive symptom profiles, course over time, and pathogenesis is scarce. We investigated the significance of time and etiologic stroke subtype ...

Chatbots represent new opportunities for low-threshold preventive mental health support to youths. To provide needed knowledge regarding how to design chatbots for this purpose, we present an exploratory design study where ...

Introduction Paediatric tonsillectomy is often performed as outpatient surgery, although postoperative pain may be severe and protracted. This prospective observational study evaluated two paediatric pain assessment ...

Millimeter-sized crystalline particles of butyl 3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoate, C21, magnitudes larger than adherent particulate matter commonly observed during routine filter service inspections, were ...

La variation phonologique constitue une partie intégrante de l’acquisition langagière, et la maîtrise de l’alternance du schwa, aussi bien en perception qu’en production, représente un défi majeur pour l’apprenant du ...

Abstract The aim of this study was to explore the usefulness of unilateral, combined unilateral (left + right) and bilateral peak nasal inspiratory flow (PNIF) measurements in assessing the results of nasal septal surgery. ...

Background Factor VII‐activating protease (FSAP) has roles in both coagulation and fibrinolysis. Recent data indicate its involvement in several other processes, such as vascular remodeling and inflammation. Plasma FSAP ...

The competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) and the sigX-inducing peptide (XIP) are known to induce Streptococcus mutans competence for genetic transformation. For both pheromones, direct identification of the native peptides ...

The mechanisms of successful epigenetic reprogramming in cancer are not well characterized as they involve coordinated removal of repressive marks and deposition of activating marks by a large number of histone and DNA ...

The study of proteins and the interactions between them, known as Protein-Protein Interactions (PPI), is extremely important in interpreting all biological cellular functions. In this article, a new web tool called ...

Universitetet i Oslo (UiO), eller Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet som var navnet fram til 1939, er landets eldste universitet, opprettet i 1811. I denne institusjonen har også det visuelle uttrykket sin plass. ...