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- Svensson, Hanna, 1987
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Requesting another to taste: Passing food and the distribution of agency in the organization of bodily trajectories
- 2024
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Ingår i: DISCOURSE STUDIES. - 1461-4456 .- 1461-7080.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper offers an analysis of the organizational features of passing food objects as a commonplace embodied social practice to accomplish requests to another to taste food during joint cooking activities. Situated within the cognate frameworks of Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology, the sequential, multimodal analysis details and explains the formal features of passing food from hand to hand and from hand to mouth as distinct practices with distinct micro-sequential organizations. The study draws on a corpus of 14 hours of video-recordings of naturally occurring joint cooking activities in which the participants speak German, Swedish, and English. Focusing on the projectable aspects of bodily trajectories, the analysis reveals how the request sequences are achieved through the participants' early projection of how to pass the food objects and their stepwise mutual adjustments to their conjoint action trajectory. In progressively establishing who does what next and how during the food transfer, the participants orient to the relevance and distribution of interactional agency. When the normative organization of the step-by-step transfer is disregarded, an ambiguity emerges concerning what action the practice is doing, which prompts the participants to engage in significant interactional work to re-negotiate on what terms the transfer can resume. This shows how issues of interactional agency are exerted and exhibited in and through the sequential organization of social interaction. The results contribute to, and elaborate, prior findings on requests and advances our understanding for the close attention that participants to interaction pay to the detailed aspects of multimodally formatted actions and the normative expectancies that make up to their intelligibility, reflexively elaborating each other.
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- Wu, Ping-Hsun, 1982-, et al.
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Novel Biomarkers Detected by Proteomics Predict Death and Cardiovascular Events in Hemodialysis Patients
- 2022
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Ingår i: Biomedicines. - : MDPI. - 2227-9059. ; 10:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- End-stage kidney disease increases mortality and the risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease. It is crucial to explore novel biomarkers to predict CV disease in the complex setting of patients receiving hemodialysis (HD). This study investigated the association between 92 targeted proteins with all-cause death, CV death, and composite vascular events (CVEs) in HD patients. From December 2010 to March 2011, 331 HD patients were included and followed prospectively for 5 years. Serum was analyzed for 92 CV-related proteins using Proseek Multiplex Cardiovascular I panel, a high-sensitivity assay based on proximity extension assay (PEA) technology. The association between biomarkers and all-cause death, CV death, and CVEs was evaluated using Cox-regression analyses. Of the PEA-based proteins, we identified 20 proteins associated with risk of all-cause death, 7 proteins associated with risk of CV death, and 17 proteins associated with risk of CVEs, independent of established risk factors. Interleukin-8 (IL-8), T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 1 (TIM-1), and C-C motif chemokine 20 (CCL20) were associated with increased risk of all-cause death, CV death, and CVE in multivariable-adjusted models. Stem cell factor (SCF) and Galanin peptides (GAL) were associated with both decreased risk of all-cause death and CV death. In conclusion, IL-8, TIM-1, and CCL20 predicted death and CV outcomes in HD patients. Novel findings were that SCF and GAL were associated with a lower risk of all-cause death and CV death. The SCF warrants further study with regard to its possible biological effect in HD patients.
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- Middleton, O., et al.
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CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal diets
- 2021
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Ingår i: Global Ecology and Biogeography. - : Wiley. - 1466-822X .- 1466-8238. ; 30:6, s. 1175-1182
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Motivation A species' diet is central to understanding many aspects of its biology, including its behaviour, movement, and ecological niche. The diets of terrestrial carnivorous mammals, defined here as species primarily consuming other mammals (hereafter, mammal-consumers), have been extensively studied and can vary in the proportion of different food types, and species, consumed across their geographic ranges. Accessibility to data capturing such variation in diets of mammal-consumers across the variety of ecosystems they occur in would provide valuable information for conservation, and open research avenues for macroevolution and macroecology. However, data on mammal-consumer diets across their geographic ranges have not been systematically collated. Here, we present CarniDIET (version 1.0), an open-access database containing quantitative data on the diets of terrestrial mammal-consumers collated from the literature. Main types of variable contained Diet records capturing the percentage of mammalian prey, to the highest taxonomic resolution available, and non-mammalian food types (e.g., birds, invertebrates) in the diets of mammal-consumers at specific sites and times. Associated data with each diet record include, where available, age and sex of mammal-consumer, sample size, sample origin, and quantification method as well as spatial and temporal variables including dates, season, study site, altitude and coordinates. Spatial location and grain Global, terrestrial. The spatial grain varies among sites from 0.03 to 100,000 km(2), with a median of 170 km(2). Study centroids are provided as latitude-longitude coordinates. Time period and grain Original diet samples were collected between 1933 and 2017, with half of studies collected between 1994 and 2008. Studies summarize diets from 1 month to 66 years, with a median of 1 year. Major taxa and level of measurement Terrestrial carnivorous mammals that primarily consume other mammals (103 species). Studies generally represent species' population averages, although can include demographic breakdowns.
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- Wu, Ping-Hsun, 1982-, et al.
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Osteoprotegerin predicts cardiovascular events in patients treated with haemodialysis
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation. - : Oxford University Press. - 0931-0509 .- 1460-2385. ; 37:6, s. 1162-1170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Disturbances in bone mineral metabolism are associated with increased mortality and cardiovascular events (CVEs). However, the association between bone-associated protein biomarkers, mortality, and CVEs independent of cytokine activation remains unknown. This study aimed to investigate bone-associated protein biomarkers, and the association with inflammatory cytokines, and cardiovascular outcomes.Methods: This prospective study enrolled hemodialysis (HD) patients in Denmark between December 2010 and March 2011. Using a proximity extension proteomics assay, nine bone-associated proteins were examined: cathepsin D (CTSD), cathepsin L1 (CTSL1), dickkopf-related protein 1 (Dkk-1), fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23), leptin, osteoprotegerin (OPG), receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β ligand (RANKL), TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), and TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand receptor 2 (TRAIL-R2). The importance of the bone-associated protein markers was evaluated by a random forest algorithm (RF). The association between bone-associated proteins with all-cause death, cardiovascular death, and CVEs was analyzed in multivariable Cox models adjusted for age, gender, comorbidities, laboratory data, and dialysis duration.Results: We enrolled 331 patients (63.7% men; mean [SD] age, 65 [14.6] years) in a prospective cohort study with five years follow-up. When adjusting for confounders, CTSL1 remained associated with all-cause death, and four biomarkers were associated with CVE. However, the association between bone markers and the outcomes was attenuated after adjusting for inflammatory proteins, and just OPG remained associated with CVE in the adjusted model. Evaluating the importance of bone markers by RF, OPG was the most important marker related to CVEs. OPG also improved the prediction of CVE when added clinical information alone in integrated discrimination improvement and net reclassification improvement analyses.Discussion: OPG, a well-known bone biomarker, was associated with CVEs independent of cytokine activity. In contrast, the association between CVEs and the remaining three bone-associated proteins (TRAIL-R2, CTSD, and CTSL1) was affected by cytokine inflammation activity.
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- Hjalmarson, Jenny, et al.
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Accessibility for elderly using a four-wheeled walker-an interview and observation analysis
- 2013
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Ingår i: AAATE Conference 2013. - 9781614993032 ; , s. 27-33
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Accessibility for all is an overall goal in many communities around the world. The UN has the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which Sweden along with many other countries has agreed to follow. The aim with this project was to analyse which environmental difficulties elderly people over 65 years of age experience in their daily life when walking with a four-wheeled walker. The focus area was the surroundings close to their home. It is necessary to learn more about the difficulties for people with disabilities as a base for future development of the built environment. The group of elderly is increasing daily. In Sweden the four-wheeled walker is a commonly used assistive device by the elderly when, for example, their balance decreases; this is why we chose to focus on this specific assistive device.
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- Lindblad, Birgitta Ejdervik, 1955-, et al.
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Intensity of smoking and smoking cessation in relation to risk of cataract extraction : a prospective study of women
- 2005
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Ingår i: American Journal of Epidemiology. - : Oxford University Press. - 0002-9262 .- 1476-6256. ; 162:1, s. 73-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The authors investigated the association of smoking and smoking cessation with the incidence of cataract extraction in a population-based prospective cohort study. A total of 34,595 women aged 49-83 years in the Swedish Mammography Cohort were followed from September 1997 through June 2002. Information on smoking, diet, and other lifestyle factors was collected through a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 2,128 cases of age-related cataract extraction were identified. Relative risks were estimated as rate ratios using Cox proportional hazards models. The authors observed a significant dose-response association between intensity of smoking and risk of cataract extraction (among current smokers, p for trend = 0.02; among past smokers, p for trend = 0.0002). After cessation of smoking, the risk decreased with time. Among women with a moderate lifetime smoking intensity (6-10 cigarettes/day), the relative risk was not significantly different from the risk among never smokers 10 years after smoking cessation. Among women who had smoked more intensively (>10 cigarettes/day), after 20 years of nonsmoking the increased risk became small and no longer statistically significant in comparison with never smokers (for trend over time, p < 0.0001). This prospective study confirmed smoking as a risk factor for cataract, with a dose response for smoking intensity. Smoking cessation predicts reduced risk over time, but a longer period of time is needed with a higher smoking intensity.
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