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- Sörensen, Jens, et al.
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Long-standing increased bone turnover at the fixation points after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction : A positron emission tomography (PET) study of 8 patients
- 2006
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In: Acta Orthopaedica. - : Medical Journals Sweden AB. - 1745-3674 .- 1745-3682. ; 77:6, s. 921-925
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Background: A secure incorporation of the graft in a bone tunnel is a prerequisite for successful anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. In this cross-sectional pilot study, we studied the healing process with positron emission tomography (PET) scanning. Patients and methods: 8 young patients underwent an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with a bonepatellar tendon-bone graft (BTB, n = 4) or a quadruple semitendinosus and gracilis graft (ST/G, n = 4). Regional bone turnover was quantified with an 18F-fluoride PET scan in each patient 1 day, 3 weeks, 7 months, or 22 months after surgery. Results: The highest activity level was found 3 weeks after surgery, but the activity at the femoral fixation points was markedly increased even after 7 months. The bone turnover was almost normalized 22 months after the operation. Interpretation: It would take at least 7 months until an anterior cruciate ligament graft, fixed with an interference screw, is completely incorporated. This finding is important for postoperative rehabilitation. Furthermore, PET is a feasible tool when studying new ways of fixing soft tissue to bone.
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State collapse and reconstruction in the periphery
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- In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-conflict reconstruction. As a result, the country became the locus for new policies to be developed and tested. These policies are in need of scrutiny and should be examined within the social and political realities that have emerged in the region, one left with two international protectorates (Bosnia and Kosovo), unresolved state formation issues, minority concerns, ethnic, social and political polarization. The author argues that both the process of state collapse and the recent changes in aid and reconstruction policy must be interpreted within the framework of a wider transformation of the international political economy and world order. Through an in-depth analysis and critical examination of post-conflict reconstruction in Kosovo, he argues that western governments and donor agencies have built policies on conceptions and assumptions for which there is no genuine historical or contemporary economic, social or political basis in the region. This discrepancy has provided further complications which are likely to remain for years to come, as recent developments in Kosovo show.
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- Sörensen, Jens
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The Normalization of War
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In: Balkan Currents. - Uppsala : Uppsala Centre for Multiethnic Research. - 9186624822
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The Shadow Economy, War and State Building: Social Transformation and Re-stratification in an Illiberal Economy (Serbia and Kosovo)
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In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies. - 1478-2804 .- 1478-2790. ; 14:3, s. 317-351
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- This article analyses the development and consolidation of an illiberal (or shadow) economy and its connection to political projects in Serbia and Kosovo. Here, some comparative remarks are made over the form of economy and its political connections and implications. In spite of methodological problems with sources being scarce or of varying quality, the phenomenon of illiberal economy and its coupling with political projects is too important to be neglected by researchers. To some extent 'soft sources' have been accepted here, where hard evidence is lacking. The article argues that the considerable consolidation of illiberal economies in Serbia and Kosovo (as elsewhere in the post-Yugoslav space) have been intimately connected to politics, political violence and conflict in the region, and produced a transformation of wealth and resources. In this manner the conflicts in the region can be analysed from the perspective of social transformation. The latter concept emphasises that the trajectory of social and political change is not necessarily linear, towards liberal democracy and market economy, which is implied in the concepts transition (where the end stage is assumed to be liberal democracy and market economy) or social breakdown (which assumes a possible reconstruction to the norm of a harmonious state). Instead we may see fairly sustainable alternative political and economic projects, capable in their own (illiberal) way of integration into global networks and structures. Whereas the formal economy in these areas is marginalised in the global economy, these illiberal forms of economy may be both relatively long-term sustainable and provide the basis for alternative ways of social protection as well as exclusion. They are in certain regards political, and integral to political projects, but they should be viewed in terms of emergence rather than causation. Conflict cannot be reduced to an understanding of illiberal economy, but the latter provides for redistribution of resources and power, which is of direct relevance to conflict and its dynamics. The relationship is of a dialectical, rather than causative, nature. The level of political violence may vary and the illiberal economy expresses considerable capacity for adaptation. These arguments are not only of theoretical relevance, i.e. for how to conceptualise social and political change in the region, but highly policy-relevant as well, especially with regard to international aid policy and the governing in international protectorates.
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