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- Brauner, Annelie, et al.
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Is there a risk of cancer development after Campylobacter infection?
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0036-5521 .- 1502-7708. ; 45:7-8, s. 893-897
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: All Campylobacter jejuni species produce a genotoxin, which induce DNA double strand breaks, could lead to an increased risk of cancer especially in the gastro-intestinal tract.MATERIAL AND METHODS: All individuals in Stockholm County who tested positive with C. jejuni between 1989 and 2006 were included. The cohort was followed-up until December 31, 2007 for the occurrence of cancer, overall and site specific. Standard incidence ratios (SIR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated by comparisons with the background population.RESULTS: There were 16,276 individuals who tested positive for C. jejuni generating 124,387 person years. Excluding the first year of follow-up the overall risk for cancer did neither differ from that expected SIR = 0.95 (95% CI 0.82-1.09) nor after 10 years or more of follow-up; SIR = 0.91 (95% CI 0.71-1.16). There was no increased risk for cancer in the gastro-intestinal tract, but there were significantly increased risks for melanomas SIR = 1.84 (95% CI 1.27-2.57) and squamous cell skin cancer SIR = 1.52 (95% CI 1.01-2.19) while a significantly decreased risk of respiratory cancers among males SIR = 0.32 (95% CI 0.12-0.70) was observed.CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate no excess risks of malignancies following an infection by C. jejuni at least during the first decade. Furthermore, the finding of a decreased risk of respiratory cancers could be of interest, if the results are reproduced in future studies in other populations.
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- Crawshaw, Julie, 1971
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The way art works: descriptions of governance’
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In: Transatlantic Rural Research Network, Newcastle, UK.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The way art works: descriptions of governance Drawing on a one-year participant-observation in the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Northumberland, UK), this paper makes an empirical contribution to our understanding of the communicative qualities of art. Regarding art as experience, we do not look at art. Rather we trace art in ‘the raw’, as part of island life. To account for the relationships of experience, we slide beneath the ‘human scale’: we notice human and non-human associations (Latour, 2005); and ‘inner’ (human) and ‘outer’ (physical) exchanges (Dewey, 1934), as performed through art. Communication is ‘like art’ (Dewey, 1916). We do not regard art as ‘works’; but rather the way art works, as part of island living. As an anthropological study of art as part of island governance, the paper makes two distinct contributions. In following the micro exchanges of a series of artists’ participatory workshops, we offer a relational lens, presenting a nuanced articulation of the complexities of communicative planning. Furthermore, through tracing the effects of art as part of the relational landscape, we see how art ‘mediates’ (Hennion, 1997) collective thinking through doing. How art ‘modifies relationships of force’ (Hennion and Latour, 1993). How art mobilises boundaries of governance. As a participant of an island community group developing visitor information, the researcher was introduced as a conduit between Newcastle University’s interest in the role of art in rural development, and the requirements of the island communities. The islanders asked her to take account of art from their perspective: to trace art amongst island life; in order to describe the island through art, on its own terms. In long yarns we hear descriptions: of stories told – the pyramid on the headland, a hut on the beach, that fisherman take tar of their hands with butter, about the old days, landownership, being over-run by visitors, about the birds, the land, the tide; and stories experienced – about being marked – burnt by the sun, and scorched by opinion. In recent discussions of the role of ‘reflective practice’, Fischler (2012) proposes that planners evolve – as they experience a ‘confrontation with novelty’. This study proposes that the island planners, with development professionals and community members, evolve – as they experience art. Through thick description, rather than being told matters-as-fact, the paper explores matters-of-concern. We are taken beneath the bullet points and loud speakers. We feel the ebb and flow. We are where the waves form; observing how the tides of opinion break, and come together. Communicative planning ideas emphasize the importance of the ‘micro dynamics of the slow evolutions of the social learning process’ (Healey, 2012). This island has a causeway. When gravity pulls the tide out, we see the road: tarmac bitten by salt. By pulling ourselves beneath the surface, we trace the way matters materialise: how residents feel forced, and agencies deflated. Rather than patching up the cracks, as a platform for new thinking, we propose art works as a way to reform collective pathways anew.
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- Iurato, Giuseppe
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Rigidity of the generalized other narrowness of the otherness and demodernization in the framework of symbolic interactionism
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In: Ideology and Politics Journal. - : Foundation for Good Politics. - 2227-6068. ; 8:2, s. 83-116
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Author of this article uses symbolic interactionism, social psychology and psychoanalysis to analyze modernization and demodernization phenomena. Due to application of Mead’s symbolic interactionism, Author manifests how the dominance of the Generalized Other is present in the both phenomena. Author argues that in the process of modernization Super-Ego is being invested into modern institutions as the Otherness. This Otherness functions in the forms of automatisms and "recursions in the past" that postcolonial societies often demonstrate at the margins of modernity. © 2017 Foundation for Good Politics.
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- Okabayashi, Norio, et al.
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Inelastic electron tunneling process for alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers
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In: Progress in Surface Science. - : Elsevier. - 0079-6816 .- 1878-4240. ; 88:1, s. 1-38
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent investigations of inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) for alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are reviewed. Alkanethiol SAMs are usually prepared by immersing a gold substrate into a solution of alkanethiol molecules, and they are very stable, even under ambient conditions. Thus, alkanethiol SAMs have been used as typical molecules for research into molecular electronics. Infrared spectroscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) have frequently been employed to characterize SAMs on the macroscopic scale. For characterization of alkanethiol SAMs on the nanometer scale region, or for single alkanethiol molecules through which electrons actually tunnel, IETS has proven to be an effective method. However, IETS experiments for alkanethiol SAMs employing different methods have shown large differences, i.e., there is a lack of standard data for alkanethiol SAMs with which to understand the IET process or to satisfactorily compare with theoretical investigations. An effective means of acquiring standard data is the formation of a tunneling junction with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). After explanation of the STM experimental techniques, standard IETS data are presented whereby a contact condition between the tip and SAM is tuned. We have found that many vibrational modes are detected by STM-IETS, as is also the case for EELS. These results are compared with LET spectra measured with different tunneling junctions. In order to precisely investigate which vibrational modes are active in IETS, isotope labeling of alkanethiols with specifically synthesized isotopically substituted molecule has been examined. This method provides unambiguous assignments of IET spectra peaks and site selectivity for alkanethiol SAMs such that all parts of the alkanethiol molecules almost equally contribute to the IET process. The LET process is also discussed based on density functional theory and nonequilibrium Green's function calculations. These results quantitatively reproduce many the experimentally observed features, whereas Fermi's golden rule for JETS qualitatively explains the propensity rule and site selectivity observed in the experiments. However, comparison between experiment and theory reveals a large difference in JETS intensity for the C H stretching mode that originates from the side chains of the alkanethiol molecules. In order to explain this difference, we discuss the importance of an intermolecular tunneling process in the SAM. Application of STM-IETS to identify a hydrogenated alkanethiol molecule inserted into a deuterated alkanethiol SAM matrix is also demonstrated. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Ottosson, Jan, 1958-, et al.
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Editorial Introduction
- 2009
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In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. - London : Sage Publications. - 0143-831X .- 1461-7099. ; 30:3, s. 322-323
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- Petersson, Mikael, et al.
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Assessing Measurements for Feed-Forward Control
- 2001
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A method is presented for assessing disturbances in SISO loops.The method indicates if the SISO loop under consideration will benefit from an addition of feed forward control from a measured disturbance. The method uses minimal process knowledge and is based on measurement from normal operation.
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