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- Aad, G., et al.
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- 2014
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In: Journal of High Energy Physics. - 1029-8479 .- 1126-6708. ; :10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Klintman, Mikael, et al.
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Knowledge resistance
- 2022
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In: Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. - London : Routledge. - 9781003100607 - 9780367608064 ; , s. 323-333
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- Krishnaraja, Abinaya, et al.
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Fabrication of Tunnel FETs demonstrating sub-thermal subthreshold slope
- 2019
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET), based on band-to-band tunneling, overcomes the thermal limit (subthreshold slope (S) > 60 mV/decade) of the MOSFETs by filtering the high-energy Fermi tail, thereby allowing a substantial reduction of supply voltage and power consumption. Despite the steep slope behavior, TFETs can suffer from ambipolarity wherein carriers tunnel into the channel at both high positive and negative gate voltages. In this work, we demonstrate the fabrication of InAs/InGaAsSb/GaSb vertical nanowire TFET devices and present experimental data showcasing suppressed ambipolarity and a minimum S = 39 mV/decade at Vds=0.05V. The nanowires were grown using MOVPE where the 100nm long InAs drain was n-doped with TESn followed by a 100nm undoped InAs channel and a 100nm/300nm DEZn doped InGaAsSb/GaSb source. After growth, the InAs was selectively digitally etched using citric acid to reduce the channel diameter from 40nm to 25nm. The electrostatics was improved, compared to our previously reported devices, with a gate stack of ALD bilayer of 1nm/3nm Al2O3/HfO2 (EOT~1nm) followed by 30nm sputtered W. To decrease the ambipolar conduction, a gate-drain underlap of approximately 20nm was used which widens the tunnel barrier at the drain junction. Since the gate length is defined by the bottom spacer thickness in vertical transistors, the underlap provides a shorter gate positioned close to the source-channel junction. Thus the new process scheme has improved the slope and reduced the OFF current by one order of magnitude compared to our previous devices [1]. [1] E. Memisevic et al., IEEE Trans.ElectronDevices,vol.64,4746–4751, 2017.
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- Bharosa, Nitesh, et al.
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Are we prepared? : Experiences from developing dashboards for disaster preparation
- 2010
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In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM2010). - Seattle, USA.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Relief agency managers show growing interest in dashboards for assessing multi-agency disaster preparedness. Yet, there is a dearth of research on the development and use of dashboards for disaster preparation. Consequently, information system architects in the disaster management domain have little guidance in developing dashboards. Here, dashboards refer to digitalized visualizations of performance indicators. In this paper, we discuss the experiences gained from an action research project on the development of dashboards for assessing disaster preparedness. The objective of this paper is to discuss experiences and tradeoffs extracted from the development of dashboards in practice. We organized a two-day gaming-simulation with relief agency managers for the evaluation of the dashboards. While the relief agency managers acknowledged the usefulness of dashboards in the disaster preparation process and expressed their intention to use these in practice, they suggested that the formulation and clustering of performance indicators requires further research.
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- Zhang, Ge, 1981-
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Analyzing Key-Click Patterns of PIN Input for Recognizing VoIP Users
- 2011
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In: Future Challenges in Security and Privacy for Academia and Industry<em> </em>. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag New York. - 9783642214233 - 9783642214240 ; , s. 247-258
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Malicious intermediaries are able to detect the availability of VoIP conversation flows in a network and observe the IP addresses used by the conversation partners. However, it is insufficient to infer the calling records of a particular user in this way since the linkability between a user and a IP address is uncertain: users may regularly change or share IP addresses. Unfortunately, VoIP flows may contain human-specific features. For example, users sometimes are required to provide Personal identification numbers (PINs) to a voice server for authentication and thus the key-click patterns of entering a PIN can be extracted from VoIP flows for user recognition. We invited 31 subjects to enter 4-digital PINs on a virtual keypad of a popular VoIP user-agent with mouse clicking. Employing machine learning algorithms, we achieved average equal error rates of 10-29% for user verification and a hitting rate up to 65% with a false positive rate around 1% for user classification.
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- Zhang, Q., et al.
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Climate change or variability? The case of Yellow river as indicated by extreme maximum and minimum air temperature during 1960-2004
- 2008
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In: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0177-798X .- 1434-4483. ; 93:1-2, s. 35-43
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The spatial and temporal variability of winter extreme low-temperature events and summer extreme high-temperature events was investigated using daily air temperature series (1960-2004) from 66 sites in the Yellow River basin, China, with the help of Mann-Kendall trend test method. In this study an extreme temperature event is defined by exceeding or falling below various threshold values of daily maximum and daily minimum air temperature: 90th percentile, 95th percentile for the high-temperature events, 10th percentile and 5th percentile for the low-temperature events. The analysis results indicate that: 1) significant upward trend of frequency and intensity of the high-temperature events is found in the stations in the west and north part of the Yellow River basin, but trends in most stations in the middle and lower Yellow River basin are not significant at > , 95% confidence level, 2) almost the whole Yellow River basin is dominated by the significant downward trend of frequency of the cold events. Stations featured by the increasing winter minimum temperature are also more than those featured by changing summer maximum temperature, and 3) annual warming trend in the Yellow River basin mainly results from the increase in winter minimum temperature. Significant warming in the upper reach of the Yellow River will be likely to threaten the availability of the water resource in the whole basin, which should draw certain concerns from local policy-makers and water resource management agency in the region.
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- Beidar, K.I., et al.
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On antipodes and integrals in Hopf algebras over rings and the quantum Yang-Baxter equation
- 1997
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In: Journal of Algebra. - : Elsevier BV. - 1090-266X .- 0021-8693. ; 194:1, s. 36-52
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The authors showed previously (on Frobenius algebras and quantum Yang-Baxter equation, II, preprint, TRITA-MAT-1995, February 1995) that every Frobenius algebra over a commutative ring defines a solution of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation. Applying this result to Hopf algebras over commutative rings which are finitely generated and projective as modules, we obtain an explicit formula for this solution. It turns out that this solution can be expressed in terms of the integral and antipode. We use this solution to characterize separable Hopf algebras over rings. Some results on the order of the antipode are also obtained.
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| 9. |
- Browning, Gerald, et al.
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Mesh refinement
- 1973
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In: Mathematics of Computation. - 0025-5718 .- 1088-6842. ; 27:121, s. 29-39
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- Gunvik Grönbladh, Ingegerd
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När jag fångade Bourdieu
- 2008
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In: Att sætte spor på en vandring fra Aquinas till Bourdieu - æresbog till Staf Callewaert. - Köpenhamn : Hexis.
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Hu, Guohua
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Perceptual training for adult Swedish leaners of Chinese
- 2015
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In: 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES, UCLA.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper will give an overview of how the training process in Chinese perception for Swedish adult learners, based on teaching, is conducted at University of Gothenburg. It does not intend to build up an ideal perception mode. This process contains three phases 1) creating an “in omnibus” language feeling that as much as possible activates the students’ potential perceptual abilities as soon as they are exposed to Chinese; 2) tapping their perceptual abilities for giving full play to their perceptual aptitudes (which requires various pedagogical activities both for group- and individual work), and 3) training the students ultimately to attain a self-monitored and self-conscious learning strategy (Dörnyei & Skehan 2003). At school Swedes start learning English in their third school year. But they have already earlier had many possibilities to experience this major language independently, e.g. through mass media. However, Chinese as a target language in Sweden is not accessed as easily as English. It is therefore necessary for the beginners to experience the prosody of this new language or there is a risk of an overly staccato-like speech production if they are only trained in isolated segments and suprasegmentals. It is also important to foster their perception of social awareness since intonation might have different social functions (politeness, happiness, sorrow, etc.). In the same way we have to train their category competence with a discrete-item method (Flowerdew & Miller 2005:10-11) in order to avoid that much of the input is “filtered out” (Mehlhorn 2008:213). For example, they are asked where they notice pauses, rising or falling tones, a longer duration, etc., especially the differences of these prosodic features of the (supra)segments when they were isolated and in spontaneous speech. An improved method has been developed for dealing with (supra)segmental contrasts in this specific learning context, using a more acoustically-oriented approach to tapping potential perceptual abilities. For example, the students were asked to describe the differences between my Swedish pronunciation of place, seat and their own since there are neither phonemic affricates nor aspiration contrasts in Swedish. As soon as they reported that my Swedish contain more powerful airstream and strong block than theirs they were instructed to put their palm in front of the mouth, then block and release the strong airstream in order to feel the Chinese [ths]. Drawing special attention to allophonic-like variants in both languages can also help to acquire the Chinese sound [ɕ]. Additionally, individual switches between sounds longitudinally were also noticed. As for tone, Chen (2013) has suggested that manual gestures indicating tone movement is an aid for learning tone patterns. For Swedish learners this is probably less important since their mother tongue has a tonal word accent: tone perception can be trained at di- or polysyllabic word level. For example, they were trained whether one this high tone rises earlier than that one within or across syllables. These activities must be very carefully prepared by the teacher and demand teachers with high ambition, excellent pedagogy, and good linguistic ability in both languages, especially if her/his own pronunciation is not blameless. Qualified teaching will come about through the students’ feedback in order to analyze, diagnose, and plan for further coaching. The goal of this perception training is that the students, guided by a teacher, gradually develop their potential perceptual abilities and establish their self-confidence, and finally attain an independent learning strategy. When the students master these steps the method paves the way for a better speech production. References: Chen, C. M. (2013). Gestures as tone markers in multilingual communication. Research in Chinese as a Second Language, 9, 143. Dornyei, Z., & Skehan, P. (2003). 18 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning. Flowerdew, J., & Miller, L. (2005). Second language listening: Theory and practice. Cambridge University Press. Mehlhorn, G. (2007). Individual pronunciation coaching and prosody. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS, 186, 211.
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- Nimura, Courtney, et al.
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Navigating Inland : Bronze Age Watercraft and the Lakes of Southern Sweden
- 2020
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In: European Journal of Archaeology. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 1461-9571 .- 1741-2722. ; 23:2, s. 186-206
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The rock art of southern Scandinavia is characterized by depictions of watercraft. The majority are close to the coast, and they have been the primary focus of research. Less attention has been paid to similar representations associated with two large inland lakes in southern Sweden. In this article we present the results of fieldwork around Lake Vänern and Lake Vättern and consider the relationship of this rock art to the better-known images on the coast. We explore the practicalities of navigating between the sea and the interior and suggest that there was an important contrast between an early eastern sphere extending to Lake Vättern from the Baltic and a later western sphere connecting Lake Vänern with the Atlantic.
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- Tyrén, Lena
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Action Research to support school development
- 2010
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In schools in Sweden today researchers are encouraged through national policies that highlight the importance of research in the teaching profession in relation to school improvement to work with school teachers in local development projects. In autumn 2007 I was contacted by one of the teachers at a local school, about my willingness to participate in one such project that was attempting to use computers with young school children 6-9 years as tools for learning to read and write. This paper is based on this project. It was carried out in the academic years of 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 at a school that I have called Tower School: an 0-9 school in Sweden. We developed the project in the form of an action research project. Action research was seen as highly suitable by all involved parties as it is an approach where research is conducted in cooperation with participants in practice in an attempt to improve that practice or its outcomes in some respect. Action research gave me the opportunity to combine practical relevance with the scientific requirements that exist in academia. Teachers at Tower School were given the opportunity to reflect on their own practice and their professional roles, and they were encouraged to think about and eventually change any ingrained approaches in relation to how they work with pupils when helping them to learn to read and write and develop reading and writing proficiencies. The project was organised on the basis of an action research question that could be phased in the following way: How can we use the computer together with pupils as a tool that can help the development of better reading and writing competencies amongst young school pupils? In this study we used various tools to make everyday life visible and take action, to observe what was happening in the classroom and for reflection on what happened. By using various tools such as focus groups, observations, conversations with teachers and pupils, evening meetings/sessions and journal writing we tried to create an opportunity for reflection, documentation and teacher and researcher development. The use of tools like these is common in action research. The tools are meant to complement each other and are a condition for the development and operation of a learning effect. By reflecting and discussing individually and in groups an intention is to create a new understanding of the operation. The use of tools is an opportunity to gain insight into practice. The action research project began well and ran well over the course of just over one year. However, after a year education restructuring in the region resulted in significant changes within the organization of comprehensive schooling. These changes were significant at Tower School in that they significantly affected the working conditions for teachers (through redundancies and transfers), their pupils (through teacher changes) and the researcher (through the changed conditions for conducting action research). The aim with this present paper is to focuses on the effects of these changes on the research process. Often it is taken for granted that everything runs smoothly in empirical research. But what happens to research and school development in a school under change when components in the organization and running of schools begin perhaps to break down? This can occur when social structures change. But what consequences does this have for an action research approach in an ongoing study? One can speak of certain principles of action research and certain conditions that are required in order to implement these principles in practice. One of these is continuity of participation and access to the field, another is time for reflection and a third is the development of stable social relations and critical friendship groups. The restructuring of education in the region destabilised the school and troubled the preconditions for action research. Using first hand materials from my own investigation and combining these with data from other sources regarding the effects of restructuring on schools, the people in them and the relationships these people are able to form with each-other and with people from outside (not the least researchers of course) in the present paper I will discuss how the importance of action research at school and its strengths and weaknesses can be undermined when an organization begins to change in ways that teachers and researchers can do little about. Some tentative conclusions will be drawn about the implications of unforeseen change and unstable conditions of labour for planning and conducting action research.
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- Zhang, Bixing, 1963, et al.
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Antiplane shear waves from a piezoelectric strip actuator: exact versus effective boundary condition solutions
- 2004
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In: Smart Materials and Structures. - 0964-1726 .- 1361-665X. ; 13, s. 161-168
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A piezoelectric strip of finite width and thickness is placed on top of an isotropic half-space. It operates in actuator mode and a time harmonic voltage is thus applied across it. The piezoelectric material is of type 6mm oriented so that a 2D antiplane (scalar) problem results. By Fourier series expansions the problem is solved exactly and this result is compared to the case when the piezoelectric strip is replaced by an effective boundary condition, which is derived by series expansions in the thickness coordinate in the piezoelectric strip. At low frequencies the results agree very well and this corresponds to the situation usually found in practice. In general the effective boundary condition should be easier to apply and it is in particular noted that this is the case when using a FEM program where the option of a piezoelectric material is usually not available.
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- Zhang, Qian, et al.
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Does land perform well for corn planting? : An empirical study on land use efficiency in China
- 2018
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In: Land use policy. - : ELSEVIER SCI LTD. - 0264-8377 .- 1873-5754. ; 74, s. 273-280
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- To assess land quality for cropping, this study developed a land performance indicator (LPI), namely efficiency of total land productivity potential (TLPP), by incorporating the heterogeneity of land quality for individual agricultural production units when evaluating the performance of land for corn planting, using stochastic frontier analysis. Without taking into account land quality, the technical efficiency (TE) of corn production cannot be reasonably compared across regions because the variation in land quality is significant. The estimated mean TE was 0.77, which illustrates that there is still potential to increase output by 23%, without increasing inputs, if all agricultural production units emulate the best performing production units. The results demonstrated that the mean LPI was 0.273, with a maximum value of 1.0, implying that a large gap exists between the minimum optimum use of TLPP and observed TLPP. This finding indicates that corn planting units can achieve the same outputs with less land inputs through improving the land productivity per unit. The results also revealed that operational units with greater farm area are likely to be more efficient than with those with a smaller area, which suggests that enlarging farm area and promoting household cooperation and joint management practices are imperative to achieve agricultural modernization, enhance the competitiveness of China's agricultural production in the global market, and effectively disengage labor from agricultural production and transfer the resulting surplus labor to cities.
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- Anderson, Craig, 1976, et al.
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In situ growth of Gallionella biofilms and partitioning of lanthanides and actinides between biological material and ferric oxyhydroxides
- 2003
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In: Geobiology. - : Wiley. - 1472-4677 .- 1472-4669. ; 1:2, s. 169-178
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Gallionella ferruginea is an iron-oxidizing chemolithotrophic micro-organism that lives in low-oxygen conditions (0.1–1.5 mg L-1 saturation). It produces a stalk structure from the concave side of the cell depending on population development, pH and redox conditions. After Gallionella oxidizes ferrous iron, bacteriogenic iron oxides (BIOS) precipitate on the stalk material and over time the stalks and/or the precipitated BIOS attenuate trace metals from surrounding groundwater. Gallionella ferruginea biofilms were cultured in situ in an artificial channel (2000 × 300 × 250 mm) using groundwater sourced from a borehole 297 m below sea level in the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory in southern Sweden. The pH of the groundwater in the channels was always between 7.4 and 7.7 with oxygen saturation below 1.5 mg L-1 and Eh between 100 and 200 mV. Oxygen eventually declined to <0.3 mg L-1, terminating prolific biofilm growth. Biofilms formed within 2 weeks and were sampled every 2 weeks over 3 months. Cell number, stalk length and ferric iron concentration were measured for each sample and trace metal concentration was measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Results from well-developed in situ biofilms suggest that Gallionella could concentrate metals at levels up to 1 × 103-fold higher than found within the host rock and more than 1 × 106 times the levels found in the groundwater. These new experiments were used to support the results from the well-developed biofilms and to relate biofilm development and population characteristics to metal attenuation. After 3 months, rare earth element (REE) plots indicated that BIOS can accumulate metals at levels up to 1 × 104-fold higher than found in the groundwater and fractionate heavy rare earth elements over light rare earth elements. Generally the presence of the organic phase promotes the adsorption of all lanthanides and actinides that are not adsorbed by the inorganic phase. The iron oxides are directly correlated with stalk length (R = 0.96), indicating that rapid REE and actinide adsorption requires both iron oxides and a nucleating biological structure for the iron oxides.
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- Chen, Cynthia, et al.
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Activity rescheduling: reasoned or habitual?
- 2004
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In: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART F-TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR. - : Elsevier BV. - 1369-8478. ; 7:6, s. 351-371
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Chen, Hongxia, et al.
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PRL2 Phosphatase Promotes Oncogenic KIT Signaling in Leukemia Cells through Modulating CBL Phosphorylation
- 2024
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In: Molecular Cancer Research. - 1541-7786. ; 22:1, s. 94-103
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Receptor tyrosine kinase KIT is frequently activated in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). While high PRL2 (PTP4A2) expression is correlated with activation of SCF/KIT signaling in AML, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. We discovered that inhibition of PRL2 significantly reduces the burden of oncogenic KIT-driven leukemia and extends leukemic mice survival. PRL2 enhances oncogenic KIT signaling in leukemia cells, promoting their proliferation and survival. We found that PRL2 dephosphorylates CBL at tyrosine 371 and inhibits its activity toward KIT, leading to decreased KIT ubiquitination and enhanced AKT and ERK signaling in leukemia cells.
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- Chen, Tianhui, et al.
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Distribution and risk of the second discordant primary cancers combined after a specific first primary cancer in German and Swedish cancer registries.
- 2015
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In: Cancer Letters. - : Elsevier BV. - 1872-7980 .- 0304-3835. ; 369:1, s. 152-166
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We aimed at investigating the distribution and risk of all second discordant primary cancers (SDPCs) after a specific first primary cancer in Germany and Sweden to provide etiological understanding of SDPCs and insight into their incidence rates and recording practices. Among 1,537,004 survivors of first primary cancers in Germany and 588,103 in Sweden, overall 80,162 and 32,544 SDPCs were recorded, respectively. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) of all SDPCs were elevated at levels between 1.1 and 2.1 after 23 (out of overall 29) cancers in Germany and at levels between 1.1 and 1.6 after 24 cancers in Sweden, and among them, elevated SIRs were found after 19 cancers in both populations. Decreased SIRs at levels ranging from 0.5 to 0.9 were found for some cancers with poor prognosis in Germany only. We found elevated risk after 19 out of 29 cancers in both countries, suggesting common etiology of SDPCs after most of first cancers and registration similarity. Decreased risks after some fatal cancers were found only in Germany, which may be attributed to reporting practices or missed death data in Germany.
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- Grötsch, Marie Therese, et al.
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A Modified Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Rating Scale
- 2021
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In: Movement Disorders. - : Wiley. - 0885-3185 .- 1531-8257. ; 36:5, s. 1203-1215
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Background: The Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Rating Scale is a prospectively validated physician-rated measure of disease severity for progressive supranuclear palsy. We hypothesized that, according to experts' opinion, individual scores of items would differ in relevance for patients' quality of life, functionality in daily living, and mortality. Thus, changes in the score may not equate to clinically meaningful changes in the patient's status. Objective: The aim of this work was to establish a condensed modified version of the scale focusing on meaningful disease milestones. Methods: Sixteen movement disorders experts evaluated each scale item for its capacity to capture disease milestones (0 = no, 1 = moderate, 2 = severe milestone). Items not capturing severe milestones were eliminated. Remaining items were recalibrated in proportion to milestone severity by collapsing across response categories that yielded identical milestone severity grades. Items with low sensitivity to change were eliminated, based on power calculations using longitudinal 12-month follow-up data from 86 patients with possible or probable progressive supranuclear palsy. Results: The modified scale retained 14 items (yielding 0–2 points each). The items were rated as functionally relevant to disease milestones with comparable severity. The modified scale was sensitive to change over 6 and 12 months and of similar power for clinical trials of disease-modifying therapy as the original scale (achieving 80% power for two-sample t test to detect a 50% slowing with n = 41 and 25% slowing with n = 159 at 12 months). Conclusions: The modified Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Rating Scale may serve as a clinimetrically sound scale to monitor disease progression in clinical trials and routine.
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- Huang, Pei, et al.
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Transforming a residential building cluster into electricity prosumers in Sweden : Optimal design of a coupled PV-heat pump-thermal storage-electric vehicle system
- 2019
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In: Applied Energy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0306-2619 .- 1872-9118. ; 255
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Smart grid is triggering the transformation of traditional electricity consumers into electricity prosumers. This paper reports a case study of transforming an existing residential cluster in Sweden into electricity prosumers. The main energy concepts include (1) click-and-go photovoltaics (PV) panels for building integration, (2) centralized exhaust air heat pump, (3) thermal energy storage for storing excess PV electricity by using heat pump, and (4) PV electricity sharing within the building cluster for thermal/electrical demand (including electric vehicles load) on a direct-current micro grid. For the coupled PV-heat pump-thermal storage-electric vehicle system, a fitness function based on genetic algorithm is established to optimize the capacity and positions of PV modules at cluster level, with the purpose of maximizing the self-consumed electricity under a non-negative net present value during the economic lifetime. Different techno-economic key performance indicators, including the optimal PV capacity, self-sufficiency, self-consumption and levelized cost of electricity, are analysed under impacts of thermal storage integration, electric vehicle penetration and electricity sharing possibility. Results indicate that the coupled system can effectively improve the district-level PV electricity self-consumption rate to about 77% in the baseline case. The research results reveal how electric vehicle penetrations, thermal storage, and energy sharing affect PV system sizing/positions and the performance indicators, and thus help promote the PV deployment. This study also demonstrates the feasibility for transferring the existing Swedish building clusters into smart electricity prosumers with higher self-consumption and energy efficiency and more intelligence, which benefits achieving the ‘32% share of renewable energy source’ target in EU by 2030.
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