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Realization of Ultrahigh Quality InGaN Platelets to be Used as Relaxed Templates for Red Micro-LEDs

In this work, arrays of predominantly relaxed InGaN platelets with indium contents of up to 18%, free from dislocations and offering a smooth top c-plane, are presented. The InGaN platelets are grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy on a dome-like InGaN surface formed by chemical mechanical polishing of InGaN pyramids defined by 6 equivalent {101¯ 1} planes. The dome-like surface is f

Low-grade inflammation in survivors of childhood cancer and testicular cancer and its association with hypogonadism and metabolic risk factors

BACKGROUND: In childhood (CCS) and testicular cancer (TCS) survivors, low-grade inflammation may represent a link between testosterone deficiency (hypogonadism) and risk of metabolic syndrome. We aimed to study levels of inflammatory markers in CCS and TCS and the association with hypogonadism and future cardio-metabolic risk factors.METHODS: Serum levels of inflammatory markers and testosterone w

Att mötas i den skrivande stunden – om stödjande samtal via chatt

I detta kapitel undersöker vi några av de frågor som uppstår när mötet med klienten är begränsat till de skrivna orden. Hur visar man sin närvaro när man inte ser varandra? Hur förmedlar man förståelse och stöd i en textbaserad dialog? Vi går igenom skillnader mellan stödjande samtal i det fysiska rummet och textbaserat stöd på internet. Utifrån tidigare forskning och exempel från en chatt, som erI detta kapitel undersöker vi några av de frågor som uppstår när mötet med klienten är begränsat till de skrivna orden. Hur visar man sin närvaro när man inte ser varandra? Hur förmedlar man förståelse och stöd i en textbaserad dialog? Vi går igenom skillnader mellan stödjande samtal i det fysiska rummet och textbaserat stöd på internet. Utifrån tidigare forskning och exempel från en chatt, som er

The potential of student narratives to enhance quality in higher education

University policies are increasingly developed with reference to students’ learning experiences, with a focus on the concept of the ‘student voice’. Yet the ‘student voice’ is difficult to define and emphasis is often placed on numerical performance indicators. A diverse student population has wide-ranging educational experiences, which may not be easily captured within the broad categories provid

Identifying needs and opportunities for academic development

This chapter examines the role and responsibilities of the individual academic developer and how these reflect the context of the engagement. It considers how different responses to the development context can be identified - not as a prescription designed to treat each individual case, but as a framework for evaluating the need and creating an environment for meeting it successfully. It will make

Photoexcitation dynamics in electrochemically charged CdSe quantum dots : From hot carrier cooling to auger recombination of negative trions

Fulfilling the potential of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) in electrically driven applications remains a challenge largely since operation of such devices involves charged QDs with drastically different photophysical properties compared to their well-studied neutral counterparts. In this work, the full picture of excited state dynamics in charged CdSe QDs at various time scales has bee

Current Trends in Development of Photosynthetic Bioelectrochemical Systems for Light Energy Conversion

During the past few decades, intensive research has been focused on the application of biological photosynthetic processes for "green" electrical power generation. In this contribution, we consider different possible photobiocatalysts, such as isolated photosystems, thylakoid membranes (TMs), and whole photosynthetic organisms suitable for building bioelectrochemical systems for light energy conve

Serum aromatic and branched-chain amino acids associated with NASH demonstrate divergent associations with serum lipids

Background & Aims: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been associated with multiple metabolic abnormalities. By applying a non-targeted metabolomics approach, we aimed at investigating whether serum metabolite profile that associates with NAFLD would differ in its association with NAFLD-related metabolic risk factors. Methods & Results: A total of 233 subjects (mean ± SD: 48.3 ±

A novel tool to assess the quality of RWE to guide the management of retinal disease

Despite the growing importance of real-world evidence (RWE) for guiding clinical decisions in retinal disease, there is currently no widely used guidance available for assessing the quality and relevance of RWE studies in ophthalmology. This paper summarizes the development of a user-friendly tool that facilitates assessment of the quality of available RWE for neovascular age-related macular degen

Morphological and structural heterogeneity of solid gliadin food foams modified with transglutaminase and food grade dispersants.

We show in this study the impact of transglutaminase (SB6), glycerol (Gly) and linoleic acid (LA) on the development of gliadin (Glia) solid edible foams. Two concentrations of SB6 were tested, 0.58 U/g and 1.17 U/g, and sufficiently high concentration of SB6 was found essential to crosslink the gliadins. Greater cross-linking in foam prepared with gliadin and 1.17 U/g of SB6 (2-TG-Glia) was follo

Modelling past and future peatland carbon dynamics across the pan-Arctic

The majority of northern peatlands were initiated during the Holocene. Owing to their mass imbalance, they have sequestered huge amounts of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems. Although recent syntheses have filled some knowledge gaps, the extent and remoteness of many peatlands pose challenges to developing reliable regional carbon accumulation estimates from observations. In this work, we employed

Multiple Ecosystem Effects of Extreme Weather Events in the Arctic

The Arctic is getting warmer and wetter. Here, we document two independent examples of how associated extreme precipitation patterns have severe implications for high Arctic ecosystems. The events stand out in a 23-year record of continuous observations of a wide range of ecosystem parameters and act as an early indication of conditions projected to increase in the future. In NE Greenland, August

StanceVis Prime : Visual Analysis of Sentiment and Stance in Social Media Texts

Text visualization and visual text analytics methods have been successfully applied for various tasks related to the analysis of individual text documents and large document collections such as summarization of main topics or identification of events in discourse. Visualization of sentiments and emotions detected in textual data has also become an important topic of interest, especially with regar

Standardization of Propagation Models for Terrestrial Cellular Systems: A Historical Perspective

Propagation models constitute a fundamental building block of wireless communications research. Before we build and operate real systems, we must understand the science of radio propagation, and develop channel models that both reflect the important propagation processes and allow a fair comparison of different systems. In the past five decades, wireless systems have gone through five generations,

Explaining the past, predicting the future: the influence of regional trajectories on innovation networks of new industries in emerging economies

Economic geographers have recently made important contributions to understanding of the relationship between regional transformation, industrial specialisation and innovation networks in the emergence of new industries. However, most contemporary research has focused on the influence of networks on regional trajectories, paying lip service to how regional trajectories also influence network config

Higher harmonic non-linear flow modes of charged hadrons in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV

Anisotropic flow coefficients, vn, non-linear flow mode coefficients, χn,mk, and correlations among different symmetry planes, ρn,mk are measured in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV. Results obtained with multi-particle correlations are reported for the transverse momentum interval 0.2 < pT< 5.0 GeV/c within the pseudorapidity interval 0.4 < |η| < 0.8 as a function of collision centrality. The v

CO Chemisorption on Vicinal Rh(111) Surfaces Studied with a Curved Crystal

Curved crystal surfaces enable the systematic and accurate comparison of physical and chemical processes for a full set of vicinal crystal planes, which are probed in the very same environment. Here, we examine the early stages of the CO chemisorption on vicinal Rh(111) surfaces using a curved Rh crystal that exposes a smoothly variable density of {100} (A-type) and {111} (B-type) steps. We readil

First language attrition on prosody in a foreign language environment: A speech production study on anaphora resolution

In this study, we explore whether first language (L1) attrition affects the use of prosodic cues in anaphora resolution. 18 late Italian–Swedish bilinguals completed a speech production task in L1 Italian, wherein we measured the inter-clausal pause duration and the pronoun’s degree of prosodic prominence. They also completed a control interpretation task, wherein we analysed response preferences,