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Objective. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of an intervention with advance provision of emergency contraceptive pills (ECP), condoms, and extended information to a targeted group of teenage girls, compared with a control group, 12 months after intervention. Material and methods. A randomized controlled trial among 420 girls, 15-19 years old, requesting emergency contraceptio

Induced abortion is as common in religious as secular cultures, but interpretations and ways to handle abortion differ. This study focuses on existential aspects of abortion, in relation to a secularized context, through in-depth interviews with 24 Swedish women. Existential questions belonging to four areas were found: Life and Death, Meaning of Life, Morality, and Self-Image. Furthermore, four d

CONTEXT: Swedish law permits abortion at the request of a pregnant woman until the 18th week of gestation. However, the extent to which the decision is truly the woman's own is subject to debate; women are often influenced, directly or indirectly, by the attitudes of their partners, family and friends or by social norms. METHODS: Individual in-depth interviews about the pregnancy and the abortion

Time-varying signals, such as sound waves, low-frequency vibrations from the earth, or electrical impulses in the human body, are often non-stationary, meaning their characteristics change over time. Because of this, standard spectral analysis methods, which assume stationary signals, cannot be used for analyzing such signals, as they discard the time-varying dynamics. This necessitates methods fo

In this paper, we investigate ways to mitigate the problem of decoder error propagation (DEP) in sliding window decoding (SWD) of protograph-based spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes for large frame length or streaming applications. In particular, in order to avoid subdividing a long frame into a series of shorter frames by using termination to combat DEP, we consider alteri

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the incidence and clinical features of Streptococcus dysgalactiae peripartum infections (SDPI), and to investigate the distribution of emm-types in relation to disease severity and the genetic relatedness of isolates from hospital clusters. Materials and methods: Patients with growth of S. dysgalactiae in a genital or wound culture, collected between January 2014 a

Current star formation models are based on the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM), yet the details on how local physics propagates to galactic-scale properties are still debated. To investigate this, we use VINTERGATAN, a high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy. We study how the velocity dispersion and density structure of the cold neutral ISM on 50–100 p

Aim: Limited evidence exists on the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure on metabolic dysfunctionassociated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in adolescents. We aimed to assess the effects of multiple chemicals on the hepatic steatosis index (HSI) and MASLD in adolescents, and to further explore the potential roles of inflammation and lifestyle factors. Methods: Associations between che

This study aims to facilitate the study of traffic dynamics in wildfire evacuation scenarios. To do so, it defines a set of traffic performance indicators to investigate traffic dynamics before and during wildfire evacuation events. These indicators include the following: system efficiency, travel time ratio, level of service, and jam time. To highlight the benefits and effectiveness of using thes

Communities living in areas of extraction often find ways to overcome or resist destructive legacies, but researchers lack a deep understanding of the mechanisms by which this is done. This article helps to address this gap by employing the theoretical framework of a sacrifice zone to a case study of Yellowknife, Canada and nearby mining projects. By analyzing a combination of interview and site v

The development of the protect-annealing method has extended the superconductivity of the electron-doped cuprate Pr1.3-xLa0.7CexCuO4 (PLCCO) into lower Ce concentrations, while the superconducting volume fraction decreases with underdoping. Employing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with a microfocused beam, we investigated the electronic structure of protect-annealed PLCCO (x=0.08) with

Αποτελεί η Κίνα κομμάτι του κόσμου;Αυτή η ερώτηση, παρά τον φαινομενικά ρητορικό της χαρακτήρα, αντικατοπτρίζει μια βαθιά ριζωμένη αντί­ληψη που κυριαρχεί σε μεγάλο μέρος του πολιτικού, δημοσιο­γραφικού και δημόσιου λόγου στη Δύση: ότι η Κίνα αποτελεί το «θεμελιωδώς διαφορετικό Άλλο», αποκομμένο από τον «πραγ­ματικό» κόσμο. Παρά τη σαραντάχρονη ενσωμάτωσή της στο παγκόσμιο κοινωνικοοικονομικό σύστ

The biogeophysical forcing resulting from the change in land-surface properties (such as albedo) is of particular interest as it can increase, decrease, or offset the biogeochemical forcing resulting from the changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations due to deforestation, forest management, or reforestation/afforestation (i.e., land-use/land-cover change, LULCC). Moreover, the biogeophy

Background and objective: Although cardiovascular toxicity from modern systemic treatments in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) remains a concern, real-world data are limited. We aimed to characterise patients treated for mHSPC across multiple large cohorts and estimate cardiovascular adverse event (AE) risks. Methods: Leveraging PIONEER's Big Data platform, with databases stand

The effects of atmospheric aerosols are key uncertainties in climate models. One reason is the complex aerosol composition which includes a relatively large fraction of organics. Another reason is the small size of aerosols, which makes surface effects and processes important. These two factors make surface-active organics relevant for atmospheric aerosols, as they can affect crucial processes, su

Accurate labels are critical for deriving robust machine learning models. Labels are used to train supervised learning models and to evaluate most machine learning paradigms. In this paper, we model the accuracy and cost of a common weak labeling process where annotators assign presence or absence labels to fixed-length data segments for a given event class. The annotator labels a segment as "pres

Background: Despite considerable interest in the consequences of benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine-related Z-drug (BZDR) use, little is known about whether and how initiation of BZDR treatment relates to the development of alcohol- and drug-related problems. Aims: This study aimed to examine the association of incident BZDR dispensing with subsequent alcohol- and drug-related problems. Methods: Th