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Dealing with sportswashing – an exercise in honour and popular culture

Qatar 2022 has become a symbol of sportswashing, a flagpost for discussions about accountability, responsibility, and morality within different sport disciplines, football being a prime example. “Moral violation” has been listed as the crime surrounding sportswashing (Fruh, Archer & Wojtowicz 2023, 103). After frenzied use of the word in connection to the last football world cup 2022, there ca

Orthostatic hypotension is associated with higher levels of circulating endostatin

AimsThe pathophysiology of orthostatic hypotension (OH), a common clinical condition, associated with adverse outcomes, is incompletely understood. We examined the relationship between OH and circulating endostatin, an endogenous angiogenesis inhibitor with antitumor effects proposed to be involved in blood pressure (BP) regulation.MethodsWe compared endostatin levels in 146 patients with OH and 1

A review on operation and maintenance of hydropower plants

Hydropower is one of the renewable energy sources having the highest conversion efficiency than other renewable energy sources. The hydro turbine is considered as the main component of a hydropower plant and operation and maintenance of various components are the critical issues for optimal energy generation. Under the present paper, a comprehensive literature review on the operation and maintenan

Compressive Strength Prediction of Lightweight Concrete : Machine Learning Models

Concrete is the most commonly used construction material. The physical properties of concrete vary with the type of concrete, such as high and ultra-high-strength concrete, fibre-reinforced concrete, polymer-modified concrete, and lightweight concrete. The precise prediction of the properties of concrete is a problem due to the design code, which typically requires specific characteristics. The em

Primary care indicators for disease burden, monitoring and surveillance of COVID-19 in 31 European countries: Eurodata Study

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of patients received ambulatory treatment, highlighting the importance of primary health care (PHC). However, there is limited knowledge regarding PHC workload in Europe during this period. The utilization of COVID-19 PHC indicators could facilitate the efficient monitoring and coordination of the pandemic response. The objective of this study

An Optimized Neuro-Bee Algorithm Approach to Predict the FRP-Concrete Bond Strength of RC Beams

Over the world, there is growing worry about the corrosion of reinforced concrete structures. Structure repair, rehabilitation, replacement, and new structures all require cost-effective and long-lasting technologies. Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) has been widely employed in both retrofitting existing structures and building new ones. Due to its varied qualities in reinforced concrete and masonry

Halide Perovskites for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities

Photoelectrochemical water splitting and CO2 reduction provide an attractive route to produce solar fuels while reducing the level of CO2 emissions. Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have been extensively studied for this purpose in recent years due to their suitable optoelectronic properties. In this review, we survey the recent achievements in the field. After a brief introduction to photoelectroc

Osäker framtid för riktade ränteavdragsregler – En analys av mål HFD 2024 ref. 6

Den 22 januari 2024 meddelade Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen dom i ännu ett mål avseende de riktade ränteavdragsbegränsningsreglerna. Skatterättsnämnden hade i ett förhandsbesked tidigare slagit fast att även 24 kap. 19 § första stycket IL var oförenlig med etableringsfriheten, vilket nu även bekräftas av Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen med stöd av argumentationen i Lexel-målet. Detta avgörande innebär

Prevalence of impaired renal function among childless men as compared to fathers : a population-based study

Male reproductive impairment has been linked with an increased risk of numerous non-communicable diseases. Yet, epidemiological data on renal disease among subfertile men is scarce. Therefore, by using male childlessness as a proxy for male infertility, we aimed to investigate its association with renal function. Data was sourced from a population-based cohort including 22,444 men. After exclusion

A Pressure-Oscillation-Based RON Estimation Method for Spark Ignition Fuels beyond RON 100

Knock in spark ignition (SI) engines occurs when the air–fuel mixture in the combustion chamber ignites spontaneously ahead of the flame front, reducing combustion efficiency and possibly leading to engine damage if left unattended. The use of knock sensors to prevent it is common practice in modern engines. Another measure to mitigate knock is the use of higher-octane fuels. The American Society

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. V. Satellite Galaxy Populations in a Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation of a Milky Way-Mass Halo

We analyze and compare the satellite halo populations at z ∼ 2 in the high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of a 1012 M ⊙ target halo (z = 0 mass) carried out on eight widely used astrophysical simulation codes (Art-I, Enzo, Ramses, Changa, Gadget-3, Gear, Arepo-t, and Gizmo) for the AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. We use slightly different redshift epochs n

A queer failure of 'sustainable urban development'

This text will explore the allegedly ‘sustainable’ urbanization of agricultural land in the SUD project Hyllie, an emerging ‘smart city’ district in southern Malmö (Sweden’s third largest city). With the aim to provoke discussions on some often-overlooked dilemmas with the expansionist and projective character of SUD, the concept of ‘queer failure’ is brought in as a disruptive and generative idea

Metaphors we supervise by

This edited volume aims to bring supervision to life and contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between the supervisor and the thesis-writing student.The authors believe and hope that discussing supervision in terms of metaphors will contribute to a more profound mutual understanding between student and supervisor, a deeper understanding of the context(s) of supervision, reduce f

Influence of marker-selection method in radiostereometric analysis of total knee arthroplasty on tibial baseplate migration patterns : a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial with 5-year follow-up

Background and purpose — Different marker-selection methods are applied to represent implant and tibial seg-ments in radiostereometric analysis (RSA) studies of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Either a consistent set of markers throughout subsequent RSA examinations (“consistent-marker method”) is used or all available markers at each follow-up (“all-marker method”). The aim of this secondary analy

Ultrasensitive sequencing of STR markers utilizing unique molecular identifiers and the SiMSen-Seq method

Massively parallel sequencing (MPS) is increasingly applied in forensic short tandem repeat (STR) analysis. The presence of stutter artefacts and other PCR or sequencing errors in the MPS-STR data partly limits the detection of low DNA amounts, e.g., in complex mixtures. Unique molecular identifiers (UMIs) have been applied in several scientific fields to reduce noise in sequencing. UMIs consist o