The escalating number of road traffic crashes in Malaysia poses a critical concern. The underreporting of these crashes has been identified as a significant problem that obstructs the effectiveness and efficiency of road safety work. Accordingly, a data-linkage study comparing hospital and police databases in a representative region of Malaysia was carried out. It showed a severe underreporting of

We reconstructed a record of the micrometeorite flux in the Late Cretaceous using the distribution of extraterrestrial spinel grains across an ~2 m.y. interval of elevated 3He in the Turonian Stage (ca. 92–90 Ma). From ~30 m of the limestone succession in the Bottaccione section, Italy, a total of 979 kg of rock from levels below and within the 3He excursion yielded 603 spinel grains (32–355 µm si

In this thesis, I address people’s experiences of being born with a body that does not meet the normative definitions of male or female. The situation when sex characteristics develop in ways that do not conform to binary models is referred to as intersex or disorders of sex development (DSD). This research has been done in the context of the 2006 medical consensus statement on intersex/DSD, and i

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease, characterized by a progressive lossof dopaminergic neurons (DN) in the substantia nigra (SN) that innervate the striatum (ST) and pathologicalaccumulation of alpha-synuclein (αsyn) protein in aggregates called Lewy bodies (LB) and Lewy neurites(LN). As a complex disease, PD presents a genetically heterogeneous origin. Mutations in si

A case is presented of extragenital abdominal choriocarcinoma without uterine lesion in a postmenopausal woman. Nineteen years after her antecedent pregnancy, a legal abortion, and thirteen years after her menopause, the patient was admitted to the hospital because of intermittent abdominal pain. Explorative laparotomy revealed a large tumour mass in the greater omentum, mesosigmoideum, peritoneal

We propose an efficient algorithm, that given a strictly proper, second-order system, finds a sparse input signal so that the system's output optimally approximates a given trajectory in least-squares sense. As an illustration, we apply the algorithm to an estimation problem from medicine.

The resistance of mice to asphyxiation in pure nitrogen at 5 ata, after equilibration with a high pressure atmosphere (4.2 % O2 in N2, 5 ata; “normal” Po2) producing a nitrogen anaesthesia, has been compared to the resistance of mice exposed to pure nitrogen at 1 ata after atmospheric air breathing. The anoxic resistance was increased by 58 % by the nitrogen anaesthesia.

In this study, we present an analysis of gender assignment tendencies in Jamtlandic, a language variety of Sweden, using a word list of 1029 items obtained from fieldwork. Most research on gender assignment in the Scandinavian languages focuses on the standard languages (Steinmetz 1985; Källström 1996; Trosterud 2001, 2006) and Norwegian dialects (Enger 2011, Kvinlaug 2011, Enger & Corbett 201

The Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 divided the western Himalayan region of Baltistan in two parts. Being subject to internal colonization and nation-making by the two postcolonial nation-states, the Balti community, like many other communities in the Himalayan region, has recently voiced demands of self-rule and experienced a cultural revival. The situation in Baltistan is here seen throu

In this paper we address the problem of resource allocation for alarm traffic in industrial Internet of Things networks using massive MIMO. We formulate the general problem of how to allocate pilot signals to alarm traffic such that delivery is guaranteed, while also minimising the number of pilots reserved for alarms, thus maximising the channel resources available for other traffic, such as indu

Understanding ethical buying behaviour is an important component in the study of sustainability. Multiple studies on fair trade have been conducted in established markets in Europe, with limited but increasing research in emerging markets. This study used a questionnaire survey to investigate South African consumers’ ethical buying behaviour, using conjoint analysis to imitate the multi-attribute

Radar technology has developed rapidly during the last century. Besides its initial use for military, it is nowadays also applied for many civil applications. Improvements in circuit technology make integrated radar sensors possible, allowing a significant reduction of the production cost. Integrated radio circuits in the low gigahertz range are widely available, not least driven by wireless commu

Electron-donating activated aromatic moieties, including phenols, in dissolved organic matter (DOM)partially control its reactivity with the chemical oxidants ozone and chlorine. This comparative studyintroduces two sensitive analytical systems to directly and selectively quantify the electron-donatingcapacity (EDC) of DOM, which corresponds to the number of electrons transferred from activated ar

All 426 patients with ovarian malignancies registered in the population-based Tumor Registry of the Southeast region of Sweden during 1984 to 1987 were analyzed by survey of the hospital records and population registry data. After comparison with other population-based materials, it seems that the overall survival figures have improved in ovarian cancer. Excluding patients diagnosed at autopsy a 5

Monthly serum CA 125 determinations were used for monitoring of 33 patients with advanced nonmucinous epithelial ovarian cancer during the follow-up after the primary treatment. The observation time ranged between 3 and 7 years. All patients had elevated CA 125 levels at the start of chemotherapy with subsequent normalization during treatment. Seventeen patients were classified as having no eviden

In 2014, a new initiative was undertaken by groups working on plans for the transplantation of stem-cell-based derived dopaminergic neurons for treating Parkinson’s disease patients. This GForce-PD group held its annual meeting on 18–19 April 2016 in Chicago at Rush University to discuss their progress and the challenges that the translation of this experimental therapy still faces. Over 2 days, t