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Individual and combinatory effects of voluntary wheel running and sActRIIB-Fc administration on redox-balance in mdx mice
2015
Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy (DMD) is X-chromosome linked muscle wasting dis-ease. It is caused by a mutation in the gene coding protein called dystrophin leading to premature death and significantly impairing the quality of life of DMD patients. Oxida-tive stress is a contributing factor in the pathology of DMD. Light intensity exercise and interventions that promote sirtuin (SIRT) 1 activity have been shown to be antioxidant for mdx mice and to ameliorate the symptoms of DMD. Also blocking activin receptor IIB (ActRIIB) ligands has been shown in some, but not all studies to improve the pa-thology of the DMD. The purpose of this study was to find out the individual and com-binatory effect…
Krimināllikuma 78. panta piemērošanas problemātika
2017
Pēdējos gados sabiedrībā pastāvošā diskusija par imigrantu uzņemšanu ir aktualizējusi noziedzīgus nodarījumus, kas ietverti Krimināllikuma 78. pantā, t.i., aizliegumu veikt darbības, kas vērstas uz nacionālā, etniskā, rasu vai reliģiskā naida vai nesaticības izraisīšanu. Maģistra darba ietvaros tiek aplūkota problemātika attiecībā uz jautājumiem par Krimināllikuma 78. pantā ietvertā noziedzīgā nodarījuma sastāva konstatēšanu un tajā iekļautā noziedzīgā nodarījuma izmeklēšanas institucionālo piekritību, kā arī tiek apkopoti un sīkāk analizēti statistikas dati par reģistrēto noziedzīgo nodarījumu, kas ietverti Krimināllikuma 78. pantā, skaitu un tā atbilstība faktiskajai situācijai. Ņemot vēr…
Work Coordination as a Social Interaction Process in Nursing Staff Meetings
2016
Work coordination, which here refers to organizing, planning, discussing, and negotiating work, is done through social interaction. Because coordination is essential to work quality and well-being at work, it is important to understand the processes that construct work coordination. This study aims to understand work coordination as a social interaction process by analyzing social interaction in nursing staff meetings of a Finnish hospital. Observations and approaches of inductive and descriptive qualitative analysis were used to examine eight sequential nursing staff meetings that took place in 2012. The results indicate that work coordination consisted of sense-making information, sense-m…
Change Talk in Hospital Management Groups
2020
Recent national healthcare reforms have resulted in many changes to healthcare organizations. When social realities are enacted in social interactions, changes also occur in communication through discourses. In public hospitals, middle management groups form one important platform for change talk. This study aimed to identify and understand how change talk emerges in management group meetings. Data were collected from 10 hospital meetings, and change-related interactions were explored by analyzing sensemaking and positioning. In the data, change talk took three forms: collaboration, control and confrontation. These forms consisted of change discourses (change as a possibility, concealed cha…
Reliable clinical assessment of stroke patients' postural control and development of physiotherapy in stroke rehabilitation
2007
The main goal of the long-standing clinical research project in the district of East-Savo was to develop an active role in physiotherapy for patients with stroke. A novel assessment instrument, the Postural Control and Balance for Stroke (PCBS) test, was developed side by side with the activating treatment. Present physiotherapy for stroke patients the emphasis is on the physiotherapist’s role, leaving no room for independent participation by the patient. In clinical work there are no systematically used methods either for the evaluation or follow-up of functional capacity, or for balance in stroke patients. This thesis includes reliability and validity studies of the Postural Control and B…
Intra- and Interrater Reliability of Sagittal Spinopelvic Parameters on Full-Spine Radiographs in Adults With Symptomatic Spinal Disorders
2018
Background/Aims To evaluate the intra- and interrater reliability (I-IR) of sagittal spinopelvic parameters from digital full-spine plain radiographs with basic software tools in an unselected adult population with degenerative spinal complaints who were evaluated for surgery. Methods Forty-nine adult full-spine digital radiographs were measured twice by 3 independent observers, including an experienced spine surgeon, an experienced radiologist, and a resident orthopedic surgeon. Clinical picture archiving and communication system workstations and software tools were used and landmarks were set manually. The I-IR of the sagittal vertical axis (SVA), pelvic tilt (PT), pelvic incidence (PI), …
The effects of using participatory working time scheduling software on sickness absence: A difference-in-differences study.
2020
Abstract Background Participatory working time scheduling is a collaborative approach to scheduling shift work. As a potential way of improving work time control, it may provide a means to reducing sickness absence in shift work. So far, experimental and quasi-experimental studies on the effects of increased work time control on sickness absence are lacking. Objective To investigate the effects of using digital participatory working time scheduling software on ward-level sickness absence among Finnish hospital employees. Participants and methods This quasi-experimental study compared the amount of sickness absence in hospital wards using a participatory working time scheduling software (n=1…
Valdas Adamkus un Vaira Vīķe –Freiberga: rietumu politiskā līderība postkomunistiskā Lietuvā un Latvijā
2016
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga un Valdas Adamkus ir divi izcili politiskas līderības paraugi Latvijā un Lietuvā. Viņu politiskie uzskati nobrieda trimdā Rietumos, bet prezidentiem bija jācenšas tos uzskatus pielietot postkomunistiskā Latvijas un Lietuvas realitātē. Adamkus mēģināja transformēt politisko kultūru un partiju sistēmu; bet kad viņam tas neizdevās viņš koncentrējās uz ārpolitiskiem mērķiem un mēģināja atbalstīt reformas citas postkomunistiskajās valstīs, arī popularizēt pilsoniskās sabiedrības idejas savā valstī. Vīķe-Freiberga apņēmās pacelt Latvijas pašpārliecību mājās un starptautisko organizāciju acīs. Šis maģistra darbs ir mēģinājums salīdzināt prezidentu politiskās stratēģijas Rietum…
On the birational geometry of the universal Picard variety
2010
We compute the Kodaira dimension of the universal Picard variety P_{d,g} parameterizing line bundles of degree d on curves of genus g under the assumption that (d-g+1,2g-2)=1. We also give partial results for arbitrary degrees d and we investigate for which degrees the universal Picard varieties are birational.
Numerical Kodaira Dimension
2014
In this chapter we study, following [30] , the first properties of the Zariski decomposition of the cotangent bundle of a nonrational foliation. In particular, we shall give a detailed description of the negative part of that Zariski decomposition, and we shall obtain a detailed classification of foliations whose Zariski decomposition is reduced to its negative part (i.e. foliations of numerical Kodaira dimension 0). We shall also discuss the “singular” point of view adopted in [30].