<p>Linguistic data, in their many forms, are a valuable asset in research and education on language. From the predigital age, the earliest data to reach us are written records carved in stone, wooden sticks, or clay tablets, or penned on papyrus, parchment, and such. Early field linguists recorded samples obtained from informants and other sources in notebooks and card files. Speech was recorded on ...

A substantial proportion of patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) have inflammatory and autoimmune complications of unknown etiology. We have previously shown that systemic inflammation in CVID correlates with their gut microbial dysbiosis. The gut microbiota dependent metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) has been linked to several metabolic and inflammatory disorders, but has ...

<p>På 1700-tallet var det to kongelige vitenskapelige foreninger i sving i Sverige. Den første ble dannet i Uppsala, hvor den sprang ut av kirken (erkebiskopens sønn) og professorsjiktet ved universitetet. Publiseringsspråket var latin. Den andre foreningen, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, var et barn av hovedstadens allianse mellom hoffkultur, opplysning og merkantilisme. Publiseringsspråket var svensk. ...

In essence, research on hate speech has focused on single groups (Nadim, Fladmoe, & Wessel-Aas, 2016). However, according to research on harassment, it sometimes occurs as interactions between group affiliations, thereby exposing some people to added risk (Buchanan, Fitzgerald, & Tetrick, 2008). Consequently, studies of hate speech should also examine the interactions between various group affiliations ...

Objectives. The objective of this study was to document that the Sami people, constituting an ethnic minority in northern Norway, experience an equally available specialist health care service as the one offered to Norwegians in general. We aimed to use cancer and radiotherapy treatment as the instrument to clarify the situation.<p> <p>Study design. A retrospective registry-based study.<p> <p>Methods. ...

In this randomized controlled trial, patients with non-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) were treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or a twin block mandibular advancement splint (MAS). The primary objective was to compare how CPAP and MAS treatments change the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and self-reported sleep quality of patients after 12 months of treatment. In ...

Background - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), consisting of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is a chronic disorder with a considerable negative impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). During the past decade, IBD nurse specialists have been increasingly involved in follow-up care of IBD outpatients, in a consultative and coordinating role, closely cooperating with ...

Purpose - Heat-and-moisture-exchanging devices (HME) are commonly used by endurance athletes during training in sub-zero environments, but their effects on performance are unknown. We investigated the influence of HME usage on running performance at − 15 °C.<p> <p>Methods - Twenty-three healthy adults (15 male, 8 female; age 18–53 years; V˙O_2peak men 56 ± 7, women 50 ± 4 mL·kg<sup>−1 ...

<p><b> PURPOSE:</b> To assess the repeatability of corneal epithelial thickness mapping in virgin, post-laser refractive surgery (PLRS), and keratoconic eyes using a novel swept-source optical coherence tomographer (SS-OCT), and to determine the agreement of the measurements with a validated spectral-domain (SD) OCT. <p><b> METHODS:</b> Analysis of 90 virgin, 46 PLRS, and 122 keratoconic eyes ...