Background: The lungs are the organ most likely to sustain serious injury from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the mechanisms for long-term complications are not clear. Patients with severe COVID-19 have shorter telomere lengths and higher levels of cellular senescence, and we hypothesized that circulating levels of the telomere-associated senescence markers chitotriosidase, ...

Avalanche decision-making falls into two general categories; probabilistic approaches and analytical approaches. Analytical approaches have traditionally been considered applicable to experts only, as they require assessing risk factors precisely and understanding their relevance in each situation. In this study we question this assumption. We asked 1,220 amateur backcountry recreationalists how ...

What drives the adoption of pottery amongst prehistoric foragers in high-latitude environments? Following the long-running interests of archaeology in explaining the origin and dispersal of new technologies, recent years have seen growing efforts to understand what drove the emergence and expansion of early hunter-gatherer pottery use across northern Eurasia. However, many regional dimensions to ...

Many female athletes perceive that symptoms related to the menstrual cycle such as dysmenorrhea, premenstrual symptoms, amenorrhea or side-effects of hormonal contraceptives negatively impact their training, performance, and general well-being. Knowledge and communication about female athletes’ health is therefore important in the sport community. The aims of this study were to explore the level ...

Fisheries have important impacts on marine biodiversity. In this work, combined information on the abundance, species richness, diversity indices, species composition, trophic level and vulnerability index were examined for the first-time to detect differences in five units related to trawl fishing: the fish assemblage entering the trawl codend, and the escaping, retained, discarded and landed ...

It is now established that auroral emissions as measured from the ground are polarised. The question of the information given by this polarisation is still to be explored. This article shows the results of a coordinated campaign between an optical polarimeter and several ground-based instruments, including magnetometers, the EISCAT VHF radar, and complementary luminance meters in the visible ...

Kunskapsöversikten syftar till att specifikt besvara frågan om risk för Dupuytrens sjukdom i relation till exponering för handöverförda vibrationer. Litteraturgenomgången följde PRISMAs systematiska metod omfattande databaserna Ovid MEDLINE® , Embase® Classic och Embase® för perioden 1947 till juli 2020 kompletterat med manuell uppdatering i databasen PubMed® fram till 2020-12-31 samt genomgång av ...

We propose a novel and adaptive feature space distillation method (AFSD) to reduce the communication overhead among distributed computers. The proposed method improves the Codistillation process by supporting longer update interval rates. AFSD performs knowledge distillates across the models infrequently and provides flexibility to the models in terms of exploring diverse variations in the training ...

Introduction - To study the relationship between education level and vascular complications in individuals with type 2 diabetes in Norway.<p> <p>Research design and methods - Multiregional population-based cross-sectional study of individuals with type 2 diabetes in primary care. Data were extracted from electronic medical records in the period 2012–2014. Information on education level was obtained ...

In this paper we discuss and prove an analogy of the Carleson–Hunt theorem with respect to Vilenkin systems. In particular, we use the theory of martingales and give a new and shorter proof of the almost everywhere convergence of Vilenkin–Fourier series of f ∈ L _p(G_m)for p > 1 in case the Vilenkin system is bounded. Moreover, we also prove sharpness by stating an analogy of the ...