Mykobakterier er utbredt i naturen, med et stort antall beskrevne arter, hvorav noen er assosiert med sykdom hos mennesker og dyr. Mykobakteriose hos fisk er vanligvis en kronisk sykdom, med varierende dødelighet, og kan forårsake store økonomiske tap.

This article examines approaches to cultural diversity in a global- local axis. Can one talk about local cultural diversity in a film industry that is increasingly global? Cultural diversity is a goal in European film policy and an important rationale behind the support of European films. Geographical location is a key factor when discussing filmmaking because of the assumption that film and television ...

<i>Background</i> - Models to predict disease course and long-term outcome based on clinical characteristics at disease onset may guide early treatment strategies in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Before a prediction model can be recommended for use in clinical practice, it needs to be validated in a different cohort than the one used for building the model. The aim of the current study was ...

På 189 sider, mellom permer preget av høstlige farger og dødt løv på tørre greiner, leverer Ingar Kaldal en form for grunnbok om minner. Boka, som er totalt fri for illustra­sjoner, har syv sider litteraturliste og tre sider med stikkord. Tittelen Minner som prosesser – i sosial og kulturhistorie gir tydelig retning. Minner er prosesser. Og boka redegjør for forskning og forskningshistorie knyttet ...

<i>Purpose</i> - Few studies investigated roles of body mass index (BMI) on gastric cancer (GC) risk according to <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> infection status. This study was conducted to evaluate associations between BMI and GC risk with consideration of <i>H. pylori</i> infection information.<p><p> <i>Materials and Methods</i> - We performed a case-cohort study (n=2,458) that consists of ...

<i>Objective</i>: To investigate the association between eating habits and weight status in adolescents in Finland.<p><p> <i>Design</i>: Cross-sectional study.<p><p> <i>Setting</i>: The Finnish Health in Teens (Fin-HIT) study is a cohort study conducted in adolescents attending third to sixth grade in 496 schools in forty-four municipalities in Southern, Middle and Northern Finland in ...

New records of Pachyneura fasciata Zetterstedt, 1838 are presented from Harrelv Nature Reserve at Varanger Peninsula, Norway, where a lush riverine ravine dominated by grey alder (Alnus incana) forms one of the worlds´ northernmost patches of forests. This expands the known distribution of Pachyneura fasciata far north of the Taiga belt with continuous natural spruce forest, previously assumed to ...

New records of Sciarosoma nigriclava (Strobl, 1898) are presented from Engerdal in Hedmark and Gargialia outside Alta in Finnmark. This unique species, belonging to the enigmatic Heterotrichagroup still unplaced in family, has not been recorded in Norway since the genus and species was described under the name Sciarosoma borealis Chandler, 2002; at the time only a single male from Østmarka Nature ...

Polyethylene glycol (PEG)-coated nanopharmaceuticals can cause mild to severe hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs), which can occasionally be life threatening or even lethal. The phenomenon represents an unsolved immune barrier to the use of these drugs, yet its mechanism is poorly understood. This study showed that a single i.v. injection in pigs of a low dose of PEGylated liposomes (Doxebo) induced ...

The aim of this study was to compare bone structure parameters and likelihood of falls across European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP2) sarcopenia categories. 3334 Swedish 70-year olds had appendicular lean mass (normalized to height; ALMHt), lumbar spine and total hip areal BMD (aBMD) estimated by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Volumetric BMD (vBMD) and structure at the ...