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Health service utilization and direct healthcare costs associated with obesity in older adult population in Ghana
Obesity is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases and disabilities, with severe implications on morbidity and mortality among older adults. With an increasing prevalence of obesity among older adults in Ghana, it ... -
White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) and great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) nestlings as spatial sentinels of Baltic acidic sulphate soil associated metal contamination
<p>Sulphate soils, characterised by low pH conditions, are found worldwide, and are potentially large sources of metal contamination, often exceeding industrial emissions. Metal leaching from sulphate soils has been shown ... -
Clinical and molecular practice of European thoracic pathology laboratories during the COVID-19 pandemic The past and the near future
Background<br />This study evaluated the consequences in Europe of the COVID-19 outbreak on pathology laboratories orientated toward the diagnosis of thoracic diseases.<br />Materials and methods<br />A survey was sent to ... -
Bullying in schools: the state of knowledge and effective interventions
During the school years, bullying is one of the most common expressions of violence in the peer context. Research on bullying started more than forty years ago, when the phenomenon was defined as aggressive, intentional ... -
Usage of PCI and long-term cardiovascular risk in post-myocardial infarction patients: a nationwide registry cohort study from Finland
<div>Background: Despite currently available treatments, the burden of myocardial infarction (MI) morbidity and mortality remains prominent. The aim of this was to investigate the risk of developing subsequent cardiovascular ... -
Expertise of Finland: Technical visits in Northern Europe – Food Safety
<p> Food trade is an increasingly global business where food ingredients, food products, animals and agricultural inputs are moving rapidly from one country to another. This creates possibilities for trade, but also ... -
Accessibility of TV media for the dual-sensory impaired in Finland and in the UK
<p>One of the most used media is television. Almost all of us have a television set at home. Television is commonly thought also to be accessible, and for most of us, it seems to be so. However, there are people who cannot ... -
Terapeuttisen itseapuproosan nousu
<p>Lajien kirjo ja lajirajojen hämärtyminen leimaavat 2000-luvun kirjallista elämää. Lajihybridien joukkoon on syntynyt myös <em>fiktiivinen self-help</em>, jossa romaanimuotoon yhdistellään populaarin self-help -psykologian ... -
CD73 controls ocular adenosine levels and protects retina from light-induced phototoxicity
<p>ATP and adenosine have emerged as important signaling molecules involved in vascular remodeling, retinal functioning and neurovascular coupling in the mammalian eye. However, little is known about the regulatory mechanisms ... -
Machine configuration and workload balancing of modular placement machines in multi-product PCB assembly
<p>A popular gantry-type placement machine includes several interconnected, autonomously operating component placement modules and the machine was designed so as to able to use different kinds of placement heads and ... -
Long-term change in healthy food consumption in Finland during 1985-2016: An age-period-cohort analysis
<p>Societal change is reflected in food consumption habits. In postindustrial societies consumers are increasingly emphasizing health, ethical, and ecological aspects in their consumption habits. This study investigated ... -
Economizing the political: Workfare reform in strategic management mode
The focus of this article is a recent round of workfare reform in Finland. Departing from many existing analyses of workfare, it focuses on issues of governance. Drawing on policy documents and interviews with key policy ... -
The Supervision of Legality by the Finnish Parliamentary Ombudsman during the COVID-19 Pandemic
<p>This article studies the supervisory role of the Finnish Parliamentary Ombudsman during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. A major legal problem during emergencies is that respect for the rule of law tends to get lost in ... -
Machine learning for transient recognition in difference imaging with minimum sampling effort
The amount of observational data produced by time-domain astronomy is exponentially increasing. Human inspection alone is not an effective way to identify genuine transients from the data. An automatic real-bogus classifier ... -
Identification of a plasma signature of psychotic disorder in children and adolescents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort
The identification of an early biomarker of psychotic disorder is important as early treatment is associated with improved patient outcome. Metabolomic and lipidomic approaches in combination with multivariate statistical ... -
Self-reported health and democratic innovations: the case of citizens' initiative in Finland
<p>This study examines the association between self-reported health and the propensity for supporting citizens’ initiatives in Finland. Democratic innovations such as the citizens’ initiative provide novel ways for ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility of SMEs: Learning Orientation and Performance Outcomes
<p>Responsibility and sustainability are today a key part of doing business globally. However, the attention of scholars and policymakers has mainly been on large multinational enterprises, with small and medium-sized ... -
Combining diagnostic memory clinic with rehabilitation follow-up after hip fracture
<p>Purpose: Cognitive impairment and dementia are common in older hip fracture patients. We describe new diagnoses of cognitive disorders (NDCDs) and associated factors in a two-year post-hip fracture follow-up including ...
