Successful practices and lessons learned: Ukrainian students in Swedish and Finnish schools

The integration of Ukrainian refugee students into schools in Finland and Sweden is a crucial aspect of their adaptation to new circumstances. This policy brief draws on a qualitative study conducted in the spring of 2022 and fall of 2023, focusing on the successful practices and lessons learned in this context (Petäjäniemi, Brinch, Kaukko & Lund, forthcoming). The study emphasizes the need to improve the inclusion process for Ukrainian students, which involves spreading information on effective practices, providing school staff with emotional support and training on post-traumatic stress syndrome, and facilitating peer interaction. This policy brief is produced as part of the INFLUX project. Read more: INFLUX project webpag

Current uses of nanomaterials in biocidal products and treated articles in the EU

Nanomaterials (NMs) are currently being used for a wide variety of products, and a number of them are utilized as biocides due to their antimicrobial or antifungal properties.</p

EU Regulation of Nanobiocides: Challenges in Implementing the Biocidal Product Regulation (BPR)

The Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) contains several provisions for nanomaterials (NMs) and is the first regulation in the European Union to require specific testing and risk assessment for the NM form of a biocidal substance as a part of the information requirements. Ecotoxicological data are one of the pillars of the information requirements in the BPR, but there are currently no standard test guidelines for the ecotoxicity testing of NMs. The overall objective of this work was to investigate the implications of the introduction of nano-specific testing requirements in the BPR and to explore how these might be fulfilled in the case of copper oxide nanoparticles. While there is information and data available in the open literature that could be used to fulfill the BPR information requirements, most of the studies do not take the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s nanospecific test guidelines into consideration. This makes it difficult for companies as well as regulators to fulfill the BPR information requirements for nanomaterials. In order to enable a nanospecific risk assessment, best practices need to be developed regarding stock suspension preparation and characterization, exposure suspensions preparation, and for conducting ecotoxicological test

Improving institutional memory on challenges and methods for estimation of pig herd antimicrobial exposure based on data from the Danish Veterinary Medicines Statistics Program (VetStat)

With the increasing occurrence of antimicrobial resistance, more attention has been directed towards surveillance of both human and veterinary antimicrobial use. Since the early 2000s, several research papers on Danish pig antimicrobial usage have been published, based on data from the Danish Veterinary Medicines Statistics Program (VetStat). VetStat was established in 2000, as a national database containing detailed information on purchases of veterinary medicine. This paper presents a critical set of challenges originating from static system features, which researchers must address when estimating antimicrobial exposure in Danish pig herds. Most challenges presented are followed by at least one robust solution. A set of challenges requiring awareness from the researcher, but for which no immediate solution was available, were also presented. The selection of challenges and solutions was based on a consensus by a cross-institutional group of researchers working in projects using VetStat data. No quantitative data quality evaluations were performed, as the frequency of errors and inconsistencies in a dataset will vary, depending on the period covered in the data. Instead, this paper focuses on clarifying how VetStat data may be translated to an estimation of the antimicrobial exposure at herd level, by suggesting uniform methods of extracting and editing data, in order to obtain reliable and comparable estimates on pig antimicrobial consumption for research purposes.Comment: 25 pages, including two Appendices (pages not numbered). Title page, including abstract, is on page 1. Body of text, including references, abbreviation list and disclaimers for conflict of interest and funding, are on pages 2-18. Two figures embedded in the text on pages 3 and 5. Appendix 1 starts on page 19, and Appendix 2 on page 2

24. 腰部椎間板ヘルニアに対するLove法を主とする後方侵入法の手術成績(第492回千葉医学会整形外科例会)

<p><b>Changes in plasma metabolites during glucose (panels to the left; A, C, E) and insulin (panels to the right; B, D, F) tolerance tests.</b> (A) cholesterol (B) cholesterol (C) TG (triglycerides) (D) TG (E) GGT (γ-glutamyl transferase) (F) GGT. Data are shown for each combination of pre- and postnatal diet: LOW-HCHF (N = 7; 4 males, 3 females; dash line, ▽); LOW-CONV (N = 9; 4 males, 5 females; solid line, ▼); HIGH-HCHF (N = 6; 3 males, 3 females; dash line, △); HIGH-CONV (N = 5; 2 males, 3 females; solid line, ▲); NORM-HCHF (N = 4; 2 males, 2 females; dash line, □); NORM-CONV (N = 6; 2 males, 4 females; solid line, ■) and EC (N = 7: 3 males, 4 females; solid line, ♦). The values are presented as LS means ± SEM and the letters E and L denote pre- (<b>E</b>we diet) and postnatal diet (<b>L</b>amb diet) effects, respectively. The effects were significant at ***, <i>P</i><0.001; **, <i>P</i><0.01; *, <i>P</i><0.05; #, <i>P<</i>0.1. HIGH, LOW, NORM, HCHF, CONV and EC: See legends to <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0156700#pone.0156700.g001" target="_blank">Fig 1</a>.</p