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    The constant work-life balance : - A qualitative study of store employees' experience and management of work-life balance and emotions

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    Butiksanställda idag behöver ständigt vara tillgängliga för såväl arbetsgivare och kunder som för familj från tidig morgon till sen kväll vilket kan påverka deras balans mellan arbetsliv och privatliv. Syftet med undersökningen är att bättre förstå hur butiksanställda upplever och hanterar work-life balance och se om den ständiga tillgängligheten kan påverka deras work- life balance. Tanken är även att se hur butiksanställda hanterar emotioner som uppstår i arbetslivet och privatlivet. Undersökningen tar upp olika teorier och modeller om work-life balance, tillgänglighet, emotionellt arbete och socialt stöd för att förklara den situation som butiksanställda kan hamna i kring hanteringen av balansen mellan arbetsliv och privatliv. För att undersöka det här har sex personer intervjuats och datamaterialet som har samlats in har gett en bättre förståelse kring hur work-life balance kan se ut hos butiksanställda. Resultat som har framkommit av undersökningen visar att upplevelsen och hanteringen av work-life balance varierar från individ till individ men att flextid och möjligheten att kunna välja när arbetet ska skötas är en stor inverkan för en bra balans. Dock gäller det butiksanställda med mer ansvar eller butikschefer. Det som framkommer som den största och viktigaste faktorn för att hantera work-life balance och emotioner som uppstår är det sociala stödet hos kollegor, vänner och familj, oavsett om det handlar om tillgängligheten eller om det är problem i privatlivet eller i arbetslivet

    Kurzes System der Natürlichen Religion

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    Common variants at 6q22 and 17q21 are associated with intracranial volume

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    During aging, intracranial volume remains unchanged and represents maximally attained brain size, while various interacting biological phenomena lead to brain volume loss. Consequently, intracranial volume and brain volume in late life reflect different genetic influences. Our genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 8,175 community-dwelling elderly persons did not reveal any associations at genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10(-8)) for brain volume. In contrast, intracranial volume was significantly associated with two loci: rs4273712 (P = 3.4 × 10(-11)), a known height-associated locus on chromosome 6q22, and rs9915547 (P = 1.5 × 10(-12)), localized to the inversion on chromosome 17q21. We replicated the associations of these loci with intracranial volume in a separate sample of 1,752 elderly persons (P = 1.1 × 10(-3) for 6q22 and 1.2 × 10(-3) for 17q21). Furthermore, we also found suggestive associations of the 17q21 locus with head circumference in 10,768 children (mean age of 14.5 months). Our data identify two loci associated with head size, with the inversion at 17q21 also likely to be involved in attaining maximal brain size

    Genome-wide association and longitudinal analyses reveal genetic loci linking pubertal height growth, pubertal timing and childhood adiposity.

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    The pubertal height growth spurt is a distinctive feature of childhood growth reflecting both the central onset of puberty and local growth factors. Although little is known about the underlying genetics, growth variability during puberty correlates with adult risks for hormone-dependent cancer and adverse cardiometabolic health. The only gene so far associated with pubertal height growth, LIN28B, pleiotropically influences childhood growth, puberty and cancer progression, pointing to shared underlying mechanisms. To discover genetic loci influencing pubertal height and growth and to place them in context of overall growth and maturation, we performed genome-wide association meta-analyses in 18 737 European samples utilizing longitudinally collected height measurements. We found significant associations (P < 1.67 × 10(-8)) at 10 loci, including LIN28B. Five loci associated with pubertal timing, all impacting multiple aspects of growth. In particular, a novel variant correlated with expression of MAPK3, and associated both with increased prepubertal growth and earlier menarche. Another variant near ADCY3-POMC associated with increased body mass index, reduced pubertal growth and earlier puberty. Whereas epidemiological correlations suggest that early puberty marks a pathway from rapid prepubertal growth to reduced final height and adult obesity, our study shows that individual loci associating with pubertal growth have variable longitudinal growth patterns that may differ from epidemiological observations. Overall, this study uncovers part of the complex genetic architecture linking pubertal height growth, the timing of puberty and childhood obesity and provides new information to pinpoint processes linking these traits
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