433 research outputs found
Education and second birth rates in Denmark 1981-1994
A high educational attainment is shown to have a positive effect on second birth rates for Danish one-child mothers during the period 1981-94. We examine whether a time-squeeze is a possible explanation: due to the longer enrolment in the educational system, highly educated women have less time at their disposal in order to get the desired number of children. Also, we examine to what extent the partner's education can explain some of the positive effect. We find no evidence that the positive effect of education is due to either a time-squeeze nor to a partner effect.birth rate, Denmark, education, fertility, partner effect, time-squeeze
Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers in the Home: Video Consultations as an Alternative to Outpatient Hospital Care
The aim of this study was to investigate whether video consultations in the home can support a viable alternative to visits to the hospital outpatient clinic for patients with diabetic foot ulcers. And furthermore whether patients, relatives, visiting nurses, and experts at the hospital will experience satisfaction and increased confidence with this new course of treatment. Participatory design methods were applied as well as field observations, semistructured interviews, focus groups, and qualitative analysis of transcriptions of telemedical consultations conducted during a pilot test. This study shows that it is possible for experts at the hospital to conduct clinical examinations and decision making at a distance, in close cooperation with the visiting nurse and the patient. The visiting nurse experienced increased confidence with the treatment of the foot ulcer and characterized the consultations as a learning situation. All patients expressed satisfaction and felt confidence with this new way of working
Fibrolipomatous hamartoma in the median nerve in the arm - an unusual location but with MR imaging characteristics: a case report
Fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the median nerve are usually located distally in the forearm and may have characteristic features on MR imaging. Here we report a patient with an extensive fibrolipomatous hamartoma at an unusual location proximally in the arm, where a preoperative MR imaging was pathognomonic and diagnosis was verified by an incisional biopsy. We suggest that MRI should be performed in cases with nerve dysfunction without an obvious cause after a thorough clinical examination
Self-induced magnetic field effects caused by edge currents in parallel array of Josephson junctions
Measurement of unique magnetic and superconducting phases in oxygen-doped high-temperature superconductors La<sub>2-x</sub>Sr<sub>x</sub>CuO<sub>4+y</sub>
We present a combined magnetic neutron scattering and muon spin rotation
study of the nature of the magnetic and superconducting phases in
electronically phase separated La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO(4+y), x = 0.04, 065, 0.09. For
all samples, we find long-range modulated magnetic order below T_N ~ T_c = 39
K. In sharp contrast wit oxygen-stoichiometric La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO(4), we find that
the magnetic propagation vector as well as the ordered magnetic moment is
independent of Sr content and consistent with that of the 'striped' cuprates.
Our study provides direct proof that superoxygenation in La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO(4+y)
allows the spin stripe ordered phase to emerge and phase separate from
superconducting regions with the hallmarks of optimally doped
oxygen-stoichiometric La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO(4)
Propagation of Light in Photonic Crystal Fibre Devices
We describe a semi-analytical approach for three-dimensional analysis of
photonic crystal fibre devices. The approach relies on modal transmission-line
theory. We offer two examples illustrating the utilization of this approach in
photonic crystal fibres: the verification of the coupling action in a photonic
crystal fibre coupler and the modal reflectivity in a photonic crystal fibre
distributed Bragg reflector.Comment: 15 pages including 7 figures. Accepted for J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Op
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