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This article examines the Sri Lankan Buddhist nationalist organization Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), focusing on how anti-Muslim rhetoric is inter-twined with broader projects of nationalism, religion, and identity formation. Drawing on digital material published by BBS, including articles, statements, and visual content, the study analyses how Muslims are portrayed as religious, cultural, demographic, an

Public authorities produce policy documents (PDs) to inform and guide pandemic preparedness. Such documents were widely developed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, including in Sweden. Despite this, the crisis response revealed significant shortcomings. This study examines how the preconditions for an effective and ethically responsible pandemic response are articulated in Swedish healthcare policy

Background: Post-intensive care syndrome-family is a common problem in relatives of patients who die in an intensive care unit. Family-centred end-of-life care with support for the family during and after the death is supposed to prevent suffering and avoid illness. Aims and objectives: This study aimed to investigate family-centred end-of-life care and bereavement follow-up services offered to fa

Background: Relevance to clinical practice The findings from the study highlighting family involvement, high-quality communication and flexible visiting policy as central aspects of family care may inspire clinicians to identify aspects of everyday family care in their ICUs calling for further improvement. Aims and objectives: To describe family involvement, communication practices and visiting po

Purpose: To describe sleep assessment and strategies to promote sleep in adult ICUs in ten countries. Methods: Multicenter, self-administered survey sent to nurse managers. Results: Response rate was 66% with 522 ICUs providing data. ‘Lying quietly with closed eyes’ was the characteristic most frequently perceived as indicative of sleep by >60% of responding ICUs in all countries except Italy. Few

Objectives: To examine conditions and strategies to meet the challenges imposed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related visiting restrictions in Scandinavian intensive care units. Research methodology/design: A cross-sectional survey. Setting: Adult intensive care units in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Main outcome measures: Likert scale responses and free-text comments within six areas:

Western-based LGBTQIA+ mobilisations have often been described as both internally fragmented and isolated from other social struggles. However, recent studies show that LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, intersex, asexual/aromantic and other) organisations have increasingly used social media to span organisational boundaries by networking with other groups and framing common concerns

Drawing on social movements and gender studies, the article aims at exploring repertoires of action articulated by LGBTQ communities in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey during and after the 2011 and 2013 protests. The aim is to disentangle how LGBTQ individuals mobilized in the MENA region and which role civil society organizations and digital technologies played in the development of such mobilizations

European LGBTQIA* organizations have often been perceived as isolated from other organizations. While investigations have suggested that social media platforms foster inter-organizational ties, their role in promoting or dampening within- and cross-field interactions is understudied. This article aims to fill this gap by examining the factors shaping within- and cross-field digital interactions es

Although Western-based LGBTQIA* mobilizations have often been considered rather internally fragmented and isolated from other movements, recent investigations show that LGBTQIA* organizations have increasingly addressed multiple discriminations and built solidarity ties with communities coping with various inequality structures – such as race, class, and dis/abilities. This article addresses this

This dissertation examines emergent forms of digitally enabled boundary-spanning by considering the within- and cross-field interactions developed by LGBTQIA* organisations on social media. Within scholarship on collective actors characterised by strong collective identities, LGBTQIA* collective action fields have been conventionally found to be rather fragmented and polarised, as well as isolated

Background: The benefit of the ICU for older patients is often debated. There is little knowledge on subjective impressions of excessive care in ICU nurses and physicians combined with objective patient data in real-life cases. Research Question: Is there a difference in treatment limitation decisions and 1-year outcomes in patients < 75 and ≥ 75 years of age, with and without concordant perceptio

Ojämlikhet och fattigdom utgör centrala utmaningar för den svenska välfärds-staten i en tid av ökade levnadskostnader och skärpta villkor i trygghetssys-temen. Denna artikel syftar till att utveckla ett praktiknära analytiskt stöd för att förstå hur ojämlikhet formas och reproduceras inom socialt arbete. Med utgångspunkt i två empiriska studier baserade på intervjuer med 38 yrkes-verksam

As the core hub of cellular energy metabolism and signal transduction, the maintenance of mitochondrial functional homeostasis is crucial for cellular fate. This thesis investigates mitochondrial respiratory and redox responses in selected models of mitochondrial stress, with particular attention to cell-typ differences and methodological aspects of PBMC-based mitochondrial respiration. The first