Characteristics of Finnish and Swedish intensive care nursing narratives: a comparative analysis to support the development of clinical language technologies

Abstract Background Free text is helpful for entering information into electronic health records, but reusing it is a challenge.The need for language technology for processing Finnish and Swedish healthcare text is therefore evident; however, Finnish and Swedish are linguistically very dissimilar.In this paper we present a comparison of characteris

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Thermodynamic description of the chemical leavening in biscuits

In this paper we describe the chemical reactions of leavening agents in baking biscuits on a sound thermodynamic basis.The model is part in a sequel targetted at physical understanding of biscuit baking with the purpose of reformulation of biscuits with respect to sucrose and sodium levels.The chemical leavening gases, CO2 and NH3, originate from A

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SOX11: friend or foe in tumor prevention and carcinogenesis?

Sex-determining region Y-related high-mobility-group box transcription factor 11 (SOX11) is an essential member of the SOX transcription factors and has been highlighted as an important regulator in embryogenesis.SOX11 studies have only recently shifted focus from its role in embryogenesis and development to its function in disease.In particular, t

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