OBJECTIVE To explore existential meaning-making in an ethnic-majority subgroup with mental ill health and to increase knowledge about the importance of gaining access to such information in mental healthcare. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and systematic text condensation analysis. PARTICIPANTS 17 devote Christians with an ethnic-Swedish background, 12 women and 5 men, 3...

Artificial muscle activation by electrical stimulation of motor nerves is characterized by poor force gradation and a relative fast onset of muscle fatigue. Force gradation would improve and the onset of fatigue would be delayed by primarily activating the small-diameter motoneurons. In this study the effects of selective small fiber activation stimulation was investigated in an acute rabbit mo...

The effective linear and third-order nonlinear susceptibility of graded metallic films with weak nonlinearity have been investigated. Due to the simple geometry, we were able to derive exactly the local field inside the graded structures having a Drude dielectric gradation profile. We calculated the effective linear dielectric constant and third-order nonlinear susceptibility. We investigated t...

In this paper, transient thermomechanical stress intensity factors for functionally graded cylinders with complete internal circumferential cracks are obtained using the weight function method. The finite difference method is used to calculate the time dependent temperature distribution and thermal stresses along the cylinder thickness. Furthermore, finite element analysis is performed to deter...

Text classification and text gradation are important for language teachers. Profiling readability studies examine textual linguistic features that determine difficulty. Arabic, as an under-resourced language, suffers from a lack of such which results in material developers textbook writers relying on their intuitions experiences selecting appropriate texts. At the classroom level, teachers ofte...