Sound insulation dataset of 30 wooden and 8 concrete floors tested in laboratory conditions.

In a Finnish-Swedish consortium project, a large amount of sound insulation tests was conducted for several intermediate floors in laboratory conditions to serve various scientific research questions. The dataset contains 30 wooden and 8 concrete constructions which are commonly used between apartments in multistorey buildings. Impact sound insulation was determined according to ISO 10140-3 standard using both tapping machine and rubber ball as standard sound sources.

Emissions, airflow patterns and modeling of test compounds in controlled hospital environments.

Spreading and distribution of selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released as point source emissions in a hospital environment were investigated in two office rooms and two patient rooms. Six tracer compounds were released from six locations and their concentrations were measured in five sampling sites during two consecutive days. The air flow rates, velocity and flow direction, air temperature, pressure differences between adjacent rooms, and relative humidity and concentrations of the tracer compounds were measured.

Indoor air-related symptoms and volatile organic compounds in materials and air in the hospital environment.

In this case study, hospital workers did suffer from symptoms related to the poor indoor air quality. To investigate reasons for symptoms MM40-survey and house inspection methods were performed. The study consisted of 49 operating rooms and 470 employees.

Large-eddy simulation of the containment failure in isolation rooms with a sliding door-An experimental and modelling study.

Unlabelled: In hospital isolation rooms, door operation can lead to containment failures and airborne pathogen dispersal into the surrounding spaces. Sliding doors can reduce the containment failure arising from the door motion induced airflows, as compared to the hinged doors that are typically used in healthcare facilities. Such airflow leakage can be measured quantitatively using tracer gas techniques, but detailed observation of the turbulent flow features is very difficult.

Effects of Scheduled Waiting for Psychotherapy in Patients With Major Depression.

The role of nonspecific factors in the outcome of psychotherapy is poorly understood. To study the effects of pretreatment expectancy of scheduled psychotherapy, we examined the effects of an agreed waiting time on the outcome of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Thirty-three treatment-naive outpatients with major depressive disorder were randomly selected to start psychotherapy either directly (DG; n = 17) or after waiting for 6 months (WG; n = 16).

Airflow patterns through single hinged and sliding doors in hospital isolation rooms - Effect of ventilation, flow differential and passage.

Negative pressure isolation rooms are used to house patients with highly contagious diseases (e.g. with airborne diseases) and to contain emitted pathogens to reduce the risk for cross-infection in hospitals.

Baseline symptom severity predicts serotonin transporter change during psychotherapy in patients with major depression.

Aims: The role of the serotonin transporter (SERT) in the pathophysiology of depression is unclear and only a few follow-up studies exist. Our aim was to measure changes in SERT availability during psychodynamic psychotherapy in patients with major depression over a follow-up time of 12 or 18 months.

Methods: The patients were studied with iodine-123 labelled 2β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-iodophenyl) serial single-photon emission tomography imaging and clinical rating scales of symptoms.

Rapid and fully automated bacterial pathogen detection on a centrifugal-microfluidic LabDisk using highly sensitive nested PCR with integrated sample preparation.

Diagnosis of infectious diseases suffers from long turnaround times for gold standard culture-based identification of bacterial pathogens, therefore impeding timely specific antimicrobial treatment based on laboratory evidence. Rapid molecular diagnostics-based technologies enable detection of microorganisms within hours however cumbersome workflows and complex equipment still prevent their widespread use in the routine clinical microbiology setting. We developed a centrifugal-microfluidic "LabDisk" system for rapid and highly-sensitive pathogen detection on a point-of-care analyser.

Different types of door-opening motions as contributing factors to containment failures in hospital isolation rooms.

Hospital isolation rooms are vital for the containment (when under negative pressure) of patients with, or the protection (when under positive pressure) of patients, from airborne infectious agents. Such facilities were essential for the management of highly contagious patients during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreaks and the more recent 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic. Many different types of door designs are used in the construction of such isolation rooms, which may be related to the space available and affordability.

Spectral tuning by selective chromophore uptake in rods and cones of eight populations of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius).

The visual pigments of rods and cones were studied in eight Fennoscandian populations of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius). The wavelength of maximum absorbance of the rod pigment (λ(max)) varied between populations from 504 to 530 nm. Gene sequencing showed that the rod opsins of all populations were identical in amino acid composition, implying that the differences were due to varying proportions of chromophores A1 and A2.

Who benefits from clinical supervision and how? The association between clinical supervision and the work-related well-being of female hospital nurses.

Aim And Objectives: The aims of this study were (1) to identify which nurses benefitted most from clinical supervision and (2) to explore whether they were healthier and more satisfied with their work than their peers who did not attend clinical supervision.

Background: To maintain quality nursing, there is currently a social call to improve the well-being of nurses at work. Restoring nurses' well-being is one of the main purposes of clinical supervision.

Does clinical supervision promote medical-surgical nurses' well-being at work? A quasi-experimental 4-year follow-up study.

Aim: The aim of the present paper is to report results of a quasi-experimental study exploring the effects of clinical supervision (CS) on the development of medical-surgical nurses' well-being at work over a 4-year period.

Background: Effective workplace interventions are needed to prevent stress and burnout. More robust scientific evidence is needed to confirm the restorative effects of CS in nursing.

The patient-therapist interaction and the recognition of affects during the process of psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression.

The perceptions of patients (n = 25) and their therapists about psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression were assessed during the first treatment year using 23 scales. Patients and therapists independently evaluated the impact of depression on the therapeutic experience of the patients. The estimations of the impact of depression by the patients and therapists were concordant in the majority of the subjects, reflecting mutual tuning and a working alliance.

Deficient language acquisition in children with single suture craniosynostosis and deformational posterior plagiocephaly.

Purpose: This study examined early language acquisition in children with single suture craniosynostosis (SSC) and in children with deformational posterior plagiocephaly. Our purpose was to determine whether infants with SSC have normal language acquisition at the age of 3 years, and whether infants with deformational posterior plagiocephaly demonstrate parallel development when compared with children with SSC.

Methods: The study population includes 61 infants.

Inheritance of nasal dermoid sinus cyst and evidence for association with third ventricle colloid cyst.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the possible inheritance of nasal dermoid sinus cyst in the Finnish population.

Methods: A patient questionnaire and interview were utilized for this study.

Results: We identified nine patients with dermoid sinus cyst.

Stress relief or practice development: varied reasons for attending clinical supervision.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore the differences in the uptake of clinical supervision on the medical and surgical units of an acute hospital relating to the nurses' background and perceptions of their work and health.

Background: Considering the varied challenges of nursing in different specialities, the reasons for attending clinical supervision may also vary.

Methods: In 2003, a survey on work and health issues was conducted in a Finnish university hospital with a 3-year follow-up of the uptake of clinical supervision by the respondents.

Who attends clinical supervision? The uptake of clinical supervision by hospital nurses.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to identify which nurses decide to participate in clinical supervision (CS) when it is provided for all nursing staff.

Background: Clinical supervision is available today for health care providers in many organisations. However, regardless of evidence showing the benefits of CS, some providers decide not to participate in the sessions.

Serotonin-transporter-linked promoter region polymorphism and serotonin transporter binding in drug-naïve patients with major depression.

Aims: Both the serotonin transporter and its genetic regulation by the serotonin-transporter-linked polymorphic region have a role in the pathophysiology of depression. Most of the previous studies have found no influence of serotonin-transporter-linked polymorphic region allelic variation on serotonin transporter binding in healthy controls or patients with major depression. Due to the inconsistency of the previous findings, we compared single photon emission computed tomography imaging with the serotonin-transporter-linked polymorphic region genotype in patients with major depressive disorder.

Treatment of lymphatic malformations of head and neck with OK-432 sclerotherapy induce systemic inflammatory response.

Systemic immune responses after OK-432 (Picibanil) sclerotherapy in patients with head and neck lymphatic malformations (LM) were examined to achieve a better understanding of the mechanism of OK-432 sclerotherapy and to evaluate the long-term treatment outcome. Serum samples from 17 consecutive patients with head and neck LMs were collected during a total of 26 OK-432 treatment episodes. Serum C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukins (IL) 1β, 6, 8, 10, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interferon (IFN)-γ, RANTES, immune protein (IP)-10 and macrophage chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 as well as blood leukocyte counts were determined.

Midbrain serotonin and striatum dopamine transporter binding in double depression: a one-year follow-up study.

Data on neurobiological differences between major depression (MD) and double depression (DD) are scarce. We examined the striatum dopamine (DAT) and midbrain serotonin transporter (SERT) binding of [123I] nor-beta-CIT in DD patients (n=8) and compared it to that in MD patients (n=11) and healthy controls (n=19). Drug-naïve patients and controls were imaged by single-photon emission computed tomography at baseline, and the patients also after one year of psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Single suture craniosynostosis: diagnosis and imaging.

Craniosynostosis, premature suture fusion, is one of the most common craniofacial anomalies affecting approximately 1 in 2,500 live births. Craniosynostosis is most commonly an isolated (nonsyndromic) condition with the sagittal suture being the most commonly affected suture. In this review we describe the range of isolated synostoses and show how these can lead to a variety of different morphological and functional abnormalities.

Changes in midbrain serotonin transporter availability in atypically depressed subjects after one year of psychotherapy.

Background: Psychotherapy is an effective treatment method for depression, but no differences in the psychotherapy response have been found between the subtypes of depression. The effect of psychotherapy on neurotransmitter transporter functions has never been recorded in depressed subjects.

Methods: Depressive outpatients (N=19) received psychodynamic psychotherapy for 12 months.