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Ultraviolet-C (UV‑C) irradiation is a promising non-chemical complement to conventional cleaning processes in processing units intended for cleaning items such as utensils, textiles and laboratory equipment. This thesis evaluates the technical feasibility of integrating UV‑C light-emitting diodes (LEDs) into such units, with a focus on liquid-phase treatment of the washing liquid. A design-space e
Carbohydrate chemistry has mainly focused on five- and six-membered sugars, while seven-membered sugars remain relatively unexplored despite their potential bioactivity. Synthesis of seven-membered sugars can be performed by a ring expansion from a six-membered sugar. This project focused on synthesizing a precursor for a seven-membered sugar by regioselective protection and oxidation. The target
Keywords: manosphere, male loneliness, compensatory consumption, consumer responsibilization, netnography Purpose: The purpose of this study is to expand the understanding of how digital communities construct consumption as a collective remedy to affective social problems, examined through the case of male loneliness within the manosphere. Theoretical perspective: By synthesising three theoretic
Pågående urbanisering och klimatförändringar ställer ökade krav på hållbar stadsutveckling i svenska storstadsregioner. Samtidigt minskar tillgången till grönområden i tätbebyggda miljöer, vilket påverkar både ekosystemtjänster och människors livskvalitet. Gröna tak har under senare år lyfts fram som en möjlig naturbaserad lösning för att möta dessa utmaningar. Syftet med denna studie är att underOngoing urbanization and climate change place increasing demands on sustainable urban development in Sweden’s major metropolitan regions. At the same time, access to green spaces in densely built environments is decreasing, affecting both ecosystem services and human quality of life. In recent years, green roofs have been highlighted as a potential nature-based solution to address these challenges
Causality is a fundamental requirement for physical consistency in many-body approximations. In the context of Green's functions, causality requires a positive spectral function and analyticity in the upper half of the complex-frequency plane. These properties are not guaranteed by approximate methods, and formal proofs of causality for the underlying approximation schemes are often difficult
Sustainability-driven consumer brands face strategic challenges when expanding internationally, as institutional environments shape not only market access but also how legitimacy for the brand and product category must be constructed across markets. This thesis examines how sustainability-driven consumer brands navigate divergent institutional environments in their international market entry and s
This thesis investigates how the roles, relationships, and coordination mechanisms among stakeholders influence the integration of energy resilience in urban development (UD) projects, a challenge increasingly recognised as governance-related rather than technical. Drawing on stakeholder and resilience theory, the thesis explores how stakeholders interpret their positions and influence within UD p
This thesis examines how private equity ownership shapes consumer brand equity during the holding period, drawing on fourteen semi-structured interviews with investment professionals across five Nordic PE firms and four consumer brand professionals. The central finding is that PE ownership neither preserves nor destroys brand equity, it instead reconstitutes it. Short-term performance metrics cro
The aim of this study is to explore Swedish upper secondary students’ attitudes towards reading fiction in and outside of school. A central starting point is the alleged reading crisis that is widely discussed in Swedish media and politics. Focus is particularly placed on the phenomenon of reading for pleasure and reading motivation through a phenomenological lifeworld perspective, in combination
De-influencing has emerged as a prominent form of social media content that encourages consumers to question or avoid product purchases. Existing research has primarily examined de-influencing as a communicative or persuasive event, focusing on its influence on attitudes, credibility, or purchase intentions, while paying limited attention to how it becomes integrated into consumers’ everyday shopp
Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Dr. Ana María Vargas Falla, Alejandra Acosta Jiménez, Valentina Lomanto-Perdomo, Meline Avagyan, Windi Arini, Charlie Meidino Albajili, Heléna Von Glahn, Paola Cortés, Laura Serna Mosquera, Constanza Mottin, and Isabell Pope.
Light chain monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (LC-MGUS) is defined by an abnormal serum free light chain ratio and elevated involved light chain in the absence of a detectable immunoglobulin heavy chain on immunofixation and of end-organ damage attributable to a plasma cell disorder. It is the least characterized of the MGUS subtypes and the one whose accurate diagnosis is most de
INTRODUCTION: Central venous catheters (CVCs) are essential in modern healthcare. Insertion of a CVC promotes a hypercoagulable environment, in part through activation of the intrinsic coagulation pathway. We have previously shown that blood obtained from newly inserted CVCs demonstrates immediate coagulation activation, with differences between samples collected directly after insertion and after
Previous studies suggest an increased risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) following SARS-CoV-2 infection, which may be subject to detection bias from increased health care contacts among the infected. We aimed to assess the causal effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on new-onset T2D using a test-negative design and negative control outcomes. We included all individuals aged ≥ 18 years registered in
Researchers and civil society have proposed separating targets for emissions reductions and carbon dioxide removal to prevent mitigation deterrence – the risk that the anticipation of future removals delays decarbonisation. In 2017, Sweden became the first state to adopt separated targets, specifying that its 2045 net-zero target must be reached through a minimum of 85% domestic emissions reductio
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) enters the brain along perivascular spaces in a manner that depends on aquaporin-4 (AQP4) polarization, facilitating brain clearance and is called the glymphatic system. While physiological factors such as cardiovascular activity and respiration are known to influence glymphatic function, the effects of hypothermia remain poorly understood. In this study, we used quantita
Metal-free nitrogen-doped carbon materials are promising electrocatalysts towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), yet the nature of the active sites remains under debate. Previous investigations based on ex situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterization and computational modelling studied the role of graphitic N species in ORR and suggested that these species at the carbon edges are
Background/Objectives: The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway plays a central role in innate immune signaling and represents an attractive therapeutic target for cancer immunotherapy. Amidobenzimidazole (ABZI) derivatives have emerged as promising non-nucleotide STING agonists with improved drug-like properties compared to cyclic dinucleotides. However, current ABZI compounds still exh
BackgroundTimely discharge of patients who are clinically ready to be discharged from hospitals to the next point of care is a common health system challenge. Ensuring safe and effective discharge holds new urgency, given the backlogs and increased waiting times for inpatient services in many countries after the COVID-19 pandemic.ObjectiveThe study aimed to identify policy options for addressing d
