Objectives To investigate the possible impact of maternal obesity on ultrasonographic dating of pregnancy. Methods The Swedish Medical Birth Registry was used to identify 842 083 singleton pregnancies for which the estimated date of deliver), (EDD) according to last menstrual period (EDD-LMP) and according to ultrasound examination (EDD-US) and maternal body mass index (BMI) in early pregnancy wer

A review of a doctoral issertation on "The Visitation of the Sick in Swedish Medieval and Reformation Traditions".

The bio-kinetic and sedimentation processes of wastewater treatment plants can be modelled by a large system of coupled nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations (ODEs and PDEs). The subprocess of continuous sedimentation, which contains concentration discontinuities, is modelled by a degenerate parabolic conservation PDE with spatially discontinuous coefficients. A spatial discretizat

Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor in humans, and the prognosis is very poor despite conventional therapy. Immunotherapy represents a novel treatment approach, but the effect is often weakened by release of immune-suppressive molecules such as prostaglandins. In the current study, we investigated the effect of immunotherapy with irradiated interferon-γ

Quantum liquids may carry angular momentum by the formation of vortex states. This is well known for Bose-Einstein condensates in rotating traps, and was even found to occur in quantum dots at strong magnetic fields. Here we consider a two-component quantum liquid, where coreless vortices and interlaced lattices of coreless vortices appear in a very similar way for fermions and bosons with repulsi

The research and development of connecting and strengthening timber structural elements with glued-in rods (GiR) has been ongoing since the 1980s. Despite many successful applications in practice, agreement regarding design criteria has not been reached. This state-of-the-art review summarises results from both research and practical applications regarding connections and reinforcement with GiR. T

* This workshop’s long term goal is to foster a community of Information Systems researchers and practitioners who are interested in the socio-technical perspective and see it as an important approach to improve the quality and reduce the costs of the information systems that have become an essential part of our lives in this 21st century. All communities need meeting places where they can discuss

Congenital muscular dystrophy with laminin α2 chain-deficiency, also known as MDC1A, is a severe neuromuscular disorder for which there is no cure. Patients with complete laminin α2 chain-deficiency typically have an early onset disease with a more severe muscle phenotype while patients with residual laminin α2 chain expression usually have a milder disease course. Similar genotype-phenotype corre

Abstract in Undetermined Recension av: Bernard Porter. The Battle of the Styles. Society, Culture and the Design of the New Foreign Office, 1855 1861. Continuum, London 2011. ISBN 978-1 -4411-6739-2

I avhandlingen studeras migration i form av anhöriginvandring till Sverige. I fokus ställs parförhållande där parets seriositet prövas av Migrationsverket. Parets väg genom ansökningsprocessen beskrivs liksom den legala ramen kring anhöriginvandring. Vidare tar avhandlingen upp handläggning av anhöriginvandring och vilka föreställningar om anhöriginvandring och seriösa parförhållanden som finns, dImmigration for family reunion makes up about 30-50 per cent of all immigration to Sweden. The present thesis deals with the handling of applications for reunion immigration and with the comprehension of the concept of reunion immigration and of a “serious relationship”, partly by the executing officer/decision maker who apply the law, partly by the individual who is part of the couple relationshi

Denna uppsats syftar att besvara frågan när kausalitet föreligger för revisorers skadeståndsansvar. Denna fråga har varit aktuell sedan det kända Prosolvia-målet kom för några år sedan. I det målet ansåg hovrätten att för att bestämma om kausalitet förelåg var man tvungen att skapa ett hypotetiskt händelseförlopp. I detta hypotetiska händelseförlopp undersöktes om skadan hade uppkommit om revisorThe current statues of confusion for accountant’s damage claims is spreading in Sweden. After the highly mediatized Prosolvia-case a lot of questions regarding causality has surfaced. When does causality for an accountant’s damage claim become applicable? Since the Prosolvia-case verdict there has been a stream of confusion of how the court decided to determine the causality. They decided that one

Godstransporter fyller en central roll i det industrialiserade och globaliserade samhället. I takt med att den globala handeln har ökat har en ökad efterfråga på transporter drivits fram. Trots att transporter bidrar till ekonomiska och sociala fördelar världen över står transportbranschen inför flertalet hållbarhetsrelaterade problem där godstransporter har identifierats som ett av de största hotEffective freight transportation is a central part of the modern society, creating social and economic benefits. Nevertheless, the logistics industry is facing substantial sustainability challenges, where freight transports have been identified as the main environmental hazard. Scholars have previously highlighted the centrality of the purchasing process for reducing the environmental impact of th

PURPOSE: The purpose of this research project is to further advance theory on management of product development by providing insights on customer orientations. The study contributes to the literature by bringing in Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a new perspective to theorize the process of translations between customer orientation and engineering orientation within product development. RELEVANCE:

Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka skadeståndsansvaret för sakskada på lös egendom som glömts kvar eller tappats i en näringsidkares affärslokaler av en person som har eller har haft ett avtal med näringsidkaren för att utnyttja hans tjänster. För att kunna uppfylla det övergripande syftet med uppsatsen utgick jag från följande frågeställningar: - Under vilka förutsättningar kan en näringsidkThe aim of this thesis is to investigate the liability for property damage which has been inflicted on personal property belonging to a private person which is left behind or has gotten lost in premises belonging to a businessman, when the owner has or has had a contract with the businessman concerning his services. In order to meet the overall objective of this paper, I formulated the following q

Seminariedatum: 2015-06-04 Ämne/kurs: FEK P01 Författare: Katarina Koefoed Handledare: Lars Carlman Nyckelord: Varaktiga konkurrensfördelar, fysisk teknologi, kundnytta Syfte: Att ta reda på varför konkurrensfördelar generellt sätt ofta är kortvariga inom fysisk teknologi och hur man kan få fysiskt teknologi att bli varaktig är syftet med denna uppsats. Metod: Studien är gjord med ett deduktivt andevice industry Seminar date: 2015-06-04 Course: FEK P01 Author: Katarina Koefoed Advisor: Lars Carlman Key words: Sustainable competitive advantage, physical technology, customer benefit Purpose: The purpose of this study is to find out why competitive advantage often is of short term character within physical technology, and how it is possible to make physical technology sustainable. Methodology

The turbulent market environment experienced over the last decades has attracted the broad interest of institutional and retail investors towards non-directional and absolute return investment strategies. The scope of this paper mainly concerns the investigation of whether a pairs trading strategy based on the cointegration approach generates excess returns on the Swedish equity market or fails to

One of infiltration ponds used in the preliminary step for drinking water production at Vombverket in the southern part of Sweden was set for the experiment in this study. The pond was split into two sides as one side received the source water from Vomb Lake and (untreated side). For another side, the water from the same source was pre-treated by DynaSand filter and PAC before transferred into the

Vegetation on land is globally taking up about 30% of the CO2 that is emitted by human activities (oceans take up 30%, while 40% remains in the atmosphere). This ability to store carbon in the vegetation and in the soil is very important to mitigate the climate changes, but all land based ecosystems are not carbon sinks. Ecosystems that are losing carbon needs to be further investigated, so we can