This thesis deals with the expression of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide (PACAP) in sensory C-type cells and primary afferent fibres and its possible role in nociceptive transmission. PACAP-expression, -release, -synthesis and -function were investigated in a series of measurements using immunocytochemistry, radioimmunoassay, in situ hybridization histochemistry, Northern blot, elec

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This paper deals with the considerable membership shifts between the Swedish union confederations LO (blue-collar), TCO (white-collar) and Saco (white-collar), but above all it is about the rising share of union members in occupational/professional unions in the last few decades. This development corresponds to Saco's increased share of union members (8 per cent in 1990, 15 per cent in 2008). Also

Surface processes play a large role in the growth of semiconductor nanowires by chemical beam epitaxy. In particular, for III-V nanowires the surface diffusion of group-III species is important to understand in order to control the nanowire growth. In this paper, we have grown InAs-based nanowires positioned by electron beam lithography and have investigated the dependence of the diffusion of In s

Abstract in UndeterminedSometimes energy security is used as an advocacy for renewable energy systems. Although renewable energy systems can surely have such characteristics they will not per se solve all types of security problems, and new problems will most certainly arise. In this paper, energy security aspects of renewable energy systems are analysed taking the starting point in a broad typolo

Rapporten behandlar marknadens möjligheter och begränsningar inom välfärdsområdet både vad gäller finansiering och produktion. Finansieringsaspekten handlar om möjligheterna till ökat inslag av försäkringar avseende t.ex. sjukfrånvaro, arbetslöshet, sjukvård och äldreomsorg. Produktionsaspekten handlar om möjligheterna att intensifiera konkurrensen inom en rad områden som exempelvis skola, vård,

The increasing number of mobile devices and high-speed services accelerate the growth of traffic in cellular backhaul networks. The traditional technologies used in the backhaul, copper, radio links and optical fibers, either cannot offer high data-rate, or are expensive. In this paper, we propose mixed integer programming models to facilitate upgrading the cellular backhaul using the free space o

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The rise of the far right in Europe is central to an understanding of the new political variables emerging in the face of the European economic crisis. This paper focuses on the media representations of Greece and its role in the economic crisis by extra-parliamentarian groups of the far right in Denmark and Sweden. It demonstrates how the parliamentary extreme right in these countries “blame” Gre

In a small perception study, our ability to estimate speaker age from speech samples was investigated with respect to stimulus duration, stimulus type and speaker gender. Four separate listening tests were carried out with four different sets of stimuli: 10 and 3 seconds of spontaneous speech, one isolated word, and 6 concatenated isolated words, all produced by the same 24 speakers. The results s