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Introduction: Some children may witness their grandparents or great-grandparents spending their final days in a nursing home, while others have peers with older relatives living in nursing homes. Children learn about ageing through experience and exposure, where picture books can also shape their perceptions and attitudes toward older adults residing in nursing homes.Aim: To explore the underlying

The problems faced by children trafficked for Domestic Work seems to be a continuing problem. Whereas states have ratified the various conventions aimed at protecting children in this field, the problem persists. Trafficking of children is usually portrayed in a way that most times&semic the children are trafficked across borders from country to country for purposes of being economically explo

Male sex development and reproductive function is regulated by androgens acting via the androgen receptor (AR). The AR harbours two polymorphic repeats of CAG and GGN triplets, encoding glutamines and glycines, respectively. Both polymorphisms affect the AR transactivation ability, although the function of the GGN repeat was virtually unknown at the start of this project. Thus, the main purpose wi

Mutagenic/carcinogenic heterocyclic amines (HAs) are formed at low levels (ng/g) during heat processing of protein-rich food such as meat and fish. The complex matrix requires effective extraction and purification methods. Blue Chitin columns were used for the extraction of HAs from fried chicken fillets and the samples were analysed with LC-MS. Several HAs were identified at levels ranging from 0

Purpose: To compare the longitudinal suture model for bridging nerve defects with direct approximation under tension or with autologuos nerve grafting. Methods: Seven mm nerve defects in the rat sciatic nerve were repaired by either of these three methods. Evaluation was performed at twelve weeks by morphometry of the tibial nerve distal to the repair site and by weight of the gastrocnemius muscl

New approaches based on -omics technologies can identify biomarkers and processes regulated in response to xenobiotics, and thus support toxicological risk assessments. This is vital to meet the challenges associated with “cocktail effects”, i.e. combination effects of chemicals present simultaneously in a product, our environment, and/or our body. For plant protection products (PPPs), investigati

So far, the semiconductor nanowire research area has mainly delivered results on growth procedures and related material properties. As the development lately has been successful in producing novel nanowire-based structures for optical or electronic applications, the time is ripe to review the device work that has been done and in some cases has produced devices ready for the market. In this chapte

Purpose: The aim of this work is to investigate the ability of a laser positioning system for breathing-adapted radiotherapy (BART), also known as respiratory gating. C-RAD installed the Sentinel system at the Sk°ane University Hospital (SUS) in Malm¨o during an appointed time for the purpose of evaluation on the pre-clinical gating prototype. It is also to develop a visual coaching method for the

Det finns ett samhällsintresse att verksamheter i offentlig regi drivs så kostnadseffektivt som möjligt. När verksamheten har ett minimikrav på bemanning som krävs för att driva verksamheten, kan arbetsuppgifter inte överföras på andra anställda vid någons frånvaro. Den frånvarande måste ersättas. Detta innebär att många verksamheter drivs med viss ”övertalighet”. Syftet med denna fallstudie var aThere is a public interest that activities operated by the public sector are run as cost effectively as possible. When an organization has a minimum requirement of staffing required to run its activity, work cannot just be transferred to other employees at someone's absence. The absentee must be replaced. This means that many organizations are run with some "redundancy". The purpose

In the last decades, the role of warehouses has increased due to wider product range, emphasis on shorter lead times and constant changes in customer demand. The increased demands forces companies to improve their warehousing operations for better service level and decreased costs. Different technology solutions like WMS and RFID are currently available for supporting this improvement. However, th

Svällningsstudier med gelatin Av: Victor Norgren, Lunds tekniska högskola, 2015-06-15 Introduktion Gelatin är en genomskinlig proteinbaserad biopolymer, som tillverkas av kollagen. Kollagen är bindningsvävnaden som fäster musklerna till benen i kroppen. Genom att t.ex. koka benknotorna kan man utvinna kollagenet som blir gelatin när det tillåts sätta sig igen. Gelatintrådarna behåller den spiralThis report is about the measurements of swelling gelatine films of different thickness and at different temperature. The research has been mainly focused on finding a suitable model. Results have shown that the new Pseudo-Sigmoidal Model (PSM) is superior to previous quasi-second order models such as the Robinson and Ofner model. It has also been shown that gelatine’s swelling can be divided into

En kartläggning som gjordes av Föreningen Svenskar i Världen år 2015 visade att antalet utlandssvenskar som var bosatta i Spanien under mer än sex månader per år uppgick till mer än 90 000. Sådana gränsöverskridande förflyttningar påverkar i vissa fall den svenska skattebasen eftersom utflyttade personer många gånger går från att vara obegränsat skattskyldiga för samtliga sina inkomster till att eA survey carried out by the independent organization Swedes Worldwide in 2015 showed that over 90 000 Swedes spent more than six months a year in Spain. These emigration movements sometimes affect the Swedish tax base since individuals are no longer liable to pay income tax on all incomes and only become liable to pay income tax on incomes having a source in Swedish territory. Compared to other c

De senaste åren har problemen med barnäktenskap kommit att uppmärksammas allt mer i Sverige. Många människor från länder där barnäktenskap är lagligt har sökt sig hit, vilket ökat antalet barnäktenskap i landet. I den allmänna debatten har lagstiftningen på området kritiserats för att vara otillräcklig. Fram till år 2019 var utgångpunkten i svensk rätt att utländska barnäktenskap, där båda parter During recent years, child marriage has become an increasingly debated matter in Sweden. A large number of people from countries where child marriage is legal have immigrated to Sweden, thus increasing the amount of child marriages in the country. In the public debate, legislation has been criticized for being inadequate. Until 2019, the starting point in Swedish law was that foreign child marriag

Sexuella övergrepp tillhör ett av de mest kränkande och traumatiserande brott som en människa kan utsättas för. Trots detta förekommer det på flera håll än idag motstånd att klassificera bekantskapsvåldtäkter eller våldtäkter inom relationer som ”riktiga våldtäkter”, medan våldtäkter av obekanta gärningsmän eller med förekomst av våld inte sällan förstås som en ”riktig våldtäkt” och mest allvarligSexual offences are one of the most offensive and traumatic crimes a person can be subjected to. Despite this, there is still resistance in several places to consider acquaintance rapes or rapes in relationships as ”real rapes”, while rapes by unknown perpetrators or with violence often are understood as the ”real rape” and the most serious ones. Those perceptions might thus lead to a situation wh

Bakgrund: Världshälsoorganisationen, WHO, deklarerade Covid-19 som en pandemi den 11 mars 2020. Viruset satte snabbt sina spår på byggbranschen och det ledde till vidtagna åtgärder. Lösningen som gick efter folkhälsomyndighetens centralt styrda restriktioner handlar framförallt om att undvika fysisk kontakt och skapa en säker och god fysisk miljö för arbetarna. För att säkerställa en god arbetsmilBackground: The World Health Organization, WHO, declared Covid-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The virus quickly left its mark on the construction industry and this led to measures taken. The solution that followed the public health authority's restrictions is above all, avoiding physical contact and creating a safe environment for the employees. To ensure a functionate environment, the const

I detta examensarbete har man undersökt hur olika renheter på vatten påverkar kvaliteten på vattenbaserade färgprodukter. Man har använt sig av två olika renade vatten och kranvatten som kontroll. De renade vatten som användes var avjoniserat vatten och destillerat vatten. Avjoniserat vatten renas genom filtrering och destillerat vatten renas genom kokning och uppsamling av vattenångan. KvaliteteIn this project the effect different water qualities had on water-based paint products were investigated. Tap water was used as a control and deionised and distilled water were used to determine whether the water purity had an impact on the quality of the finished paint products. One intermediate and five finished products were used to investigate the effect of water purity. The intermediate was

Acoustophoresis, i.e., the contactless manipulation of small cells or particles via acoustic waves is a gentle and label-free method that can, amongst others, be used to isolate rare cells such as circulating tumor cells from blood. To isolate enough cells, a large amount of sample needs to be processed in a reasonable amount of time. In a clinical setting, usually around 10 mL of blood can be col