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Oats (Avena sativa) are a valued food product due to their nutritional profile and proven health benefits. However, prior to consumption, they require heat processing to prevent off-flavors and undesirable mouthfeel caused by lipase-catalyzed hydrolysis of lipids. While the heat treatment inactivates lipases, it raises concerns regarding sustainability and oat quality. The discovery of novel funct
Greywater, which comes from household sources such as showers, laundry, and dishwashing, is typically less polluted than toilet wastewater and can be treated and reused. In Helsingborg, Sweden, the RecoLab collects and treats greywater from Oceanhamnen separately as part of a source-separated wastewater system. However, the system has experienced is-sues with filamentous bacteria overgrowth, raisi
Credit ratings play a crucial role in financial risk assessment, influencing borrowing costs, investment decisions, and overall market stability. As corporate financial data becomes more intricate, machine learning (ML) emerges as a promising tool to enhance traditional credit evaluation methods. This thesis investigates the predictive performance of six supervised ML algorithms—Support Vector Mac
This thesis investigates the design and evaluation of Large Language Model (LLM) agent assistants for industrial maintenance, developed in cooperation with SSAB. The study focuses on identifying what combinations of tools and architectures best serve the needs of maintenance technicians, with an emphasis on practical usability and factual correctness. Multiple agents were developed and compared,
Detta examensarbete undersöker hur resenärernas upplevda trygghet påverkas när tåg passerar järnvägsplattformar i hög hastighet utan att stanna. Arbetet utgår från att järnvägen används mer intensivt än tidigare, vilket skapar fler situationer där resenärer väntar på plattformar samtidigt som andra tåg passerar. Fokus ligger på samspelet mellan plattformens fysiska miljö, tågets passage och resenäThis thesis examines how passengers’ perceived safety is affected when trains pass railway platforms at high speed without stopping. The study is based on the fact that the railway is used more intensively than before, creating more situations where passengers wait on platforms while other trains pass. The focus is on the interaction between the physical platform environment, the train passage and
This study evaluates an object-based image analysis (OBIA) approach using YOLOv11s-seg instance segmentation model for classifying thermally relevant land cover types from 0.16 m resolution orthophotos across three municipalities in Scania, Sweden. Six thermally relevant classes were defined: asphalt, bright roof, brown roof, dark roof, tree canopy and grass. The model was trained on annotations f
Therapeutic peptides are a fast-increasing segment in the pharmaceutical industry, and GLP-1 analogues stood for two out of the three most sold drugs last year, 2025. The most common production method of peptides is based on Merrifield’s discovery of solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), which uses large volumes of hazardous chemicals like N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), piperidine, and trifluoraceti
INTRODUCTION: Since sleep disturbance is a modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), we tested associations between sleep and AD pathology in cognitively unimpaired (CU) persons. METHODS: We included 223 participants from the PREVENT-AD cohort with self-reported measures of sleep, objective actigraphy measures of sleep, and positron emission tomography (PET) scans for AD pathology quant
The transition toward a circular economy is driving rapid growth in the recycling sector, yet occupational exposure remains poorly characterized, including exposure to phthalates and bisphenols. We conducted a human biomonitoring study among recycling workers handling e-waste, metal waste, and mixed waste in Sweden. The study included 114 exposed workers, 23 low-exposed workers, and 18 controls. P
Purpose: The study aimed to describe patients’ experiences of physical, psychological, social, and existential symptoms and challenges during the first year after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT). Methods: Quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analysed with descriptive methods as part of a large retrospective cross-sectional online survey of patients who und
Background: Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is rare, and contemporary data on real-world healthcare resource utilisation and costs are limited. The objective of this study is to describe long-term healthcare resource utilisation among patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) and to identify clinical and treatment-related drivers of costs. Methods: We conducted a retrospective,
Is världen över smälter till följd av temperaturökningen som sker på jorden. Glaciärer retirerar och isen tunnas ut vid polarområdena. Vid Arktis har isen studerats under hundratals år men det var inte förrän på 1970-talet som havsisens utbredning kunde kartläggas ordentligt med hjälp av fjärranalys. Passiv mikrovågsradiometri är den vanligaste metoden för att mäta havsisens utbredning. Trenderna All over the world ice is melting as a result of the increased temperature. The sea ice at the poles is getting thinner and glaciers are retreating. The Arctic has been studied during hundreds of years but it was not until the 1970’s the sea ice extent could be surveyed properly with remote sensing. The most common method to investigate the sea ice extent is with passive microwave satellite sensor
Abstract Authors: Max Elmgren and Magnus Svensson Title: Fairness of assessment or individual assessment – a study of local guidelines‟ implementation in social service. [translated title] Supervisor: Susanna Johansson Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed The purpose of this study was to explore how local guidelines are implemented in the assessment of social welfare in two different social welfa
Teachers’ experiences of school leadership behaviour and the social contexts in which these have taken place interest me. I aim to identify and understand what Swedish secondary school language teachers’ reflections are on what they require in terms of leadership from their principals in different contexts in order to gain personal job satisfaction. The objective is that this research can then fun
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune bleeding disorder characterized by increased peripheral immune platelet destruction and megakaryocyte defects in the bone marrow. Although ITP was originally thought to be primarily due to antibody-mediated autoimmunity, it is now clear that T cells also play a significant role in the disease. However, the exact interplay between platelet destruction,
This contribution consists of a multi-flow rate optimization method to maximize the key performance indicators, yield, degree of resin utilization and productivity for a chromatographic loading step. The protein adsorption to the resin is modeled using a mechanistic column model with a steric mass action adsorption isotherm. The model was used to optimize the flow rate trajectories and the loading
BACKGROUND: It has previously been shown that the morphology of the P-wave neither depends on atrial size in healthy subjects with physiologically enlarged atria nor on the physiological anatomical variation in transverse orientation of the left atrium. The present study aimed to investigate if different pressures in the left and right atrium are associated with different P-wave morphologies.METHO
Abstract Parasites that can infect multiple host species are considered to be host generalists with low host specificity. However, whether generalist parasites are better adapted to a subset of their host species remains unknown. To elucidate this possibility, we compared the variation in prevalence and infection intensity among host species of three generalist parasite lineages belonging to the m
Survival has improved among patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) with the addition of anti-CD20 antibody therapy. We aimed to quantify trends and remaining loss in expectation of life (LEL) due to DLBCL at a national population-based level. Patients diagnosed with DLBCL 2000-2013 (N = 7114) were identified through the Swedish Lymphoma Registry and classified according to the age-adj
