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Utrymning i sjukhus ställer speciella krav på brandsystem och byggnader då sjukhus ofta är stora och komplexa byggnader med många människor med olika förutsättningar. Där befinner sig personer i alla åldrar, personer med diverse nedsatt rörlighetsförmåga samt nedsövda personer som behöver assistans av anställda för att kunna utrymma byggnaden. Patienter som behöver assistans vid transport kan ta eEmergency evacuation in hospitals sets special demands on fire protection systems and the construction of the building since hospitals often are large and complex buildings. People and patients of all ages, with reduced mobility, and anesthetized people who are not capable to evacuate without assistance are often present. The procedure of evacuating a hospital is therefore not an easy task. The pu

Tropical forests are of great importance to all living-beings due to their high biodiversity and the valu-able resources, such as food and fuel, they provide. In addition, tropical trees sequester a high amount of carbon and consequently over half of the global forest carbon stock can be found in the tropics. Climate change, however, might weaken this carbon sink and possibly result in tropical fo

Ecosystem services from forests provide society with a multitude of benefits. However, current research shows that in Swedish forests aspects of ecosystem services have a status ranging from “moderate” to “inadequate”. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency set up environmental quality objectives (EQOs) specifically with the aim of identifying environmental problems that need to be addressed

Sammanfattning Titel: Vem är Vegorätt? En experimentell studie av sambandet mellan stereotyper i reklambilder och konsumenters attityder gentemot vegetarisk mat. Seminariedatum: 2016-05-25 Ämne/kurs: FEKN90, Examensarbete på Civilekonomprogrammet, 30 hp Författare: Sarah Hellberg, Emelie Lundqvist, Moa Rydlöv Handledare: Clara Gustafsson Nyckelord: Stereotyper, vegetarisk mat, Consumer CultuAbstract Title: Who is Vegorätt? An experimental study of the relationship between stereotypes in advertisements and consumers’ attitudes towards vegetarian food Seminar date: 2016-05-25 Course: FEKN90, Master Thesis in Business Administration - Marketing, 30 ECTS Authors: Sarah Hellberg, Emelie Lundqvist, Moa Rydlöv Advisor: Clara Gustafsson Key words: Stereotypes, vegetarian food, Consumer

The decline of bees, such as bumblebees, over the last decades raises concerns as they are key pollinators in both agricultural and natural ecosystems. One proposed cause for the decline of wild bees is competition for food resources with managed honeybees. Detrimental effects of competition can result where co-existing species exhibit a high degree of shared resource use (i.e., niche overlap). Th

Objective: To determine the incidence rate, predictors and outcome of stroke in a population-based cohort of individuals with ANCA-Associated vasculitis (AAV). Methods: The study included 325 patients diagnosed with AAV from 1997 through 2016 in a defined geographic area of Sweden. Patients who suffered a stroke were identified from Riksstroke, a national Swedish stroke register established in 199

Climate change and human impact play a huge role in the sustainability and development of ecosystems and the services they offer to societies over temporal and spatial scales. Fossil pollen-based estimates provide unique information on past land cover change, but to date there are not many methods able to create spatially continuous maps and have a fine scale of land cover changes inferred from po

The aim of this Master's thesis is to examine the ways in which culture and cultural policy are being articulated in the process of Lund's application to become Sweden's European Cultural Capital of 2014. I have used Dorte Skot-Hansen's three cultural political rationalities: the humanistic-, the sociological- and the instrumental rationality, as well as and Jenny Johannisson'

Master thesis for Mechanical engineering, at the University of Lund. Incorporated in project Pondora. The purpose of this master thesis is to compare the existing one way packaging system with a proposed return crate system not yet available in Sweden. The comparison is focused on packaging handling in the grocery store. The purpose is also to investigate how operating return crate systems in No

AIMS : Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), now a common procedure to treat high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, has rapidly been expanding into younger and lower-risk populations, creating a need to better understand long-term outcome after TAVI. The aim of the present investigation was to determine the incidence, risk factors for, clinical presentation of, and outcome after

Context: Breathlessness is associated with depression, but its relationship to anxiety or impaired function is less clear. Objectives: This study evaluated associations between chronic breathlessness and anxiety, depression, and functional status in the general population. Methods: This cross-sectional study of consenting adults (18 years and older) used an online survey. Quota sampling (n = 3000)

Background: Growing evidence suggests a role of occupation in the emergence and manifestation of dementia. Occupations are often defined by complexity level, although working environments and activities differ in several other important ways. We aimed to capture the multi-faceted nature of occupation through its measurement as a qualitative (instead of a quantitative) variable and explored its rel

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection has become the gold standard for diagnosis and typing of enterovirus (EV) and human parechovirus (HPeV) infections. Its effectiveness depends critically on using the appropriate sample types and high assay sensitivity as viral loads in cerebrospinal fluid samples from meningitis and sepsis clinical presentation can be extremely low. This study evaluated th

Background Atopic dermatitis (AD) is caused by a complex interplay between immune and barrier abnormalities. Murine models of AD are essential for preclinical assessments of new treatments. Although many models have been used to simulate AD, their transcriptomic profiles are not fully understood, and a comparison of these models with the human AD transcriptomic fingerprint is lacking. Objective We

Immune cell-derived cytotoxic pathways have been implicated in antitumor immune responses. The goal of this study is to characterize how these cytotoxic pathways influence ovarian cancer development. We have utilized the TgMISIIR-TAg transgenic mouse model which expresses the transforming SV40 TAg in the ovary, leading to spontaneous development of ovarian tumors that closely mimic human epithelia

This study investigates the activist engagement strategies of U.S.-domiciled hedge funds when engaging with Japanese firms. The study forms a comparison of the engagement strategies both before Japan’s 2015 Corporate Governance Code and after. To create this comparison, two campaigns were examined. First, the U.S.-domiciled hedge fund Steel Partners and its campaign against Japanese firm Bull-Dog

Textile waste presents significant harm to the environment, prompting the development of advanced textile recycling technologies. One such process recycles cellulosic fibers using zinc chloride (ZnCl2) at certain hydration levels to dissolve the cellulose, which is later precipitated by the addition of water and can be re-spun into new fibers. However, this process uses large amounts of zinc chl

Airborne particulate matter (PM) emitted from combustion sources is a major environmental and public health concern due to its complex composition and impacts on human health. While the organic fraction of PM is well investigated, the inorganic fraction, particularly the metal content of emissions from non-road gasoline engines, remains largely uncharacterized. Transition metals are of specific re

Absorption of chemicals through the skin affects occupational and environmental exposure to diverse compounds. We previously showed that loss-of-function (null) mutations and low–copy number variants (CNV) of Filaggrin (FLG), which encodes a key skin barrier protein, increased dermal chemical absorption; however, the FLG genotype did not explain all the observed variation. Here, we explore the eff

β-Ga2O3 (β-gallium oxide) is an ultra-wide band gap semiconductor material that has attracted significant interest for next-generation high-efficiency and high-power electronic devices. This thesis focuses on the optimisation of the growth of gallium oxide thin films on 1.0 cm x 1.0 cm silicon carbide (4H-SiC) using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). A growth matrix in substrate temperature and oxyge