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How can a small fire at a subcontractor in the USA lead to a multimillion dollar loss at a Swedish telephone company, and how can a single machine breakdown lead to a complete production stop at a production company? With today logistics and production trends, where terms such as Lean Production, Six Sigma, 5S, and World Class Manufacturing are used every day, production companies are introducing
Sex trafficking has from six hundred thousand to four million victims each year (McCabe and Manian, 2010: 41-43). Because of different legal barriers, sex trafficking is closely associated with organized crime; crime victims often do not search for support from legal systems, law enforcement authorities, or other officials (ibid.) This thesis was to understand how law affects the ability of preven
Abstract The Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) plays a central role in the vertebrate immune system. The protein products of MHC genes present foreign peptides to T-cells, which then initiates the appropriate immune responses. MHC genes show extreme level of polymorphism and this was suggested to be maintained by selective pressures exerted by various parasites. Although associations between
Att undersöka stjärnor i infrarött är en relativt ny företeelse till skillnad från optisk astronomi (dvs. synligt ljus). Det var först på 60-talet med teleskopet Stratoscope II som man lyckades få spektra från stjärnor i infrarött (våglängder på runt 3 m), och upptäckte förekomsten av vatten i kalla röda jättar. Den bakomliggade problematiken till varför modern infraröd astronomi är så ungt är våThe advent of infrared astronomy, unlike optical astronomy that was developed over centuries, was delayed until the space age due to our own atmosphere acting as an efficient shield towards this radiation. With a lot of molecules (including water) emitting in the infrared region, it was first in the late 1990s that water no longer was deemed special and was observed in many cooler (K-M) giant star
ABSTRACT Background: Approximately 15 % of all couples in the Western countries experience infertility. Up to half of these cases are thought to solely or partly depend upon the male factor. In most cases male infertility is unexplained. During the last decade there has been a growing focus on sperm DNA damage as a cause of male infertility. Sperm chromatin structure assay (SCSA) is increasingly
The most common malignant brain tumor in adults is a glioma called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). About 300 persons are diagnosed with GBM every year in Sweden. Unfortunately, it is also the most aggressive brain tumor and as of today, it is not possible to cure it. Despite treating the patients with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, the median survival is only 15 months. The main problem with
Popular Abstract in Swedish Bakgrund Den kroniska ögonsjukdomen grön starr (glaukom) skadar ögats synnerv och påverkar den perifera synen (synfältet) hos de som drabbas. I västvärlden är grön starr den näst vanligaste orsaken till blindhet enligt Världshälsoorganisationen WHO. I Sverige räknar man med att cirka 70 000 personer över 70 år har grön starr, men att endast hälften av dessa är kända föThis thesis addresses several aspects of glaucoma diagnostics from both a clinical and a screening perspective. New instruments for diagnosing glaucoma have been developed over the past years, but little information is available regarding their performance as screening methods and their usefulness in ordinary clinical practice. Purpose of the research underlying this thesis The objectives of th
Monte Carlo-simuleringar har fått en ökad betydelse som forskningsverktyg inom nuklearmedicinsk bildgivning eftersom man på ett mycket kontrollerat sätt kan studera nästan vad man vill. I denna studie har datorsimuleringar av ett PET-system gjorts med ett program som heter GATE. PET (Positron Emission Tomography) är en nuklearmedicinsk bildgivningsteknik som används mer och mer inom sjukvården sIntroduction: Monte Carlo simulation is a powerful tool in research in the field of nuclear medicine imaging and there is a wide area of applications. The purpose of this work was (1) to understand the basics of the Monte Carlo simulation software Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE); (2) to create a model of Philips Gemini TF PET/CT system; (3) to run a number of simulations to comp
De försäkringar som är involverade i fartygs financiering är av högsta betydelse för långivaren för att uppnå lägsta möjliga kreditrisk. Ett fartyg som utgör kreditsäkerhet och som har brister i sitt försäkringsskydd kommer inte vara till samma skydd för banken som var avsett om skada uppstår eller ännu värre om fartyget blir en totalförlust. Detta är extra viktigt idag då många fartygsägare beståThe insurances involved in ship finance are of vital importance for the lender to achieve as small credit risk as possible. A vessel that serves as collateral for a loan and lacks adequate insurance cover will not give the bank the protection it was meant to give if it suffers damage or even worse becomes a total loss. This is particularly important since many shipowners nowadays consist of one-sh
När parterna i en tvist kommit överens och reglerat sina mellanhavanden i ett förlikningsavtal kan de begära att domstolen stadfäster förlikningsöverenskommelsen genom dom. Förlikningsavtalet blir då exigibelt och vinner rättskraft. Avtalet kan reglera fler rättsförhållanden än vad den ursprungliga tvisten handlade om, och det finns inget hinder för domstolen att stadfästa förlikningsavtalet även When the parties to a dispute have come to an agreement and have settled their differences in a conciliation agreement, they can request that the court confirm the agreement by delivering judgement. The conciliation agreement then becomes executable and gains legal force. The agreement may regulate more legal matters than the original dispute concerned, and there is no impediment for the court to
Objective. Cardia, non-cardia and intestinal and diffuse subtypes of gastric cancer may have different trends and etiological factors. However, the available information is not always collected in population cancer registries, and heterogeneous criteria have been applied for the histopathological classification of tumors. We describe the pathological features of incident gastric and esophageal can
The expression and activities of constitutive nitric oxide synthase (cNOS) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in relation to insulin and glucagon secretory mechanisms were investigated in islets isolated from rats subjected to total parenteral nutrition (TPN) for 10 d. TPN is known to result in significantly increased levels of plasma lipids during the infusion time. In comparison with isl
Barnadråpsbestämmelsen medför en privilegiering för det fall en kvinna uppsåtligen dödar sitt nyfödda barn. Straffet för brottet är fängelse i högst sex år. Trots att dagens reglering sällan tillämpas i praxis, har dess föregångare –barnamordsbestämmelsen– en mörk och omfattande historia, som under 1700-talet utgjorde det dominerande straffrättsliga och kriminalpolitiska problemet i samhället. SamThe infanticide provision entails a privileging of the case when a woman intentionally kills her newborn child. The range of punishment for the crime is imprisonment for a maximum of six years. Despite its rare application today, the provision has a dark and extensive history and constituted a significant challenge for criminal law and criminal policy during the 18th century. The societal view of
Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is a glycoprotein responsible for the transport and biologic availability of sex steroid hormones, primarily testosterone and estradiol. SHBG has been associated with chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes (T2D) and with hormone-sensitive cancers such as breast and prostate cancer. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis of 21,791 i
We acclimated two species of sculpin, the freshwater prickly sculpin (Cottus asper) and the closely related marine Pacific staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus) to freshwater (similar to 0 g/L), brackish water (15 g/L), and seawater (30 g/L) for at least 4 wk and examined the relationships between respiration, ion regulation, gill morphology, and freshwater tolerance. The prickly sculpin successf
Konsumentförsäkringslagen trädde i kraft 1981 som ett resultat av krav på bättre konsumentskydd i tider av andra samhälleliga förbättringar. Lagen reglerar både försäkringstagarens huvudförpliktelse, att betala premien, och övriga förpliktelser, de s k biförpliktelserna, som bl a består i att lämna riktiga uppgifter då försäkringen tecknas, att uppfylla åliggandena enligt försäkringsvillkoren och
This thesis presents methods for estimation and autonomous control of a hexacopter which is an unmanned aerial vehicle with six rotors. The hexacopter used is a ArduCopter 3DR Hexa B and the work follows a model-based approach using Matlab Simulink, running the model on a PandaBoard ES after automatic code generation. The main challenge will be to investigate how data from an Internal Measurement
The increased competition for talented employees is a new challenge for todays organizations to reach success and as a response to this challenge the term Talent Management was developed during the 1990s. Due to the relatively new concept there is still no generally accepted definition and the purpose of this study is to contribute with knowledge about what defines Talent Management and how it has
