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Unprecedented global challenges demand all-encompassing modification of societal realms to ensure life support functions and human development. In the absence of adequate responses to climate change at a global level and the need for place-based adaptation, local governments are gaining increasing attention to govern and implement solution options to foster sustainability transitions. In this cont
Storms cause severe damages and cost lives. In order to assess the severity of storms, historical data sets such as reanalysis data can be employed. This kind of data is based on numerical weather prediction models. The realism of model data is limited by the spatial resolution of the model. A numerical weather prediction model is only as precise as its grid distance, meaning that a model cannot d
There is an increase of financial integration, which can be seen in recent mergers of banks, financial institutions etc. in the European Union especially in the Nordic countries. However there are some weaknesses in providing consumers cross border services in the sector of banking, such as cross border bank account transfer of payments. The existing transaction costs do not encourage cross border
Executive Summary Title Business Models for Mobile Internet Authors Andersson Tobias, Talborn Henric, Weikert Magnus Directors Professor Allan T. Malm Ph D Candidate Magnus Wide Purpose How should mobile operators design their business models for mobile Internet in order to be successful? Method The method used in order to reach the purpose is structured in, theory, empirical and analysis around t
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to study the adaptation of recently recruited young professionals to a top consulting firm through their identity construction efforts. We analyze the influence of a major organization-related discourse on young professionals in order to account for the effects of emotional labor on their adaptation to work. Methodology: We have studied our empirical material
The purpose of this study has been to investigate the service user involvement in the course “Socialt förändringsarbete” that has been offered since 2005 at the School of Social Work at Lund University. The service user involvement in this case is formed as an entire 7,5 hp course carried out by service users and social work students together. This means that the service users participate as stude
En i praktiken vanligt förekommande situation är att driften av en offentlig verksamhet överlåts genom ett offentligt upphandlingsförfarande. Det kan då tänkas att den upphandlande myndigheten önskar säkerställa att de anställda erbjuds fortsatt sysselsättning hos den nya verksamhetsutövaren. Ett skäl till detta kan vara att den upphandlande myndigheten annars riskerar att få bära kostnader för iA common contemporary phenomenon is the transfer of the operation of public business through a public tendering process. In a public tender, the contracting authority may wish to ensure that its employees are offered continued employment with the new operator. The contracting authority may wish to do this because it might otherwise have to bear the costs of personnel not assumed by the new operato
Animals are often used in advertising, especially in commercials. When given human characteristics, and used in several commercials over a longer period of time, anthropomorphic animal spokespersons are born. These animals are neither real animals nor humans. They are hybrids, or fake animals. Fake in the sense that they are fictive, they lack an existing model and they are an assembly of many thi
Abstract Abstract Author: Lama Akkache and Linnea Svensson Title: The professional meeting between social worker and client [translated title] Supervisor: Kristina Göransson Assessor: The purpose of this study was to examine if and how cultural differences between the social worker and client may have an effect on the professional meeting. More specifically the aim was to find out if the client a
Experienced safety is difficult to measure, as it treats subjective feelings and these do not always coincide with crime rates. In addition, women, immigrants and poor people often report lower levels of experienced safety, which implies structural causes. Many quantitative studies have been carried out on the subject of safety, crime and fear but there is still a need for more knowledge of experi
Studies on fibre intake and incident colorectal cancer (CRC) indicate inverse associations. Differences by tumour stage have not been examined. We examined associations between fibre intake and its sources, and incidental CRC. Separate analyses were carried out on the basis of sex, tumour location and the Tumour, Node, Metastasis (TNM) classification. The Malmö Diet and Cancer Study is a populatio
BACKGROUND Genome-wide association studies have identified several genetic loci associated with variation in resting heart rate in European and Asian populations. No study has evaluated genetic variants associated with heart rate in African Americans. OBJECTIVE To identify novel genetic variants associated with resting heart rate in African Americans. METHODS Ten cohort studies participating in th
Background: Previous studies have indicated that fat distribution is important in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We investigated the association between fat distribution, as measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and the incidence of stroke. Methods: A cohort of 2751 men and women aged >= 40 years was recruited. Baseline levels of abdominal, gynoid and total body fat
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: The aim of this work was to investigate, in children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes: (1) the prevalence of autoantibodies against thyroid peroxidase (TPOAb) and thyroglobulin (TGAb); and (2) the association between TPOAb, TGAb or both, with either islet autoantibodies or HLA-DQ genes. METHODS: Blood samples from 2,433 children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes were analys
This study examined specific measures of weight loss in relation to incident diabetes and improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This prospective, observational study analyzed nine weight measures, characterizing baseline weight, short- versus long-term weight loss, short- versus long-term weight regain, and weight cycling, within the Diabetes Prevention Program (
Measuring induced polarization in the time domain with relatively compact multi-channel multi-electrode systems is attractive because of the simplicity of the procedure and thus its efficiency in the field. However the use of this technique is sometimes discouraged by the bad quality of the measurements in cases of high electrode contact resistances that can render data interpretation infeasible o
