BvHb1.2 is a sugar beet haemoglobin (Hb) and a good candidate to be used as an artificial oxygen carrier (AOC). 19 mutants of BvHb1.2 were produced with random mutagenesis and expressed in BL-21 E. coli. The Hb content in whole cells was determined by using a refraction index modifier by mixing cell suspensions with 35% BSA. The two mutants (4 and 15) with the highest Hb production were purified u

Anthropogenic climate change poses new challenges to smallholder farmers in the Global South. At the farm level, science-based adaptation measures, as well as farmers’ autonomous responses based on indigenous knowledge, are simultaneously in use. This thesis investigates their linkages by assessing the role of indigenous knowledge for the development of modern climate change adaptation strategies

Lesion detection is a critical task for medical image understanding. While the problem has been widely addressed in a supervised semantic segmentation manner, the problem clinically appears more similar to novelty detection with few or no annotations for the lesion. The reason is two-fold: 1) it is intuitively easier to collect large dataset from healthy individuals than that from a specific type

Most women opt for so called cosmesis, a cover which mimics the look of a leg, on their prostheses in order to get real-looking legs. Their male counterparts usually choose to show the entire construction or parts of the raw prosthesis. However the cosmesis is in many cases lowering the functionality of the prosthetic leg. In this project, 8 female and 2 male lower-leg amputees were interviewed i

The focus of this project has been to create a product that can make us feel closer to nature. Avium is an aroma diffuser in which you use local plants instead of essential oils. It uses the same kind of process that is used when producing essential oils but it releases the fumes directly into the room instead of condensing it. The idea is that instead of buying essential oils in the store you wil

Headlined by Basel III - banking regulation has been the target of extensive revisions and remodeling in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. The same period has, in many countries, also been characterized by unprecedented accommodative monetary policy. Since banks serve as a critical transmitter of both policies, regulatory and monetary alike, their implications on bank lending merit further

During the 21’st century a lot of support has been found by economists that megaprojects all over the world become more expensive than planned. One type of project well known for cost-escalations is traffic infrastructure. The most common theory for this phenomenon is that benefits and costs for these projects suffers from optimism bias, where the former is exaggerated, and the latter is understat

Uppsatsen intresserar sig för bemanningssjuksköterskors upplevelser av sitt arbete och sina arbetsvillkor. Frågor som behandlas i uppsatsen är uttryckta motiv till att arbeta som bemanningsanställd sjuksköterska, upplevda skillnader mellan att ha en traditionell anställning och att vara bemanningssjuksköterska samt bemanningsarbetets för- och nackdelar. Frågorna undersöks genom semistrukturerade i

The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the exposure of work-related threats and violence among social workers. Specifically, those social workers who work within the social services for income support in Sweden. Moreover, the study was also aimed to explore how these social workers were affected by threatful and violent situations, and how they managed such situations when those aros

Denna uppsats syfte är att förstå varför en viss grupp av människor strävar efter att bli självförsörjande när det kommer till sin matproduktion. Med hjälp av Bourdieus teoretiska begrepp habitus, som senare har vidareutvecklats inom miljörörelsen till ett ekologiskt habitus, kommer jag att analysera informanternas drivkrafter. Informanterna berättar att några av anledningarna till att de strävar

The aim of this study was to examine factors which affect the occurrence of work related threats and violence toward social workers. Specifically differences in experiences of threats and violence between social workers who exercise public authority and other professionals who practice social work in general have been studied. The study has examined if there is a relation between social workers

I en tid då företag avkrävs mer ansvar och deras hållbarhetsinitiativ (socialt, ekonomiskt och miljömässigt) granskas i större utsträckning undersöker denna uppsats hur FN:s nya globala mål för hållbar utveckling påverkar företagens arbete. Uppsatsen består huvudsak-ligen av en studie där Telia Company och deras arbete för Förenta Nationernas (FN) 17 globala mål för hållbar utveckling studeras. St

The purpose of this study was to investigate how homelessness is described in newspapers during two different time periods from a social constructivist and discourse theoretical perspective and then to compare these descriptions. The analyzed material consists of 20 news articles. 10 of these are from the period 1990-1995, and 10 from 2015 - 2019 from various newspapers. Based on four different pr

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilka faktorer som bidrar till att skapa en god psykosocial arbetsmiljö. För att uppfylla syftet har uppsatsen undersökt hur olika psykosociala arbetsmiljöfaktorer korrelerar med varandra på socionomstudenters arbetsplatser, med ett fokus på mobbning, systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete och upplevd trivsel. Undersökningen har genomförts med hjälp av kvantitativThe aim of this thesis is to examine which factors that contribute to the creation of a good psychosocial work environment. This has been done by investigation of the correlations between different psychosocial work environment factors in the work environment of social worker students, with a focus on bullying, systematic preventative efforts to improve the work environment and experienced work sa

The purpose of this study was to explore the social effects of an absent parent during childhood and later in life. An absent parent is here understood as a parent who exists in life but who for some reason is not present in the child's life. Six adults were interviewed; three women and three men. The method used was qualitative. In all cases, the absent parent had been the father. The analysi

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyze how Instagram as a platform refer to the traditional flagship store regarding the transmit of a fashion house brand identity. More specific will the thesis investigate and analyze the Swedish fashion house Totême’s digital presence and communication in relation to the flagship store on Biblioteksgatan 5 in Stockholm, Sweden. Furthermore, was the thesis

In march 2020 the Swedish government decided that education in gymnasiums was to be conducted as distance learning as a means to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. The aim of this study was to explore how Covid-19 has affected schools and school counselors and in which way the school counselors role and work towards the students have changed during the Coronapandemic. The study was conducted t

Fires in the built environment typically consist of diffusion flames with inefficient mixing of fuel and oxygen, resulting in a degree of incomplete combustion and the generation of carbon monoxide. Fire suppression systems, used to control the growth and spread of fire, influence the combustion reaction process. Water droplets interacting with the gas phase chemistry of fire interrupt combustion

“Meetings are now more important” : A study about social workers' view on client meetings within the financial aid sector. In social work, meeting other people forms a big part of the job and human contact is generally considered very important. The aim of this study was to investigate how social workers within the financial aid sector reason about meetings with clients when based on the goal

The aim of this study was to examine and understand the ethical reasoning and the fundamental values of the underlying argumentation for or against a legalization of cannabis in Sweden. My empirical of this study was 20 debate articles from known newspapers in Sweden where they debate cannabis legalization. From the articles I took out themes that was reoccurring, the themes I found where, “Care a