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Sustainability-driven consumer brands face strategic challenges when expanding internationally, as institutional environments shape not only market access but also how legitimacy for the brand and product category must be constructed across markets. This thesis examines how sustainability-driven consumer brands navigate divergent institutional environments in their international market entry and s
This thesis investigates how the roles, relationships, and coordination mechanisms among stakeholders influence the integration of energy resilience in urban development (UD) projects, a challenge increasingly recognised as governance-related rather than technical. Drawing on stakeholder and resilience theory, the thesis explores how stakeholders interpret their positions and influence within UD p
This thesis examines how private equity ownership shapes consumer brand equity during the holding period, drawing on fourteen semi-structured interviews with investment professionals across five Nordic PE firms and four consumer brand professionals. The central finding is that PE ownership neither preserves nor destroys brand equity, it instead reconstitutes it. Short-term performance metrics cro
The aim of this study is to explore Swedish upper secondary students’ attitudes towards reading fiction in and outside of school. A central starting point is the alleged reading crisis that is widely discussed in Swedish media and politics. Focus is particularly placed on the phenomenon of reading for pleasure and reading motivation through a phenomenological lifeworld perspective, in combination
De-influencing has emerged as a prominent form of social media content that encourages consumers to question or avoid product purchases. Existing research has primarily examined de-influencing as a communicative or persuasive event, focusing on its influence on attitudes, credibility, or purchase intentions, while paying limited attention to how it becomes integrated into consumers’ everyday shopp
Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Dr. Ana María Vargas Falla, Alejandra Acosta Jiménez, Valentina Lomanto-Perdomo, Meline Avagyan, Windi Arini, Charlie Meidino Albajili, Heléna Von Glahn, Paola Cortés, Laura Serna Mosquera, Constanza Mottin, and Isabell Pope.
Light chain monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (LC-MGUS) is defined by an abnormal serum free light chain ratio and elevated involved light chain in the absence of a detectable immunoglobulin heavy chain on immunofixation and of end-organ damage attributable to a plasma cell disorder. It is the least characterized of the MGUS subtypes and the one whose accurate diagnosis is most de
INTRODUCTION: Central venous catheters (CVCs) are essential in modern healthcare. Insertion of a CVC promotes a hypercoagulable environment, in part through activation of the intrinsic coagulation pathway. We have previously shown that blood obtained from newly inserted CVCs demonstrates immediate coagulation activation, with differences between samples collected directly after insertion and after
Previous studies suggest an increased risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) following SARS-CoV-2 infection, which may be subject to detection bias from increased health care contacts among the infected. We aimed to assess the causal effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on new-onset T2D using a test-negative design and negative control outcomes. We included all individuals aged ≥ 18 years registered in
Researchers and civil society have proposed separating targets for emissions reductions and carbon dioxide removal to prevent mitigation deterrence – the risk that the anticipation of future removals delays decarbonisation. In 2017, Sweden became the first state to adopt separated targets, specifying that its 2045 net-zero target must be reached through a minimum of 85% domestic emissions reductio
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) enters the brain along perivascular spaces in a manner that depends on aquaporin-4 (AQP4) polarization, facilitating brain clearance and is called the glymphatic system. While physiological factors such as cardiovascular activity and respiration are known to influence glymphatic function, the effects of hypothermia remain poorly understood. In this study, we used quantita
Metal-free nitrogen-doped carbon materials are promising electrocatalysts towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), yet the nature of the active sites remains under debate. Previous investigations based on ex situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterization and computational modelling studied the role of graphitic N species in ORR and suggested that these species at the carbon edges are
Background/Objectives: The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway plays a central role in innate immune signaling and represents an attractive therapeutic target for cancer immunotherapy. Amidobenzimidazole (ABZI) derivatives have emerged as promising non-nucleotide STING agonists with improved drug-like properties compared to cyclic dinucleotides. However, current ABZI compounds still exh
BackgroundTimely discharge of patients who are clinically ready to be discharged from hospitals to the next point of care is a common health system challenge. Ensuring safe and effective discharge holds new urgency, given the backlogs and increased waiting times for inpatient services in many countries after the COVID-19 pandemic.ObjectiveThe study aimed to identify policy options for addressing d
Understanding the properties of hierarchical materials such as wood requires combining information representing different length scales. Scanning wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) connects the nanoscale cell wall structure to the scale of the annual growth rings, as demonstrated here by studying radially cut slices of mature softwood (Scots pine and Norway spruce), including the bark. WAXS offers
Purpose: To assess perceived overall knowledge in geriatric medicine and perceived educational needs in key geriatric topics and skills of health and social care professionals working within the WHO Region Europe. Methods: The sample of this cross-sectional survey was not designed to be nationally representative. We analysed the responses of 5425 professionals who completed a multilingual multinat
Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is increasingly recognized as a valuable clinical biomarker, making accurate, and reliable quantification essential, particularly in the absence of a gold-standard reference. However, both the acquisition and processing of CVR data are influenced by numerous methodological factors, including imaging technique, sequence parameters, vascular paradigm, and data proces
Ätstört beteende (DE) och icke-suicidalt självskadebeteende (NSSI) förekommer ofta samtidigt under ungdomsåren och delar flera riskfaktorer, men deras longitudinella utveckling är fortfarande bristfälligt kartlagd. Denna studie undersöker prevalens, stabilitet och psykologiska prediktorer för upprepat NSSI och risk för DE från ungdomsåren till ung vuxenålder. Ett urval (N = 471) besvarade självskaDisordered eating (DE) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) frequently co-occur during adolescence and share multiple risk factors, yet their longitudinal development remains poorly understood. This study examined the prevalence, stability, and psychological predictors of repetitive NSSI and risk of DE from adolescence to young adulthood. A community sample (N = 471) completed self-report asse
This explorative case study examines librarians’ perceptions and practices regarding environmental sustainability at Malmö University library. More specifically the study addresses which conditions and challenges that underlie these practices, with a core emphasis on the librarians’ perceptions regarding the role of academic libraries in the sustainable shift in Swedish society. Analytically the s
