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Increasing global interconnectivity, in terms of our economies, ecological systems and population dynamics, can reduce or amplify the risks posed by climate change. The ongoing Coronavirus 2019 crisis demonstrates how rapidly disasters and risks can cascade and escalate across countries to become a shared problem globally. Climate change impacts are increasingly being recognised not only as a nati

Wildfires pose a serious threat to communities in different parts of the world, mostly in regions with a warmer climate. Due to the increased urbanization next to the forest and climate change, they are currently an issue to be addressed also in other parts of the world. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a first step in the direction of creating a holistic Vulnerability Assessment Method (V

Sammanfattning Titel: “Jag tror att jag skulle kunna avvänja mig vid vikten av att äga” Universitet: Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg, Institutionen för Service Management Kurs: KSMK65 Service management: Examensarbete för kandidatexamen, 15,0 hp, VT20 Författare: Frida Otteborn och Frida Jonsson Handledare: Eerika Saaristo Nyckelord: Kollaborativ konsumtion, Teorin om planerat beteende, kons

Utvärdering av regenerationsmetoder for jonutbytar-filter och modellering av jonutbytar-filter. Förbättring av nuvarande metoder för bukhinnedialys behöver undersökas eftersom i en av Baxters jonutbytar metoder används kemiska jonutbytar filter tills de är förbrukade och därefter slängs de. Därför är det av intresse att utvärdera metoder för att återskapa förbrukade jonutbytar-filter så de kan åtIn peritoneal dialysis ultrapure water used is produced from tap water by using several filter cartridges in series. One of the cartridges is an ion exchange filter removing cations and anions by either reverse osmosis membrane or chemical ion exchange resin. The ion exchange filter that is investigated in this thesis is a chemical ion exchange filter. The current chemical ion exchange system has

This study had the aim to approach the question of how the different traits in OCEAN get affected by norms more specifically normative belief, motivation to comply and identification with the referent as described in the Theory of Planned Behaviour. The method of choice was a digital survey, constructed as a modified IPIP, which was divided by self-estimation, descriptive normative belief, injunct

Mellan hösten 2019 och våren 2020, fängslades både professionella och amatöra astronomer av de besynnerliga händelserna av Betelgeuse. Den särskiljande, lysande röda supergiant av Orions axel, vanligtvis den tionde ljusaste stjärnan på himlen, började dämpa sig dramatiskt. Detta fick många att spekulera om dess överhängande förstörelse i en kataklysmisk supernovaexplosion. Man tror nu att denna tiThe role of massive stars (those with masses greater than eight solar masses) in the chemical enrichment of galaxies and renewed star formation forms an important field of fundamental research in modern astrophysics. The complex nature of massive star evolution produces formidable challenges in furthering our understanding of the processes driving massive star evolution. Our ever-changing picture

Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL; AML M3) is identified by a unique t(15;17) translocation which fuses the PML gene to the retinoic acid receptor alpha gene (RARA). Reverse transcription coupled with the polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been used to develop a diagnostic test for APL based on the PML-RARA fusion message. Separate PCR assays were designed to amplify either PML-RARA (15q+ der

The dynamic soil acidification model SAFE was applied to 44 forested sites in Skåne, southern Sweden, using available Swedish databases on present soil status, vegetation and deposition. Time series of deposition were derived for each site from present deposition in a generalized fashion by dividing deposition into different classes and scaling with deposition trends from the literature. This stud

We present an experimental observation of the electronic Doppler effect in resonant Auger spectra upon core excitation slightly above the carbon K edge of the CO molecule. Thus the electronic Doppler effect has been identified in above-threshold excitation, and in a transition of Pi symmetry. Ab initio calculations of the potential energy curves of the relevant states of CO and the wave packet tec

Musculoskeletal problems are very common, and clinical assessment is central to their appropriate management; however, many clinicians are not sufficiently competent to carry out this assessment. A standardized approach to the clinical assessment of a musculoskeletal problem is, therefore, necessary, whether the patient is presenting to primary care, rheumatology or orthopedics. Such a standardize

Selection on traits conferring reduced predation may be opposed by selection on other traits associated with reproduction. Here, we examined the hypothesis that traits associated with reproduction in Gammarus pulex are driven by predation. We studied G. pulex originating from ponds with two different kinds of predator regimes: (1) ponds with fish-often large, non-gap-limited predators and (2) pond

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) plants of two commercial cultivars were transformed with sense and antisense constructs of a chitinase class II gene in order to develop a transformation system for this gene in barley. Transformation of embryos with the two antisense constructs resulted in ten regenerated plants, while no plants could be obtained using the sense construct. The presence of the inserted

Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) fate decisions between self-renewal and commitment toward differentiation are tightly regulated in vivo. Recent developments in HSC culture and improvements of human HSC assays have facilitated studies of these processes in vitro. Through such studies stimulatory cytokines critically involved in HSC maintenance in vivo have been demonstrated to also promote HSC self-r

The bit-search generator (BSG) was proposed in 2004 and can be seen as a variant of the shrinking and self-shrinking generators. It has the advantage that it works at rate 1/3 using only one LFSR and some selection logic. We present various attacks on the BSG based on the fact that the output sequence can be uniquely defined by the differential of the input sequence. By knowing only a small part o

Neuroblastoma is an embryonal tumour of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system (SNS). One of the master regulator genes for peripheral SNS differentiation, the homeobox transcription factor PHOX2B, is mutated in familiar and sporadic neuroblastomas. Here we report that inducible expression of PHOX2B in the neuroblastoma cell line SJNB-8 down-regulates MSX1, a homeobox gene important for embryon

The continuing growth of female life expectancy has resulted in a marked increase of women in years beyond the menopause. Women can nowadays expect to live one-third of their lives in a potential hormonal deficiency state. Women over 50 comprise 17% of the total population of any country in the modern western world. Any decision regarding their health issues will have a great impact on our limited