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In spite of the modernization of obstetrics in Tamil Nadu, the rural women still adhere to several traditional beliefs and practices, in regard to childbearing and postpartum. The varieties of non-biomedical practices were used in attempt to ensure a risk-free delivery and the birth of a healthy baby, although the collected data shows that some of them are harmful. To understand why the rural wome
The combination of graphical models with Aalen's additive hazards model, resulting in a model known as dynamical path analysis, permits assessing the effects of different variables on times until an event and decomposing these total effects into direct and indirect effects. This thesis proposes novel bootstrapping methods designed for left-truncated right-censored data, conditional on covariat
In 2020, Zenuity was split up and the new company, Zenseact became a subsidiary to the car manufacturer Volvo Cars, owning 86,5% of the company. In the end of 2022, Volvo Cars acquired the rest of the company and became fully owner of Zenseact. Being a knowledge heavy company with ambitious developers at the core of the organization, Zenseact develops driving assistance software powered by advance
This thesis seeks to investigate the structural circumstances regarding the poor refugee protection for Burmese refugees in Thailand. Acknowledging that existing laws are politically motivated, the first part of this thesis examines the political context that determines the structure of the legal framework. The second part of the thesis scrutinizes the juridical framework concerning refugees, name
The purpose of this study is to examine the international legal instruments specifically addressing the practice of enforced disappearance and analyse if they are sufficient in relation to the gravity and seriousness of the crime. The instruments examined are: the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappe
Title: What drives the customer's choice of packaging and which factors influence the customer's packaging cost? ? in the automotive and manufacturing industries Author: Lena Andersson Supervisors: Annika Olsson, Division of Packaging Logistics, Lund Institute of Technology Helena Claesson, Volvo Logistics AB Problem: Which parameters are important for logistic people to think of when
The essay deals with how one can predict a state's behaviour through discourse analysis. It argues that while actors must have a real capacity for action, their re-spective discourse must also house a conceptualization of that capacity in order for an actor to be expected to make decisions to employ said action. Instruments of power must also be perceived as effective in order to be employed.
Enteroviruses are widespread pathogens implicated in acute illness and increasingly linked to chronic diseases such as type 1 diabetes. Despite their impact, no FDA-approved antiviral therapies exist for enterovirus infections. Resistance to direct-acting antivirals underscores the need for alternative strategies. Given enteroviruses’ dependence on host machinery, targeting host factors, particula
Denna examensuppsats undersöker den rättshistoriska utvecklingen av det svenska statliga detaljhandelsmonopolet för alkohol med fokus på hur inskränkningar i näringsfriheten och köprätten reglerats och motiverats från framförallt 1850-talet fram till idag. Uppsatsen analyserar de bakomliggande politiska resonemangen och hur dessa har skiftat i takt med samhällets förändringar, från tidig moralisk This thesis examines the legal history of the Swedish state monopoly on alcohol retail, focusing on how restrictions on freedom of trade and purchasing rights have been regulated and justified, primarily from the 1850s to the present day. The thesis analyzes the underlying political reasoning and how this has shifted in line with changes in society, from early moral education to modern public heal
Thesis purpose: The purpose of this thesis revolves around investigating which factors a company should consider when attempting to dual brand a wide array of products. Methodology: Our thesis intends to investigate the opinions of dual branding among FMCG companies within the Swedish market. We have conducted a qualitative approach, consisting of interviewing five marketing practitioners, mostly
Study on value creation for acquiring companies in Sweden in the years 2002-2009. The study is carried out by using both event- and accounting study methodology and the value creation is studied in short, medium and long-term. We find significant positive average abnormal returns of 2.82% at the announcement, which is steady until 5 days post the announcement. We find no significant abnormal chang
Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om det fanns ett samband mellan bra taluppfattning och frekvensoberoende (rak dämpning) i hörselskydd. Ett annat syfte var att undersöka om det fanns någon skillnad på taluppfattningen mellan normalhörande och hörselskadade vid objektiva och subjektiva taluppfattningstester med simulerade hörselskydd, där talet var blandat med talvägt brus. I undersökninge
Result This thesis has resulted in a new Project Management (PM) tool for the Scania Engine Development Project Coordination group, customized for engine development long-term test planning and tracking. The PM tool also shows resource use, capacity, and forecast of all Scania’s engine test benches located in Sweden, Germany and Brazil. Issue of study As a result of the continuously increasing
The world around us is urbanising at a faster rate than ever. Today more than 70 per cent of the European population lives in urban areas, especially small and medium-sized cities. Often, cities are the centres of economic growth. In the context of urban pollution and climate change, cities are at the core of European policies due to their ability to be the ‘places’ where solutions and innovations
The number of companies that are discovering the benefits of having a process-oriented mindset is continually increasing. But moving from having a strict functional-oriented mindset to becoming more process-oriented does not happen over night. The road of transformation is long and many challenges are faced on the way. This thesis focuses on the question of how companies should approach a transfor
In January 2011 a film called Sex på kartan was shown on the Swedish public service network SvT. The purposes of making the film was to be a part in a project for sex education to young people, and also be used as a school supplie for sex education in Swedish secondary schools.The film was a coproduction by UR, that is the Swedish publicservice TV channel for education, and RFSU,which is an indepe
Attention to the role of religious NGOs (RNGOs) in international arenas has grown in the past decade. This study explored the role of values in the policies of RNGOs involved in humanitarian aid. It sought to compare the values of RNGOs with varying levels of involvement with the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) in order to determine if values may be an issue inhibiting cooperat
Disclosed is a method (310) for providing operational feedback during power transfer in a wireless power transfer system. The wireless power transfer system comprises a power transmit device arranged to transfer power over an inductive wireless power transfer interface operating at a transmit frequency to a power receive device. The wireless power transfer system is adapted to transfer information
