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Moraxella catarrhalis is a human-specific commensal of the respiratory tract and an opportunistic pathogen. It is one of the leading cause of otitis media in children and of acute exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, resulting in significant morbidity and economic burden. Vaccines and new immunotherapeutic strategies to treat this emerging pathogen are needed. Comp
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining traction in high-level, decision-making arenas as a response to global policy challenges. Claiming to be transformative and pluralistic, NbS aim to resolve societal problems through a focus on nature, which is understood to be a benign ally. This uncritical framing of nature may have unintended and inequitable consequences that undermine the emancipatory po
Globalization and trade liberalization have altered the premises for international business operations and changed the sources for competitiveness and business success. It has become increasingly important for corporations to build deeper and strategic relationships with business partners, employees and customers, to develop a favorable reputation in social issues and to be trustworthy in the eyes
The topic of this thesis is the upcoming proceedings of the Extraordinary Cambers in the Courts of Cambodia. These Extraordinary Chambers take their place in international justice as part of a third generation, so-called internationalized or hybrid courts, which combine the needs for international involvement in international justice mechanisms and the need for domestic involvement in transitional
The aim of this study is to examine how women have proceeded to end an abusive relationship, the support and help they received and whether there were any difficulties during this procedure. Our study is based on qualitative interviews with six women. All of the women are over 18 years old and have been out of the relationship for more than two years. The data is analyzed based on thematic analysi
This study explores how crisis communication concerned with reputation repair can gain a deeper understanding for how the meanings of organizations’ reputa-tional crises are constructed in digital rhetorical arenas. The problem stems from a dominant organicentric perspective that has overlooked the communicative activi-ties between stakeholders that have received crisis responses from organization
The Costa Concordia disaster represents one of the most dramatic ship evacuations of recent years. This thesis constitutes a case study of the Costa Concordia disaster, in an attempt to identify behaviors among the evacuees that may have contributed in reducing the effectiveness of the evacuation procedures. Publicly available material – such as reports from the media, survivor accounts and scient
I den här studien karakteriseras fenomenet anaerob korrosion utifrån både litteraturstudier om korrosionsprocesser och korrosionsprodukter samt genom undersökning av fältprover från betongkonstruktioner i salthaltiga undervattensmiljöer i södra Sverige. Anaerob korrosion av armering i vattenmättad betong är ett omfattande men hittills relativt ouppmärksammat problem. Detta fenomen kan leda till alIn this study, the phenomenon of black corrosion is characterized by both literature studies on corrosion processes and corrosion products, and by analyzing field samples from saline subaqueous concrete structures in southern Sweden. Anaerobic corrosion of reinforcement in water-saturated concrete is an extensive but yet relatively unnoticed problem. This phenomenon can lead to serious damages tha
In light of the housing shortage in Sweden, municipalities all over the country are struggling to fulfil their responsibility of housing provision. In many municipalities it is an imminent problem to provide affordable and proper housing, not least for the most vulnerable groups in society. This situation has not gone by unnoticed. Several political initiatives have been taken in order to examine
The deep sea fish C. monstrosa (known as the rat fish) is a common bycatch of shrimp trawling. The rat fish carries on its back a vigorous venom spine. Some of the most toxic organisms on this planet are marine. The active substances differ in the venoms of the toxic organism, but the active substances are in many cases peptides. Natural peptides found in venoms have recently become more common ca
Mangrove ecosystems constitute a valuable economic resource harbouring a wide diversity of organisms and operating an essential provider of nutrients for adjoining marine ecosystems. The meiobenthic fauna (i.e. small benthic invertebrates) plays an important role in the food chain and has proven to be a useful indicator on environmental stressors within the mangrove forest. This study is conducted
Over the past decade, the fashion industry has shifted towards dynamic product assortments with shorter life cycles. As a result, the role of the analysis of product sales has increased and become crucial for fashion retailers. Using H&M Group’s dataset on their product sales, I analyze and compare the performance of two machine learning algorithms in predicting the standard deviation and aver
This thesis analyses the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the life satisfaction of students in Germany one year after the start of the pandemic. The motivation for this thesis is the lack of studies to date that analyse the long-term effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on life satisfaction. In a difference-in-difference design, I compare the development of German students who were in their first yea
This thesis investigates the role of organizational culture, structure, and processes in the implementation of IT governance (ITG) within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the context of rapidly evolving technological landscapes and regulatory environments, effective ITG is crucial for enhancing organizational capabilities and performance. The research addresses the gap in understandin
Human activities accelerate climate variations which cause effects all over the world. The IPCC's Sixth Assessment report, which was released in 2021, shows that human activities have already warmed up the planet significantly. The report reveal that the climate has already increased by approximately 1.1 °C since the period 1850-1900 and the average temperature is predicted to exceed 1.5 °C wi
Cash transfer programmes have been adopted by various countries across the Global South to alleviate extreme levels of poverty and deprivation. To increase the reach and quality of the programmes, international development organisations have suggested incorporating market-based solutions into national social protection schemes. This thesis aims to examine these efforts by analysing the impact of p
In most normative and prescriptive decision theories, transitivity is a presumed property of any preference relation, stating that for any choice alternatives x, y, z and preference relation R, if xRy and yRz, then xRz. However, what is normatively expected of an ideally rational agent may still be descriptively false under certain contexts and empirically motivated decision models. One such possi
