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Åtgärder för att minska risker är en viktig del av de risk- och sårbarhetsanalyser som genomförs av svenska kommuner. Studien visar dock att de åtgärder som tas upp i kommunala risk- och sårbarhetsanalyser inte följs upp i någon större utsträckning. Risk- och sårbarhetsanalyser genomförs av alla svenska kommuner och en viktig del i detta arbete är att identifiera åtgärder för att reducera risker oThe purpose of this study was to investigate how risk and vulnerability reducing measures are described, treated over time and what characterizes implemented measures in municipal risk and vulnerability assessments (RVA). In order to do that, risk and vulnerability reducing measures were categorized, by use of a template for document analysis developed for this study. The document analysis was per

Early vision is the process occurring before any semantic interpretation of an image takes place. Motion estimation, object segmentation and detection are all parts of early vision, but recognition is not. Some models in early vision are easy to perform inference with---they are tractable. Others describe the reality well---they have high fidelity. This thesis improves the tractability-fidelity tr

Many aspects of human physiology and behavior are seasonally related. Although there are many studies using self-ratings of, for example, subjective health and stress, few involve adjusting effects for seasonal differences. To estimate the need of adjusting for season in field studies, 24 healthy men and women were studied in a design that required them to fill in questionnaires on one workday eve

Popular Abstract in Swedish Vid en knäprotesoperation ersätts ledytorna i knäet med en protes gjord av metall och plast. Den vanligaste orsaken till denna operation är artros(ledsvikt. Antalet knäprotesoperationer ökar stadigt och 2009 utfördes 12,700 förstagångsoperationer i Sverige. Resultaten är överlag goda men en allvarlig komplikation som drabbar mellan 1 och 2% av patienterna är bakterieinfThe Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register (SKAR) was used to identify 478 cases that underwent a first-time revision with exchange or removal of the prosthesis due to infection during the years 1986–2000. 30% of the infections were diagnosed within 3 months from primary operation and two-thirds were diagnosed within 2 years. These cases frequently had a history of wound complication after the primar

England is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. Rewilding creates ‘benefits for both ecosystems and societies’ (Perino et al., 2019). Disadvantaged communities are often those who would benefit most yet are continually side-lined for their more privileged counterparts. Through a literature review and three interviews with experts related to each research question, focus is place

The aim of this essay was to see how the arguments about legalization and criminalization of drug use appeared like and if it could be criticized and another important question was if marijuana should be legalized. I studied the arguments and questions like how far the government could go to "protect" its citizens are discussed. Is it right to incarcerate another person for possessing o

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Solen värmer jordytan olika mycket på olika platser dels beroende på om ytan är land, hav eller is och dels beroende på den breddgrad ytan är belägen på. Denna ojämna uppvärmning ger upphov till regionala ojämnheter i lufttrycket. Det är dessa tryckojämnheter som styr vindriktningarna i atmosfären och därmed vart alla vädersystemen rör sig. Det är alltså den ojäLong time-series of pressure measurements often have high quality because the early instruments are more or less the same as the modern ones. A time-series from Lund consisting of three daily measurements from 1780-1997 has been homogenised and is therefore suitable for analysing possible influences of the enhanced greenhouse effect. According to a two-layer model of the atmosphere one finds a shi

ABSTRACT Scopo e quadro generale: Nella presente tesi viene investigata la situazione sociolinguistica del dialetto veneziano, tramite un questionario rivolto a giovani veneziani tra i 14 ed i 25 anni. Venezia è una città internazionale che ospita milioni di turisti ogni anno, mentre la città perde sempre più residenti. Il dialetto veneziano era la lingua della Repubblica di Venezia e possiede d

A packaging company is currently evaluating their production and searching for development opportunities to make the production more effective. At the facility for packaging materials there is a production line with two machine-groups consisting of two printers and one laminator. In the present situation the two machine-groups are disconnected from each other by the use of an inventory. The purp

The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the development and perceived usefulness and problems of the BSC in the city of Copenhagen a few years after its original implementation. A qualitative approach is used throughout the thesis. Primary data is collected through interviews. The study takes its theoretical stance in previous research and studies conducted within the Balanced Scorec

Bortträngda minnen och huruvida dessa kan eller bör framkallas är föremål för omfattande diskussion i forskarvärlden. Vad som kan kallas vetenskaplig och verklig sanning är också det långt ifrån oomstritt. På den juridiska sidan ger den svenska bevisprövningsmodellen domstolarna möjlighet att beakta i princip allt de finner av värde. Att andra vetenskapsdiscipliner ofta kommer in i den juridiska bThe discussion in the scientific community around the subject repressed memories has for a long time been extensive. The Swedish rules of evidence validation give the court the possibility of freely taking in consideration everything they find of value for the judgement. It is therefore up to the courts to decide whether or not to trust repressed memories as evidence. The purpose of this essay

The aim of this master thesis is both to investigate how risk analyses in the layout design phase of railway tunnel projects today are done and to advise how the safety thinking of complex infrastructures could be improved in the future. The thesis is based on case studies of three Swedish railway tunnel projects in Göteborg, Malmö and Stockholm. The thesis is limited to examine sudden risk scenar

I denna rapport redovisas populationstrender för 175 svenska fågelarter för åren 1975–2011. Fåglarna har räknats på vintern och på sommaren enligt strikt standardiserade metoder. Sommar- respektive vinterpunktrutter har räknats sedan 1975, i huvudsak i södra Sverige. Standardrutterna räknas också på sommaren men täcker hela Sverige. De har räknats sedan 1996. Vintern 2010/2011 räknades 75 000 fåglWe present the results of the Swedish Bird Survey, run by the Department of Biology, Lund University, as a part of the National Monitoring Programme of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The results for 2011 include data from 589 winter point count routes in 2010/2011 (36th winter), of which 273 were carried out during the Christmas/New Year count and 262 summer point count routes (37th

Radiotherapy (RT) is a repetitive treatment divided into daily fractions, scheduled five days a week from one up to several weeks depending upon the child’s diagnosis. Although RT is painless and non-invasive, children experience anxiety. Depending on the child’s age, anxiety or inability to comply, they may require sedation or general anaesthesia (GA), meaning that some children receive GA over 3

Throughout history, Jewish notions of justice, hope and redemption have inspired political visions within as well as beyond the Jewish tradition. In the past century, examples can be drawn from Ernst Bloch to Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. Also in the present politico-philosophical debate, a number of prominent voices draw explicitly on Jewish sources in their attempts to formulate radical v

Although it is well known that Charlotte Brontë had pronounced political views and interests from childhood onwards, few academics have examined her preoccupation with politics, in the sense of public life and government affairs, at any length. Insofar as critics and scholars have considered her political opinions, they have found her Toryism hard to reconcile with the rebellious spirit in evidenc

A number of rheological models of drying wood have been presented during the last ten years. At the material point level, most models show high accuracy. The models in themselves, however, have no value unless used for improving wood drying, technique, quality, etc. To achieve this, they have to be implemented in applicable programs/ methods. In this article, the implementation of a material model

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, OMIM 152700) is a systemic autoimmune disease with a complex etiology. The mode of inheritance of the genetic risk beyond familial SLE cases is currently unknown. Additionally, the contribution of heterozygous variants in genes known to cause monogenic SLE is not fully understood. Whole-genome sequencing of DNA samples from 71 Swedish patients with SLE and their

How do you take a reliable measurement of a material whose microstructure is random? When using wave scattering, the answer is often to take an ensemble average (average over time or space). By ensemble averaging we can calculate the average scattered wave and the effective wavenumber. To date, the literature has focused on calculating the effective wavenumber for a plate filled with particles. On