It has been known for decades that risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) tend to cluster. Metabolic syndrome refers to this risk factor clustering for some of the more well-established and dangerous risk factors. This chapter provides a historical overview on the concept of the metabolic syndrome; describes the clinical criteria used in the definition of the metabolic syndrome

This licentiate dissertation emerges at the crossroads of critical disability studies and critical disasterstudies, with a commitment to justice, equality, and accessibility within the realm of disaster risk reduction(DRR). Its purpose was to develop new insights into strengthening crisis preparedness by activelyinvolving and including people with intellectual disabilities, leveraging their own kn

We present an implementation of a general weight window generator for global variance reduction in Geant4 based applications. The implementation is flexible and can be easily adjusted to a user-defined model. In this work, the weight-window generator was applied to calculations based on an instrument shielding model of the European Spallation Source, which is currently under construction in Lund,

Konsignation är ett handelsupplägg som i näringslivet främst används i avtalsrelationen mellan leverantörer och återförsäljare. Upplägget går ut på att leverantören, konsignanten, deponerar varor med bibehållen äganderätt för förvaring i ett varulager hos återförsäljaren, konsignatarien. Konsignatarien har därefter en rätt att göra uttag från lagret på kredit, som ofta sker i samband med vidareförConsignment is a form of trade arrangement most frequently used between suppliers and retailers. The point of the arrangement is that the supplier, the consignor, places goods with contained ownership for storage at the possession of the retailer, the consignee. The consignee then has a right to withdraw goods on credit, often in connection to the sale to a third party. The capability of the arran

Avtalslagens ålderdomliga regler om fullmakt ger ingen uttömmande reglering av de fullmaktstyper som förekommer i det moderna svenska samhället. Vid sidan av avtalslagen har nya praxisgrundande fullmaktstyper utvecklats i syfte att tillgodose tredje mans skyddsintresse. Med utgångspunkt i den allmänna ställningsfullmakten har Högsta domstolen (HD) etablerat den speciella ställningsfullmakten. Krav

It is argued that we live in a post-industrial society with a transition from the production of goods to services. It is also said we live in a knowledge economy where creation, distribution, use and manipulation of information are significant activities (Dahlbom, 2003). The word industrial has a connotation of mass-production of products and, logically also industrial design has this connotation.

Hospital care is a joint production involving a wide range of services; ranging from medical services to support services to hotel services. This paper, focusing on the cooperation between these services, models the internal organization of public hospitals. The analysis is based on the property rights approach to organization (aka the Grossman-Hart-Moore model) and adopts it to the realities of p

To be able to predict the strength of climate change and its consequences for mankind, it is of major importance to understand the contemporary greenhouse gas exchange of the terrestrial biosphere, as well as its response to changes in climate. To achieve such understanding both descriptive studies and manipulation experiments are required. Northern peatlands represent an important ecosystem type

Linguistic text research typically operates with methods, models and categories that conceive of texts as formal, static and discrete units. This also seems to hold for socially oriented theories, though their views naturally are more contextually oriented. Examples are given from systemic-functional linguistics, critical discourse analysis and social semiotics. In contrast, hermeneutics hastradit