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Hur mår Europas befolkning och hur mår den i framtiden? Går det att förutspå var och varför välbefinnandet kan komma att ändras, så att eventuella problem kan förutses och åtgärdas? EU tar befolkningens välbefinnande, eller livskvalitet, på stort allvar och mätningar utförs regelbundet för att ge beslutsfattare ett mått på hur väl den sociala och ekonomiska politiken fungerar. Makroekonomiska storBoth within the EU and within other regions/countries, there is a need to measure and monitor the well-being/Quality of Life (QoL) of people, in order to identify, anticipate, and address potential social or economic problems, at national and regional levels. This study presents a model to quantitatively estimate the spatial well-being (QoL) distribution across the EU-28 member states down to the

As populations and cities grow, spatial planning is crucial. As the planned environment becomes more and more complex, so does managing risk and experts within the field are still debating how this is best done. To asses this undefined area of practice, a case study of the land use plan Kristinebergs Slott 11 was conducted. The main feature of the plan was a crisis management centre which was to b

The thesis examines the Swedish Abortion Act (abortlagen (1974:595)) and its development from the 1970s until today. The objective is to examine the Abortion Act as a producer of certain relations between the state and the individual – how are the state and the individual constructed through the Act’s wording and its foregoing legislation bills, and how does the meaning of the state and the indivi

In the Subantarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean, a combination of physical forcings, chemical solubility and biological fixation is controlling the carbon uptake and thus the role the Southern Ocean is playing in the remediation of global climate change. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the mechanisms controlling oceanic carbon budgets and to quantify biological uptake rates to make reliabl

The purpose of this thesis was to study how well the MRD-model (Mould Resistance Design) co-using the hygrothermal calculation software WUFI Pro 6 can predict mould growth in roof structures within long periods of time. The study was done on eleven roof structures situated at Malmberget within Gällivare Municipality between the years of 1961 – 2012 in WUFI Pro 6 (the structures were built around 1

Tränar du? Behöver du tips på goda och näringsrika mellanmål? Två mellanmål är utvecklade för dig som tränar och behöver få i dig bra näring. De är syrade havrebaser som innehåller -glukaner. Båda mellanmålen påvisar potentiella probiotiska och prebiotiska egenskaper. I detta projekt har två mellanmål med atleter som målgrupp utvecklats. Mellanmålen är mjölksyrade havrebaser och skillnaden melThis master thesis aims to develop a fermented “in-between-meal” snack with a macronutrient composition reflecting the needs of athletes. An oat base, enriched with whey protein, vegetable oils, salt and maltodextrin, called “Skaka & Smaka” was given as a starting product. The oat base was subjected to eight commercially available starter cultures and their fermentation profiles in the oat bas

Syftet med denna studie är att följa och utvärdera ett pågående utvecklingsprojekt på ett estetiskt program inriktning musik på en gymnasieskola i södra Sverige. Projektets mål är att innehållet från kursen Gehörs- och musiklära 1 på ett tydligare sätt ska integreras i de andra musikkurserna på programmet och har initierats då lärarna upplevt att eleverna inte använder sina teoretiska kunskaper i The purpose of this study is to follow and evaluate an ongoing project at an upper secondary school aesthetic music programme in southern Sweden. The aim of the project is to further integrate the content from the course “Gehörs- och musiklära 1” (Pitch and Music Theory grade 1) into other music courses and was initiated as the teachers saw the students not using their theoretical knowledge in the

Bakgrund: Inom intensivvård råder platsbrist vilket medför akuta överflyttningar dygnet runt. Plötsliga överflyttningar leder till bristfälliga förberedelser för familjen och mottagande vårdavdelning. Syfte: Beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av mottagandet av barn från barnintensivvårdsavdelning till pediatrisk vårdavdelning. Metod: Deskriptiv kvalitativ intervjustudie. 11 intervjuer utfördes

An indoor positioning system (IPS) is a system to locate objects in indoor environments using radio waves, magnetic fields, acoustic, optical and video signals or other sensory information with help of a number of known reference positions. Nowadays, indoor positioning based services are used in a wide variety of areas and indoor positioning is getting considerable attention from both research and

With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) accessories such as network attached cameras, light bulbs and thermostats are all constantly connected to the Internet and security concerns must be taken seriously. If a bug exists in an application it could be hacked by a malicious adversary that then could harm the underlying system, leak information or attack other devices or networks. Applications sho

Projektet syftar till att skapa möjlighet för boende och verkande på landsbygden, nära naturen, utan att vara beroende av daglig pendling till staden. Arbetet ska ses som ett konstruktivt alternativ till den stadsutglesande exploatering av landsbygden som tonger rådande norm för den byggda miljön. Arbetet handlar om att skapa en plats där subjektiva värden kan ges uttryck genom arkitekturen och däThe purpose of this project was to look into the possibility of living and working in the countryside, close to nature, without depending on everyday commute to the city. This work is intended as a constructive alternative for people interested in a life closer to nature without wanting to add to the urban sprawl. It’s about creating a place that exhibits subjectivity through architecture and wher

Four technical indicators are tested on 14 return-series, covering the years 2000 – 2016 and representing 3 different asset types: equity, commodity and currency, with a further division of equity into developed and developing markets. The indicators assessed are Moving Averages with fixed and variable holding periods, MACD, and RSI. The purpose is to determine if there are any differences in the

The relationship between the male and the female function in the simultaneous hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum lignano has been intensively studied on a phenotypic level. The results from these studies largely coincide with predictions that derive from sex allocation theory, which assumes a trade-off between the allocation of resources to the sex functions. Results from a recent experimental ev

For the generation of sound, some woodwind musical instruments, e.g. oboe, bassoon, clarinet and saxophone, are provided with mouthpieces made from reeds. These reeds are the culms of Arundo donax, a tall, cane-like perennial grass. A general problem is that the material is of varying quality, yet externally differences cannot be observed. Hence, large proportions of the prepared reeds are unusabl

IL-10 is a pleiotropic cytokine with stimulatory and inhibitory properties, and is thought to have a protective role in rheumatoid arthritis and collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). In this study, we investigated how IL-10 deficiency affects CIA and anti-collagen type II (CII) Ab-transferred arthritis in C57BL/10.Q (B10.Q) mice. The B10.Q.IL-10(-/-) mice had an 8-cM 129/Ola fragment around the IL-10

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) remain a significant clinical problem, despite antibiotic treatment and surgical correction of reflux and malformations. Here we propose that novel molecular tools may be applied to modernize and individualize the diagnosis and therapy of UTI. Determinants of bacterial virulence and host resistance are relatively well understood at the molecular level, and technolog

We have developed a new reactive force field, ReaxFF, for use in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the structures and reactive dynamics of complex metal oxide catalysts. The parameters in ReaxFF are derived directly from QM and have been validated to provide reasonable accuracy for a wide variety of reactions. We report the use of ReaxFF to study the activation and conversion of p

New measurements of radiative lifetimes of four 3d⁶5s levelsin Fe II at about 10 eV are presented along with absolute oscillator strengths for twenty 4p-5s transitions involving the four levels. The experimental measurements are compared with two different sets oftheoretical calculations. The lines are of particular interest in the modeling of HLyalpha pumped fluorescence of Fe II in as

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