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The purpose of this study is to explore how the board of directors perform risk oversight, providing a greater insight into what the board of directors actually do in the risk oversight process. The authors seek to map and investigate the practical part of the board's work in overseeing an entity’s risks and how it relates to theory. The research applies a mixed method approach, using both qua
En differentialekvation beskriver en funktion där förändringshastigheten beror på funktionsvärdet. Som ett exempel kan nämnas befolkningstillväxt, där tillväxthastigheten (i form av födslar) kommer att vara högre för en större befolkning. Numerisk lösning av en differentialekvation innebär att givet ett visst startvärde förutsäga funktionsvärdet vid en senare tidpunkt med tillräckligt god noggrannThis thesis offers an overview of the relatively new family of Rosenbrock-Krylov numerical methods for ODEs. These methods are a further development of Rosenbrock methods, using a lower-dimension approximation of the Jacobian. The thesis gives the mathematical background to Rosenbrock-Krylov methods by first presenting Runge-Kutta methods and Rosenbrock methods, followed by the concept of Krylov s
dis thesis attempts to use qualitative research and sociological analysis to explore how demilitarization, which TEMPhas lasted for decades, may TEMPhas an impact on development in recent years. Mainly based on literature review and data analysis, dis thesis chose Costa Rica as teh background, for revealing national education status - as teh research object - to speculate on how demilitarization T
In this work spectroscopic methods have been used to determine the effect of fluorophores on protein affinity. Fluorophores are used in many different contexts to mark proteins, genes or antibodies. By marking a construct with a fluorophore, it is possible to follow the localization and function in a biological system, but it is not often investigated how the bound fluorophore could affect the mar
Background: Scoliosis is a condition where a person's spine is curved and rotated in three dimensions. In severe cases, surgery is needed to straighten the spine. Before such complex procedures, meticulous planning is needed. By performing a CT-scan, images of the spine can be acquired. From these images, it is possible to segment the spine in three dimensions to facilitate the preparation. Ho
The prospect of this degree project was to gain an understanding of how digital products can support spatial planning processes which are characterized by citizen engagement. The project explores how digital products can be developed – and used – with the aim of promoting communication between the municipality and citizens in Malmö. The end goal was to design a product which recognized citizens ex
This project has developed from the site and building conditions in an area of central Boden, a town in the inland north of Sweden. In post-war times, the city grew thanks to the military and regional hospital resulting in the development of the site Prästholmen that was realized true to the modernistic ideal of the time. Since then, Boden together with its inland neighbours, have struggled agai
The Bogong Moth, Agrotis Infusa, is a migratory moth native to South-Eastern Australia. These nocturnal insects migrate over more than 1000 km from their breeding grounds to caves in the Australian alps. To find their way during this migration, individuals of the species use several compass cues, both magnetic and celestial. This study aimed to investigate the ability of the moth to navigate after
ar. Enorma framsteg har gjorts de senaste decennierna i neonatalvården (vård för nyfödda barn) och omkring 80% av EPT-barn i Sverige överlever. Dessa framsteg innefattar bl.a. administrering av kortison för att påskynda lungmognaden, modern teknisk utrustning, bättre kunskaper om neonatala sjukdomar m.m. Globalt är överlevnaden av EPT-barn lägre i länder med sämre ekonomiska förutsättningar och däAim: To evaluate a pipeline for automatic MRI brain segmentation and volumetric tissue structure quantification in a cohort of extremely preterm infants. Methods: 13 extremely preterm neonates underwent MRI-scanning at a term equivalent age. Seven of these subjects had suitable MRI sequences and were analyzed in the pipeline. Segmentation of MRI brain images into brain tissue types and parcellati
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by slow progressive loss of dopamine (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra, located in the ventral midbrain. Although the relatively focal degeneration in PD makes it a good candidate for cell-based therapies, obtaining cell source on large scale clinical application remains a challenge. It has now been shown that
Enhancing Therapeutic Genes to cure Neurodegenerative diseases Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are the leading cause of neurodegenerative disease around the world. Research so far has only progressed towards reducing the symptoms linked with these diseases with no cure having been developed. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s share similar pathology in the way that they develop and form protein clumps which
Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur professionella musiker reflekterar över sin identitet, yrkesidentitet och passion i sken av coronapandemin som präglat 2020 och 2021. Vi vill se hur de tänker kring dessa teman då allt kulturliv helt stängdes ner hösten 2020 och ingen verksamhet kunde bedrivas. Vi har genomfört 10 kvalitativa intervjuer med individer som helt eller delvis försörjer sig
The flesh-eating bacterium and inflammation run amok Streptococcus pyogenes is a bacterium that can infect humans and cause a wide range of symptoms, from the common strep throat to life-threatening infections. In rare cases, when this bacterium pushes its way down into our deeper skin layers, like in necrotizing skin and soft-tissue infection (NSTI), the destruction of the local tissue sometimes
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonises up to 30% of the population and is responsible for diseases ranging from mild skin infections to endocarditis, some of which result in death. This is due to the resistance of MRSA to several commonly used as well as last line antibiotics, complicating treatment further. This study examines clinical MRSA isolates with inactivating mutatio
Bakgrund: I takt med att allt fler barn med lägre födelsevikt och kortare graviditetslängd kan räddas kommer barn och deras familjer i kontakt med avancerad sjukvård under en längre tid i början av barnets liv. NIDCAP är en modell som utvecklades med utgångspunkt hos det för tidigt födda barnets behov genom kunskap om barnets beteende och familjens särskilda vårdbehov. Från NIDCAP har FINE utveckl
Green prescribing, the referral of patients to nature-based activities, has potential to bring co- benefits for psychological and physiological public health and for environmental health. Literature considers a major limitation to its effective implementation as a holistic, transectoral practice to be lack of a common language and tendency of actors involved to work within their respective paradig
This paper investigates the impact of financial development as a bi-dimensional concept on inequality in a regional comparison of Asian as well as Latin American countries. The policy has previously been explicitly proposed for middle-income economies to boost growth and overall prosperity. While allowing for nonlinearities, this paper exploits both static, fixed effects as well as dynamic GMM est
Följande studie strävar efter att sammanställa uppfattningar och insikter hos erfarna pianolärare på gymnasium i frågor kring gehör och notläsning. Samtliga informanter undervisar främst i gehörsmusik som jazz och rock/pop. Studien använder sig av kvalitativa intervjuer Målet är att ta reda på lärares syn på nyttan deras gymnasieelever har i ett starkt gehör och i notläsningskunskaper. Studien undThe study aims at compiling the views of experienced piano teachers at gymnasium in matters of playing music, hearing based and/or by reading music. All participants in the study teach mainly in hearing-based genres such as jazz and rock/pop. The study is using qualitative interviews. The aim is to find out the teachers views about which use their students may have of hearing based compared to not
Estimating depth from an image is an ill-fitted problem, since we project a three-dimensional space to a two-dimensional image. However, human can estimate a plausible depth from only a single eye and often are we relaying on this for quick estimation of moving objects. Although machine learning has shown to be powerful in computer vision tasks, the process of constructing deep learning models is
Electric cars are by many considered a sustainable solution to the ever-growing demand for road vehicles and fuel. The transportation sector is responsible for almost a third of the total greenhouse gas emissions globally and approximately 80% of these emissions can be attributed to road vehicles. Thus, there is an urgent need for a shift away from fossil fuels in the sector. While the consumer in
