Krediter spelar en central roll i det moderna konsumtionssamhället och möjliggör för konsumenter att finansiera köp som de annars inte skulle ha råd med. Samtidigt medför en överdriven upplåning risker, då konsumenter kan åta sig skulder de inte kan återbetala, vilket kan leda till överskuldsättning. Problemet har både individuella och samhälleliga konsekvenser: individen kan uppleva allvarlig ekoCredit serves as a fundamental pillar of modern consumer-driven economies, empowering individuals to finance substantial purchases that would otherwise be unattainable. However, excessive borrowing carries risks, as consumers may accumulate debts they cannot repay, leading to over-indebtedness. This issue has both personal and societal consequences: individuals may experience severe financial dist

Den framstående juristen Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) drabbades av två omfattande nervsammanbrott i sekelskiftets Tyskland. I sin berömda Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken (1903) beskriver Schreber detaljerat sina upplevelser och uppenbarelser efter det andra av dessa sammanbrott, under nio år vid tre olika psykiatriska anstalter. Schrebers öde blev med Sigmund Freuds uppmärksammade fallstuFemale Nerves - Judge Schreber's Unmanning in the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis of Masculinity The prominent jurist Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) suffered two major nervous breakdowns in fin-de-siècle Germany. In his famous Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken (1903), Schreber details his experiences and revelations after the second of these breakdowns, during nine years at three different psychiat

Detta examensarbete undersöker hur en modern fjällstuga av den typ som Svenska turistföreningen (STF) driver skulle kunna utformas och fungera. Jag undersöker tidigare typstugor STF använt för att se vad som finns att lära och varför de har sett ut som de gör. Vidare har arbetet bestått i att finna en plats i jämtlandsfjällen där en ny stuga kan stå. Jag har undersökt lokala förhållanden och kliThis degree work in architecture examines how a mountain cabin of the kind the Swedish Tourist Association (STF)runs could be designed and function. I study earlier generic cabin designs used by STF to see what there is to learn and why they have looked like they do. Further, the work has consisted of finding a location in the Jämtland mountains where a new cabin can be placed. I have studied lo

På grund av klimatkrisen har det blivit allt viktigare att förändra våra konsumtionsvanor och ta bättre hand om det vi redan har. I arkitekturens kontext innebär detta att vi tar hand om och transformerar de byggnader som redan existerar i våra städer. Dessa byggnader är mer än bara strukturer och material, dem är en del av vår historia och kultur. I stället för att riva de byggnader som inte läng

Background: The European Union's 7th Framework Programme (EU's FP7) project HEALS – Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large Population Surveys – aims a refinement of the methodology to elucidate the human exposome. Human biomonitoring (HBM) provides a valuable tool for understanding the magnitude of human exposure from all pathways and sources. However, availability of specific bio

Background: Phthalates are ubiquitous in the environment. Despite short half-lives, chronic exposure can lead to endocrine disruption. The safety of phthalate substitute DINCH is unclear. Objective: To evaluate associations between urinary concentrations of phthalate/DINCH metabolites and body mass index (BMI) z-score among children and adolescents. Method: We used Human Biomonitoring for Europe A

Background: There is almost no data on the combined associations between apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) genotypes, trace elements (TEs), and lipid peroxidation in vivo. The aim of our study was to evaluate the association between APOE genotypes and TE levels in blood (B-TEs) and erythrocytes (E-TEs), and 8-isoprostane in urine (U-8-isoprostane) in women with low exposure to potentially toxic TEs and

Purpose: The survival rate of breast cancer for women in low- and middle-income countries is poor compared with that in high-income countries. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) combined with deep learning could potentially be a suitable solution enabling early detection of breast cancer. We aim to improve a classification network dedicated to classifying POCUS images by comparing different techniqu

BackgroundCritical COVID-19 is associated with high mortality, and acute kidney injury (AKI) is common. Endostatin has emerged as a promising prognostic biomarker for predicting AKI and mortality in intensive care. This study aimed to investigate plasma endostatin at intensive care unit (ICU) admission as a biomarker for AKI, renal replacement therapy (RRT), and 90-day mortality in COVID-19.Method

Background: End-of-life care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is complex, requiring a balance of ethical, cultural and medical considerations while ensuring comfort and dignity for critically ill patients and their families.Aim: We aimed to develop a set of core domains for end-of-life care at Scandinavian ICUs along with corresponding consensus statements from patients, families and multidiscipli

Introduction: As the Chinese immigrant population in European countries ages, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese immigrants’ ageing processes from a life course perspective by recognising the complex interactions between social, cultural, and institutional constructs and dynamics. This article aimed at exploring how older Chinese immigrants in Europe handle everyday lives in

This single case study illuminates the complexity of successful classroom management. Framing classroom management as ritualized community building (Bell, 2009), we show how a teacher’s interaction rituals (Collins, 2004), emotional labor (Scheff, 1994), and professional improvisation (Sorensen, 2023) are integrated in this process. Based on observations of a primary schoolteacher’s classroom mana

Background: Guidelines recommend neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and radical cystectomy (RC) for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). Current recommendations do not consider genomic profiles, although the Basal/Squamous (Ba/Sq) subtype is less likely to respond to NAC compared to Urothelial-like (Uro) and Genomically Unstable (GU) subtypes. The aim of this study is to perform cost-effectiveness a

However, it is not clear to what extent corresponding perceptual preferences for intonational deviations might rely on listeners’ instrumental expertise or such contextual aspects as the metrical placement of tones. We investigated higher-education music students’ perceptual preferences for melodic intonation of local leading tones in unaccompanied classical violin performances. Recordings of 12 e

We present a theory of the inner layer of the cerebellar cortex, the granular layer, where the main excitatory input to the cerebellum is received. We ask how input signals are converted into an internal code and what form that has. While there is a computational element, and the ideas are quantified with a computer simulation, the approach is primarily evidence-led and aimed at experimenters rath

New political parties are founded all the time. Most of them never reach a significant share of the vote and eventually give up. So why did the newly founded ‘Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening’ (Demokratische Allianz für Vielfalt und Aufbruch, DAVA) provoke a backlash in Germany? Various government heavyweights as well as opposition politicians reacted with disapproving statements –