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Background: With todays’ requirement of shorter product life cycles and faster time-to-market, producing companies experience an increased demand for faster transports in the supply chain. This puts pressure on freight forwarders to offer their customers a timely and reliable transport service at a reasonable price. Another challenge for the freight forwarders in Sweden is to provide such services
In July of 2009 punitive measures were taken by the Swedish government in order to deal with the somewhat new phenomenon known as grooming. The law, called “contact with children for sexual purposes” requires that the adult perpetrator contacts a child, with the purpose of committing sexual offences at a future meeting with the child. Although the law was received with gratitude from many parts of
This thesis develops a laser-based technique for spatially resolving the photocurrent from nanowire array solar cells. The technique has been demonstrated to provide information on processing induced defects e.g. poor device contacts, and defects related to the sample e.g. missing nanowires, resolving features down to ~800nm. Moreover, the technique provides information that can be used to relate
The world around us is urbanising at a faster rate than ever. Today more than 70 per cent of the European population lives in urban areas, especially small and medium-sized cities. Often, cities are the centres of economic growth. In the context of urban pollution and climate change, cities are at the core of European policies due to their ability to be the ‘places’ where solutions and innovations
The WEEE Directive requires the producers to fulfil e-waste compliance according to the extended producer responsibility (EPR) principle. In order for producers to comply with the requirements nationally, collective compliance schemes were formed. Usually the manufacturers join together and form producer responsibility organisations (PROs) which take the responsibility for organising the waste man
The purpose of this paper was to identify key challenges of equity and inclusion in participatory community-based watershed development management. Furthermore, my ambition was to generate findings that are relevant to research beyond the case of watershed development, i.e. community-based natural resource management (CBNRM)in general. On the basis of a histographic overview of the main developmen
Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer amongst males in the western world. Today’s diagnostic methods for prostate cancer that rely on PSA measurement are not satisfying. The level of prostate specific antigen (PSA) is determined in a blood test. Of the men with elevated PSA levels only 25 % have prostate cancer. This thesis aims to develop a proof of concept for a miniaturized multiple
Den 5 augusti 2012 trädde en lagändring gällande skatteavtalet mellan Sverige och Schweiz i kraft. I och med lagändringen så införs bland annat en helt ny bestämmelse om informationsutbyte. Bestämmelsen överensstämmer i stora delar med motsvarande bestämmelse i OECD:s modellavtal. I två avseenden skiljer sig skatteavtalets ordalydelse från modellavtalets. Det rör sig om två tillägg som finns i skaOn August 5th 2012, an amendment to the tax treaty between Sweden and Switzerland entered into force. With this amendment, a new provision on exchange of information was introduced. The provision is largely equal to the corresponding provision in the OECD model convention. However, the wording of the tax treaty differs from the model convention in two aspects, it regards two additions which are in
The adoption of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001 plugs a gap in the otherwise comprehensive international liability and compensation regime for ship-source pollution. Although liability for bunkers pollution from tankers was partially regulated by other civil liability regimes, bunker spills pollution from other types of vessels was left uncovere
The exact mechanism of action of IVIg in the amelioration of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is still unclear. Studies have suggested that IVIg may function through the regulation of cytokines, including interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra), an inhibitor of phagocytosis. Using a mouse model relevant to ITP, we confirm an increase in mouse serum levels of IL-1Ra after exposure to IVIg,
Background: In collaboration with United European Gastroenterology, the working group on ‘Harmonizing diagnosis and treatment of chronic pancreatitis across Europe’ (HaPanEU) developed European guidelines for the management of chronic pancreatitis using an evidence-based approach. Methods: Recommendations of multidisciplinary review groups based on systematic literature reviews to answer predefine
This study presents the main features of the Swedish approach for resolving the banking crisis of 1991-93 by condensing them into seven policy lessons. These concern (1) the importance of political unity behind the resolution policy, (2) a government blanket guarantee of the financial obligations of the banking system, (3) swift policy action where acting early was more important than acting in e
