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BACKGROUND: Critically ill newborn infants undergo a variety of painful procedures or experience a variety of painful conditions during their early life in the neonatal unit. In the critically ill paediatric and neonatal population, clonidine is prescribed as an adjunct to opioids or benzodiazepines aiming to reduce the doses of these drugs that are required for analgesia or sedation, or to facili

Background and Problem Discussion: In order for companies to develop their businesses, it is vital to identify and select new market opportunities. Expanding into a new market and to develop a market entry strategy involves a great deal of market research, a thorough analysis and it takes an appropriate process to correctly assess the potential of each growth opportunity. To access and exploit the

In recent years, refugees from Myanmar have tried to get to the neighbouring countries in the hope of a safe place. Most of the refugees belong to the ethnic minority Rohingya, a group subjected to systematic persecution in their homeland. In 2015 a large amount of people were abandoned at sea when the people smugglers left the boats as a result of the escalation of action by the coast guards in T

The purpose of this study was to increase an understanding of how school counselors in Sweden reason about the social problem with truants, “Hemmasittare '' in Swedish, and how the elementary schools work with this. To enable the purpose of the study to be maintained, a qualitative interview study became current. Seven semi-structured interviews with school counselors were conducted. The e

One of the most harmful social issues throughout the world is crime, making it an important subject to research. This essay investigates the relationship between violent crime and oil prices in Europe and Central Asia. The relationship is less researched than crime and other socioeconomic variables such as unemployment and economic growth. The casual relationship is tested using the PVAR model and

Nanowire (NW) Photovoltaics are a promising route for low-cost multi-bandgap tandem cells, which is taxing in terms of processing and lattice matching in traditional planar geometries.[1] III-V nanowires are more suitable for monolithic integration as they can assimilate the lattice mismatch to a larger extent.[2] GaAsP is a material that offers a wide tunability of the band gap from near infrared

In this thesis a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is used to evaluate the net social benefits of a congestion charge in Malmö. A novel approach based on information from Google Maps is used to estimate the scope of present congestion issues in Malmö. Likely effects and the number of people affected is estimated using information from the trial in Stockholm, the trial in Gothenburg and a report on the f

In January 2017 the Swedish Prime minister announced at a conference in Sälen that for the first time in history Sweden now had a National Security Strategy and it was now to be implemented. In Sweden, ministers in the Cabinet are not allowed by the constitution to directly influence the work of Sweden’s governmental authorities. The institutions of the government are independent in the execution