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The overarching aim of this thesis is to generate insights into how welfare technology (WT) is experienced, perceived, and interpreted by users and other relevant stakeholders within a home care context. In this thesis, WT is defined as municipally provided digital technologies intended to support security, independence, activity, and participation in individuals with, or at risk of developing, a
Intraspecific variation in phenotypic plasticity can affect the ability of populations, and thus species, to respond to environmental changes. However, the prevalence and drivers of such variation are not well known. Most proposed explanations for intraspecific variation in phenotypic plasticity involve mechanisms associated with a population's position within the species' geographic range or the
Det här är en resultatrapport från den enkätundersökning som gick ut till samtliga Sveriges kommuner under hösten 2020. Rapporten behandlar underhållet av kommunala gator och cykelvägar, och enkäten genomfördes av två doktorander inom ramen för forskningsprogrammet Mistra InfraMaint. Enkäten besvarades av 147 av 290 kommuner, vilket ger en svarsfrekvens på 51 procent. Resultaten visar bland annat
Synthesizing representative weather data sets that reflect both typical and extreme conditions is essential for reliable hygrothermal simulations, especially when considering future climates, which involve significant uncertainties. In this study, multiple representative weather data sets are generated using various methods, broadly categorized based on picking the representative months using vari
Managing energy in urban areas is complex due to the diversity of energy users, dynamic environmental conditions, and the increased instability caused by extreme weather events. This work explains the impacts of a new technology based on implanting adaptive reinforcement learning (ARL) into energy management (EM), which is called ARLEM. The technology uses an online, value-based, model-free ARL en
Trots växande insatser förblir kustnära anpassning fragmenterad och otillräcklig när det gäller att hantera sårbarheten hos dem som drabbas mest. Dessa brister är inte enbart tekniska utan även politiska, formade av konkurrerande idéer om vad som räknas som anpassning och vem den tjänar. Även om det finns ett växande erkännande av behovet för att förstå de olika sätt på vilka anpassning upplevs ocDespite growing efforts, coastal adaptation remains fragmented and insufficient in addressing the vulnerabilities of those most affected. These shortcomings are not only technical but political, shaped by competing ideas about what counts as adaptation and whom it serves. Although there is growing recognition of the need to understand the various ways adaptation is known and experienced, empirical
Background: Despite advances in surgical technique and perioperative care, liver surgery remains associated with high morbidity, varying oncological outcomes and postoperative pain. This thesis evaluates aspects of the surgical technique and perioperative pain management, and their influence on the postoperative recovery, morbidity and overall survival.Methods: The thesis includes four studies. Pa
Several scholarly works have identified the weakness of mainstream social science and the humanities to theorize racism. The sociology of absence grasps the systematic exclusion of specific experiences and specific voices within social theory. We are inspired by these contributions in our exploration of the role and the location of the category of residents racialized as not belonging to the Swedi
Background: Optimal treatment and support in family planning for women with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and follow-up during pregnancy are important, however, there is limited knowledge from the women’s perspective on their considerations of family planning, pregnancy, and motherhood. Objectives: To explore expectations and experiences of family planning, pregnancy, and motherhood among women with T1D.
Increasing tree species diversity is known to enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, but its effect on SOC stability remains a critical uncertainty for climate mitigation. Through examination of a subtropical karst forest diversity gradient in southwest China, we reveal a fundamental shift in SOC stabilization mechanisms using physical fractionation, 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
This thesis investigates subspaces of the Hardy space, especially ones defined via analytic continuation, and their applications to operator theory. The main function theoretic properties investigated are the distribution of zeros and extremal functions. The operator theory investigations are centered around the concept of invariant subspaces and cyclic vectors.
Previous research has shown that gender-inclusive pronouns can facilitate mental representation of nonbinary individuals. However, considering that gender and pronoun use are politicized in many countries, such that individuals with a right-wing political orientation show more skepticism toward nonbinarity, these effects may be compromised. Across four studies (Ntotal = 2,847), we tested whether t
A curated, timestamped transcription corpus derived from Swedish historical newsreels. Combines speech-to-text transcriptions and intertitle OCR from SF Veckorevy newsreels spanning five decades of 20th-century Swedish audiovisual media.
In fixed-bed reactors, the use of large particles in thermally thick regimes is common, which underscores the need for a comprehensive understanding of intraparticle processes. However, integrating detailed particle models into fixed-bed simulations is computationally expensive. This study introduces a tabulation method for biomass conversion’s drying and pyrolysis stages, where significant mass e
Across the Fehmarn Belt region, new imaginaries of the future are taking shape. The fixed link between Denmark and Germany will not only reduce travel times but also transform everyday life, local economies, planning cultures, and regional identities on both sides of the Belt.This book brings together visions emerging from fieldwork, planning documents, site visits, workshops, and conversations wi
