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This report summarizes unannounced evacuation experiments in a hotel building with evacuation elevators as one of the escape routes. The participants in the experiments were wearing an eye tracking device. The results of the experiments show that there is a high acceptance for using evacuation elevators as an escape route in the evaluated type of high-rise building. The results also show that most
Within Critical Management Theory as well as Critical Theory the possibility of individuals resisting taken for granted power asymmetries remains a highly debated subject. Intensified corporate culture programs seem to imply that within the sphere of labor, worker dissent is loosing ground. Based on a large interview material of critical cases, this notion is challenged. The interviewees mainly re
Recent experiments have suggested that high energy charge carriers can have a significant effect on the operation of group III nitride (III-N) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), possibly playing an important role in the efficiency droop. As hot carriers are not accounted for by device simulation tools based on drift-diffusion (DD) and quasiequilibrium conditions, more advanced tools are needed. Here, f
Popular Abstract in Swedish I denna avhandling ställs frågan varför unga människor vill bli konstnärer och vilken mening det konstnärliga skapandet kan tänkas ge dem. En grupp unga konstelever har intervjuats och för var och en av de intervjuade är konstens mening högst personlig samtidigt som mening också skapas i den konstnärliga gemenskap eleverna ingår i. Författaren vill försöka förstå både dThis dissertation explore young peoples will to become artists. A group of artstudents have been interviewed and severel questions are raised. How do the students perceive their artistry and their role as artists? In what way is artistic creation meaningful to them? What does the relationship between the individual project of becoming an artist and their societal participation look like? As artist
Patients with haemophilia A (and their physicians) may be reluctant to switch factor VIII (FVIII) concentrates, often due to concerns about increasing the risk of inhibitors; this reluctance to switch may contribute to patients missing the clinical benefits provided by the arrival of new factor VIII products. This topic was explored at the Eleventh Zurich Haemophilia Forum. Clinical scenarios for
Holistic theories of meaning have, at least since Dummett’s Frege: The Philosophy of language, been assumed to be problematic from the perspective of the incremental nature of natural language learning. In this essay I argue that the general relationship between holism and language learning is in fact the opposite of that claimed by Dummett. It is only given a particular form of language learning,
This article examines the relationship between conscription (the compulsory enlistment of civilians for military service) and democracy. Using the best available cross-country comparable data on the history of conscription and democracy, we demonstrate that there is an empirical relationship between conscription and democratization, but the relationship is more complicated than commonly believed.
This thesis is on information dynamics modeled using *dynamic epistemic logic* (DEL). It takes the simple perspective of identifying models with maps, which under a suitable topology may be analyzed as *topological dynamical systems*. It is composed of an introduction and six papers. The introduction situates DEL in the field of formal epistemology, exemplifies its use and summarizes the main cont
The focus of this paper is to explore better strategies for optimising bone strength and reducing risk of fracture, while at the same time decreasing risk of cardiovascular disease. The majority of Americans do not consume the current recommended dietary allowance for calcium, and the lifetime risk of osteoporosis is about 50%. However, traditional mononutrient calcium supplements may not be ideal
Disease prevalence in wildlife is governed by epidemiological parameters (infection and recovery rates) and response to infection, both of which vary within and among individual hosts. Studies quantifying these individual-scale parameters and documenting their source of variation in wild hosts are fundamental for predicting disease dynamics. Such studies do not exist for the influenza A virus (IAV
Background: Delayed reconstruction of transection or laceration injuries of peripheral nerves is inflicted by a reduced regeneration capacity. Diabetic conditions, more frequently encountered in clinical practice, are known to further impair regeneration in peripheral nerves. Chitosan nerve guides (CNGs) have recently been introduced as a new generation of medical devices for immediate peripheral
Promoters of improved cook stove technologies (ICS) argue that the use of these technologies offers several benefits such as improved health, fuel saving, reduction in green house gases emissions among others. Many of the studies exploring the use of improved cook stoves reveal a strong pro-diffusion bias towards these benefits, and few studies have investigated the adoption and use of ICS from th
Following a long-standing sociolinguistic pursuit to investigate language policy through complex non-linear models that analyze historical, structural, political and social processes that produce, contextualize, circulate and negotiate particular ideologies, beliefs and myths about languages and their values through meaning-making activities, this master’s thesis aims to apply an interpretive appr
Organized crime is generally associated with men. Women in organized crime have long lived under the radar, and it is only in recent years that their participation has begun to be noticed. The aim of this qualitative study (based on feminist IR theory) is to provide understanding on how women in Sweden are involved in organized crime, what roles they play, and how they are discursively represented
Background & Problems formulation: Johnson and Johnson (JnJ) is a world-famous pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The packaging team of JnJ spent too much time and money on current laboratory transportation testing, which is at the ending stage of the packaging development process. Currently, JnJ is doing its packaging transportation test fully in a laboratory, which means that they need to
The purpose of the study was to study the overall support given to community-placed children, their birth parents and foster parents when a child is placed in care. The different supports have therefore been studied and inventoried by collecting data from a total of (n=254) respondents from more than 85 Swedish municipalities. The respondents were professional social workers working within social
The most prevalent joint disease in adults is osteoarthritis. The knee joint is the joint which is the most affected by osteoarthritis, with mechanical overloading being one of the causes. While no cure exists for osteoarthritis, many different treatment options are available. One alternative is to wear a knee brace on the affected leg. This aims to slow down the progression of osteoarthritis to p
Algae blooms, induced by eutrophication, have been an increasingly prevalent environmental concern in the Baltic Sea since the 1970s, causing ecosystem degradation and hypoxia in bottom layers. One predominant harmful algae bloom-forming species in the Baltic Sea is the cyanobacteria Nodularia spumigena. N. spumigena produces hepatotoxin nodularin and is a diazotrophic alga; hence, it should be
