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Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most devastating form of stroke. To refine treatments, improved understanding of the secondary injury processes is needed. We compared energy metabolic, amyloid and neuroaxonal injury biomarkers in extracellular fluid (ECF) from the perihemorrhagic zone (PHZ) and non-injured (NCX) brain tissue, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma. Patients (n = 11

This thesis centers on the continued participation and agency of women in Sweden within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON, despite its direct culture clash with Nordic egalitarian policy. While also addressing the translation of religious belonging into an identity given the increased interaction with the surrounding secular environment of Sweden. The motivation behind

This thesis illustrates a method of analysing the risk management of an enterprise in its management system from a systems perspective. The method implies, by means of a model of the value chain of an enterprise, connecting the external and internal demands for risk management with the business processes of the enterprise. This is done with a view of pointing out defects in the internal demands in

In profit-oriented companies, success is most commonly measured by the amount of profit earned. This thesis aims to probe corresponding measures of success available and employed in non-profit organizations, and to find out the possibility of applying the same or similar techniques in both kinds of organizations. Although in theory Value for Money (VfM = Anticipated Outcomes/Required Resources), a

This article examines the expansive commercialization of various neospiritual and pseudoscientific practices currently mobilized in late modern Swedish pursuits of identity, meaning, and health. The focus is on the emergence and marketing of new entrepreneurs who have established themselves as “coaches” promoting personal development, and how they organize their own systems of education and certif

PURPOSE. To examine in rodent models of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) the expression of the neuroprotectants metallothionein-I and -II and of megalin, an endocytic receptor that mediates their transport into neurons. METHODS. Gene and protein expression were analyzed in retinas of rd1 and rds mice and in those of RCS (Royal College of Surgeons) rats of various ages. Glial cell markers (cellular retina

New Winds in Mission Theology: A Comparative Analysis of Three Recent Mission Documents With the Lausanne Movement’s Cape Town Commitment (CTC), World Council of Churches’ Together Towards Life (TTL) and Pope Francis’ Evangelii Gaudium (EG) the three major ecclesiastic families have updated their mission theology. These documents witness for a certain convergence especially through the way in whic

This study has examined whether there is a link between the degree of social exclusion in society and the will to defend one’s country. The study was conducted through a survey of 102 Swedish high school students at Borgarskolan in Malmö where the respondents were asked a number of questions that measured their social exclusion in society based on three variables: trust in the state, national prid

In this thesis the question concerning possible influence of language on thinking was addressed by investigating constituent orders in non-verbal representations of motion events. Forty-nine participants, 25 native speakers of Swedish with the default order SVO (or Agent-Act-Patient), and Kurdish with SOV (Agent-Patient-Act) were recruited in Sweden and 24 in Iraqi Kurdistan to take part in an exp

The aim of the study is to research upper secondary teachers’ attitudes towards, and use of, critical perspectives in teaching literature in the subject of English in Sweden. This is done in relation to the inequality issues identified in the Swedish school context, the Swedish National Curriculum for the Upper Secondary School and the syllabi for English, along with a theoretical framework based

Cities have a crucial importance from the sustainability point of view. More than 50% of the global population lives in cities, therefore urban dwellers’ environmental knowledge can be of critical importance. Many argue that an important part of environmental knowledge is acquired outside of a formal school setting, therefore in this thesis I explore learning processes connected to community garde

Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen har varit att samtliga aktier i ett aktiebolag överlåts till en köpare. I framställningen analyseras hur risken för fel i målbolaget fördelas mellan köpare och säljare med utgångspunkt i köplagens bestämmelser. Från att ha varit en kontroversiell fråga råder det idag inga tveksamheter om att det är köplagens bestämmelser, som lägger grunden för bedömningen av säljarensThe starting point for this thesis has been that all shares in a limited liability company are transferred to a buyer. The presentation analyses how the risk of errors in the target company is divided between the buyer and the seller, based on the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act. From being a controversial issue, there is today no doubt that the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act lay the foun

Nya versioner av gamla anticancer läkemedel Varje år dör miljontals av människor av olika typer av cancer runt om i världen. Cancer kan behandlas på olika sätt, och en av de vanligaste behandlingsmetoderna är kemoterapi. Antracykliner är idag några av de mest använda och mest effektiva kemoterapeutiska läkemedel som finns. De första antracyklinerna, daunorubicin och doxorubicin, isolerades på 1960Fast and convenient synthesis of a daunosamine thioglycoside donor and the aromatic O-glycosylation with simple phenols Anthracyclines are currently some of the most widely used and most effective chemotherapeutic agents. Since the first isolation of daunorubicin and doxorubicin, a large number of semi-synthetic anthracycline analogues have been synthesized. However, there are no reports of analog