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By virtue of their undisputed role in allergy, the study of airway mast cells has focused on nasal and bronchial mast cells and their involvement in allergic rhinitis and asthma. However, recent mechanistic and human studies suggest that peripheral mast cells also have an important role in asthma, as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory infections and lung fibrosis. Pathogeni
Aims: The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse the effects of health-promoting educational interventions among employees in a municipality in Sweden. Methods: A randomized controlled educational intervention study was performed with 340 employees. Supervisors and workplace champions took part in two separate educational programmes with focus on health promotion. Intervention groups we
Introduction: Haemophilia A (HA) and B (HB) are two of our most common inherited bleeding disorders and are due to a variety of gene mutations. Aims: The overall objective of the present research was to perform clinical and basic scientific studies on haemophilia in Sweden to further improve and individualise the care of haemophilia patients and their relatives. More specific aims were: to study t
The focus of this thesis is on KEL and JK, two clinically important blood group systems, and the investigations of blood samples with aberrant antigen expression as in null and weak phenotypes, or with a phenotype that does not correspond to genotype. With the increasing use of DNA assays based on single nucleotide polymorphisms for blood group prediction, it is important to characterize the bloo
Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by the inability of the organism to autonomously regulate the blood glucose levels. It requires continuing medical care to prevent acute complications and to reduce the risk of long-term complications. Inadequate glucose control is associated with damage, dysfunction and failure of various organs. The management of the disease is non trivial
In Sweden, about 50% of the production of drinking water comes from groundwater. A groundwater aquifer can be contaminated by pollutants leaking into the aquifers drainage basin and by groundwater flow. One way of securing the quality of drinking water is by the constitution of zones of protection. Such a zone means to protect the groundwater from pollutants and is the sole most important instrum
Mental health issues are a serious matter with great consequences on livelihoods. Iraqi Kurdistan is situated in one of the most unstable regions and experienced an influx of IDPs over time who are in need of mental health support. However, mental health support is shaped and understood differently according to the culture. The purpose of this research is therefore to investigate the consequences
The objective of this study is to describe and analyze the child welfare officers’ understanding of their work with the young offenders and how they explain and handle their double assignment (help vs. control). Three main questions in this study are following: 1. Which goals, motives and methods do child welfare officers have in their work with the young offenders? 2. What makes a child a young
This thesis provides strong evidence that acoustic streaming is suppressed when using liquids of inhomogeneous density and compressibility in acoustophoresis. Manipulation of extremely small particles in acoustophoresis is something that usually is impaired by acoustic streaming. The project was divided into three aims. Firstly, a particle tracking software (GDPT) was evaluated using 3 μm polystyr
Under de senaste årtiondena har sättet vi arbetar på genomgått stor förändring. Arbe-ten som tidigare påverkade oss fysiskt medför idag snarare psykiska besvär. De sen-aste åren har psykosocial ohälsa ökat och är idag den vanligaste orsaken till sjuk-skrivningar. För att motverka att ohälsan uppstår på arbetsplatsen har Arbetsmiljöver-ket utfärdat en föreskrift (AFS 2015:4) om organisatorisk och sOver the past few decades the way we work has undergone a great change. Work that previously affected us physically rather couse psychological issues today. In recent years, psychosocial illness has increased and is by now the most common cause of sick leave. In order to prevent the illness arised at workplaces Arbetsmiljöverket has issued a regulation (AFS 2015:4) of organizational and social wor
Denna kandidatuppsats handlar om gränsdragningen mellan förtäckta värdeöverföringar och dåliga affärer. Vad som skiljer en dålig affär från en förtäckt värdeöverföring har varit föremål för omfattande diskussion inom rättsvetenskapen, vilket har lett fram till att två olika modeller för bestämmande av en transaktions kommersiella karaktär har utvecklats. Karakteristiskt för ena modellen är att denThis bachelor’s thesis covers the topic of how to distinguish poor business practices from undervalued transactions. The topic of undervalued transactions has been extensively debated in the Swedish jurisprudence, which has resulted in the development of two different methods for determining the commercial nature of a transaction. The first method uses an objective necessary condition, while the s
As information technology has grown and evolved, so has the need of securing the information. It is important to evaluate both the security of systems and the methods which are used for the evaluation. One method for finding security vulnerabilities in a system is penetration testing. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate some tools and methods for penetration testing. The methods were examined
Ichthyosaurierna (fisködlorna) är en grupp marina reptiler som levde under mesozoikum. De är alla inkluderade i överordningen Ichthyopterygia som består av minst 36 släkten och 80 arter. De tidigaste formerna förekommer i sediment avsatta under etagen olenek i äldre trias (dvs. för ca 250 miljoner år sedan), och de sista fisködlorna dog ut under cenoman i slutet av krita, (dvs. för ca 90 miljoner Ichthyosaurs (‘fish lizards’) are a group of marine reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic Era. They are all included in the superorder Ichthyopterygia, which consists of at least 36 genera and 80 species. The earliest ichthyosaurs occur in sediments deposited during the Olenekian in the Early Triassic (about 250 million years ago), and the last forms became extinct during the Cenoman in the Late
Over the last 40 years, the concept of resilience has made a journey from the fields of ecology and psychology into the social sciences. By now, it has become a term commonly used in the international climate change adaptation and development spheres, describing the ability of an individual or a community to cope with or recover from harmful events. Critics have raised concerns about this spread,
Provtagningar har tillsammans med Lund Tekniska Högskola utförts i Skälderviken för att fastställa den pågående erosion som man tidigare befarat sker i Skäldervikens norra delar. Provresultaten har legat till grund för den erosionsbedömning som tidigare upprättats i Skäldervikens norra delar, och jämförts med nya provtagningar utförda längs med kuststräckan. Studien fokuserar även på hur dynlandskSediment samples have been collected in a collaboration with the faculty of engineering, Lunds Univer-sity in the northern parts of Skälderviken to determine the ongoing erosion that has been observed in earlier studies. The previous tests are the basis of the study and have been correlated with new samples taken along the coast. This study also focuses on how the inland dunes have changed since t
This dissertation is a combination of a quantitative and a qualitative content analysis around the discourse constructed on the website of the European Parliament, specifically concerning the recent economic crisis. I analyzed thirty articles published on the site by the Web Communications Unit in the Directorate General of the Communication of the European Parliament in Brussels. Based on a theor
One of the most common types of bridges in Sweden is the integral bridge. What characterizes the integral bridge is the lack of bearings and expansion joints. The advantage of this construction is that the horizontal forces can be distributed throughout the structure. A problem is the restraint forces that occur due to, for instance, changes in temperature. Integral bridges are now often designed
Problem Tetra Pak R&D AB needs to find working methods that can be Formulation useful in their effort to develop a more formal, efficient and effective engineering design process. Objective The overall objective of this Masters’ thesis is to present a formal description of the existing engineering design process for the Department of Machine Technologies at Tetra Pak Research & Development
