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This study relates to the transcription of foreign personal names into kanji in Japanese. The study is based upon a paper where Tokimoto & d’Arcais (2000) confirmed three working principles when natives transcribe place names written in hiragana: that jukugo reading will be preferred over juubako reading, that as few kanji segmentations as possible will be used, and that the names will be segm
The main goal of this project was to investigate how the thermal stability of two different types of polyhydroxyalkanoates; poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) were affected when washing them with acid solution. Initially, four different acids were used: citric acid, hydrochloric acid, formic acid and acetic acid. Citric acid gave the best results for both biop
Syftet med studien är att undersöka debatten om sex timmars arbetsdag mellan 2010-2017. Genom att använda diskursanalys undersöker jag hur debatten ser ut idag genom att analysera debattartiklar i svenska dagstidningar för att försöka förstå varför ingen vidare utveckling har skett vad det gäller arbetstidsförkortning i Sverige sedan 1973. Bourdieus teori om det politiska fältet erbjuder ett analy
This paper investigates empirical determinants of current account positions worldwide with a focus on the countries that started out as the European Monetary Union (including Greece that joined in 2001). Specifically, it addresses the question whether current accounts inside the Eurozone have reacted more sensitively to changes in macroeconomic fundamentals due to the facilitation of inter-country
Under 2016 sade ett stort antal barnmorskor upp sig kollektivt inom Region Skåne. Uppsägningarna var en protesthandling och del i en arbetsplatskonflikt som kretsade kring ökad återhämtning för att garantera barnmorskornas hälsa och patientsäkerheten. Uppsatsens syfte är att förstå hur och varför protesterna resulterade i kollektiva uppsägningar. Materialet består av kvalitativa intervjuer med bar
The small protein α-synuclein is strongly associated with Parkinson’s disease. This protein is found in inclusion bodies, named lewy bodies inside neurons of people suffering from the disease. α-synuclein is very abundant in the human brain, and its normal function is still elusive and unclear. The factors that trigger the accumulation and fibrillation of this protein into pathogenic inclusion bod
This thesis analyses the discourse of cultural heritage by taking the European Heritage Label (EHL) as a case study. The European Heritage Label is an organization established in 2011 by the European Union (EU) and created an application process for historical and cultural sites to be labelled as “European Heritage”. This thesis aims to critically analyse heritage as a concept that is used and pro
Today re-identification of persons in disjoint camera views demand large human effort and resources. There is a need of autonomous re-identification systems. This thesis has been focused on the development of autonomous re-identification systems based on recurrent neural networks able to analyze sequences of images of persons, enabling the possibility to filter out outliers within sequences and m
This paper investigates the spillover effects of siblings growing up with a brother or sister diagnosed with a chronic disease. I focus on the effect of having a sibling diagnosed with low birth weight on outcomes measuring educational attainment and achievement. The empirical analysis draws on data from the ’NLSY79 Child and Youth Survey’ and I find evidence of a significant negative effect on th
The goal of this thesis project was to develop an energy surveillance system for the Swedish production industry. The main problem this project sought to solve is that several Swedish industries are currently only able to measure the energy consumption of their entire facilities, as one big black box. They cannot determine the energy consumption of the individual machines within each and every pro
Sex chromosomes are chromosomes that carry vital sex-determining genes. Different sex determination systems and sex chromosomes have evolved from autosomes independently in different taxa; nevertheless, they share strikingly similar characteristics. Sex chromosomes undergo somewhat unique evolutionary processes due to paucity in recombination and transmission through only one of the sexes. As a re
Use of wholegrain foods has shown importance in terms of prevention of obesity and related comorbidities. Positive metabolic effects of wholegrain barley have been investigated with this regard. In the same line of research, this study aims to investigate the effects of barley kernel bread on glucose regulation, appetite and colonic fermentation in middle aged subjects. A randomized control trial
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease with neither a known cause nor an available cure. With disease progression, toxic protein aggregates form in the brain, leading to the loss of the upper and lower motor neurons. While circulating bone marrow-derived inflammatory cells have not been shown to cross the blood brain barrier, changes in their number and comp
Aims/hypothesis The aims of this project was to investigate the effect of glucolipotoxic treatment on DNA methylation and gene expression patterns in pancreatic islets and functionally test if and how these changes alter insulin secretion. Methods Genome-wide mRNA expression and DNA methylation patterns were analyzed in human pancreatic islets after control or glucolipotoxic treatment. Alterations
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a movement disorder of the brain which is hallmarked by the presence of large protein-rich cytoplasmic aggregates, called Lewy bodies (LBs), in the neurons. The protein α-synuclein (α-syn) is abundant in these aggregates, and can itself form aggregates. Several mutations linked to α-syn are also linked to an increased risk of contracting PD. In healthy neurons, the chap
The question of whether the choice of performance measure (PM) matters when evaluating Hedge funds has for a long time been subject to debate . This study explores the same question with a sample of individual monthly data from 669 Hedge Funds over a 10 year period. The standard rank correlation tests usually applied when studying the topic yield weaker correlations between the PM:s in our study t
This thesis sets out to evaluate a risk-managed momentum strategy in the European stock market. The recent performance of momentum in Europe is first evaluated. A momentum premium still exists in Europe but the strategy suffered large losses in 2009. A risk-managed momentum portfolio is created by dynamically scaling the exposure to momentum based on a monthly volatility forecast. The risk-managed
