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Water-related damage represents a major challenge in the built environment, with consequences for building performance and occupant health. While external factors can contribute, this study focuses on damage originating from internal sources. Deficiencies and failures in building service systems, water supply, sewage, and technical installations, constitute a substantial problem, leading to repair
The genus Mentha is highly valued in pharmaceutical, culinary, and personal care industries due to its rich aromatic and pharmacological traits. However, its complex taxonomy and genetic diversity create challenges for breeding programs focused on aroma and therapeutic qualities. To address these challenges, this study developedand validated a rapid, semi-quantitative metabotyping method to efficiThe genus Mentha is highly valued in pharmaceutical, culinary, and personal care industries due to its rich aromatic and pharmacological traits. However, its complex taxonomy and genetic diversity create challenges for breeding programs focused on aroma and therapeutic qualities. To address these challenges, this study developedand validated a rapid, semi-quantitative metabotyping method to effici
Stadsmiljöavtal är ett sätt för staten att påverka kommuner och regioner att göra mer för att öka andelen hållbara transporter. Stadsmiljöavtalet introducerades 2015 som ett styrmedel för det ändamålet och Trafikverket fick i början av 2015 ett regeringsuppdrag att ta fram ett förslag på ett ramverk för stadsmiljöavtal. Syftet med denna rapport är att beskriva de faktiska effekterna av åtgärder oc
The evacuation of hospitals in the event of fires and similar emergencies can be a difficult endeavor. Patients usually require assistance, with a considerable number of them being unable to evacuate by themselves due to medical conditions or due to the treatment they are receiving. Assistance is to be provided by the healthcare staff in the affected ward, which means that their level of preparedn
The climate change in northern Europe is not only leading to more extreme weather events but also causing long dry summers. This affects the moisture content of the ground and the vegetation. Causing an increased number of wildfires within Germany posing a risk to the environment, society, and firefighters. Surface fire spread in wildfires can be influenced by several environmental conditions and
Advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) often requires extensive surgery to achieve tumour-free resection margins, the most important predictive factor for long-term survival. The performed surgery may result in substantial tissue loss and the need for perineal, vaginal and urological reconstructions. This thesis evaluates quality of life (QoL), functional, oncological and survival outcomes in patients w
Moisture plays a critical role in several degradation mechanisms affecting the structural components of nuclear power plants. It also significantly influences the long-term structural behaviour of reactor containments. This study presents a novel hygrothermal model that uses the relative humidity as the transport potential and accounts for the presence of a thermal gradient across the containment Moisture plays a critical role in several degradation mechanisms affecting the structural components of nuclear power plants. It also significantly influences the long-term structural behaviour of reactor containments. This study presents a novel hygrothermal model that uses the relative humidity as the transport potential and accounts for the presence of a thermal gradient across the containment
Heatwaves increasingly challenge urban electricity networks by intensifying and reshaping cooling demand over extended periods. This study investigates how weather-informed Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management (ARLEM), a decentralized model-free control framework, redistributes cooling demand and manages systems stress during sustained heatwaves, focusing on the roles of forecast
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
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
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
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
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
