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Many scholars have regarded China's emergence as an economic force as a threat to democracy in Africa, presenting China as the exporter of an authoritarian model through its rising economic influence. This article investigates how well founded the contended Chinese economic threat to Africa is by both analyzing the data at a very fundamental level and applying time-series, cross-sectional analysis

Deciding the optimal project scope that fulfills the needs of the most important stakeholders is challenging due to a plethora of aspects that may impact decisions. Large companies that operate in rapidly changing environments experience frequently changing customer needs which force decision makers to continuously adjust the scope of their projects. Change intensity is further fueled by fierce ma

Finance ministries are increasingly involved in UN climate finance negotiations,yet this development received very limited attention in the literature on climate finance or climate negotiations. It is not obvious from the literature on bureaucratic politics how these ministries will position themselves on climate finance: they may frame climate finance as expenditure to be limited or as an instrum

Genterapi mot Parkinsons LUM Lunds universitets magasin | Nr 6 | 2009 det gLobaLa kLassrUMMet Insektsforskare kämpar för stubbarna 2 LUM nr 6 | 2009 PUss På dig doktorn! LUM nr 6 | 2009 3 Solen svek inte doktorspromotionen i år hel- ler. Den lyste över 233 nya doktorer, 18 he- dersdoktorer och 14 jubeldoktorer. Till dessa kom kransflickor, fanbärare, musiker, an- höriga och intresserade lundabor.

https://www.lu.se/sites/www.lu.se/files/lunds-universitets-magasin-6-2009.pdf - 2026-06-01

Combinatorial optimization provides a powerful framework for solving complex optimization problems with general-purpose solvers by modelling the problem in an abstract language. Due to breakthroughs in algorithms to solve combinatorial optimization problems in last decades, combinatorial optimization has become a valid approach to solve many real world problems efficiently. Key application areas a

The final chapter presents a summary of the key themes and insights from the Elgar Handbook as workshopped in Dublin in October 2023 and developed by the named authors. Health system resilience is a potent and useful concept which has shown a versatility and appeal across a range of health system crises. Nevertheless, it still needs to gain maturity with key challenges around understanding and mea

Thyroid autoimmunity and the subsequent development of islet and celiac autoimmunity in the TEDDY study Received: November 6, 2025. Accepted: January 8, 2026 Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2026. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2026, 0

https://www.teddy.lu.se/sites/teddy.lu.se/files/2026-03/184-Thyroid%20autoimmunity.pdf - 2026-06-01

Objective: The purpose of the study was to compare in prospective randomized fashion a manually sutured esophagogastric anastomosis in the neck and a stapled in the chest after esophageal resection and gastric tube reconstruction. Summary Background Data: Despite the fact that all reconstructions after esophagectomy will result in a cervical or a thoracic anastomosis, controversy still exists as t

Recent advances in the digital detector technology have paved the way for modalities such as two-dimensional digital mammography (DM) and three-dimensional breast tomosynthesis (BT). In this work, experimental studies were conducted to investigate the influence of reducing the average glandular dose (AGD) on detection of simulated lesions in DM and to compare the diagnostic accuracy of BT and DM.

This paper is the follow up of a previous work and its target is to demonstrate that the best fuel for a Compression Ignition engine has to be with high Octane Number. An advanced injection strategy was designed in order to run Gasoline in a CI engine. At high load it consisted in injecting 54 % of the fuel very early in the pilot and the remaining around TDC; the second injection is used as ignit

BACKGROUND: Results from previous studies on the effect of nitrous oxide (N2O) on the cerebral circulation are conflicting. Early reports claim N2O to have no effect whereas recent findings demonstrate a cerebral cortical vasodilatation during N2O inhalation, but the regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the subcortical structures is unknown. METHODS: Regional CBF was measured three-dimensionally

Introduction. Limited information is available concerning the general and sexual health status of European men. Aim. To investigate the age-related changes in general and sexual health in middle-aged and older men from different countries of the European Union. Methods. This is a cross-sectional multicenter survey performed on a sample of 3,369 community-dwelling men aged 40-79 years old (mean 60

The social-liberalist definition of citizenship is used in the interviews as the official definition to interpret the personal experiences and positions of immigrant women regarding the status of their citizenship. Feminist critiques argued against the social-liberal definition of citizenship, as it constitutes norms that exclude other groups from achieving their full status of citizenship. It has

This paper was part of the ongoing cooperation between the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority and the Department of Psychology at Lund University. The purpose of this study was to develop a self-report measure regarding human factors, for the air traffic controllers to fill out before they start their working shift. This in order to aid the team leaders in their judgment regarding the air traffic co

This essay is about children who have psychological and social problems. An increase part of children and young people in Sweden describe this kind of difficulties. These problems are at the same time a concern for the school as well as the social welfare. The purpose in this essay is to explore if children with psychological and social problems have the same legal rights to education as other chi

This paper is a qualitative analytic study of the views regarding masculinity of six male university students. The author means to view the gender issue from a male point of view and analyze the empiric result using well known theory on the subject. The main questions of the essay are: What, according to my respondents, is masculine and non masculine? Does the university influence this view, and i

Popular Abstract in Swedish Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Kardiovaskulär sjukdom (CVD) är ett i vårt samhälle växande problem där allt fler insjuknar i akuta hjärtinfarkter, stroke eller hjärtsvikt. Överlevnaden efter insjuknandet har förbättrats med åren med hjälp av nya mediciner och invasiva ingrepp såsom stentning av kranskärlen vid svår kärlkramp och direkt i det akuta skedet vid vissa tThis thesis examines the relationship between measures of renal function and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with hypertension (the NORDIL study) and in the healthy population (Malmö Diet and Cancer Study, MDC) and whether antihypertensive treatment response and the risk of CVD is affected by genetic variation of a regulator of the renal amiloroide sensitive sodium channel (NORDIL). In st

In the fall of year 2000 I went to Palestine to conduct a Minor Field Study. The subject of the study was to investigate the connection between Human Rights and Intellectual Property in this part of the world. By the end of September that year the new intifada broke out and I had to leave Palestine without finishing the study. It must be mentioned that the situation of today does not in any way re

En rättsutredning ger vid handen att nuvarande gränsdragning mellan inkomstslaget näringsverksamhet och inkomstslaget kapital, närmare bestämt realisationsvinster, avgörs av rekvisitet yrkesmässighet. Rekvisitet står att finna som ett av de tre så kallade rörelsekriterierna i 21 § KL. Yrkesmässighet är alltså avgörande för vad som hänförs till inkomst av näringsverksamhet och således indirekt för