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This thesis investigates whether historical trauma could influence societal perceptions of foreign humanitarian aid, with a particular focus on Poland. The study explores how collective memory and past experiences of occupation, repression, and conflict might shape trust towards foreign humanitarian actors. A mixed-method approach was applied, consisting of expert interviews and a public surve
This study investigates the manufacturing and application of enteric polymeric microneedles loaded with active pharmaceutical ingredients and combined with photoresponsive dyes used for micromotor motion. The aim is to present an alternative method for orally delivering macromolecules. Although needle fear among patients has led to investigations into alternative routes of administration for macro
Sediment transport pattern in the Himalayan River is complex and sediment sampling in these rivers are often difficult. Sediment load in the river varies largely from year to year. Major part of the sediment load is transported in the monsoon months. Reliable and consistent sediment rating equation is not found for the Himalayan Rivers. The change in the flow rate and suspended sediment concentrat
Rapid population growth, climate variability, and limited hydrogeological data create uncertainty for groundwater decisions in Rwanda. Kadiridimba catchment was selected as a case study to develop a groundwater model, test what can be concluded under these constraints, and identify the measurements that most strengthen confidence in the results and assumptions. The aim was to develop and evaluate
WTO is an increasingly influential international organization, which aims to liberalize global commercial activities and TRIPS is an important part of WTO agenda, which provides minimum standards for IPR regulation for all the members. Empirical evidence suggests that stronger IPR regimes contribute to increasing inward FDI, R&D investment and innovations. Starting out from these findings the
Some evidence from Persian supports the existence of constituents that show properties of affixoids or what might be referred to as semi-affixes. These constitutes can stand independently but, in combination with certain nouns, show a rather notable distribution and, in that context, behave like a derivational affix. In such contexts, there is a semantic change in the derived form when an affixoid
Urbanity is primarily a term for experiencing the city, and urban experience is very much about memory. Since urban meaning, as perceptual meaning generally, is not predominantly made up of signs, other notions of meaning, such as extended cognition or exogram, introduced by cognitive science, affordance, as in Gibsonean psychology, and sedimentation, in the sense of Husserl, are tried out, and fo
Pregnant women have historically and are currently being excluded from cervical cancer screening in most low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and outcomes of including pregnant women in a HPV self-sampling-based screening program in Ethiopia. Pregnant women, recruited from a previously established cohort, were included. They answered a questi
The European Green Deal (EGD) aims for agriculture to contribute positively to climate change mitigation and nature preservation while meeting growing societal needs for food, energy, and biomaterials. Delivering comprehensive policy action efficiently requires decision-support tools to assess the outcomes of interventions across multiple, and potentially conflicting, goals. By means of agent-base
Objective To evaluate any association of the presence and severity of nine major symptoms (pain, tiredness, drowsiness, nausea, appetite, breathlessness, depression, anxiety, and perceived well-being) with sleep quality and duration in elderly men.Design and setting Cross-sectional analysis within the population-based VAScular and Chronic Obstructive Lung disease study (VASCOL) conducted in southe
The adsorption behavior of macromolecular emulsifiers is important in the understanding of their functionality. Understanding of the adsorption behavior can ultimately enable us to control emulsion properties. Adsorption during emulsification differs from many adsorption processes as the interface at which adsorption occurs is created in parallel with the adsorption. In this thesis two different m
The Leon-Chinandega plains are located in the north-western part of Nicaragua and represent the most important groundwater reservoir of the country. The aquifer is comprised of three hydrogeological units. The top unit is an unconfined alluvial and below a more consolidated volcanic aquifer is found. These aquifers rest on an ignimbrite unit that acts as the basement of the aquifer. The plains are
The use of volatile anaesthetics has increased in situations where conventional anaesthetic machines are inadequate or unavailable, for example, cardiac surgery and intensive care. The disposable anaesthetic conserving device, AnaConDa (R), allows vaporization of liquid volatile anaesthetics from a syringe pump and rebreathing of exhaled anaesthetic. Clinical use requires understanding of device-s
The MoviText method has been developed and tested on individuals with absolute central scotomas as a pre-optical reading training method. The ZoomText computer screen magnification software with its DocReader feature has been used in reading training to show the effect of moving the text during reading. The user reads with his or her selected eccentric angleviewing in order to acquire the new ecce
The very last of words of Naming and Necessity are `The third lecture suggests that a good deal of what contemporary philosophy regards as mere physical necessity is actually necessary tout court. The question how far this can be pushed is one I leave for further work.' Kripke (1980). To my knowledge he never conducted that further work; moreover, no one following him has wished to take up the bat
The introduction of the Hausdorff alpha-entropy in Xing (2008a), Xing (2008b), Xing (2010), Xing (2011), and Xing and Ranneby (2009) has lead a series of improvements of well-known results on posterior consistency. In this paper we discuss an application of the Hausdorff a-entropy. We construct a universal prior distribution such that the corresponding posterior distribution is almost surely consi
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the day-care interventions implemented in southern Sweden to restrict the dispersion of penicillin-non-susceptible pneumococci with a minimum inhibitory concentration of penicillin G of at least 0.5 mg/l (PNSP0.5). Methods: A retrospective epidemiological study was performed and data from 109 day-care centre interventions from 2000 to 2010 were ana
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy reveals pronounced kinks in the dispersion of the sigma band of graphene. Such kinks are usually caused by the combination of a strong electron-boson interaction and the cutoff in the Fermi-Dirac distribution. They are therefore not expected for the sigma band of graphene that has a binding energy of more than approximate to 3.5 eV. We argue that the obser
Applications of system identification techniques to chemical, metallurgical, paper and pulp, cement and glass industries are surveyed. It is demonstrated that identification is a useful tool to determine process dynamics. This is true, particularly for processes which are difficult to model from basic physical laws only, such as blast furnaces, paper machines and cement kilns. Valuable knowledge i
