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This thesis explores how Salesian Institutes are related to religious peace-building in post-colonial and post-conflict Cambodia. It examines if and how the Catholic-Salesian multi-religious educational mission system is able to peacefully co-exist in a Buddhist Cambodian society, and collaborate with other minority religions present – Protestant, Muslim, and non-religious in promoting education f
This thesis is structured around one central question: This study will determine the extent to which political change in the discourse topics of European Political Groups (EPGs) can be traced in European election manifestos through the use of Structural Topic Modeling (STM). This thesis asserts that there is a significant gap in our understanding of how to assess Euromanifestos and of the macrostr
Migration does have a time, energy or mortality cost, and the strategy to minimise the costs shapes the migration behaviour. Depending on the relative influence of these costs in shaping the migration, an animal is expected to undertake these journeys in different ways, depending on their morphology and migration ecology. I investigated if five Tringa-type waders minimise their migration time, and
Background: Order-picking accounts for more than half of total warehouse operating costs, where travel time is the largest contributor. At the case company, a Swedish healthcare consumables logistics provider served by Industri-Matematik International AB, a cluster-picking strategy is used together with a combined routing strategy (Roodbergen, 2001). The current picking process lacks planning of h
Krig och konflikter världen över har lett till ett ökat intresse för och behov av försvar. Förhörssituationer har tidigare färgats av inhumana tillvägagångssätt och tortyr för att bryta motstånd hos den förhörde och få relevant information trots att tidigare forskning har visat att dessa metoder är ineffektiva. Denna studie syftade till att undersöka hur effektiv användning av olika förhörsteknikeWar and conflicts worldwide have increased both the interest in, and the need for defence. Historically, interrogation contexts have been characterized by inhumane approaches, such as torture, aimed at breaking resistance and obtaining information, despite previous research, demonstrating the ineffectiveness of such methods. The aim of this study was to examine how the effective use of different i
The aim of this essay was to illustrate how poor women with children in Nicaragua saw themselves and the role they played. For the realization of this study I used the qualitative method consisted in interviews of six women who live in a poor neighborhood in the city of León. To be able to reach this essay’s purpose, it was of the utmost importance to answer on what was their role, what conception
According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child should be a primary consideration (CRC article 3 p. 1). However, it is not regulated in the law or in CRC what is considered to be the ch
The purpose of our essay was to examine what treatment women have had, who in their teenage years had eating disorders, how they have experienced this treatment and how they live today. Our central questions were; what was their experience of the treatment, how are their lives today, has the eating disorder and the treatment affected how the women live today and what kind of treatments are there?
In recent years, the office market has been changing, mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic and technological innovation. This has impacted how office space is used and has led to an increase in the range of available real estate products. One of the decisions organizations need to make is whether to own or lease their space, which is a decision driven by several parameters. The right decision for a
The application of time-resolved fluorescence methods to study the aggregation behavior in aqueous solution of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) in presence of trivalent counterions (Al3+) was investigated. Addition of small amounts of aluminum salt to dilute micellar solutions (< 10 wt.% SDS) resulted in isotropic fluid solutions, but for a molar ratio [SDS]/[Al(NO3)(3)] lower than
The effects of authentic nitric oxide (NO, 10(-6) M) and NO-donors such as sodium nitroprusside (SNP, 10(-5) M) and glyceryl trinitrate (GTN, 10(-4) M) on contractile force and free intracellular calcium level ([Ca2+],) were studied on precontracted with high potassium chloride (KCI, 70 mM) isolated rings of rat tail artery. The sensitivity of contractile myofilaments to Ca2+ was measured using ch
The role of oxidants in viral diseases is fairly complex because it includes metabolic regulation both of host metabolism and viral replication. However, a role for reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) as mediators of virus-induced lung damage is supported by studies and antioxidants can thus be expected to act at many different levels. The aim of the present pilot stu
Objectives. There is a need for an observation scale for assessment and monitoring of acutely psychotic patients. Milestones based on such ratings should be defined, similar to the PANSS-based Remission criteria. FAST-O is such an instrument (11 items and a CGI rating). Methods. Reliability, validity and factor structure were analyzed in four separate studies-most importantly in one study of 33 ch
IntroductionChanges in long-term survival after stroke at the population level are incompletely characterized, particularly using recent data and stratified by stroke type.Patients and MethodsThis nationwide, register-based cohort study used data from the Swedish Stroke Register (Riksstroke) and the Swedish Causes of Death Register. Adults (≥18 years) hospitalized with ischemic stroke or intracere
Loess–palaeosol sequences (LPS) represent one of the most important continental archives of late Quaternary environmental change in Europe. Establishing reliable chronologies is essential for reconstructing dust dynamics and for correlating regional loess stratigraphies. In this study, we present the first systematically derived mass accumulation rate (MAR) dataset for six key Polish LPS, based on
Research on adolescent sexual orientation has expanded in recent decades, yet little is known about its associations with personality traits during this developmental period. This study examined personality dimensions, as measured by the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory, across adolescent sexual orientation groups (asexual, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual) in a community-based sample
Background: Creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations are widely used in clinical practice but exhibit inherent limitations. On the other side, measuring GFR is time consuming and not available in routine clinical practice. We developed and validated machine learning models to assess the trustworthiness (i.e. the ability of equations to estimate measured GFR (mGFR) wit
Background: Chronic low-grade inflammation is a well-known risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) and future cardiovascular events. Anti-inflammatory therapy can reduce the risk of ischemic cardiovascular disease (CVD) events following myocardial infarction (MI). However, it remains unknown to what extent inflammation at the time of an acute event predicts long-term outcomes. We explored whe
ObjectivesThe objective was to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) model for predicting acute coronary occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) in patients with chest pain at the emergency department (ED), using information that is widely available early in the ED assessment.MethodsIn a cohort of 24,511 consecutive adult ED patients with chest pain from 5 Swedish hospitals, OMI cases were identif
