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This Masters' thesis is a study on the information behaviour of hospital personnel at the University Hospital in Lund, Sweden. A questionnaire was distributed to 301 nurses and physicians working in the intensive care unit, the population was reduced to 244 persons. The response rate was 52%, i.e. 125 questionnaires were completed. Nurses constituted 68 % of the population. The survey focuses
Latest research confirmed that plant matter can also produce a non negligible amount of the greenhouse gas methane under aerobic conditions. These findings have led to discussions and controversy within the research community. While KEPPLER ET AL. (2006) as one of the first researchers published results supporting this hypothesis others like DUECK ET AL. (2007) refuted these results within their e
As foreign aid money is continually spent in developing countries, it is incumbent that international aid organizations work towards improving the effectiveness of their projects. In the setting and context of disaster risk reduction and disaster recovery projects, this thesis aims to understand how foreign aid organizations can make Honduran communities less dependent on foreign aid through speci
With a current financial crisis and a tough competitive environment, all units and departments within the companies have to keep up with the market and its demands. Every time Sandvik sells a machine to a mining company, the buyer faces the fact that they normally have to educate their operators from scratch. This, implicitly, means a period with high risks of failures and mistakes. Training with
Background The nomenclature and execution of peritonectomy procedures for peritoneal surface malignancies significantly vary between surgeons and centres. The aim of this consensus was to reach uniform nomenclature for peritonectomy procedures, to define subregions of each peritonectomy procedure, and to define boundaries of each subregion. Methods The modified Delphi technique was employed. A gro
This study investigated the efficiency of the treatment processes of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to remove severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) from the wastewater and sewage sludge, as well as the influence of the mode of operation on the quality of the treated wastewater. SARS-CoV-2 and PMMoV were detected and quantified at dif
In this paper, the freeze-thaw stability of mayonnaise type oil-in-water emulsions is studied. The emphasis of the experiments have been on the properties of the dispersed oil phase as only small, or no effects, were observed from initial experiments on changing the properties of the aqueous phase within the investigated ranges. Different vegetable oils are investigated in order to relate the comp
Bakgrund och syfte: Det råder olika uppfattningar kring rödhårigas respons på smärta och behov av analgetika och hypnotika inom forskning och klinik. Forskning som studerat rödhåriga personers respons på hypnotika har visat varierande resultat där behovet har varit både ökat och minskat. Vissa menar även att rödhåriga personer har en högre smärttröskel och mindre effekt av analgetika medan andra sBackground and purpose: There are different perceptions about redheads' response to pain and their need of analgesics and hypnotics, both within research and clinical practice. Research that has studied redheads’ response to hypnotics has shown varying results where the need of such both has increased and decreased. Some people go as far as to say that redheads have a higher pain threshold and
Syftet med detta arbete är att se hur lean kan implementeras med hjälp av personalens utökade förståelse för leanverktygens fördelar vid användning, för ökad produktivitet utan utökade resurser. Projektet utfördes i ett företag med begränsning till två avdelningar. Litteratur och revisionen gav en bild av personalens kunskapsläge av lean vid projektstart. Med den kunskapen påbörjades ett projekt The purpose of this work is to explore how lean can be implemented through the staff´s enhanced understanding, for increased productivity without additional resources. This was carried out through a project in a company limited to two departments. Literature and review provided an overview of the staff's knowledge level of lean. With the gained knowledge, a project was initiated focusing on t
The aim of this study is to examine the discourses on climate change in relation to certain European heat waves in Swedish print media, with the help of Anabela Carvalho’s discourse analysis, specifically formulated for media. To what extent did the media link the extreme weather events to climate change, and man-made emissions? This study also examines the role of actors and discursive strategies
Crises are inherently connected to the strengths and functions of the financial system in creating and expanding credit (Broberg and Ögren, 2019). They are as much products of the innovation and expansion which precede them as they are a cause of the realignment and adjustment that follows them. For this reason, Marx, Minsky and Kindleberger have all regarded financial instability as a fundamental
Business intelligence (BI) is all about making decisions. The purpose of many business intelligence tools is to improve these decisions by making data easy to visualize and understand. Qlik Sense is a BI tool developed by the company Qlik which allows users to visualize and explore data by filtering it (called making selections). At the time of this project Qlik Sense did not support visualization
This thesis is a contribution to the understanding of the life and work of Arnold Schoenberg as well as to musical hermeneutics. The aims are (1) to scrutinize Arnold Schoenberg’s marital crisis of the year 1908, (2) to probe into the meanings of some representative musical works during this very period, and (3) to compare features in Schoenberg’s life and his creative work. A number of documents
This article presents research done in order to analyse the machinability of duplex stainless steel with coated carbide tools during turning operations. Although duplex stainless steel has existed for about 70 years fairly little work has been published in the area of investigating the different aspects of the machining of these materials. In this research project three different kinds of duplex s
Popular Abstract in Swedish Potatis har varit, och är fortfarande ett viktigt baslivsmedel i svensk kosthållning. Det finns många sorter med olika egenskaper vilket bidrar till dess variationsrikedom. Potatisen är en rik källa till stärkelse, kostfibrer samt vitaminer och mineraler, t ex C-vitamin och järn. En invändning mot potatis ur nutritionell synvinkel är att stärkelsen lätt bryts ned av enzDespite decreased consumption potatoes still constitute an important staple in the Swedish diet. An objection to potatoes and potato products from a nutritional point of view is the ease by which the starch is digested and absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. This results in unfavourably high glycaemic and insulinaemic responses (glycaemic index, GI and insulinaemic index, II, respectively). Su
A fast 2D motion estimator has been developed and evaluated. The method does not utilize block-matching or iterative solutions and is thus more computationally efficient and suitable for real-time motion estimation over the entire image. The method has been evaluated on 1) phantom measurements and 2) in vivo on the carotid artery wall of 17 subjects, where measurements of the longitudinal displace
This paper concerns the operational activities of the public security organs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) during the immediate post-1949 period of regime consolidation. The main part of the paper is a case-study of a 1950 pilot scheme to recruit agents in critical sectors of industry and trade in the city of Yingkou in Northeast China, a scheme in due course subsumed under a nationwide
The early modern period has so far received little attention from archaeologists and anthropologists in Sweden. This study explores demographic patterns, social differences, family structure and mobility in a 16th-century skeletal population (n=102) from a preindustrial mining community (Salberget) in Bergslagen, Sweden, using a bioarchaeological perspective. Methodologically, the results of stron
