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Osteoporosis is a bone disease that is defined as low bone mineral density (BMD) and results in an increased risk of bone fracture. It is a serious public health problem that causes excess mortality and major economical and social impact. Today there are more than 8.9 million fractures connected to low bone mineral density worldwide. Hip fractures are of particular concern since they are associate
In 2015 the EU introduced Directive 2015/720 on the reduction of the consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags creating the first transnational agreement on plastic bag issue in the world. This Directive sets the scope within which Member States will design their own policies in order to reach a significant reduction in the plastic bag consumption over the following years. Greece is one of t
Sedan 2003 har samkönade par i Sverige kunnat prövas som adoptivföräldrar och därmed bli juridiska föräldrar. Det var dock kontroversiellt och många av remissinstanserna och talarna i riksdagen var kritiska. De framhöll att för lite forskningsunderlag presenterats, att alla barn behöver en mamma och en pappa samt att olikkönade par kanske skulle få svårare att adoptera då andra länder skulle se ogSince 2003, same-sex couples in Sweden have been able to be considered as adoptive parents and thus become legal parents. This was, however, controversial and many of the consultation bodies and speakers in the Riksdag were critical of the proposal. They emphasized that too little research had been presented, that children need a mother and a father, and that different-sex couples might find it mo
This thesis aims to evaluate which aspects are important when generating synthetic data with the purpose of running on a lightweight object detection model on an edge device. The task we constructed was to detect Canisters and whether they feature a protective valve called a Cap or not (called a No-Cap). The problem was split into three separate classes in order to evaluate objects with varying si
The recent progress of deep learning has enabled more powerful frameworks to create good-quality deepfakes. Deepfakes, which are mostly known for malicious purposes, have great potential to be useful in areas such as the movie industry, education, and personalized messaging. This thesis focus on lip-synchronization, which is a part of a broader pipeline to develop personalized video messages, usin
Ecotourism is the concept of traveling responsibly to natural areas where the environment and the well-being of the local people are sustained, where the economic profit is reinvested in the area and where knowledge is communicated to decrease visitor impact and maintain the local environment. Ecotourism is the fastest growing segment of the global tourism industry and therefore it is important to
Introduction: This study is focused on the development and comparison of different extraction methods for vitamin D (VD) analysis in liver samples. Background: VD deficiency is related to several diseases, so it is crucial to correctly detect and quantify its concentration in the human body. Despite the existing methodologies for VD analysis, the selectivity and the sensitivity of the methods for
Den internationaliserade värld vi idag lever i ställer krav på rättsordningar att hantera vissa fenomen, även om de inte förekommer inom det egna samhället. Trots att barnäktenskap inte är möjliga att ingå i Sverige måste frågan hanteras, eftersom det är vanligt att gifta barn från andra länder förflyttar sig hit. Den legala äktenskapsåldern varierar mellan länder och det räcker inte att civilrättThe internationalized world of today demands legal systems to consider certain phenomena, even if they do not occur within their own society. Even though child marriage is not possible in Sweden, the issue must be discussed, as it is common for married children from other countries to move here. The legal age of marriage varies from country to country and it is not enough to set an age limit for m
In recent years, Deep Learning has proven to be an outstanding tool in the field of computer vision showing promising results in different fields such as the analysis of medical images, obstacle detection for self-driving cars, automatic image caption generation, etc. In the case of Archaeology, the adoption of these methods in the detection of archaeological structures from aerial images has been
Lipases are the main fat digestive enzymes present in the digestive system of many animals, microorganisms and plants. Probiotic microorganisms that can possibly produce enzymes are of crucial importance since it can have an effect on human health. Two of the main probiotic strains are Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Biffidobacterium longum, in each there was a putative lipase encoded on the DNA and t
Yogurt is an ancient food, used for a better preservation of milk. Milk gets fermented by Streptococcus thermophilicus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus (lactic acid bacteria, LAB) which converts the lactose present in the milk to lactic acid. These probiotics support the microbial population balance of the gastrointestinal tract. Sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas, is an important security crop in developi
Given the rise of new startups and the challenges amplified by events like the Covid-19, it is critical to address the notion of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem which, in turn, facilitates the development of new ventures. One of the actors within this ecosystem is startup accelerators, which provide networking opportunities, financial and mentoring assistance to new ventures. Previous research on ac
I denna kandidatuppsats undersöks rättsläget i Sverige gällande surrogatmoderskap med det huvudsakliga syftet att granska hur surrogatarrangemangets centralt berörda intressen återspeglas i befintlig lagstiftning och SOU 2016:11. Surrogatmoderskap är en form av assisterad befruktning och innebär att en kvinna genomgår graviditet och förlossning med avsikten att sedan lämna ifrån sig barnet. I svThis bachelor thesis examines the legal situation regarding surrogacy in Sweden, with the main purpose to review how the key interests of a surrogacy arrangement are reflected in current legislation and the public investigation SOU 2016:11. Surrogacy is a form of assisted fertilization and means that a woman goes through pregnancy and childbirth with the intention to hand over the child. Swedish
Ett av livets största beslut är beslutet om föräldraskap. Det är dessutom ett beslut som i slutändan görs av modern, eftersom det är hon som tar beslutet om abort. Härigenom uppstår en situation som inte är jämställd, vilket har orsakat en viss debatt den senaste tiden. Debatten gäller huruvida det bör finnas en rätt för fadern att göra en så kallad juridisk abort, alltså en möjlighet att avsäga sThe choice to become a parent is not an easy one to make, moreover it is today a choice more likely to be made by the mother. She has the opportunity of abortion, whereas the father can’t affect his becoming a parent after the moment of conception. This constitutes a situation of inequality between the sexes, which this year has caused a debate to arise in social media as well as in news papers. I
The current control strategy in the degassing system in a Gambro AK200S dialysis machine leads to a rather noisy flow upstream in the machine. This is where different concentrates are added to the dialysis fluid and as the control of this adding is rather slow the unsteady flow leads to an unsteady conductivity of the dialysis fluid, which makes it difficult to evaluate the effect of the dialysis
Children who witness violence against a parent falls victim to a form of mental abuse. The children often react in fear, anxiety and sadness. Children who witness violence are as much in need of help and support as those children who are themselves victims of violence. A person who is subjected to violence by their partners in Sweden have an opportunity to seek protection. With the help of social
After more than a century of colonial subjugation by the United States, Puerto Rico’s stunted development model has finally collapsed. As a result, the island is currently facing one of the worst economic crises in its history. Despite the United States’ continued affirmation of its political dominance over Puerto Rico, it has largely placed the blame for the crisis on Puerto Ricans themselves, ac
With the evolution of cartography from hand-drawn to digital maps, the task of icon placement has become increasingly complex. Nowadays there is a need to automate this process to produce high quality results in less time. This study aimed to optimize icon placement on city wayfinding maps, addressing challenges of placing icons in high-density areas and maintaining a strong association between ic
Abstract Perforations are one of Tetra Paks oldest inventions of how to open their carton packages. They have been a part of Tetra Briks product portfolio for over 30 years and quality testing is important. Bad openability, with plastic residues covering the torn hole, is a problem that needs to be addressed. When tearing a package with perforation all people do it differently. By using a mechan
