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Biobanks are a major resource to access and measure biological constituents that can be used to monitor the status of health and disease, both in unique individual samples and within populations. Most “omic” activities rely on access to these collections of stored samples to provide the basis for establishing the ranges and frequencies of expression. Furthermore, information about the relative abu
Evaluation, prioritization and selection of candidate requirements are of tremendous importance and impact for subsequent software development. Effort, time as well as quality constraints have to be taken into account. Typically, different stakeholders have conflicting priorities and the requirements of all these stakeholders have to be balanced in an appropriate way to ensure maximum value of the
Popular Abstract in Swedish Utvecklingen av offentlig sektor har de senaste årtiondena till stor del påverkats av New Public Management. Som en konsekvens av detta har en ”marknadisering” av offentliga verksamheter och organisationer skett. Denna ”marknadisering” har resulterat i att det finns organisationer i offentlig sektor som varken passar in på beskrivningen av offentliga organisationer elleDuring the last decades the influence of New Public Management and the “marketisation” of public services, have given us organisations in the public sector that fit neither the mould of what constitutes public sector organisations nor that of private companies. Instead, we now have so-called hybrid organisations. These have become an attractive alternative to the more “bureaucratic” public agencie
Sammanfattning-The use of hierarchical structures for providing excellent wireless connections for customers has attained growing attention. Models to investigate the QoS requirements rather quickly become complicated and hard to analyze. In the paper a first rough analytical approach for the answer is given. As the users devote more and more time to be connected through wireless connections, and
Abstract: Objective: Acceptance and readiness to seek professional help have shown to be important factors for favourable audiological rehabilitation outcomes. Theories from health psychology such as the transtheoretical (stages-of-change) model could help understand behavioural change in people with hearing impairment. In recent studies, the University of Rhode Island change assessment (URICA) ha
In this paper, we describe Docforia, a multilayer document model and application programming interface (API) to store formatting, lexical, syntactic, and semantic annotations on Wikipedia and other kinds of text and visualize them. While Wikipedia has become a major NLP resource, its scale and heterogeneity makes it relatively difficult to do experimentations on the whole corpus. These experimentat
Objective: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) decrease life expectancy for affected patients. The aim was to describe the perceptions of received information regarding diagnosis, treatment and management, as well as social support and coping perceived by patients with PAH or CTEPH. Methods: A descriptive, national cohort survey that incl
Birds migrating between distant locations regularly perform long continuous flights lasting several days. What compass mechanism they use is still a mystery. Here, we use a novel approach, applying an individual-based model, taking compass mechanisms based on celestial and geomagnetic information and wind into account simultaneously, to investigate what compass mechanism likely is used during long
Background: Identifying non-invasive and reliable blood-derived biomarkers for early detection of acute cellular rejection in heart transplant recipients is of great importance in clinical practice. MicroRNAs are small molecules found to be stable in serum and their expression patterns reflect both physiological and underlying pathological conditions in human. Methods: We compared a group of heart
Purpose - To offer knowledge about the global development of largescale demand responsive transport systems (DRT), and to stimulate dialogue and collaboration for further innovation and improvement of these systems. Design/methodology/approach - A review of the literature shows how DRT has evolved from the first applications in the 1970s to very complex operations in the last two decades with hund
Aims: Pain and anxiety are commonly reported among those undergoing orthopaedic surgery. Improvement in anxiety and pain control might be achieved by supplementing standard care with psychological interventions. However, the effectiveness of adjunctive psychosocial interventions in anxiety and pain control have not been addressed sufficiently by previous systematic reviews in orthopaedic surgeries
Background and purpose — The proximal femur locking compression plate (PF-LCP) is a new concept in the treatment of hip fractures. When releasing new implants onto the market, biomechanical studies are conducted to evaluate performance of the implant. We investigated the relation between biomechanical and clinical studies on PF-LCP. Methods — A systematic literature search of relevant biomechanica
The important role of fire in regulating vegetation community composition and contributions to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols make it a critical component of dynamic global vegetation models and Earth system models. Over 2 decades of development, a wide variety of model structures and mechanisms have been designed and incorporated into global fire models, which have been linked to diff
Polyphenols are a group of compounds that are widely spread in the plant kingdom. These compounds are of great interest for researchers because of their antioxidant properties that are important for both plant life and human health. Sample preparation is a crucial step for the determination of phenolic compounds and their metabolites in biological samples. Methods for isolation and preconcentratio
The e-commerce market is growing explosively and the competition between retailers grows larger every day. Companies will have to step up their offers in order to keep customers, and one way to do this is to improve their packaging. The main goal of this master’s thesis is to develop a proposal for an e-commerce packaging with an improved customer experience for the online clothing retailer nelly.
Cyanobacteria possess unique and exciting features among photosynthetic microorganisms for energy conversion applications. This thesis project focuses on conversion of solar energy into photocurrent generation comparing three different strains of Cyanobacteria, Leptolyngbia sp. from New Zealand (CYN82), Leptolyngbia sp. from Antarctica (CYN65), Chroococcales sp. from Antarctica (CYN67) and one euk
This study is about manager’s view on use of knowledge. It focuses on managers on a strategic level, working in municipal social services. The aim was to gather an in-depth understanding of factors that influence how managers describe and perceive the use of knowledge, in their mission as a manager as well as in their organization. A background to this issue is the longstanding debate about what t
Rätten till familjeåterförening stadgas i såväl EU:s Familjeåterföreningsdirektiv som i den svenska utlänningslagen. Principen om familjens enhet, allas likhet inför lagen och barnets bästa är principer av stor vikt inom både internationell, europeisk och svensk rätt. Trots principer som att familjen ska hållas samman och att det ska göras vad som är möjligt för att återförena splittrade familjer,
Problem discussion: Industrial segmentation based on strategy requires a new course of action. How will overarching variables be chosen if the segmented objects change continuously? With which strategic sub variables will sub segments be created? Purpose: The theoretical purpose is to identify requirements on variables within segmentation of existing customers in industrial markets. Furthermore, i
In this thesis I investigate the notion of imagination in Romantic thought and in the visual art of William Blake with the aim of making a contribution to theological methodology. In early German Romanticism, as well as in the art of William Blake, the concept of imagination plays a central role in the relationship between the Absolute and the perceiving and knowing subject. My thesis takes its st
