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Unprecedented global challenges demand wide-reaching societal modification to ensure life support functions and human well-being. In the absence of adequate international responses to climate change and the need for place-based adaptation, local governments have a pivotal role in fostering sustainability transitions. In this context, the importance of ecosystem-based adaptation is increasingly rec
Payments to compensate landowners for carrying out costly land-use measures that benefit endangered biodiversity have become an important policy instrument. When designing such payments, it is important to take into account that spatially connected habitats are more valuable for many species than isolated ones. One way to incentivize provision of connected habitats is to offer landowners an agglom
MISSION IS POSSIBLE MISSION IS POSSIBLE WORLD-LEADING RESEARCH THAT PROVIDES BENEFITS FOR OUR SOCIETY LUND UNIVERSITY| MISSION IS POSSIBLE WORLD-LEADING RESEARCH THAT PROVIDES BENEFITS FOR OUR SOCIETY | LUND UNIVERSITY World-leading research benefits our society Sweden has a knowledge-based economy. Our wealth and welfare are built upon the constant formulation of new, enriching ideas that improve
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The multitaper spectrogram, with arithmetic and geometric mean functions, and the ambiguity domain where evaluated on simulated data and real audio samples{. This was done} to determine if they can improve the results, of classification tasks, of the single-taper spectrogram when used as input to a convolutional neural network. The spectrogram used was differentiable to allow for the window length
This thesis investigates simulating X-ray computed tomography with two primary objectives: developing a virtual representation of an X-ray computed tomography scanner and generating labelled synthetic training data for deep learning-based fibre segmentation. A simulation pipeline to generate X-ray projections based on the Beer-Lambert law was developed using the open-source framework gVirtualXray.
Introduction: The transport sector remains a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, driving demand for engine concepts that eliminate carbon and nitrogen-oxide output while reusing existing manufacturing infrastructure. Background: The Argon Power Cycle is an engine concept that replaces air with argon as a working fluid and uses hydrogen as fuel and oxygen as the oxidizer. By explo
Background: Mistletoe extract is a widespread complementary therapy mainly used for quality-of-life improvement in cancer patients. Advanced pancreatic cancer is associated with poor quality of life and better therapies for symptomatic relief are highly needed. Aim: MISTRAL aimed to assess the impact of mistletoe extract on quality of life, body weight, observed costs and blood biomarkers in patie
During land model development, simulated carbon dynamics are often benchmarked against observational data sets to evaluate model performance. Functional relationship benchmarks are the relationship between a driving variable (e.g., temperature) and a response variable (e.g., ecosystem respiration) and are a promising tool for assessing model performance by evaluating modeled sensitivities to chang
Övre Mogánformationen, den yngsta av formationerna i Mogángruppen på Gran Canaria, inleds med en basaltenhet och domineras sedan av trakytiska till comenditiska och pantelleritiska lavor och ignimbriter. De undersökta avkylningsenheterna i Barranco de Tiritaña är alla, utom den översta, grönfärgade alkalibetonade ignimbriter tillhörande denna formation, den översta enheten är en lava tillhörande FThe Upper Mogán formation, the youngest formation of the Mogán Group on Gran Canaria, starts with a basalt, upwards it is dominated by trachytic to comenditic and pantelleritic lavas and ignimbrites. The studied cooling units in Barranco de Tiritaña are green coloured, high-alkali ignimbrites of this formation except for the uppermost unit; witch is a lava belonging to the Fataga Group. In this wo
Gemcitabine has been the standard chemotherapeutic agent in pancreatic cancer. However, two-thirds of pancreatic tumors display low expression of human equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 (hENT1), which mediates cellular entry of the drug, and do not respond to gemcitabine therapy. The objective was to determine the costs of gemcitabine overtreatment and the cost-effectiveness of hENT1 testing
The State of Palestine is drafting a new constitution to replace a patchwork of foreign and outdated legislation, and to harmonise national law with dozens of ratified international treaties. Since its 2012 ascension from non-member observer ‘entity’ to non-member observer ‘state’ in the UN, Palestine has signed fifty-five multilateral treaties covering a wide range of areas. All treaties have bee
Homosexuella har i Sverige genom historien ständigt varit utsatta och diskriminerade. Homosexuella handlingar var kriminaliserade från 1608 till 1944 med undantag för införandet av 1734 års lag då den uttryckliga kriminaliseringen togs bort. Sedermera infördes kriminaliseringen åter i 1864 års strafflag. 1944 ersattes kriminaliseringen med en sjukdomsklassificering som varade till 1979. Under andThis paper examines the legislation that concerns the historical development of homosexuals’ rights in Sweden, with emphasis on the debate that led to the gender neutral definition of marriage. Homosexuals have, throughout the history, been exposed to discrimination in various ways. From 1608 until 1734 homosexual acts were outlawed, to be criminalized again in the Criminal law from 1864. In 1944
Sexual violence is a frequent problem in armed conflict. For twenty years, multiple measure have been adopted to stop this conduct but it is showing very little result. At the same time, there is a lively debate on several areas concerning sexual violence in armed conflict. This thesis analyses two of these areas of debate in order to find what the Community of States is doing wrong. Before enter
Social workers in Swedish child welfare operate within a context where children’s right to express their views is legally regulated, while professional decision-making often takes place in complex situations involving different perspectives and interests. This study aimed to explore how social workers describe their use of professional discretion in cases where children’s and parents’ wishes do no
Our objective was to pilot test an electronic health record-embedded decision support tool to facilitate prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening discussions in the primary care setting. Methods We pilot-tested a novel decision support tool that was used by 10 primary care physicians (PCPs) for 6 months, followed by a survey. The tool comprised (1) a risk-stratified algorithm, (2) a tool for faci
Juice homogenization is mostly done to create smaller fiber particles, which reduces the sedimentation velocity to a lower level. So far, fruit juice concentrate is diluted to juice before it is homogenized. The first aim of this research paper is a feasibility study regarding the homogenization of fruit juice concentrate before it is diluted to juice. That would save capacity and energy. Secondl
Korruption är ett begrepp som inte har någon klar definition. Det är många vetenskaper som diskuterar korruption, dock görs detta med delvis olika synvinklar. Denna framställning visar att det finns många olika perspektiv att anlägga på korruptionsproblematiken, perspektiv som dessutom leder till olika slutsatser om problematikens orsaker och verkan. Fler tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv behövs, för aCorruption is a term that has no clear definition. There are many disciplines that discuss corruption, however, this is done with somewhat different perspectives. This essay shows multiple perspectives on corruption issues, perspectives which also lead to different conclusions about the causes and effects of corruption. More interdisciplinary perspectives are needed to be able to work against corr
The aims of the thesis are to investigate the estimation power and the normality of standardized residuals for Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models (GARCH). We facilitate the analysis by only dealing with GARCH(1, 1) models. We take use of MATLAB as the statistical programming tool for the simulation of the data and the estimation. We define the meaning of estimation
