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Summary The egress strategy in high-rise buildings has traditionally been based on the sole use of stairs for evacuation. However, it is becoming more common to include evacuation elevators in the egress strategy in high-rise buildings. Traditionally, evacuation elevators have not been allowed as an evacuation route, and people have been instructed to not use elevators in case of fire. This means
Interest has grown in using the requirement of total joint replacement (TJR) as a "hard" outcome measure. Limitations exist, however, in the use of such an outcome, in particular the variability in the decision to perform surgery, length of surgical waiting lists, and sensitivity to change. This special interest group is exploring ways of retaining the clinical relevance of TJR but overcoming the
Objective: contribute to the existing body of knowledge about the specific needs of first-time parents specifically for early parenthood. Method: the databases PubMed, MEDLINE, PSYCINFO, CINAHL, EMBASE, Family Studies Abstracts, and Web of Science, were searched using search terms: prenatal, antenatal, preparation, education, parents, parenthood. The meta-synthesis included 12 articles representin
This article quantifies the energy saving potential and robustness of nine energy retrofitting measures, as well as four combinations of these, for residential building stocks of three major cities in Sweden and for five scenarios of future climatic conditions, downscaled by a regional climate model (RCM). The retrofitting measures are evaluated for five temporal resolutions of hourly, daily, mont
Introduction: Persistent hypertension is a key risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, such as heart failure. For primary care physicians, hypertension is the number one diagnosis for office visits and for our communities, the treatment of high blood pressure (BP) and its consequences constitutes a substantial economic burden. Aim: To evaluate yoga as a tr
Registers of quality can be used to ensure that health care recommendations are followed, to verify the logistics of care and serve as a basis for research when population based data are needed. Validation of quality is important and is the fundament of accurate interpretation of collected data. In the present validation of sentinel node biopsy (SN) for malignant melanoma in Southern Sweden during
Increasing trends of natural organic matter (NOM) in surface water in Nordic countries may cause future problems for drinking water producers. Emerging membrane technology, such as ultrafiltration (UF) and nanofiltration (NF), has the potential to produce safe drinking water of good quality from sources with high organic concentrations. In the present pilot study, surface water from three sources
Over the past 30 to 40 years comprehensive fishery policies and certification schemes have attempted to halt the rapid decline and exploitation of commercial fish stocks. However, with seafood as one of the most globalized food commodities and the world’s population increasing exponentially, most commercial stocks are thought to be on the brink of collapse. Some estimates exclaiming that all comme
In both Swedish political discourse and in Swedish media the phenomenon known as begging is a topical issue. The purpose behind this study was to examine the attitudes and notions toward the phenomenon of begging among social workers within the voluntary and public sector, and also their position on responsibility in relation to this reality. The empirical base of the study was formed by semi-stru
Den här undersökningen föranleddes av en fundering över de humanitära utmaningar världen står inför idag, och vad för typ av insatser som krävs. Uppsatsen undersöker välgörenhetsgalan Tillsammans för Världens Barn. Det teoretiska såväl som metodologiska ramverket är inspirerat av Ernesto Laclau och Chantal Mouffes diskursteori, och med hjälp av den undersöker vi vilka diskurser som genomsyrar gala
En visselblåsare är den person som larmar om fara eller skada för allmänintresset inom ramen för en arbetsrelaterad relation. Personer som vågar blåsa i visslan hyllas ofta av allmänheten för sitt mod och det ligger i både arbetsgivarens, arbetstagarens och samhällets intresse att oegentligheter inom verksamheter kommer fram och kan avhjälpas. I gällande rätt finns inget enhetligt skydd för visselA whistleblower is a person who reports or discloses information on a threat or harm to the public interest in the context of a work-based relationship. Persons who dare to blow the whistle are often times praised by the public for their courage and it is in the best interest of the employer as well as the employee and the society that wrongdoings within organizations are disclosed and eliminated.
This master’s thesis examines the norm-critical awareness among children librarians in Swedish public libraries and how the practical everyday work with current literature for children function with this awareness. By adopting a norm-critical approach you have the ability to observe the different types of norms that you can find among us and that effects the way we see the world. Some of these nor
Under 2013 skapades kampanjerna Marabou Black, Miss Skinny och DILL, som alla kom att benämnas PR-bluffar. Kampanjernas målsättning var att väcka uppmärksamhet genom vilseledande information. Huruvida dessa PR-bluffar kan anses vara etiskt godtagbara är något praktiker, PR-praktiker och reklammakare, varit oense om. Syftet med denna studie var att skapa ökad förståelse för fenomenet PR-bluff och uIn the year of 2013 three campaigns were created: Marabou Black, Miss Skinny and DILL. These campaigns were titled as PR-scams because they aimed to get attention by using misleading information. Whether PR-scams could be considered as an ethically acceptable PR-strategy or not is something practitioners, PR-practitioners and advertisers, disagree on. The aim of this study was to create a greater
Secondary packaging solutions presently used to package food goods in e-commerce supply chain are either taken from old supply chains, or sub-optimally developed in a non-holistic manner. Due to the increase use of the Internet in Europe to perform online food purchases, secondary packaging must be adapted to meet these new needs. Therefore, a secondary packaging solution for a Dutch e-grocer was
The purpose of this thesis was to examine key factors for adoption of online shopping of consumer goods through smartphones in Sweden. Previous research on online shopping and m-commerce was reviewed and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model (UTAUT) (Venkatesh et al. 2003) was chosen. Interviews were conducted with 11 online shoppers and 5 industry experts to explore current
In the last few decades, researchers have identified many systematic errors – cognitive biases – in the human mind. The predominant notion of human beings as rational have gradually been flawed, in one context after another. In the last few years scholars have approached the question of what policy implications should be derived from these findings and what solutions there might be. Three main phi
For this research, two satellite products were used to see if it was possible to improve the resolution and quality of the global radiation interpolation in the Netherlands. The first data source was from the Climate Monitoring Satellite Application Facility (CM-SAF). The second data source was the Surface Insolation under Clear and Cloudy Skies (SICCS) from the KNMI. Both products were available f
Växters fenologiska händelser påverkas av klimatet och tid för knoppsprickning hos träd kan därför användas som indikator på klimatförändringen. Enligt forskning kommer temperaturen med största sannolikhet att öka i framtiden och med det följer att växters knoppsprickning förväntas ske tidigare. I denna studie har tidpunkten för knoppsprickningen för hägg, björk och asp i Skåne simulerats med hjälPlants phenological events are influenced by the climate and the timing of budburst of trees is therefore an excellent indicator for climate change. According to research, temperature will most likely increase in future and with that follows an earlier budburst. In this study, budburst were simulated for bird cherry, birch and aspen in Skåne, in the southern part of Sweden, with two phonological m
