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Persistent physical symptoms (PPS) are common, disabling, and associated with high health care use, yet effective and scalable psychological treatments remain limited. Internet-administrated self-help programs may improve access to care. Asynchronous Internet-administered Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (I-EAET) with therapist guidance has been shown to reduce somatic symptoms in PPS, b

Considering the unstable condition of water resources in Iran and many other countries in arid and semi-arid regions, groundwater studies are very important. Therefore, the aim of this study is to model groundwater potential by qanat locations as indicators and ten advanced and soft computing models applied to the Beheshtabad Watershed, Iran. Qanat is a man-made underground construction which gath

Osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are the two most common rheumatic diseases worldwide, causing pain and disability. Both conditions are highly heterogeneous, and their onset occurs insidiously with non-specific symptoms, so they are not always distinguishable from other arthritis during the initial stages. This makes early diagnosis difficult and resource-demanding in clinical env

The purpose of this paper is to identify significant factors of influence for the co-existence and team climate within working groups, and to examine their impact on the psychosocial work environment within a group. Team climate and interaction affect every individual in a group. The manager, however, is the one formally accountable for the psychosocial climate in a working group, which is the rea

The purpose of this essay was to examine what Ungbo in Kalmar has meant for the adolescent from their point of view and to examine the social workers opinions of Ungbo. My questions were: What expectations did the adolescent and the social workers have on Ungbo? How has these expectations been fulfilled? What expectations does the social workers think the adolescents has on Ungbo? How is the impa

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Våtmarkers utvecklingshistoria kan rekonstrueras genom att deras lagerföljd undersöks. Genom att studera de sediment, växtdelar och pollen som en våtmark är uppbyggd av kan man dra slutsatser om hur den bildats och hur dess utbredning varierat på grund av klimatförändringar och/eller mänsklig påverkan. Rekonstruktioner av förändringar i våtmarkers utbredning bidWetlands are of uttermost biological importance as they function as natural purifiers, absorb nitrogen, and contribute to the landscape biodiversity. In a long term, the history and change, in area- and volume extent, of wetlands reflect climate trends through time. This master’s thesis is an attempt to develop a methodology that in a simple and robust way reconstructs wetland changes using sedime

Problem: Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) is an office within United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that handles procurement for governments, non-governmental organizations (NGO's), United Nations agencies, international finance institutions etc. Annually all UNDP offices and organizations are measured for performance and customer satisfaction in a quantitative Bureau of

This essay is about reading among patients in hospital. The aim of the essay is to find out what part reading and the library play for patients in hospital. An additional aim is to find out in what ways the collaboration between hospital librarians and hospital staff could be developed. The starting-point of the problem is one main question: What part does reading play for the patient during the s

The aim of this paper is to expand the debate on globalization and its consequences from a theoretical perspective emphasizing social processes of exclusion and inclusion. I explore these social processes in dialogue with the Spanish social movement for the rights of irregular immigrants. The paper also aims to explore new forms of resistance in the context of globalization. "The declinist t

Many studies have tried to explain the stock market value premium identified by Fama and French and Rosenberg, Reid and Lanstein. To the proponents of conventional asset pricing theory the value premium, measured by HmL (high book-to-market minus low book-to-market), is a bit of a dilemma. This is due to that the value of growth stocks depend more on business cycles than on value stocks, whose val

Uppsatsen behandlar 3:s etablering på den svenska marknaden för mobila teletjänster. För att kunna analysera detta har jag kombinerat empiri med vald teori. Den insamlade primärdatan består av telefonintervjuer med beslutsfattande personer på såväl 3 som andra konkurrerande företag och institutioner. Teoriavsnittet är uppdelat i två huvuddelar - pris- och spelteori, då marknaden karaktäriseras av

Through trading with countries that have a relative aboundant supply of labor, Sweden changes it's effective supply of labor, in a Factor Content perspective. This essay does two Factor Content analyses, one for year 1995 and one for 2000. The first comparison of these analyses shows that Sweden exports about 27 600 labor-years more year 2000 than 1995. However, since Factor Content analysis a

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how the ongoing controversy surrounding the Internet, the phenomena of digitalization and file sharing will affect the music industry in the form of the “big five“ labels. Furthermore the thesis aims to present a recipe of strategies for the companies’ survival by studying their situation through a theoretical perspective in conjunction with a comparative a

I dagens högteknologiska, demokratiska samhälle där information kan spridas och tas fram på ett par sekunder och där yttrande- och tryckfrihetsrätten har en central roll blir den personliga integriteten sårbar. Samhället har genom målsättningsstadgandet i 1 kap. 2 § fjärde stycket Regeringsformen (1974:152) om att det allmänna skall värna den enskildes privatliv slagit fast att den enskildes integ

Patients (n = 72) with newly diagnosed non-mucinous ovarian carcinomas, FIGO stages IIC-IV, and CA 125 levels raised when starting chemotherapy were followed both by serial serum CA 125 tumor marker determinations during induction chemotherapy and by second-look operation after 4-6 cycles of chemotherapy. Patients with complete response at the second-look operation (n = 19) had an estimated surviv

Most of the physics (as well as the other sciences) taught in school can be described as well-established or consensus science. This is the kind of science knowledge that was mostly developed over a century ago. The inclusion of contemporary science research in compulsory school science teaching could be justified from a variety of reasons: increasing students' interest and motivation; providing i

De åtgärder som politiker, organisationer och utredningar föreslår för att biltrafiken ska minska riktar sig så gott som alltid till hela befolkningen. Det är varken rättvist eller effektivt, skriver de tre forskarna Lena Winslott Hiselius, Lena Smidfelt Rosqvist och Alfred Andersson.