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There are many ways to acquire and process diffusion MRI (dMRI) data for group studies, but it is unknown which maximizes the sensitivity to white matter (WM) pathology. Inspired by this question, we analyzed data acquired for diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) at 3T (3T-DTI and 3T-DKI) and DTI at 7T in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and healthy c
Objective:To assess cardiovascular effects of in-utero HIV and antiretroviral treatment (ART) exposure on offspring of HIV-positive mothers in Ethiopia.Design:HIV-positive and HIV-negative pregnancies were identified from a prospective cohort of women recruited at their first antenatal care visit in Ethiopia, using a nested case-control design.Methods:Fetal standard ultrasound and echocardiography
Objective To investigate the admission rate to neonatal care and neonatal morbidity after maternal use of antipsychotics during pregnancy. Design A population-based register study. Setting Information on all singleton births between July 2006 and December 2017 in Sweden including data on prescription drugs, deliveries and infants' health was obtained from the Swedish Medical Birth Register, the Pr
Purpose: The need for sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in clinically node-negative (cN0) patients is currently questioned. Our objective was to investigate the cost-effectiveness of a preoperative noninvasive lymph node staging (NILS) model (an artificial neural network model) for predicting pathological nodal status in patients with cN0 breast cancer (BC). Methods: A health-economic decision-ana
Grov organiserad brottslighet är många gånger såväl svåråtkomlig som svårutredd. Ett möjligt sätt att råda bot på detta problem är ett så kallat kronvittnessystem. Ett kronvittne är en tilltalad person som har möjlighet att få strafflindring på grund av att denne anger medbrottslingar och medverkar i deras utredning. I Danmark finns redan ett sådant system som infördes genom avgörandet U. 1998.1The organized crime is often very hard to investigate. A possible solution could be a system with crown witnesses, where a defendant may get a mitigation of the sentence if the person reveals violations of other criminals. In Denmark, a system like that exists since the precedent U. 1998.1317 H and is prescribed by law since 2004. In Sweden the system has been systematically rejected but in prec
Idag skiljer rättsväsendet inte på mäns våld mot kvinnor och hedersrelaterat våld. Det finns inget konkret stöd i gällande rätt för att beakta fenomenet heder, utan det går in under allmänna paragrafer och bestämmelserna om grov fridskränkning och grov kvinnofridskränkning i 4 kap. 4 a § BrB. Syftet med förevarande uppsats har främst varit att ur ett de lege lata-perspektiv utreda om det hedersrelToday, the judiciary does not distinguish honor related violence from men’s violence against women. There is no concrete support in existing law to consider the phenomenon of honor. Instead it is covered by general enactments and the provisions of violation of integrity and of violation of a woman’s integrity in The Swedish Penal Code chapter 4 paragraph 4 a. The main purpose with the present essa
Traditionsprincipen ställer upp huvudregeln för hur borgenärsskydd vid köp av lösöre ska uppnås. I andra hand kan skydd uppnås genom registrering i enlighet med lösöresköplagen. På konsumenträttens område tillämpas istället en avtalsprincip, där borgenärsskydd uppkommer genom avtalet i kombination med att varan på något sätt är avskild eller märkt. Uppsatsen diskuterar vilka konsekvenser en övergåThe doctrine of traditio sets the main parameters of how a buyer seeking protection of property from a seller's creditors should act. Secondarily, the parties may instead register the purchase in accordance with the law of purchases of goods (lösöresköplagen). In contrast, a consumer's purchase of good achieves protection of property by the agreement itself in combination with the goods be
The purpose of this study was to explore whether there is a relationship between emotional state and the degree of creative use of grammatical constructions. Based on previous literature on the relationship between mood (used interchangeably with emotional state) and creativity a hypothesis was formulated: Speakers in a more positive mood will be more creative in their use of grammatical construct
I samband med brottsbalkens ikraftträdande år 1965 togs uppdelningen mellan otillräkneliga och tillräkneliga lagöverträdare bort från svensk rätt. Reformen innebar att även personer med allvarliga psykiska störningar kunde anses vara straffrättsligt ansvariga för sina handlingar och bli föremål för rättsskipningens påföljdssystem. Sedan tillräknelighetsläran togs bort har det förts en kontinuerligIn most legal systems around the world, mentally disturbed offenders are exempt from criminal responsibility and therefore go unpunished. When The Swedish Penal Code was introduced in 1965 this exemption was removed from Swedish law. From this point forward, mentally disturbed offenders have been held accountable for their actions and the mental disorder is instead considered when deciding the app
A second order expansion of the eigenvalues of a parameter perturbation of Hermitian matrices is derived using matrix decomposition methods. The method developed is then applied to give a novel proof of a second order approximation of the eigenvalues of a global perturbation of Hermitian matrices first described by M. Carlsson. The result generalizes an approximation given by G.W Stewart which tre
The purpose of this thesis is to further the knowledge of the Internet’s effect on trade. The study is conducted by examining the specific example of the introduction of the SAT-3/WASC submarine Internet cable in Benin. The research is conducted by using a Difference in Difference estimator and observing the treatment effect of the Internet cable on the country’s exports. Previous studies have mo
I avgörandet UsedSoft slog EU-domstolen fast att konsumtionsprincipen omfattar digitala exemplar av datorprogram under vissa förutsättningar. Förhandsavgörandet har följts av en diskussion kring huruvida principen även ska tillämpas på andra kategorier av digitala verk. Syftet med framställningen är att utreda om så är fallet genom att undersöka hur digitala verk förhåller sig till datorprogramdirIn the UsedSoft case, the CJEU concluded that the principle of exhaustion extends to digital copies of computer programs under certain conditions. This ruling has been followed by a discussion on whether or not the principle applies to other categories of digital works as well. The purpose of this thesis is to assess if that is the case by examining how digital works relate to the scope of the Sof
In this comparative study I’ve chosen to look at the foreign policies underlying the statements made by the U.S. and EU directed against Hamas. The U.S. and EU cooperate on a higher level than expected in the difficulties surrounding Hamas and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in general, and their cooperation is mainly represented by the Quartet of the Middle East and its work. The Quartet is the
In this thesis, the correlation between aggregated buy-/sell-pressure and price change is analyzed, something often referred to as price impact. The purpose is not only to find a model that can explain how prices change given a certain traded volume, but also to see how much of the variance in price changes results from the actual buy- or sell-pressure. Analysis is conducted on monthly trading data
Legitimacy has been a key concept in political philosophy since Plato’s Republic. In this degree project I examine the way in which Shakespeare portrays royal legitimacy in seven of his History plays: Richard II, Henry IV parts I-II, Henry V and Henry VI parts I-III. The objective is to examine the representation of two aspects of royal legitimacy and how they relate to each other: the inheritance
The Global Compact on Refugees, which is to be adopted in the autumn of 2018, represents an aspiration on the part of the international community towards strengthened solidarity with refugees and affected host countries and is the most ambitious instrument of its kind to date. Indeed, the creation of the Refugee Compact is timely, although perhaps also somewhat surprising in an era of rising popul
Abstract: Interest conflicts has been a major issue when it comes to urban planning especially when it comes to traffic planning. The purpose of this thesis is to identify these conflicts and why they appear in the planning process. The aim of the research is to evaluate what can be done in order to ensure that these conflicts does not affect the planning of sustainable cities in a dissatisfactory
A recent body of empirical studies has given us a reason to expect that an influx of low-skilled workers can increase high skilled female market labour supply. Most of these studies, however, have focused on developed countries and on investigating the impact as it pertains to immigration. Believing that this same effect might hold in the case of internal migration, in this study, I employ a shift-s
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to find out how the PMM system can be used to remain resilient to a change in the environment and so continue to provide appropriate guidance to managers in real time. Methodology: The paper is based on a qualitative research method with primarily an abductive approach to derive insight about a PMM system’s use to remain resilient to a change in the environment.
