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Scour is an important cause of bridge failures. This article investigates the impact of climate change on bridge-pier scour in all 246 Swedish catchment areas. Although a few previous studies assessed the impact of climate change on bridge-pier scour in other countries, none of those studies identified the locations within a certain country where climate change is projected to have the highest imp
PURPOSE: Women with current or previous drug use are at risk of poor breast and cervical cancer outcomes. While screening is known to decrease cancer mortality, screening participation is sparsely investigated among drug dependent women. The aim of this study was to explore experiences of breast and cervical cancer screening-including barriers and suggested interventions to promote increased parti
Acute and chronic lung diseases are a major cause of global mortality. While pharmacological approaches exist, no therapies are curative. The only option at end-stage disease is lung transplantation which is hampered by a chronic shortage of donor organs. Therefore, there is a high interest to develop alternative approaches to use regenerative medicine approaches to generate new lung tissue in the
According to the proposal for a minimum reporting guideline for an eye tracking study by Holmqvist et al. (2022), the accuracy (in degrees) of eye tracking data should be reported. Currently, there is no easy way to determine accuracy for wearable eye tracking recordings. To enable determining the accuracy quickly and easily, we have produced a simple validation procedure using a printable poster
Research on the efficacy of hypnosis applications continues to grow, but there remain major gaps between the science and clinical practice. One challenge has been a lack of consensus on which applications of hypnosis are efficacious based on research evidence. In 2018, 6 major hypnosis organizations collaborated to form the Task Force for Establishing Efficacy Standards for Clinical Hypnosis. This
Korean fathers gained their first entitlement to take one-year paid parental leave in 2001. The policy has since continuously advanced, but as of 2020, fathers’ take-up rates remain low at 3.4%. This dissertation raises the question of why Korean fathers do not take parental leave, and what the nature of the underlying sociocultural contexts is that precipitates this discrepancy. To seek answers t
The challenge of urbanisation, caused by an increase in city population, is increasing demand for imported food products. Food supplies may be impacted by the exponential increase in food demand caused by a constantly expanding global population. Growing and producing food in urban areas has now become a common practice. Addressing food system challenges through the adoption of urban farms on gree
Introduction Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major risk factor for ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA), and AF detection can be challenged by asymptomatic and paroxysmal presentation. Long-term ECG monitoring after ischaemic stroke or TIA is recommended by all major societies in cardiology and cerebrovascular medicine as a secondary prophylactic measure. However, data on stroke red
The management of breast cancer during pregnancy (PrBC) is a relatively rare indication and an area where no or little evidence is available since randomized controlled trials cannot be conducted. In general, advances related to breast cancer (BC) treatment outside pregnancy cannot always be translated to PrBC, because both the interests of the mother and of the unborn should be considered. Eviden
In the continuous work on improving product quality and reducing energy consumption at The Danish Steel Works Ltd. the importance of optimal furnace operation has been recognised in many different contexts. Therefore a joint project with the Department of Automatic Control at Lund Institute of Technology has been started with the purpose of developing a novel slab temperature control algorithm for
Rätten till grundläggande behov och mänskliga rättigheter gäller alla, obero- ende av ett frihetsberövande, en funktionsnedsättning eller en kombination av dessa omständigheter. Ett frihetsberövande rättfärdigar visserligen inskränk- ning i bl.a. rätten till frihet, men ska inte medföra mer långtgående inskränk- ningar i rättigheter än vad som är nödvändigt för brottsbekämpningens syfte. Trots attThe right to fundamental needs and human rights applies to everyone, regard- less of whether they are deprived of their liberty, have a disability, or are affected by a combination of these circumstances. Although deprivation of liberty may justify certain restrictions, such as limitations on the right to freedom, it should not result in more extensive restrictions on rights than are necessary to
In southwestern Scania there is a paleovalley, the Alnarp Valley, which holds a confined aquifer called Alnarpsströmmen. Its geology consists mainly of sand and gravel and it is generally confined by one or more layers of clayey till above, and the limestone bedrock below. In collaboration with Region Skåne and SGU, this thesis aims to gather information about Alnarpsströmmen using two geophysical
Syftet med uppsatsen är att få ökad kunskap om studenters attityder till försäljning av sexuella tjänster. En enkätundersökning på Lunds universitet har genomförts under våren 2018. Uppsatsen testar hypotesen att kontexten som dessa studenter växt upp i med rådande sexköpslagstiftning utgör en starkare påverkan än trenden med en mer liberal inställning till försäljning av sexuella tjänster. Det teThis essay’s purpose is to gain increased knowledge about students’ attitudes towards the sale of sexual services. An online survey was conducted at Lund’s university during the spring of 2018. The essay tests the hypothesis that the context where these students grew up, with the Swedish sex purchase legislation, constitutes a stronger influence than the trend of a more liberal attitude towards th
År 2014 antogs direktiv 2014/65EU, även kallat MiFID II. Direktivet reglerar bland annat hur finansiella institut ska organisera sin verksamhet för att skydda kundernas intresse i de fall kunderna handlar med finansiella instrument. Direktivet är skrivet med ett starkt kundskydd och harmoniserad inre marknad som mål. Två år senare, 2016, antogs direktiv 2016/97, även kallat IDD. IDD är motsvarandeThe financial crisis 2008 revealed several weaknesses in the regulation on the financial markets. It was evident that a new, stricter, regulation was needed to be created. Directive 2014/65EU, MiFID II and directive 2016/97, IDD, is a part of the new financial regulation. MiFID II regulates how financial institutes can interact with investors, when investors seek to buy or sell financial instrumen
The purpose of this study is to discover the characteristics of consumer brand relationships between consumers and woke brands and thus contribute to the research field of consumer brand relations. This will be achieved by looking to the relationship in the context of postmodern consumers and specifically three purposively selected cases; Pepsi, Always and Gillette. The study is based on three ca
This project began with a comparative study of Hasami, one of Japan’s key ceramic production regions, and the ceramic tableware design of Nordic countries. By exploring their histories, cultural contexts, and design values, the project investigates how two geographically distant yet conceptually aligned traditions approach everyday objects. Through this cross-cultural lens, the project identifies
This thesis investigates why tariffs, once the backbone of U.S. federal revenue, cannot replace income taxes as the primary revenue source in the modern American economy. Using a systematic literature review and secondary data analysis approach, the study contrasts the structural conditions of the pre-1913 tariff regime, characterized by a goods-dominated economy and minimal federal spending, with
Modern cloud-based machine learning (ML) services raise significant privacy concerns, as users must share potentially sensitive data with service providers. Private Decision Tree Evaluation (PDTE) addresses this by allowing encrypted queries to be evaluated against a model without revealing either party’s data, typically using Homomorphic Encryption (HE). While existing HE-based frameworks have de
