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The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the exposure of work-related threats and violence among social workers. Specifically, those social workers who work within the social services for income support in Sweden. Moreover, the study was also aimed to explore how these social workers were affected by threatful and violent situations, and how they managed such situations when those aros
The aim of this thesis was to compare different ways of dissociating tissue - specifically breast cancer tissue - and sorting out tumour cells and immune cells from the dissociated tissue using acoustophoresis in a microfluidic chip. Due to ethical issues with using tumour tissues to work on the methodology of a project, ultimately only healthy breast tissue was used in this work. Two dissociatio
Syftet med examensarbetet har varit att utveckla och utvärdera ett realtidssystem som utför analys i molnet och lokalt med hjälp av AWS. De viktigaste målen har varit att skapa ett system som är så snabbt som möjligt och att analysera vilken del av analysen som kan göras i molnet och vilken del som måste göras lokalt. Den förväntade nyttan med systemet är de minskade utvecklings- och underhållskosThe purpose of the degree project has been to develop and evaluate a real-time analysis system which performs analysis in the cloud and locally using AWS. The most important goals have been to create a system which is as fast as possible and to reflect over which part of the analysis can be made in the cloud and which part has to be made local. The expected utility of the system is a consequence o
Our interest to perform this study surfaced after watching an investigative documentary (SVT 2022) about a vision-impaired woman having her right to assistance withdrawn for the reason that, according to the court, she did not experience “significant difficulties in her daily life”. The reason for the withdrawal was that she no longer meet the set requirement according to the requisite specified i
Title: Improving the packaging material availability for internal testing - A case study at Tetra Pak Keywords: Supply chain management, process mapping, procurement, visibility, order handling, supply chain information systems. Background: For any business, optimizing the supply chain is beneficial and can be a crucial competitive advantage. Additionally, the significance of optimization is eve
This project seeks to contribute to the ongoing shift in how we respond to climate change—approaching it with the urgency it demands. It is located in Vienna’s 15th district and builds on spatial analysis, mapping of underused areas, and a contextual reading of socio-climatic conditions to highlight both spatial restrictions and hidden potentials. The selected site serves as a test field for a vis
Brottsligheten inom den kriminella miljön utförs idag oftare i offentliga miljöer. Den allvarliga brottsutvecklingen i Sverige har föranlett ett stort behov av brottspreventiva åtgärder. En åtgärd som vidtagits är lag (2024:7) om preventiva vistelseförbud som syftar till att förebygga brott med anknytning till kriminella nätverk och öka tryggheten på allmänna platser. Ett preventivt vistelseförbCriminal activity is today carried out in public places. The serious crime trend in Sweden has led to a great need for crime prevention measures. One measure that has been put into place is the law on preventive exclusion orders (lag (2024:7) om preventiva vistelseförbud), which aims to prevent crimes linked to criminal networks and increase safety in public places. A preventive exclusion order
The global food system, population growth, increased wealth, shifting diets and an overall larger demand for processed food, meat and dairy, has led to increased pressure on land, water and energy. The environmental implications of this have taken part in the establishment of international institutions which aims to regulate agriculture production methods, and thereby reduce these adverse impacts.
Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS) are envisioned to have a significant number of applications in future wireless network systems by reconfiguring the signal propagation to improve system performance. In particular, the IRS's cell elements can independently reflect the incident signal by tuning its phase and achieving passive beamforming to enhance the received signal of the user equipment.
Globalization has led to an increase in competition between places in hopes of attracting mobile capital and investments as well as new inhabitants and tourists. Nature-based tourism has become one of the most steadily growing markets for tourism in Europe. In order for a place to be attractive it has to have a brand that can be constructed depending what sort of resources a place has. A place is
In this thesis the subject has been to investigate if there is any connection between government agency presence and tax revenue in the municipality. Previous studies in Sweden have more focused at the intergovernmental relation between state and local level and especially they have focused on government grants and the effects. But this thesis recognizes that the government can also shift the dist
This exploratory research intends to understand the driving forces within a regional innovation system (RIS), analysing the example of a rural area in Germany. It seeks to investigate how RIS help to create sustainable tourism products in rural areas. The theoretical framework focusses on the concepts of rural tourism, innovation and sustainability. Rural areas are often less developed than urban
Assessment of bilingual children in only one language fails to acknowledge their distributed linguistic competence and has been shown to overidentify language disorder in bilingual populations. However, other factors, sometimes associated with bilingualism, may also contribute to low results in language assessments. Our aim was to examine the impact of these factors on language abilities. We used
Background and aims: Betony (Betonica officinalis L.) is one of the rarest and mostspectacular plants in the Scandinavian flora. A long-term question has been whether it is spontaneous or introduced, or whether it comprises both spontaneous and introduced populations. This study aimed to answer this question by analyzing sequence data from the nuclear external transcribed spacer (ETS) region and t
Corynebacterium is a genus that can contaminate blood cultures and also cause severe infections like infective endocarditis (IE). Our purpose was to investigate microbiological and clinical features associated with contamination and true infection. A retrospective population-based study of Corynebacterium bacteremia 2012–2017 in southern Sweden was performed. Corynebacterium isolates were species
Objective: The incidence of autoimmune diseases, especially inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), has increased substantially. Globally, there are vast differences varying from 0.2/105 in some Asian countries to over 80/105 in the Faroe Islands. Environmental factors have been suggested as triggers. The aim was to investigate the incidence and prevalence of IBD in the 33 municipalities in the county S
Background: The Bethesda system for cytopathology (TBSRTC) is a 6-tier diagnostic framework developed to standardize thyroid cytopathology reporting. The aim of this study was to determine the risk of malignancy (ROM) for each Bethesda category. Methods: Thyroidectomy-related data from 314 facilities in 22 countries were entered into the following outcome registries: CESQIP (North America), Eurocr
The transportation industry landscape is going through a massive transformation due to trends such as autonomous and electrified vehicles. The electrification trend has already started to display its ample influence on the automotive industry. New modern power and drivetrains need to be designed and manufactured based on the raising automakers’ requirements e.g. higher performance, better noise vi
Northern peatlands store nearly one-third of terrestrial carbon (C) stocks while covering only 3% of the global landmass; nevertheless, the drivers of C cycling in these often-waterlogged ecosystems are different from those that control C dynamics in upland forested soils. To explore how multiple abiotic and biotic characteristics of bogs interact to shape microbial activity in a northern, foreste
