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Background: The aim of the study is to evaluate the overall accuracy of the surface-guided radiotherapy (SGRT) workflow through a comprehensive commissioning and quality assurance procedures and assess the potential benefits of deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) radiotherapy as a cardiac and lung dose reduction approach for left-sided breast cancer irradiation. Materials and methods: Accuracy and

Background: Recent findings have shown that imaging voluntarily activated motor units (MUs) by decomposing ultrasound-based displacement images provides estimates of unfused tetanic signals evoked by spinal motoneurons’ neural discharges (spikes). Two methods have been suggested to estimate its spike trains: band-pass filter (BPM) and Haar wavelet transform (HWM). However, the methods’ optimal par

Purpose: Prostate specific antigen (PSA) exists in the serum in several molecular forms that can be measured by immunodetectable assays: free PSA, PSA complexed to alpha 1-antichymotrypsin (complexed PSA) and total PSA, which represents the sum of the free and complexed forms. We determined the normal distribution of values and established the appropriate reference ranges for these 3 molecular for

Many species up- or downregulate their resting metabolic rate (RMR) when they encounter favourable or unfavourable feeding conditions, respectively. This is thought to promote faster growth when food is abundant and conserve energy reserves when food is scarce. The time it takes to express metabolic plasticity remain little studied. Here, we develop a conceptual model showing how rapid or slow met

Exercise induced bronchial (EIB) constriction is a common and highly specific feature of pediatric asthma and should be diagnosed with an exercise challenge test (ECT). The impact of EIB in asthmatic children's daily lives is immense, considering the effects on both physical and psychosocial development. Monitoring childhood asthma by ECT's can provide insight into daily life disease burden and th

Bacterial exotoxins with ADP-ribosyltransferase activity can be divided into distinct clades based on their domain organization. Exotoxins from several clades are known to modify actin at Arg177; but of the 14-3-3 dependent exotoxins only Aeromonas salmonicida exoenzyme T (AexT) has been reported to ADP-ribosylate actin. Given the extensive similarity among the 14-3-3 dependent exotoxins, we initi

The increasing pressure of climate change urges state leaders to transform economies to low-carbon alternatives on a local, national and global scale. The aim of this study is to analyze how effective the Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy has been so far in fostering inclusive rural development in the agricultural sector in Ethiopia, by applying a Triple-Bottom-Line (TBL) approach th

The aim of the study was to investigate what measures principals take in order to raise the amount of students who finish secondary school with a leaving certificate. Furthermore, it was intended to investigate why these methods have been successful. The selection of respondents consisted of principals at four different schools in southern Sweden. Data was collected through four semi-structured in

: I mars 2020 ställdes världen på ända då WHO utnämner covid-19 som en pandemi. Handeln, som sedan tidigare redan står inför stora utmaningar, tvingas ställa om. För den fysiska handeln medför detta behov av att förändra den fysiska miljön inom vilka kunder och medarbetare vistas, för att kunna säkerställa social distansering. Med utgångspunkt i detta syftar studien till att ge en mångfacetterad b

Small-scale fisheries are highly important in terms of economic productivity and environmental relevance in Mexico’s Northwest. The Santa María Bay (SMB), in Sinaloa, México, is the largest bay in the state and is highly productive in terms of fishing and the economic activities derived from it. It is also home to endemic species and the region’s largest mangrove wetland. It faces environmental an

Reducing emissions in the basic materials sector, which account for 25% of the global greenhouse gas emissions is a pressing climate mitigation task. Investments into decarbonising this sector are critical and therefore raising capital though climate finance is gaining attention. Green bonds are a new asset class that incorporate sustainability criteria into bonds. Despite the increasing use of gr

This thesis examines a detailed development plan process that took place in a officially designated built cultural heritage. Through conceptualising cultural heritage as a process of formative actions by actors, this thesis aims to understand how these formative actions worked and formed the cultural heritage in relation to the construction of a new building in the cultural heritage. This thesis f

I och med införandet av Sällskapsdirektivet (2014/26/EU) lyckades EU:s arbete med att harmonisera området för kollektiv rättighetsförvaltning. Den nya digitala miljön hade skapat ett större behov för EU att reglera området och bidra till att alla medlemsstater utgår från samma regler. Tidigare hade organisationernas förvaltning sett annorlunda ut eftersom det saknades en harmoniserad reglering. DiWith the introduction of the Collective Rights Management Directive (2014/26/EU), the EU's efforts to harmonize the area of collective rights management succeeded. The new digital environment had created a greater need for the EU to regulate the area and to contribute to all Member States based on the same rules. In the past, the management of the organizations had looked different because the

Den 4 maj 2021 publicerades betänkandet Ett förbud mot rasistiska organisationer (SOU 2021:27) med ett lagförslag om kriminalisering av rasistiska organisationer. Frågan om att införa ett sådant förbud i Sverige har varit återkommande sedan FN:s internationella konvention om avskaffandet av alla former av rasdiskriminering ratificerades på 1970-talet. Av konventionen följer en förpliktelse att förOn 4 May 2021 the report Ett förbud mot rasistiska organisationer (SOU 2021:27) was published, presenting a bill on criminalising racist organisations. The issue of prohibiting such organisations has been recurrent in Sweden since the ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in the 1970s. The UN convention requires the state parties to p

Denna kvalitativa fallstudie undersöker coronapandemins effekter på chefs- och ledarskapet för fyra chefer i offentlig förvaltning. Fokus på effekter som rör chefernas interaktion med medarbetare samt om, och i så fall hur, cheferna anpassat sitt ledarskap på grund av ett hembaserat arbetssätt under coronapandemin. Syftet i studien är att undersöka hur coronapandemin har påverkat chefers upplevels

Den här uppsatsen undersöker Johanne Lykke Holms roman Strega (2020) ur ett gurleskt perspektiv med fokus på genusrepresentationer. Särskilt teoretiskt fokus läggs på att konceptualisera romanens häxtematik och hur den så kallade häxgestalten kan tolkas utifrån ett gotiskt och gurleskt ramverk. För att förstå hur gurlesk, genus och häxgestaltens figurationer verkar i romanen inkluderas även Lykke