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A major challenge for a person with diabetes is to adapt insulin dosage regimens and food intake to keep blood glucose within tolerable limits during daily life activities. The accurate prediction of blood glucose levels in response to inputs would support the patients with invaluable information for appropriate on-the-spot decision making concerning the management of the disease. Against this bac
The overall aims of this thesis were to improve prediction, diagnostics and knowledge on epidemiology of sepsis. In paper I, we developed and evaluated an integrated platform for rapid analysis of sepsis-causing organisms directly from blood samples. Testing with blood samples spiked with bacteria and samples from septic patients indicate that the detection limit of the system is in the upper part
This chapter is concerned with the Nordic region as a context fostering a distinct place branding scholarship and practice. The endeavour goes beyond demonstrating particular practices or significance of branding phenomena in this region. Rather, the aim is to compile and structure a growing body of research dealing with Nordic place branding and assess its global relevance and academic implicati
Anmälningar av nyutkommen litteratur inom nordiska språk och äldre nordisk litteratur
While Lars Norén’s confrontational and self-exposing En dramatikers dagbok (A Dramatist’s Journal, 2008) already has spurred discussions on the nature of confession in today’s mediatised literary public sphere, less has been said about the aesthetic project of the journal. By tracing this project back to Norén’s poetry of the 1960s as well as by comparing it to works by Lyn Hejinian and Kenneth Go
This article examines the expansive commercialization of various neospiritual and pseudoscientific practices currently mobilized in late modern Swedish pursuits of identity, meaning, and health. The focus is on the emergence and marketing of new entrepreneurs who have established themselves as “coaches” promoting personal development, and how they organize their own systems of education and certif
New Winds in Mission Theology: A Comparative Analysis of Three Recent Mission Documents With the Lausanne Movement’s Cape Town Commitment (CTC), World Council of Churches’ Together Towards Life (TTL) and Pope Francis’ Evangelii Gaudium (EG) the three major ecclesiastic families have updated their mission theology. These documents witness for a certain convergence especially through the way in whic
The aim of the study is to research upper secondary teachers’ attitudes towards, and use of, critical perspectives in teaching literature in the subject of English in Sweden. This is done in relation to the inequality issues identified in the Swedish school context, the Swedish National Curriculum for the Upper Secondary School and the syllabi for English, along with a theoretical framework based
Cities have a crucial importance from the sustainability point of view. More than 50% of the global population lives in cities, therefore urban dwellers’ environmental knowledge can be of critical importance. Many argue that an important part of environmental knowledge is acquired outside of a formal school setting, therefore in this thesis I explore learning processes connected to community garde
In this thesis the question concerning possible influence of language on thinking was addressed by investigating constituent orders in non-verbal representations of motion events. Forty-nine participants, 25 native speakers of Swedish with the default order SVO (or Agent-Act-Patient), and Kurdish with SOV (Agent-Patient-Act) were recruited in Sweden and 24 in Iraqi Kurdistan to take part in an exp
Nya versioner av gamla anticancer läkemedel Varje år dör miljontals av människor av olika typer av cancer runt om i världen. Cancer kan behandlas på olika sätt, och en av de vanligaste behandlingsmetoderna är kemoterapi. Antracykliner är idag några av de mest använda och mest effektiva kemoterapeutiska läkemedel som finns. De första antracyklinerna, daunorubicin och doxorubicin, isolerades på 1960Fast and convenient synthesis of a daunosamine thioglycoside donor and the aromatic O-glycosylation with simple phenols Anthracyclines are currently some of the most widely used and most effective chemotherapeutic agents. Since the first isolation of daunorubicin and doxorubicin, a large number of semi-synthetic anthracycline analogues have been synthesized. However, there are no reports of analog
