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Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Under de senaste åren har det varit mycket fokus på biobränsle som ett sätt att reducera konsumtionen av fossila bränslen och utsläppet av växthusgaser. Flytande biobränslen kan blandas med bensin och diesel som ersättning för fossila bränslen i transportsektorn. Blandningar av biobränsle och bensin eller diesel kan användas direkt i omodifierade motorer och detUnder the Kyoto protocol the European Union (EU) has committed itself to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 92% of 1990 levels. Carbon sequestered in agriculture is allowed to be countered against emissions to help meet the targets. Biofuels represent an infinite possibility to sequester carbon in agriculture, as they reduce emissions by replacing fossil fuels. The EU has set the target that

With the evolving technology of mobile electronics and other forms of communication methods, an increasing demand of speech intelligibility is introduced. In a conference room for example, multiple microphones are placed directly in front of the speaker in order to pick up clean speech. However, several challenges still exist. For instance the distance between speaker and microphone will not be fi

About 90% of all startups fail to become successful, and the most significant reason is due to premature scaling. Limited research has priorly been conducted in the borderland between startups and supply chain. Explicitly on how a startup should go about defining its supply chain objective and how to measure its performance. Nevertheless, the high-tech startup industry sees potential in gaining in

Purpose: The study aimed to investigate which antecedents affect consumers’ perception of the authenticity of brand activism. Methodology: The study followed a deductive approach. Thereby, hypotheses derived from the theory were quantitatively tested using structural equation modelling based on data collected from 305 participants in a web-based survey. Theory: The study was based on the idea th

Organ shortage has been a large issue all over the world, almost for as long as there have been organ transplants. Other than the straightforward issues like the organs not matching between the donor and the recipient, limited availability of suitable donors, logistic problems involved with the transplantation procedure etc., another large problem is the sociological perspective on organ transplan

A qualitative study of family members and spouses experiences regarding the depression and the support One third of the Swedish population has at some point of their lives been afflicted with a depression, and although there are many interventions to be had, a majority of them focus solely on the individual with the depression. Shedding light on how family members and spouses experience the suppo

Teachers’ experiences of school leadership behaviour and the social contexts in which these have taken place interest me. I aim to identify and understand what Swedish secondary school language teachers’ reflections are on what they require in terms of leadership from their principals in different contexts in order to gain personal job satisfaction. The objective is that this research can then fun

The behavioural variant of Alzheimer’s disease (bvAD) is characterized by early predominant behavioural changes, mimicking the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), which is characterized by social cognition deficits and altered biometric responses to socioemotional cues. These functions remain understudied in bvAD. We investigated multiple social cognition components (i.e. emoti

This investigation consisted of developing and evaluating solar dryers together with semi-permeable membrane pouches for drying juicy fruits in low-income tropical countries. Two design iterations were carried out including prototype modelling and testing. The latest developed solar dryers were a passive and an active solar dryer. Modelling was initially carried out mathematically using an equatio

This thesis is about traditional and modern architecture in Casablanca, Morocco. Morocco is located in north-western Africa and Casablanca is the country's largest city with a population of 3.3 million (2011). Morocco has a long history with many different rulers which have left its mark on the country's architecture. The old, traditional architecture of Casablanca is in the old medina, Me

The aim of this study was to investigate mental skills use among adolescents practicing sports on elite levels at an upper high school education with focus on sports. Different education profiles, school years and gender were looked at in two different contexts to see whether they affect mental skills. The questionnaire PACE, investigating mental skills in 13 different scales such as process goal,

In Sweden, a phenomenon that is becoming more problematic is heatwaves. The summer of 2018 was one of the warmest summers recorded and the need for adaptive measures against the negative effects has never been more urgent. One municipality that are looking for how to handle this is Helsingborg’s municipality. The study focus on how nursing homes in Helsingborg experienced and handled the effects

Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskor i vården kommer möta patienter som av olika anledningar har skadat sig själva. Alla personer som söker vård ska behandlas med respekt och värdighet. Men personer som söker vård för självförvållade skador upplever ett negativt bemötande vilket leder till att de blir avskräckta att söka vård i framtiden. Ett bristande bemötande kan innebära ett onödigt vårdlidande för personBackground: Nurses in healthcare will encounter patients who for various reasons have harmed themselves. All persons seeking healthcare must be treated with respect and dignity. But patients who seek care for self-inflicted injuries often experience negative encounters, which discourages them from seeking healthcare in the future. A lack of nursing care can mean unnecessary suffering for the patie

Denna uppsats behandlar tillkomsten av 1934 och 1941 års steriliseringslagar. En kronologisk genomgång av utredningarna som föregick lagarna följs av ett avsnitt med tankar kring steriliseringarna från nutida författare. 1929 års steriliseringsutredning präglas av rashygieniska tankar. Man ville att steriliseringslagen skulle omfatta sinnesslöa, sinnessjuka och fallandesjuka. Sterilisering skulle This is an essay concerning the establishment of the sterilization laws of 1934 and 1941. A chronological review of the enquiries preceding the laws is followed by a chapter with thoughts about the sterilizations from contemporary authors. The enquiry concerning sterilization from 1929 is characterized by eugenic thoughts. They wanted the law to be applicable on the feeble-minded, the insane and

The aim of this essay is to examine which help a group of women with eating disorders had from thier treatment in daycare in 2004. The aim is to examine how the women have experienced this treatment and how they live today. The central questions are: what was their life situation like before the treatment, what was their experience of the treatment, how could the treatment have been better and how

Background: Regimens based on ibrutinib alone and lenalidomide and rituximab in combination show high activity in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma. We hypothesised that the combination of all three drugs would improve efficacy compared with previously published data on either regimen alone. Methods: In this multicentre, open-label, single-arm, phase 2 trial, we enrolled pa

Purpose: Although business models that deliver sustainability are increasingly popular in the literature, few tools that assist in sustainable business modelling have been identified. This paper investigates how businesses might create balanced social, environmental and economic value through integrating sustainability more fully into the core of their business. A value mapping tool is developed t

Hydropower makes up nearly half of Sweden's electrical energy production. However, the distribution of the water resources is not aligned with demand, as most of the inflows to the reservoirs occur during the spring flood period. This means that carefully planned reservoir management is required to help redistribute water resources to ensure optimal production and accurate forecasts of the spring

Overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide, but the extent in breast cancer patients is unknown. The two aims were to study secular trends in preoperative body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and breast volume and their impacts on clinical outcome. BMI, waist circumference, and breast volume were measured preoperatively in 24–99-year-old primary breast cancer patients (n = 640) in Swed