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The unified patent court is currently one of the most intensely discussed areas in patent law. The Court will in essence have exclusive jurisdiction to hear disputes concerning European patents. In intellectual property law the possibility of interim measures such as interlocutory injunctions are of great importance, not the least in patent law. In Sweden, interlocutory injunctions and legal prov

Husby faces great challenges for safety and equality in the public space. Women report that they can not move freely at the city center without feeling oppressed and insecure, and a sense of powerlessness is found among the residents. In 2015 the state-owned housing company Svenska bostäder started up a project called Praxagora, with an aim to create a safe and including public space. To achieve t

Denna studie syftar till att ta reda på hur nyexaminerade musiklärare ser på sin identitet som musiklärare och huruvida de också identifierar sig som musiker. Genom en kvalitativ intervjustudie har tre informanter svarat på frågor kring valet att bli musiklärare, musiklärarutbildningen och deras tidiga yrkessocialisation. Vägen mot ett yrkesliv som musiklärare förefaller inte för informanterna somThis study aims to find out how newly graduated music teachers identify themselves as music teachers and whether they also identify themselves as musicians. Through a qualitative interview study, three informants have answered questions about the decision of becoming a music teacher. The path towards a professional life as a music teacher does not seem as a straight line. It is described as a comb

Sammanslagningar mellan organisationer är idag ett vanligt förekommande fenomen inom näringslivet, detta på grund av en strävan efter att bli mer kostnadseffektiv och konkurrenskraftig på den rådande marknaden. Det här examensarbetet syftar till att undersöka hur medarbetare upplever kommunikativa insatser i samband med en sammanslagning, vilken inverkan dessa kan ha på medarbetarnas inställning tMergers between organisations is a commonly occurring phenomena in the business world of the 21th century, due to a pursuit of becoming more cost-effective and competitive on a national or international market. This bachelor thesis aims to investigate how employees experience communication strategies and which impact they may have on attitudes when an organisation has been merged, and if it is pos

Kollektivtrafik är ett bra sätt för människor att resa mer socialt och miljövänligt. Det är därför viktigt att ha ett välfungerande system för kollektivtrafik. En stor del av det är att de pendlare som reser med tåg har en bra upplevelse. Om tågen är överdrivna med människor förlorar den sin konkurrenskraft med andra transportmedel som bilar. I denna rapport har undersökt hur andelen pendlare har

The world is currently facing many great challenges, including a rising inequality as a result of the benefits occurring from economic development accrues to some individuals on the expense of others. This is an issue which is even more significant in the Global South. Hence, social innovations have been proposed as an important factor to tackle this problem. Yet, many social innovations fail not

Bakgrund: Tio procent av kvinnorna i Sverige lever med endometrios som kan leda till svåra smärtor och påverkad livskvalitet. Syfte: Att undersöka hur aktiviteter i hemmet upplevs av kvinnor som lever med endometrios. Metod: Nio kvalitativa intervjuer genomfördes med kvinnor som lever med endometrios. Datan analyserades genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Det övergripande temat var; utfBackground: Ten percent of women in Sweden are living with endometriosis, which can lead to severe pain and affect life quality. Aim: How activities in the home are experienced by women living with endometriosis. Method: Nine qualitative interviews were conducted with women living with endometriosis. Data was analyzed through qualitative content analysis. Results: The overall theme was; The per

The aim of this study was to, according to eight managers stories in a service-orientated professions, narrative theory and method, see what factors have made it possible or acted as obstacles to reach a management position and pursue leadership in that position. The used method has been a qualitative analysis with a narrative standpoint and semi-structured interviews. The main results showed that

The aim of the study was to investigate how substance-abusing parents, and children with substance-abusing parents, are portrayed in national guidance documents published by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen). The method used was discourse analysis, and the theoretical framework was social constructivism and discourse theory. It was found that the publications carri

Antalet rapporterade cancerfall i Sverige har mer än dubblerats sedan 1970-talet. Cancerfonden rapporterade att 61100 personer blev diagnostiserade med cancer under 2015 och att prostatacancer är den mest förekommande typen av cancer. Ett vanligt sätt att behandla prostatacancer är extern strålbehandling, där en strålkälla (vanligtvis en linjäraccelerator) som befinner sig utanför kroppen används Purpose/objective The main objective was to create a software that automates the process of creating treatment plans used for Pareto front-based dose planning for prostate cancer patients. A second objective/purpose was to add a robustness test to this program to evaluate the effect of prostate movements on the treatment plans. Material/method An IronPython program was designed to control and col

During the Covid-19 pandemic, care for the elderly has attracted major attention, leading to changes in the way home care service is being carried out. In accordance with the Public Health Agency guidelines, this has resulted in distance measures and in the use of extensive protective equipment when dealing with the elderly. The aim of this study was to investigate how these protective measures ha

Co-dependency is a controversial concept and a social problem affecting a large group of parents whose children are addicts. The purpose of this study was to investigate how parents with co-dependents experience and describe their situation in relation to their child with substance abuse problems, and how they experience and describe the help and support of Swedish society. Material and method: To

Visste du att många läkemedel tillverkas av genmodifierade bakterier? Också ofta i genmodifierade celler från däggdjur, till exempel från kinesiska hamstrars äggstockar. Läkemedel producerade i celler är de snabbast växande på marknaden, och kan till exempel användas för att producera insulin eller ett COVID-19 vaccin. I denna studie har en ny metod utvecklats för att säkerställa att sådana läkemeHost cell protein (HCP) is quantified in the purification steps of biopharmaceutical production and is part of ensuring the purity of the final drug product. The gold standard method for HCP quantification is enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), but a new approach is proposed here with fully customized bio-layer interferometry assays for yeast and chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The new

Bakgrund: ADHD är en av de vanligaste funktionsnedsättningarna hos barn och unga vilket kan påverka individens förmåga till aktivitet och delaktighet. En vanlig konsekvens är att barnet kan få svårt att klara skolgången vilket skapar lidande för eleven och familjen, samt utgör en stor kostnad för samhället. Arbetsterapi i skolan syftar till att möjliggöra aktivitet och delaktighet för individen. Background: ADHD is one of the most common diagnoses among children and adolescents in Sweden, which can affect the individual's ability to activity and participation. A common consequence is that the child may find it difficult to cope with schooling, which generates suffering for the student, the family and constitutes a great cost to society. Occupational therapy in school aims to enable pa

Syftet med studien är att undersöka musiklärares uppfattningar av sin yrkesidentitet. Vidare syftar studien till att utforska vilka faktorer som bidrar till formandet av musiklärarnas yrkesidentitet. Studien genomfördes med en kvalitativ metod. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med fem behöriga musiklärare på ett gymnasium. Empiriska data som ligger till grund för analysen och resultaten, The aim of the thesis is to investigate conceptions of teacher identity among upper secondary school music teachers. Furthermore, the study aims to explore which factors contribute to the construction of music teachers’ professional identity. The investigation was conducted using a qualitative method. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with five qualified upper secondary school music teac

We live in a time that some choose to call the psychedelic renaissance. Once again, after a period of silence in the scientific world, studies about psychedelics and their effects continues to bring knowledge to the subject. In this renaissance of psychedelics there’s still somewhat a gap in research regarding the recreational use of the substances. The aim of this study has been to seek a better

Most of all deaths from cancer are due to tumor metastasis, specifically 9 out of 10. Metastasis is associated with a number of factors, including cancer cell motility, tumor adhesive property and cancer shape. As a result, the dynamics, development and consequent prognosis of tumors are still not well characterized. The development of immunotherapies for cancer has been a focus for research in re

Background: Today, many companies use a cost-based and sometimes competition-based pricing approach. Since academia agrees that value based pricing is superior for creating profit, the problem is not in identifying an ideal pricing strategy, but to understand and facilitate the transformation process towards value-based pricing. Only a limited amount of research has so far been put on understandin

The number of accidents in the construction industry has always been high and despite the many efforts made by national legislation and the companies themselves they remain alarmingly so. The purpose of this report is to examine how workers see their own working-environment and how they think that safety performance on construction sites may be improved. This is achieved by conducting interviews w