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Dynamic vegetation models are useful tools for analysing terrestrial ecosystem processes and their interactions with climate through variations in carbon and water exchange. Long-term changes in structure and composition (vegetation dynamics) caused by altered competitive strength between plant functional types (PFTs) are attracting increasing attention as controls on ecosystem functioning and pot

The thesis aims to explore subjective experiences of everyday occupation, social interaction and the view of the worker role among people with psychiatric disabilities(PD), while also addressing the importance of day centre attendance. The thesis consists of one qualitative study, exploring which characteristics in everyday occupation provide meaning to people with PD, and three quantitative studi

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The partitioning of five well-characterised model proteins, bovine serum albumin (BSA), lysozyme, [beta ]-lactoglobulin A, myoglobin and cytochrome c, in aqueous two-phase systems has been studied. As top phase polymers PEG (polyethylene glycol, 100% EO) and the thermoseparating ethylene oxide (EO)-propylene oxide (PO) random copolymers, Ucon 50-HB-5100 (50% EO, 50% PO) and EO30PO70 (30% EO, 70% P

The aim of the paper is to compare the phenomenon of clustering in Russia, in terms of innovation policy to sustainable economic growth, with the positive experience of implementation of cluster approach to innovation in the EU as a part of the EU innovation strategy to competitiveness, within the theoretical framework of RIS. By aspiring to boost its global competitiveness Russia pursues innovati

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Big Bang, Den Stora Smällen, är ett begrepp som de flesta av oss känner till; universums födelse som har gett upphov till galaxer, svarta hål, solsystem, planeter – och ja, indirekt till livet och mänskligheten själv. Långt innan allt detta skapades, bara några bråkdelar av en sekund efter Big Bang, fanns inte den vanliga materien som vi är vana vid idag; det faThis thesis presents a study of L, ¯L, and K0 s particle (generically referred to as V0 particles) production measured by the ALICE experiment located at LHC, CERN, in protonproton collisions at a center of mass collision energy of p s = 7 TeV. The particles are reconstructed via their V0 decay topology, which can be done due to the excellent tracking performance of the Time Projection Chamber det

This study aims to describe how pupils' achievement scores can be affected by the school that the pupil goes to and the pupil's well-being. The participants in this study were upper secondary school pupils. The participants were doing their last year in upper secondary school and they are pupils that have reached the age of 18 years. Questionnaires were used for this study. This method ent

Since China's economic reform in 1979, millions of rural migrant workers have moved into urban areas attracted by the booming economy. Due to socio-economic, institutional and historical reasons, these migrant workers become urban underclass and engage in dangerous, dirty and difficult jobs. Meanwhile, they suffer from discrimination in almost every aspect of city lives. Lacking of knowledge i

The aim of this study was to examine the infiltration rate of water and some parameters affecting it. Especially the land usage, the abundance of roots and macropores were investigated. A field study was carried out on western Java in Indonesia, on the slope of Mount Salak. The study compared four different land uses; i.e. forest, shrub areas, tree plantation and cropland since there was a high o

Abstract This research focuses on the lives of three Icelandic women born early in the 20th century. The aim of this study was to try to understand how these women viewed their life and how they experienced the changes that Icelandic society has undergone in the 20th century. The women are viewed as active agents that shaped their own lives but also had to live within material and social constrai

This is a study of how children in the US can participate in the assessment that is connected to them. My purpose was to study how children´s voice and children´s participation were considered in childcare assessments and how social workers thought about the best interest of the child. This is mostly studied through the plans used to assess the treatment for the child. My questions at issue were;

In the so-called fish film-experiment designed by the linguist Russell S. Tomlin it is tested whether the assignment of grammatical subject in on-line descriptive discourse production can be controlled by controlling the visual attentional detection of participants in a scene. It is an implicit assumption in the fish film framework that the point of optical focus is a good indicator of focal atten

IUU-fiske är ett problem med globala konsekvenser och som har allvarliga effekter inom flera områden, såsom ekonomi, miljö och socialt välbefinnande. På grund av dess natur är problemets omfång svårt att klarlägga, men uppskattningar har visat att mängden IUU-fisk som cirkulerar inom internationell handel är enorm. Afrikanska utvecklingsländer har få ekonomiska möjligheter att kontrollera och övIUU fishery is an issue with global consequences, having severe impacts in several areas such as economy, environment and social well-being. The size of the problem is due to its nature hard to determine, but estimations has shown that the amount of IUU fish that circulate in trade is considerable. African developing countries have poor economical possibilities to control and survey their waters

This thesis examines the impact of European Union’s (EU’s) financial assistance in reinforcing Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH’s) compliance with Copenhagen economic criteria for membership in the EU. Since 1995, the EU has exerted a considerable political effort and extended substantial financial assistance to reconstruct and stabilise a war-torn BiH. Between 2000-2006 financial assistance was deli

This study has a phenomenological approach and examines perceptions of a post-colonial situation held by subjects in Greenland This research has the dialogical self theory as its theoretical framing and applies an intersectionality perspective that operates with the categories ethnicity, diaspora and class. The work is based on self rapports of 15 Danish, 22 Greenlandic and 1 Faroese subjects with

I det här arbetet har två parallella marina sedimentkärnar från Inre Egedesminde Dyb i Diskobukten, västra Grönland, undersökts. Diskobukten är den nordligaste delen längs den Grönländska västkusten var det förhållandevis varma vattnet från Atlanten transporteras med den västra Grönlandströmmen. Båda kärnorna scannades med hjälp av fluorescencespectrometry (XRF) för att erhålla den elementära sammTwo parallel sediment cores were retrieved from the Inner Egedesminde Dyb marine trench at Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Disko Bugt is the most northern point along the Western Greenland coast where relatively warm Atlantic water penetrates through the West Greenland Current. Both cores were subjected to Xray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) scanning to obtain the elemental composition of the sedimen

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate how rural women and girls’ menstrual hygiene management (MHM) affects their life-quality and performance in everyday life. The thesis analysed the opportunities, abilities and motivation they had in performing MHM and how it affected their social and economical opportunities. From this, conclusions were drawn on how MHM affects their life-quality. A co

As Muslim communities have become more permanently established in Western European societies, debates around the public practice of Islam in these societies have become more prevalent, while the “global war on terror” rhetoric has aided the construction of Muslim minorities into “Others” along lines of religious and cultural differences. Based on theories of minority participation in the public sp