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This study investigated the molecular basis of disease severity in acute pyelonephritis (APN), a common and potentially life-threatening bacterial infection. Two cohorts of infants with febrile urinary tract infection were included. Renal involvement was defined by DMSA scans and molecular disease determinants by gene expression analysis and proteomic screens, at diagnosis and after 6 mo. Innate i

Immune function varies widely across humans. Biological sex is a key factor underlying human immune variability, with men presenting with more severe infections and increased cancer rates, while women exhibit higher vaccine responses and prevalence of autoimmunity. Intrinsic biological sex differences arise from varying contributions of chromosomal sex, and sex hormone sensing and downstream signa

Purpose: The importance of body positivity is visible in its remarkable media presence. The movement entails challenges such as opportunities for brands. The purpose of this paper is to examine why companies adapt to the body positivity movement, what they are exactly doing regarding body positivity and how this is related to the brand’s reputation. Methodology: Literature and media review, Case

Uppsatsen är en tudelad analys av barn- och ungdomsboken The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making av Catherynne M. Valente. Den första delen är en källtextanalys i vilken bland annat bokens kontext, teman, narration och stil studeras. Den andra delen utgörs av en översättningsanalys med särskilt fokus på animatheten i berättelsen. Denna del inleds med en genomgång av begr

The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the consequences of Swedish democracy after the entry to the European Union. This is done by comparing the years of 1990 and 2003, since Sweden became a EU-member 1995 after the referendum in 1994. To study the changes in the democratic process are Robert Dahl’s five criterias for democracy used. The result shows that the major democratic problem i

This master thesis invites the reader to acquire and examine new evidence about an emerging and growing sub-genre type of documentary film called Ayahuasca documentary. This study bases its definition of the Ayahuasca documentary sub-genre on a current work in the progress catalogue of over 50 documentary films, two of which were selected as case studies. These films suggest a growing cultural int

Umgängesrätten ska bedömas i enlighet med barnets bästa, Föräldrabalken 6 kapitlet 2a §. Man ska då fästa särskilt avseende vid barnets behov av en nära och god kontakt med båda föräldrarna och vid risken att ett barn far illa. Barnets bästa är inte definierat i lagtext för att kunna appliceras i varje unik situation och därför är termen även anpassad till samhällets utveckling. Att barn bevittnarVisitations rights shall be assessed in accordance to the child's best interests, Children and Parents Code, 6 chapter 2a §. Particular attention shall be paid to the child's need of close contact with both parents and the risk that the child can take harm. The best interests of the child are not defined in legislation because the term needs to be applied in each unique situation and there

Urban greening is increasingly promoted as a strategy for sustainable city development, yet it often carries hidden social costs. This thesis explores the green rehabilitation of Budapest’s 8th district, Józsefváros, a historically diverse neighbourhood undergoing significant change. Using critical urban theory, the right to the city, and feminist urbanism, this study examines how sustainable urba

Deklinationsdata från sedimentära borrkärnor från sjöarna Kälksjön, Gyltigesjön, Byestadsjön, Mötterudstjärnet, Furskogstjärnet, Frängsjön och Särsjön visar västlig riktning i den övre delen. Denna västliga riktning följer inte paleomagnetiska modeller och är missvisande. Med hjälp av Microsoft Excel har dessa missvisningar korrigerats och använts för att skapa en svensk version av FENNOSTACK, kalDeclination data from cores from swedish lake sediments show a westward declination in the upper part of most cores. This does not align with paleomagnetic models and is therefore considered false. Using Microsoft Excel these false values have been corrected and used in a swedish version of FENNOSTACK called SWESTACK. SWESTACK gives a mean value with 95\% confidence of the declination over the per

This chapter aims to establish a conceptual framework for analyzing the EU legal space and its core-periphery dynamics, notably the extension of EU legal frameworks and policies beyond the territorial borders of the Union. It investigates how the EU legal space is defined, how its cores and peripheries are structured, and how they interact, evolve, and influence each other. The chapter argues that

Övergångsrättvisa (transitional justice) är en term som beskriver hur länder med hjälp av juridiska och icke-juridiska åtgärder hanterar storskaliga övergrepp mot mänskliga rättigheter. Övergångsrättvisa används bland annat för att hålla förövare ansvariga och bringa försoning. Konceptet övergångsrättvisa växte fram som ett gensvar på hur länder under 1980–1990-talet hanterade de storskaliga övergTransitional justice is a term and concept which describes how countries deal with large-scale human rights abuses through different judicial and non-judicial measures in order to achieve reconciliation and hold perpetrators accountable. Transitional justice as a concept was born out of practice as a response to how countries in the 1980–1990s dealt with large-scale abuses committed by the earlier

Through semi-structured interviews conducted with representatives of three different NGOs located in The Gambia, this qualitative study explores how practices and activities in the organisations improve educational opportunities for girls in the country. The study identifies specific societal challenges that the NGOs try to remedy with their work, and what the focus is in their capacity building.

Det framgår av 7 § LAS att en uppsägning måste vara sakligt grundad. Vad som utgör saklig grund för uppsägning finns inte närmare angett i lag mer än att en uppsägning inte är sakligt grundad om det är skäligt att arbetsgivaren erbjuder arbetstagaren annat arbete hos sig, 7 § 2 st. LAS. Arbetsgivarens omplaceringsskyldighet gäller både vid uppsägningar på grund av personliga skäl och uppsägningar For a dismissal to be lawful it must fulfil the just cause requirement stipulated in Section 7 of LAS. The just cause requirement is not defined in neither LAS nor any other statute. Section 7 of LAS only explains that just cause will not be found if it is reasonable to demand that the employer provides the employee with different work tasks or transfers the employee to some other available positi

This paper is devoted to the actual questions beyond the liquidity-volatility relationship on Copenhagen Stock Exchange. The applied data set consists of daily index returns, turnover rates, proportional bid-ask spreads and illiquidity ratios over the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2013 for the actively traded stocks comprised in the OMX C20 index. This study conducts the standard GARC

RESEARCH QUESTION: How do virtualization and globalization processes in contemporary consumer society alter the working of the social multiplier? PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to shed light upon the, nowadays, complex social comparison processes by looking at the working and the effects of the social multiplier in contemporary consumer society. RELEVANCE: We believe that the increased

This paper studies how Sylva Plath’s The Bell Jar can be read from a feminist perspective and, in turn, what some possible benefits and potential risks of teaching the novel and feminist literary criticism to upper secondary school students of English in Sweden are. This paper also discusses how the novel can be a means to discuss the fundamental values of upper secondary school, in terms of equal

In this thesis, Carl Sagan’s television series and book Cosmos is studied. Theories and concepts from literary studies (and related fields) are used to analyze the so-called “cosmic perspective”. The cosmic perspective is shown to be complex, composed of four different but related perspectives: space; time; humanity and cosmic evolution; and history of science and exploration. A number of ambiguit