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The hazards posed by a wildfire increase significantly when it approaches the wildland–urban interface. Evacuation of rural communities is frequently considered by local authorities and residents. In this context, evacuation triggers are locations that when reached by the wildfire indicate it is time to evacuate. Triggers are often arbitrarily defined via identifiable landmarks, do not include a s

Outdoor climate has considerable impact on the indoor climate and it is therefore important to adapt the buildings to the climate. This thesis shows how to improve indoor climate in a climate which it is hot, dry in the summer and cold in the winter. My investigative unit is a middle class house in the town Baalbek in Lebanon and the purpose of the study is to come up with proposals on possible so

Climate change is expected to have profound ecological effects, yet shifts in competitive abilities among species are rarely studied in this context. Blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and great tits (Parus major) compete for food and roosting sites, yet coexist across much of their range. Climate change might thus change the competitive relationships and coexistence between these two species. Analys

Följande rapport är skriven som en del i kursen Brandteknisk riskvärdering på Brandingenjörsprogrammet vid Lunds Tekniska Högskola. Författarna till rapporten har tilldelats objektet, Tryckeriet 14. Lokalerna i byggnaden hyrs ut till olika fristående skolor. Byggnaden ligger i Stockholm och består av sex våningsplan, där utbildningsverksamhet bedrivs på fem av dessa plan. Skolorna i huset har en sThis report is written as a part of the course Fire saftey evaluation at Lunds Tekniska Högskola. The authers are assigned to conduct an evaluation of the human safety at Tryckeriet 14. The property owners leases the buildnings premises to various independent schools. The building is located in Stockholm and consists of six floors, where education is conducted on five of these floors. A dining roo

Globally 884 million people depend on unsafe drinking water, of which 159 million depend on untreated surface water (WHO, 2017). In Tanzania 44% of the popula- tion lack access to safe drinking water (WaterAid, 2017). Women and children in the small city of Chonyonyo, in Karagwe district are walking several hours a day for contaminated drinking water. According to a study, carried out in TanzaniIn Chonyonyo, a village in north-west Tanzania, the majority of the population have no access to the groundwater beneath them. Every day, women and children walk several hours to a hole shared with animals, to collect contaminated drinking water for their families’ domestic needs. This report shows that the groundwater resources in the area are sufficient to supply the people of Chonyonyo with fre

In this chapter, we discuss the need for deeper knowledge about the relation between people’s daily activities and their electricity use and how to increase our knowledge through time use surveys and the visualization of aggregate activity patterns. To understand people’s energy consumption and how to improve energy efficiency or reduce demand during certain peak hours requires an understanding of

Sverige har över tid mött kritik för långa häktningstider och omfattande användning av restriktioner, främst isolering. Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka vad det är som gör att just Sverige sticker ut jämfört med våra grannländer. För att uppfylla uppsatsen syfte har gällande rätt sammanställts för de tre länderna, Sverige, Danmark och Norge, med hjälp av den rättsdogmatiska metoden. Dessa har se

I detta examensarbete söker jag svar på om sång- och instrumentallärarna inom de kommunala musik- och kulturskolorna utvärderar och utvecklar sitt pedagogiska arbete. Jag undersöker också vilka metoder de använder för detta, och huruvida frekvensen och metoderna varierar beroende på lärarnas bakgrund, utbildning, och arbetslivserfarenhet. Teorikapitlet ger en bakgrund till begreppet pedagogisk utvTitle: The voluntary evolution - About how music teachers in municipal music schools evaluate and develop their pedagogical work This paper aims to find out if the teachers at the Swedish municipal music schools evaluate and develop their pedagogical methods and everyday teaching. I also explore what methods they use in order to do so, and whether the frequency and methods depend on the teachers&#

Bacteria can live in a surface attached community called biofilm, where microorganisms can multiply, grow and produce extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and biofilm formation proceeds in different stages from attachment to a mature biofilm. In food industry, biofilms are a significant issue that can affect product quality and safety when biofilms are formed in the processing equipment. The

Klimatkrisen, befolkningstillväxten och alltmer ansträngt elförsörjning. Vad måste Skånes eldistributörer göra för att säkerställa att elen levereras till dig i framtiden? Vilka utmaningar står de inför? Risk- och sårbarhetsanalys är ett viktigt steg i att reducera risker och minimera sårbarheter i samhället, dvs. ett sätt för att öka samhällets förmåga att förbereda sig inför kriser och extraordTo gain increased understanding of how long-term societal trends affect the southern Swedish electric distribution systems, a risk and vulnerability assessment was conducted with the help of literature analysis, interview and Matlab simulations. A representative distribution network was created to mimic Helsingborgs network, owned by Öresundskraft. A comprehensive literature study and interview wi

Vi bor i galaxen Vintergatan. En plats som vi kan kalla hemma i ett allt växande universum. Men hur mycket vet vi egentligen om våran galax? Det finns mycket som återstår att upptäcka om våran galax. Ett exempel på någonting som vi inte vet hittas när vi observerar den galaktiska disken. Detta är regionen som expanderar horisontellt från det galaktiska centrumet. Disken är uppdelad i en tunn ochThis paper discusses the effects of different types of contamination on 4MOST stellar spectra. Three main types of contamination were tested. These were, a smooth function over the continuum, changing the H-alpha line, and adding telluric contamination. By knowing how much these experiments affected the generated values, it was possible to understand the importance of avoiding overfitting or under

Molecular beacons (MBs) have been used on surfaces for detecting oligonucleotides. Attempts to use them intracellularly for monitoring mRNA content have been made, however, without any clear conclusion regarding the reliability of the method, mainly due to false positive signals. To reach an understanding of the intracellular fate of MBs, a critical question remains: how long after MB delivery and

BACKGROUND: Effector functions of IgG antibodies (Abs) are regulated by their Fc N-glycosylation pattern. IgG Fc glycans that lack galactose and terminal sialic acid residues correlate with the severity of inflammatory (auto)immune disorders and have also been linked to the protection against viral infection and discussed in the context of vaccine-induced protection. In contrast, sialylated IgG Ab

Subsurface transport of orthophosphate (Pi) from fertilized agricultural fields to freshwaters may lead to eutrophication, reduced biodiversity and fish kills in inland waters. Reduction of Pi transport by means of filters in drains with Pi sorbing materials (PSMs) may be one way to improve water quality. The aims of this study were to investigate and model the effect of retention time (RT) and in

Background: Pain is a common symptom of hemophilia that may adversely affect patients’ quality of life (QoL). Previous post hoc analyses of prophylaxis with recombinant factor IX Fc fusion protein (rFIXFc) have been published for adults and adolescents, demonstrating improvements in health-related QoL (HRQoL) when assessed by the haemophilia-specific QoL (HaemAQoL) questionnaire. Objective: To des

At the end of life, when cure or meaningful prolongation of life is no longer available, relief of suffering is the overriding goal. In certain circumstances standard treatments may fall short of this goal, and palliative sedation (PS) to unconsciousness can be applied as a ultimum refugium.We cared for a 4-year old boy with a brain-stem tumor. In spite of all curative treatment efforts the tumor

After electrophoresis of an alkaline extract of type 15 group A streptococci, three main precipitation lines were obtained in diffusion experiments against commercial human polyclonal IgG (lines 1, 2 and 3). Nineteen of 23 sera (83%) from apparently healthy human individuals gave line 3, while 6 of them (26%) gave line 1. The sera giving line 1 did also give line 3. Line 2 was obtained with 2 sera