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Almost all realms of Chinese society have been affected by privatization. Education is no exception, although its privatization does not necessarily affect the school system per se. Chinese scholars have usually provided two explanations for privatized schooling in China: 'massification' (educational expansion) and 'pluralization' (diversification). In my research project on private schools in ur
Aims: The aim of this study was to test a Child-Centred Health Dialogue model for primary prevention of obesity for 4-year-old children in Child Health Services, for its feasibility and the responsiveness of its outcomes.Methods: A feasibility study was set up with a non-randomised quasi-experimental cluster design comparing usual care with a structured multicomponent child-centred health dialogue
Putative GABAergic elements in the retina of the Atlantic salmon have been identified by immunohistochemistry, utilising polyclonal antisera against γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and the GABA transporter GAT-1. Cell types immunoreactive (ir) for GABA comprise horizontal cells, amacrine cells, displaced amacrine cells in the ganglion cell layer, displaced amacrine cells in the inner plexiform layer (i
Background: To support a victim of violence and establish the correct penalty for the perpetrator, it is crucial to correctly evaluate and communicate the severity of the violence. Recent data have shown these communications to be biased. However, computational language models provide opportunities for automated evaluation of the severity to mitigate the biases. Objective: We investigated whether
What mechanisms are needed in a cognitive system, such as an animal or a robot, and how do these mechanisms interact with each other? The thesis presents a study of this problem within the field of behavior-based systems and artificial neural networks. The thesis brings together ideas from behavior-based robotics, control theory and machine learning and combines them with models from ethology, ps
Gaia Data Release 3 provides novel flux-calibrated low-resolution spectrophotometry for '220 million sources in the wavelength range 330 nm ≤ λ ≤ 1050 nm (XP spectra). Synthetic photometry directly tied to a flux in physical units can be obtained from these spectra for any passband fully enclosed in this wavelength range. We describe how synthetic photometry can be obtained from XP spectra, illust
Yet, as indicated, the most significant corollary of the diplomatic crisis in Iranian-British ties concerns the cataclysmic impact it can exert upon the likelihood of military confrontation with Iran. It is a gross miscalculation on the part of Iranian politicians and policy-makers to suppose that occupation of the UK embassy or reduction of relations with the country will “teach it a good lesson,
The study of localized deformation in porous sandstones at the laboratory scale can yield valuable insights into the internal structures and mechanisms of shear zones and compaction bands that might impact on flow at a reservoir scale. Herein, we report results of a laboratory study of shear and compaction band formation in a porous sandstone using a range of full-field experimental techniques: ac
Protein biomarkers have the potential to improve diagnosis, stratification of patients into treatment cohorts, follow disease progression and treatment response. One distinct group of potential biomarkers comprises proteins which have been linked to cancer, known as cancer associated proteins (CAPs). We determined the normal variation of 86 CAPs in 72 individual plasma samples collected from ten i
Continuous software product development is increasingly becoming the norm. New requirements come in a constant stream and need to be assigned to projects to make it into a release. However, in the literature requirements management practices are project based and no longer naturally fit to this new setting. Aim: Thus, it is of interest to understand the industrial practices for the identification
Under de senaste åren har möjligheten till att arbeta hemifrån och på distans i Sverige ökat i stor omfattning, speciellt med tanke på COVID-19 pandemin. Arbetssättet som det flexibla arbetslivet medför, har inneburit att fler arbeten kan utföras utan tidsmässiga, rumsliga eller organisatoriska gränser. Arbete hemifrån och på distans har öppnat en ny värld för flexibilitet i arbetslivet, men samtiDuring the last couple of years, teleworking in Sweden have increased to a large extent, especially considering the COVID-19 pandemic. The way of working that the flexible work life entails, means that more types of work can be carried out without temporal, spatial or organizational limits. Teleworking have opened a new world for flexibility in the work life, but at the same time it has entailed r
Conventional agrifood systems significantly contribute to environmental degradation. While Community Supported Agriculture initiatives (CSAs) may provide insights into alternative agrifood systems, few studies have investigated challenges to their engagement with prefigurative processes. Through a case study of nine CSAs in South-Holland, the Netherlands, this thesis explores the extent to which C
Individualised healthcare is the future of medicine, due to the so called inter-patient variability. The inter-patient variability involves differences in the drug response between different patients. The effect of a drug can usually be divided into pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD). One way to individualise anaesthesia, may be to automate it using closed-loop control systems. This t
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess potentially existing interdependencies between Brand Identity and a Multi-Level Marketing approach. Furthermore, the study aims to give theoretical and managerial recommendations for marketers as well as brand managers in order to make use of these interdependencies. The broader aim is to present the concept of Multi-Level Marketing that can be a val
Children do not have many spaces designed entirely for their needs in our world. This has inspired the concept of ‘A Child’s Garden City’. The idea includes research of how children can be included in design and the process of creating safer cities with their considerations in the center. This Master’s Thesis can inspire the relationship between growing natural vegetation, self-sustaining infrastr
Som två blivande sångpedagoger och musiklärare intresserar vi oss för sång i samband med improvisation. Utifrån egna erfarenheter har vi upplevt att många didaktiska förhållningssätt och metoder för improvisation inte lämpar sig lika väl för rösten som för andra instrument, vilket kan ha flera anledningar. Detta arbete syftar till att studera sånglig improvisation genom att undersöka sångstudenterAs two prospective vocal pedagogues and music educators, we are interested in the intersection of singing and improvisation. Drawing from our own experiences, we have observed that many didactic approaches and methods of improvisation are not equally suitable for the voice as they are for other instruments, which may be due to several reasons. This work aims to study vocal improvisation by examini
Syftet med denna uppsats är att granska det disciplinära förfarandet vid uteslutningar av advokater ur Sveriges advokatsamfund. Uppsatsen undersöker hur disciplinnämndens avgöranden förhåller sig till det förvaltningsrättsliga kravet om utredningsskyldighet och diskuterar detta ur ett rättssäkerhetsperspektiv. Analysen baseras på en rättsanalytisk och empirisk metod där rättskällor som lagtext, prThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the disciplinary procedure for the disbarment of lawyers from the Swedish Bar Association. The thesis investigates how the decisions of the Disciplinary Committee align with the administrative law requirement of investigative duty and discusses this from a legal certainty perspective. The analysis is based on a legal analytical and empirical method, reviewi
Towards stem cell based therapies for Parkinson's disease SPOTLIGHT Towards stem cell based therapies for Parkinson’s disease Malin Parmar* ABSTRACT Treating neurodegenerative diseases with cell transplantation has been within reach since the first pioneering clinical trials in which dopamine neuron progenitors from the fetal brain were transplanted to individuals with Parkinson’s disease. However
The purpose of this study was to investigate if witnessed incivility (from manager and co-workers) and factors in the working life of today (job insecurity, lack of influence and lack of social support) are related to instigated incivility. An additional purpose was to investigate if there are differences in instigated workplace incivility between men and women and managers and non-managers. An in
