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Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), IL-1alpha and IL-6 production by human monocytes in response to a clinical strain of the Gram-negative encapsulated bacteria Neisseria meningitidis and an isogenic lpxA- strain deficient in LPS was investigated. Wild-type N. meningitidis at concentrations between 105 and 108 organisms/ml and purified LPS induced proinflammatory cytokine production. High le

OBJECTIVE: In Sweden, a country with high standards of obstetric care, the high rate of perinatal mortality among children of immigrant women from the Horn of Africa raises the question of whether there is an association between female circumcision and perinatal death. METHODS: To investigate this, we examined a cohort of 63 perinatal deaths of infants born in Sweden over the period 1990–96 to cir

Increased urinary albumin excretion rate (AER), microalbuminuria, has been regarded as a sign of incipient nephropathy. The influence of exercise on AER was investigated in 10 male type I diabetics and in 12 age-matched male controls. The duration of diabetes was 7-31 years (median 14 years). The exercise tests were performed both as a combined submaximal workload-waterload test and as a maximal w

The machinability of brass is considered to increase with the addition of lead as an alloying element. Due to both environmental and health reasons, the decrease of lead in brass components is of high importance. Several mechanical and thermal material properties control a materials machinability, in combination with the chosen machining system. To evaluate the difference in machinability between

Agencies obligation to report according to the Swedish Social Service Law (2001:453) 14 chapter 1 § is an important obligation to uphold children’s rights. When children are maltreated due to the conditions at home, agencies have a responsibility to help. Constantly we hear from the media about children who live with anomaly. Therefore it is highly current to examine the obligation to report. Chil

The most critical element of doing risk arbitrage is the assessment of the out- come of a corporate takeover. Prediction models have been created in the past and successfully proven some variables in mergers and acquisitions to have a significant impact on the takeover outcome. However, these prediction models have mostly been created with U.S. data and some years back in time. This thesis will in

This study investigates the influence of CEO characteristics on corporate cash holdings. Previous research has already led to an extensive body of firm specific determinants of such, which connects tradeoff, agency and other theories. The upper echelons theory has until present not experienced major attention with regard to this field. This work shows that idiosyncratic managerial values, cognitiv

Friköps-, utköps- och budgivningsklausuler i aktieägaravtal är ett ämne som det idag finns undermålig kunskap och forskning om i det svenska näringslivet och associationsrätten. Friköps- och utköpsklausuler ger aktieägare möjligheter som ABL motstrider och som i bolagsordning begränsar. Denna uppsats undersöker aktieägaravtals förmåga att realisera överlåtelsebindningar som låter aktieägare begränBuy out clauses in shareholders’ agreement is a subject with defeciant knowledge and research in Swedish business and Swedish business law. Buy out clauses gives shareholders’ possibilities that neither Swedish company law or Swedish companies’ articles of associations allows. This thesis investigates the shareholders’ agreements possibilities to implement restrictions on the transferability on co

The purpose of our essay was to analyze stories about Housing first, an effort to fight homelessness in social services. We have taken part of previous research regarding Housing first both national and international and the staircase model which is the most common effort in Sweden towards the homeless. The analysis is based on both professionals and clients stories regarding the subject and we ha

Concepts are important to help us understand the world around us. The way we define concepts has an impact on how we perceive reality. I have studied the concept ”labour party”, and how that concept was “hijacked” from the Social Democratic Party to the Conservative Party. I have searched for articles in Swedish printed press and internet sources between 01 January 2004 and the election on 17 Sept

Creating music have always been a hard thing to do, as time have passed there have been much research done on the topic of creating high quality music. New approaches and theories are appearing on how to generate music, the latest one (as writing this paper) is based on deep neural networks. In this paper Nottinghams abc notation database will be the main training set used as training data for the

This project investigates ethnic and gendered oppression in relation to the construction of cultural identity in the Bangladeshi diaspora as it is depicted in Monica Ali’s novel 'Brick Lane'. I read Ali’s novel as a 'feminist Bildungsroman' with the key focus on how the female migrant protagonist Nazneen’s changing self-conception and construction of a new identity in London leads

This study aims to investigate whether investing in environmentally friendly companies has a positive effect on risk-adjusted returns. We construct two portfolios: one portfolio consists of the 100 highest ranked companies from Newsweek’s yearly green rankings from 2017, and one portfolio consists of 122 companies that 2018 are blacklisted for environmental reasons by four asset managers: Nordea,

This paper investigates empirical determinants of current account positions worldwide with a focus on the countries that started out as the European Monetary Union (including Greece that joined in 2001). Specifically, it addresses the question whether current accounts inside the Eurozone have reacted more sensitively to changes in macroeconomic fundamentals due to the facilitation of inter-country

The aim of this thesis is to highlight what makes a good bicycle infrastructure with the goal to increase bicycling in urban areas. The focus has been to evaluate the bicycle infrastructure in the city of Lund, by investigating the differences between the main bicycle routes and the regular bicycle network in the city. A literature review of both scientific literature and bicycle planning manuals

This report contains a master thesis by Stina Leghammar that was developed at Axis Communication in Lund Sweden. The thesis contains a development and design process of a modular sensor unit that will be mounted on light poles in urban areas. The sensors that will be included in the unit is a camera, a radar, a thermometer, an Plasmonic Air Quality Sensor and a microphone, all to detect and get da

Purpose: Our study aims to investigate new employees’ perceptions of their virtual onboarding in a consultancy firm and how their perceptions relate to networking. We saw the need to enrich the existing theories on onboarding and networking as they were not applicable to the ever-changing environ- ment. Methodology: We conducted a qualitative single case study following an abductive and interpret