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BACKGROUND The nature and underlying mechanisms of an inverse association between adult height and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) are unclear. METHODS We used a genetic approach to investigate the association between height and CAD, using 180 height-associated genetic variants. We tested the association between a change in genetically determined height of 1 SD (6.5 cm) with the risk of
Freshwaters are important sources of the greenhouse gases methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. Knowledge about temporal variability in these fluxes is very limited, yet critical for proper study design and evaluating flux data. Further, to understand the reasons for the variability and allow predictive modeling, the temporal variability has to be related to relevant environmen
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the city scale continues to be of high priority. Oslo pioneered a cross-sectoral steering method ‘the climate budget’, effectively branding themselves as ’green leaders’. It begs the question; Are the novelty governance measures in Oslo driving tangible change towards sustainable pathways, or is it a case of political business as usual in a ’greener wrapping’?
Lag om anställningsskyddslag är den lag som skyddar arbetstagare vid uppsägningar och avskedanden. Denna svenska lagstiftning finner vi i LAS som är från år 1974 men kom sedan att ändras år 1982. I 7 § andra stycket LAS stadgas omplaceringsreglerna som reglerar arbetsgivarens skyldighet att försöka bereda annat arbete hos sig. Uppsägningen från arbetsgivaren ska vara sakligt grundad. Innan arbetsgThe Employment Protection Act, LAS, is the law that protects workers in the event of dismissal and termination. This Swedish legislation can be found in LAS which is from 1974 but changed in 1982. Section 7, second paragraph in LAS, stipulates the relocation rules that regulate the employer's obligation to try to prepare other work with him. The dismissal from the employer must be objective gr
Ett samboförhållande är ett förhållande mellan två personer som stadigvarande bor tillsammans i ett parförhållande och har gemensamt hushåll. Med parförhållande avses en förbindelse vari som regel ingår sexuellt samliv. Sexuellt samliv är alltså en förutsättning för att ett förhållande ska kunna konstituera ett samboförhållande. Men vad innebär detta krav egentligen? Att kräva att ett förhållandeA cohabiting relationship is a relationship between two people who permanently live together as a couple and have a joint household. To live as a couple means to live in a relationship in which a sex life is usually a part of. A sex life is thus a prerequisite for a relationship to be able to constitute a cohabiting relationship. But what does this requirement really mean? Having a sex life as a
The demand for biofuels is increasing as a result of increased climate mitigation ambitions aiming to replace the use of fossil fuels. To meet the increasing demand, energy crops grown on agricultural land used to produce biofuels is getting more and more attention. Since agricultural land is a scarce resource, conflicts can arise between food production and biomass for biofuels, making it essenti
Popular Abstract in Swedish I vår egen tid finns ett stort intresse för släktforskning och historia hos många. Men man tänker sällan på att även människor i gångna tider kunnat blicka tillbaka på sitt förflutna och fundera på sin egen plats i släktleden. Vad var de ville minnas och hur mindes de i en tid utan skriv- och läskunnighet? Det är frågor som ställs i avhandlingen och där svaren söks i deThis thesis examine how farm-dwellers in the Mälaren region during the late Iron Age and early Middle Ages created, transferred, and preserved memory by deliberately placing new houses and graves on the houses and graves of previous generations. Focus is on memory as a social phenomenon and culture-specific resource created by these deliberate practices. The culture-specific element is oral cultur
The welding of dissimilar alloys is seen increasingly as a way forward to improve efficiencies in modern aeroengines, because it allows one to tailor varying material property demands across a component. Dissimilar inertia friction welding (IFW) of two high-strength steels, Aermet 100 and S/CMV, has been identified as a possible joint for rotating gas turbine components and the resulting welds are
Background Meniscus surgery is a high-volume surgery carried out on 1 million patients annually in the USA. The procedure is conducted on an outpatient basis and the patients leave the hospital a few hours after surgery. A critical oversight of previous studies is their failure to account for the type of meniscal tears. Meniscus tears can be categorised as traumatic or non-traumatic. Traumatic tea
Very few principles have been unraveled that explain the relationship between soil properties and soil biota across large spatial scales and different land-use types. Here, we seek these general relationships using data from 52 differently managed grassland and forest soils in three study regions spanning a latitudinal gradient in Germany. We hypothesize that, after extraction of variation that is
Recent decades have been characterised by increasingly complex governance structures. In order to tackle threats from epidemics, environmental degradation and other trans-boundary problems governments collaborate not only with actors from other governments, international agencies and civil society, but also from the private sector and business community. Large numbers of global partnerships, inclu
This paper focuses on creating macro-based adjustment factors which can be applied to the valuation of start-up companies. Since start-up companies are private, market valuations are limited to events such as funding rounds or M&A transactions, which happen only at discrete points in time. This is a drawback when compared to the continuous valuations produced in public markets, with current li
Wheat is our most cultivated grain and has been used as human food for thousands of years, but as the population increases, so does the demand for grain. Challenges that we face today are that the amount of cultivable arable land is decreasing, that climate change is affecting crop yields, while people's concerns are growing about the use of chemical pesticides. It is therefore of great intere
The European Union (EU) aims to increase the overall carbon sink through the 2030 climate and energy policy framework, which includes the newly reviewed instrument and regulation of Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF). The regulation is considered an important component in the EU climate mitigation strategy which aims to manage and track the greenhouse gas emissions and removals in sec
Title: Success factors for market expansion of Western born global firms entering China Author: Albin Björck Industrial Engineering and Management Lund University Faculty of Engineering Supervisor - LTH: Bertil I Nilsson Department of Industrial Management & Logistics Lund University Faculty of Engineering Supervisor - XXXXX: Rickard Mårtensson Head of APAC Development XXXXX Background: We
Bakgrund: Avdelningen International Manufacturing (IM) vid Volvo Group Trucks Operations (Volvo) i Göteborg är ansvarig för försörjning och leverans till Volvos internationella produktion. Detta genomförs genom en knock-downprocess, där färdigställda lastbilar skickas i kit för att sedan bli monterade på plats, vid den lokala fabriken. Denna försörjningskedja kräver annan anpassning och hanterar mBackground: The International Manufacturing division (IM) at Volvo Group Trucks Operations (Volvo) in Gothenburg handles the supply of Volvo’s international manufacturing efforts. This is done using knock-down manufacturing where complete trucks are sent in pieces to be assembled at location. IM’s supply chain is nonconforming in both processes and volumes, compared to the central Volvo organizati
ABSTRACT Title: Abnormal Dividend Increases – Do they Signal? - An assessment of the signaling value in dividend increases which deviate from a firm’s historical dividend policy Seminar date: 2016-06-02 Course: BUSN 89: Degree Project in Corporate and Financial Management – Master Level, 15 University Credit Points (15ECTS) Authors: Fossum Niklas, Fridlund Johan, Skog Magnus Advisor: Håkan Jankens
Sammanfattning Allt fler människor blir infertila. För att lösa problemet att få ett genetiskt barn har flera länder i vår omvärld börjat använda och tillåta surrogatmödraskap. I Sverige har åsikterna tidigare varit att det varit en allt för oetisk metod. Under årens lopp har dock värderingarna ändrats något och idag pågår en livlig debatt om altruistiskt surrogatmödraskap ska bli tillåtet. AltruiSummary Infertility is increasing. Because of this several countries around the world have begun to allow surrogacy as a means of procuring a genetic child. In Sweden, the previously held view was that surrogacy is unethical. However, over the years societal values have begun to gradually change. Presently there is a lively debate concerned with allowance of altruistic surrogacy. Altruistic surrog
Executive summary Title: Energy optimization at a chemical industry enterprise Case study - Perstorp AB Authors: Sandra Leksell and Anna Parsdotter Supervisors: Patrick Lauenburg, PhD, Dept. of Energy Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University and Daniel Hansson, Technical Manager, Perstorp Specialty Chemicals AB Background: The industrial sector in Sweden consumed 152.4 TWh energy in 2010,
Title: The implementation of IFRS and the effects on dividends. Seminar date: 2013-05-30 Course: BUSN69.Degree project-Accounting and auditing, 15 ECTS credits Authors: Henrik Alwén and Johan Rybäck. Supervisor: Kristina Artsberg. Key words: Divided policy, earnings, fair value, gross profit, IFRS. Purpose: The purpose with this thesis is to analyze whether the implementation of IFRS have impacte
