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Considering the increasing dropout rate of doctoral studies, this study gives a deeper understanding of the factors related to doctoral students’ work engagement and motivation. The aim of this study is to predict work engagement for doctoral students through internal aspects; autonomous motivation and general self-efficacy. The effect of general self-efficacy on the relationship between autonomou

Har ergonomi fler funktioner än att förebygga skador? Denna studie undersöker hur fyra gitarrister kan gynnas av att spela mer ergonomiskt. Gitarristerna har fått instruktioner av mig hur de ska öva med ett ergonomiskt arbetssätt. Det studien syftar på är att undersöka hur det hjälper deras uthållighet, teknik, fokus och avslappning under gitarrspelandet. Studien är utformad som aktionsforskning dDo ergonomics have more functions than preventing injuries? This study examines how four guitarists can benefit from playing with ergonomics in focus. The study examines how it helps their endurance, technique, focus and relaxation while playing guitar. The guitarists have been given instructions on how to practice more ergonomically. The study is designed as action research in which the guitarist

The purpose of this paper was to describe and analyze the European labor market policy and its implementation in two countries, i.e. Sweden and the Czech republic. The central questions were: Why was a European labor market policy formed? What are the main strategies of the policy for increasing the degree of occupation? How do people work in Sweden and the Czech Republic so that the EUs demands a

Popular Abstract in Swedish Avhandlingen Optimization of Low-Level Controllers and High-Level Polymer Grade Changes är inom ämnesområdet reglerteknik. Det centrala i ämnet reglerteknik är att styra ett system, såsom en motor, ett teleskop eller en kemisk reaktor, så att det uppför sig på ett önskvärt sätt. Detta görs genom att använda mätningar av systemet, en algoritm som beräknar hur systemet sTwo design problems at different levels in the control hierarchy are considered; optimization of robust low-level controllers with constrained control signal activity and optimization of economical high-level polyethylene grade changes. As for the first design problem, a constraint on control signal activity due to measurement noise is presented and used when optimizing and comparing PI/PID contr

Popular Abstract in English The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing in epidemic proportions around the globe. This epidemic accounts for huge health and economic burdens as a leading cause for morbidity and mortality. The development of these diseases is very complex and involves both genetic and lifestyle factors. The shift to sedentary lifestyles anType 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are highly prevalent complex diseases that result from lifestyle and genetic factors. Gene-lifestyle interactions are also believed to contribute to the etiology of these diseases. The aim of this thesis was to investigate gene-lifestyle interactions using the strongest T2D and CVD susceptibility genetic loci and to understand the causal natur

The collective housing movement in Sweden has undergone a lot of changes since it started in the 1930s. It has identified different problems over the years, but the solution has always remained the same. In my thesis I ask if these changes can be explained with individualization-theories, and my hypothesis is that the movement has been individualized. I have chosen to analyze the collective housin

The world has entered the Second Nuclear Age. New structures and dynamics are argued to be present within the context of nuclear weapons. The states India, Pakistan and China are three cases where the nuclear stockpiles are increasing and becoming more technological advanced. The hypothesis of this paper is that the increase of nuclear stockpiles in the cases is due to a dynamic characteristic of

This bachelor’s thesis attempts to explain the policy process of the tax deduction (jobbskatteavdraget) carried out by the Moderate party in 2007 and thereafter repeated in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2014. This is done through analyzing three factors, the discourse, ideology and strategy. The thesis attempts to combine agency and structurally based explanations for the tax deduction. Beginning in the pa

Sammanfattning Principen om non-refoulement är en del av den internationella sedvanerätten och innebär att ingen stat får utvisa eller avvisa en person till ett land där dennes liv eller frihet kan hotas på grund av ras, religion, nationalitet, tillhörighet till viss samhällsgrupp eller politisk åskådning. I mål rörande asyl är det den sökande som har bevisbördan för att göra sitt behov av intern

Our paper tries to verify the relation between international banks’ expansion and international automotive corporations’ overseas business in China. Pervasive phenomena indicate that foreign banks take following their clients as the initial strategy when they start overseas business in China’s market. As many previous literatures analyzed, in the beginning stage in a new foreign market, multinatio

The role of proteins as the mediators of the interaction between engineered materials (biomaterials) and living systems has long been appreciated, but the subtleties and complexities introduced by changing surface curvature are only beginning to be understood. Thus, in implant devices, where the biomaterial is presented as a flat surface, a very limited range of proteins bind to the material, thes

Theoretical studies on hyperfine-interaction-dependent lifetimes of the 4s4p P-3(2) states of Zn-like ions are reported in this paper. A systematic investigation along the isoelectronic sequence shows that the lifetime of the 4s4p P-3(2) level is very sensitive to hyperfine interaction at the beginning of the sequence, but gets less sensitive going to the higher end. The intensity ratio between th

Reviews the film, Volver, directed by Pedro Almodóvar (2006). At the beginning of this extraordinary film, women in a small Spanish town tend to the graves of their departed; at the end, what some would consider a female "ghost" nurses a relative with cancer, as a haunting shot of a wooden door with cracks of light slowly turns dark, reminding us that in the blackness that will engulf us at the en

This article discusses the rise of the global anti-corruption "industry" with its elements of international campaigns and conventions, the traffic in project funds, people, knowledge and ideas, and how global structures interact with the local politics of anticorruption. The metaphor of landscape is utitilized to show the different perspectives -- global summits and local sites -- how anticorrupti

The general aim of this thesis was to study how memorial places and objects serve as links and meeting points between the bereaved and their conceptions and memories of the departed. This has been examined in several different ways, from various viewpoints, and placed in different contexts and periods in time. The general result is that there are several and complementary ways through which materi

This thesis deals with the carbon balance in a subarctic landscape at different temporal and spatial scales. Its focus is mainly on the peatland and mountain birch forest (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) ecosystems within the Abisko area in northernmost Sweden. This is an area with a temperature close to the 0 OC mean annual isotherm. The area has during the last 30 years experienced a limited

The gradient of five dansylated amino acids in a capillary-based separation system commonly used in capillary liquid chromatography (LC) or capillary electrochromatography (CEC) was followed and examined in detail using a detection method based on laser-induced fluorescence imaging. The detection system consisted of an XeCl excimer laser and an image-intensified charge-coupled device (CCD) camera.