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Elevated plasma cytokines is a common finding in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), although not consistent. It is currently not known whether the inflammatory changes are confined to any specific subgroup of depressive patients. We here analyzed three inflammatory markers in suicidal and non-suicidal depressive patients, as well as healthy controls. Plasma interleukin (IL)-2, IL-6 and tumor necrosi

Patient associations for cancer patients (PACPs) are increasing in number as well as in the number of members. We utilised a questionnaire to investigate how members of 13 PACPs motivated their memberships. The study included 1,810 individuals who had been treated for breast cancer, gynaecological cancer, or prostate cancer. Through questionnaires these individuals were asked to articulate why the

Accidents occur in the society daily which require the fire service to respond. The fires cause socio-economic cost estimated to the equivalent value of 7 billion SEK every year. One of the strategies used by the municipalities to reduce the effects of the accidents is to investigate the fires to be able to prevent similar fires in the future. Recent research suggests that the investigations needs

Mobila teknologier har medfört en ökad flexibilitet i anställdas vardag. Detta har kommit att påverka de anställdas balans mellan arbete och fritid då de tilldelas arbetsuppgifter även på sin fritid. I denna studie undersökte vi hur dessa anställda upplever att smarttelefonen påverkar denna balans. Syftet var att belysa vilken inverkan den flexibilitet som smarttelefonen frambringar har på balanse

The thesis is concerning the lack of emphasis of human rights in the works and treaties of World Intellectual Property Organization. So, it looked at finding a human rights framework for World Intellectual Property Organization, which would provide greater accessibility and participation by the society. In order to frame it, the impacts of intellectual property on human rights were analyzed. The i

The purpose of this study was to investigate how private and public actors in the institutional care of children and young people’s homes (HVB) market them self on the internet. In 1982 the new Swedish Social Law made it possible for private providers to establish the institution for institutional care of children and young people (HVB). Since then, the development within institutional care has ta

Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka förståelsen för huvudintressenternas uppfattningar i Sverige kring den obligatoriska byrårotationen med hänsyn till oberoende och revisionskvalitet. Resultatet visar att majoriteten av huvudintressenterna är negativt inställda till den obligatoriska byrårotationen, speciellt i sin slutgiltiga utformning som troligtvis kommer vara utan påverkan på varken det fakt

The elderly population within the European Union is growing where as the amount of caregivers is not. The objective of the NavMem project is to make older citizens more self-sufficient and confident specifically while traveling on foot. This could potentially lead to a more active and social life while decreasing the need of senior citizen care. With this objective in mind the NavMem consortium ha

I Sverige finns en väletablerad marknad för handel med barn för sexuella ändamål. Det är dock väldigt få anmälda brott som leder till åtal eller fällande dom. Detta visar på att barn som faller offer för människohandel inte innehar fullt rättsskydd. Den 1 januari 2020 trädde barnkonventionen i kraft som lag i Sverige, implementeringens primära syfte var att stärka barns rättsliga ställning. SyftetIn Sweden, there is a well-established market for child trafficking for sexual purposes. However, there are very few reported crimes that lead to prosecution or conviction. This shows that children who are victims to human trafficking do not have full legal protection. On January 1st, 2020, the Convention on the Rights of the Child entered into force as law in Sweden. The primary purpose of the im

Title: An Industry Perspective: The Perceived Barriers in Different Forms of U-I Collaboration and How they Influence the Outcome Date of the seminar: May 2018 Course: ENTN39 Master´s Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Internship and degree project (Master´s thesis 15 ECTS) Authors: Olaf Bouwstra & Tillie Johansson Supervisor: Joakim Winborg Examiner: Sotaro Shibayama Research que

Background: Omni-channel retailing has led to customers becoming more demanding and less tolerant than before. For instance, customers are demanding shorter delivery times, and higher precision in deliveries. Unless retailers adapt to an omni-channel approach today, their business is likely to suffer. To do so, more efficient planning of the supply chain is necessary. The first step of the plannin

In today's digital era, where personalized experiences have become crucial to consumer interactions with brands, the balance between personalization and privacy remains a complex and evolving challenge. Despite the recognized benefits of personalization in driving consumer spending, concerns about privacy and data security persist among individuals. This study addresses the "personalizati

Biodiversity depletion directly impacts businesses and society by influencing ecosystem services. Despite the growing recognition of biodiversity loss as a significant crisis, many companies have not yet sufficiently integrated broader nature considerations into their strategies. The Science-Based Targets Network (SBTN) aims to facilitate nature including biodiversity target setting within corpora

A report of the Sweden new government on the future for bioenergy is presented. The report state that the agriculture sector supplies 1.5 TWh of biomass energy to the Swedish energy system in the form of wheat, rapeseed, and some willows. A report discloses the fact that agriculture can play an important role in the development of Swedish energy system in the future. The most profitable crops for

Learning robot motions from demonstration requires models able to specify vector fields for the full robot pose when the task is defined in operational space. Recent advances in reactive motion generation have shown that learning adaptive, reactive, smooth, and stable vector fields is possible. However, these approaches define vector fields on a flat Euclidean manifold, while representing vector f

Den europeiska textilindustrin står inför stora förändringar när EU:s nya förordning "Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation" (ESPR) träder i kraft. En central del av regleringen är förbudet mot förstörelse av osålda konsumentprodukter, en åtgärd som syftar till att minska miljöpåverkan och öka hållbarheten inom modeindustrin. Studiens mål är att undersöka hur textilindustrin förbStatistics show that approximately 2,71 billion people have at some point shopped for clothes online (Sellers Commerce, 2022). E-commerce is becoming more and more common rather than to buy and try on clothes in a physical store which has led to many clothes being returned for various reasons (poor fit, free returns, etc.). The fast fashion industry generates significant textile waste, with unsold