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Since the disease was first discovered and defined by the German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been referred to as one of the most detrimental neuronal disorders of mankind. Up to date, it is one of the major topics of modern neuroscience with no cure yet discovered. The number of people diagnosed with AD is likely to increase in the future if healthcar
This thesis analyses the popularity of anti-immigrant parties and anti-immigrant opinions in Europe, which have grown rapidly in the 21st century. Diverging from the earlier research on the topic, the preference of anti-immigrant parties is the key variable of interest and it is analyzed using economic, socio-demographic, as well as sociotropic factors. The first six waves of the European Social S
The packaging market is starting to demand renewable materials to face out the fossil based materials mainly used today. This thesis investigate the possibility and advance to switch from conventional grades of polyethylene (PE) and polyethylene terephthalates (PET) towards bio-produced qualities of the same polymers. The work is divided into two parts starting with a carbon dioxide evaluation of
Date: 2014-06-03 Authors: Kaiwen Wang Jingjing Guo fin13kwa@student.lu.se fin13jgu@student.lu.se Mobile: 0762063660 0762187877 Title: Empirical tests of Fama-French three-factor model and Principle Component Analysis on the Chinese stock market Tutor: Anders Vilhelmsson, Department of Business Administration, Lund University Purpose: This paper aim to verify that the Fama-French three factor model
This research is an investigation in landscape policies to counter cultural landscape degradation in the Castelli Romani, a region of central Italy change. In the municipality of Ariccia, well-known in the region for its policies for sustainability, two contemporaneous projects aim to restore a degraded landscape long associated with historical, natural, and cultural meaning. The first, initiated
The waste treatment facility, Sobacken, is located south of Borås, Sweden. At Sobacken there is a lake built to collect the leachate from the area. Leachate is a term for water that has the potential of carrying environmentally hazardous substances, in this case water that might have passed through waste. This thesis focused on the development of a hydrological model that from common climate vari
Background: The role of physical therapists are affected by several aspects including the therapeutic relationship, inter-professional relations, workloads, autonomy and their relations to everyday tasks. In particular, the latter of these is a topic of interest in regards to Japanese physical therapists since healthcare in Japan has shown tendencies toward the adoption of new technology. This, th
Familias en Acción, during more than a decade, has encouraged investments in human capital and children’s health in poor households in Colombia. The program has been able to benefit a wide range of population to such a great extent, that now the program has become a national public policy. While the positive effects on health and education have been widely studied, there are some other important i
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Problem discussion: There are still today many problems related to health in developing countries. When reasoning on how to deal with these problems, it is important to study the determinants of health in each country. Each country has got its own characteristics. The development process never ends, and each health care system needs to be adaptable for the ongoing changes, in order to meet local n
Offending images are representations that hurt people’s feelings deeply. My thesis deals with the way in which people read and interpret these offending images. It becomes important to understand what makes some viewers vulnerable to a certain image thereby provoking strong reactions against it. The aim is to put myself at the receiving end, in the place of those who are offended and look at the i
This essay investigates the extent to which the four emerging Central Eastern European stock markets of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine have become integrated with the developed market of the European Union over the sample period from 1997 to 2010. Rolling-window correlation and a more advanced, dynamic conditional correlation approach with GARCH and EGARCH specifications are utili
Objectives: To investigate the association between socio-economic factors and the risk of preeclampsia in Sweden, specifically investigating if this relationship is confounded by maternal region of birth. Study design: All singleton births between 1999 and 2009 in an ethnically diverse area in southern Sweden, totaling 46,618 pregnancies, were included in this study. The data on maternal pregnancy
This article explores the role of values (Gehman, et al. 2013; Daskalaki et al. 2019) in the emergence and evolution of Grassroots Innovations (GIs) in the context of Argentina GIs are developed by communities as a means to overcome social exclusion while at the same time strive for a better future. GIs experience an intrinsic challenge: while they address social injustice, they are not able to ad
The skate Leucoraja erinacea has an elaborately shaped pupil, whose characteristics and functions have received little attention. The goal of our study was to investigate the pupil response in relation to natural ambient light intensities. First, we took a recently developed sensory-ecological approach, which gave us a tool for creating a controlled light environment for behavioural work: During a
We investigated the occurrence of microplastics (size range 5,000-50 µm) in leach-ates at 11 landfills of different age and operational status in Finland, Iceland and Nor-way. Collective sampling was carried out by pumping leachate with a stainless-steel submergible pump through a custom-made, stainless-steel filter unit containing filter plates with decreasing pore sizes (5,000, 417 and 47 µm, re
The Swedish response to the pandemic at the national level has attracted considerable international attention, but little focus has been placed on the way municipalities dealt with the crisis. Using Hay's dimensions of politicization, namely the capacity for human agency, deliberation in the public domain, and social context, we analyze the politicization of the municipal response to the pandemic
