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Our food and land-use systems are critical for staying within our planetary boundaries and the Earth’s system resilience. Among the six Transformations required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the fourth Transformation—focusing on food, land, and water—is crucial. This Transformation is key to achieving SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 12 (Responsib
Inequality and the risk of poverty in Icelandic society have been in the debate since the economic crisis in 2008. The family policy is criticised by academics for a lack of economic support for individuals with dependent children both in the form of child benefits and low payments during parental leave. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse how economic support for families of cohabitating par
The digital healthcare market has been growing rapidly due to the swift development of wearable devices. One notable advancement is the application of digital healthcare technology to vehicles, which is expected to provide a comfortable driving environment and prevent accidents. This study proposed user experience (UX) scenarios to apply and expand digital healthcare technology in vehicles, detail
The connected and automated car is performing more and more driving tasks autonomously. This produces a lot of data. The EU Database Directive gives non-original databases protection through the sui generis database right. Whether these databases with machine-generated data should be part of the scope of the right is unclear, depending on the interpretation of the right. The proposed EU Database A
Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att få en fördjupad förståelse av hur det är att ha hypotyreos. Datainsamlingen gjordes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer och för tolkningen användes tematisk analys. Sex deltagare intervjuades med lindriga till mycket svåra symtom. Studiens resultat har funnit områden där vårdens bemötande brister gentemot sköldkörtelsjuka med kvarstående symtom. Råd baserThe goal of this study was to reach a deeper understandig of what it is like to have hypothyroidism. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and interpreted using thematic analysis. Six participants with minor and severe symtoms were interviewed . The study found areas in which professional health care, recieved by patients with hypothyroidism who are experiencing residual symtoms, w
Popular Abstract in Swedish Svetsning är en av de viktigaste tillämpningarna för robotar är inom tillverkningsindustrin. Normalt så programmeras roboten genom att operatören guidar manuellt robotarmen mellan de olika robotkoordinaterna. För att förbättra noggrannheten vid programmeringen kan man använda ett simuleringsverktyg, så kallat Computer Aided Robotics (CAR). Simulering kan även vara ett kThe objective of this thesis is to develop a simulation tool and a method by which robot trajectories, temperature histories, residual stresses and distortion can be analysed and optimized off-line. This was performed by integrating robot simulation software with finite element analysis software. A special interface was created which facilitated information exchange between the two software progra
Surfaces subjected to rolling and sliding contacts may suffer from contact fatigue. The cam and roller follower mechanism is a typical rolling and sliding contact. This thesis deals with the running in aspects to avoid high stress variation that leads to fatigue wear and the aspect of what happens to indentation damages that occurs on the surface if there are any particles in the lubricant. The pa
In this paper, we investigate the social herding phenomenon known as informational cascades, in which sequential inter-agent communication might lead to epistemic failures at group level, despite availability of information that should be sufficient to track the truth. We model an example of a cascade, and check the correctness of the individual reasoning of each agent involved, using two alternat
NGC 595 is, after NGC 604, the second most luminous HII region in theMilky Ways neighbouring spiral galaxy M 33. Its Wolf-Rayet starcontent has mainly been unveiled by two different channels. On the onehand, the stellar population of NGC 595 has been resolved and its WRstars identified through on-line/off-line HeIIlambda4686 observationsrealised with the HST. Nevertheless, due to the limited numbe
Two things strike the eye in the literature and debate on the impact of agricultural research. Firstly, it is not unsurprisingly dominated by economists using cost-benefit analysis. Secondly and more surprisingly, much space is devoted to the discussion of counterfactuals, i.e. by an argument of the type: “If this research had not been made, yield development (or whatever indicator) would have bee
Popular Abstract in Swedish Den här avhandlingen studerar olika statistiska metoder för att utvinna information som ligger dold i en serie av tal eller andra symboler, exempelvis bokstäver. En sådan serie kan innehålla slumpmässighet eller ha vissa mätbara statistiska egenskaper, men har även ett inneboende mönster, vilket vi är intresserade av. Vi kallar vanligtvis sådana serier för signaler, ochThis thesis examines sparse statistical modeling on a range of applications in audio modeling, audio localizations, DNA sequencing, and spectroscopy. In the examined cases, the resulting estimation problems are computationally cumbersome, both as one often suffers from a lack of model order knowledge for this form of problems, but also due to the high dimensionality of the parameter spaces, which
Background: Symptom control by drug treatment is the most important task in routine clinical care of patients with schizophrenia. Structured assessment methods are needed in this task but not used much. The US-developed Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) is a standard tool for symptom assessment. The Psychosis Evaluation tool for Common use by Caregivers (PECC) was constructed in Europe
Although there is a lot of experimental work published about the use of Electrokinetic Remediation for the removal of toxic metals from soils, very few have reported results for different scales. Scaling- up is a difficult task, since the behavior of each metal is different and is also site-specific. In this paper we present a convenient parameter for the comparison of the energy requirements at d
Knowledge of subcellular localizations (SCLs) of plant proteins relates to their functions and aids in understanding the regulation of biological processes at the cellular level. We present PlantLoc, a highly accurate and fast webserver for predicting the multi-label SCLs of plant proteins. The PlantLoc server has two innovative characters: building localization motif libraries by a recursive meth
This paper presents an approximation model for optimizing reorder points in one-warehouse N-retailer inventory systems subject to highly variable lumpy demand. The motivation for this work stems from close cooperation with a supply chain management software company, Syncron International, and one of their customers, a global spare parts provider. The model heuristically coordinates the inventory s
