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The purpose of this thesis is two-fold: implement and evaluate a method, the Fast Correlation-Based Filter (FCBF) by Yu et al., for feature selection applied on a meteorological data set consisting of 19 weather variables from 606 locations in Scandinavia, and investigate whether geography can be exploited in the search for relevant features. Four areas are chosen as target areas where load predic
The aims of the present study were to determine whether a parental history of any fracture or hip fracture specifically are significant risk factors for future fracture in an international setting, and to explore the effects of age, sex and bone mineral density (BMD) on this risk. We studied 34,928 men and women from seven prospectively studied cohorts followed for 134,374 person-years. The cohort
Detta arbete behandlar en vårdnadsutrednings genomslagskraft i domstolsavgörande i mål om vårdnad, boende och umgänge. Uppsatsen fokuserar även på om en domare kan ta självständig ställning i frågan med utredningen som underlag, samt hur man i utredningen adresserar barnets bästa. Varje år drabbas ungefär 10 000 barn av föräldrar som tvistar om frågor kring vårdnad, boende och umgänge. Om inte fThe purpose of this essay is to investigate how a custody investigation affects a court decision in cases concerning custody, residence and contact. The paper also focuses on whether a judge can take independent position on the matter based on the investigation. Furthermore the essay examines how the custody investigation addresses the best interest of the child. Each year, approximately 10,000 c
Konkurrensen på den globala marknaden blir allt hårdare för internationella företag där utlandsplacerade medarbetare, så kallade expatriater anses vara ett viktigt verktyg för att erhålla konkurrensfördelar. Flera forskare har studerat olika delar av utlandsuppdrag där såväl förberedande träning innan uppdraget som anpassning på plats i värdlandet har framhävts. Dock saknas forskning där ett kompaThe competition on the global market is becoming increasingly tough for international companies where workers located abroad, so called expatriates are thought of as an important tool in obtaining competition advantages. Several scientists have studied different parts of a mission abroad for expatriates where pre-departure training as well as adjustment to the host country has been accentuated. Ho
This study comprehensively evaluated the global warming potential of an office building in a newly built Scandinavian neighbourhood seeking to reach sustainability. The primary objective of the research was to support the city authorities of Helsingborg by providing valuable insights into actual carbon emissions at the building level and proposing measures to minimize these emissions to achieve cl
The most widely used positioning system is Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), which uses traditional positioning techniques and cannot achieve satisfactory positioning performance in indoor scenarios due to Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) transmission. Fingerprinting is a non-traditional positioning technique that is robust to NLoS transmission in indoor scenarios. Moreover, Applying Machine Lear
The purpose of this study is to examine digital information loss at three Swedish archives. Digital preservation is a complex issue and something most archival institutions struggle with today. While there is merit in focussing on successes in this struggle, doing so to the exclusion of failures runs the risk of creating a blind spot for existing problems. We hope that this study will contribute t
Herbivores are known to decrease plant species diversity in ecosystems with low productivity. Limestone pavements are low-productive habitats harboring specialized communities of cyanobacteria, and endo- and epilithic lichens exposed to extreme temperature and humidity fluctuations. Pavements of the Great Alvar (O¨ land, Sweden) are covered by free-living cyanobacteria giving the rock surface a da
Background: Poor mental health is a major issue worldwide and causality is complex. For diseases with multifactorial background synergistic effects of person-and place-factors can potentially be preventive. Nature is suggested as one such positive place-factor. In this cohort study we tested the effect of defined green qualities (Serene, Space, Wild, Culture, Lush) in the environment at baseline o
This article analyses the path dependence of European copyright. It shows how copyright is legally constructed, is harmonised through international treaties and European regulatory efforts in terms of InfoSoc Directive and the IPRED, and is also affected by the Data Retention Directive and the Telecommunications Reform package. Furthermore, the “secretly” negotiated ACTA agreement is discussed as
Popular Abstract in Swedish När vi drabbas av infektioner är det immunförsvaret som ser till att de invaderande organismerna oskadliggörs. För att immunförvaret skall veta vilka organismer och celler som skall attackeras måste det kunna skilja på kroppseget och främmande. En del främmande organismer lever antingen i symbios med den egna kroppen eller så utgör de inget hot. Teoretiskt sett är mat kThe immune response is designed to protect the body from harmful microbial invasions. However, when the immune system attacks itself instead, an autoimmune reaction starts that damage our own cells, tissues and organs. Despite decades of research concerning the etiology of autoimmune diseases the molecular mechanisms of these disorders are poorly understood as they are complex and influenced by bo
Popular Abstract in Swedish I Sverige produceras dagligen flera ton biprodukter avfall inom jordbruks-, livsmedels- och skogsindustrierna. Detta avfall förbränns, komposteras och går till biogasproduktion samt i vissa fall till djurfoder. Intressanta avfallsgrupper ur ett svenskt perspektiv är lök- morots-, och potatis avfall från jordbruk- och livsmedelsindustrin och bark från skogsindustrin. DesThe word sustainability is more and more frequently used within the field of chemistry and in many other fields. Green or sustainable chemistry was introduced during the 90 ́s as a field of chemistry where the environmental and health impacts of processes and products are evaluated and improved. Within analytical chemistry the awareness of sustainability has also increased, which has resulted in o
The present study is composed of a series of six independent yet related articles treating various aspects of international trade and economic growth. In Chapter two the effects of European Integration (EI) on long-run economic growth is studied. Contrary to earlier empirical results long-run effects of EI are identified. As a development Chapter three examines two potential channels linking EI to
Hydrogen embrittlement is often a catastrophic phenomenon of machine elements failure under cyclic stresses. This hydrogen is generated as a result of tribo-chemical and mechanical actions on the working surfaces. This hydrogen can have three different zones or stages of behaviour under tribo-mechanical actions. Firstly, it can strongly adsorb on the mating surfaces at a shallow subsurface zone an
Background: MTG16, MTGR1 and ETO are nuclear transcriptional corepressors of the human ETO protein family. MTG16 is implicated in hematopoietic development and in controlling erythropoiesis/megakaryopoiesis. Furthermore, ETO homologue genes are 3'participants in leukemia fusions generated by chromosomal translocations responsible of hematopoietic dysregulation. We tried to identify structural and
The autumn gum moth, Mnesampela privata, utilizes several species of Eucalyptus planted outside regions of endemism within Australia. We investigated whether foliar monoterpene composition influenced oviposition in the field on the natural primary host (E. globulus) and a novel host (E. rubida), both characterized by nonstructural epicuticular waxes. In the laboratory, oviposition preferences of f
Context: Regulation of fat mass appears to be associated with immune functions. Studies of knockout mice show that endogenous interleukin (IL)-6 can suppress mature-onset obesity. Objective: To systematically investigate associations of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) near the IL-6 (IL6) and IL-6 receptor (IL6R) genes with body fat mass, in support for our hypothesis that variants of these
Popular Abstract in Swedish Enterostatin är en peptid (en liten del av ett protein) som bildas i magsäcken och tarmen under en måltid. I djurförsök då råttor behandlas med enterostatin har man funnit att både aptiten och kroppsvikten minskade. Den minskade aptiten gällde speciellt för fett. Enterostatin fungerar som en mättnadssignal för fett och kan därför vara viktig för att hindra uppkomsten avThe presence of procolipase and enterostatin in the rat gastrointestinal tract has been investigated. Procolipase was identified, using in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry, in exocrine cells of the pancreas as well as in chief cells of the fundus region of the stomach. Enterostatin is the activation peptide of procolipase and it has been found to act as a satiety signal for fat. Using a
Popular Abstract in SwedishDetta är en avhandling om relationen mellan patient och personal i svensk allmänpsykiatrisk vård. Arbetet började med att författaren under andra hälften av 1990-talet blev ombedd av dåvarande Malmöhu's Län's Landsting's Etiska Kommitté att göra en utredning om vad patienterna inom psykiatrin uppfattade som god psykiatrisk vård. Utredningen (som sedermera resulterade i aThe main aim of the thesis was to study different aspects of the therapeutic relationship in general psychiatric care, within various routine psychiatric settings with a variety of diagnostic patient groups and different staff groups. The first study investigated the patients' opinion on what constituted good psychiatric care. One outpatient and one inpatient sample were interviewed. The main resu
Moths rely on the sense of smell (olfaction) as the main sensory input system in search for potential food sources and in selection of suitable females by males. Specific pheromones are fundamental to the reproductive isolation of species and consequently the olfactory system of moths has evolved to a high level of sensitivity and specificity. This thesis investigates differences between two phero
