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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease resulting in destruction of cartilage and bone. The role of the B cells in RA pathogenesis clearly involves autoantibodies. Collagen type II (CII)-specific antibodies have been identified in RA synovium and synovial fluid. The work in this thesis is focused on the role of CII specific antibodies in the initiation and pathogenesis of arthr
Objectives: To evaluate the effect of preoperative malperfusion on 30-day and late mortality and postoperative complications using data from the Nordic Consortium for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection (ATAAD) registry. Methods: We studied 1159 patients who underwent ATAAD surgery between January 2005 and December 2014 at 8 Nordic centers. Multivariable logistic and Cox regression analyses were perfor
Background: Genome-wide association studies are useful for discovering genotype-phenotype associations but are limited because they require large cohorts to identify a signal, which can be population-specific. Mapping genetic variation to genes improves power and allows the effects of both protein-coding variation as well as variation in expression to be combined into "gene level" effects. Methods
In this work, we revise the conventional description of J/ ψ(1 S) , Υ (1 S) , ψ′(2 S) and Υ ′(2 S) elastic photo- and electroproduction off a nucleon target within the color dipole picture and carefully study various sources of theoretical uncertainties in calculations of the corresponding electroproduction cross sections. For this purpose, we test the corresponding predictions using a bulk of ava
Aortic aneurysms are defined as an irreversible increase in arterial diameter by morethan 50% relative to the normal vessel diameter. The incidence of aneurysm rupture isabout 10 in 100,000 persons per year and ruptured arterial aneurysms inevitably resultsin serious complications, which are fatal in about 40% of cases. There is also a hereditarycomponent of the disease and dilation of the ascendi
This study evaluates and compares four green roof methods with the purpose to calculate how many green roofs that potentially can be built on already existing buildings in a city. The methods are created for the cities Braunschweig, Thessaloniki, Lisbon and Lund. All of the methods mainly use Geospatial Information Systems and remote sensing analysis as tools. In order to answer the research quest
Denna studie utvärderar och jämför fyra grönatakmetoder med syftet att beräkna hur många gröna tak som potentiellt kan byggas på redan befintliga byggnader i en stad. Metoderna rör städerna Braunschweig, Thessaloniki, Lissabon och Lund. Geografiska informationssystem och fjärranalys används som verktyg i alla metoderna. Vidare observerar denna studie de kriterier som valts ut i metoderna och underThis study evaluates and compares four green roof methods with the purpose to calculate how many green roofs that potentially can be built on already existing buildings in a city. The methods concern the cities Braunschweig, Thessaloniki, Lisbon, and Lund. Geospatial Information Systems and remote sensing analysis are used as tools in all of the methods. Furthermore, this study observes the criter
En psykiskt störd lagöverträdare behöver i majoriteten av världens länder be-dömas vara tillräknelig för att kunna hållas straffrättsligt ansvarig för en brottslig gärning, det vill säga ha insikt och kontroll över sitt handlande vid gärningstillfället. I Sverige avskaffades detta så kallade tillräknelighetskrav i samband med införandet av brottsbalken 1965. Idén bakom lagändringen byggde på föreMost legal orders contain a requirement that a mentally disturbed offender must be considered sane in order to be held criminally responsible, in other words these offenders will only be imposed liability if they have had insight and control over their actions during the criminal act. However, in Sweden, this exemption from criminal responsibility was abolished in conjunction with the passing of
The global food system is facing significant challenges, for example, Sweden is a big partner of the European Union in terms of imported and exported food, like many countries in the world, Sweden depends on other countries for food production. In addition to it, the agriculture industry is responsible for 26% of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, due to the transportation of food, use of land
Min rättsvetenskapliga uppsats behandlar den svenska bestämmelsen om utvidgat förverkande i 36 kap. 1 b § BrB. I händelse av att en gärningsperson begår ett av de i 36 kap. 1 b § BrB nämnda förverkandeutlösande brott, kan staten genom beviskravet klart mera sannolikt komma åt vinster från brottslig verksamhet som inte härrör från det förverkandeutlösande brottet i sig. Det finns ingen yttre tidsgrMy graduate essay deals with the Swedish provision of extended confiscation in article 1 b, chapter 36 of the Swedish penal code. In the event that an offender commits one of the stipulated crimes in article 1 b chapter 36, the state may with a lower burden of proof then beyond reasonable doubt, confiscate profits from criminal activities, which do not stem from the perpetratory crime itself. Ther
Title: Plant-based Meat Alternative products versus Conventional Meat: Exploring the Construction of Consumers’ Perception from a High Meat-Eaters Perspective Course: BUSN39 Degree Project in Global Marketing Authors: Akankshya Mishra and Laia Martinez Miracle Supervisor: Hossain Shahriar Keywords: Consumer Perception, Sustainable Consumption, Meat Consumption, Plant-based Meat Alternative Product
A growing middle class and increased consumption call for better utilization of resources. For companies to make use of all resources in the production system is not only a way of meeting the changing customer demands and regulatory changes regarding sustainability, but also a way of increasing profits. Finding new business opportunities for by-products can be considered as early stage innovation,
Denna masteruppsats är ett sammarbete mellan Siemens Industrial Turbomachi- nery (SIT) och Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH). Uppsatsen berör validering av ett nytt in-house verktyg på SIT som heter ”Mean Line Tool” (MLT), framför allt sekundärförlustmodellerna som verktyget använder. Valideringen gjordes genom att undersöka och jämföra predikteringar från MLT med experiment utförda på en testturbin vThis thesis for the degree of Master of Science is a collaboration between Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery (SIT) and Lund Institute of Technology (LTH). This thesis concerns validation of a new SIT in-house code Mean Line Tool (MLT) and especially the secondary loss models used by this tool. The validation was made by investigating and comparing predictions from MLT with experiments carried out
Den bakomliggande teorin om planetbildning är att planeterna bildas samtidigt som stjärnan och därför av samma material som stjärnan. Därför måste dessa stoft- och gaspartiklar bindas samman till planeter. Teorin säger att detta görs i en disk runt stjärnan vilken uppstår vid stjärnbildning för att bevara rörelsemängdsmomentet och sådana diskar har observerats och skulle förklara varför alla planeTurbulence which can increase the maximum particle density in some region is interesting for planet formation since the process for building up planets has some problem. Planets are formed by dust grains sticking together into planets during the star formation period and the major problem is the growth from cm to km scale. During this phase both the microscopic molecular forces and the macroscopic
This master thesis is part of the development of a new industrial machine. The machine is a fully automated transplanting machine for the forest industry and will be used by nurseries around the world. Nurseries grow seedlings and sell them when they have grown enough to be planted in the ground. The machine being developed moves plants from a tray with small cells to a tray with bigger cells. Thi
