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This is an interview-based study that aims to test the validity of the Agenda Setting Theory. As it was written before the Information Age, it claims that the public agenda (readers) have no real influence over the media agenda (newspapers). As the digitalization of journalism made analytical tools widely available to web editors, it may be possible that the media agenda today is much more depende

The main goal for year 2050 is to reduce energy usage by 50 %. This is meant to be achieved through the use of energy efficient solutions. Operation and maintenance of installations and buildings are main factors in achieving this goal. The building must be viewed from a holistic perspective throughout the process. With regards of both optimization of installations and improvements of the construc

RNA interference (RNAi) has recently been discovered in the budding yeast Saccharomyces castellii. As in other organisms, artificial RNAi could be a useful genetic tool in budding yeast, but the method needs first to be established. S. castellii is also a useful model for telomerase studies, and a knockdown of the telomerase catalytic subunit Est2p could be a new way of unrevealing its functions a

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Klimatväxlingarna under sista istiden har alltid varit en debattfråga. Denna istids kallaste period inträffade för cirka 20.000 år sedan och benämns "istidsmaximum". Då var havsytan hundratjugo meter lägre än idag och det mesta vattnet var bundet i inlandsisarna. Klimatväxlingar försöker dagens kvartärgeologer att fastställa med en så bra tidsutlösning

This report is an evaluation of the fire safety at Jakobsberg's hospital outside Stockholm. The report is a part of the course in Fire Safety Evaluation that is given at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. The evaluation follows a scheme that was developed on a basis of prior learning at the Fire Protection Engineering Program and focuses on risks concerning life and health. The wor

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att förstå vad som ligger till grund för dagens utformning av busshållplatser och vilka möjligheter det finns för att bygga attraktiva busshållplatser. För att kunna göra det är det viktigt att förstå de inblandade aktörernas ansvarsfördelning och intressen. Metoden som har använts är kvalitativa intervjuer med trafikplanerare från Malmö Stad, Skånetrafiken och anThe aim of this master thesis is to understand why bus stops are designed the way they are and what the possibilities are to build attractive bus stops. To do so it is also important to know which the invovled parties are and what role they play. The method for this study are qualtive interviews with transport planners from Malmö Stad and Skånetrafiken and other interesting parties. The study has

Desiccation of the Sahara since the middle Holocene has eradicated all but a few natural archives recording its transition from a "green Sahara" to the present hyperarid desert. Our continuous 6000- year paleoenvironmental reconstruction from northern Chad shows progressive drying of the regional terrestrial ecosystem in response to weakening insolation forcing of the African monsoon and abrupt hy

Symmetry analysis is combined with x-ray scattering experiments to investigate the lattice modulation associated with the incommensurate magnetic structure in the case of a double-k structure. The expansion of the free energy shows that the components of the magnetic structure with propagation vectors k(1) and k(2) can couple via components of lattice modulations. It is shown that the classical di

This review describes how computational methods have contributed to the held of cobalamin chemistry since the start of the new millennium. Cobalamins are cobalt-dependent cofactors that are used for alkyl transfer and radical initiation by several classes of enzymes. Since the entry of modern electronic-structure calculations, in particular density functional methods, the understanding of the mole

P-wave morphology reflects the projection of the depolarization vector on the electrocardiogram (ECG)lead axes in three-dimentional space and reflects both right and left atrial activation. The main purpose of current thesis was to explore the internal logic between the atrial conduction properties, including intra- and inter- atrial conduction, and P-wave characteristics from the level of histolo

To investigate the feasibility of transplanting human neural progenitor cells (hNPCs) to the retina of nonimmunosuppressed pigs, cultured hNPCs were injected into the subretinal space of 5 adult pigs after laser burns were applied to promote donor cell integration. Postoperatively, the retinal vessels appeared normal without signs of exudation, bleeding, or subretinal elevation. Eyes were harveste

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is in many respects a technically oriented field. The technical aspects of BCM are of great importance, however they become meaningless if not used and managed properly. Without adequate human and organizational conditions, there is a risk that BCM does not take the decisive step from solely comprising well-documented business continuity plans, to also generati

Following the recent resurgence of capitalism as a key subject in historical analysis, historians have highlighted the globally interconnected making and remaking of capitalism. Commodity-centred histories in global history have shown how to write locally grounded histories of global capitalism emphasising the complex and contingent relationship between the local and the global. In these accounts,

The article is a result of field studies on the transformations of multicultural heritage in the east-central European cities of Cracow, Wrocław, Lviv and Chernivtsi. In all these cities, a majority of the pre-war populations (and in Wrocław, practically all pre-war residents) disappeared as a result of WWII. After decades of silence imposed by the ruling communist elites, collective memories of t

We have detected the mutations in the factor IX genes from all of the haemopllilia B patients registered at Malmo haemophilia centre (45) and are currently examining the entire UK haemophilia B population. From these studies we have found 13 base substitutions which have recurred in 1-6 other, presumably unrelated, patients. In order to determine the minimum number of independent repeats of each m