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Översiktliga beräkningar visar att ca 2 miljoner människor utsätts för trafikbullernivåer överstigande de riktvärden som riksdagen ställt sig bakom. Ungefär 500 000 av dessa utsätts för buller från tågtrafiken. Trafikbuller har betydelse för vår hälsa och de negativa effekterna kan vara störning av dagliga aktiviteter, stress sömnsvårigheter, koncentrationsproblem och högt blodtryck. Detta arbete Roughly 2 million Swedish citizens are exposed to traffic noise from roads, railways and aircrafts at levels higher than those approved by the government. As many as 500 000 of these are subject to railway noise. Exposure to traffic noise can have negative effects and cause irritation and disturbance of daily activities and also create general health problems such as lack of sleep, stress, concent

EasyArchive is a vendor of an email archiving software solution. EasyArchive’s sales are not growing with the same speed as the market, which is forecasted to grow with up to 1000% within the next 5 years. EasyArchive’s direct sales force can expand but the company is also evaluating alternative marketing channels. The number of potential types of channels and the number of players in each channel

Med en ökande åldrande befolkning kommer antalet vårdbehövande äldre med kognitiva funktionsnedsättningar (olika former av demenssjukdomar) att öka. Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka förhållandet mellan äldre personers självbestämmanderätt kontra deras behov av vård. Vård kan inte ges utan den enskildes samtycke, om inte undantag finns uttryckt i lag. Ett giltigt samtycke kräver att den enskilde

I Sverige utgör bygg- och rivningsavfall en tredjedel av landets totala avfall, exklusive gruvavfall, samtidigt som bygg­ och fastighetssektorn står för omkring en femtedel av växthusgasutsläppen nationellt. Eftersom byggnader blir mer och mer energieffektiva blir det alltmer intressant att beakta klimatavtrycket som materialet bidrar med. För att förebygga bygg- och rivningsavfall och underlätta

Abstract Title: Dune erosion during storms in Skanör-Falsterbo - simulations with the help of XBeach Authors: Mikael Dunér and Axel Flodin Vacher Supervisors: Professor Magnus Larson and Doctoral Student Björn Almström, Division of Water Resources Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University. Presentation of problem: With a rising sea-level, because of the climate change, the risk

End-of-life management of cars in Europe is regulated by a common legislative framework since 2000, when the Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) was adopted. The objectives of this legislation are: prevention of waste from ELVs through design improvements, and facilitating better recycling and treatment of ELVs by improving environmental performance of treatment facilities and atta

Sealings are an important part in the industrial robot. One important property of the seal is to keep all particles and fluids from the outside, away from the important components inside the robot. Another important property is to keep the oil and grease inside the robot, and prevent leakage. The seal also prevent leakage inside the industrial robot and reduces the risks of sensitive components to

Inom ett demokratiskt samhälle är likhet inför lagen en av de viktigaste principerna. Men är den möjligt att uppfylla i praktiken? Går det överhuvudtaget att behandla människor lika trots att vi ständigt delar in varandra i olika kategorier? I Sverige idag tilldelas alla barn ett juridiskt kön redan vid födseln. Beroende på om barnet anses vara en flicka eller en pojke följer sedan helt olika förvEquality before the law is one of the most important principles within a democratic society. But can it be put into practice? Is it at all possible to treat people equally in a society where we constantly divide each other into different categories? Today in Sweden, all children are assigned a legal sex at birth. We have different expectations on what qualities a child is supposed to have dependin

Den senaste tiden har ifrågasättandet av diagnosen skakvåld fått mycket uppmärksamhet, bl.a. eftersom HD i NJA 2014 s. 699, just på grund av ovan nämnda ifrågasättande, friade den tilltalade från anklagelserna om skakvåld. I ett annat fall beviljade HD resning för en man som tidigare dömts för skakvåld. Syftet med denna uppsats är att granska diagnosen skakvåld ur ett juridiskt perspektiv. Det skeRecently the questioning of the diagnosis ’shaken baby syndrome’ has received attention, partly because the Supreme Court in a judgment, because of the poor scientific evidence base for the diagnosis, acquitted the defendant from the accusations of shaking his baby. In another case the Supreme Court granted a man, who had been sentenced to prison for killing his daughter by violent shaking, a new

Over the last 20 years the population in large Swedish cities and their suburbs has grown with 25%. This massive population growth has increased the competition in the housing market, which results in people moving more often. The most frequent movers are between 20-30 years old and they move every 6-12 months. With this background the goal was to examine the living situation for these people. Wha

Light interacting with biological matter is dominated by light scattering; biological matter is turbid. In order not to harm the natural structure of biological matter, visible light can be used to investigate it, and to avoid the light being absorbed from e.g. blood and water, an optical window in the longer wavelength region of the visible spectrum is used, that is, red light. One can actually c

Efficient handling of faults during operation is highly dependent on the interval (latency) from the time embedded monitoring instruments detect faults to the time when the fault manager localizes the faults. In this article, we propose a self-reconfiguring IEEE 1687 network in which all instruments that have detected faults are automatically included in the scan path, and a fault detection and lo

Objective: To investigate Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP) and its impact on daily life activities during 1 year of follow-up in early systemic sclerosis (SSc). Method: Fourteen SSc patients with a median disease duration of 2 years were enrolled in the study. Every 7 weeks the patients completed a 7 day diary documenting the frequency and duration of RP attacks, the activity causing the attack, and how

An extracellular matrix preparation, the human amnion membrane matrix (hAMM) can serve as a neurite-promoting substratum for cultured peripheral and central neurons, and also as a support for axonal growth in experimentally injured adult brain in vivo. In the present study, we tested similar materials as bridges in a silicone chamber model for the regeneration of sciatic nerve in the adult rat. Si

Background: Cesarean section performed in the absence of medical indication is of concern in many countries, but studies focusing on its prevalence are inconclusive. The objective of this study was, first, to describe the prevalence of cesarean section without medical reason in terms of the diagnostic code listed in the Swedish Medical Birth Register, and to assess its contribution to the general

This dissertation is about the Swedish filmmaker, painter and composer Peter Kylberg (1938). Kylberg’s nine films produced between 1959 and 1996 serves as a historical delimitation. A purpose of the study is to critically review the existing historical writing surrounding Swedish film culture and film politics, during the timespan in focus. The approach of the dissertation is chronological and pre

Background: Parents with small children constitute a vulnerable group as they have an increased risk of sick leave due to stress-related disorders compared to adults without children. It has been shown that mothers and fathers to small children together spend more time in paid work than any other group, which could create negative stress and an experience of low occupational balance. Aim: The aim

Människans vilja att förstå universums mest fundamentala byggstenar och dess naturlagar är den drivkraft som ligger till grund för elementarpartikelfysiken. Den teoretiska forskningen inom detta område vägleds idag till stor del av data från LHC-experimentet utanför Genève (LHC förkortar `Large Hadron Collider', dvs.~den Stora Hadronacceleratorn). Vid LHC accelereras protoner till extremt höga hasThe four articles contained in this thesis all concern aspects of model building beyond the Standard Model (BSM). While Paper I mainly serves as a ``tool paper'' in which the results can be used to simplify certain calculations of one-loop effects from new heavy particles, Paper II--IV all deal with consequences of family symmetries in several BSM scenarios. Paper I. We derive expressions for any