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To address a diversified student complement in academic studies is becoming more and more frequent in maritime education and training. Diversity challenges are also the reality onboard ships that muster a multicultural crew complement. This thesis aims at creating awareness on dilemmas and challenges that students and faculty meet when working in a multicultural environment. In order not to have

Nissen fundoplication is an effective treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) but can cause adverse effects like flatulence and dysphagia. The aim was to compare laparoscopic anterior 120° fundoplication (APF) to total fundoplication (Nissen) concerning flatulence and other adverse effects, in a randomized blinded study.

We construct finite-dimensional representations of the quantum affine algebra associated to the simple finite-dimensional Lie algebra sl(n+1). The module structure is defined on the vector space tensor product of the fundamental representations of the quantum affine algebra. To do this, we find a particular basis of every fundamental representation, consisting of eigenvectors for some of the Drinf

The study aims to establish the effectiveness of the Danish destination certification scheme – Destination 21. In order to accomplish this, an analytical framework, based upon current tourism and development theory, was constructed against which the scheme was tested. The analytical framework consists from three analyses examining the schemes framework, substance and applicability. It was found th

The generation of new mobile devices and the need to make decisions 'on the move' led to a new technology coined as mobile business intelligence (m-BI). M-BI is different from traditional BI in terms of user profiles, level of analytics and functionalities. Although there is a growing interest from both practitioners and academics, very little is known about m-BI in general and even less on its us

A study of tonality and modality in contemporary dance music and the thoughts on aural training related to said genre.

Background Environmental barriers increase risk for mobility difficulties in old age. Mobility difficulty is preceded by a phase where people try to postpone a difficulty through mobility modification. We studied whether perceived environmental mobility barriers outdoors correlate with mobility modification and mobility difficulty, predict development of mobility difficulty over a two-year follow-

In Information Gap Decision Theory (IGDT) a system is said to be robust to uncertainty if specified goals are achieved with satisfaction despite large info-gaps. Under this theory an info-gap expresses the disparity between what is known and unknown in structures for which uncertainty is judged as severe. We discuss how robustness in IGDT can be merged with a perspective on risk which allows for d

This text is an attempt to approach fundamental layers in the formation ofmusical meaning in learning processes where musicians work with musicfrom cultures other than their own. The point of departure is my personalexperience as a musician from two distinct perspectives:• my double roles as a teacher of the zither đàn tranh in the VietnamNational Academy of Music as well as in the Malmö Academy o

This dissertation presents the design and implementation of a new block diagram programming language, Bloqqi, for building control systems with focus on variability. The language has been developed in collaboration with industry with the goal of reducing engineering time and improving reuse of functionality.When building a control system for a plant, there are typically different variants of the s