Sweden has a long tradition of being a welfare state with local authorities both having the responsibility for the provision of public services and being the ones delivering the services. This has changed the last decades and today public services performed by private entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs are usually chosen within the public procurement regime, but they can also—especially when it co

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This thesis discusses the use of tense variation in Japanese, and if there are any methods of translating this into English. Tense variation means the alternation between the two tenses, past and non-past, in Japanese narratives. This alternation can happen even when all the events take place in the past and in chronological order. To find out how tense variation can be translated, the short story

This study investigates the effects of violating deontic constraints on the Japanese conditional markers to and ba. Via an online survey, native speakers reviewed sentences containing violations of these constraints, evaluating their own ability to understand the sentence and the proficiency of the sentences’ authors. Additionally, they were asked to correct sentences they rated poorly, and determ

In this thesis, several current and former trends of Japanese youth language are examined through the perspective of age-appropriate speakers, following previous scholarly arguments that youth language research is fraught with judgements made by non-members of the relevant age group. By the means of a quantitative online questionnaire, the study seeks to find examples of expressions that Japanese

Cancer and COVID-19 are both well-established risk factors predisposing to thrombosis. Both disease entities are correlated with increased incidence of venous thrombotic events through multifaceted pathogenic mechanisms involving the interaction of cancer cells or SARS-CoV2 on the one hand and the coagulation system and endothelial cells on the other hand. Thromboprophylaxis is recommended for hos

Narratives play a crucial role both in people’s lives and in various areas of the social, cultural and political realms. This thesis, drawing from an understanding of judicial sentences as a type of narrative, explores the complex domain of rape justice within the Spanish legal system. The aim is to discover the underpinning cultural meanings and constructions of rape in court sentences, by conduc

Background & aims: Short telomeres have been observed in chronic disease patients. Identifying environmental and lifestyle factors that could reduce telomere attrition is crucial for disease prevention. The aim of this work was to determine whether weight-loss induced by an energy-reduced Mediterranean diet (erMedDiet) and physical activity (PA) could modify telomere length (TL). Methods: In 3

The reactions of [Fe2(CO)6(μ-sdt)] (1) (sdt = SCH2SCH2S) with phosphine ligands have been investigated. Treatment of 1 with dppm (bis(diphenylphosphino)methane) or dcpm (bis(dicyclohexylphosphino)methane) affords the diphosphine-bridged products [Fe2(CO)4(μ-sdt)(μ-dppm)] (2) and [Fe2(CO)4(μ-sdt)(μ-dcpm)] (3), respectively. The complex [Fe2(CO)4(μ-sdt)(κ2-dppv)] (4) with a chelating diphosphine was

Uppsatsens syfte har varit att undersöka ensamkommande ungas mångfacetterade och komplexa sociala resa inom kontexten av svensk integration, den kommunala boendeverksamheten, ungdomlighet, vuxenblivande och kulturell självidentitet. Studien har därför fokuserat på gruppens identitetsskapande och vidare anpassning till det svenska sociala och kulturella landskapet. Samtliga av studiens informanter

Våra celler kommer ihåg SARS-CoV-2 Hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar är en av de ledande dödsorsakerna i världen. Ateroskleros, ett tillstånd där fett ansamlas i kärlen, har visats orsaka hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar. Flera delar av vårt immunförsvar har även visats ha ett samband med ateroskleros. En av dessa delar är det adaptiva immunförsvaret, där så kallade B- och T-celler finns. B- och T-celler ingår iAdaptive immunity has been implicated in cardiovascular diseases, but the relationship between immune capacity or immune function in these diseases has yet to be established. I optimized a method to screen for immune capacity using immune responsiveness against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as a proxy. This method screens for markers upregulated during activation on lymphocytes using fluorescent an

Children of prisoners have increasingly been touted as the silent victims of incarceration due to the emotional and mental distress that often occurs following a parent's incarceration. Unfortunately, these children have not been met with much academic interest in Iceland. This thesis thus seeks to provide insight into how parental incarceration affects children in Iceland. Here, the character

Bakgrund Fysisk aktivitet är ett effektivt sätt att undvika flera negativa konsekvenser som ett stillasittande liv kan leda till. Under det senaste årtiondet har stillasittande hos universitetsstudenter ökat mer jämfört med unga vuxna generellt. För att utföra en handling eller förändring av en livsstil krävs motivation som kan grunda sig i inre eller yttre vinning. Syfte Syftet med studien var at