Technical development and automation have flourished the private sector for a long time. Now, the technical developments are finding its way into public administration. The Swedish Government encourage the public sector to broaden their use of digital tools and automation in administrative processes are now more common than none. Meanwhile, digital innovation such as automation faces more prominen

Donald Trump's time in the White House has done decades of damage to women's rights, especially their right to self-determination. President Trump's appointment of two new Supreme Court justices has allowed the central decision making system on abortion rights to be repealed by making it federal, which has allowed dozens of states to repeal and ban it. This event demonstrated to the wo

For many years, indigeneity has been conceptualized as rural, making Indigenous communities and people in cities invisible globally. For the Sámi people, Europe’s only indigenous people, security is mainly understood as physical-centering extraction and environmental degradation. Focusing on the urban Sámi community in Umeå in Sweden, cultural and political belonging in the city arises as vital in

This thesis is about the patient and the professionals' experiences of participation and recovery in forensic psychiatric care. The purpose of the study was to investigate patients' and professionals' experiences of participation and what is considered to contribute to recovery from severe psychiatric illness. The study is based on a qualitative method and the empirical material consis

With socio-economic hardships arising and dramatically worsening as a cause of the present-day financial crisis, The World Bank has warned against severe cases of brain drain as emigration becomes increasingly desirable to the Lebanese population. Lebanon, already possessing one of the world’s largest diaspora, can be characterized as being one of the largest remittance-receiving countries, where

Aims/hypothesis: Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the leading cause of kidney failure and has a substantial genetic component. Our aim was to identify novel genetic factors and genes contributing to DKD by performing meta-analysis of previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on DKD and by integrating the results with renal transcriptomics datasets. Methods: We performed GWAS meta-analyses us

Övergången från lärarstudier till arbetet som lärare är ett diskuterat tema världen över. För att fortsätta diskussionen vidare och erhålla kunskap om hur skolor kan underlätta för lärarna i den ofta omtumlande övergången, krävs uppdaterade uppgifter om hur lärare upplever sin första tid i yrket. Studien syftar till att undersöka nyutbildade lärares första år i arbetslivet, med speciellt fokus på

Human-induced climate change continues to have a disproportionate negative impact on people and the planet. The human dimension must be included to make a change to reduce the environmental challenges we are facing. As mobile digital technologies have developed, the use of gamification has emerged as a way to promote pro-environmental behavior. As the field is relatively new, the research on the t

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and most aggressive primary brain tumor in adults. Glioma stem like cells (GSC) represent the highest cellular hierarchy in GBM and have a determining role in tumor growth, recurrence and patient prognosis. However, a better definition of GSC subpopulations, especially at the surgical resection margin, is warranted for improved oncological treatment options. T

Based on the recent years of home working, this project is an examination of our home workplaces, to optimize the human posture and include good ergonomics in future static remote work. With an experimenting approach, I explore the possibilities of designing a dining chair with simple adjustments to transform the chair into a work chair. The purpose is to design a multifunctional chair that

Memory IPs are important components in SoC designs. Hence, making sure that the memory IPs are functioning as expected is crucial for any organization. In order to do so, memory IPs must be tested. In addition, the testing capabilities can be enhanced by integrating a processor to the memory test chip. In this project, an open-source PULPissimo platform based on RISC-V ISA(Instruction set architec

Det sen-Triassiska massutdöendet (STM) var ett av de fem stora massutdöenden i Fanerozoikum och inträffade för omkring 201 miljoner år sedan. Forskningen är enig om att utdöendet orsakades av vulkanutbrotten associerade med bildandet av den Centralatlantiska magmatiska provinsen (CAMP), som är kopplade till uppbrottet av superkontinenten Pangea. De omfattande vulkaniska utsläppen av CO2 och SO2 leThe end-Triassic mass extinction (ETE) was one of the five big mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic and occurred ~201 Ma ago. Research agrees that the main triggering factor for the ETE was the eruptions of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Volcanic Province (CAMP), linked to the break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea. The large amounts of CO2 and SO2 released from the volcanic eruptions had a series o

We present a novel high-resolution inverse modelling system ("FLEXVAR") based on FLEXPARTCOSMO back trajectories driven by COSMO meteorological fields at 7 km×7 km resolution over the European COSMO-7 domain and the four-dimensional variational (4DVAR) data assimilation technique. FLEXVAR is coupled offline with the global inverse modelling system TM5-4DVAR to provide background mole fractions ("b

Osteosarcoma is a malignant cancer of the bone mainly affecting adolescents. Despite progress, the clinical management of osteosarcoma is still challenging. With the current chemotherapy protocol being used for more than 30 years, the number of poor responders is increasing. Although new treatments have been explored since then, no improved tumor eradication effect have been found. In the present

Including the voices and knowledge of service users is essential for developing recovery-oriented and evidence-based mental health services. Recent studies have however, suggested that challenges remain to the legitimization of user knowledge in practice. To further explore such challenges, a co-production study was conducted by a team of researchers and representatives from user organizations in

With the development of telecommunication technology, the mobile networks are being updated. 5G is the fifth generation mobile communication, which can provide a higher data rate, lower latency, more connections, higher security insurance, and more flexible business deployment capabilities than 4G. The purpose of this master's thesis is to study the advantages of using 5G networks under differ

Experimental and computational efforts are constantly made to elucidate mechanisms controlling cell fate decisions during development and reprogramming. One powerful computational method is to consider cell commitment and reprogramming as movements in an energy landscape. Here, we develop Computation of Energy Landscapes of Logical Gene Networks (CELLoGeNe), which maps Boolean implementation of ge