Background: A number of trends during the last decade, like globalisation, outsourcing, single sourcing, leanness and agility, have made the supply chain more vulnerable and “supply chain risk management” has become a research area of its own. Objective: To characterize the existing scientific knowledge and scientific knowledge creation within supply chain risk management as it is presented in the

The potential and mechanism to reduce acid gases, such as SO2, NOx and HCl by dry Ca-based sorbents have been studied to improve the efficiencies of the process and sorbent utilization. Several natural limestones were tested for SO2 removal. Calcium conversion as high as 45% was achieved within 0.3 s at 1000°C, 1000 ppm SO2 and Ca/S=1. A SO2 removal efficiency of 95% was reached at Ca/S=2. Two m

Yrkesutbildningen har både påverkat och påverkats av den ekonomiska historien och det finns åtminstone två olika teoretiska perspektiv som kan användas. Det ena är det strukturanalytiska perspektivet som utgår från att ekonomin förändras i cykler. En insikt och förståelse som projektet har gett är att yrkesutbildningen inte alltid entydigt följt dessa cykler, och framförallt inte för alla bransche

Popular Abstract in Swedish I denna avhandling undersöks vilka funktioner cytoskelettproteinet desmin har strukturellt och funktionellt i hjärta och skelettmuskel. Genom att studera funktionen i hjärt- och skelettmuskler i en transgen musmodell, Des-/- som helt saknar proteinet desmin (delarbete I-III), kan vi uppskatta hur viktigt desmin är för muskelkontraktionen. Vi har även studerat hur en mutWe have examined the functional and structural roles of the cytoskeletal protein desmin in cardiac and skeletal muscles using a genetically modified mouse (Des-/-) with the desmin gene ablated. Desmin forms filaments at the Z-disks in the striated muscle sarcomere, have connections to the sarcolemma and most likely align sarcomeres and whole cells. We have shown a decreased contractile function of

In this study we investigated how managers make strategical decisions in complex, dynamic, and real-time environments and in different decision domains. The managers we interviewed were usually ‘in charge’ of the tasks. Our results showed that the informants mostly constructed only one or two decision alternatives and that they did this to a large extent through communication with other persons, w

The use of restricted access media and other stationary phases for clean-up and trace enrichment of environmental samples coupled on-line to liquid chromatography using diode array detection as well as thermospray MS is described. This on-line configuration was compared with commercially available ELISAs for the determination of triazines in complex matrices, showing superior precision and accurac

During the last years a couple of emergencies have affected the Swedish municipality Ljungby and its inhabitants and forced the municipality to initiate emergency responses. Some examples are a flooding that happened during the summer of 2004, the storm Gudrun that occurred in January 2005 and the storm Per that occurred in January 2007. These emergencies, as well as other incidents, are situation