Får du en förändrad gång av din knäortos? Knäortoser är en vanligt förekommande behandlingsmetod, bland annat för att lindra smärtan och fortskridning av knäartros hos patienter. Men hur påverkas egentligen gången hos användarna? Artros är den vanligaste ledsjukdomen hos människor över 65 år och över en miljon svenskar lider av den. Dessvärre finns det ingen tydlig behandlingsplan för sjukdomen The most prevalent joint disease in adults is osteoarthritis. The knee joint is the joint which is the most affected by osteoarthritis, with mechanical overloading being one of the causes. While no cure exists for osteoarthritis, many different treatment options are available. One alternative is to wear a knee brace on the affected leg. This aims to slow down the progression of osteoarthritis to p

The lifetime extension of smartphones is seen as a prominent way to reduce the environmental impacts caused during the production of the devices. Smartphones may be small devices, but their impact is no longer small as for the past years e-waste has been the largest growing waste generated globally. This research aimed to learn what perspectives Swedish smartphone users had towards repairability a

Intergovernmental organizations can be found in all regions around the world, but in the Middle East they are a rare phenomenon. SESAME is a synchrotron light radiation facility located in Jordan governed by its eight member states: Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Palestine, and Turkey. It has been promised as a project of science diplomacy, producing not only research, but also inc

This study investigates the relationship between environmental and social (ES) performance and firm performance, while also exploring the potential moderating effects of government ownership and CEO duality. Adopting a quantitative approach, fixed effects panel regressions are employed to analyze the relationships based on previous empirical literature and theoretical perspectives, including agenc

Differentiation is something that can easily be seen in today’s world, almost everywhere in companies, brands, people, products. It is simply ubiquitous. Cosmetics is an industry in particular where product differentiation in particular now plays an increasingly salient role in allowing firms to stand out from competition; a competition that will never cease to exist. This study explores the very

In the early stage of a drug discovery project, there is a need for efficient methods that can analyse peptides in short time. This includes methods that confirm the peptide’s identity and estimates its relative purity in an efficient and reliable way. The aim was to create a workflow for peptide characterization for AstraZeneca’s in-house peptides that was applicable for a high-throughput analysi

Pappersprodukter är en självklar del av vår vardag. Under en vanlig morgon är många av oss i kontakt med såväl toalettpapper som pappersförpackningar och papperstidningar innan vi ens har hunnit lämna hemmet. Dessutom sker en utveckling mot att ersätta plastprodukter med pappersmaterial för att göra dem mer hållbara. Men hur tillverkas egentligen pappret? Och hur påverkar tillverkningen miljön? I The pulp industry is important for creating sustainable paper products and for the Swedish economy. However, the industry has historically polluted marine environments through its emissions. This study aims to analyse the effects of the pulp mill Södra Cell Mörrum on the marine recipient Hanö Bay in the southern Baltic Sea. The study focuses on effects of nutrients and metals on sediments and blue

In recent years, it has been reported that sex education in Swedish schools has been lacking, and, thus, in 2022, new guidelines for sex education were implemented (sexuality consent and relationships, SCaR). This change meant that sex education is part of all curricula and that the responsibility to teach it rests on teachers of all subjects. With the theory of language as reproducing and changin

Tourism has increased drastically during the last decades in Yellowstone National Park, from nearly 20 000 visitors in 1910 to almost five million visitors in 2021. Yellowstone is an important ecosystem with unique wildlife, and geological and cultural history. It has a high variety of plants and serves as the home for many different animal species. Previously, tourism has been found to have an im

The global business environment has changed rapidly during the past decades; part of that change is the concept of Born Globals. Small and emerging companies are deviating from the traditional globalisation models with incremental steps to internationalisation in favour of turning global from inception. When a Born Global firm acquires Venture Capital, new demands on efficiency and returns are set

Memory competition often hinders the retrieval of a particular event. It has long been established that access to the encoding context facilitates later retrieval. Previous research suggested that context is encoded alongside with event memories like bookmarks and can be used to differentiate target memory from competitors. The current study used pupillometry to investigate if context mitigates me

Titel: Hur verkligt är verkligt värde? En studie om underprissättning vid börsintroduktioner Seminariedatum: 2 juni 2023 Kurs: FEKH69 – Examensarbete i redovisning på kandidatnivå Författare: Oskar Brunnéd, Simon Sandström, Jamal Shamma Handledare: Liesel Klemcke Syfte: Studien syftar till att undersöka ifall underprissättningen vid börsintroduktioner på Stockholmsbörsen och Nordic Growth Ma

Sammanfattning Uppsatstitel: Från frivilligt till obligatoriskt Seminariedatum: 2 juni 2023 Kurs: FEKH69 Examensarbete i redovisning på kandidatnivå, 15 HP Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Lunds universitet Författare: Hanna Engström, Josefine Lundberg och Moa Rådberg Handledare: Karin Jonnergård Nyckelbegrepp: Kommuner, Hållbarhetsredovisning, Incitament, Motiv, Regulering, Standarder, Ins

Background: Climate change and increasing threats that come with it fosters a need for changing from fossil sources of energy to renewable ones. Sweden aims to have net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year of 2045. One of the sectors that need to take part in this shift towards fossil free energy is the transport industry. Electrification of vehicles is an important part of this shift. As a r

BorgWarner continuously improves the performance of their friction system, and by that also need more sophisticated measurement methods. The friction system is developed to minimize noises caused by vibrations to improve customer satisfaction. However, studies from BorgWarner show that in some specific drivetrain operations, vibrations can be induced from the friction discs (lamellas) caused by st

Syfte Undersöka konsumenters köp- och returbeteenden vad gäller kläder vid införandet av striktare returpolicys. Teoretiska perspektiv Returbeteende, Categories of online returning behavior, Returpolicy, CSR, Carroll’s Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility, Tidigare forskning, Grandiositet och nollsummespel Metod Uppsatsen utgår från en kvantitativ undersökningsmetod och deduktiv ansats. DePurpose To investigate consumer purchasing and return behaviors regarding clothing when introducing stricter return policies. Theoretical perspective Returning behavior, Categories of online returning behavior, Return policies, CSR, Carroll’s Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility, Grandiosity and Zero-sum games Methodology The essay is based on a quantitative research method and deductive a

This study aims to investigate the presence of stigmatization in the reintegration process of former criminals. More specifically, this study examines potential gender differences in former criminals' experiences of a reintegration process. A qualitative approach has been applied, utilizing semi-structured interviews with eight respondents who all have a background characterized by crime and d

Galectins are a family of glycan-binding proteins where galectin-8 is a part of the subgroup known as tandem-repeat type galectins. Galectin-8 is composed of two homologous CRDs, one N- and one C-terminal CRD. As it stands now, galectin-8N has been found to bind to a larger number of glycans than galectin-8C. Thus, it is currently of a higher therapeutical interest to focus research on the N-termi

The area of the Common Foreign and Security Policy is seen, mainly due to the unique place it occupies in Treaties, as the: ‘realm of sovereign wills and national interest par excellence’. One may wonder what space it leaves for judicial review. The answer for so many years is that there wasn't any. The Court was, and still is, not fully granted the same liberty in CFSP matters as in other non