Advanced Knowledge Work and Stress-related Symptoms: Epidemiology and...
Well educated knowledge workers are a growing group of the work force. Little research has been conducted on this group regarding possible work-related health symptoms, as well as interventions in...
View ArticleAge-related Difference in Kinematics and Cerebral Cortical Processes during...
Research has shown developmental improvements in drawing movements during childhood. These changes may be related to protracted structural development and myelination of cortical brain structures...
View ArticleFirst-principles calculations of long-range intermolecular dispersion forces
This work presents first-principles measurements of long-range intermolecular dispersion energies between two atoms or molecules as expressed in terms of the C6 dipole-dipole dispersion coefficients....
View ArticleHIV/AIDS awareness and sexual behavior among adolescents in Babati Tanzania
Aromatase is the enzyme that catalysis the conversion of androgens into estrogens. It´s a member of P450 cytochrome family and is encoded by the CYP19-gene. The enzyme aromatase has an important role...
View ArticleExpertise in credit granting: studies on judgment and decision-making behavior
How do experienced lenders make decisions? This dissertation addresses this question by investigating judgment and decision-making behavior of loan officers in banks as well as credit managers in...
View ArticleManaging mission-critical IT in the financial industry
In recent years, IT has come to play an important role in companies. So successful execution of business processes often depends on mission-critical IT-solutions. Managing such IT is challenging....
View ArticleGenetic analysis of murine malaria
Malaria, an infectious disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, is one of the major world-scale health problems. Despite the efforts aimed at finding an effective way to control the disease, the success...
View ArticleRoad user charging for heavy goods vehicles – Implementation aspects
Several factors have influenced the recent development in charging of heavy goods vehicles in Europe. European legislation is changed and the political will is strong in many countries. The public...
View ArticleBaseline Adjustment for Ordinal Covariates by Inducing a Partial Ordering in...
In two-armed randomized clinical trials (RCTs) designed to compare a new treatment with a control, a key endpoint is often measured and analyzed both at baseline and after treatment for two groups....
View ArticleMeristem Maintenance in Arabidopsis thaliana
The shoot apical meristem (SAM) is the structure that shapes the aerial architecture of the plant, by producing lateral organs throughout development. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the SAM...
View ArticleCoplanar waveguide components and their applications in microwave circuits
This thesis covers the microwave components and circuits employing coplanar waveguide (CPW), which is one of the most important transmission line media commonly used in current wireless communications....
View ArticleExtreme Business-Models in the Clothing Industry – A Case Study of H&M and ZARA
In the clothing industry firms compete successfully by applying different business-models. H&M and ZARA are two extremes in the clothing industry. H&M’s business-model mainly focuses on...
View ArticleInvestigating the Distribution of Open Source Funding within Nonprofit...
Open source software development projects are often lacks financial support. But nonprofit organizations and hosts are providing services and the possibility of funding the development. Several...
View ArticleSupplier Quality Management (SQM): Self-Assessment System
Supplier’s related quality costs for a purchasing company represent a significant portion of the selling price. Through proper control of supply quality, the reduction in supplier quality costs can be...
View ArticleOptimisation of a Graph Visualization Tool Vizz3D
Vizz3D is a graph visualization tool developed at Växjö University. It is used to visualize different aspects of software systems in 3D, based on the static analysis of source code. It can optionally...
View ArticleCase study of a contract system: considering pulp prices from 1996-2006
Södra Cell sells 1 900 000 ton pulp every year. Of this 490 000 tonne is sold with a contract system based on a pricing index called PIX NBSK. This index was started in 1996 and reflects the price of...
View ArticleStudies of Materials and Interfaces for Organic Electronics
Organic Electronics is a rapidly evolving field with large number of applications having high possibility of commercial success. Although a fantastic progress has been made, many organic electronic...
View ArticleInductive Pulse Generation
Pulsed power generators are a key component in compact systems for generation of high-power microwaves (HPM). HPM generation by virtual cathode devices such as Vircators put high demands on the source....
View ArticleCSR, is it for real? Are there any profits in it?
This is a study about why immense amount of resources have been spent on the realm of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by large multinational Swedish firms. A lot of attention has been given to...
View ArticleSupport usability in online communities
This thesis will divide the concept of member feedback in online communities into three types, namely conversational-, behavioural feedback and content analysis. During this thesis we will argue for...
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