Licentiatavhandlingar / Licentiate Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Occupational safety and health interventions : incentives and economic consequences 

      Martinsson, Camilla (Institutet för miljömedicin / Institute of Environmental Medicine, 2017-08-28)
      Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to extend the knowledge of factors that from an employer perspective could increase the use of research based occupational safety and health (OSH) interventions and work-place health ...

    • CNS tumours of childhood/adolescence : outcomes related to disability and identity in adult survivors 

      Hörnquist, Lina (Inst för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Dept of Women's and Children's Health, 2017-03-16)
      Central nervous system (CNS) tumour survivors are at increased risk for adverse health and functional late effects. Results from previous studies from the Swedish LIFE project, of which this licentiate thesis is a part, ...

    • The function of Smc5/6 in Drosophila development and at the heterochromatin-like locus HMR in budding yeast 

      Tran, Martin (Inst för cell- och molekylärbiologi / Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology, 2017-03-15)
      The structural maintenance of chromosome 5/6 (Smc5/6) complex is one out of many factors in the cell that maintain genome stability. Smc5/6 has been implicated in processes such as DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair, ...

    • Adverse events in nursing care : a study of reports by patients, families and healthcare providers 

      Andersson, Åsa (Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2017-02-23)
      Background: Patient safety has, over the last decades, been increasingly established as an important global issue. Patient safety is jeopardized by for example adverse events and most of the current evidence on adverse ...

    • The process of occupational therapists implementing client-centred ADL intervention in clinical practice 

      Eriksson, Christina Nilsdotter (Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2016-11-22)
      The overall aim: The overall aim of the thesis was to identify and describe the characteristics of the implementation process and what hinders and contributes to the implementation of complex interventions when occupational ...

    • The clinical usefulness of autopsies : roles and attitudes of health care providers 

      Mjörnheim, Berit (Inst för laboratoriemedicin / Dept of Laboratory Medicine, 2016-10-28)
      Background: The rate of autopsies has dropped to low levels in Western countries during the last four decades. In Sweden the rate of autopsy was 11% 2015. Aim: The overall aim of the project was to study the background ...

    • Clinical studies of CYP3A4 and P-glycoprotein 

      Sparve, Erik (Inst för laboratoriemedicin / Dept of Laboratory Medicine, 2016-10-12)
      In the field of pharmacokinetics, cytochrome P450 enzymes have been extensively studied. The CYP450 enzyme with the most drug substrates is CYP3A4, but despite its significance, administration of a specific substrate to ...

    • Physical activity, body composition, inflammation and effects on antioxidative capacity in sedentary adults 

      Lundström, Petra (Inst för molekylär medicin och kirurgi / Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, 2016-08-05)
      Background: For the past fifty years part the population has slowly become sedentary to an extent that it is nowadays considered normal behavior. Parallel with sedentary behavior there is an increase in obesity now ...

    • Sense of coherence (SOC) in women treated for breast cancer and its relation to treatment outcome 

      Lindblad, Carina (Inst för fysiologi och farmakologi / Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2016-04-20)
      Breast cancer incidence has, on average increased by 1.4 % annually during the last decades. Early detection and advances in treatment are the main contributing factors for the favourable outcome in terms of five- and ...

    • Immunoreactive proteins in Taenia solium/cysticercus cellulosae 

      Nhancupe, Noémia Jeremias (Inst för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi / Dept of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, 2016-03-17)
      Cysticercosis caused by Taenia solium is a common zoonotic parasitic disease in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and parts of Oceania, and it is responsible for many cases of epileptic seizures. Imaging techniques used to ...

    • Living with osteogenesis imperfecta 

      Balkefors, Veronica (Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2015-09-17)
      Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a hereditary connective tissue disorder with fragility of the bones as the dominant symptom. There is no cure for OI, but symptoms are treated with medical, orthopaedic and physiotherapy ...

    • Utveckling av instrument och bedömning av sjuksköterskestudenters kunskaper och färdigheter att genomföra venös provtagning och insättning av perifer venkateter 

      Ahlin, Catharina (Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2015-08-18)
      Det finns ett uppenbart behov av att hitta objektiva bedömningsunderlag för sjuksköterskestudenters kunskaper efter genomgångna kliniska kurser. Genom att utveckla och validera instrument som kan användas i utbildningen ...

    • In vivo bioluminescence imaging in preclinical trials of genetic vaccines 

      Petkov, Stefan (Inst för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi / Dept of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, 2015-05-22)
      DNA immunization is a rapidly developing vaccine platform for cancer, infectious disease, and allergies. The efficiency of DNA vaccination is largely determined by the efficiency of delivery and subsequent expression of ...

    • Advanced home care : nurses' everyday practice 

      Öhlén, Agneta (Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2015-05-05)
      Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to explore nursing care within Advanced home care (AHC) through nursing documentation and nurses’ perceptions of nursing care, in order to delineate the required nursing competencies ...

    • Influence of kynurenic acid on dopamine neurotransmission : implications for schizophrenia 

      Andersson, Alexandra (Inst för fysiologi och farmakologi / Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2015-03-26)
      Kynurenic acid (KYNA) belongs to the kynurenines, a group of metabolically related compounds derived from the amino acid tryptophan. It is an antagonist of glutamate- and α7 nicotinic acetylcholine (α7nACh) receptors. ...

    • Analysis of genomic data as an approach to understanding migration in song birds 

      Boss, John (Inst för laboratoriemedicin / Dept of Laboratory Medicine, 2015-01-23)
      Many species of birds migrate every year thousands of kilometers, relying on sight, memory, magnetic sensors and instincts to find their way across continents. Many juvenile birds travel complicated migration routes without ...

    • Mat och måltider vid livets slut : patienter och närståendes erfarenheter av ätsvårigheter 

      Wallin, Viktoria (Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2015-01-16)
      Food and meals are embedded in people’s everyday social life. For people with progressive life-limiting conditions eating is often obstructed. When a dying person is cared for at home, family members often take responsibility ...

    • Family caregivers caring for a relative with dementia : a comparison of urban and rural areas 

      Ehrlich, Kethy Forssell (Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2015-01-08)
      Family caregivers´ efforts for a family member with dementia are considerable and constitute a major societal resource. Most studies in family members’ caregiving have been carried out in major cities and there are lack ...

    • Childhood brain tumours : health and function in adult survivors and parental fears 

      Anclair, Malin (Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Department of Women's and Children's Health, 2009-05-22)
      The general aim of the present research was to investigate health and functional ability of patients treated for childhood brain tumour and systematically examine parental fears after a child s brain tumour. The aims ...

    • Studies of diagnosis and differential diagnosis in primary aldosteronism 

      Volpe, Cristina (Institutionen för molekylär medicin och kirurgi / Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, 2010-05-14)
      This thesis comprises three studies with the general aim to improve our knowledge on the prevalence and diagnostics in primary aldosteronism (PA). PA is a hypertensive disorder with an estimated prevalence of 5-18 % in the ...