Licentiatavhandlingar / Licentiate Theses - SwePub: Recent submissions
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The effect of caloric restriction on age-related hearing loss and the impact of repeated sound exposures
(Inst för neurovetenskap / Dept of Neuroscience, 2013-10-18)The auditory system is the sensory system responsible for hearing and crucial for communication between individuals. While aging, many organs of the body start losing their function, including the hearing organ. The severity ... -
Radiographic quality workflow : in the digitized healthcare environment
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2013-10-04)This thesis emphasizes two different aspects — how radiographers use knowledge in image production work and perceive a radiographic quality workflow in the digitized healthcare environment using PACS — both because these ... -
Evaluation of the Rift Valley fever vaccination program in Mozambican cattle
(Inst för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi / Dept of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, 2013-09-26)Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease that is spread by various arthropods (primarily mosquitoes) and affects ruminants and humans. RVF has led to tremendous losses of livestock in many African countries, Saudi Arabia, ... -
An explorative study of a complementary therapy method : Rosen Method Bodywork : user's reasons for therapy utilization, experienced benefits and existence of caring in the treatment interaction
(Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2013-09-26)The utilization of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies is increasing and the users frequently report satisfaction and benefits from the treatments although scientific support for these self-reported ... -
Characteristics of taste and smell alterations in patients treated for lung cancer : translation of and results using a symptom specific questionnaire
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2013-09-19)Background: Taste and smell alterations (TSAs) have been found to be common and distressing symptoms for patients with cancer. TSAs may also relate to other symptoms affecting food consumption and contribute to poor ... -
Policy development and implementation : maternal health in India
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-09-04)Background: The progress to improve maternal health in India is characterized by a wide spread of success stories as well as failures. Policies and programs have been developed and implemented to reduce maternal mortality; ... -
Rehabilitation for persons with epilepsy : assessment of a comprehensive rehabilitation program
(Inst för klinisk neurovetenskap / Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, 2013-05-21)Epilepsy is one of the most common serious neurological disorders with an estimated prevalence of approximately 0.5%. In addition to the obvious medical risk associated with epilepsy, psychosocial consequences may be ... -
Life after childhood cancer
(Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2013-04-26)Young people who have undergone treatment for childhood cancer have a high risk of developing chronic health problems that could have a potential strong impact on their lives. How a childhood cancer experience affects the ... -
Visuo-motor performance in children visually impaired due to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
(Inst för klinisk neurovetenskap / Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, 2013-04-22)Purpose: To investigate the ophthalmological characteristics and to evaluate the magnocellular function in Russian orphanage children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Methods: In the study 100 children aged 10-16 ... -
Self-reported pain in SLE
(Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2013-03-14)Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune, rheumatic disease, potentially affecting most organ systems. The disease is commonly considered to be chronic and occurs in often unpredictable flares, with alternating ... -
Participation in dance, rhythm and music activities : experiences of healthy elderly and persons with stroke
(Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2013-02-15)Participation in meaningful creative activities such as dance and rhythm/music has been found beneficial for older adults and for persons with stroke, as it might increase awareness, improve emotional and physical status, ... -
Antiretroviral drug resistant HIV-1 in women and children living in Honduras
(Inst för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi / Dept of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, 2013-02-15)Antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV infected pregnant women contributes to the prevention of HIV transmission to the newborn. However, as ART can also induce HIV drug resistance during suboptimal levels of virological ... -
Exercise-induced mitochondrial biogenesis : with special reference to mitochondrial transcription factors and lipin-1
(Inst för fysiologi och farmakologi / Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2012-11-22)Mitochondrial biogenesis is one prominent adaptation to endurance training in skeletal muscle tissue. An increased mitochondrial density of the muscle fibres contributes to an enhanced aerobic capacity and thereby to ... -
Consequences of outsourcing referrals for magnetic resonance examinations
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2012-11-22)Background: Rapid developments in imaging technology affecting its day-to-day clinical use continue to increase the workload in diagnostic radiology. Along with demands for ever more effective healthcare, these are two ... -
Experimental combination therapy of brain cancer cell models
(Inst för klinisk neurovetenskap / Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, 2012-11-21)Epigenetic alterations and aberrant expression of genes controlling epigenetic mechanisms have been identified in several cancers, including medulloblastoma and glioma, the most common primary brain tumors in children and ... -
Preventive home visits for 75 year-old persons by the district nurse
(Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2012-11-19)Background: Action plans are needed to promote health and to prevent diseases amongst older persons so that they can remain with good health in their homes for as long as possible. One method which has been tried in many ... -
Living with chronic kidney disease : perceptions of illness and health-related quality of life
(Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2012-11-12)This thesis comprises two studies concerning illness perceptions and perceived health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The overall aim was to evaluate psychometric properties ... -
District nurses' experiences of wound care in primary health care : management and knowledge
(Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle / Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 2012-11-05)Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to deepen the knowledge of wound management in primary healthcare from district nurses' (DNs) perspective. The thesis includes one pilot study (I) and two qualitative studies (II, ... -
Functional interaction studies of different transmembrane proteins, activities occurring in the pore membrane and in the inner nuclear membrane
(Inst för biovetenskaper och näringslära / Dept of Biosciences and Nutrition, 2012-11-01)Aim: The overall aim of my research has been to investigate protein‐protein interactions of nuclear envelope proteins. One specific aim has been to study the effect of mitotic phosphorylation on binding of the pore membrane ... -
Signaling via the bHLH-PAS proteins AhR and HIF
(Inst för cell- och molekylärbiologi / Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology, 2012-06-04)This thesis concerns some mechanistic properties of the basic helix-loop-helix/PAS (bHLH-PAS) factors aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1α). The bHLH-PAS family of proteins is a ...