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Measurement of outcome in lumbar spine surgery
(2020-04-02)
BACKGROUND. The purpose of elective lumbar spine surgery is mainly to reduce pain and to improve physical function and quality of life. The quality and results of the interventions are monitored in the Swedish spine register, ...
Learning Language (with) Grammars: From Teaching Latin to Learning Domain-Specific Grammars
(2020-08-25)
This thesis describes work in three areas: grammar engineering, computer-assisted language learning and grammar learning. These three parts are connected by the concept of a grammar-based language learning application.
Two ...
Från beslut till broschyr. Intertextualitet, äldre och kultur i texter inom en statlig satsning
(2020-01-20)
The overarching purpose of this study is to map out how intertextual relations are manifested in texts produced within a government initiative on arts for the elderly, and to shed light on how discourses on the elderly and ...
Ålderdom, omsorg och makt. Gamlas situation och omsorgsrelationer i nyliberala tider
(2020-05-22)
This dissertation examines the status of old age and the nature of elderly care in Sweden, where the welfare state is being transformed through neoliberalism. The overall aim is to study old age as identity and lived ...
Media Echo Chambers: Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias in Media Use, and its Consequences for Political Polarization
(2020-12-17)
The new digital media landscape has created a high-choice media environment that has made it easier for people to find news and information that support their political beliefs and attitudes, and avoid news and information ...
Changes in near-surface winds across Sweden over the past decades - Observations and simulations
(2020-11-19)
Driven by a combination of anthropogenic activities and climate changes, near- surface terrestrial winds displayed a large decrease in their magnitude in the past decades, named “stilling”, and a recent recovery in their ...
Fluctuating superconductivity and pair-density wave order in the cuprate superconductors
(2020-05-19)
High-temperature superconductors are some of nature’s most enigmatic materials.
Besides carrying a supercurrent, these materials manifest a range of electronic and
structural orders. A state of modulated superconductivity, ...
Symmetry-protected topological phases: From Floquet theory to machine learning
(2020-08-18)
It is by now a well known fact that boundary states in conventional time-independent
topological insulators are protected against perturbations that preserve relevant
symmetries. In the first part of this thesis, ...
On tissue engineering of pig, human, and non-human primate tissues
(2020-05-07)
Background: Demand for donor organs for transplantation has been increasing every year more than the actual supply of suitable donor organs. One of the major problems associated with allogeneic transplantation includes ...
Längtans och drömmarnas hus - Ideal och praktik bland en ny generation stugägare
(2020-11-11)
This dissertation examines second home ownership among a new generation of urban middle-class Swedes between the years 2015-2020. The main aim is to analyse motivation for buying one´s own second home, with the further ...