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11. Disability and effects of weight loss in obese women
Sammanfattning : INTRODUCTION: Obesity has become an important health problem world wide. It increases medical risks and affects daily living. Women are in the majority among obese persons seeking help. Standard recommendations on fitness training and losing weight by walking are common. LÄS MER
12. Physical workload and exit from the labour market : epidemiological studies with a focus on employees with musculoskeletal disorders
Sammanfattning : Background: The length of working life is expanding in the light of the ageing population. In response, countries including Sweden are increasing the retirement age. However, many workers, especially workers with heavy physical workload, exit the labour market prematurely often because of poor health. LÄS MER
13. Strength Properties of Paper produced from Softwood Kraft Pulp : Pulp Mixture, Reinforcement and Sheet Stratification
Sammanfattning : For paper producers, an understanding of the development of strength properties in the paper is of uttermost importance. Strong papers are important operators both in the traditional paper industry as well as in new fields of application, such as fibre-based packaging, furniture and light-weight building material. LÄS MER
14. Surface coatings as xenon diffusion barriers on plastic scintillators : Improving Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty verification
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the ability of transparent surface coatings to reduce xenon diffusion into plastic scintillators. The motivation for the work is improved radioxenon monitoring equipment, used with in the framework of the verification regime of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. LÄS MER
15. Ethnocultural Empathy : Measurement, psychometric properties, and differences between students in health care education programmes
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate empathy for persons from ethnical groups different than one’s own, an ability called ethnocultural empathy. A scale measuring ethnocultural empathy was translated and validated for a Swedish context and tested in a student sample, a majority of which were healthcare students. Three studies were performed. LÄS MER