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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Maija.
1. Discovery of N-hydroxyguanidines as novel electron acceptors of xanthine oxidase : Potential new drugs for treatment of ischemia and reperfusion injury
Sammanfattning : Xanthine oxidase (EC 1.1.3.22) is one of the major enzymatic sources of oxygen-derived free radicals. LÄS MER
2. ADHD in substance use disorders : prevalence and pharmacotherapy
Sammanfattning : Substance use disorders (SUD) and Attention deficit /hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are persistent and prevailing disorders that conjointly are associated with negative lifeevents and mental distress. The overall aim of this thesis was to examine the rate of ADHD in substance using populations and to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of methylphenidate pharmacotherapy for treatment of co-existing ADHD and SUD. LÄS MER
3. Steriliseringar i folkhemmet
Sammanfattning : The chief motive for introducing the sterilization laws of the 1930s and 1940s was to prevent mentally ill and ‘feeble-minded’ individuals from reproducing, mainly for population-policy and social reasons. When the ‘feeble-minded’ were set apart and classed as different or deviant, this was done on medical, racial hygiene and moral grounds and also to some extent on social grounds. LÄS MER
4. Incentives and Inequalities in Family and Working Life
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Same-gender teachers may affect educational preferences by acting as role models for their students. I study the importance of the gender composition of teachers in math and science during lower secondary school on the likelihood to continue in math-intensive tracks in the next levels of education. LÄS MER
5. The (in)effectiveness of financial incentive on fertility behaviour : Childcare –a safety net for children?
Sammanfattning : Is childcare a safety net for vulnerable children? This paper investigates the role of childcare for the health outcomes of children whose parents are unemployed. Exploiting time variation in childcare access resulting from a reform requiring Swedish municipalities to provide childcare also for children with unemployed parents, we estimate causal effects on health, as measured by register data on hospitalizations. LÄS MER