Sökning: "Per Blomquist"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Per Blomquist.
1. Metabolic consequences of a Paleolithic diet in obese postmenopausal women
Sammanfattning : BackgroundObesity, in particular abdominal adiposity, is associated with elevated fatty acids and pro-inflammatory adipokines, which are linked to ectopic fat storage and insulin resistance. During menopause, there is a redistribution of fat from the peripheral to abdominal depots. LÄS MER
2. Four Empirical Essays on Responses to Income Taxation
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay I (with Jukka Pirttilä) uses a representative panel of taxpayers from the 1993 Finnish tax reform to measure how overall taxable income and the relative shares of capital income and labour income reacted to the reform. LÄS MER
3. Imaging and Quantification of Brain Serotonergic Activity using PET
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the potential of using positron emission tomography (PET) to study the biosynthesis and release of serotonin (5HT) at the brain serotonergic neuron. As PET requires probe compounds with specific attributes to enable imaging and quantification of biological processes, emphasis was placed on the evaluation of these attributes. LÄS MER
4. Infrared and Photoelectron Spectroscopic Studies of Adsorbates on Solid Surfaces: Experiments and DFT Calculations
Sammanfattning : In general, the more complex and real a system is, with all its interactions with solvents and contaminations etc., the harder it is to accurately model it and reproduce the experimental results by calculations. LÄS MER
5. Mental retardation in children : an epidemiological and etiological study of mentally retarded children born 1959-1970 in a northern Swedish county
Sammanfattning : In an unselected series of mentally retarded children in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden, the annual incidence of children with severe mental retardation (SMR) (IQ < 50) and alive at the age of one year decreased from 5.3 per 1,000 in 1959 - 1963 to 3.1 per 1,000 in 1967 -1970. LÄS MER