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6. Social and emotional influences on cardiovascular vulnerability in women : exploration of biological mechanisms
Sammanfattning : Background: During the last decades evidence has been accumulating that psychosocial factors including social isolation, depressive symptoms and work stress increase risk for CHD incidence and prognosis. Although depression has been shown to be around twice as common in women as in men and women with CHD have a poorer prognosis than men in terms of both physical health and psychosocial recovery, most studies of psychosocial risk factors and CHD, have been performed in predominantly male populations. LÄS MER
7. Risk factors for injury in men´s professional football
Sammanfattning : This thesis includes four papers based on three different prospective cohort studies on injury characteristics in men’s professional football. The same general methodology was used in all papers. Time-loss injuries and player individual exposure was registered for match and training separately. LÄS MER
8. On efficient use of censored data and covariate factors in survival analysis and maintenance scheduling
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with survival analysis and maintenance scheduling, two important issues to achieve efficient use of different production systems. In survival analysis of failure time data, the survival function and the cumulative hazard function are important reliability characteristics. LÄS MER
9. Dispersion modelling of volcanic emissions
Sammanfattning : Gases and particles released by volcanoes pose a serious hazard to humans and society. Emissions can be transported over long distances before being reduced to harmless concentrations. Knowing which areas are, or will be, exposed to volcanic emissions is an important part inreducing the impact on human health and society. LÄS MER
10. Job Loss: Consequences and Labor Market Policy
Sammanfattning : Essay I: This paper takes a novel approach to estimating the effects of involuntary job loss on future earnings, wages and employment. Whereas the previous literature has relied on mass layoffs and plant closures for exogenous variation in displacement, I use the fact that who is laid off is often determined by a seniority rule, specifically the last-in-first-out (LIFO) rule. LÄS MER
