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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 88 avhandlingar innehållade ordet kevin.
1. Surgical Aspects and Prognostic Factors in the Management of Rectal Cancer
Sammanfattning : Survival among patients with stage IV rectal cancer is poor and surgical treatment for this disease is associated with morbidities such as small bowel obstruction, complications with a diverting loop ileostomy, and functional bowel disturbances. The overall aim of this thesis was to assess risk factors and morbidity after surgery for rectal cancer and to evaluate factors affecting survival in patients with stage IV rectal cancer. LÄS MER
2. Can improved paediatric pneumonia diagnostic aids support frontline health workers in low resource settings? Large scale evaluation of four respiratory rate timers and five pulse oximeters in Cambodia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda
Sammanfattning : Background: Pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death in children under-five in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Currently, the diagnostic criterion for pneumonia is based on increased respiratory rate (RR) in children with cough and/or difficulty breathing. LÄS MER
3. Causes and consequences of life-history variation : The effects of parasites, glucocorticoids, and environmental conditions in the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)
Sammanfattning : Life-history is the study of all the different stages of life that affect reproductive success and survival between the birth and death of an organism. The reproductive output of an organism is constrained by many things including time, resource, disease agents and environmental conditions. LÄS MER
4. Cooperative anchoring : sharing information about objects in multi-robot systems
Sammanfattning : In order to perform most tasks, robots must perceive or interact with physicalobjects in their environment; often, they must also communicate and reasonabout objects and their properties. Information about objects is typically produced,represented and used in different ways in various robotic sub-systems. LÄS MER
5. Quantum Coherence in the Single Cooper Pair Box
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents measurements of quantum coherence in a single Cooper pair box, where quantum oscillations of charge between a reservoir and a small superconducting island have been observed. The single Cooper pair box (SCB) consists of a small metallic island which is connected to a reservoir via a tunnel junction. LÄS MER