Sökning: "long-term resident"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden long-term resident.
1. Smart Homes and User Values : Long-term evaluation of IT-services in Residential and Single Family Dwellings
Sammanfattning : Do residents find value in smart home functions? How should these functions be designed to offer user benefit? These were the governing questions of this study that involved nearly 200 families in three different housing projects during five years of occupancy. The housing units were equipped with advanced smart homes solutions, electronic and digital devices to control them, and a set of functions to increase comfort, safety and security in the homes. LÄS MER
2. An Ongoing Challenge: EU Citizenship, Migrant Status and Nationality. Focus on Latvia
Sammanfattning : Nationality originated along with development of the modern nation-State. However, growing global migration, travel and increasing communications have led to creation of multiple individual loyalties in addition to national identity. LÄS MER
3. Long-term survival and prognostic factors in endometrial cancer - a populationbased cohort study
Sammanfattning : Aims: The over-all aims of this thesis were to evaluate the associations between prognostic factors and excess mortality rate, between socioeconomic and immigrant status and incidence rate, in endometrioid (EEC) and non-endometrioid (NEC) endometrial carcinoma. Material and methods: Study I-III were retrospective population-based cohort studies including women resident in a defined geographical area, with endometrial carcinoma. LÄS MER
4. Lung-resident, M2e-specific CD4 T cells critically protect during influenza infection
Sammanfattning : Memory CD4+ T cells are a critical component of the adaptive immune response to fight infection. However, current vaccines against influenza only focus on the other arm of adaptive immunity—triggering B cells to produce antibodies. LÄS MER
5. Composition and maintenance of skin resident T-cells in health and disease
Sammanfattning : Tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM) reside in healthy skin at sites of previous infections. Upon re-infection, TRM cells rapidly respond by initiating tissue inflammation and exert effector functions to eliminate pathogens. TRM cells are potent effector cells and as such, they are key players in focal inflammatory skin diseases. LÄS MER