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16. Postural control and adaptation to threats to balance stability
Sammanfattning : Postural control is the ability to maintain equilibrium and orientation in a gravitational environment. It is dependent on feedback and feedforward mechanisms that generate appropriate corrective movement based on body-sway motion detected primarily by visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive sensory systems. LÄS MER
17. Shifting Dangers in the Shape of Threats and Risks : The Discourse of Swedish Security Policy, 1979-2020
Sammanfattning : Modern societies have become increasingly preoccupied with the identification and preemption of risk, represented as future possibilities of harm. The study demonstrates how the concept of risk has influenced the contemporary Swedish security discourse and what it means to construct security following a risk logic. LÄS MER
18. Hot, våld och emotionellt arbete på de särskilda ungdomshemmen : Personalens berättelser
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to describe how staff working at secure units define violence, the ways in which they say violence affects them emotionally, and the ways they emotionally handle violence. The secure units (särskilda ungdomshem) are managed by the Swedish National Board of Institutional care (Statens Institutionsstyrlese, SiS). LÄS MER
19. Pneumococcal interactions with the host : threats and therapeutic approaches
Sammanfattning : Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is a Gram-positive bacterium responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide. Apart from causing severe pneumonia, septicemia or meningitis, pneumococci are also major contributors to less severe diseases like otitis media and sinusitis. LÄS MER
20. Managing the risk for antagonistic threats against the transport network
Sammanfattning : The World Trade Centre terror attack in 2001 changed the world and with it the conditions for logistics worldwide. The aftermath of the attack brought needed attention to the vulnerability of modern supply chains. This thesis addresses the antagonistic threats that exploit the vulnerability in a supply chain. LÄS MER