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Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, particularly type 16, is causally associated with cancer of the uterine cervix, which mainly develops at the squamocolumnar (SC) junction. The progression of cervical HPV infections into (pre)neoplastic lesions suggests that viral antigens are not adequately recognized by innate immunity or presented to the adaptive immune system. Members of the defensin famil
In the autumn of 2003 newspaper headlines declared that Environment Commissioner Margot Wallström had poison in her blood. After a blood test 28 hazardous chemicals were found, among these DDT that had been abandoned from the market since 1983. In this thesis the reader will find a case study on the EU's chemical Regulation REACH (Regulation, Evaluation, Authorisation of Chemicals). REACH has
Private companies, more and more, address their environmental impact through increasingly sophisticated internal environmental work. The concept of Industrial Ecology (IE) and its local/regional application, Industrial Symbiosis (IS), indicate that there is potential for further improvements in the environmental performance of companies at their interorganisational interfaces. Besides improving th
Sustainability has begun to be embraced by more competitive and modern businesses. We believe that the issue of sustainability cannot be avoided today by any company. Organizations that are in leading positions are already trying to take advantage of sustainability and integrating it into their business models. The concept of sustainability will be introduced and a discussion is made about the cur
Goals of this thesis is to investigate how the Foundry Chinese Managers perceive leadership, and how they construct their leadership skills in their daily working environment in that specific foundry context and whether the Chinese leadership is still following the traditional Chinese Culture or they have their own ways to lead. We are using a qualitative/inductive method. We are using already exi
Retro-eclogites and associated high-pressure rocks are found in the Ullared area, southwest Sweden. These rocks are evidence of the high-pressure deformation which occurred during the formation of the c. 500 km long Sveconorwegian orogenic belt around one billion years ago. Their presence is restricted to a domain north of the towns Ätran, Gällared and Ullared. Detailed structural, petrographic an
China’s approach and response to democratization in Hong Kong have since the city’s handover back in 1997 been somewhat of a rollercoaster-esque experience. The path towards democracy has for the people of Hong Kong remained an ongoing struggle for nearly 30 years, with recent developments arguably putting an end towards any hope of future realization. This study seeks to investigate and assess Be
The number of people living in urban areas has increased significantly over the past few decades. As such, cities have become centers for population and economic growth. These two factors, however, are also the most significant drivers of fossil fuel related CO2 emissions. Additionally, urban services contribute to dominant socio-technical systems that are inherently unsustainable, path dependent,
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), with an emphasis on risk aggregation, is conducted in practice. The thesis starts with a scoping study to review available literature on ERM. The findings from the scoping study show that literature focus on how ERM impacts certain financial variables, e.g. return on assets, return on equity, and firm value of organ
Cryptocurrencies are attracting the interest of investors and the public since they are perceived as an alternative to overcome the limitations of the current financial system. Cryptocurrencies are energy-hungry; therefore, the environmental cost represents a limitation to their adoption. Research regarding the environmental aspect of cryptocurrency adoption is lacking and tends to be biased or ob
The adoption of virtual meeting platforms significantly increased during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, which was caused by the need for effective remote collaboration and communication tools. As a result of advancements in technology, virtual meeting platforms transformed their integral components into more than just video conferencing tools. A notable example is the integration of speech-to-te
Modern laws have established many protections for human rights; the difficulty now lies with enforcing them, and nowhere is this clearer than at sea. This thesis seeks to contribute to scholarship on this challenge by providing a case-study on the role of the European Union, as an innovative actor in global governance with unique capabilities, in protecting human rights in European and global fish
This thesis posits that the 1948 mermaid film Miranda, made in the United Kingdom is an example of a pivotal moment, or series of moments, in mermaid image history. Through Aby Warburg’s method of the Bilderatlas, the thesis will identify and map out how Miranda connects with surviving mermaid images and created new image types that are now prevalent within modern mermaid images. Through this mapp
At its core, language is multimodal (Kendon, 1986; McNeill, 1994), and information presented through different channels of information, such as visually, in the shape of gestures, or verbally, in the shape of speech or signs, together facilitate online language processing (Kelly, Healey, Özyürek, & Holler, 2015; Kelly, Özyürek, & Maris, 2010). This thesis extends previous studies on multim
