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Sustainable Business Models and their Practices - An explorative study through the lens of Practice Theory in the Hotel Industry

Due to the serious problem of greenhouse gas emissions in our atmosphere driving global warming, the need for sustainable initiatives has become an imperative for companies which leads to the necessity of operating sustainably. However, to avoid taking a weak approach to sustainability, it is imperative for companies to carry out a transition involving all three dimensions (environmental, economic

En kvalitativ intervjustudie om hur diskriminering motverkas under rekryteringsprocesser på den svenska arbetsmarknaden

Denna kvalitativa intervjustudies syfte är att undersöka hur och om organisationer/företag motverkar diskriminering under rekryteringsprocessen. Detta gjordes genom att intervjua nio enskilda rekryterare inom, främst, konsult- och bemanningsbranschen. Genom intervjuerna fick jag ta del av deras rekryteringsprocesser och hur de arbetar med diskriminering Intervjuerna har analyserat genom en tolknin

Molecular forms of serum prostate-specific antigen : The clinical value of percent free prostate-specific antigen

The concept of measuring the proportions of various forms of PSA in serum, particularly the proportion of free to total PSA, represents a new and exciting method of detecting early curable prostate cancers and avoiding unnecessary prostate biopsies in men who have BPH only. Compared with other methods of improving diagnostic specificity, it does not require transrectal ultrasound for determination

Unity lost : Negotiating the ancient roots of Pedagogy in Sweden, 1865–1971

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate attempts to safeguard classical humanism in secondary schools by appealing to a cultural-historical link with Antiquity, voiced in the face of educational reforms in Sweden between 1865 and 1971.Design/methodology/approach – By focusing on the content of the pedagogical journal Pedagogisk Tidskrift, the article highlights a number of examples

Immunohistochemical distribution of the three predominant secretory proteins in the parenchyma of hyperplastic and neoplastic prostate glands

Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), prostate‐specific antigen (PSA), and β‐microseminoprotein (β‐MSP) were regularly localized immunohistochemically to the epithelium of the acini and that of the ducts in the nodules of 24 cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia. The immunohistochemical distribution of these three prostatic‐secreted proteins was also examined, with monoclonal antisera against PAP and

A Model for Energy Consumption in Heavy Vehicle Braking

A model is presented for studying the energy used by the braking system in heavy vehicles. The aim is to keep the model as simple as possible, while retaining reasonable fidelity for the problem at hand. All actuators are thus created as ideal, i.e. no losses, then simple dissipative loads are added where applicable in order to capture their effects from a vehicle systems perspective. The vehicle

Biochemistry of prostate specific antigen, PSA

Human prostate specific antigen, PSA, is a product of the human glandular kallikrein gene locus on chromosome 19 that is almost selectively expressed by prostate tissue. PSA is one of the dominating prostate derived proteins in seminal fluid. The mature form of PSA, a single chain glycoprotein of 237 amino acids, is a serine protease manifesting restricted chymotrypsin-like activity. PSA is mainly

Familial α1‐Antichymotrypsin Deficiency

ABSTRACT We studied patients and their relatives with partial deficiency, approximately 50% of normal plasma levels, of α1‐antichymotrypsin (ACT), an acute phase reactant with anti‐cathepsin G activity. Six of eight ACT deficient individuals, over 25 years of age, had liver and three of eight lung manifestations, varying from severe disease to subtle laboratory abnormalities. The ACT of deficient

Samverkansstyrning i Safegrowthnätverket En kvalitativ studie om samarbetsprocesser ur ett nätverksperspektiv

Sammanfattning Titel: Samverkansstyrning i Safegrowthnätverket - En kvalitativ studie om samarbetsprocesser ur ett nätverksperspektiv. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att bidra med kunskap om hur kommuner kan utveckla och stärka de brottsförebyggande arbetet genom ett närmare samarbete med lokala invånare. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Studiens teoretiska ramverk har valts ut för att besvara studiens fr

Influerad av influencers

Titel: Influerad av influencers. Universitet och program: Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg. Service Management, Retail. Författare: Michaela Eliasson & Sandra Waldt Handledare: Åsa Friberg Problemområde: Under 2016 ägnade sig unga individer cirka sex timmar om dagen på sociala medier, däribland Instagram, som är en av de mest dominerande sociala medier-plattformarna. Sociala medier har

Free, complexed, and total serum prostate-specific antigen concentrations and their proportions in predicting stage, grade, and deoxyribonucleic acid ploidy in patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate

Objectives. Nearly half of men with clinically localized prostate cancer are understaged. We evaluated whether knowledge of preoperative free prostate-specific antigen (f-PSA), complexed (c-PSA), and total (t-PSA) concentrations or the ratios thereof (f-PSA/t-PSA, c-PSA/t PSA, and f PSA/c- PSA) could improve upon the staging of prostate cancer when compared with standard PSA testing (t-PSA). In ad

Sedimentary molybdenum and uranium : Improving proxies for deoxygenation in coastal depositional environments

Sedimentary molybdenum (Mo) and uranium (U) enrichments are widely used to reconstruct changes in bottom water oxygen conditions in aquatic environments. Until now, most studies using Mo and U have focused on restricted suboxic-euxinic basins and continental margin oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), leaving mildly reducing and oxic (but eutrophic) coastal depositional environments vastly understudied. C

ACOUSTIC PARTICLE FOCUSING IN POLYMER MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES

An acoustofluidic device, consisting of a polymer chip with a long straight channel, coupled to a piezoelectric transducer is modeled numerically in three dimensions and compared to experimental results in terms of the electric admittance as well as the ability to focus particles. In our experiments we obtain good acoustic particle focusing at a frequency of f = 1.14 MHz with an actuation voltage

From the End of History to the End of the World? A Tale of Unforeseen Global Changes

This chapter takes the fall of the Berlin Wall as its point of departure, and from there it traces a trajectory of unforeseen developments that have led from the erstwhile global optimism to the dramatic shift in mood just three short decades later. The key questions posed are: What global developments that were unforeseen then can account for the much more sombre ambience, pessimism or even alarm

Emerging PSA-based tests to improve screening

This article updates advances in prostate cancer screening based on prostate-specific antigen, its derivatives, and human kallikrein markers. Many men are diagnosed with indolent disease not requiring treatment. Although there is evidence of a survival benefit from screening, the numbers needed to screen and treat remain high. There is risk of exposing men to the side effects of treatment for nont