Search for dissertations about: "multiple roles"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 287 swedish dissertations containing the words multiple roles.

  2. 1. Domestic Workload and Multiple Roles. Epidemiological findings on health and sickness absence in women

    Author : Carin Staland Nyman; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Domestic work; domestic workload; multiple roles; sickness absence; psychiatric disorders; self-rated health; women;

    Abstract : Aim: The objective of this thesis was to analyse the importance of specific exposures in women?s lives to health and sickness absence; more precisely to study the association between domestic work, multiple roles and the experience of being sick-listed, and self-rated health, psychiatric disorders and sickness absence. Method: The thesis was based on two datasets. READ MORE

  4. 2. Multifunctional roles of plasmin in inflammation : Studies of animal models on rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, wound healing and infection

    Author : Jinan Li; Peter Carmeliet; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Plasmin; complement; inflammation; wound healing; infection; autoimmune disease; non-autoimmune disease; rheumatoid arthritis; multiple sclerosis; tympanic membrane; otitis media; medicinsk biokemi; Medical Biochemistry;

    Abstract : Plasmin has been suggested to be involved in degradation of extracellular matrix (ECM) and tissue remodeling during a number of physiological and pathological processes. The aims of this thesis were to study the functional roles of plasmin during pathological inflammation in autoimmune and nonautoimmune disease models of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis (MS), wound healing and infection. READ MORE

  5. 3. Green Logistics Networks : Roles & Symbiotic Relationships

    Author : Mary Catherine Osman; Maria Huge-Brodin; Linea Kjellsdotter Ivert; Jonas Ammenberg; Arni Hallordsson; Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Logistics actors such as the transport buyer, freight forwarder, and haulier are currently in a transition phase towards more sustainable practices typically referred to as Green Logistics Practices (GLPs). One of the more progressive GLPs is completion of freight transport using fossil-free fuels such as biomethane. READ MORE

  6. 4. Immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis : big roles for small RNAs

    Author : Eliane Piket; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) and the leading cause of neurological disability in young adults. The exact cause of MS remains elusive despite enormous progress during the last decades in establishing the role of genetic and environmental risk factors. READ MORE

  7. 5. Multiple roles of HMGB1 in clinical and experimental arthritides

    Author : Hanna Schierbeck; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Inflammation can be infectious and/or sterile depending on the initiating event. The proinflammatory mediator High mobility group box protein 1 (HMGB1) is a nuclear protein released from cells during both sterile and infectious inflammation and once extracellular, initates and potentiates inflammation by inducing cytokine production and by recruiting inflammatory cells. READ MORE