Doctoral Theses from University of Gothenburg / Doktorsavhandlingar från Göteborgs universitet: Recent submissions
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The impact of the progranulin-sortilin axis on breast cancer stem cell activity and patient outcome
(2021-08-18)Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Still today, despite current breast cancer therapies, many patients experience treatment resistance and relapse, which are believed to be due to failure in targeting ... -
Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome. Trends and outcomes after arthroscopic treatment in the general and athlete population
(2021-08-18)Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS) is a common cause of hip pain in the young and athletic population. The diagnosis - FAIS - is based on a triad of symptoms, clinical evaluation and radiographic signs. The ... -
T cells and chemokines in rheumatoid arthritis
(2021-08-18)In this thesis, we investigated if circulating proportions of specific CD4+ T cell subsets and blood chemokine levels were associated with disease activity and/or could predict remission in patients with early ... -
Impacts of Climate Policy and Natural Disasters: Evidence from China
(2021-08-17)The last decade has seen heightened interest in carbon pricing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions responsible for anthropogenic climate change. Over the past decade, China–responsible for over a quarter of global carbon ... -
Seeing the parts, understanding the whole - A technology education perspective on teaching and learning in processes of analysing and designing programmed technological solutions
(2021-08-17)Analysing and designing Programmed Technological Solutions (PTS) has been introduced as a part of technology education in an effort to bring elements of programming into the curriculum for compulsory school, in order to ... -
Service Robotics Software Engineering
(2021-08-16)Context. Robots are increasingly becoming involved in our lives and currently, teams of service robots cooperate to support humans by performing useful, repetitive, or dangerous tasks. However, engineering the robots’ ... -
Inte för räddhågsna. Undervisning i grundläggande litteracitet och svenska som andraspråk på gymnasieskolans språkintroduktion
(2021-08-16)The overall aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding about the education of Swedish as a second language and basic literacy to recently immigrated adolescents with little prior experience of school-based ... -
Värsta bästa skolan – Om unga i förorten och segregation i skolan
(2021-05-27)This thesis addresses education and schooling for youth in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Gothenburg, Sweden. Over the last two decades or so we have seen an increasing difference in students’ performance and background ... -
Defense-related inhibition of sympathetic nerve activity: Insights from neuroimaging and monozygotic twins on related cortical processes and clinical potential
(2021-05-27)This thesis investigates a physiological phenomenon observed in the peripheral sympathetic nervous system in response to various stressors and tries to bring it closer to clinical research. Sudden surprising stimulation ... -
Principles of scaffold generation for bioengineering of the ovary and uterus: a study focusing on decellularization
(2021-05-27)Introduction: Cancer therapy often result in fertility problems due to inflicted injury to the reproductive organs. Since most women survive cancer, fertility preservation has become an important consideration during cancer ... -
Pan-cancer study of transcriptional responses to oncogenic somatic mutations
(2021-05-27)Cancer cells typically carry acquired somatic mutations in key cancer driver genes, which can be identified on the basis of recurrence in cancer cohorts. Such mutations may cause aberrant protein activity and altered gene ... -
Measuring outcomes following brain tumor surgery: a registry based approach
(2021-05-27)Meningiomas and vestibular schwannomas (VS) are generally slow-growing and benign brain tumors, with low rates of tumor-related mortality. Surgery is rarely the only viable treatment option. In cases where there is no clear ... -
Intestinal transplantation: Outcome, complications and diagnostic approach
(2021-05-27)Background: Intestinal transplantation is a potentially lifesaving procedure conducted in candidates with e.g. intestinal failure. However, a limiting factor has been the complications, which are inherent to the procedure, ... -
New Perspectives in Multi-trophic Aquaculture
(2021-05-26)Aquaculture, the farming of marine and aquatic organisms, is currently the fastest growing food production sector globally. As capture fisheries have stagnated and the fishing down of marine food webs has been seen to be ... -
Effects of an intervention and an organisational implementation for identification and treatment of common mental disorders in primary healthcare
(2021-05-26)Aim: This thesis aimed to evaluate the effects of one intervention and one organisational implementation for identification and treatment of common mental disorders (CMDs) in the primary healthcare in Region Västra Götaland, ... -
Designing Platform Emulation
(2021-05-25)Many contemporary firms and public agencies seek to engage external third-party developers to supply complementary applications. However, this type of development sometimes occurs without organizational consent, which ... -
Alphaherpesvirus infections of the central nervous system – Biomarkers, diagnostics and antiviral therapy
(2021-05-25)Abstract Herpesviruses predate the evolution of humans and are globally ubiquitous. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), and varicella-zoster virus (VZV) establish latency in neuronal ... -
The role of wastewater in surveillance and emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria
(2021-05-25)As antibiotic resistance spreads among bacterial pathogens, it reduces treatment options and increases treatment failures of infectious diseases. Strategies employed to reduce this spread or adapt to its consequences ... -
Lipoproteins in the postprandial state: Studies on the metabolism of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins using multicompartmental models
(2021-05-21)Lipoproteins are lipid-containing spherical particles that circulate in the human blood stream. The reason for their intense study over the decades is their ability to cause atherosclerosis1. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular ... -
När andra ser. Gravmonument, social praktik och aktörskollektiv under 1100- och 1200-talen i Vänerlandskapet
(2021-05-21)Grave monuments showing rich imagery were made to a remarkable extent in the area around Lake Vänern during the 12th and 13th centuries. This thesis is about these monuments and about the physical remains of burials that ...