The aim of this research project is to study the development of tourism in the mining community. As a case of study, the city of Kirovsk (Murmansk region, Russia) was chosen. Kirovsk have for the last 90 year been considered a monotown, much dependent upon mining as an economic practice. Presently tourism is being introduced and Kirovsk have been successful in relation to tourism investments. With ...

This thesis aims to explain the interactions between tourist motivations and their impact on general motivation for terrestrial space tourism. This study comes in as terrestrial Space tourism destinations have been forgotten by academics over the last decade, while still representing potent and successfull tourism destinations.

Tourism can play a significant role for places and people, and can contribute to change how places are experienced. This thesis explores how tourism is understood to shape and change the village of Rosendal by looking at how the past, present and future presence of tourism is experienced and understood from a local perspective. Qualitative interviews with inhabitants and tourism businesses in Rosendal ...

Over the last few decades, mineral resource extraction has been rapidly growing in the Arctic, often taking place within indigenous territories. One of the most controversial project developments in Northern Fennoscandia is the Nussir copper mine. Since its conception, the project has faced opposition, and different actors have voiced their concerns and actively protested, arguing that the mine will ...

<p><i>OBJECTIVE: </i>To investigate to what degree patients adhered to a modified constraint-induced movement therapy protocol, and to explore factors associated with the results. <p><i>DESIGN: </i>Prospective follow-up of the intervention arm in a randomized controlled trial. <p><i>SUBJECTS: </i>Twenty-four patients within 28 days after stroke. <p><i>METHODS: </i>The protocol specified 180 min ...

“First, do no harm” is a fundamental element of health care and considered indistinguishable from the delivery of quality in health care. While cancer care has become more effective, it has also become more complex consequently increasing the risk for harm. We have assessed the extent and severity of treatment related adverse events in hospitalised cancer patients and elucidated how adverse events ...

A range of hitherto unexplored biomass‐derived chemicals have been evaluated as new sustainable solvents for a large variety of CO₂‐based carboxylation reactions. Known biomass‐derived solvents (biosolvents) are also included in the study and the results are compared with commonly used solvents for the reactions. Biosolvents can be efficiently applied in a variety of carboxylation reactions, ...

The rapid improvement in mobile health technologies revolutionized what and how people can self-record and manage data. This massive amount of information accumulated by these technologies has potentially many applications beyond personal need, i.e. for public health. A challenge with collecting this data is to motivate people to share this data for the benefit of all. The purpose of this study is ...

The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has moved rapidly across the world in 2020. This article reports on the recent consequences of the pandemic for early childhood education in Sweden, Norway, and the United States. The authors illustrate the effects of the pandemic on preschools in their countries, against a backdrop of frequent changes in infection and mortality rates, epidemiological ...