As industries are becoming increasingly self-regulatory, external auditing has become increasingly important to ensure that industrial practices are in line with regulations and the public good. This study asks if there is a fit between the industrial practices of safety management and external auditing. It concludes that while companies largely manage safety through operational-level experience and ...

An experimental/computational approach has been successfully applied in order to study the effect of solubilizing vehicles (cyclodextrins and liposomes) on the passive diffusion of four active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) of different nature (hydrophilic, ionizable and lipophilic) through an unstirred water layer (UWL) model. This approach allowed the measurement of flux changes through the UWL ...

<i>Background</i> - General knowledge on climate change effects and adaptation strategies has increased significantly in recent years. However, there is still a substantial information gap regarding the influence of climate change on infectious diseases and how these diseases should be identified. From a One Health perspective, zoonotic infections are of particular concern. The climate in Northern ...

The following thesis explores the evolution of the vampire narrative through an examination of Bram Stoker’s "Dracula" (1897) and Stephenie Meyer’s "Twilight" (2005). The thesis is divided into two parts: a literary analysis and a pedagogical part. The first part of the study will investigate the novels vampires to examine where the similarities end and the differences begin. This will be explored ...

Denne kvalitative studien retter søkelyset mot læreren sin relasjon til elever som viser en innagerende atferd i skolen. Problemstillingen er følgende: Hva legger lærere vekt på i sin relasjon til elever som viser en innagerende atferd i skolen? For å belyse problemstillingen har jeg intervjuet fire lærere som har erfaring med å undervise elever som viser en innagerende atferd på barne- og mellomtrinnet. ...

Det har vært gjort lite studier i Norge om kjønnsforskjeller hos barn med vedtak om spesialpedagogisk hjelp i barnehager. Temaet for denne oppgaven er kjønnsforskjeller i vedtak om spesialpedagogisk hjelp for barn i barnehagen. Studiens problemstilling har vært formulert som en hypotese: «Flere gutter enn jenter får vedtak om spesialpedagogisk hjelp i barnehagen». Videre er det jobbet ut fra to ...

Preeclampsia (PE) affects 3-5 % of pregnant women and may lead to maternal and/or fetal death. The main theory of PE is placental ischemia, leading to a dysfunctional placenta and clinical signs as hypertension and proteinuria in the mother. The primary aim of the thesis was to implement and optimise a method for high-resolution microscopy of placental cryo-sections. Secondary aims were to compare ...

In this work, the IR thermography was used to study the steel specimens (DIN 50125 Standard) undergoing the tensile tests. The tensile tests were performed using GUNT® Hamburg Universal Material Tester. The tensile specimens were clamped, and the test force was applied using a hand-operated hydraulic system. A dial gauge measured the elongation of the specimens. Using the WP 300.20 system for data ...

The solar cycle (SC) stratospheric ozone response is thought to influence surface weather and climate. To understand the chain of processes and ensure climate models adequately represent them, it is important to detect and quantify an accurate SC ozone response from observations. Chemistry climate models (CCMs) and observations display a range of upper stratosphere (1–10 hPa) zonally averaged spatial ...

In this communication, we report the synthesis and characterization of a library of small molecule antagonists of the human gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor based upon the 2-(4-<i>tert</i>-butylphenyl)-4-piperazinyl-benzimidazole scaffold <i>via</i> Cu-catalysed azide alkyne cycloaddition. Our main purpose was to find a more soluble compound based on the WAY207024 lead with nanomolar potency ...