E621, En studie om konsumenters attitydförändring och hur livsmedelsföretag hanterar konsumentens ”nya” efterfrågan

Title: E621, A study of customer attitude change and how this affects the food industry to meet the new requirements. University: Lund University, Service Management, Campus Helsingborg. Subject: Master 15 p. Seminar date: 4th of June, 2009 Author: Gabriella Danerhall and Frida Peterson Advisor: Elin Bommenel and Yvonne Granfeldt Key words: E-numbers, consumption, identity adding, satisfied customer, consumption, communication, quality and value adding. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to map and describe the three central examples of additives in the Swedish E-number debate. The three additives that we will focus on is the flavour enhancer glutamate, the preservative nitrite and azo food colour. With base in the additive mapping we will analyze how the sudden mind change towards additives of today’s customers affects the food industry. The analysis will be performed with base in the areas consumption, communication, quality and value adding. Methodology: To be able to answer the raised questions in this thesis we have performed a qualitative investigation according to the deductive approach. To gather information about the E number debate for the analysis we have studied internet pages, blog spots, forums and articulating papers. Our choice of respondents has been performed using the snow ball method. Our interview material has been based on the use of a semi structured interview form. Theoretical perspectives: Our study focuses on the theoretical discussion of consumption theory and the theory of creating satisfied customers. We refer to researchers such as Bauman, Simmel, Bourdieu and Veblen. We have taken into consideration the consumption from an identity creating perspective with the aspects of individual and collective consumption. Further on we have studied the research describing the creation of a satisfied customer which we have applied with base in communication, quality and value adding. For this we study researchers such as Grönroos and Normann. Conclusion: We conclude that the new customer demands is attended by the food industry by reduction of the use and increased regulation of additives. It seems like the food industry has an active communication with their customers to give them clarification of the specifics of the current E number debate. Communication is also used to answer the customer needs and quality requirements. The food industry has to use value adding as a process to reach the goal of satisfied customers. Further on our result show that the customers are guided by the ability to choose and control their consumption. It is all about satisfying different needs and desires. At the same time the customer is encouraged to consume the unknown and by different aspect to be able to express their identity and differentiate from others. It is also clear that the customer is driven by fashion and trends in the society

Vimentin Diversity in Health and Disease

Vimentin is a protein that has been linked to a large variety of pathophysiological conditions, including cataracts, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV and cancer. Vimentin has also been shown to regulate a wide spectrum of basic cellular functions. In cells, vimentin assembles into a network of filaments that spans the cytoplasm. It can also be found in smaller, non-filamentous forms that can localise both within cells and within the extracellular microenvironment. The vimentin structure can be altered by subunit exchange, cleavage into different sizes, re-annealing, post-translational modifications and interacting proteins. Together with the observation that different domains of vimentin might have evolved under different selection pressures that defined distinct biological functions for different parts of the protein, the many diverse variants of vimentin might be the cause of its functional diversity. A number of review articles have focussed on the biology and medical aspects of intermediate filament proteins without particular commitment to vimentin, and other reviews have focussed on intermediate filaments in an in vitro context. In contrast, the present review focusses almost exclusively on vimentin, and covers both ex vivo and in vivo data from tissue culture and from living organisms, including a summary of the many phenotypes of vimentin knockout animals. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the many diverse aspects of vimentin, from biochemical, mechanical, cellular, systems biology and medical perspectives

The development and validation of a scoring tool to predict the operative duration of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Background: The ability to accurately predict operative duration has the potential to optimise theatre efficiency and utilisation, thus reducing costs and increasing staff and patient satisfaction. With laparoscopic cholecystectomy being one of the most commonly performed procedures worldwide, a tool to predict operative duration could be extremely beneficial to healthcare organisations. Methods: Data collected from the CholeS study on patients undergoing cholecystectomy in UK and Irish hospitals between 04/2014 and 05/2014 were used to study operative duration. A multivariable binary logistic regression model was produced in order to identify significant independent predictors of long (> 90 min) operations. The resulting model was converted to a risk score, which was subsequently validated on second cohort of patients using ROC curves. Results: After exclusions, data were available for 7227 patients in the derivation (CholeS) cohort. The median operative duration was 60 min (interquartile range 45–85), with 17.7% of operations lasting longer than 90 min. Ten factors were found to be significant independent predictors of operative durations > 90 min, including ASA, age, previous surgical admissions, BMI, gallbladder wall thickness and CBD diameter. A risk score was then produced from these factors, and applied to a cohort of 2405 patients from a tertiary centre for external validation. This returned an area under the ROC curve of 0.708 (SE = 0.013, p  90 min increasing more than eightfold from 5.1 to 41.8% in the extremes of the score. Conclusion: The scoring tool produced in this study was found to be significantly predictive of long operative durations on validation in an external cohort. As such, the tool may have the potential to enable organisations to better organise theatre lists and deliver greater efficiencies in care

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figure

Hur arbetar sjuksköterskan för att stärka patienten i ett land där diabetes typ 2 ökar drastiskt? - En studie baserad på intervjuer med sjuksköterskor i den kinesiska provinsen Jiangsu.

Bakgrund: Diabetes typ 2 är en sjukdom som kräver mycket av patienten. Den har under de senaste decennierna ökat drastiskt i världen, framför allt i utvecklingsländer. Det land som år 2011 hade flest fall av diabetes typ 2 var Kina. Sjuksköterskan spelar en viktig roll i att stärka och hjälpa patienter att hantera sin diabetes. Syfte: Att undersöka och beskriva vad sjuksköterskor i Kina tänker om utvecklingen av diabetes typ 2 samt hur de arbetar för att utveckla och stärka patienternas förmåga att ta makt över sin sjukdom. Metod: Kvalitativ innehållsanalys baserat på semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta sjuksköterskor på Jiangsu ProvinceGeriatric Hospital i Nanjing. Resultat: Orsaken till diabetesutvecklingen i Kina är konsekvenserna av den urbanisering och industrialisering som sker. Sjuksköterskorna upplever utmaningar i omvårdnad av patienter i form av t.ex. ekonomiska problem och för att ge patienterna empowerment arbetar de utifrån individen, familjen och med gruppstöd. Slutsats: Genom empowerment uppnås välbefinnande hos patienter och goda resultat. Precis som patienter kan lära av varandra kan sjuksköterskor lära av varandra, både nationellt och internationellt. Det är av stor vikt att som sjuksköterska ta del av andra människors kunskap och kultur för att på bästa möjliga sätt kunna ge patienterna jämlik vård

Title The HomeCom Project – an Analysis of Collective Action between Competitors and Educational and Municipal Institutions

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The HomeCom Project : an Analysis of Collective Action between Competitors and Educational and Municipal Institutions

The object of this thesis is to analyse how a co-operational network can come about, operate and progress to contribute to industrial dynamics within the locality. The thesis is a case-study of the HomeCom Project, to learn whether this project has the required features to contribute to the clustering process and thus higher levels of industrial dynamics and competitive advantage of the home communications industry in Linköping. The theoretical platform is based on Porter’s Diamond-model, which explains the occurrence of clusters. Theories of external economies complement Porter’s theories, while oligopoly theory will be introduced to offer a different perspective. The empirical findings show that the HomeCom Project may be considered to contribute to the clustering and in consequence promote industrial dynamics and competitive advantage. But there are also difficulties and attitudes that may impede the reaching of the project’s goals