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<p><strong>Bakgrund:</strong> När en människa drabbats av en ryggmärgskada förändras hela dennes livssituation. Upplevelserna som kan uppstå efter skadan är oftast många. En femtedel av alla ryggmärgsskador drabbar kvinnor, därför har tidigare forskning främst varit inriktat på män. Det har framkommit att det kan vara påfrestande för parförhållanden och självkänslan när någon drabbas av en ryggmärgsskada. Detta kan medföra negativa upplevelser i förhållandet och till sexualiteten. <strong>Syfte: </strong>Syftet är att beskriva hur ryggmärgsskadade kvinnor upplever sin sexualitet. <strong>Metod:</strong> En systematisk litteraturstudie med kvalitativ design användes. För att analysera de tolv vetenskapliga artiklarna som valts ut användes en innehållsanalys som metod. <strong>Resultat: </strong>Tre teman bildades: upplevelsen av att vara oattraktiv, upplevelsen av att inte ha kontroll, och förnimmelsen av sexualiteten. Majoriteten upplevde sin sexualitet negativ och förändrad, men att detta kunde ändras desto längre tid den drabbade levde med skadan. <strong>Slutsats: </strong>Kvinnorna upplevde försämrat självförtroende efter att de drabbats av en ryggmärgsskada. Upplevelser av oro och osäkerhet förekom ofta. Resultatet har medfört djupare förståelse för hur ryggmärgsskadade kvinnor upplever sin sexualitet, vilket har gett ytterligare förståelse för hur viktig sexualiteten kan vara för en män</p>

Bakgrund: När en människa drabbats av en ryggmärgskada förändras hela dennes livssituation. Upplevelserna som kan uppstå efter skadan är oftast många. En femtedel av alla ryggmärgsskador drabbar kvinnor, därför har tidigare forskning främst varit inriktat på män. Det har framkommit att det kan vara påfrestande för parförhållanden och självkänslan när någon drabbas av en ryggmärgsskada. Detta kan medföra negativa upplevelser i förhållandet och till sexualiteten. Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva hur ryggmärgsskadade kvinnor upplever sin sexualitet. Metod: En systematisk litteraturstudie med kvalitativ design användes. För att analysera de tolv vetenskapliga artiklarna som valts ut användes en innehållsanalys som metod. Resultat: Tre teman bildades: upplevelsen av att vara oattraktiv, upplevelsen av att inte ha kontroll, och förnimmelsen av sexualiteten. Majoriteten upplevde sin sexualitet negativ och förändrad, men att detta kunde ändras desto längre tid den drabbade levde med skadan. Slutsats: Kvinnorna upplevde försämrat självförtroende efter att de drabbats av en ryggmärgsskada. Upplevelser av oro och osäkerhet förekom ofta. Resultatet har medfört djupare förståelse för hur ryggmärgsskadade kvinnor upplever sin sexualitet, vilket har gett ytterligare förståelse för hur viktig sexualiteten kan vara för en män

Two separate mechanistic kinetic models have been developed for the hydrocracking of complex feedstocks. The first model is targeted for the hydrocracking of vacuum gas oil. The second one addresses specifically the hydrocracking of long-chain paraffins, but at a more fundamental level as compared to the first one. Both models are based on an exhaustive computer generated reaction network of elementary steps. In the first model, the dehydrogenation/hydrogenation steps occurring on the metal sites to generate/consume the reactive olefinic intermediates are assumed to be very fast so that the acid site steps are considered as the rate determining steps. The frequency factors for acid site steps are modeled using the single-event concept and the activation energies based on the nature of the reactant and product carbenium ions. This model utilizes a detailed composition of the vacuum gas oil characterized by 16 different molecular classes up to carbon number 40. These classes are divided into 45 subclasses by distinguishing the isomers of a class according to the number of methyl branches. The kinetic model is plugged into an adiabatic multi-bed trickle flow reactor model. The model contains 33 feedstock and temperature independent parameters which have been estimated from the experimental data. The model has been used to study the effect of the operating conditions on the yield and composition of various products. A sensitivity analysis of the distribution of isomers of a class among its different subclasses has been performed showing that the total conversion increases when the content of isomers with a higher degree of branching is increased in the feed. In the second model, the dehydrogenation/hydrogenation steps on the metal sites are also assumed to be rate determining. The rate coefficients for the dehydrogenation steps are modeled depending on the nature of the carbon atoms forming the double bond. The frequency factors for the acid site steps are modeled using the single-event concept. A more rigorous approach has been selected to model the activation energies of the acid site steps by implementing the Evans-Polanyi relationship. The 14 model parameters, which are independent of the temperature and feedstock composition, have been estimated from the experimental data. The model elucidates the effect of the relative metal/acid activity of the catalyst on the isomerization/cracking selectivities and on the carbon number distribution of the products.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-263).

Time has not been kind to Great Britain's intervention in the Spanish civil war of 1834 to 1840. An examination of histories, biographies and memoirs published since about 1840 yields surprisingly little in the way of information or comment. Although there are a few important works which deal with this problem, they do so incompletely. [...]

When an organism is dehydrated, neurons in the Organum vasculosum lamina terminalis (OVL T) sense this variation in plasma osmolality (OSM) and excite magnocellular neurosecretory cells (MNCs) in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) via glutamatergic synapses. The resulting action potential firing of MNCs will result in the secretion of vasopressin (VP) into the blood, which will promote water reabsorption from the kidney. The relationship between plasma VP and OSM (know as the VP-OSM ratio) is known to change in sensitivity during the course of a day. / Lorsqu'un organisme est déshydraté, les neurones dans l'Organum vasculosum lamina terminalis (OVL T) détectent le changement dans l'osmolalité du plasma (OSM) et excitent les cellules magnocellulaires neurosécrétoires (MNCs) dans le noyau supraoptique (SON) avec des synapses glutamatergique. La décharge des potentiels d'action qui survient dans les MNCs génère la sécrétion de vasopressine (VP) dans le sang, qui permettra la réabsorption d'eau au niveau du rein. Le rapport entre la VP et OSM (connu comme étant le rapport VP/OSM) subit des changements de sensibilité durant une journée.

The purpose of this study was to examine the causes and historical impact of the Armstrong investigation into the practices of the life insurance industry. As a long-time admirer of Charles Evans Hughes, and a serious student of the history of insurance, I found the opportunity of looking into an important part of Hughes's early career and the most significant event in the annals of insurance history to be especially compelling, particularly as my research came to show the need to re-assess much of what previously has been written about the episode.In addition to basic resource materials available at Bracken Library, I found that extensive use of contemporary newspaper accounts, principally those in the Chicago Tribune andNew York Times, revealed the vivid images that caught so well the attention and imagination of the American public in 1905. I also have made valuable use of James Hazen Hyde's personal papers in the archival section of Baker Library at Harvard University. This important collection of private correspondence and records has been largely overlooked by insurance historians writing about the period. Those who have written about the New York Times also have ignored the Hyde material, most significantly the items linking the financial condition of the New York Times with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the principal firm in the great financial scandal. That embarrassing link explains the newspaper's restrained and even bland reporting and editorials concerning the unfolding events.Little mention is given the Armstrong investigation in the insurance textbooks used in American colleges and universities. The occasional references to the most important public investigative body of its time are limited to phrases beginning with "because of" or "prior to" and rarely provide more than a minimal amount of background explanation. Certainly more of the history of insurance needs to be taught.While institutions of higher learning offer students the opportunity to study the history of many subjects, such as art, music, medicine, law, and economics, none of the more than two hundred universities in the country offering insurance courses includes study of the history of insurance. Of the many rich and intriguing events in the realm of insurance, the story of the Armstrong investigation, with its startling findings and resulting widespread reform legislation, should serve well as the nucleus of an insurance history text. Completion of such a textbook indeed will finish the work started by this thesis. / Department of History

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (ℓ. 341-352)

Thesis (D. Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-273).