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Background Additional to a child's genetic inheritance, environmental exposures are associated with schizophrenia. Many are broadly described as childhood adversity; modelling the combined impact of these is complex. We aimed to develop and validate a scale on childhood adversity, independent of genetic and other environmental liabilities, for use in schizophrenia risk analysis models, using data

This paper focuses on the investigation of a sequential detection policy for combating the effect of the replay attack on a cloud-native controller. In reply attacks, an external attacker records true signals for some time duration and replays them later. The effect of such an attack is mitigated by adding random signals to the optimal control signal before the actuation process, which is known as

We investigated whether sign-naïve learners can infer and learn the meaning of signs after minimal exposure to continuous, naturalistic input in the form of a weather forecast in Swedish Sign Language. Participants were L1-English adults. Two experimental groups watched the forecast once (N=40) or twice (N=42); a control group did not (N=42). Participants were then asked to assign meaning to 22 ta

Recent methods on privacy-preserving image-based localization use a random line parameterization to protect the privacy of query images and database maps. The lifting of points to lines effectively drops one of the two geometric constraints traditionally used with point-to-point correspondences in structure-based localization. This leads to a significant loss of accuracy for the privacy-preserving

We verify safety of a nonlinear continuous-time system controlled by a neural network controller. The system is decomposed into low-dimensional subsystems connected in a feedback loop. Our application is a rocket landing, and open-loop properties of the two-dimensional altitude subsystem are verified using worst-case simulations. Closed-loop safety properties (crash-avoidance) of the full system a

This work demonstrates the utility of dual-arm robots with dual-wrist force-torque sensors in manipulating a Deformable Linear Object (DLO) within an unknown environment that imposes constraints on the DLO’s movement through contacts and fixtures. We propose a strategy to estimate the pose of unknown environmental contacts encountered during the manipulation of a DLO, classifying the induced const

Motivated by empirical research on bias and opinion formation, we formulate a multidimensional nonlinear opinion-dynamical model where agents have individual biases, which are fixed, as well as opinions, which evolve. The dimensions represent competing options, of which each agent has a relative opinion, and are coupled through normalization of the opinion vector. This can capture, for example, an

The rapid development of wearable biomedical systems now enables real-time monitoring of electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Acquisition of these signals relies on electrodes. These systems must meet the design challenge of selecting an optimal set of electrodes that balances performance and usability constraints. The search for the optimal subset of electrodes from a larger set is a problem wit

1. Co-flowering plant species often interact through shared pollinators, with effects ranging from positive (facilitation) to negative (competition). It remains unclear how this variation relates to variation in floral density, floral trait distinctiveness, and local environmental conditions. We studied the effect of grazer exclusion, a proposed local management strategy, on pollinator-mediated pl

Arbetspsykologiska personlighetstest används numera ofta vid rekrytering och matchning på arbetsmarknaden. Det är därför viktigt att utvärdera de test som används på området. Den aktuella studiens syfte var att utvärdera egenskaper hos den svenska versionen av det arbetspsykologiska personlighetstestet Shapes Management genom att mäta dess konvergenta validitet mot den svenska versionen av det välOccupational personality questionnaires are increasingly being used in the process of recruitment, and the matching between individuals and jobs, on the contemporary labor market. Evaluation and development of questionnaires that are in use is therefore important. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Swedish version of the occupational personality questionnaire Shapes Management by measur

This research explores the interplay between strategic communication and legitimacy in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions, focusing on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and addresses the challenge of maintaining and establishing legitimacy through strategic communication during crises. The study specifically investigates the use of strate

Purpose: This study aims to explore the path of policy adjustment on enterprise innovation performance in the context of fiscal subsidy rollback in China's NEV industry, focusing on the changes in the dimensions of enterprise R&D inputs and patent outputs and further analyzing the moderating role of enterprise size in the process of policy impact. Methodology: Based on the panel data of

I pendeltågstrafiken körs ibland tåg med färre vagnar än normalt (så kallade korta tåg). Detta kan påverka hur passagerarna sprider ut sig på plattformen och hur snabbt påstigningen går. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka effekten av reseinformation om korta tågsammansättningar (tåg med 4 dörrar) på passagerares beteende på plattformen och påstigningstider, med fokus på Lunds centralsIn commuter train traffic, trains sometimes run with fewer carriages than normal (short trains). This can affect how passengers spread out on the platform and how quickly they can board. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how travel information about short train formations (trains with 4 doors) affects passenger behavior on the platform and boarding times. The study focuses on Lund Centr

Nowadays dairy powders are common products and their market share is increasing. Dairy powders are produced for various reasons, such as to reduce the transportation cost, handle seasonal variation in milk or to valorise the by-products of the production. However, powder production and consumption can entail several problems, such as inadequate solubility or the formation of lumps during wetting.

Någon gång i våra liv har vi tittat upp på natthimlen och skådat vår allt lojala kompanjon. Månen har genom mycket av människans historia setts som ett oupn åligt objekt, men år 1969 så gick människan bortom sina gamla bergränsningar och tog sina första kliv på Månen. Från månstenar som samlats in genom detta uppdrag så upptäckte vi att Månen en gång i tiden måste ha haft ett magma hav. Men det unIn this thesis we add a temperature dependence to the newly developed variable polytrope equation of state (Varpoly EOS) from Weppner et al. (2015), making it more universal and more applicable for planetary simulations. In this process we develop a new model for the Gruneisen parameter, which is a parameter that describes how pressure changes with the internal energy. This new model conforms to t

In many countries, GMO policy-making has been characterised with a lot of controversy, participation and trust being the most pressing issues. The ongoing Ghanaian GMO policy-making is not spared of the controversy. The GMO Bill which was introduced in the Ghanaian Parliament in 2013 remained unpassed amid accusations and counter-accusations between government-led groups and civil society-led anti