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In the light of the 2008 financial crises, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania experienced the greatest output declines in the world. In 2012 however the output gap has almost been reduced, competitiveness is regained and the budget balance deficit is kept within the requirements of the EU Maastricht criteria. These achievements were reached by conducting the controversial fiscal stance of austerity, im
Global value chains are essential to understanding globalization in the nature of export-oriented markets and commodity flows to end-markets. Developing countries have experienced a recent wave of economic structural adjustment and introduced export-based reforms as an approach to pro-poor growth. This thesis takes South Africa’s post-apartheid wine industry as a case study to understanding the ac
Nyhetsmedierna i vårt samhälle är i förändring, och traditionell nyhetsbevakning blir allt svårare att skilja från populärkultur och nöjesmedier. Samtidigt uppvisar framför allt unga människor ett bristande intresse för traditionell medierapportering kring politiska frågor, och vänder sig istället till alternativa källor för information. En sådan källa är The Daily Show, ett satirprogram som fokus
Tapasin is a subunit of the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP). It associates with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I. We show that tapasin interacts with beta- and gamma-subunits of COPI coatomer. COPI retrieves membrane proteins from the Golgi network back to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The COPI subunit-associated tapasin also interacts with MHC class I mole
We have fabricated single balanced down-conversion mixer circuits using InAs nanowire MOSFETs as both active and passive devices. This is achieved by a combination of electron beam lithography and UV-lithography with a line width of 12 mu m. The circuits exhibit a low frequency voltage conversion gain of 6 dB, a -3 dB cutoff frequency of 2 GHz and a power consumption of 3.8 mW, while operating at
Trots att amning har stora hälsoeffekter har Sverige en sjunkande amningsstatik. Syftet med studien var att beskriva förstagångsmödrars attityder till amning, deras självtillit i amningsfrågor samt undersöka samband mellan attityder, självtillit och omfattning av amning. Vidare att undersöka deras åsikter om amningsinformation i vårdkedjan. Metoden var en prospektiv tvärsnittsstudie med en kvantit
Studiens syfte var att undersöka om det fanns någon skillnad mellan en grupp patienter med schizofrenidiagnos och en jämförelsegrupp bestående av personal från en akutpsykosavdelning när det gäller mentaliseringsförmåga. Mentaliseringsförmågan skattades med instrumentet ”Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET)”. Den ursprungliga planen var att konsekutivt rekrytera samtliga patienter till studien
Syftet med studien var att beskriva och analysera ett framväxande fenomen – samhällsentreprenörskap – för att öka förståelsen för dess betydelse i ett svenskt sammanhang. Studien är utformad som en kvalitativ fallstudie med en abduktiv ansats, där det empiriska materialet och det teoretiska ramverket påverkat varandra om vartannat. Studiens teoretiska ramverk består av en modell vid namn ”The Soci
Bees are essential pollinators of many crops and wild plants, and pesticide exposure is one of the key environmental stressors affecting their health in anthropogenically modified landscapes. Until recently, almost all information on routes and impacts of pesticide exposure came from honey bees, at least partially because they were the only model species required for environmental risk assessments
Sub-THz deployment is challenging due to high propagation losses, necessitating dense deployment. To reduce cost, RF signal can be distributed via plastic fiber to remote radio units to increase coverage area. In this paper, we propose an antenna-in-package concept for the single-layer substrate on low-cost embedded wafer level ball grid array (eWLB) packages. To suppress the distortion in the bro
Standardised data formats and data models are essential for data integration and interoperability, which in turn adds value to data by allowing its reuse in multiple contexts. For this reason, in recent years extensive efforts have been focused on standards development. When representing the built environment, 3D city models and Building Information Models are particularly relevant, and their inte
Atomic diusion and mixing processes in stellar interiors influence the structure and the surface composition of stars. Some of these processes cannot yet be modelled from the first principles, and they require calibrations. This limits their applicability in stellar models used for studies of stellar populations and Galactic evolution. Aims. Our main goal is to put constraints on the stellar struc
In computer simulations, long-range electrostatic interactions are surprisingly well approximated by truncated, short-ranged pair potentials. Examples are reaction field methods; the Wolf method; and a number of schemes based on cancellation of electric multipole moments inside a cut-off region. These methods are based on the assumption that the polarization of the neglected surroundings can be in
An investigation into the implementation state of open standards in software is currently ongoing through the ISPRS/EuroSDR 'GeoBIM benchmark 2019' initiative, which kicked off earlier this year. The benchmark activity provides a way of assessing and comparing the functionality of different software packages in GIS and BIM in terms of their ability to handle standardised data (IFC and CityGML) and
In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the large size of channel state information (CSI) matrix significantly increases the computational complexity of uplink detection and size of required memory to store the channel data. To address these challenges, we propose to perform detection in the angular domain, where the channel information can be presented in a more condensed way. T
Magnesium transporter A (MgtA) is an active transporter responsible for importing magnesium ions into the cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells. This study focuses on the peptide corresponding to the intrinsically disordered N-terminal region of MgtA, referred to as KEIF. Primary-structure and bioinformatic analyses were performed, followed by studies of the undisturbed single chain using a combination o
Prostate cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in men. The diagnosis is confirmed by pathologists based on ocular inspection of prostate biopsies in order to classify them according to Gleason score. The main goal of this paper is to automate the classification using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The introduction of CNNs has broadened the field of pattern recognition. It replaces the classic
A low-latency and area-efficient FFT/IFFT scheme is presented. The main idea is to utilize OFDM guard bands to reduce the operation counts and processing time, which results in 42% latency reduction compared to the reported pipelined schemes. To realize this idea, a modified pipelined architecture and an efficient data scheduling scheme are proposed. Furthermore, the proposed architecture is scala
