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Popular Abstract in Swedish Under 1990-talet fick gentekniken sitt verkliga genombrott – både forskningsmässigt och i människors medvetande. Medierna rapporterade nästan varje vecka om nya forskningsgenombrott. Klonade djur, lokaliserade gener, förhoppningar om nya läkemedel och larmrapporter om genförändrad mat är några exempel på vad de svenska massmedierna har berättat om gentekniken under 1990During the 1990’s gene technology got a break-through – both as a science and in people’s consciousness. Media reported frequently about scientific breakthroughs. Cloned animals, localized genes, hopes of new medicines and alarming reports on genetically modified food are a few examples on what Swedish mass media has reported on gene technology during the decade. The aim of the dissertation ”Dagen

Popular Abstract in Swedish Inom vetenskapen finns det många exempel på nätverk av ett stort antal samverkande delar. Det kan vara aktiviteten i en levande cell, myror i en myrstack eller djur i ett ekosystem. Slumpmässiga booleska nätverk, som är ämnet för denna avhandling, är ytterligare ett exempel. Dessa nätverk är matematiska konstruktioner som är förhållandevis lätta att undersöka med hjälp There are many examples of complex networks in science. It can be genetic regulation in living cells, computers on the Internet, or social and economic networks. In this context, Boolean networks provide simplistic models that are relatively easy to handle using computer simulations and mathematical methods. A good understanding of Boolean networks may form a foundation to investigations of more c

Since January 1, 2005 all publicly traded companies within the EU must prepare their consolidated financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The transition to IFRS brought with it major changes in the accounting for financial instruments through the introduction of the highly controversial accounting standard IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognitio

Testing is used to ensure production of high quality integrated circuits. High test quality implies the application of high quality test data; however, technology development has led to a need to increase test data volumes to ensure high test quality. The problem is that the high test data volume leads to long test application times and high automatic test equipment memory requirement. For a modul

Popular Abstract in Swedish Mellan 0.3 och 2.1 % av alla barn föds med portvins fläckar (PWS). Till skillnad mot vissa andra kärlmissbildningar försvinner inte PWS utan tvärtom blir många mer blåröda och tjockare med åren. Majoriteten av patienterna upplever sig vara negativt psykosocialt påverkade av sitt PWS i jämförelse med jämnåriga. Dessa negativa upplevelser minskar efter behandlingarna.(Se This thesis covers 12 years of experience in treating patients with congenital capillary malformations, so called port wine stains (PWS). The wide variation in treatment response to laser therapy has developed a profound need for the development of objective devises to measure treatment outcome, so that the maximum effectiveness of therapy can be achieved without unnecessary treatments. The purpos

Flexible multibody dynamics (FMD) has found many applications in control, analysis and design of mechanical systems. FMD together with the theory of structural optimization can be used for designing multibody systems with bodies which are lighter, but stronger. Topology optimization of static structures is an active research topic in structural mechanics. However, the extension to the dynamic case

Popular Abstract in Swedish I den här avhandlingen presenterar jag ett antal empiriska och teoretiska arbeten där vi har studerat hur både människor och djur använder information. Vi har funnit att mängden information, och det sätt på vilket informationen presenteras, har betydelse för hur väl människans beslut anpassas till de förhållanden som råder. Vi har också funnit att människor verkar ha enIn this thesis, I present both theoretical and empirical work where we have studied how humans and animals use information in situations where they need to continually update their information on the density of a resource. We have found that the amount of information, and the way the information is presented, are important factors for how well decisions are adapted to current circumstances. In an

Salt stress is one of the historically as well as potentially largest agriculture problem humans have faced. Researchers have investigated and tried to solve this problem for a long time. Over 20 reviews have been written on this topic the last five years. In this thesis the extent of salt stress in today's agriculture, the toxic and damaging effects on plants and bacteria exposed to salt stress,

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global public health problem that is significantly associated with morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to explore the factors associated with attitudes toward wife beating among women in Bangladesh. From the sixth Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS-2011) interview data, 17,842 women were included in this study. A woman’s age, househol

Popular Abstract in Swedish Azofärger är syntetiska kemikalier som används i stor utsträckning för att färga konsumtionsartiklar, t.ex. läder, textiler, mat, kosmetika. Dock kan ett fåtal av dessa färger reduktivt avspjälkas och till följd därav frigöra kancerogena aromatiska aminer. Av den orsaken har EU infört ett förbud i medlemsstaterna mot användning av potentiellt farliga azofärger i läder- Dyes are commercially indispensable and the expanding industry offers a complete palette of colors. Azo dyes constitute the largest chemical class of synthetic dyes because of their versatility, low price, and ease of production. These dyes may, however, pose health risk to humans due to formation of mutagenic/carcinogenic aromatic amines upon reductive cleavage of their azo groups (-N=N-). Theref

FLT3 kinase has become an attractive drug target in AML with up to 30% of cases harboring internal-tandem-duplication (ITD) mutations. For these, conferring a worse prognosis and decreased overall survival, several FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are currently being tested in clinical trials. However, when using these drugs as monotherapy, the problem of short duration of remissions and hig

Here we present a novel approach to the description of the lagged interdependence structure of stationary time series. The idea is to extend the use of copulas to the lagged (one-dimensional) series, to the analogy of the autocorrelation function. The use of such autocopulas can reveal the specifics of the lagged interdependence in a much finer way. However, the lagged interdependence is resulted

The standard way of suppressing movement artefacts in Doppler measurements is by means of a high-pass filter. This is because artefacts usually are of high amplitude, but have low frequencies. The immediate drawback is, then, that low-velocity blood flow is also filtered out. In this paper, a method to reduce movement artefacts in blood perfusion measurements is proposed, using simultaneous transm

We present a theoretical study of vibrational and thermal effects on the dipole polarizability of methane and carbon tetrachloride. Using a fourth order Taylor expansion in rectilinear normal coordinates of the potential and property surfaces we solve the vibrational problem using vibrational structure theory, e.g., through vibrational self-consistent-field or vibrational configuration-interaction

PURPOSE: As a prelude to developing updated, evidence-based, international consensus recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA), the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) Treatment Guidelines Committee undertook a critical appraisal of published guidelines and a systematic review (SR) of more recent evidence for relevant therapies. METHODS: Sixteen exper

Scenario-based approaches in environmental and policy assessment studies are increasingly applied within integrated assessment and modelling frameworks. The SEAMLESS project develops such an integrated framework (SEAMLESS-IF) aiming to assess, ex-ante, impacts of alternative agro-environmental policies on the sustainability of agricultural systems. A particular challenge in this context is the con

Denna uppsats behandlar arbetsgivare som säger upp arbetstagare på grund av arbetsbrist, men det verkliga skälet till uppsägningen grundar sig i personliga skäl som hänförs till den enskilda individen. Detta ämne benämns som fingerad arbetsbrist. Varför dessa situationer uppstår grundar sig i anställningsskyddet och att en uppsägning måste ske på saklig grund. De sakliga grunderna består av två kaThis essay processes employers who terminate employees due to a lack of work, but the real reason for the dismissal is based on personal reasons attributed to the individual. This topic is referred to as a induced labor shortage. Why these situations arise is based on employment protection and that termination must be done on a factual basis. The factual bases consist of two categories; lack of wo

Det fins en önskan om fullständigt automatiserade nedströmsprocesser i framställandet av proteiner för läkemedelsbruk. En del av nedströmsprocessen är preparativ kromatografi. En god separation mellan produkt och andra proteiner, samt god produktivitet, är av intresse. På grund att kromatografisk separation ofta körs satsvis så skulle en iterative learning controller (ILC) vara ett bra val för attThere is a desire for a fully automated downstream process in pharmaceutical protein production. One part of the downstreaming process is preparative chromatography. A good separation between the product and other proteins, as well as good productivity, are desired. Due to the batch nature of chromatographic separation, an iterative learning controller (ILC) could be a suitable choice for achievin

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the European Union through its cultural program “Creative Europe” is constructing and promoting a transnational European identity. In the context of humanities and European Studies this can be seen as relevant in the sense it is the study of man as a cultural being, as well as it is stated in Merriam-Webster dictionary “humanities plural : the branches