Popular Abstract in Swedish Föreställ dig ett stort rum med bara en liten fyrkantig, ungefär tio centimeter stor, öppning på en av väggarna. Rummet har fem meter långa väggar och är flera meter högt. Golv, tak och alla andra väggar är helt utan öppningar och är inte genomskinliga. Man misstänker att temperaturen varierar mycket så att det kan vara varmt i en del av rummet och kallt i en annan. DärLight detection and ranging (lidar), a method for nonintrusive, single-ended, and range resolved measurements, has been developed and applied for combustion related diagnostics. Employing picosecond laser pulse durations and detectors providing temporal resolution on the order of picoseconds, lidar has been applied successfully for both quantitative temperature- and species concentration measureme

This paper describes how credit default swaps could be employed to create performance based executive compensation portfolios that reflect the value of a firm’s debt as well as equity; i.e. the total value of all a firm’s assets. We define so-called Asset Value Unit (AVU) compensation portfolios that work both for executive- and non-executive pay schemes in financial as well as non-financial firms

The application of nitrogen vibrational CARS thermometry to sooty, premixed, atmospheric pressure flames has been investigated using a Nd:YAG laser based system. It was found that laser-produced C2 radicals strongly absorb part of the fundamental band peak in the CARS spectrum. This was the most severe interference to the CARS signal. A quantitative investigation of temperature errors caused by th

If anyone begins to think about the term ultrasound, the first thing that comes to the mind is the fact that it is used in animal communications (e.g., bat navigation and dog whistles). Also, one may start to think that this term is familiar in daily life and has been used many times in medicine applications for foetal imaging, (SONAR). However, many questions come to the mind, such as, what is ha

OBJECTIVES:: Brain tumour has few established determinants. We assessed to which extent risk of brain tumour was related to metabolic syndrome factors in adults. METHODS:: In the Me-Can project, 580 000 individuals from Sweden, Austria, and Norway were followed for a median of 10 years after baseline measurement. Data on brain tumours were obtained from national cancer registries. The factors of m

Windstorms have caused severe damage on several occasions in Sweden during the last century. A general concern about future projections of climate extremes has raised questions on the variations and impacts of windstorms. The main objective with this work was to reach a deeper understanding of the variability and possible trends in ­windstorms, and related storm impacts in forests. This was achiev

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Ever since IT started to become important and strategic assets in organizational practices, systems acquisitions have been a challenging and complex endeavor. There are seemingly never ending reports of unsuccessful IT acquisitions and lack of systems acquisition competence (beställarkompetens in Swedish). The aim of this thesis is to shed deeper light on what systems acquisition competence is abo

Artikeln utgör en presentation av forskningsprojektet Regeringsformen och förvaltningen – styrning och rättslig reglering, för vilket Vetenskapsrådet har beviljat medel. Projektet syftar till att undersöka styrningen av den svenska förvaltningen ur ett rättsligt perspektiv. Huvudfokus är styrningen och den rättsliga regleringen idag, men för att förstå den, studeras den ur ett utvecklingsperspekti

Omdöme ”Teckenspråkiga döva” är en rik avhandling. Den innehåller spännande och djuplodande empiriskt material. Fredäng täcker samtidigt in ett stort fält från individnivå med familj och skola till lokalföreningar och riksorganisation och till hur samhället ställer sig i olika frågor. Det är sannolikt att de sociala typer som Päivi Fredäng tar upp, om hur döva ser på sig själva och sin dövhet l

Chronic mitral regurgitation is often accompanied by left atrial and ventricular remodeling and elevated natriuretic peptide levels. Our aim was to examine the relation between severe preoperative left atrial enlargement and changes in hemodynamics and natriuretic peptide levels after mitral valve surgery.