The book is a general history of the Baltic Sea region, written from a dual historical perspective. The first is genetic, focusing on the development of the region, on periods of intense contacts and communications between the peoples and states bordering the Baltic Sea, and on period in which the sea was a dividing and closed area. The second historical perspectice is genealogical, focusing on ho

Antibodies are important proteins participating in a number of reactions to protect us from harmful diseases. Apart from this important function, they are also useful in different technical and medical applications. This, however, relies on our possibility to produce antibodies in vitro. In the first part of my thesis a new technology called CDR shuffling was developed to create diverse and highly

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The Internet is a huge world-wide packet switching network comprised of more than 13,000 distinct subnetworks, referred to as Autonomous Systems (ASs) . They all rely on the Internet Protocol (IP) for transport of packets across the network. And most of them use shortest path routing protocols , such as OSPF or IS-IS, to control the routing of IP packets within an AS. The idea of the routing is ex

Different opinions about Mongolian prominence structure can be found in the literature. The most puzzling problem is the nature of lexical stress in this language, and neither its placement nor its phonetic nature have been given any final description. We have earlier performed an acoustic investigation of vowel durations, quality and fO to find if any of these three parameters functions as signa

Popular Abstract in Swedish Cancer är en genetisk sjukdom, som uppkommer genom ansamling av icke-letala mutationer. Dessa mutationer, som kan ske på både DNA- och kromosomnivå, ger cellen tillväxtfördelar och leder till klonal expansion av en cellpopulation som står utanför de normala tillväxtkontrollerna. Utvecklingen från normal till malign fenotyp sker stegvis, där ökad ansamling av genetiska sA series of primary and metastatic breast carcinomas obtained from female and male patients were cytogenetically analysed. Trisomy 12 was identified as a recurrent and sometimes early event in breast carcinogenesis. Also, multiple polysomies involving chromosomes 1, 5, 6, 7, 12, 16, 18, and 19 were identified as a possible pathway of progression in a subset of carcinomas. Among the male breast car

The authors consider universities in global networks to understand internationalization of a modern university. They then consider some of the landscapes in which internationalization lives in: the de-territorialization and networking; the tension between competition and cooperation; the impact of free trade agreements; and the Bologna accord. Then they provide a strategy for internationalization:

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Persons with autism, probably due to early sensory impairments, attend to and select for stimuli in an uncommon way. Inhibition of some features of a stimulus, such as location and shape, might be intact, while other features are not as readily inhibited, for example color. Stimuli irrelevant to the task might be attended to. This results in a learning process where irrelevant stimuli are erroneou