Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged in the last decade as an important method for characterizing various aspects of cardiac anatomy, patho-anatomy, pathophysiology, and function. Measurements of flow parameters, left ventricular function, and grade of valvular regurgitation have been validated and proved to serve as excellent gold standards compared to simpler, established techniques, suc

The B8-type regions of the Mn-Sn and Cu-In systems have been investigated by means of electron and X-ray diffraction. The importance of the combination of these techniques in the study of B8-type phases is pointed out. In addition to the B8-type phases an alloy with a quasicrystal approximant structure has been studied. In the Mn-Sn system at least three B8-type phases exist. An X-ray powder patt

Abstract in UndeterminedEnterprise Systems (ES) are often the largest and most important Information Systems (IS) an organization employs. Most ES are rented or bought as COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software. The use of COTS leads to a distinction between the development of the ES software—done by ES software providers, like SAP and Microsoft—and the implementation of ES software in a specific

Dennett diskuterar de grundläggande frågorna rörande medvetandet. Han presenterar sin syn på vad trosföreställningar är och deras roll vid förklarandet av mänskligt handlande. Vidare försöker han förklara vilka medvetandets objekt är, och medvetandets natur. En grundtes är att frågan om ett komplext system, t.ex. en dator, kan ha ett medveteande eller känna smärta, är beroende av vilken "hållning

Intervju med anledning av den svenska utgåvan av Beverley Naidoos Aisopos fabler (vetenskapsjournalist Urban Björstadius).

Popular Abstract in Swedish Molekylär förädling på sockerbeta, Transformation, Transgene utsläckning, Virus och Herbicid resistensThe main objectives in sugar beet breeding, are to improve yield, quality and to develop disease resistance. The disease resistance may be developed either by conventional, or molecular breeding techniques. The molecular breeding techniques include, methods to genetically engineer plants for expression of introduced genes. A necessity for the production of transgenic plants, is the development of

The main theme of this thesis is the interfacial properties of cereal proteins from wheat and rye. Some aspects of dough bulk properties are also included. The proteins studied are of interest for the stabilisation of gas cells and the mechanism of gas retention, and the rheological properties of a bread dough. The interfacial properties were investigated by using methods such as film balance, el

What are Swedish children’s gestures like? How do they change over time in development? How do they relate to spoken language? Is there anything particularly Swedish about them? These questions are all discussed in this paper. The main message is that the overarching patterns of gestural development in Swedish children are similar to what has been found in studies of children in other cultures, bu

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Why do Scandinavians convert to the Catholic Church? In this article, I try to give an answer to this question. Up to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, the Catholic Church strongly emphasised its claim to be the only true Church. As a consequence, non-Catholic countries such as the Nordic were subjected to Catholic missionary activity. In this period, a Catholic conversion was not only an e

Popular Abstract in Swedish Pankreascancer (cancer i bukspottkörteln) drabbar ungefär 900 personer om året i Sverige. Tumörformen har tidigare varit vanligare hos män men är numera lika vanlig hos män och kvinnor. Pankreascancer är ovanligt före 40 års ålder, men ökar stadigt med åldern och ungefär 80% av dem som drabbas är över 60 år gamla. Pankreascancer är en aggressiv tumörform och på grund avIn the present thesis, genetic abnormalities in pancreatic cancer were studied, with special emphasis on alterations of components involved in the transforming growth factor beta (TGFB) signaling pathway. In the first study, fluorescence in situ hybridization and cytogenetic analyses revealed aberrations of chromosome 18 in all 13 pancreatic carcinoma cell lines studied, in particular frequent bre

Our goal is to present a mathematical model useful for distributed optimization of traffic routing in multi-domain Internet networks. In such environments each domain is operated autonomously and has access to limited information about the rest of the network. Our model reflects this through an appropriate problem decomposition with respect to individual domains. The decomposition aims at supporti