Hobbing is a common manufacturing method when producing helical, involute gears. In order to give the manufactured gear a controlled surface smoothness, a method to, very accurately, determine the achieved surface geometry is needed. In this report, the cutting surfaces of the tool, of which the cutting edges are the boundaries, are assumed to be plane in arbitrary directions. They are mathematica

Peripheral tolerance is regulated by different types of regulatory T cells, including CD1-restricted T cells and CD4+CD25+ regulatory T (Treg) cells. This thesis has focused on the interactions between T cells and antigen presenting cells (APCs) and the immunregulatory function of TGF-b as two important factors regulating differentiation and activation of T cells in the periphery. In the first par

Popular Abstract in Swedish Skogskalkning ledde till ökat artantal, ökat antal individer av enskilda arter och ökad omsättning av arter i fältskiktet i bokskog. För gulplister var individstorleken och sexuell respektive vegetativ förökning opåverkad av kalkningen. Sexuell och vegetativ förökning ökade med ökad individstorlek hos gulplister, både i en population av omanipulerade individer som växteLiming increased species richness, in accordance with the species pool hypothesis, and number of plants of individual species in beech forest field-layer vegetation, by increasing establishment by seedlings and vegetative offspring. Turnover rates also increased, suggesting the explanatory value of the carousel model. Plant size, absolute measures of reproduction, and poportional measures of sexua

Popular Abstract in Swedish Denna avhandling grundar sig på forskning inom fältet ``högenergetisk tungjonsfysik'', där man studerar materia under extrema förhållanden vad gäller temperatur och densitet. Experimenten utförs på stora anläggningar där atomkärnor accelereras till höga hastigheter innan de kollideras med varandra. Höga krav ställs på de partikeldetektorer som byggs upp kring sådana intPHENIX is one of four experiments at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, RHIC. The high-energy heavy-ion collisions provided by this accelerator offer the possibility to study nuclear matter at high temperature and density. The high multiplicity of particles produced in these collisions puts high demands on detector performance. Providing space points along particle trajectories, the Pad Chamber

If we admit that, with the exception of language, human perception is predominantly visual, it is reasonable to think that all phenomena conveyed by the visual senses have something in common, but then visual semiotics/visual culture will comprehend much more than painting, sculpture, and architecture. The double coding hypotheses of cognitive psychology, as well as Lessing’s classical opposition

Image processing is one of the popular applications of Cellular Neural Networks. Macro enriched field-programmable gate-arrays can be used to realize such systems on silicon. The paper discusses a pipelined implementation that supports the handling of gray-level images at 180 to 240 Mpixels per second by exploiting the Virtex-II macros to spatially unroll the local feedback