Many older people express strong preferences to remain in their own housing as long as possible. Due to declining health they may, however, become dependent on others for their daily care, eventually reaching a point where they consider relocation to a residential home. The overall aim of the dissertation is to reveal the process preceding older people’s potential relocation from ordinary housing

This textbook is a 4th year(Sweden)/5th year (USA) text in digital communication theory and practice. Chapters include baseband pulse transmission, carrier transmission, synchronization, channels, coding and information theory, and advanced topics. Each chapter ends with 25 home exercises. Worked examples and Matlab tools are integrated with the text.

EPR spectroscopy has been employed to determine the nature of vanadium (+4) species in the TiO2(B)-supported vanadia catalysts. IR and EPR studies show that multiple vanadia species are observed as a function of loading. At coverages greater than 3.5 theoretical layers, the EPR signal is reminiscent of bulk V205. At lower coverages, a different magnetic species dominates the resonance and may be a

Abstract is not available.

For a long while, no logical connection was developed between the major International Relations (IR) theories and the study of foreign policy analysis (AFP). The relationship can be investigated in three ways: through the role actors and bureaucracies play in shaping foreign policy, the process of decision-making and the effect of international system on the conduct of foreign policy.

Popular Abstract in Swedish Diabetes är en världssjukdom – om 50 år räknar det internationella diabetesförbundet med att en tiondel av världens befolkning har någon form av diabetes. Diabetes innebär att kroppen inte kan ta hand om allt socker som man äter. Detta medför att sockerhalten i blodet blir för högt. Högt blodsocker gör att kroppens celler arbetar konstant, och om blodsockret är för högtThe primary aim of this thesis was to investigate the role of G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) in insulin secretion and beta-cell survival. The second aim was to determine which pathway is involved in insulin release and beta-cell protection via GPCRs. This has been investigated in three different studies, which concluded the following: Study 1) GPR30 is expressed in female mice pancreatic isle

This data set contains the data from the Galileo dust detector system (GDDS) from start of mission through the end of mission. Included are the dust impact data, noise data, laboratory calibration data, and location and orientation of the spacecraft and instrument.

In our research we investigate rational agent which consciously balances deliberation and acting, and uses learning to augment its reasoning. It creates several partial plans, uses past experience to choose the best one and, by executing it, gains new knowledge about the world. We analyse a possible application of Inductive Logic Programming to learn how to evaluate partial plans in a resource-con

This paper presents new versions of the McEliece PKC that use time-varying convolutional codes. In opposite to the choice of Goppa codes, the proposed construction uses large parts of randomly generated parity-checks, presumably making structured attacks more difficult. The drawback is that we have a small but nonzero probability of not being successful in decoding, in which case we need to ask fo

This chapter examines the relevance of ideas developed by Petrazycki and Ehrlich to the current concerns of the sociology of law. It starts by briefly describing the academic and political contexts in which these ideas were born. Then it goes on to present some aspects of the theories of Petrazycki and Ehrlich and to examine their imprints on empirical research. The final part of the chapter bring

Popular Abstract in Swedish Kväveoxid (NO) och framför allt kolmonoxid (CO) tillhör de giftigaste gaserna man känner till. Vem har inte läst i kriminalromaner om hur människor stängts in i garage och gasats ihjäl med kolmonoxid från arbetande bilmotorers avgasutsläpp. Under det senaste årtiondet har man kunnat visa att dessa gaser i själva verket bildas i vår egen kropp och att de utgör signalmoleDuring the last decade it has been shown that nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO) are produced in our own body, and that they constitute a novel class of messenger molecules. In 1992 a constitutive NO-producing NO-synthase (cNOS) was found in the islets of Langerhans, and in 1997 we could show for the first time that the islets also contained a CO-producing constitutive heme oxygenase (HO-2