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Aim: To study the relationship between hyperglycaemia and the onset/progression of retinopathy, blindness/moderate visual impairment or death, as well as the impact of improved glycaemic control on retinopathy in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Methods: Between January 1990 and October 1995 a total of 3,220 diabetic patients were enrolled in a programme for control

Mounting discoveries of extrasolar planets orbiting post-main-sequence stars motivate studies to understand the fate of these planets. In the traditional 'adiabatic' approximation, a secondary's eccentricity remains constant during stellar mass-loss. Here, we remove this approximation, investigate the full two-body point-mass problem with isotropic mass-loss, and illustrate the resulting dynamical

Popular Abstract in Swedish Min avhandling handlar om vilken roll fiskyngel har i samspelet mellan olika organismer i våra sjöar, såsom i samspelet mellan rovfiskar, djurplanktonätande fiskar, djurplankton och alger. Fisklarver och fiskyngel förekommer i stora mängder i våra sjöar under sommaren. Varje vår/sommar kläcks nya kullar av bl.a. abborre och mörtlarver, vilka äter (prederar på) små djurFood chain theory is based on consumption; that is, presupposing that the only important interaction between organisms is that they actually meet in an unstructured environment and that one of them is consumed. Recently, studies, including biomanipulation projects, have indicated that trophic interactions are more complex than predicted by food chain theory. In this thesis I examine the role of yo

Previous approaches to video-rate CMOS A/D (analog-to-digital) converters are based on fully-parallel, subrange, or pipeline architectures. The authors describe a 5-MHz 8-bit experimental design of a successive-approximation A/D converter using 3-μm CMOS technology. Since neither capacitors nor a resistor string are needed in the current-switching technique, a conventional digital technology can b

The Goal/Question/Metric paradigm is used for empirical studies on software projects. Support is given on how to define and execute a study. However, the support for running several subsequent studies is poor. V-GQM introduces a life-cycle perspective, creating a process, spanning several GQM studies. After the GQM study has been completed, an analysis step of the plan is initiated. The metrics ar

The problem of stabilizing an inverted pendulum on a cart while enabling manual control of the cart velocity is treated. Introduction of an input saturation nonlinearity makes the problem challenging in the sense that the system may be driven to a state where recovery is not possible. A controller based on the controllability set of the inverted pendulum, which ensures stability and tracking of co

This note is about promoting singularity subtraction as a helpful tool in the discretization of singular integral operators on curved surfaces. Singular and nearly singular kernels are expanded in series whose terms are integrated on parametrically rectangular regions using high-order product integration, thereby reducing the need for spatial adaptivity and precomputed weights. A simple scheme is