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The purpose of this study was to clarify the internal change of concrete structures during drying. Therefore, we used X-ray CT to investigate water content and volume changes inside cement paste specimens during drying. Changes in the CT image intensities and measurements on the images indicated water content and volume changes, including local changes detected with digital volume correlation. Nex

This paper introduces the ForestValue research project CLICKdesign - delivering fingertip knowledge to enable service life performance specification of wood. The consortium is working on a primary innovation to move from the complex, fragmented and general to the easy-to-use, consolidated and specific by provision of a digital tool for specifiers. Other materials tackle this and provide designers

There is a pressing need to capture and track subtle cognitive change at the preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) rapidly, cost-effectively, and with high sensitivity. Concurrently, the landscape of digital cognitive assessment is rapidly evolving as technology advances, older adult tech-adoption increases, and external events (i.e., COVID-19) necessitate remote digital assessment. Here,

The application of robotic solutions to small-batch production is challenging: economical constraints tend to dramatically limit the time for setting up new batches. Organizing robot tasks into modular software components, called skills, and allowing the assignment of multiple concurrent tasks to a single robot is potentially game-changing. However, due to cycle time constraints, it may be necessa

Monocular depth estimation is a highly challenging problem that is often addressed with deep neural networks. While these use recognition of high level image features to predict reasonably looking depth maps,the result often has poor metric accuracy. Moreover,the standard feed forward architecture does not allow modification of the prediction based on cues other than the image.In this paper we rel

Background: The collection and sharing of genomic and health data underpins global efforts to develop genomic medicine services. 'Your DNA, Your Say' is a cross-sectional survey with the goal of gathering lay public attitudes toward the access and sharing of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) information and medical information. It suggests significant international variation in the willingness to share

Introduction: The relationship between urate and biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology has not been investigated. Methods: We examined whether serum concentration of urate was associated with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, amyloid beta (Aβ)42, Aβ40, phosphorylated tau (p-tau), total tau (t-tau), neurofilament light (NfL), and Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio, in cognitively unimpaired 70-year-ol

The oxidation and reduction of an Ir(100) surface using 2.5, 5, and 10 mbar O2partial pressure and a sample temperature of 775 K have been studied by using high-energy surface X-ray diffraction (HESXRD) which allowed to record large volumes of reciprocal space in short time periods. The complex 3D diffraction patterns could be disentangled in a stepwise procedure. For the 2.5 mbar experiment the m

Background: Temporality and the embodiment of time is an important dimension in different recovery models, as well as in drug users’ recovery stories. Aim: The main objective of this article is twofold: first, to perform a critical analysis of prominent recovery models and their multiple temporalities, and second, to explore of how female drug users, enrolled in drug treatment, narrate their recovTemporality and the embodiment of time is an important dimension in different recovery models, as well as in drug users' recovery stories. Aim: The main objective of this article is twofold: fi rst, to perform a critical analysis of prominent recovery models and their multiple temporalities, and second, to explore of how female drug users, enrolled in drug treatment, narrate their recovery process

Feedforward control can be considered as the most well-known control approach to deal with measurable disturbances. It started to be used almost 100 years ago, and since then it is being used in most industrial processes. It is a very simple technique that has been used typically as a complement to PID control, although it can be combined with any feedback controller. The feedforward control desig

I det här kapitlet presenteras ett dialogfilosofiskt perspektiv på lyssnande som utgår från antagandet att samtalets båda parter är lika aktiva och att samtal kännetecknas av både dialog och koordination mellan den som talar och den som lyssnar. Författarens beskrivning av det dialogiska lyssnande bygger på centrala tankegångar i Martin Bubers dialogfilosofi. I kapitlet genomförs även en kritisk g

En journalist gör intervjuer i en rad olika sammanhang. Ibland till en snabb nyhetsartikel som ska ut på sajten direkt, andra gånger till ett reportage som ska publiceras eller sändas längre fram i tiden. Under intervjun är det mycket att hålla reda på och det är lätt att tappa tråden. Journalisten ska leda intervjun, tänka på vinkeln, ställa följdfrågor, anteckna eller spela in, och också möta ol

In this paper, we present a review of how the various aspects of any study using an eye tracker (such as the instrument, methodology, environment, participant, etc.) affect the quality of the recorded eye-tracking data and the obtained eye-movement and gaze measures. We take this review to represent the empirical foundation for reporting guidelines of any study involving an eye tracker. We compare

Sverige är ett mångkulturellt land i vilket ca 20 procent av befolkningen är utrikes födda. Här lever människor som tillhör olika befolkningsgrupper med skiftande kulturella bakgrunder och livsstilar. Det innebär att svensk besöksnäring idag kommunicerar med en mycket diversifierad svensk målgrupp. Kunskapsläget om personer med utländsk bakgrunds turismkonsumtion i Sverige är dock begränsad. Det fSweden is a multicultural country in which about 20 percent of the population has a foreign background. People who belong to different population groups live here and have diverse cultural backgrounds and lifestyles. This means that the Swedish tourism and hospitality industry today communicates with a very diversified Swedish target group.This report, which is the result of a commissioned researc

This thesis consists of four self-contained papers in the economics of education. The first chapter examines the importance of instruction time for student achievement on international assessments. The second chapter identifies the effect of sibling gender on education and how this effect varies according to traditional inheritance customs. The third chapter studies the effect of more informative

Estimating the gaze direction with a digital video-based pupil and corneal reflection (P-CR) eye tracker is challenging partly since a video camera is limited in terms of spatial and temporal resolution, and because the captured eye images contain noise. Through computer simulation, we evaluated the localization accuracy of pupil-, and CR centers in the eye image for small eye rotations (≪ 1 deg).

The role of patient participation in forensic psychiatric care is unclear, but has been emphasised as important in recent research. This study aims to describe patients’ lived experiences of participation in high-security, forensic psychiatric settings. Sixteen patient interviews were performed in this phenomenological study and analysed with a Reflective Lifeworld Research approach (RLR). Results

This paper aims to develop a model for calculating the hydraulic and water quality parameters of wastewater within sewers. Information from the wastewater collection network and the transmission line in Birjand were used to verify the model performance. The parameters used for modelling quality changes include the yield constant for biomass (YH), the maximum specific growth rate (μH), the saturati

The crises that cities face—such as climate change, pandemics, economic downturn, and racism—are tightly interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper addresses compound urban crises as a unique type of problem, in which discrete solutions that tackle each crisis independently are insufficient. Few scholarly debates address compound urban crises and there is, to date, a lack of inte