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This thesis describes the relations between objects, practices, and individuals. The main objective is to explore the role of artefacts in user-centred participatory design research, specifically for expressing and communicating personal experiences and creating meaning. In a broad sense I draw on experiences from three practices in order to define the scope of the thesis. The first is practice-le
Swedish patent nr 189939. "Anordning för alstring av ett artificiellt tröghetsmoment hos ett roterbart anordnat system". (Device for creating an artificial moment of inertia in a rotating system.) Co-inventor Folke Hector Philips. Granted January 16 1964. Patent also granted in England, France, Holland, Canada, Germany, USA, Austria, Japan. This patent describes a new way of implementing Schuler
It is proposed to capture localized plastic deformation via the inclusion of regularized displacement discontinuities at element boundaries (interfaces) of the finite element subdivision. The regularization is based on a kinematic assumption for an interface that resembles that which is pertinent to the classical shear band concept. As a by-product of the regularization, an intrinsic band width is
We consider a time-hopping impulse-radio system that uses transmitted-reference pulses for implicit channel estimation and equalization. A hybrid receiver structure first performs a filtering matched to the hopping sequence, and a subsequent correlation of the data pulses with the reference pulses. We analyze the performance of such a system both in AWGN and in multipath. For the AWGN case, we giv
This paper investigates the treatment of antonymy in Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary (2003) in order to find out what kinds of headwords are provided with antonyms as part of their definitions and also discusses the principles for antonym inclusion in the entries. CCALED includes canonical antonyms such as good/bad and dead/alive, as well as more contextually restricted pairi
A device monitors a blood path from a blood vessel access of a human subject through an extracorporeal blood processing apparatus and back to the blood vessel access. A pumping device in the blood path is operable to pump blood through the blood path from the blood withdrawal device to the blood return device. The monitoring device obtains pressure data from a pressure sensor arranged upstream of
