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Our beliefs and opinions are shaped by others, making our social networks crucial in determining what we believe to be true. Sometimes this is for the good because our peers help us form a more accurate opinion. Sometimes it is for the worse because we are led astray. In this context, we address via agent-based computer simulations the extent to which patterns of connectivity within our social net

Fishing access agreements have been widely criticized but there is little quantitative evidence of their effects on the economies of developing countries. The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of the European Union’s fishing access agreements on 15 African countries’ fish exports to the OECD. More specifically, we investigate the effects on the extensive and intensive margins of tr

Detta arbete handlar om en behandlingsteknik för hudterapi där lågenergetiska elektroner utnyttjas för strålbehandling där patienten står eller sitter på en roterande plattform. För att behandlingen skall få ett lyckat resultat krävs en viss stråldos (den absorberade energin per massenhet) till patientens hud. För att kontrollera att dosen är rätt används normalt mätningar med olika detektorer. DeBackground and purpose: This study refers to a rotational radiotherapy technique for the treatment of mycosis fungoides. Patients are irradiated by a high dose-rate low-energy electron beam while they stand on a rotating platform. This report presents a first effort to use the Geant4 simulation program to calculate the relation between the stationary and rotational depth dose distributions in an e

The potential of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) is currently explored in the world. SMRs as technology is still under development but is introduced to the public. In this stage, when much is still uncertain and unknown, media is important. The benefits and risks related to this new technology articulated in media potentially shape different actors' expectations and attitudes towards the technology.

Following the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have received renewed political attention. In several policy fields, MSPs have been criticized for a lack of accountability, resulting in efforts to redress this problem. However, it is still unclear how accountability challenges and shortcomings differ across partnerships operating within

2020-01-31_SE – translated into English 2020-06-11_CK 1 Strategic plan for the Strategic Research Area (SRA) "Epidemiology for Health" (EpiHealth) during the period 2020-2025 The current 5-year strategic plan is based on the previous plan for the years 2017-2021, endorsed by the Board of SRA EpiHealth in accordance with the minutes of the board meeting on January 26, 2017. The basis of this strate

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/sites/epihealth.lu.se/files/epihealth_strategisk_plan_2020-2025_eng_final.pdf - 2026-07-02

Battery-free IoT devices are becoming increasingly interesting for environmental and practical reasons, with ambient backscatter as one of the candidate technologies. We present a class of balanced transmission patterns for ambient backscatter communication (BSC) and evaluate their performance under different signal-to-interference ratios and fading conditions. These patterns allow for bit synchro

The focus of this master’s thesis has been getting a six-legged robot to autonomously navigate around a room with obstacles. To make this possible a time-of-flight camera has been implemented in order to map the environment. Two force sensing resistors were also mounted on the front legs to sense if the legs are in contact with the ground. The information from the sensors together with a path plan

The article analyses the role of the historical dimension in official Swedish debate, with a focus on the Swedish government's Living History information project on the Holocaust

Background and purpose Can an increased focus on values in working life be a factor in stress prevention? Values are defined as the shared principles which guide behaviour in an organisation. The purpose of this study was to describe how patients with musculoskeletal pain perceive the importance of values in relation to coping with daily stress and in relation to health. Methods Patients receivi

The explosive popularization of personal computers during the last decade, along with the appearance of the World Wide Web and of high-level programming techniques, has opened many new and exciting opportunities in the field of education. In this chapter, a review of existing types of multimedia material used in education and of some of the authoring tools used in the production of this material i

This paper presents selected findings from the project 'Privatisation of public housing in Hanoi, the impacts on housing quality and social equality' which was financed by the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA). The project analyses the consequences of privatisation on the housing conditions of those tenants and owners who live in privatised and partly privatised multi family apart

In this article we present a spatio-temporal dynamic model that can be realized using image warping. Image warping is a non-linear deformation which maps every point in one image plane to a point in another image plane. Using thin-plate splines, these deformations are defined by how a small set of points is mapped, making the method computationally tractable. In our case the dynamics of the proces