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In his book Visual thinking, Arnheim (1969) writes: ... cognitive operations called thinking are not the privilege of mental processes above and beyond perception but the essential ingredients of perception itself. I am referring to such operations as active exploration, selection, grasping of essentials, simplification, abstraction, analysis and synthesis, completion, correction, comparison, prob
The concept “Broken Technologies” is related to the question: “Which is the benefit of humanity studies?” Of course the question is rhetorical because, how could this question be answered if the benefit was not obvious? Any answer supposes that we understand what we are asking for and the study of “what we mean” is one of the axes of the epistemology of the humanities. Anyway, we can also put the
Background & Aims: RNA interference (RNAi) may offer new treatment options for chronic hepatitis B. Replicating via an RNA intermediate, hepatitis B virus (HBV) is known to be principally vulnerable to RNAi. However, beyond delivery, the relevant issues of potential off-target effects, target site conservation in circulating HBV strains, and efficacy of RNAi itself have not systematically been
Background/Aims: Our purpose was to investigate whether the new research criteria for Alzheimer's disease proposed in 2007 by Dubois et al. are valid in a naturalistic memory clinic sample. Method: Retrospective diagnostic analyses were carried out to compare the traditional diagnostic criteria for dementia with the new criteria suggested by Dubois et al. No patient had gone through all procedures
Objective – Gothenburg University Library has implemented a process with the goal to combine quality assurance and strategic planning activities. The process has bottom-up and top-down features designed to generate strong staff-involvement and long-term strategic stability.Methods – In 2008 the library started implementing a system in which each library team should state a number of improvement ac
Central limit theorems for linear statistics of lattice random fields (including spin models) are usually proven under suitable mixing conditions or quasi-associativity. Many interesting examples of spin models do not satisfy mixing conditions, and on the other hand, it does not seem easy to show central limit theorem for local statistics via quasi-associativity. In this work, we prove general cen
Major volcanic eruptions are one of the most devastating and unpredictable events for all societies past and present. Althoughmajor progress has been made by archaeologists in understanding volcanic impacts on past societies, almost all this work hasfocused on urban or settled agricultural societies. In contrast, there is a major gap in knowledge about how forager communitieswere able to respond a
Writing over two decades ago, Stuart Hall (1991) first told the story of European identity as contradictory processes of marking symbolic boundaries and constructing symbolic frontiers between inside and outside, interior and exterior, belonging and otherness, which are central to any account of the political psychology of European integration. The study of European integration has come a long way
When doped into solid state transparent crystals, rare-earth ions can have optically excited states with milliseconds coherence time and up to six hours coherence time for hyperfine levels after being cooled down to liquid helium temperature. This long coherence property makes them unique as solid state material and attractive for quantum information applications.The rare-earth ions have narrow ho
Purpose: Manufacturer specifications for the resolution of an additive manufacturing (AM) machine can be ten times smaller (more optimistic) than the actual size of manufacturable features. Existing methods used to establish a manufacturable design rule-set are conservative piecewise-constant approximations. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a first-order model for producing improve
Behavioral and electroencephalography (EEG) data were analyzed from 30 participants performing a demanding, attention-capturing task in which they had to detect an occasional decrement of luminance of small discs. Crucially, numerous white segments in the background were presented either in random orientations or configuring a contour shape of a square or a diamond. The participants' awareness of
Aftershock rates seem to follow a power law decay, but the assessment of the aftershock frequency immediately after an earthquake, as well as during the evolution of a seismic excitation remains a demand for the imminent seismic hazard. The purpose of this work is to study the temporal distribution of triggered earthquakes in short time scales following a strong event, and thus a multiple seismic
This study examines the process of gentrification. In so doing, the main aim is to explore a context wherein the process of gentrification is deemed unconventional. The context deemed unconventional is the one beyond the city, more accurately a coastal hamlet called Brantevik, located in the municipality of Simrishamn, in the southeastern part of the Scania region. By investigating whether Brantev
This master thesis was performed at the company Radinn AB in Lund, Sweden. The company develops and will in the coming year start to sell their first product which is an electric powered wakeboard. As the company not yet has started selling this board and it is a newly started company some information will be held as a secret to the reader. The wakeboard is in need of a control to set the throttle
År 2022 genomfördes den största reformen av lagen (1982:80) om anställningsskydd (anställningsskyddslagen) någonsin. Processen var historisk eftersom ändringarna grundades i en överenskommelse mellan arbetsmarknadens parter, Huvudavtal om trygghet, omställning och anställningsskydd. Förhandlingarna bakom huvudavtalet pågick under flera år. Parterna bakom huvudavtalet hade en tydlig vision för hur In 2022, the largest ever reform of the Employment Protection Act was implemented. The historic process was based on an agreement between the labour market parties, the Main Agreement on Security, Adjustment and Employment Protection. The negotiations of the main agreement lasted for several years. The parties of the main agreement had a clear vision for how the employment protection would be modi
I en tätort söder om Stockholm ligger Karlskronaviken, beläget i ett naturskönt, sjönära område där sommarvillor, fritidshus, egnahem och mindre jordbruk samsats om marken sedan sekelskiftet. Med närheten till Rönninges centrum och dess service samt kollektivtrafik till Stockholm och Södertälje är det inte konstigt att området sedan en tid tillbaka exploateras. Dagens bostadspriser i innerstädernaMy master thesis takes place in an urban, yet rural area south of Stockholm called Karlskronaviken. Located in a scenic, lakeside area where holiday homes, private homes and small farms have shared the land since the turn of the 20th century. With the close distance to the town center of Rönninge, its services and public transport to Stockholm and Södertälje, it is no wonder that the area has been
Samspelet mellan vuxna och barn grundas i flera avseenden på att vuxna tolkar barns behov och tar ansvar för dem. I allt från barns basala behov så som hunger, till att tolka vad som är bäst för barnet i mer komplexa situationer som exempelvis i en vårdnadstvist. I egenskap av vårdnadshavare, och därmed även ställföreträdare, har föräldern ansvaret för att barnets behov och intressen tillgodoses. The interaction between adults and children is based on the adults interpreting children's needs and taking responsibility for them. In everything from children's basic needs such as hunger, to what is best for the child in more complex situations, such as in a custody battle. As guardians, and thus deputy, parents have responsibility for the child's needs and interests. The custody ca
The purpose of the thesis was to examine the internationalization process of South Korean software SMEs with a focus on their market selection and international expansion patterns. In addition, the thesis aimed to determine whether the presence of large business conglomerates in the domestic market, a unique characteristic of the South Korean economy, had any significant influence on the internati
