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I had the opportunity to work with the flood plain community: Nossa Senhora das Gracas in the Amazon in Brazil. During a month long stay I observed the daily life of the people. A life where the inhabitants shape their daily routines after the rising and dropping Solemoes river. Solemoes is a part of the Amazon river. I identified a need of harvesting water during the low water season, when the r
Large particle accelerators are difficult to setup. One of the first problems that can be encountered, before production configuration is found, is the beam not passing through the accelerator. The process of guiding the beam through the accelerator is called beam threading. Depending on the accelerator complexity it can take days before the beam passes for the first time. Currently the beam thre
Many of the finalists selected for the NIST post-quantum cryptography project are lattice-based and rely on a Learning With Errors problem (LWE). To solve such a problem, it is possible to implement a primal attack or a dual attack. In this context, Guo and Johansson as well as the MATZOV center have both proposed an improved dual attack against several NIST lattice candidates. The goal of this t
Methodology: The study is conducted as a qualitative research, where empirical data has been collected through semi-structured interviews with Swedish new ventures. The study does further take an abductive approach in terms of the theoretical viewpoint and research perspective. Theoretical perspective: The study is based on previous research about the early phases of new ventures, the importance
This essay examines the arguments laid forth by the European Union regarding restrictive measures imposed on the Russian Federation, concerning the illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula, in an effort to evaluate and classify these grounded in the Toulmin model of arguments and Giumelli’s concepts of Con-straining, Coercing and Signalling. By assessing the arguments made by four EU institutio
The audacious aim of this paper is to shed light on the ways that queer persons in the church are negatively impacted by cisheteronormativity, the hegemony of dyadic relationships and the institution of marriage. And then through a queer understanding of the concept of koinonia find a theological foundation to decentralize the hegemony of dyadic relationships and the institution of marriage and by
We study the Gauss map and derive certain statistical properties, specifically upper bounds on the decay of correlations. The method is due to Liverani \cite{Main_Liverani}, which in turn is based on foundational work by Birkhoff \cite{LatticeTheory}. One defines a cone of functions, and then considers the induced Hilbert metric associated to the cone. A strict contraction in this metric gives exp
The labor market for IT-oriented professions, especially software engineers, is characterized by extensive skills gaps due to fast-evolving technology. The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on the work toward closing the skills gap in IT-oriented professions, especially for software engineers, by providing suggestions on how the workforce can be prepared with the skills needed for tomorrow -
We live in a society where online shopping is becoming the most common form of shopping. Companies are investing and growing their online market by offering cheap and quick deliveries, online offers that beat in-store prices and increasing the number of package pick-up locations. We live a faster-paced lifestyle, which makes online shopping more convenient for us. The rapid change in our shopping
A muon collider is a promising future collider concept for particle physics. The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) and the Muon Collider Collaboration (MuCol) are currently conducting a design study to investigate the feasibility of such a facility. To produce muons, a high-intensity, short pulse proton beam produced in a proton complex is directed onto a target, where pions are pro
A finite element analysis of a control rod blade consisting of B C powder and stainless steel cladding has been performed using the ADINA program. An algorithm for finite element calculations of a porous material such as BC powder has been developed. This algorithm describes both the swelling and consolidation behavior of BC powder. The Garson vield condition for isotropic porous medium with cavit
A flow injection cell-based biosensor was constructed for 2,4-dichlorophenol (DCP) analysis by using a Clark-type oxygen electrode as a transducer. A mixed bacterial culture capable to biodegrade DCP was immobilized between a Teflon membrane and a dialysis membrane and attached to the oxygen electrode. Optimization of the flow rate, the injection volume, the carrier buffer concentration, and pH wa
Lignins are aromatic polymers found in fibrous plants, and a major side-product of paper pulping. They are under exploited due to a combination of economic and technical challenges. Valorisation efforts aim to resolve this, but these rely on informative and reliable analytical feedback. The diverse and complex structures of compounds found in lignins makes analysis difficult. This thesis outlines
Background: Influenza infection increases the risk of pneumonia and respiratory failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and mucins play an important role in pulmonary host defense. Methods: Lower airway mucins were obtained from long-term smokers with and without COPD, pneumonia patients, and healthy never-smokers; oral MUC5B was obtained from a healthy never-smoker, and the abilit
Most scientific instruments currently discard rich streams of commands, data and metadata from which AI systems could learn to conduct experiments with expert-level decision-making and troubleshooting skills. Recording and using this data at scale requires rethinking what data to store, incentivizing large-scale cooperation, and determining how to quantify the reliability of such autonomous system
OBJECTIVES: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the benefits and harms of acupuncture for the treatment of infantile colic.
Questions around parental involvement in education, not only in in East Asia but also in a global context, are significant, given the increased concern in ‘population quality’ and the ever-growing education market. South Korea and Singapore are widely recognized for their competitive education systems and for consistently topping international student assessment tests. They also share a ballooning
