Many cluster studies have focused on growth regions and industries covering only the early phases of cluster development. Little attention, however, has been paid to the renewal of clusters in old industrial regions. The aim of the paper is to address the question of how clusters renew themselves in such regions and how they adjust to changes in their environment. After identifying relevant factor

Om en byggnads brandskydd utformas med andra lösningar och metoder än vad kraven och de allmänna råden i BBR innebär, frångås en så kallad förenklad dimensionering och analytisk dimensionering blir aktuell. Detta sker ofta genom ett tekniskt byte, där en förändring av brandskyddet sker genom att en eller flera skyddsåtgärder byts ut. Vid analytisk dimensionering måste projektören uttryckligen visa

Lyapunov methods and density functions provide dual characterizations of the solutions of a nonlinear dynamic system. This work exploits the idea of combining both techniques, to yield stability results that are valid for almost all the solutions of the system. Based on the combination of Lyapunov and density functions, analysis methods are proposed for the derivation of almost input-to-state stab

CONTEXT: The well-known side-effect profile of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) has significant quality-of-life (QoL) implications. Intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD) alternates androgen blockade with treatment cessation to allow hormonal recovery between treatment cycles, thus potentially improving tolerability and QoL. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate available evidence regarding the efficacy and t

To describe changes in the epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Sweden with the emphasis on the younger age groups.

Monolithic neural networks may be trained from measured data to establish knowledge about the process. Unfortunately, this knowledge is not guaranteed to be found and – if at all – hard to extract. Modular neural networks are better suited for this purpose. Domain-ordered by topology, rule extraction is performed module by module. This has all the benefits of a divide-and-conquer method and opens

Rubrics and oral feedback are approaches to help students improve performance and meet learning outcomes. However, their effect on the actual improvement achieved is inconclusive. This paper evaluates the effect of rubrics and oral feedback on student learning outcomes. An experiment was conducted in a software engineering course on requirements engineering, using the two approaches in course assi

Background and purpose Although the incidence of hip fracture during the past 50 years has increased, a break in this trend has been reported in the last decade. Whether this change is attributable to changes in bone mineral density (BMD) or whether it varies between urban and rural regions is unknown. Methods We evaluated changes in annual hip fracture incidence in women aged >/= 50 years in one

The conservation law studied is partial derivative u(x,t)/partial derivative t + partial derivative/partial derivative x (F(u(x,t),x)) = s(t)delta(x), where u is a concentration, s is a source, delta is the Dirac measure, and is the flux function. The special feature of this problem is the discontinuity that appears along the t-axis and the curves of discontinuity that go into and emanate from it.

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a thrombotic microangiopathic disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, neurological and renal manifestations, and fever. It is associated with dysfunctional von Willebrand factor (VWF) proteolysis and the occurrence of VWF- and platelet-rich thrombi in the microcirculation of multiple organs, including the kidneys. Von Willebrand fa