We describe the application of a tunable differential interferometer to the characterization of pulsed gas valves, operating in the low-pressure regime (less than or similar to 100 Torr). The spatial profile of the pressure in the gas jet has been studied for piezoelectric and electromagnetic valves in various experimental conditions, for both Ne and Ar gases. Moreover the time response of the val

Psychometric evaluation of 'The 25-item Sex after MI Knowledge Test' in a Swedish context The patients' sexual life after a myocardial infarction is important for his/her quality of life. In spite of this, many patients are in doubt regarding their sex life after a myocardial infarction (MI) and the sexual information received, and counselling from health care providers has been seen to be insuffi

Context: Age-related reduction of serum testosterone may contribute to the signs and symptoms of aging, but previous studies report conflicting evidence about testosterone levels and male mortality. No large prospective cohort study has determined a possible association between serum estradiol and mortality in men. Objective: The main objective was to examine the association between serum testoste

The problem with increasing test application time for testing core-based system-on-chip (SOC) designs is addressed with test architecture design and test scheduling. The scan-chains at each core are configured into a set of wrapper-chains, which by a core wrapper are connected to the test access mechanism (TAM), and the tests are scheduled in such a way that the test time is minimized. In this pap

The purpose was to study potential age ‐ related changes in the circulatory system via heart rate variability (HRV) by gradually lowering ambient temperature (0.2°C/min) from thermoneutral (32 C°) towards cold (18 C°). ECG was recorded from a young (31 years) and from an older subject (78 years), both males. During the tests, brachium blood pressure (BP) was recorded. During the cooling, BP increa

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Prematurely born children have affected visual functions at school age. Optical coherent tomography (OCT) has shown morphological changes in the retina, suggesting a disturbance in normal retinal development in these children. The aim of this study was to examine retinal function with fullfield electroretinogram (ffERG) in school-aged children born prematurely and compare with children born at ter

Popular Abstract in Swedish I ett väderälskande land som Sverige finns det väl ingen som inte är bekant med den väderkarta som ger oss information om hur prognosen för den närmaste tiden ser ut? Många av oss tittar dagligen på väderrapporten och låter den hjälpa oss att bestämma om vi ska cykla eller ta bussen, sätta på grillen eller laga mat i ugnen. Genom enkla visualiseringar i form av sol, regWith the aid of modern computer technology the application of visualization and simulation technology has become increasingly important in today’s society. Through computer modelling it is possible to experience, understand and explore environments, systems or objects in two or three dimensions and to see, hear and sometimes tangibly feel them. It may be environments or objects that do not yet exi

Detta är en förstudie genomförd på uppdrag av Post- och Telestyrelsen av förmedlingstjänster för döva och hörselskadade människor. Mycket talar för att det behövs fördjupade studier, men det går att peka på vissa tämligen uppenbara spår att vidareutveckla

BACKGROUND: The extent of site and tissue-associated immune privilege is of great interest in transplantation experiments involving the CNS. In the present paper we have explored neuroretinal immune privilege by transplantation to a non-immune privileged site. METHODS: Fetal and adult full-thickness rabbit neuroretinal grafts were placed in the subconjunctival space of immunocompetent rabbit hosts

Background and Objectives Antibodies to antigens in the Kell blood group system, especially anti-KEL1, are involved in both haemolytic disease of the newborn and foetus and haemolytic transfusion reactions. Correct typing results are important and discrepancies between serologic and genetic typing must be resolved. Here, we describe the investigation of three healthy individuals who were initially

Popular Abstract in English The ultimate goal of computer vision is to make computers "see" like humans do. Toward this goal, one essential step is to enable computers to perceive a three-dimensional (3D) space as in the real world. In this thesis, we investigate the problem of reconstructing a 3D scene model from ordinary two-dimensional (2D) images. More specifically, given a set of images of thThis thesis is focused on geometric computer vision problems. The first part of the thesis aims at solving one fundamental problem, namely low-rank matrix factorization. We provide several novel insights into the problem. In brief, we characterize, generate, parametrize and solve the minimal problems associated with low-rank matrix factorization. Beyond that, we give several new algorithms based o

The empirical-bias bandwidth selector (EBBS) is a method for data-driven selection of bandwidths for local polynomial regression. It is a bandwidth selection method for estimation of the mean-function and its partial derivatives of any order as well as for estimation of the variance-function. Moreover EBBS allows for univariate as well as multivariate predictor variables. In this paper we introd