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Multivariate generalized Laplace distribution and related random fields

Multivariate Laplace distribution is an important stochastic model that accounts for asymmetry and heavier than Gaussian tails, while still ensuring the existence of the second moments. A Levy process based on this multivariate infinitely divisible distribution is known as Laplace motion, and its marginal distributions are multivariate generalized Laplace laws. We review their basic properties and

Managing ecosystem services for agriculture:Will landscape-scale management pay?

Agriculture's reliance on ecosystem services creates economic and ecological interdependencies between crop production and biodiversity. Interactions with mobile organisms are particularly complex because they depend on the spatial configuration of habitat at large scales. As such conserving habitat is likely to benefit multiple farmers whereas conservation costs are born individually, creating po

Solving/understanding/evaluating the e-waste challenge through transdisciplinarity?

Transdisciplinarity has been accepted as a promising research approach to respond to complex real-world problems such as electronic waste (e-waste). Already one of the fastest growing waste streams, e-waste is a sustainability challenge that shadows the pervasive uses of electronic devices in contemporary society. Previous studies have not only shown the toxicity and risks inherent in the hazardou

Pressurized Hot Water Extraction of anthocyanins from red onion: A study on extraction and degradation rates

Pressurized Hot Water Extraction (PHWE) is a quick, efficient and environmentally friendly technique for extractions. However. when using PHWE to extract thermally unstable analytes, extraction and degradation effects occur at the same time, and thereby compete. At first, the extraction effect dominates, but degradation effects soon take over. In this paper, extraction and degradation rates of ant

SPICE: Scalable P2P implicit group messaging

Implicit group messaging (IGM) is a decoupled messaging paradigm for connecting content publishers and consumers over the Internet. Unlike traditional multicast or publish/subscribe messaging, IGM delivers content to “implicit groups” of consumers with characteristics specified by the publisher at the time of publication. IGM systems must support thousands of users and an infinite number of implic

The black box of everyday life : entanglements of stuff, affects and activities

Ethnologists like to think of themselves as masters of the study of the everyday, but we still know surprising little how this mundane machinery works. Everyday life remains something of a black box, our understanding is still piecemeal and fragmented. This paper explores cohabitation and circulation of objects, affects and activities in the home - seen as a workshop where raw materials, raw feeli

A Unifying Mechanism for Cancer Cell Death through Ion Channel Activation by HAMLET.

Ion channels and ion fluxes control many aspects of tissue homeostasis. During oncogenic transformation, critical ion channel functions may be perturbed but conserved tumor specific ion fluxes remain to be defined. Here we used the tumoricidal protein-lipid complex HAMLET as a probe to identify ion fluxes involved in tumor cell death. We show that HAMLET activates a non-selective cation current, w

Thrombolytic Therapy Rates and Stroke Severity: An Analysis of Data From the Swedish Stroke Register (Riks-Stroke) 2007-2010.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: We tested the hypothesis that higher proportions of patients with minor stroke being treated with thrombolysis contribute to increasing overall rates of thrombolysis. METHODS: We included 1743 ischemic stroke patients (age 18-80 years) treated with thrombolysis, recorded in the Swedish stroke register Riks-Stroke between 2007 and 2010. Minor stroke was defined as National I

Discrete Stochastic Time-Frequency Analysis and Cepstrum Estimation

Popular Abstract in Swedish Det är ofta fördelaktigt att i olika sammanhang representera våra observationer av verkligheten med en följd av tal. Så skilda exempel som ljud, bilder, hjärnvågor, havsvattenvågor, jordbävningar och aktiekurser kan låta sig beskrivas av följder av tal. Man kan med fördel föreställa sig följden som en uppritad graf, där den horisontella axeln beskriver tidpunkten för mäThe theory of stochastic time-frequency analysis of non-stationary random processes has mostly been developed for processes in continuous time. In practice however, random processes are observed, processed, and interpreted at a finite set of time points. For processes in continuous time, the ambiguity domain has interesting properties which makes it particularly useful. One such property is that t

The future tourism mobility of the world population: Emission growth versus climate policy

Much of global passenger transport is linked to tourism. The sector is therefore of interest in studying global mobility trends and transport-related emissions. In 2005, tourism was responsible for around 5% of all CO(2) emissions, of which 75% were caused by passenger transport. Given the rapid growth in tourism, with 1.6 billion international tourist arrivals predicted by 2020 (up from 903 milli

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, a new method for rapid determination of total organic and inorganic carbon and biogenic silica concentration in lake sediments

We demonstrate the use of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) to make quantitative measures of total organic carbon (TOC), total inorganic carbon (TIC) and biogenic silica (BSi) concentrations in sediment. FTIRS is a fast and cost-effective technique and only small sediment samples are needed (0.01 g). Statistically significant models were developed using sediment samples from northern

Experimental brain tumors, dendritic cells and immunotherapy

Malignant astrocytomas are the most common primary tumors of the adult central nervous system. Surgical resection of tumor mass in combination with radiotherapy and chemotherapy is only palliative and there is a clear need for new and more effective therapeutic strategies. The aim of this study was to develop a dendritic cell (DC)-based vaccine for the treatment of experimental brain tumors with

Västsvenska kyrkor från nygotikens storhetstid

Abstract in Undetermined Recension av: Henning Repetzky. Västsvenska kyrkor från nygotikens storhetstid. Göteborgsarkitekten Adrian C Petersons kyrkoarkitektur. CAL-Förlaget, 2008, 224 s.ISBN 91-973990-6-7

Reactions of the sigma,pi-furyl complex [Fe-2(CO)(6)(mu-Fu)(mu-PFu(2))] (Fu = C4H3O) with phosphines: Carbonyl substitution, migratory carbonyl insertion and cyclometallation-induced furan elimination

The reactivity of the sigma,pi-furyl complex [Fe-2(CO)(6)(mu-Fu)(mu-PFu(2))] (1) towards PPh3 and a range of bidentate phosphines has been studied and a number of different reaction products have been identified. With PPh3, carbonyl substitution affords [Fe-2(CO)(5)(PPh3)(mu-Fu)(mu-PFu(2))] (2) in which the new phosphine is coordinated to the iron center that is sigma-coordinated by the bridging f

Water Use Efficiency of Four Dryland Wheat Cultivars under Different Levels of Nitrogen Fertilization

It is suggested that cultivars of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with regulated growth and development would be able to produce higher yields under water-limited conditions, which is crucial in future food production. Water use efficiency (WUE) is worthy of exploration in this regard. In this study, the effects of nitrogen fertilizer levels (0, 40 and 80 kg Nha(-1)) and a plant growth retardant (Chl

The use of endoanchors in repair EVAR cases to improve proximal endograft fixation

Aim. The aim of this paper was to evaluate short-term outcome of the use of endoanchors to secure the primary migrated endograft and additional extender cuffs to the aortic wall in patients with previous failed endovascular aortic aneurysm repair. Methods. Consecutive patients who needed proximal repair of a primary failed endograft due to migration (with or without type IA endoleaks) were treated