The notion of animal welfare and of how to define it has been widely discussed within the literature. However, an integrative model, regarded to mirror the scope of animal welfare science and the ethical aspects of human treatment of animals directly related to the animals, has won some popularity the last 10-15 years. Thus the subjective experience of the animal, the health or fitness of the anim

The chapter describe the early implementation of safety alarms in Sweden and the result of a study at a service centre i Linkoping.

In today’s society people are overwhelmed with information about different kinds of heating systems. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that impact households when they make decisions on heating systems, and also how households value different types of information on the subject. Four Swedish municipalities were chosen for closer examination. Municipal energy advisors and represe

Abstract in German Vom Umgang mit Komplexität im Kommunikationsmanagement. Eine soziokybernetische Rekonstruktion

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This thesis consists of theoretical studies of the evolutionary consequences of environmental change in ecological communities. Paper I and II are concerned with the origin of diversity, i.e. how a single lineage can split into two, under the influence of selection induced by competitive interactions (evolutionary branching). In paper I we find that environmental fluctuations may affect the likeli

Experiments relying on tomographic reconstruction of soot emission and absorption offer relatively simple and inexpensive ways to image both soot concentration and temperature in axisymmetric flames. Because the tomography problem is mathematically ill-posed, however, special measures have to be taken to ensure an accurate solution. This paper describes the application of one such measure, Tikhono

A gas chromatography-negative ion chemical ionization-selected ion monitoring-mass spectrometry (GC-NICI-SIM-MS) method was used to quantitate the metabolite toluene diamine (TDA) in urine samples of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) exposed workers. In order to validate the biological monitoring method, air samples were collected and analyzed using a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS

This paper presents the implementation of the mapper block in a faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling transmitter. The architecture is Look-Up Table (LUT) based and the complexity is reduced to a few adders and a buffer to store intermediate results. Two flavors of the architecture has been designed and evaluated in this article, one, a register based implementation for the buffer and the other usin