There is increased evidence to support the hypothesis that humanity actively, albeit inadvertently, contributes to global environmental change on a scale and with an intensity unprecedented in human history. Climate change, and to some extent stratospheric ozone depletion, present the international structures and systems for naturalresources management research and politics with fundamentally new

This paper describes load rejection tests, done at two hydro power plants in Sweden, one equipped with synchronous and the other with asynchronous generators. During the tests voltages and currents are digitized, recorded and thereafter off-line processed. By this, in the processing of distorted and fast parameter-varying voltages and currents the powerful estimation technique, the Newton type alg

This essay is about Urak Lawoi, an indigenous people in Andaman Sea outside the West Coast of Thailand. The study shows what has happened to them when being deprived of their territory and forced to abandon their culture, lifestyle and traditional economic subsistence. Urak Lawoi have until recently maintained a culture, language and life style set apart from that of the rest of Thai society. Dur

The use of a hybrid copper and fiber architecture is attractive in both fixed access and mobile backhauling scenarios. This trend led the industry and academia to start developing the fourth generation broadband system, which aims at achieving bitrates of 1 Gbps over short copper loops. In this context, accurate models of short twisted-pair cables operating at relatively high frequencies are key e

Different simulation and modeling tools often use their own definition of how a model is represented and how model data is stored. Complications arise when trying to model parts in one tool and importing the resulting model in another tool or when trying to verify a result by using a different simulation tool. The Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) is a standard to provide a unified model executio

Popular Abstract in Swedish Nervrotskompression i nacken - effekter av kirurgi, sjukgymnastik och halskrage. Under de senaste decennierna har besvär från halsrygg och axlar ökat hos befolkningen, medan besvär från ländrygg minskat. En orsak kan vara att tunga lyft i arbetet har minskat, medan sittande arbete med upprepade monotona armrörelser och arbete med framåtböjd nacke t.ex. framför datorskäThe efficacy of surgery, physiotherapy or a cervical collar in the treatment of chronic cervicobrachial pain of radicular origin was evaluated in a prospective, randomised study comprising 81 patients of both sexes, 28-64 years of age, referred for possible neurosurgical treatment. After neurological and radiological examination and giving their informed consent, they were randomised to one of the

In this paper we evaluate, by means of Extrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts, an iterative receiver that has emerged as a promising candidate for non-coherent multi-user multi-antenna OFDM systems. The receiver performs parallel interference cancellation (followed by linear filtering) and channel estimation, using soft symbols obtained from a bank of single-user decoders. For the sake of co

Due to the health effects of dietary fibre, as well as its water-holding capacity (WHC), food products are commonly fortified with fibre-rich sources. However, to be able to design food products with specific textural properties that also appeal to the consumer, it is important to understand and to characterise the physicochemical and chemical properties of the fibre. In this study the composition

This text is analysis of the use of violence in children's literature, specifically in the works of Penelope Delta (1874-1941), a Greek author. The analysis is concentrating of how violence is gendered and how nation and the experience of nation is gendered. It challanges the notion that nation and nationalism is a masculine discourse since Delta's use of violence is directed to both boys and girl

Direkt Profil is an automatic analyzer oftexts written in French as a second lan-guage. Its objective is to produce an eval-uation of the developmental stage of stu-dents under the form of a grammaticallearner profile. Direkt Profil carries outa sentence analysis based on developmen-tal sequences, i.e. local morphosyntacticphenomena linked to a development in theacquisition of French.The paper pre

Railway accidents where children are injured or killed cause sorrow and grief in all those involved. These accidents are more common than often believed. Thus, 29 children and adolescents have been killed or seriously injured on the Swedish railways during the last three years. In this project, children’s and adolescents’ accidents in connection with trains and railways are charted and classified.