Popular Abstract in Swedish I och med upptäckten av antibiotika i första halvan av 1900-talet så kan flera tidigare dödliga infektionssjukdomar botas. Så är längre dock inte alltid fallet, en viss nivå av antibiotikaresistans har upptäckts hos flera stammar av kliniskt viktiga bakterier. Problemet med antibiotikaresistans har till viss del lösts med modifiering av existerande antibiotika, vilket dWith the discovery of antibiotics, several diseases that were previously lethal is today readily cured, or so we thought. Some degree of resistance to one or several antibiotics can be found among many strains of clinical important bacteria. The problem has been somewhat kept at bay for the last few decades by altering already existing antibiotics, and thereby prolonging their usage. It is clear t

A statistical analysis of low-density convolutional (LDC) codes is performed. This analysis is based on the consideration of a special statistical ensemble of Markov scramblers and the solution to a system of recurrent equations describing this ensemble. The results of the analysis are lower bounds for the free distance of the codes and upper bounds for the maximum likelihood decoding error probab

Popular Abstract in Swedish Infektioner i blodbanan orsakade av Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus bakteriemi) kompliceras ofta av nedslag i leder, skelett, hjärtklaffar eller inre organ. Dessa sekundära infektioner är inte alltid lätta att upptäcka, men de fordrar förlängd antibiotikabehandling och ibland även operativa ingrepp för att läka ut. S. aureus bakteriemi diagnosticeras oftast genom att mThe diagnosis of S. aureus infections is most often based on culture of the organism from various body sites. However, cultures could be false negative due to e.g. previous antibiotic therapy, and in some situations cultures are difficult to obtain. Antibody assays against various S. aureus antigens have been proposed as a way to diagnose S. aureus bacteremia, as well as to distinguish between unc

The first ever direct Sanskrit-to-Swedish translation of the twelve earliest Upaniṣads, accompanied by a scholarly introduction and extensive notes referencing classical commentaries.

Inventory control systems used in practice are quite often modeling the lead-time demand by a normal distribution. This may result in considerable errors when the real demand is low and discrete. For such demand, it is usually better to use a discrete demand distribution. However, this will increase the computational effort. A natural question is under what circumstances a normal approximation is

There are several reasons to reconsider present urban water and wastewater policy including limitations of a conventional sanitary system, better understanding of nature and its principles gained during last decades, and the goal of society to achieve sustainable development. In this paper principles of new designs of alternative sanitation systems are illustrated, examples of technical and non-te

In this paper we explore internationalization and export growth over time in a sample of 135 small manufacturing firms. By using concepts and arguments from literature on international business and small firms, the paper identifies six situational, or contingency, factors that are expected to influence the international activities of small firms. Our results show that a dynamic and fast-changing e

This book provides the Swedish-reading audience with the first commentary on the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas. Bo Frid has translated the Coptic text into Swedish; Jesper Svartvik has written an introduction (pp. 11-42) and an extensive commentary on each and one of the 114 logia (pp. 121-301).

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930), British mathematician and philosopher, best known for his work on the foundations of mathematics. But Ramsey also made remarkable contributions to epistemology, semantics, logic, philosophy of science, mathematics, statistics, probability and decision theory, economics and metaphysics.

MIMO technology has facilitated tremendous performance improvements in wireless communications, allowing the data rate to increase linearly with the number of antennas used, at no additional expense in transmit power or spectrum. However, the tremendous performance gain can only be achieved by multi-antenna designs that provide low coupling and correlation, as well as high total efficiency. Such d

The direct problem of time dependent electromagnetic scattering in the dispersive sphere is solved by a wave splitting technique. The electric field is expanded in a series involving vector spherical harmonics, leading to a system of wave equations for each term. These systems are reduced to scalar wave equations for each term, which are solved via reflection operators. Some preliminary numerical