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Denna artikel beskriver en studie av examensre- sultatet från två kursomgångar av en kurs i ämnet kravhanter- ing där tentamen innehåller både en flervalsfrågedel och en uppsatsdel. Analysen ger att en fjärdedel av studentpopulatio- nen hade fått högre betyg om enbart flervalsfrågorna hade använts jämfört med en kombination av flervalsfrågor och öppna frågor. Erfarenheterna av examinationskonstruk

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The lattice decoder is shown to approach the performance of Maximum-likelihood decoder for MIMO wireless systems with low complexity. A VLSI architecture of the K-best Schnorr-Euchner lattice decoder is proposed in this paper. The architecture is optimized on both algorithm and architecture levels, and supports a dynamic range of SNR [less-than or equal to] 30 dB. Compared to a conventional VLSI i

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In the developed countries the public expect society to be prepared for, and step in, if something out of the ordinary happens. This public pressure appears to have increased the demand for crisis preparedness planning. In crisis management the local authority serves as the first line of defence and will more or less always be involved in responding to crises. It is therefore important to study ho

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