The Excellent University In just a few years, the quest for quality has become a concern of utmost priority in higher education. Universities, faculties, research councils and the National Agency for Higher Education regularly undertake evaluations to find out whether the academic work performed by university institutions is on “highest international level” or not. Ranking-lists are constantly pu

En stor majoritet av lärarna i grund- och gymnasieskolan upplever sitt arbete som mycket meningsfullt, samtidigt som de rapporterar allvarliga, i synnerhet psykosociala, arbetsmiljöproblem. Skolan har under de senaste 10-15 åren blivit ett av våra största arbetsmiljöproblem. Detta gäller såväl elevernas som personalens arbetsmiljö. Vad gäller de senare redovisas här uppgifter om lärares psykosocia

Is possible to quantify modernization? I will refer as "agnumetry" the measure of the brokenness of an environment; from "agnumy" the Greek word for "break". The presence of broken technologies makes an environment more or less broken; the measurement of this grade of brokenness could be an interesting manner to compare these environments with each other. In this paper, I introduce some criteria t

In the high-level operations of computer vision it is taken for granted that image features have been reliably detected. This paper addresses the problem of feature extraction by scale-space methods. This paper is based on two key ideas: to investigate the stochastic properties of scale-space representations, and to investigate the interplay between discrete and continuous images. These investigat

In this paper, the information extracted from Single-Input Multiple-Output sounding measurements is used to study the effect of several aspects of the receive antenna arrays on system performance. The extracted multipath parameters are used to synthesize the MIMO channel matrices of a hypothesized communication system having a fixed microcellular base-station and a handheld terminal moving through

Antioxidants are important molecules that are widely used by humans, both as dietary supplements and as additives to different types of products. In this chapter, we review how flavonoids, a class of polyphenolic antioxidants that are often found in glycosylated forms in many natural resources, can be extracted and modified using glycoside hydrolases (GHs). Glycosylation is a fundamental enzymatic

In this paper a new batch laboratory process is described. Theprocess is inexpensive, modular, and portable. Several processes canbe connected together to form a multi-purpose batch pilot plant.The use of the process in process control education is described.

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