Popular Abstract in Swedish Den teoretiska beskrivningen av materians minsta beståndsdelar, den så kallade standardmodellen (SM), överenstämmer med oerhörd noggrannhet med de många och avancerade partikelfysik-experiment som utförts världen över. Trots denna överenstämmelse finns problematiska aspekter hos SM som gör att den inte kommer kunna beskriva fysikaliska fenomen vid högre energier, som änA search for new physics using events with a single photon and missing energy has been made at the DELPHI experiment together with a search for charginos. The results were based on data collected up to and including the final year of 2000. An integrated luminosity of 650 pb^-1 was used in the single photon analysis and 450 pb^-1 in the chargino search. Center-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV were ex

Protein-surfactant interactions in water are investigated by following the phase equilibria for protein-surfactant pairs whose constituents carry both opposite and the same sign of charge. The concentration ranges studied are: 0-20 wt% protein, 0-20 wt% surfactant, and 80-100 wt% water. The oppositely charged lysozyme-sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS)-water system forms three main regions: a precipitat

The paper discusses how the early reception in Swedish of the Aesopic fable was filtered through German Lutheranism. The main focus of the paper is on the country’s very first vernacular fable collection, Hundrade Esopi Fabler (A Hundred Fables of Aesop), published in Stockholm in 1603. This volume is a faithful translation of the German collection Hundert Fabeln aus Esopo, composed in the 1570s b

Quantum chemical and statistical mechanical methods are employed to study flexible molecular systems. Using quantum chemical methods it is demonstrated that the preference of the gauche conformation for 1,2-difluoroethane, predicted at the Hartree-Fock level, is due to a larger overlap between the singly occupied orbitals of the CFH2 radicals in the gauche conformation. The intermolecular water po

This paper focuses on the many extreme credit default swap spread movements observed during the credit crisis 2007-08 and on how the tails of the spread change distribution significantly differ from those of the normal distribution. As a result, Value at Risk (VaR) estimates based on extreme value theory are found to be more accurate than those based on normal or historical distributions, particul

The development of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is firmly rooted in the idea of higher education (HE) as the cornerstone of a knowledge-based society. Throughout Europe, HE bodies are addressing issues of quality, mobility, employability and lifelong learning. HE agencies and institutions alike are working hard to harmonise European degrees and apply quality assurance standards (ESG,