This paper reports a case study of leadership processes and the creation of quality assurance routines within a newly formed large department (approximately 260 employees) at a major Swedish university. The study focuses on social actions taken by two assistant heads of departments and twelve assistant directors of study and shows how the two assistant heads of department used listening dialogue a

The well-known and commonly accepted finite dimensional model qualitatively describing surge instabilities in centrifugal (and axial) compressors is considered. The problem of global output feedback stabilization for it is solved. The solution relies on two new criteria for global stability proposed for a class of nonlinear systems exploiting quadratic constraints for infinite sector nonlinearitie

The purpose of the presented garbage collector interface is to provide a universal interface for many different implementations of garbage collectors. This is to simplify the integration and exchange of garbage collectors, but also to support incremental, non-conservative, and thread safe implementations. Due to the complexity of the interface, it is aimed at code generators and preprocessors. Exp

The astrometric satellite Gaia was launched in December, 2013. It will observe nearly one billion stars in the Milky Way and beyond along with many extragalactic objects such as quasars and galaxies. The analysis of quasar data will provide the optical counterpart of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF). Also, the analysis of data for stars in our Galaxy provide a revolution in our u

Approximately 30 kb of the mouse genome, containing the gene for a major seminal vesicle transcript, has been cloned. The gene was identified by the similarity to members of a family with rapidly evolving genes that includes the gene encoding the major clot protein in rat semen, SVS II, and the human semenogelin genes. The nucleotide sequence of 16.9 kb was determined; this sequence encompasses th

Iran basically sees ISIS as a military-security threat, but needs to consider it as a social-political problem too and devise its strategy to confront it accordingly, and this is of particular importance in the border areas where the situation can be ripe for ISIS to form sleeper sells and pockets of sympathy.

Abstract in Uncoded languages Tekst analizira simbole i metafore koji se učestalo ponavljaju i koriste u svim tipovima diskursa o raspadu bivše Jugoslavije, od žurnalističkog do akademskog. U ratovima i opsadama u bivšoj Jugoslaviji 1990-ih, tuneli i pasaži ispod zemlje značili su puteve prema eventualnoj slobodi; veze s labirintima, mostovima, tunelima i “prirodnim katastrofama” ostale su zahvaln