The Nordic Symposium on Building Physics started in Lund in 1987 on an initiative by the Moisture Research Centre in Lund and has been arranged every third year. The venues of the previous symposia were Lund (1987), Trondheim (1990), Copenhagen (1993), Espoo (1996), Gothenburg (1999), Trondheim (2002), Reykjavik (2005), Copenhagen (2008), and Tampere (2011). Now it is organized for the 10th time a

Popular Abstract in SwedishDenna avhandling består av en samling tidigare publicerade eller på annat sätt presenterade artiklar som behandlar Theodor W. Adornos (1903-1969) filosofiska, sociologiska och estetiska författarskap. Avhandlingens titel är tänkt att stå som en programmatisk överskrift för ett tema som genomsyrar Adornos författarskap.Kapitel ett, ?Adorno och Frankfurtskolan?, behandlar This dissertation consists of a collection of previously published or otherwise presented essays dealing with the philosophical, sociological and aesthetic writings of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The title of the dissertation is intended to cover a common programmatic theme running through Adorno's writings. Chapter one, ?Adorno and the Frankfurt school?, deals with the biography of Adorno and

Shear banding in sand is an emergent fine-scale mechanism whose characteristic length scale is only a few particles. X-ray scanning a sand specimen under loading allows the analysis of the kinematics of individual grains and grain contacts during deformation. This paper summarises results from one such test performed on Hostun sand, and discusses some key issues that must be addressed in order to

Popular Abstract in Swedish Randomiserade, kontrollerade studier av patientutbildning med tonvikt på patienter med hjärtsvikt och patienter med ledsjukdomar.För att förbättra behandling och omhändertagandet av patienter med kroniska sjukdomar måste kontrollerade studier med olika mål och effektvariabler utföras. En begränsning i många studier är att patientmaterialet är selekterat och patient- proIn order to improve the treatment and care of patients with chronic diseases, controlled studies have to be performed continuously. It is widely believed that giving education/information to patients will increase their knowledge and compliance, which will decrease medical events and cost. Most educational activities in clinical practice are not based on evaluated models of effective disease manag

This paper gives an overview of recently published Swedish guidelines for service-life design of concrete structures. The guideline is based on the probabilistic methodology developed in the European project DuraCrete. The methodology has been further developed and applied to Swedish conditions. The design is based on the definition of several “maintenance classes” where the failure probability is

Discussion concerning school and cultural change