In this thesis Word of Life (Slovo zivota) in the Czech Republic is studied from a sociological perspective with a special focus on the Swedish influence, especially the teachings of Ulf Ekman, on the Czech Word of Life-congregations. Another purpose is to examine if there also is space for domestic interpretations of the theology of the faith-movement and if there is any integration with Czech re

This study of 36 rats with rat colon adenocarcinoma transplants was carried out to investigate the efficacy of a new method of whole blood immunoadsorption (WBIA) in removing biotinylated monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) directly from unseparated blood, in order to increase 'the tumor/normal-tissue uptake ratio', as compared with extracorporeal immunoadsorption (ECIA) of antibodies from plasma. Compar

Today the main optimization parameter of digital filters is the filter order. By the aid of two implemented filters we will show that both power and speed can be enhanced if the optimization effort is made on reducing the filter coefficient lengths rather than minimizing the order. Both filters have been designed from the same specification, one as a standard minimum order filter, the other as a f

We suggest an approach for transport through finite systems based on the Liouville equation. By working in a basis of many-particle states for the finite system, Coulomb interactions are taken fully into account and correlated transitions by up to two different contact states are included. This latter extends standard rate equation models by including level-broadening effects. The main result of t

Abstract in Spanish Inger Enkvist, catedrática de español de la Universidad de Lund, Suecia, trabajó durante tres años en un proyecto de investigación junto con Ángel Sahuquillo, de la Universidad de Sodertorn, también en Suecia, en un proyecto titulado "Identidad e ideología en la literatura hispánica: un estudio basado en la obra de Juan Goytisolo". El presente artículo demuestra que el resultad

Through alterations primarily in the penicillin-binding proteins, a non-beta-lactamase-mediated resistance to beta-lactams has evolved in Haemophilus influenzae. The virulence of these chromosomally changed strains has been questioned. To ascertain whether these alterations involve a reduction in virulence of H. influenzae and whether they could be advantageous for the bacterium during amoxicillin

Joint processing of common-mode (CM) and differential-mode (DM) signals in wireline transmission can yield significant improvements in terms of throughput compared to using only the DM signal. Recent work proposed the employment of an adaptive CM-reference-based interference canceller and reported performance improvements based on simulation results. This paper presents a thorough investigation of

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With a simplified model in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) approximation, the behavior of weakly bound s(1/2) neutrons in the many-body pair correlation is studied by solving the HFB equation in coordinate space with the correct asymptotic boundary conditions. It is shown that in one-neutron pickup reactions on the even-even neutron-drip-line nuclei, which contain loosely bound s(1/2) neutrons,

The properties of quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots are reviewed. Experimental techniques for measuring the electronic shell structure and the effect of magnetic fields are briefly described. The electronic structure is analyzed in terms of simple single-particle models, density-functional theory, and "exact" diagonalization methods. The spontaneous magnetization due to Hund's rule,

Quantum oscillations of the spin conductance through regular and chaotic 2D quantum dots under the varying Rashba spin-orbit interaction and at zero magnetic field have been investigated numerically by summing up the spin evolution matrices for classical transmitting trajectories. The Fourier analysis of these oscillations indicates a strong geometry dependence of the power spectra. The spectra fo

The aim was to evaluate the clinical impact of P-glycoprotein in primary non-metastatic high-grade osteosarcoma patients, treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy protocols. P-glycoprotein was assessed by immunohistochemistry on paraffin-embedded tissue samples collected at time of diagnosis from 94 osteosarcoma patients, treated with the Italian Sarcoma Group/Scandinavian Sarcoma Group 1 (ISG/SSG 1)

The purpose of this work was to implement the European Protocol on Dosimetry in Mammography in Sweden. The standard average glandular dose, AGD, was measured on 32 mammography units in southern Sweden, according to the European protocol as well as to the Nordic protocol. The most important difference is that the European protocol evaluates the half value layer, HVL, of the X ray beam with the comp

The Starlings Sturnus vulgaris breeding in sixteen nest-box groups, three in northern and thirteen in southern Sweden, were monitored in 1988-2003. Date of the first egg was found to correlate with both latitude and elevation when all sites were included (13 degrees of latitude; 5-430 m elevation). Restricting the analysis to only the south Swedish sites (4 degrees of latitude; 5-230 m elevation),

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to study the distribution of elements and main wood components (cellulose and lignin) within the wood and at the bark/wood interface of a living hybrid aspen stem. The hybrid aspen was grown upright in a greenhouse and then tilted at similar to45degrees to induce tension wood formation and upright bending of the stem. The wood between the pith and th

The possibility that long-term atmospheric nitrogen pollution and fertilization of forest soil may serve as a basis for adaptation for enhanced transformation rates of NO3- and NH4+ in soil. bacteria was elucidated in a laboratory bioassay. Bacteria extracted from soils that had been fertilized at various rates for the last 30 yr were characterised with respect to their capability to reduce or oxi