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Popular Abstract in English Vernacular (local) architecture is in danger and about to disappear in several parts of the world. What we call native, traditional and handmade will disappear gradually and then the true meaning of vernacular vanishes. The present thesis shows that the disappearance of vernacular traditional skills creates an increasing threat to the existence of desert vernacular archDesert vernacular architecture has always been the product of a sustainable building cycle. People inherited the traditional way of building from their ancestors and the knowledge was transferred and developed from one generation to another. Inhabitants responded to their environment and climate through trial and error in a way that satisfied their needs and aspirations to create a developing buil

The rainflow filter is a non-linear filter which can be used to eliminate small-amplitude oscillations in a signal. In this paper, two approaches for investigation of the filter by means of an approximating transfer function are presented. The estimates are obtained from rainflow-filtered spectral simulations. One method is based on clipped Gaussian processes, the other uses a spline interpolation

Introduction to a Swedish translation (by Sven Ekblad) of Giovcanni Boccaccio's Il Decameron.

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Popular AbstractAvhandlingen belyser syrianska kvinnors bakgrunder och livsvillkoren i Sverige. Studien baseras på intervjuer, obseravtioner, deltagande och sekundärmaterial.Kvinnoberättelser, beskrivningen av en handikappad syriansk kvinnas situation i det svenska vårdsamhället, syrianska kvinnors föreningsliv utgör delstudier som presenteras. Teoretiska slutsatser baserade på det empiriska materThe dissertation is a qualitative study of Suryoyo (Syrian Othodox) women living in Sweden. The main theme is the relation between the integration process in Swedish society and the women1s cultural and religious background and ethnic identity. The core question posed is whether the women can be looked upon as "genuinely integrated" as participant subjects and citizens in the host society. A vari

A quite common view is that the scientific persona matters less in contemporary Western knowledge societies. Large research groups produce new scientific discoveries gathered around impersonal expert system. However, it is also well known that scientific cultures differ widely. In physics, the projects are quite impersonal, sometimes including thousands of persons. The prime example is the CERN or

Popular Abstract in Swedish Senare års forskning har klart och entydigt pekat på njurens viktiga roll i utvecklingen av högt blodtryck. Det är mycket sannolikt att det föreligger flera av varandra oberoende mekanismer som förklarar uppkomsten av högt blodtryck, men det är möjligt att flera av dessa, på en organfysiologisk, cellfysiologisk eller genetisk nivå kan ha gemensamma patofysiologiska länkStudies were conducted to investigate the role of macula densa (MD)-derived nitric oxide (NO) in regulation of the glomerular filtration (GFR) through the tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) mechanism. Immunocytochemical localization of the neuronal isoform of NO synthase (NOS) in the kidney showed that this isoform was exclusively located in MD cells. Whole kidney clearance measurements of GFR and mi

Popular Abstract in Swedish Avhandlingen presenterar ett närstudium av fjorton centrala pjäser skrivna av den svenske författaren Lars Norén (1944-) under perioden 1979-90. I centrum ställs frågan om den ouppklarade relationen till modern, i första hand hos de vuxna, vanligtvis redan in i medelåldern hunna barn som gestaltas i dessa pjäser. I den krisdrabbade intimsfär som Noréns huvudsakligen skiThis dissertation presents a close study of fourteen central dramas written by the Swedish author Lars Norén (1944-) between 1979 and 1990. The question at issue is the unfinished condition of the relation to the mother, mainly among the grown-up, in most cases middle-aged children portrayed in the plays. In the crisis of intimacy, Norén's major thematic motif in his dramatic works of the 1980s ("