In this work new methods based Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) have been developed to measure different kinds of structural properties in soft materials. The advantage of using NMR as a technique to measure material properties is that it is non-destructive, which makes it possible to measure on the actual piece of material that will be used for the application. One does not have to be concerned

The availability of external equity finance is one of the vital conditions for emergence and growth of young entrepreneurial firms. Yet, the access to finance is both limited and unevenly distributed in geographical space. At the same time, there is anecdotal evidence that the informal venture capital market plays a significant role in providing small-scale geographically dispersed finance to entr

In Sweden the main exposure route for both polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and other persistent organochlorine compounds is through consumption of fatty fish species from the Baltic Sea (the eastern coast of Sweden). Cohorts of fishermen's wives from the Swedish east and west coasts were established. Interviewed east and west coast cohort women ate locally caught fish at least twice as often as wo

The biological activity and spatio–temporal expression patterns of the gonadotropin receptors FSH-R and LH-R were examined in the repetitive spawner Atlantic halibut to elucidate the gonadotropic regulation of the asynchronous follicle development. The cloned receptors were expressed in mammalian COS-7 cells, and stimulation with sea bass FSH and LH increased the cAMP production. The halibut FSH-R

Att bli indragen i en rättstvist i USA är mycket kostsamt och som en konsekvens finns det aktörer med stora ekonomiska resurser som inte drar sig för att missbruka civilprocessen, t ex för att skrämma misshagliga parter till tystnad. Denna typ av ogrundade stämningar kallas SLAPPs – Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation – och ett flertal amerikanska delstater har numera en Anti-SLAPP-lag

Value configurations, originally in the form of the value chain, serve as descriptions of how value is created. They focus on the internal activity character in interaction with the environment and can be seen as the essence of business models. Here, the role of standardization in association with value configurations is clarified through the introduction of a framework outlining how process and o

The effect of fibre hygroexpansion on sheet hygroexpansion has been studied by means of two different methods; computer simulation and analytical modelling. The influence of network density, fibre orientation distribution, fibre geometry and stiffness properties was examined.