Gaia is ESA’s space astrometry mission with a foreseen launch date in early 2012. Its main objective is to perform a stellar census of the 1000 Million brightest objects in our galaxy (completeness to V=20 mag) from which an astrometric catalog of micro-arcsec level accuracy will be constructed. A key element in this endeavor is the Astrometric Global Iterative Solution (AGIS). A core part of AGIS

This thesis has investigated the importance of the VpreB1 protein in early B cell development. Mice lacking the VpreB1 protein showed normal numbers of peripheral mature B cells. The number of B220 positive cells in the bone marrow was also normal, but the amounts of pre-BI cells was increased 2-fold and the numbers of pre-B II cells were reduced by 20%. In all other respects the lymphoid compartm

Examensarbetet är kronan på verket på civilingenjörsutbildningen där teori och praktik sätts samman i ett större ingenjörsarbete. Hur kan man agera som handledare och examinator från universitetet för att säkerställa kvaliteten i detta viktiga utbildningsmoment? Vi presenterar en generell processmodell för examensarbete i fyra steg: uppstart, planering, genomförande och avslutning. Våra erfarenhet

This article describes the development and the testing of the psychometric properties of an instrument, Profiles of Occupational Engagement among people with Schizophrenia, POES, with the aim of concluding data from time-use diaries and providing systematic description of status and progress regarding occupational engagement.

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Grupparbeten används i stor utsträckning i undervisningen på LTH och även som del av examinationen. Studenterna upplever emellanåt problem med att alla i gruppen inte tillför arbetet lika mycket s.k. free-riding och att läraren inte har möjlighet att bedöma de enskilda studenternas insatser i grupparbetena. Syftet med vår studie var att genom aktionsforskning skaffa oss större kunskap om hur man k

Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively participated in the renaissance and reformation of the central and later