Det finns en lång tradition av att placera unga människor som begår brott på ungdomshem. Ute på landet, bortom storstadens förmodat destruktiva inflytande, ska de behandlas och anpassas till ett konventionellt liv. Ungdomarna är i högstadie- eller gymnasieåldern. De förväntas gå i skola, de har gått i skola och de vill gå i skola, åtminstone de flesta och i princip. Men skolarbetet har haft en ned

Fostering Obligations. Representations of a Mission in South India in the First Half of the 20th Century This thesis investigates how Swedish medical missionaries in South India represented their mission not only as a mission of converting people to Christianity, but also of spreading moral and scientific values in order to found an Indian Lutheran folk church. Missionary narratives were not only

In this paper, a programmable analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is proposed. Based on a flexible switched-capacitor stage, the amplifier and integrator is easily transformed to each other. By manipulating the feed path from the quantizer to the MDAC, the function can be programmed between sigma-delta modulators and pipelined ADCs. At the fixed sampling frequency, the proposed ADC can be programmed

In this paper we investigate the frame-error correcting performance of two newly developed, non-binary belief propagation based, soft-in/soft-out decoding algorithms when decoding Reed-Solomon codes. We present results for the AWGN channel indicating that non-binary belief propagation can come close to the performance of the binary adaptive Belief-Propagation algorithm or even slightly better when

Study of the uses of jazz music in Ingmar Bergman's early films".

The thermodynamic properties of single chain polyelectrolyte and protein models are studied using Monte Carlo simulations and (for the polyelectrolyte models) variational calculations and high- and low-temperature expansions. A variational method is used for minimizing Lennard-Jones energies and for estimating end-to-end distances for a rigid Coulomb chain at finite temperatures. A polyelectrolyte

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Enterprise Systems Implementation Methodology (ESIM) is considered to be a critical factor for successful Enterprise Systems (ES) implementations. In spite of ESIM’s potential and significance for practice, little attention has been paid to this object of study in ES literature. Moreover, current studies reveal contradictory findings and provide a fragmented understanding. The purpose of this pape

When Axel Oxenstierna, Chancellor of Sweden, died in 1654, Sweden was a great power. In 1612, however, when Oxenstierna took office, Sweden was on the verge of collapse. In the east, she was menaced by Muscovy, in the south-east by Poland, and in the west by Denmark. One of the means to save the Swedish realm was through active diplomacy. Two important figures in Oxenstierna’s diplomatic network w