The studies described in this thesis forms part of a larger collaborative project, Neonuclei, with the objective to design a module for packaging the negatively charged DNA into a ”neonucleus” with transcription competence. There are many applications that require control of DNA compaction, i.e. packaging or condensation. One example is the systemic delivery of DNA for gene therapy. In this work,

Mathematical modeling is very important when experimental settings with human subjects are restricted to thermal limits necessary to protect the individual. The predicted heat strain (PHS) model has been published AS ISO 7933 for about six years. It describes a method for predicting the sweat rate and internal core temperature that the human body will develop in response to the working conditions.

Den 27 oktober 2006 meddelade den engelska appellationsdomstolen (UK Court of Appeal) ett vägledande avgörande i de s.k. Aerotel/Macrossan-avgörandena. Domen relaterade till två mål som berörde tolkningen av det patenterbara området enligt sektion 1 (2) i den engelska patentlagen (Patent Act 1977), vilken motsvarar art. 52 i den Europeiska Patentkonventionen (EPC). Det första målet gällde ett isra

Purpose of this paper The current RFID technology literature considers several issues. However, the implementation models and guidelines available in this literature are quite fragmented and lack certain elements. The purpose of this paper is thus to put all relevant elements together and discuss them within a comprehensive framework for designing logistical RFID systems. Design/methodology/appro

Popular Abstract in Swedish Allt liv på jorden har utvecklats i en vattenbaserad miljö. Proteiner och andra biomolekyler har därigenom anpassats i sin struktur och funktion till vattnets speciella egenskaper. För att kunna förstå biologiska processer måste vi studera hur biomolekyler växelverkar med det omgivande vattnet under fysiologiska betingelser. Detta är särkilt viktigt eftersom det flesta The results presented in this thesis demonstrate that the magnetic relaxation dispersion (MRD) technique can provide information of relevance to protein biophysics, magnetic resonance imaging and cell biology. By immobilizing proteins with covalent cross-links, intermittent protein dynamics on the previously inaccessible ns-µs time scale could be probed with MRD via the exchange of water molecule

Biometric identification is an important security application that requires non-intrusive capture and real-time processing. Recently, identification by vein patterns has been suggested as a promising alternative. In this paper we study the potential of Cellular Neural Networks implemented on a Field-Programmable Gate Array to handle the person identification based on hand veins in real time. With