The molecular composition of the organic and inorganic matrices of bone undergoes alterations during maturation. The aim of this study was to compare Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and near-infrared (NIR) Raman microspectroscopy techniques for characterization of the composition of growing and developing bone from young to skeletally mature rabbits. Moreover, the specificity and differences of

Background: A large number of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) live alone and receive little or no help from family members, which implies an additional pressure on the increasing societal costs of dementia care. Their adult children, if any, might have very limited ability to assist by providing informal help because of social structural changes, such as full-time work for most women and

The paper considers the problem of estimation of the transfer function of a continuous-time dynamic system in the presence of colored noise. The author introduces an operator transformation that allows for keeping a continuous-time parametrization whereas the parameter estimation can be made by means of a discrete-time maximum-likelihood algorithm. A comparison is made between the performance of t

Popular Abstract in Swedish I Sverige analyseras omkring 40 000 DNA-prover från brottsplatser varje år. DNA-profilerna jämförs mot DNA-profiler från misstänkta personer och kan på så vis användas för att knyta en person till ett brott. Alla typer av kroppsvävnader kan analyseras, såsom blod, saliv och hudceller. Vanliga bevismaterial är cigarettfimpar, flaskor, burkar och kläder. De material som cDNA evidence, linking perpetrators to crime scenes, is central to many legal proceedings. However, crime scene samples often contain extraneous substances that may interfere with the PCR-based forensic analysis, resulting in partial or negative DNA profiles. Extensive DNA purification may remove inhibitors, but involves the risk of DNA loss. In this work, pre-PCR processing was applied to improve

Passivity is used to derive physical bounds on metamaterial devices. The bounds are determined from sum rules or optimization problems involving the stored energy. They typically relate some product between the performance and the bandwidth. The sum rules are computed from the low and/or high frequency response of the system. The corresponding stored energy is determined from a state space represe

In line with current tendencies of ‘new governance’, this article will introduce a novel judicial tool which strikes a balance between the respect for national assessments and the effective implementation of Union law. This balance can be struck through the demands of structural guarantees; administrative safeguards, which weed out arbitrary national decision-making. The provision of transparent a

The success of many modelling studies strongly depends on the availability of sufficiently long influent time series - the main disturbance of a typical wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) - representing the inherent natural variability at the plant inlet as accurately as possible. This is an important point since most modelling projects suffer from a lack of realistic data representing the infl

Heldagsseminariet tar upp de fyra olika arrendeformerna: jordbruks-, bostads-, anläggnings och lägenhetsarrende. Arrendefrågor är särskilt aktuell detta år, eftersom det har lagts en spännande utredningsbetänkande om besittningsskydd och avgiftsbestämning, och det kommer vi förstås att presentera under dagen. Vi strävar efter en allsidig behandling av ämnet och att verkligen försöka förena teori o