Plant production systems worldwide are struggling to meet the diverse and increasing needs of humankind while also facing challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This, combined with the desirable transition from the use of conventional pesticides to more sustainable plant protection solutions, has led to an urgent, and increasing, need for lowrisk plant protection products (PPPs)

Zygaenidae, also known as burnet, forester, smoky, or leaf skeletonizer moths, are a family of mainly diurnal moths well known for their aposematic colouration and the ability to release hydrogen cyanide as a defence mechanism. So far, few attempts have been made to understand the evolutionary history of the global zygaenid fauna. Here, we inferred the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny for Zy

Due to their natural and inherent way of capturing concurrency, dataflow descriptions of stream programs have seen prevalent usage in fields such as video processing, networks and scientific computing. They are often deployed on manycore, heterogeneous and distributed architectures. Despite robust research on the topic, obstacles still exist in evaluating the performance of stream programs accurat

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a marine toxin responsible for many intoxications around the world. Its presence in some pufferfish species and, as recently reported, in shellfish, poses a serious health concern. Although TTX is not routinely monitored, there is a need for fast, sensitive, reliable, and simple methods for its detection and quantification. In this work, we describe the use of an automated pa

Inom matematik så används något som kallas derivator för att beräkna förändring. Ett exempel är hastighet som är positionens derivata. När man uppskattar hastighet så dividerar man förflyttningssträckan med tidsåtgången. För att ge en mer precis uppskattning för hastigheten i stunden så kan man då minska tiden man beräknar över. När detta görs på datorer så stöter man på problem när stegen blir föSome numerical methods approximate the Jacobian using finite differences as part of their process. The finite difference method of approximation resembles the limit definition of the derivative. Since a computer cannot handle the mathematical concept of limits, a sufficiently small number has to be chosen as an increment. However, when the increments are chosen outside of certain acceptable ranges

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att bidra med kunskap om snickares matematikanvändning och fråga om byggelever tror att matematik används i yrket, och i så fall vilken. Syftet är också att se ifall byggelever anser att matematik 1a är en rättfärdigad kurs i sin utbildning. Studiens empiriska material består av kvalitativa intervjuer med snickare och elever om deras åsikter om matematik i yrkesliThe purpose of this master thesis is to gain knowledge of carpenters' use of mathematics and inquire whether students enrolled in the VET carpentry believe that mathematics is used in carpentry, and if so which areas of mathematics. The purpose is further to see whether the VET students believe that the Swedish mandatory course in mathematics, matematik 1a, is a justified course in their educa

Sedan 70-talet har tre olika läroplaner använts för att styra den svenska gymnasieskolan. Olika politiska styrningar och läroplansteoretiska influenser har gjort att dessa sett väldigt olika ut. I vårt arbete har vi jämfört kursplanerna för matematikämnet utifrån ett teoretiskt ramverk baserat på Basil Bernsteins begrepp om klassifikation och inramning. Förutom att jämföra gymnasiets kursplaner i Since the seventies, three different curriculums have been used to regulate the Swedish upper secondary school. Different political interests and influences from curriculum theory have made these look very different. In our study we have compared the different curricula used in mathematics using a theoretical framework based on Basil Bernstein's concepts classification and framing. In addition

During the last decade, the application of strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) has increased rapidly. The understanding of the strontium isoscape and the construction of a strontium isotope baseline in southern Scandinavia are biased toward Denmark and southwestern to eastern Scania. We report the results of new baseline samples in Halland and the Bjäre Peninsula, adding to the rich strontium i

In this paper, a wideband circularly polarized antenna is designed for integration into the glass roof of a modern car for GNSS positioning applications. Characteristic mode analysis is used to obtain more physical insight into the problem and hence satisfy the polarization and bandwidth requirements. The antenna has a low profile and uses a single coplanar waveguide feed to cover all GNSS bands.

Testing autonomous driving systems for safety and reliability is essential, yet complex. A primary challenge is identifying relevant test scenarios, especially the critical ones that may expose hazards or harm to autonomous vehicles and other road users. Although numerous approaches and tools for critical scenario identification are proposed, the industry practices for selection, implementation, a

PURPOSE: Several studies have indicated that broad genomic characterization of childhood cancer provides diagnostically and/or therapeutically relevant information in selected high-risk cases. However, the extent to which such characterization offers clinically actionable data in a prospective broadly inclusive setting remains largely unexplored.METHODS: We implemented prospective whole-genome seq

Korslimmat trä (KL-trä) är ett konstruktionsmaterial som består av korsvis limmade brädor i flera lager. Det har god bärförmåga och används till bärande konstruktioner, främst som väggar och bjälklag. I dagens diskussion om miljö- och klimatfrågor tas användningen av träprodukter ofta upp som en del i att minska byggbranschens klimatpåverkan. I traditionellt KL-trä är brädorna orienterade med 90°

A fundamental framework to describe nuclear matter as a function of pressure and nuclear isospin asymmetry is the nuclear Equation of State (EoS). Constraining the parameters of the EoS is one of the central issues in nuclear physics, especially since the slope parameter L has not yet been constrained well experimentally. It has been identified that a precise determination of the neutron-removal c

We introduce a method for assessing cardiac mechanical efficiency via a porcine ex situ biventricular working heart model, designed to closely replicate physiological conditions and improve the evaluation of donor heart viability for transplantation. The method aims to provide decision support for the safe utilization of hearts that might otherwise be discarded. Quantifying the heart’s pumping wor

Ex vivo working porcine heart models allow for the study of a heart’s function and physiology outside the living organism. These models are particularly useful due to the anatomical and physiological similarities between porcine and human hearts, providing an experimental platform to investigate cardiac disease or assess donor heart viability for transplantation. This chapter presents an in-depth

This study develops a deep learning method for fast auditory attention decoding (AAD) using electroencephalography (EEG) from listeners with hearing impairment. It addresses three classification tasks: differentiating noise from speech-in-noise, classifying the direction of attended speech (left vs. right) and identifying the activation status of hearing aid noise reduction (NR) algorithms (OFF vs

In the last decades, the development of high-throughput molecular assays has revolutionised cancer diagnostics, paving the way for the concept of personalised cancer medicine. This progress has been driven by the introduction of such technologies through biomarker-driven oncology trials. In this review, strengths and limitations of various state-of-the-art sequencing technologies, including gene p

Background: To date, studies investigating the association between pre-biologic biomarker levels and post-biologic outcomes have been limited to single biomarkers and assessment of biologic efficacy from structured clinical trials. Aim: To elucidate the associations of pre-biologic individual biomarker levels or their combinations with pre-to-post biologic changes in asthma outcomes in real-life.

The Coulomb excitation of 124, 128, 130, 132, 134Sn isotopes in the electric field of a Pb target have been studied using the R3B setup as a part of the FAIR Phase-0 program. The experiment was motivated by the possibility of using the nuclear dipole response to infer valuable information on the slope of the symmetry energy of the nuclear equation of state. Measurements were performed in inverse k