The waiting list for lung transplantations world-wide is steadily growing. So, the use of lungs from non-heart-beating donors (NHBD) needs to be addressed. Hence, the aim of this thesis was to evaluate, in realistic animal models, the new donor organ concept: NHBD transplantation. Left rat lungs were topically cooled for 2 hours in situ after failed resuscitation, with subsequent transplantation.

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This paper presents BLUEJAMM, a prototype architecture suitable for embedded systems based on a Java native processor BLUEJEP, the processor which is a microprogrammed pipelined stack machine, and its hardware memory management unit were developed in Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV). A relatively new high-level of abstraction hardware description language, BSV proved to be an excellent choice for rapi

Under epoken 1500-1800 gav sig européerna ut på världshaven och grundade kolonier. Miljoner människor förslavades och blev drivmedel i gruvor och plantageanläggningar. I boken skildras den era då slavsystemen i Afrika, Asien och Amerika bands samman i ett omfattande och allt brutalare system av mänsklig förnedring. Bokens dominerande tema är Atlanten och triangelhandeln. Vapen och lyxvaror från E

The properties of a material depend not only on the specific atoms and molecules it contains, but also on the arrangement of these in space. Many of these three-dimensional arrangements are described as "3D-nets" or "3D-networks". Molecule-Based Materials: The Structural Network Approach is about the synthesis, description, nomenclature and analysis of such nets and the relation of the nets to the

Rapporten utvärderar SI-verksamheten vid LTH under läsåret 2010/11. Alla civilingenjörsprogram hade SI kopplat till någon kurs under årskurs ett. Närvaron på SI-möten var generellt sett hög – exempelvis hela 62 % bland deltagande program under första läsperioden höstterminen 2010. Det är också glädjande att konstatera att både kursresultat samt poängproduktion under det första året är signifikant

Det mesta i den här boken tar sin utgångspunkt i människor med funktionsnedsättningar. Situationer med stora svårigheter behöver en stark prioritering, både för sin egen del och för att det särskilda förr eller senare brukar komma det gemensamma till godo. Boken har två delar. Den första består av tio minst sagt spretiga kapitel som alla visar på att hur svår en situation än är, finns det alltid n

This paper discusses the professional roles of information systems analysts and users, focusing on a perspective of human intensive, rather than software intensive information systems. The concept of ‘meaningful use’ is discussed in re-lation to measures of success/failure in IS development. The authors consider how a number of different aspects of reductionism may distort analyses, so that proces

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When solving elliptic boundary value problems using integral equation methods one may need to evaluate potentials represented by a convolution of discretized layer density sources against a kernel. Standard quadrature accelerated with a fast hierarchical method for potential field evaluation gives accurate results far away from the sources. Close to the sources this is not so. Cancellation and nea

A new approach to the problem of estimating parameter in material models is presented. The approach is based on a state space representation of the constitutive equations and one step predictions. The differences between one-step predictions and the corresponding measurements are used to design generic one-step prediction error estimators, and in particular, the maximum likelihood method is presen

GHRS observations of chemically peculiar stars have initiated a new project for calculating atomic properties of heavy elements (Z approximate to 80). The method used is based on large-scale, fully relativistic MCDF, and the data involve accurate gf-values, hyperfine structure parameters, and relative isotope shifts.