Aphrodite is the divine image in Western civilization of love and fertility. She is the eternal beauty of classical Greece - but she has a wide-ranging history. On the one hand giver of wealth and abundance - on the other linked with violence and war. Aphrodite appeared on Cyprus during the Bronze Age. Protectress of copper, her cult spread all over Europe. In Scandinavia she was called Nerthus. B

Waste in form of fat, oil and grease (FOG) is generated where food is prepared or consumed, e.g. in households. If collected properly, the household FOG could be interesting for biogas production. This fraction has been source-separated and collected separately in a residential area in Malmö, Sweden. The biogas potential has been evaluated by mesophilic digestion experiments. Both single-substrate

In tandem with contemporary modern society becoming increasingly dependent upon visuality, new trends have emerged in cultural studies discussing how visual representations influence our perception of society and its institutions. This is an important observation concerning central elements of law and legal thinking, which to a large extent have been shaped and informed by a text-based tradition:

Study of three films and TV-series about Winston Spencer Churchill.

The paper discusses the solution to the optimal adaptive control problem over an extended time horizon. This leads to a controller that have dual features, i.e., tt uses control actions as well as probing actions. The solution of the optimal dual control problem is intractable from a computational point of view. Approximations to obtain simpler suboptimal dual controllers are thus important. There

Popular Abstract in Swedish När folk frågat mig vad det är egentligen jag håller på med på labbet, brukar jag lite slarvigt svara att jag jobbar med blod. Jag tänkte här lite närmare gå igenom vad det är jag egentligen gjorde på labbet för Er som undrat. Jag har studerat ett protein i blodkoagulationen som heter faktor V (läs 5). För att man ska förstå varför detta protein är viktigt, måste man noThe homologous blood coagulation factors V (FV) and factor VIII (FVIII) are important at sites of vascular injury for the amplification of the clotting cascade. Activated FV (FVa) serves as a cofactor to the enzyme activated factor X (FXa) in the activation of prothrombin. This complex is called the prothrombinase complex. FVIII functions as a cofactor to the enzyme activated factor IX (FIXa) in t

The thesis presents studies on the processing technology and the characterization of nanometer-sized and low-dimensional structures in III-V semiconductors. Two major approaches are described: 1) the combination of aerosol technology and plasma etching for the fabrication of quantum dots (QDs) in InP-based materials and 2) the use of high-resolution electron beam lithography and plasma or wet che

The report describes and analysis the water and sewerage system in five European countries from a resource based view I denna rapport intresserar vi oss för begreppet ’uthållighet’ (sustainability) inom ramen för vatten- och avloppsverksamheter. Utgångspunkten är emellertid varken teknisk eller ekologisk utan denna studie görs utifrån ett strategi- och organisationsperspektiv. Ambitionen är att t

Popular Abstract in Swedish Benskörhet (osteoporos) är en sjukdom som karaktäriseras av minskad mängd benmassa och försämrad benkvalitet. Benskörhet leder till en ökad risk för frakturer. Förekomsten av benskörhet har fördubblats under de senaste decennierna. Upp till en tiondel av alla män och en fjärdedel av alla kvinnor lider av sjukdomen. Ökningen av benskörhet i samhället kan delvis förklarasThe aim of this thesis was to evaluate long-term changes in bone mass and skeletal structure in the forearm in the peri- and postmenopausal period. 156 premenopausal women, at baseline aged 48 years, not taking medications and without disease processes known to interfere with bone metabolism, were followed through menopause by measurements of bone mass and skeletal structure at the cortical site o