The challenge of achieving a clean and stable combustion in modem power plants or aero engines leads to develop new technologies and new combustors. Pioneer work on 'flameless' combustion has shown the great potential of such a technology for meeting modem requirements in term of safety and. low emissions. The idea behind this technique is to ensure low emissions by operating at very low fuel/air

Denna bok handlar om de franska S:t josefsystrarna och deras missionsverksamhet i Skandinavien från mitten av 1800-talet och fram till 1950-talet med fokus på deras skol- och sjukvårdsverksamhet samt den specifika kvinnokultur som de representerade.Female Counter-Culture and Catholic Mission. The St Joseph Sisters in Denmark and Sweden 1856-1936 In May 1856, four Catholic sisters arrived in Denmark and established a community in a small basement of a building close to the Catholic parish church in Copenhagen. These Catholic sisters belonged to a French religious congregation named "La Congregation des Sœurs de Saint-Joseph de Chambéry", whi

People’s accumulated local capacity is increasingly recognized to be critical in enhancing disaster resilience and transformation. Nevertheless, citizens’ coping strategies are little known or documented, and hardly considered in city authorities’ and aid organizations’ work. Against this background, this study provides an overview and systematization of citizens’ strategies to cope with increasin

The time that it takes an occupant population to reach safety when descending a stair during building evacuations is typically estimated by measureable engineering variables such as stair geometry, speed, stair density, and pre-observation delay. In turn, engineering models of building evacuation use these variables to predict the performance of egress systems for building design, emergency planni

Detta bidrag vid en internationell konferens i Heidelberg 2001 utgår från Sverigeräkningen 1999 och ställer frågan vad en religiös minoritet är, relaterat till den "passiva" majoriteten och de "aktiva" minoriteterna. Den skandinaviska miljöns väg från begränsad tolerans till religiös pluralism leder till ett avsnitt om civilreligion och religiösa minoriteter. Därefter behandlas den svenska riksdag

Popular Abstract in Swedish Extremt stora teleskop, optisk konstruktion och vågfrontskorrektion 1 Nya resultat inom astronomin För astronomin har senare årtionden varit ytterst händelserika. Ett flertal fascinerande upptäckter har förädlat vår kunskap om universum och dess stjärnor, planeter, galaxer och storskaliga strukturer. Vi har fått bättre grepp om universums ålder, struktur och utvecklinAn overview of the state of art within optical design of large astronomical telescopes is given. Recent advances within the field are presented. The importance of new computer-controlled mirror-polishing methods is emphasized. Some important aspects of atmospheric optics are presented together with current compensation methods using adaptive optics, with or without laser guide stars. An overview o

Popular Abstract in English My dissertation is a Swedish history of ideas 1965-2010 as expressed in the best-selling and most influential Swedish police novels and films. The title is "The Cop in the Twilight Land. Swedish Police Narratives in Novels and Film 1965-2010". Here I elaborate on the analysis briefly treated in the essay "Skymningslandet" ("Twilight Land") in the anthology "SolskenslandThe dissertation "The Cop in the Twilight Land: Swedish Police Narratives 1965-2010" considers Swedish culture and ideas in the period 1965-2010 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. It takes the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture; a history that necessarily comprises America, by

One of the difficulties involved in providing commercially acceptable cursive script recognition solutions has been that the training of most systems have been greatly dependent upon dictionaries. In this paper we present a new technique for dictionary interaction in on-line cursive script recognition. It retrieves all possible paths through a segmentation graph, that correspond to words in a dict

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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