This book investigates the significance processes of Americanization had had in shaping and influencing the form and content of everyday life in Sweden. However, rather than simply viewing Americanization as an irresistable homogenizing force, it is argued that to the extent that Swedish everyday life has been Americanized, it has been Americanized in a very Swedish way. Here the dreams, actions,

The essay presents and discusses the Austrian-Jewish author and journalist Joseph Roth with reference to fundamental sociological problems and concepts. The discussion relates Roth's biography to his texts and relate both to key classical modern experiences as well as intellectual discourses.

Vehicle rollover accidents are a particularly dangerous form of road accident. Commercial vehicles are especially prone to rollover accidents due to their high centres of gravity. A nonlinear control strategy is presented which guarantees asymptotic tracking of a yaw rate reference while bounding the roll angle, thus preventing rollover. A new computationally-efficient control allocation strategy

Resource-optimization of the infrastructure for service oriented applications require accurate performance models. In this paper we investigate the performance dynamics of a MySQL/InnoDB database server with write-heavy workload. The main objective of our investigation was to understand the system dynamics due to the buffering of disk operations that occurs in database servers with write-heavy wor

The microflora of Herrgård cheese produced at three dairies was compared after three and six months maturation. The microflora of cheeses from two of the dairies was dominated by a spontaneous microflora of Lactobacillus after three months of ripening, while starter bacteria still dominated in cheese from the third dairy after six months. Isolates were typed by the PCR-based method Randomly Amplif

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Popular Abstract in Swedish Det finns många kemikalier i vår miljö där vissa har visat sig göra hanliga fiskar honliga, äggskalen tunnare hos fåglar och som kan göra honliga snäckor hanliga, och det verkar ju inte vara en bra framtid för dessa djur. Sådana kemikalier går under benämningen endokrina störare, eftersom de stör naturliga biologiska processer som är viktiga för djurs utveckling av orgaCommunities are composed of organisms that interact with each other and with the non-biological environment. There are also anthropogenic pollutants in the environment that also interact with the organisms. Estrogenic endocrine disrupting compounds, for example 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2, the active compound in contraceptive pills), released into surface waters can have negative effects on the orga

Protein structure and stability are inherent in the amino acid sequence and governed by non-covalent interactions. The cooperation between forces is, however, perplexing and not well understood. In order to elucidate and predict protein folding and stability, detailed studies of non-covalent interactions are required. Presented in this thesis are detailed studies on electrostatic interactions in

Popular Abstract in Swedish Syftet med min avhandling är att skildra de grundläggande drag som bär upp den politiska kulturen för att synliggöra förutsättningarna för politiskt engagemang. Utifrån olika vardagssituationer beskrivs hur det går till att ”göra” politik. Jag följer två nämndordföranden i Helsingborgs kommun i deras politiska vardagsarbete och lyfter fram olika situationer för att konkPolitical Culture and Social Engagement. An ethnological study of everyday parliamentary life in Helsingborg. The goal of my thesis is to, by examining foundational features which support political culture, make visible prerequisites for political engagement. Using diverse everyday situations, the thesis describes how one “does” politics. I follow two committee chairpersons in the municipality of

Anomaly detection is becoming a powerful and necessary component as wireless networks gain popularity. In this paper, we evaluate the efficacy of PCA based anomaly detection for wireless mesh networks (WMN). PCA based method [1] was originally developed for wired networks. Our experiments show that it is possible to detect different types of anomalies, such as Denial-of-service (DoS) attack, port

Popular Abstract in Swedish Högt blodtryck (hypertoni) och åldersdiabetes (typ 2 diabetes) är två av västvärldens vanligaste folksjukdomar, i Sverige är förekomsten ca 15% respektive 3,5%. Båda tillstånden ger upphov till hjärta-kärlkomplikationer såsom hjärtinfarkt, hjärtsvikt och stroke och orsakar hög sjuklighet och dödlighet i befolkningen. Kombinationen av hypertoni och typ 2 diabetes ökar ytThe causes of hypertension (HT) and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) are mainly unknown, but they arise from interplay between several genetic and environmental factors. The aim of this thesis was to investigate whether polymorphisms in putative candidate genes for HT increase the susceptibility to HT and/or T2DM. The DD genotype of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene I/D polymorphism was associate