In concrete most cracks start from an uncracked surface and grow through a large portion of the depth of the specimen. Both formation and growth are influenced by stresses from imposed deformations, shrinkage, temperature etc. Thus fracture mechanics, when applied to concrete, should be able to analyse the following: 1. The formation of a crack in a specimen which is not notched or precracked. 2.

Examines the Swedish and German national anthems in the context of cultural constructions of community. The transnational interdependencies of the concepts singing, people, and nation are traced from the end of the 18th c. to the 1950s. The production, reception, and discourse of national and traditional music are discussed. The study also contains music-specific analyses of the speeches of King O

The persistence of a low productive peasant sector in sub-Saharan Africa is one of the enigmas of development research. This study approaches the question from a historical perspective by analysing the paths of agrarian change in two contrasting cases in Malawi from the mid-1930s to the late 1970s. The cases - Thyolo and Mzimba districts - with their overt differences in terms of population densit

Short analysis of the poem "Din sorg är din" by Swedish poet Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895)

The class of Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions (RSBFs) has received serious attention in searching functions of cryptographic significance. These functions are invariant under circular translation of indices. In this paper we study such functions on odd number of variables and interesting combinatorial properties related to Walsh spectra of such functions are revealed. In particular we concent

Abstract in French La thèse est un commentaire et une traduction en francais d'un ancien mansucrit suédois, Codex Verelianus, qui relate l'histoire en prose de Namnlös och Valentin,un récit initialement francais mais dont l'original est perdu. Le texte fut édité en 1846 en suédois dans Samlingar utgifna av svenska fornskrift-sällskapet par Gustaf Edward Klemming. Le roman, qui est probablement bas

We show that certain weak feedback polynomials allow very efficient distinguishing attacks on the selfshrinking generator. This gives a new improved attack if the generator uses a secret feedback polynomial.

Popular Abstract in Swedish Akut pankreatit (bukspottkörtelinflammation) drabbar årligen cirka 300 individer per miljon invånare i Sverige. Dödligheten ligger totalt på cirka 4-7 % och betydligt högre, cirka 20 %, vid svår nekrotiserande pankreatit. Mortaliteten är vanligen associerad med multipel organsvikt och korrelerad till storleken på det inflammatoriska svaret. Underliggande mekanismer för Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common disorder where underlying mechanisms for the local initiating events in the pancreas, the systemic dissemination of the inflammatory response and the remote organ dysfunction still are unclear. The aim of the present study was to further characterize the dynamics and sequence of the immune response in AP, and to determine the cellular origin of the initiating ev