The predicament in which we find ourselves today is that many professionals lack a sufficient grounding in formal methods, tools and techniques to enable them to make an appropriate selection for different kinds of problem. This can mean that complexity remains unrecognized and ambiguous problem situations are addressed as if they were clear and straightforward, resulting in inadequate solutions t

One of the exciting emerging uses of DSRC/WAVE technology is the ability to monitor real-time road traffic conditions with high resolution, using beacons transmitted by individual vehicles, and make informed traffic control decisions such as traffic light timing or route advice. However, previous studies have shown that achieving a high level of accuracy in traffic density estimation requires very

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattningAvhandlingen tog sin utgångspunkt i nödvändigheten att organisationer ständigt måste vara flexibla för att kunna bemästra krav på variation och oväntade händelser. En organisations förmåga att snabbt anpassa såväl antalet anställda som de anställdas arbetsinsats på ett smidigt sätt kan vara en förutsättning för flexibilitet. Förutom kapacitet till förändring är deThis thesis assumed the necessity of organizations having to be flexible in respect to mastering variation and unexpected circumstances. Organizations’ ability to alter the number of workers, or to vary the intensity of workers’ workload in a smooth way, is generally a prerequisite for flexibility. In addition to being able to change, organizations must also have the capacity to obtain development

The increasingcost for System-on-Chip (SOC) testing is mainly due to the hugetest data volumes that lead to long test application time andrequire large automatic test equipment (ATE) memory. Testcompression and test sharing have been proposed to reduce the testdata volume, while test infrastructure and concurrent testscheduling have been developed to reduce the test application time.In this work w

Popular Abstract in Swedish Gruppen ärftliga degenerativa näthinnesjukdomar är en viktig orsak till blindhet världen över. Man har uppskattat frekvensen till 1 på 3 - 4000 vilket motsvarar omkring 1½ miljoner människor i världen som helhet. Den vanligaste orsaken till en sådan sjukdom är ett fel i en gen för ett funktionellt eller strukturellt protein. Mer än hundra sådana gendefekter är kända idaThe goal of the study was to get a better understanding of factors controlling the growth, differen-tia-tion, integration, organization and survival of retinal transplants, with the long-term view of eventually developing retinal transplantation into a clinically useful procedure for treating degenerative retinal disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa. Embryonic day 15 rabbit retinas were transpl

Popular Abstract in Swedish Neutrofilen är den vanligaste vita blodkroppen och de tillhör det sk medfödda immunförsvaret. Under normala förhållanden är neutrofilerna inaktiva och cirkulerar i blodomloppet. Vid exempelvis en infektion utsöndras inflammatoriska aktiverande ämnen från vår kropp men även från oönskade mikroorganismer och detta gör att neutrofilerna aktiveras. Från att ha varit runda, Inflammation is a localized protective response in vascularized tissues and can be induced by microbial infection or cell and tissue injury. Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) are the most common white blood cells and are recognized as major cellular mediators of acute inflammation. PMN are highly mobile cells that possess regulated mechanisms for controlling the expression and activation of adhe