When new technologies for the health care sector are developed, it is of outmost importance to increase the possibilities of survival and remain high quality of life for patients. During the conception and design of such technologies, the problem to solve and the possible solutions to achieve have to be well understood and the scope has to be defined. For the particular case of the project LISA, t

Today’s information society puts an increased demand on companies to have implemented a structured IP management system to protect and control their knowledge. This report describes the development of a quality tool that serves the purpose of identifying improvement areas in IP Management Systems at middle sized product development companies. The quality tool should represent a systematic approac

This article deals with the active safety of a automobile and how to make use of microwave radar sensor to detect and anticipate a threat in the sensor’s field of vision.

A suicide is a tragedy not only for family and relatives of the victim but also for the railway operator’s personnel and other witnesses. The aim of this report is to reduce the rate of suicides in the railway system by means of showing that society gains from measures that reduce the risk of suicides and fatal accidents. This is possible with a risk analysis that accounts for input uncertainties

Metaanlysen undersöker antidepressiv effekt av repetitiv transkranial magnetstimulering (rTMS) jämfört med elektrokonvulsiv terapi (ECT) i ett korttidsperspektiv. En litteratursökning genomfördes med avsikt att inkludera samtliga randomiserade kliniska prövningar där de två behandlingsteknikerna ställdes mot varandra. Totalt sju artiklar inkluderades. Resultatet visade att både rTMS och ECT hade eThis meta-analysis examines the antidepressive efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) when compared to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in a short term perspective. A literature search was performed with the intention to include all randomized clinical trials. A total of seven articles were included. Results showed that both rTMS and ECT had a significant antidepressive eff

In the beginning of the 1990’s community service was introduced at a couple of Swedish courts as an experiment. It was to be a compliment to probation and together the two were supposed to be considered the equivalent in harshness of a shorter prison sentence. After a few years the experiment was extended to all Swedish courts and by the end of the decade community service was made a permanent par

Penningtvätt är ett aktuellt ämne. Detta bl.a. på grund av att den organiserade brottsligheten ofta blir sammankopplad med denna möjlighet att omvandla svarta pengar till vita legitima penningmedel. Penningtvätt syftar till att dölja ursprunget av de illegala tillgångarna. De finansiella systemen utnyttjas för att göra penningtvätten möjlig där bankerna särskilt har en utsatt position. Bankerna tiMoney laundering is a topical subject. Money laundering is often linked to organized crime because of the ability to convert black money into white legitimate funds. The notion of money laundering is to disguise the origin of the illegal assets. The consequence is that the crime remains hidden and that the funds are accessible, the money is laundered. The financial systems are sed to make money l