The methods of calculation of shadow lengths of the Sun and the Moon seem to be a specific for Burmese astronomy and have many original features. The present paper gives a detailed exposition of these methods with an analysis of an example taken from a Burmese manuscript.

Romer är en av Sveriges fem nationella minoriteter. I Sverige skattas den romska minoriteten utgöra ungefär 40 000 personer, vilket skall ställas i relation till världens 20 miljoner romer. I den här publikationen # nns en utvärdering av den verksamhet som bedrivits av Romskt informations- och kunskapscenter (RIKC) under 2009, samt en utvärdering av den verksamhet som bedrivits vid Romsk kul

One might classify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as “natural disasters”, whereas comets and eclipses might be described merely as “natural curiosities”. In earlier times, however, all were equally frightening, signs that the gods were angry.A form of protection against eclipses was available, however, in the sense that prediction provided a means of countering the event. Consequently one main

Background There is a great need for a simple and clinically useful instrument to help physicians estimate the probability of survival to discharge with a good neurological outcome (cerebral performance category, CPC = 1) in cases of in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA). Our aim was to validate the “Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation” (GO-FAR) score in a different country with different d

The article deals with the influence of the machining induced surface integrity on tensile properties of 99.99% purity Oxygen-Free Pitch copper (OFC), used in nuclear and research facilities. The increase in the feed in machining was found to lead to an increase, up to 55%, in yield strength of the OFC specimens. Intensive sub-surface deformation and a high degree of work-hardening in the near-surThe article deals with the influence of the machining induced surface integrity on tensile properties of 99.99% purity Oxygen-Free Pitch copper (OFC), used in nuclear and research facilities. The increase in the feed in machining was found to lead to an increase, up to 55%, in yield strength of the OFC specimens. Intensive sub-surface deformation and a high degree of work-hardening in the near-sur

Objective To study the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) treated in primary health care with warfarin or acetylsalicylic acid (ASA, aspirin). Methods The study population included subjects (n = 12,283) 45 years or older diagnosed with AF who were treated in 75 primary care centres in Sweden between 2001 and 2007. MI was defined as a hospital stay for MI d

Introduction Trastuzumab is part of the standard treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer. The aim of this study was to estimate the societal value of trastuzumab administered through subcutaneous (SC) injection compared to intravenous (IV) infusion. Methods Female patients with HER2-positive breast cancer receiving SC or IV trastuzumab were consecutively enrolled from five Swedish oncology clini

Using a previously described retinal explant culture system as an acute injury model, we here explore the role of C1q, the initiator of the classical complement pathway, in neuronal cell survival and retinal homeostasis. Full-thickness adult rat retinal explants were divided into four groups, receiving the following supplementation: C1q (50 nM), C1-inhibitor (C1-inh; Berinert; 500 mg/l), C1q + C1-

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate feasibility of a novel closed-loop controlled therapy for prevention of hypertension in the heartbeating brain-dead porcine model. Methods: Dynamic modeling and system identification were based on in-vivo data. A robust controller design was obtained for the identified models. Disturbance attenuation properties, and reliability of operation of

A novel automatic tuning strategy is proposed. It is based on an experiment of very short duration, followed by simultaneous identification of LTI model parameters and an estimate of their error covariance. The parametric uncertainty model is subsequently exploited to design linear controllers with magnitude bounds on some closed-loop transfer function of interest, such as the sensitivity function

A novel autotuning procedure is presented through application to an industrial in-line pH control system. The procedure has three advantages over classical relay auto-tuners: experiment duration is very short (no need for limit-cycle convergence); all data is used for identification (instead of only peaks and switch instances); a parameter uncertainty model is identified and utilized for robust co

Hadronic diffractive processes characterized by a hard scale (hard diffraction) contain a nontrivial interplay of hard and soft, nonperturbative interactions, which breaks down factorization of short and long distances. On the contrary to the expectations based on the factorization hypothesis, assuming that hard diffraction is a higher twist, these processes should be classified as a leading twist