It has previously been shown that ensembles of terminated protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes have a typical minimum distance that grows linearly with block length and that they are capable of achieving capacity approaching iterative decoding thresholds on the binary erasure channel (BEC). In this paper, we review a recent result that the dramatic threshold improve

Möt kvinnorna och männen bakom de stora verken om mänskligheten: Margaret Mead, James Frazer, Knud Rasmussen, Claude Lévi-Strauss m.fl. Antropologiska porträtt är en serie biografiska essäer om antropologer skrivna av antropologer – en odyssé i tid och rum som spänner över två sekel från Amazonas och Thule till Mloda Polskas Kraków och intelligentsians Paris. Antropologiska porträtt är en lättillg

This thesis treats scanning tunneling luminescence (STL) investigations of semiconductor nanostructures. The STL technique combines scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with detection of photons, induced by the tunneling electrons. The high spatial resolution in STM and the local excitation allow for optical investigations on the nanometer-scale. The work concerns design and implementation of an o

A methodology for safety verification of nonlinear systems using barrier certificates has been proposed recently. The condition was stated in a sufficiency form: if there exists a barrier certificate, then the system is safe, in the sense that there is no trajectory starting from a given set of initial states that reaches some given unsafe region. Using the concepts of convex duality and density,

Popular Abstract in Swedish Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Plastikkirurgi och rekonstruktiv kirurgi syftar till att återskapa form och funktion i kroppens yttre vävnader, efter större defekter orsakade av t.ex. trafikolyckor, brännskador eller tumöroperationer. Sedan länge har man använt förflyttning av hud (hudtransplantat) och rotation eller förflyttning av större vävnadsområden med bibehålMicrovascular surgery enables free tissue flaps to cover tissue defects, e.g. after trauma and malignancies. Although major improvements in techniques have been made, problems with poor tissue circulation and thrombus formation still exist. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the effects of hemodilution on tissue blood flow and thrombus formation in an animal model. In isovolemic hemodilutio

Popular Abstract in Swedish Denna avhandling handlar om experimentella tekniker och dataanalys inom atomspektroskopi. Förbättrade metoder för analys av spektra och bestämning av nivåenergier presenteras, där de flesta bygger på en rigorös statistisk behandling av spektroskopisk data. Starka linjer i spektrumet från envärt joniserat neon mellan 2000 och 5000Å föreslås som våglängdsstandarder. DessaThe focus of this work is on the experimental techniques and data analysis in atomic spectroscopy. Improved methods for the analysis of spectra and the determination of level energies are presented. Most of these are based on a rigorous statistical treatment of the spectroscopic data. Strong lines in the spectrum of singly-ionized neon between 2000 and 5000Å are suggested as tertiary wavelength st

Genetic and phenotypic variation in female response towards male mating attempts has been found in several laboratory studies, demonstrating sexually antagonistic co-evolution driven by mating costs on female fitness. Theoretical models suggest that the type and degree of genetic variation in female resistance could affect the evolutionary outcome of sexually antagonistic mating interactions, resu