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On January 1st, 2006, the Swedish legislation on obtaining DNA reference samples from Suspects and the recording of DNA profiles in databases was changed. As a result the number of samples analysed at the Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science (SKL) increased from about 4500 in 2005 to more than 25,000 in 2006. To meet this challenge, SKL launched a flew analysis system to create an unbro

Active design is an expression that has been used fore some years now. This paper will present a case study from an excavation of two cavern constructions (80m long x 16m wide x 12m high) and access tunnels in a Bryozoan limestone in southern Sweden. By using various geophysical survey methods like for instance resistivity soundings, in combination with core drilling and geophysical well logs a ge

Introducing the dragon simulation project, we present direct N-body simulations of four massive globular clusters (GCs) with 106 stars and 5 per cent primordial binaries at a high level of accuracy and realism. The GC evolution is computed with nbody6++gpu and follows the dynamical and stellar evolution of individual stars and binaries, kicks of neutron stars and black holes (BHs), and the effect

The objective of this article is to amalgamate previous results into a speculative synthesis that sheds light on the causes of secondary brain damage following either global/forebrain or focal ischemia. The hypothesis is based on the well-founded assumption that the pathophysiology of the brain damage incurred by global or forebrain ischemia is different from that of focal ischemia. In the former,

Popular Abstract in Swedish Inledning Kreativitet kan definieras på många olika sätt. I denna avhandling definieras kreativitet som ”ett generativt eller produktivt nytt sätt att uppleva verkligheten och sig själv på”, vilket är en något modifierad version av Smith och Carlssons (1990) kreativitetsdefinition. Det produktiva sättet att se på verkligheten uppkommer just av att man kan rekonstruera Four studies on creativity, imagination and self-image in 10-year-old children constitute the basis of this dissertation. A total of 179 participants were involved. Study I investigated two new creativity measurements comprising The Drawing Task, which had its starting-point in a brief story, and The Activity Questionnaire, which included questions about the children’s spare time activities. The h

This article investigates the reception of Jesus’ command to ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘love your enemies’, as found in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:38–48, among Christian Palestinians. With the help of basic tools from the postcolonial discourse, structures of power, identity and subjectivity of these commands are examined. Although seeming to advocate a quiet acceptance of violence, the

Background: There is an increasing interest in the potential health benefits of positive psychological states, especially with regard to cardiovascular health. Life satisfaction is thought to be a constituent component of psychological well-being; however, among the few previous studies that have investigated its associations with early stages of the cardiovascular disease process, only one small

A major development in international schools since the first decade of the 21st century is the growth of global firms operating revenue-oriented schools. Whereas international schools were once community organizations serving the needs of expatriate communities, the landscape has been transformed into an education industry. Transnational corporations and revenue-oriented nonprofits have acquired s

Introduction: Improvements in virtual reality (VR) have made it possible to create realistic, virtual settings for behavioral assessment and skills training that cannot otherwise be accessed in a safe way in forensic psychiatric settings. VR interventions are under development but little is known how forensic psychiatric patients with severe mental disorders experience VR-assisted assessments or t

Background: We hypothesised that observed annual incidence rates of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) are driven bysporadic short-term, high-intensity rates characterised as clusters of diagnosis events in time. Using data from Ireland, Swedenand Spain, we performed a changepoint analysis to discover time intervals with high and low rates of vasculitis diagnosis.Methods: We recruited 417 patients f

Background: Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is key to the success of public transport and for sustainable urban and regional development. Previous research has often focused on delivering TOD in urban areas with high population and building densities. This highlights the need to broaden the scope of TOD approaches to also include less densely populated areas located outside the immediate urban

In this article we discuss the role of brands in the creation of sustainable markets. We focus on the increasing importance of ethical branding and how it might help to overcome some institutional shortcomings inherent in current market settings. We also discuss the increasing influence of brand communities and the seeming potential for a ‘democratisation’ of brand value and values. Brands are in

The role of multiple groups of primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) as ice nucleating particles (INPs), and of ice formation processes such as time-dependent freezing of various INPs, and various secondary ice production(SIP) mechanisms in overall ice concentration has been evaluated in a range of cloud systems by simulating them numerically with the state-of-the-art ‘Aerosol-Cloud’ (AC) m

The imaging process of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in contact, noncontact, and intermittent contact mode is still debated after more than a decade of widespread use, in particular when imaged features are approaching atomic dimensions. Several models for the interaction between the tip and the surface have been suggested, but, generally they all need an exact description of the geometry of e

Finite element analysis in acoustics, structure–acoustics, and structure–hydroacoustic engineering applications leads to large systems of equations, and is still a challenge to current high-performance computer systems. The demands for extremely large models are due to large physical domains or the desire to resolve high-frequency levels, at least as long as the different modes are separated, say

This thesis is based on three projects that deal with vertical III-V semiconductor devices. The work spans over basic research as well as more applied aspects of III-V semiconductor technology. All projects have in common that they rely on advanced epitaxial growth to form the starting material for device fabrication.In chapter two, zero-dimensional Quantum Dots (QDs) are incorporated into electro

To cause colonization or infection, most bacteria grow in biofilms where differentiation and death of subpopulations is critical for optimal survival of the whole population. However, little is known about initiation of bacterial death under physiological conditions. Membrane depolarization has been suggested, but never shown to be involved, due to the difficulty of performing such studies in bact