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Aim: To investigate if the early electroencephalogram (EEG) and amplitude-integrated EEG (aEEG) in very preterm infants is affected by perinatal inflammation and brain injury, and correlates with long-term outcome. Methods: Sixteen infants born at 24-28 gestational weeks (median 25.5) had continuous EEG/aEEG during the first 72 h of life. Minimum and maximum EEG interburst intervals (IBI), and aEE

The pedestrian safety problem is huge in all developing countries. The main aims of the project are therefore: 1/To understand pedestrian safety problem in a developing country, 2/To identify feasible traffic calming measures. International experiences were complemented by field studies at seven sites in the city of Jaipur. A wide range of field studies were made, out of which traffic conflict stu

To study and compare the safety of intersection, traffic scientists today typically manually monitor the intersection during several days and count how often certain events such as evasive manoeuvres occur. This is a laboursome and costly procedure. The aim of this thesis is to provide tools that can reduce the amount of manual labour required by using automated video analytics. Two methods for cr

Bortträngda minnen och huruvida dessa kan eller bör framkallas är föremål för omfattande diskussion i forskarvärlden. Vad som kan kallas vetenskaplig och verklig sanning är också det långt ifrån oomstritt. På den juridiska sidan ger den svenska bevisprövningsmodellen domstolarna möjlighet att beakta i princip allt de finner av värde. Att andra vetenskapsdiscipliner ofta kommer in i den juridiska bThe discussion in the scientific community around the subject repressed memories has for a long time been extensive. The Swedish rules of evidence validation give the court the possibility of freely taking in consideration everything they find of value for the judgement. It is therefore up to the courts to decide whether or not to trust repressed memories as evidence. The purpose of this essay

On offshore installations for oil- and gas exploration, fire-water deluge systems are often installed to mitigate the effect in case of fires. Recent research has shown that the deluge can also be used to mitigate explosion consequences by activating deluge on gas detection. The effect of deluge on the explosion risk is however very complex and could in some cases lead to increased explosion risk

In the last couple of years the lack of housing and homelessness has increased in Malmö. At the same time there has been a discussion about the importance of housing as a part of the aftercare related to social work. Malmö has a goal stating that people that have stayed in hospital, treatment or served a prison sentence shall be offered a drug-free housing with a personalized support. We were inte

Serious Games – Integrating games in military training. Serious games are computer games used for various training in virtual environments. This can in many cases reduce costs, time and gain better results over ordinary training. Complex training scenarios which would be practically infeasible to create in reality can be constructed in a virtual environment. Saab Training Systems have developed an

PURPOSE: To evaluate patients' vision-related activity limitation before and after bilateral cataract surgery using the German version of the Catquest-9SF questionnaire. SETTING: Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria, and Ophthalmic Clinic, Minden, Germany. DESIGN: Questionnaire development. METHODS: This prospective 2-center study included patients who were scheduled for bilateral cataract surgery an

This article builds on the life-stories of elderly Palestinian refugees, collected in the West Bank in 2003-2004. It discusses accounts about flight in 1948 (i.e. al-Nakba) and pays particular interest to stories as well as silences about dying children. The article argues that men and women remembered their flight differently and that the gendered experiences of flight influenced understandings o

In this article I focus on women's advancement in the Swedish labour market during more than a century. By applying a long-term perspective I give the historical background to what is commonly seen as a success story. By reassessing census and labour force survey data I show that participation rates may tell a misleading tale not only for the past but also for the present. In a long-term perspecti

This paper provides a general framework for electromagnetic (EM) modeling, sensitivity analysis, computation, and measurements regarding the wave propagation characteristics of high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power cables. The modeling is motivated by the potential use with transient analysis, partial-discharge measurements, fault localization and monitoring, and is focused on very long (10 km

Solving simple problems can quickly grow in complexity as more and more re- quirements are added over time. Parking fee’s are no exception to this as reg- ulations, special exceptions and many other factors contribute to create quite complicated fees. This complexity can make it quite difficult for the average person to model a parking-zone in the way they have to. This thesis discusses the nature

In the spectral region 2400-3160A of Eta Carinae, we have identifiedapproximately 500 absorption lines each with up to twenty velocitycomponents.The -512 km/s component is truely unique as 1) the typicalline width is <3 km/s, 2) the identified lines are in Fe I, Fe II, VII and Ti II, and 3) the lines originate from lower levels up to 2000cm-1 above the ground level. We have measured the velocity c

Passenger journeys increasingly include mediality in its various manifestations. Mass-transit systems need clear signs, often featured in the form of audiovisual media, and transmitted through displays working for captive and in-transit audiences. With reference to Italian biggest railway stations, the chapter explores the reconfiguration of those television-like networks (commonly known as ‘go-tv

Context. Star clusters, composed of stars born from the same molecular cloud, serve as invaluable natural laboratories for understanding the fundamental processes governing stellar formation and evolution. Aims. This study aims to investigate correlations between the Mean Interdistance (Di), Mean Closest Interdistance (Dc) and Median Weighted Central Interdistance (Dcc) with the age of star cluste

The initial adsorption of MeCpPtMe 3 is investigated using synchrotron-based ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The experiments are done on a native oxide-covered Si substrate. In addition, a reaction with O 2 and the created Pt surface was investigated. Inspiration for the reaction studies was found from atomic layer deposition of metallic Pt, process that uses the same comp

Animal locomotion is constrained by Newtonian laws of motion and therefore biomechanics is a useful approach for quantitative analysis of force and power requirements. Aerial locomotion in vertebrates is no exception, and arguably the most significant developments are to be found in this journal. Evolutionary birds and bats are very successful groups, doubtless largely because of their ability to

Pluvial flood mapping is a common way to identify locations at risk of being flooded in connection with an extreme short-duration rainfall. As rainfall extremes are expected to intensify in a warmer climate, more and more cities and municipalities are performing pluvial flood mapping, in Sweden and elsewhere. Often a rainfall with a return period of 100–200 years is used in the mapping, and the ma