Arbete och Hälsa Arbete och Hälsa (Work and Health) is a scientific report series published by the National Institute for Working Life. The series presents research by the Institute's own researchers as well as by others, both within and outside of Sweden. The series publishes scientific original works, disser-tations, criteria documents and literature surveys. Arbete och Hälsa has a broad targ...

We analyzed cleavage of precursor tRNAs with an LNA, 2'-OCH(3), 2'-H or 2'-F modification at the canonical (c(0)) site by bacterial RNase P. We infer that the major function of the 2'-substituent at nt -1 during substrate ground state binding is to accept an H-bond. Cleavage of the LNA substrate at the c(0) site by Escherichia coli RNase P RNA demonstrated that the transition state for cleavage...

The process of forest harvesting is highly mechanized in most industrialized countries, with felling and processing of trees performed by technologically advanced forestry machines. However, the maneuvering of the vehicles through the forest as well as the control of the on-board hydraulic boom crane is currently performed through continuous manual operation. This complicates the introduction o...

Modern electronics has revolutionized the way information is processed and stored in our society. In health care and in biology it is of great interest to utilize technology to regulate physiology and to control the signaling pathways. Therefore, the coupling of electronic signals to biological functions is of great importance to many fields within the life sciences. In addition to the conventi...

CPU/GPU heterogeneous systems have shown remarkable advantages in performance and energy consumption compared to homogeneous ones such as standard multi-core systems. Such heterogeneity represents one of the most promising trends for the near-future evolution of high performance computing hardware. However, as a double-edged sword, the heterogeneity also brings significant programming complexit...

In this master thesis methods for increasing temporal resolution when reconstructing radially sampled MRI data have been developed and evaluated. This has been done in two steps; first the order in which data is sampled in k-space has been optimized, and second; temporal filters have been developed in order to utilize the high sampling density in central regions of k-space as a result of the po...

This degree project was done at a development office at Ericsson AB in Göteborg in the autumn of 2008 and spring of 2009. At this office an application concept had been developed, this application was a graphical editor for creating and maintaining mobile portals, or mobile websites. This application had the form of a design sketch when the degree project started. The objectives of the degree p...

People are, in their daily lives, exposed to a number of airborne foreign compounds that do not normally affect the body. However, depending on the nature of these compounds, dose and duration of exposure, various airway symptoms may arise. Early symptoms are often manifested as upper airway mucosal inflammation which generates changes in protein composition in the airway lining fluid. This the...

This Thesis explores synthesis and characterization of new MAX phase alloys (M = early transition metal, A = A-group element, and X = C or N), based on incorporation of M and X elements previously not considered. My primary focus is on M = Mn for attaining magnetic properties, and on X = O for potential tuning of the transport properties. A recent theoretical study predicted (Cr1-xMnx)2AlC MAX ...

As the complexity of vehicle control-systems increases, the amount of information that these systems are intended to handle also increases. This thesis provides concepts relating to real-time database management systems to be used in such control-systems. By integrating a real-time database management system into a vehicle control-system, data management on a higher level of abstraction can be ...