When analysing time series data, identifying periodic patterns is a common task. Several methods have been proposed to locate such patterns, many of them utilizing visualizations. One such visualization proposed in the past has been the Spiral Display, a method in which time series data is mapped onto a spiral representation of a timespan. Using an appropriate period for this spiral, periodic p...

When robots enter our homes to help us with our daily life tasks, there will be a need for an interface where a robot system can learn from humans demonstrating a task, similar to how humans learn new skills by imitating. It has been shown that human movements are composed of smaller basic units of motions, called primitives. If we can identify and learn these primitives, then a robot will be a...

Architecture-based reliability models for software applications are a relatively new type of reliability model that considers the internal structure, or architecture, of the application. Such models have not yet been used in the field to any extent. However, the research community has now provided the theory required for these techniques to be usable by practitioners. The purpose of this thesis...

The United Nations adopted an historic international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in April 2013. A 1997 meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who called for an International Code of Conduct to address the 'destructive effects of the unregulated arms trade' initiated discussions that led to the Treaty. Public health institutions, including the World Health Organization and the International Committe...

Jäst utgör ett hållbart proteinalternativ till fiskmjöl i foder till odlad fisk, men resultat presenterade i denna avhandling indikerar att inblandning med mer än 40% minskar fisktillväxten. Syftet med denna avhandling var att förstå effekten av högre halter av inaktiverad respektive levande jäst till fisk utan negativa hälsoeffekter. Specifikt effekterna på röda blodkroppar, upptag av plasmaam...

In multiparty multimodal dialogue setup, where the robot is set to interact with multiple people, a main requirement for the robot is to recognize the user speaking to it. This would allow the robot to pay attention (visually) to the person the robot is listening to (for example looking by the gaze and head pose to the speaker), and to organize the dialogue structure with multiple people. Knowi...

It has previously been reported that the region between nucleotides 259 and 383 immediately downstream from the P4 early promoter of parvovirus minute virus of mice, prototype strain (MVMp) is responsible for transcriptional attenuation. Attenuation results from the premature pausing of RNA polymerase II within this sequence (designated to as att) and seems to depend on potential RNA secondary ...

Arterial transit time (ATT) is most crucial for measuring absolute cerebral blood flow (CBF) by arterial spin labeling (ASL), a noninvasive magnetic resonance (MR) perfusion assessment technique, in patients with chronic occlusive cerebrovascular disease. We validated ASL-CBF and ASL-ATT maps calculated by pulsed continuous ASL (pCASL) with multiple post-label delay acquisitions in patients wit...

Mutant cancer-driving oncogenes are the best therapeutic targets, both with drugs like small-molecule inhibitors (SMI) and adoptive T-cell therapy (ATT), the most effective form of immunotherapy. Cancer cell survival often depends on oncogenes, which implies that they are homogenously expressed by all cancer cells and are difficult to select against. Mutant oncogene-directed therapy is relative...