The conjunctions att ‘that’ and och ‘and’ in Swedish are examined with the goal of finding prosodic and segmental cues distinguishing between their occurrence in fluent and hesitation disfluency contexts (when followed by a pause). Analysis of data indicates the following major tendencies: 1. the mean F0 in the function words does not differ significantly in hesitation and fluent contexts where...

J (H .H)=0 .9Hz . lH, 10a-H), 5.75 (ddd, J(H,H)=17.0Hz, J ( H , H ) = 10.0 Hz. J (H,H) = 8.0Hz, 1 H, 9-H), 7.02 (AABB, analyzed as AB, Avnn = 54.0 Hr, J (H.H) = 9.0 Hz, 4 H, Ph-H), 7.54 (m. 1 H, 2-H). "C NMR (50.3 MHz, C,D,CI,, 100 "C): b =19.80* (C-6). 27.71 * (C-5). 30.65 (C-71, 35.96 (C-4a). 40.26 (C-4), 41.24 (C-8), 50.45 (OCH,), 51.57 (OCH,), 55.45 (Ph-OCH,). 58.87 (C-l'), 59.73 (C-8 a), 9...

CdSe nanospheres and dendrites have been successfully synthesized via an ionic liquid-assisted hydrothermal synthetic method. The samples are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). Our experimental results demonstrate that the CdSe dendrites are obt...

The synthesis of two new synthetic analogues of lecithin, two of phosphatidyl ethanolamine ("cephalin"), and one new phosphatidic acid analogue is described. They comprise one of each of the following types: the "isosteric" diether lecithin and cephalin analogues ROCH(2)CH(OR)- CH(2)CH(2)P(O) (O(-))OCH(2)CH(2)N(+)R'(3) (R = C(18)H(37); R' = H or CH(3)); and the "hydrocarbon" analogues of phosph...

The aims of the work this thesis is based upon were to develop convenient analytical procedures for determining resin acids in biological and environmental matrices, and apply them to enhance understanding of the occurrence, exposure to and uptake by exposed individuals of resin acids. Particular focus has been on the workplace environment of the Swedish wood pellets industry. Sample extraction...

This work investigates the acoustical and perceptual influence of a system concerning piano string end scaling, called duplex stringing. The system is patented by Steinway & Sons and claimed to improve the tone quality by having the string parts outside the speaking length (front and rear duplex strings) scaled in harmonic relation with the main strings. Acoustical measurements on a Steinway C ...

Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) is an enzyme in the human body that processes the alcohol concentration in the blood. Alcohol dehydrogenase is a dimer which means it’s a molecule that consists of two parts which are called monomers. There are seven different dehydrogenases. ADH can be found in many organisms and it facilitates the oxidisation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones and at the same time...

Online video streaming has gained tremendous popularity over recent years and currently constitutes the majority of Internet traffic. As large-scale ondemand streaming continues to gain popularity, several important questions and challenges remain unanswered. This thesis addresses open questions in the areas of efficient content delivery for HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming (HAS) from different pe...