The Balanced Scorecard is a framework for strategic planning and performance management, which has the ability to provide executives and others in an organization a fast but comprehensive view of the business. Due to the complex relations and great amount of information, the most effective way to communicate this scorecard is visually. This study aims to develop an interactive scorecard visuali...

Simulation of computer systems is becoming increasingly important in areas such as code optimization, performance evaluation and processor and memory system design. An important trade-off in simulator design is performance vs. abstraction of the model. Simics is a full system simulator, capable of simulating an entire computer system, including the processor, TLB, MMU, memory hierarchy and surr...

Creating conditions similar to those that occur during exposure of cells to microgravity induced a sixfold increase of apoptotic bodies and DNA fragments in human lymphocytes, paralleled by an early (within 2 h) fourfold increase in 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) activity and a fivefold decrease in mitochondrial membrane potential and increase in cytochrome c release (within 4 and 8 h, respectively). S...

Augmented reality is a technology which allows 2D and 3D computer graphics to be accurately aligned or registered with scenes of the real-world in real-time. The potential uses of this technology are numerous, from architecture and medicine to manufacturing and entertainment. This thesis presents an overview of the (complex) research area of Augmented Reality and describes the basic parts of an...

Microwave imaging is an efficient diagnostic modality for non-invasively visualizing dielectric properties of non-metallic bodies. An increasing interest of this field has been observed during the last decades. Many application areas in biomedicine have been issued, recently the breast tumor detection application using microwave imaging. Many groups are working in the field at the moment for se...

A 69-year-old woman presented with generalized myasthenia gravis and a left orbital cavernous hemangioma (OCH), which elevated the optic nerve and displaced the external eye muscles. Cyclosporine treatment induced a gradual size reduction in the OCH, and consequently contributed to improved external ocular symptoms in combination with immunosuppressant effects.

Jag beskriver här i korthet datoröversättningssystemet Distributed Language Translation (DLT) och tar i samband med detta upp Nordens språk. DLT är ett omfattande forskningsoch utvecklingsprojekt som bedrivs av det nederländska softwareföretaget Buro voor Systeemontwikkeling (BSO/Research i Utrecht) med anslag från Nederländernas Ekonomidepanement. Projektet är inne på en än så länge icke-komme...

This thesis extended the order of the reconstruction of state for convective fluxes used by Finite Volume (FV) algorithm in DLR’s next-generation CFD solver: Flucs, from constant and linear to quadratic and cubic. Two approaches for calculating derivatives were implemented in Flucs and some test cases were tried. To allow for integration of moments within each cell and a higher-order integratio...

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is a key enzyme in the renin-angiotensin system, converting angiotensin I to the vasoactive peptide angiotensin II, and degrading bradykinin. Angiotensin II is a multifunctional peptide, acting on a number of different tissues. A common genetic variation in the gene encoding ACE; ACE I/D polymorphism influences the level of ACE in the circulation, and has bee...

Implementation in GENESIS of a Model of the Striatal Medium Spiny Projection Neuron The Medium Spiny Projection (MSP) neuron is the main cell type (> 90%) of the striatum, the input stage of basal ganglia. Basal ganglia receive input from the cortex and is the structure in the brain, thought to be involved in selection and initiation of motor and possibly cognitive actions as well. To understan...