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This article presents a critical assessment of 40 years of research that may be brought under the umbrella of energy efficiency, spanning different aggregations and domains-from individual producing and consuming agents to economy-wide effects to the role of innovation to the influence of policy. After 40 years of research, energy efficiency initiatives are generally perceived as highly effective.

Pervasiveness and complexity of modern software are challenging engineers to design applications able to guarantee the desired quality of service despite unpredictable runtime variations in their execution environment. A variety of techniques have been proposed in the last year for the design of self-adaptive applications; however, most of them is tailored to specific applications or can provide l

Summary: Brain Computer interfaces (BCIs) are stable inside the brain over long periods of time and that have minimal effects on the physiological conditions of the neural tissue. This chapter reviews the state-of-the-art of neural interfaces and the concepts behind recent research and development of biocompatible BCIs. It focuses on various tissue responses in the brain to an implanted foreign bo

OBJECTIVES: To characterize the clinical phenotype and to study the course of disease in patients with Alström syndrome, with an emphasis on retinal function assessed with full-field electroretinography (ERG). METHODS: Three age- and sex-matched patients with Alström syndrome were selected from our retinitis pigmentosa register for repeated ophthalmologic examinations that included tests for color

Anaerobic digestion is a suitable method for the treatment of wastewater and organic wastes, yielding biogas as a useful by-product. A common way of preventing instability problems and avoiding acidification in anaerobic digesters is to keep the organic load to the digester far below its maximum capacity. An improved way of operating digesters would be to use monitoring and control systems for inc

It isn’t always easy to be a student and have a work besides the studies. One can be placed in a workgroup where they don’t take you seriously. Our aim with this study is to look closer into students that are studying social work at a university and work with social work besides their studies. We have chosen to have a qualitative approach throughout our study and the core of this study is to seek

Principen remedial secession innebär att ett folk har rätt till utbrytning och skapandet av en egen stat om de hindrats att utöva sin rätt till självbestämmanderätt inom centralstaten Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka rätten till självbestämmande och om det utifrån denna rätt finns grund för en rätt till remedial secession. I uppsatsen beskrivs olika fall för att belysa hur den eventuella rät

The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a po

The purpose of this case study was to investigate residents’ perception regarding household preparedness in areas prone to sudden natural hazards. The study was conducted in Namacu, Koro Island, Fiji. The main method for data collection was through semi-structured interviews and observations. Many of the factors affecting perception regarding the residents’ household preparedness were connected to

Lagstiftaren har under en längre tid, med mindre framgång, eftersträvat en straffskärpning för mord. Ett av regeringen framtaget förslag till ändring kommer sannolikt tas upp till omröstning i riksdagen och föreslås träda i kraft 1 januari 2020. Förslaget har till syfte att tillfredsställa det behov regeringen tycker sig se att riksdagen har, att livstids fängelse i högre grad ska tillämpas för moThe legislator has, during the last decade, tried numerous times to raise the punishment for committed murders without any remarkable success. A new proposition is under review and will probably be voted on. The proposition is to become law in the beginning of 2020. In criminal law there are a few fundamental theories and principles related to legislation. Most fundamental are the principle of p

Henry James had a thirty-year-long relationship with the city of Venice, which made it possible for him to develop a profound knowledge of the city's architecture and art. James's interest in 'The Floating City' is reflected in three of his works that are set there, namely, "Travelling Companions" (1870), The Aspern Papers (1888) and The Wings of the Dove (1902). This ess

Municipal housing companies in Sweden have since the end of world war two been major players in the housing market. In most cities the municipal housing companies are one of the biggest, if not the biggest, owner of housing. These companies are owned, in their entirety, by the municipality in which they operate and it is the municipality that issues the ownership directives these companies operate

The aim of this study is to investigate why individuals form certain attitudes towards immigration from a perspective of sociotropic concerns. The theory suggests that people form political attitudes based on the consequences for their country as a whole. I add the perspective that sociotropic concerns are based on the social group that is of most importance to the individual, national or not. Pre

Försök i växthusmiljö för att utvärdera effektiviteten av ingrepp i mindre skala mot parkslide, Reynoutria japonica. Tack vare en ökad konnektivitet i världen via turism och handel så förflyttas många arter från sina naturliga utbredningsområden, och i vissa fall leder detta till en så kallad invasiv art. Detta är arter som sprider sig okontrollerat, är svåra att utrota när de väl är introducerad