Denna systematiska litteraturstudie syftar till att beskriva hur lärarens roll påverkar elever med fallenhet samt vilka stödinsatser som kan sättas in för att bidra till utveckling hos dessa elever inom matematikämnet. Vetenskapliga artiklar har analyserats och granskats utifrån vald teori och forskningsfrågor för att få fram relevant forskning kring det aktuella ämnet. Resultatet visar att lärarens roll har en stor betydelse för utvecklingen hos elever med fallenhet. Läraren ska väcka elevernas nyfikenhet och intresse samt ge utmanande uppgifter för att skapa motivation och möta deras behov. Resultatet visar även att stödinsatser såsom differentiering, acceleration och berikning är dem som framstår som mest främjande för elever med fallenhet i matematik.

A large number and a variety of sensors and actuators, also known as edge devices of the Internet of Things, belonging to various industries - health care monitoring, home automation, industrial automation, have become prevalent in today's world. These edge devices need to communicate data collected to the central system occasionally and often in burst mode which is then used for monitoring and control purposes. To ensure secure connections, Asymmetric or Public Key Cryptography (PKC) schemes are used in combination with Symmetric Cryptography schemes. RSA (Rivest - Shamir- Adleman) is one of the most prevalent public key cryptosystems, and has computationally intensive operations which might have a high latency when implemented in resource constrained environments. The objective of this thesis is to design an accelerator capable of increasing the speed of execution of the RSA algorithm in such resource constrained environments. The bottleneck of the algorithm is determined by analyzing the performance of the algorithm in various platforms - Intel Linux Machine, Raspberry Pi, Nios soft core processor. In designing the accelerator to speedup bottleneck function, we realize that the accelerator architecture will need to be changed according to the resources available to the accelerator. We use high level synthesis tools to explore the design space of the accelerator by taking into consideration system level aspects like the number of ports available to transfer inputs to the accelerator, the word size of the processor, etc. We also propose a new accelerator architecture for the bottleneck function and the algorithm it implements and compare the area and latency requirements of it with other designs obtained from design space exploration. The functionality of the design proposed is verified and prototyped in Zynq SoC of Xilinx Zedboard.

Yoga har blivit allt vanligare idag och allt fler nya studior öppnar. Mitt syfte med den här uppsatsen har därför varit att skapa större förståelse varför vissa människor väljer att göra yoga. Metoden som har tillämpats är kvalitativ. Jag har gjort semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex deltagare: tre yogalärare/instruktörer och tre deltagare på yogakurs. Resultatet visar att respondenterna gör yoga främst för att minska stress i vardagen, för att det ger inre kontakt och mer livskvalité. Med inre kontakt menas att de får mer kontakt med sina känslor och tankar och mer livskvalitet betyder att de anser att de mår bättre och känner sig mer positiva i vardagen. Det som är mest framträdande i studien är respondenternas berättelser om dagens stressepidemi i vårt västerländska samhälle som gör att det är svårt att få ihop livspusslet på alla plan. Jag har främst analyserat intervjuerna med hjälp av Hartmut Rosas teorier om modernitet, acceleration, identitet och alienation. Min slutsats är att Rosa (2014) har rätt i sina teorier om att vi lever i ett samhälle som präglas av vad Rosa kallar den autodynamiska (tekniska, sociala, personliga) accelerationen, vilken skapar alienation (förfrämligande). Han menar även att vi sliter med våra allt längre att-göra-listor, och att vi hinner göra allt mindre av det vi verkligen vill fast vi lever i västerländsk frihet. Rosa hävdar att vi känner oss vilsna i många avseenden i livet och att vi glömmer vad vi anser viktigt och vem vi vill vara. Det resulterar i stress och utmattning och han menar också att dagens höga acceleration gör att vi letar efter en avsiktlig broms för att dämpa vår vardagliga stress. Yoga tycks vara det för respondenterna i min studie. / Yoga exists in many different fields today and many new yoga studios open. My purpose has been to create a greater understanding due to why people choose to practice yoga. Throughout this text, I ask: what motives there are to practice yoga? What experiences does yoga give in relation to the rest of your life? Could there be any reasons in our Swedish western society to why people would like to practice yoga? Is yoga spirituality/religion? The method that has been used is a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews with six persons, three yoga teachers/instructors and three people participating in yoga classes. The result shows that the respondents practice yoga mostly to lower their everyday stress level, to get better contact with themselves and increased their life quality. The most central part of this study is the respondent's stories concerning today's stress epidemic in our western society which makes it hard to balance the life puzzle on different levels. I have foremost analyzed the climate in today's society with Hartmut Rosas theories about modernity, acceleration, identity, and alienation. My conclusion is according to Rosas (2014) theories that we have ended up in the autodynamic (technical, social, personal) acceleration that creates alienation (estrangement). We work hard with our to-do-lists that keep on getting longer and have less and less time to do what we actually want even though we have our western freedom. This results in a society where people feel lost in all parts of life and we forget what we value and who we want to be which results in stress and exhaustion. Rosa (2014) argues that the high acceleration in today's society makes people look for an intentional brake and yoga seems to be this for the respondents.

Practical control problems are subject to dealing with instrumentation noise and inaccurate models. These can be modelled as measurement and state noise, respectively. Nonlinear state estimators, for example a particle filter, can be used to mitigate these effects. However, they are usually computationally expensive which makes them impractical for industrial use. This text investigates using General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) to improve the performance particle and Gaussian sum filters by parallelizing their prediction, update and resampling steps. GPGPU accelerated filters are found to outperform non-accelerated filters as the number of particle increases. GPGPU acceleration also allows particle filters with 2^19.5 particles to be used on systems with dynamic time constants on the order of 0.1 second and for Gaussian sum filters with 2^18.5 particles to be used with time constants on the order of 1 second. The filters are applied to a bioreactor system containing R. Oryzae, where MPC control is applied to the production phase fumaric acid and glucose concentrations. The bioreactor is modelled using results from Iplik (2017) and Swart (2019). It is found that the GPGPU filters improved run times allow for more particles to be used which provides increased filter accuracy and thus better performance. This improved performance comes at the cost of consuming more energy. Thus, it is believed that the GPGPU implementations should be used for applications with complex dynamics/noise that require large numbers of particles and/or high sampling rates. / Dissertation (MEng (Control Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2021. / Chemical Engineering / MEng (Control Engineering) / Unrestricted

Utifrån Skollagen (Utbildningsdepartementet 3 kap. 2§) har alla elever rätt till att utvecklas efter sina förutsättningar. Enligt den tidigare forskningen (Pettersson, 2011: 219) och den insamlade empirin framgår det att skolorna fokuserar på eleverna som ej når kunskapsmålen. Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på hur lärare kan identifiera högpresterande och begåvade elever i matematik i årskurs 4–6, samt att hitta verktyg för att differentiera undervisningen för dessa elever. Frågeställningarna studien utgått från är:  - Vilka strategier har lärare för att identifiera högpresterande och begåvade elever i matematik?  -  Vilka strategier använder lärare för att differentiera undervisningen för högpresterande och begåvade elever i matematik? Empiri har samlats in genom intervjuer med sju verksamma lärare i årskurs 4–6. Empirin analyserades kvalitativt och kategorier skapades.  Studiens resultat visar att lärare identifierar högpresterande och begåvade elever på olika sätt, exempelvis genom det matematiska språket och kvalitet på lösningar av uppgifter. Studien visar också att differentiering sker på olika sätt, främst förekommande var berikning av undervisning. Studien avslutas med en konklusion och didaktiska implikationer.

Master thesis titled “Analysis of selected manoeuvres of bicyclists” in the first part deals with the history of bicycles, construction, division of bicycles and introduces–traffic accidents of cyclists and national legislation. Practical measurements with bicyclists is in the second part of this thesis. Cyclists performed deceleration on three surfaces, acceleration and a manoeuver, in which cyclist looked behind himself before changing the direction. The evaluation of all measurements and comparison with other similar works has been made in the last chapters.

The final thesis was created in cooperation with the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and European Laser Centre ELI Beamlines. It focuses on design of monitoring device for laser target observation in a high-performance laser particle accelerator. Details of scanning and positioning system designated for operation in UHV environment are presented in this thesis. Design changes were performed in scanning system in order to achieve more effective scanning. Positioning system, consisting of precise linear and rotary motors, is newly designed device with high precision positioning under 1 µm in direction of each axis. The purpose of monitoring device is to improve overall scanning precision, shorten targeting process, and increase user comfort.

The performance of the virtual switch Open vSwitch (OVS) is insufficient to satisfy the current requirements for link bandwidth of the server connections. There is an effort to accelerate the OVS both in the software and in the hardware by offloading the datapath to the smart network interface cards. In this work the COMBO card for 100G Ethernet developed by CESNET is used to accelerate the OVS. The suggested solution utilizes the firmware for FPGA generated from the definition in the P4 language to classify the packets in the card and DPDK for the data transfers and offloading the classification rules into the card. Forwarding of one flow with the shortest frames from physical to physical interface using one CPU core reaches forwarding rate of 11.2 Mp/s (10 times more than the standard OVS) with classification in the card and 5.9 Mp/s without classification in the card.

The aim of the submitted diploma thesis is the magnitude determination of the headlamp response to the dynamic excitation. Currently it is necessary to measure this response, because it is one of the assessed criteria of quality of the headlamp. When comparing results of the experimental measurement and the computational modelling, a good consensus of resonant frequencies is observed, but there are significant differences in acceleration amplitudes. The cause of this is the variable damping value. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with polymeric materials, basics of oscillation and damping. It serves to understand the mechanisms, which influence the results of the experimental measurement. The practical part is dedicated to the procedure of the computational modelling and the experimental measurement implementation. The analysis of the experimental measurement results leads to an ascertainment of nonlinearities, which influence the headlamp behaviour. The results of a sensitivity analysis of the computational modelling are used to create curves, on the basis of which the damping is estimated. The inclusion of the estimated damping into computational modelling leads to reduction of the compared differences of the acceleration amplitudes. The conclusion of the thesis contains the recommendation for the damping determination during the computational modelling of the headlamp.

This thesis explores potential use of GPGPU libraries to accelerate k-Wave toolkit's acoustic wave propagation simulation. Firstly, the thesis researches and assesses available high level GPGPU libraries. Afterwards, an insight into k-Wave toolkit's current state of simulation acceleration is provided. Based on that, an approach to enhance currently available code for processors into a heterogeneous application, that is capable of being run on graphics card, is proposed. The outcome of this thesis is an application that can utilize graphics card. If graphics card is unavailable, a fallback into thread and SIMD based acceleration for processor is executed. The product of this thesis is then evaluated based on its performance, maintenance difficulty and usability.