The overall aim of this study is to analyse the cultural representation in fictional texts in three English as a Foreign Language (EFL) coursebooks written for the English 5 course in Swedish upper secondary school. The three coursebooks are Blueprint A 3.0, Pick & Mix 1, and Solid Gold 1. The study was conducted in order to compare and discuss the portrayal and representation of cultures of the English-speaking world. The method used consists of a combination of the two-stage model constructed by McDonough et al. (2013) and a qualitative content analysis. The three coursebooks were analysed through the theoretical framework of postcolonial theory. The results show that American culture is represented to a higher extent than any other culture in the included fictional works. Because of the discrepancy in representation, American culture was portrayed through various societal issues, living conditions, and cultural features. However, many other cultures of the English-speaking world were barely represented at all. Furthermore, the results show that cultures such as Indian or Irish are not included in all the coursebooks. The lack of fictional texts representing cultures of Africa included in the coursebooks further shows the discrepancy and specific focus on certain parts of the English-speaking world. Solid Gold 1 was the only one of the three coursebooks which included fictional texts discussing all cultures highlighted. Although there is a notable difference in the representation of cultures, and the number of times certain cultures are mentioned, the analysis shows that the coursebooks create many opportunities, through fictional texts, for students to learn about societal issues, cultural features, and living conditions in parts of the world where English is used, meeting the requirements of the Swedish curriculum.

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Printed circuit boards used in most ordinary electrical devices are usually equipped through an assembly line. Pick and place machines as part of those lines require accurate detection of incorrectly picked components, and this is commonly performed via image analysis. The goal of this project is to investigate if we can achieve state-of-the-art performance in an industrial quality assurance task through the application of artificial neural networks. Experiments regarding different network architectures and data modifications are conducted to achieve precise image classification. Although the classification rates do not surpass or equal the rates of the existing vision-based detection system, there remains great potential in the deployment of a machine-learning-based algorithm into pick and place machines. / Tryckta kretskort som används i de flesta vanliga elektroniska produkter är vanligtvis monterade i monteringslinjer. Ytmonteringsmaskinerna i dessa monteringslinjer kräver exakt detektering av felaktigt plockade komponenter, vilket ofta genomförs med hjälp av bildanalys. Målet med detta projekt är att undersöka om vi kan uppnå framstående resultat i en industriell kvalitetssäkringsuppgift genom användandet av artificiella neuronnätverk. Experiment utförs med olika nätverksarkitekturer och datamodifikationer för att uppnå exakt bildklassificering.  Även om klassificeringsgraderna inte uppnår klassificeringsgraderna hos existerande synbaserade detekteringssystem, finns en stor potential för användandet av maskininlärningsbaserade algoritmer i ytmonteringsmaskiner.

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The aim of this essay has been to investigate the use and traditios of double weaves during the old Vasa period in Sweden, the so called Ryssväv (Russian Weave). Questions focused are: what was the magnitude of the double weaves produced in Sweden, was there a considerable import from Finland, how were the double weaves used, did it differ between bigger and smaller royal estates, was the building type of importance for the furnishing? Ryssväv has been categorized both as an "everyday article", and as art weave, but what was its status, and what status did the craftsmen have compared to other craftsmen? The preserved double weaves from the late medieval period in Sweden-Finland has served as a direct source for my examination and as such the theory and method of my work has been Material culture. Most likely the double weaves of the Vasa period were similar, in both quality and esthetics. My primary sources have been fatbursräkenskaper (household accounts) from two royal estates, Rävsnäs and Gripsholm. In these accounts I have tried to find documentation telling something about the use ad status of ryssväv, and about the craftsmen who made them. The examination demonstrates that the use and production differed between Gripsholm and Rävsnäs; it is likely that this has to do with the building type, stone or wood. About the status of the craftsmen, one example is that of a female weaver recieving more money, for her ryssväv, than a male painter, for his paintings in the king's chamber. What has been claimed by some scientists, that most of the double weaves from the Vasa period, were imported from Finland, can be incorrect, according to my investigation. This hypothesis is left for future research to investigate.

In this dissertation, we solve multivariable Nevanlinna-Pick type interpolation problems. Particularly, we consider the left tangential interpolation problems on the commutative or noncommutative unit ball. For the commutative setting, we discuss left-tangential operator-argument interpolation problems for Schur-class multipliers on the Drury-Arveson space and for the noncommutative setting, we discuss interpolation problems for Schur-class multipliers on Fock space. We apply the Krein-space geometry approach (also known as the Grassmannian Approach). To implement this approach J-versions of Beurling-Lax representers for shift-invariant subspaces are required. Here we obtain these J-Beurling-Lax theorems by the state-space method for both settings. We see that the Krein-space geometry method is particularly simple in solving the interpolation problems when the Beurling-Lax representer is bounded. The Potapov approach applies equally well whether the representer is bounded or not. / Ph. D.

La producción de embriones mediante la recuperación de ovocitos inmaduros por ovum pick up (OPU), y su posterior maduración, fecundación y cultivo en el laboratorio in vitro, presenta numerosos beneficios para optimizar el potencial reproductivo, tanto de hembras como de machos. Además, frente a la superovulación convencional mediante tratamiento hormonal y la recogida de embriones in vivo, la producción in vitro de embriones (PIVE) con ovocitos de OPU ofrece considerables ventajas. Sin embargo, actualmente la PIVE continua siendo ineficiente e incapaz de producir embriones de calidad similar a los in vivo, lo cual ha limitado una aplicación más amplia de esta tecnología. Así pues, el objetivo de esta tesis fue la optimización de la PIVE en ganado vacuno, condicionado por las peculiaridades y deficiencias de la PIVE cuando los ovocitos son recuperados por la técnica de OPU. Con este fin, cinco experimento se llevaron a cabo en esta tesis. En el primero de ellos se estudió el efecto del fluido oviductal bovino (FOb) sobre el desarrollo y la calidad embrionaria (Experimento 1). Las fases del proceso de PIVE en las cuales el cultivo de ovocitos/embriones, bien individualmente o bien en número reducido, pudiera perjudicar el posterior desarrollo hasta el estadio de blastocisto y/o a su calidad, se estudiaron en el Experimento 2. En el Experimento 3 se testó si el desarrollo y la calidad de embriones cultivados in vitro en número reducido podría ser mejorada con la adición conjunta de factor de crecimiento epidérmico, insulina, transferrina y selenio (FCE-ITS) o por el sistema de cultivo de embriones llamado well of well (WOW). Las propiedades protectoras de la melatonina frente a los daños causados por el estrés oxidativo, subsecuentes de las condiciones de PIVE o de un estrés térmico durante la maduración ovocitaria, fueron evaluadas en el Experimento 4. Por último, en el Experimento 5 usamos ovocitos recolectados por OPU para evaluar el efecto del semen sexado sobre / Cebrián Serrano, A. (2013). Factors affecting the in vitro embryo production in cattle associated to ovum pick up sistem [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/27646

<p> Vision-based robots have been utilized for pick-and-place operations for their repeatability. Various vision-based autonomous pick and place approaches using machine learning techniques have been researched for more flexible and lightweight operations with a large dataset for training. there is rare research about human intervention for dataset. This research suggests two methods for pick-and-place with minimum human intervention </p>

Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2007-2008. / Le but de cet ouvrage est de montrer, grâce à l'introduction d'éléments de théorie; géométrique, comment il est possible d'apporter de nouvelles idées à, la résolution d'un problème: d'interpolation connu sous le nom de problème, classique de Nevanlinna Pick et qui s'énonce comme suit : étant donné n points distincts z^,. . . , zn et n points W\,...,wn tous appartenant au disque unité D, déterminer des conditions suffisantes et nécessaires assurant l'existence d'une fonction analytique / : D —> D satisfaisant /(z,) = m, pour /' = 1, . . . , n. Une solution complète fut apportée d'abord par Pick en 1916 et indépendamment par Nevanlinna en 1919. Une toute nouvelle approche sera donc présentée dans ce travail utilisant la géométrie hyperbolique, de même qu'une version à points multiples du lemine de Schwarz-Pick.

Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2015-2016 / Les systèmes de Schwarz-Pick sont de puissants outils qui permettent d'enrichir l'étude de la géométrie des domaines de l'espace à plusieurs variables complexes. Plus particulièrement, les pseudodistances de Carathéodory et de Kobayashi forment respectivement le plus grand et le plus petit système. L'objet de cet ouvrage consiste à regrouper et synthétiser les recherches autour du calcul de ces pseudodistances sur le bidisque symétrisé. Il s'agit d'un domaine de l'espace à deux variables complexes qui possède une géométrie riche et qui joue un rôle clé dans la résolution du problème de Nevanlinna-Pick spectral. Sur le bidisque symétrisé, il est possible de calculer explicitement la pseudodistance de Carathéodory par le biais de la théorie des opérateurs. Le calcul de la pseudodistance de Kobayashi, se fera elle à travers un problème d'interpolation du disque unité avec des valeurs cibles dans le bidisque symétrisé, résolu à l'aide du théorème de Nevanlinna-Pick classique.