Originally designed for wind velocity estimation over the ocean, scatterometers have since been applied to climate studies of the Earth's cryosphere and bioshere. As an integral part of climatological studies of the planet, the NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) supplies scatterometer-based products designed to aid researchers in climatological studies of the planet. In this thesis, necessary steps are taken to facilitate data from the Oceansat-2 Ku-band scatterometer (OSCAT) to be used in extending the Ku-band SCP dataset of conically scanning pencil-beam scatterometers begun by the Seawinds scatterometer flown on the QuikSCAT mission 1999-2009. As a standard SCP product, a temporal resolution enhancement technique for the scatterometer image reconstruction (SIR) algorithm is applied to OSCAT data. A relative cross-calibration method is developed to ensure consistency amongst datasets of conically scanning pencil-beam scatterometers in the SCP data time series. By application of the method, both raw data and SIR image data of OSCAT is cross-calibrated with QuikSCAT. To enable creation of SCP products requiring knowledge of the spatial response function (SRF) with OSCAT data, a method of estimating the SRF of pencil-beam scatterometers is developed. The estimation method employs rank-reduced least-squares to invert the radar equation using measurements over islands. A simulation is performed to validate the efficacy of the method and provide optimum choice of island size and number of singular values used in rank-reduced least-squares. The utility of the SRF estimates is demonstrated by applying an estimate of the OSCAT SRF to SIR image construction with OSCAT data.

I detta examensarbete utforskades William Waltons Violakonsert utifrån olika aspekter. Syftet var att undersöka de formmässiga val som kompositören har gjort samt hur de påverkar balansen mellan orkester och soloviola. Undersökningen genomfördes metodiskt genom att studera och analysera verket, reflektera över hur olika speltekniska utmaningar löstes i samband med själva instuderingen, och dokumentera det logistiska arbetet rörande sammanställningen av en orkester och planeringen kring detta. Studiens resultat påvisar att kompositören har skrivit orkestreringen så att orkestern spelar svagt när sololinjen pågår och när soloviolan har paus spelar orkestern starkt. De tre olika satserna visade sig innebära utmaningar av skiljande karaktär. Violakonserten innehåller modernistiska stildrag som stora dissonanta intervallsprång, polyrytmik och polytonalitet samt tonartsbyten, lägesväxlingar och intonationsutmaningar. Första satsen, som ovanligt nog är långsam, är interpretationsmässigt den svåraste att spela. God framförhållning och goda marginaler visade sig vara viktiga aspekter för projektets realisering. Planeringen och genomförandet av projektet har lärt mig oerhört mycket, såväl konstnärligt som orkestersolist som praktiskt med organisering och framförande av en stor konsert. Jag är mycket nöjd över att ha lyckats genomföra projektet och uppskattar de många skickliga musikervänner som tog sig tid för att göra det här med mig. / <p>Bifogat ljudfil är inspelning av examenskonsert 11/5-2022. </p><p>Program samt medverkande:</p><p></p><p>F. Schubert - ur Winterreise (arr. R. Benedict):</p><p>Erstarrung</p><p>Frühlingstraum</p><p>Der Stürmische Morgen</p><p></p><p>Isela Halonen, viola</p><p>Georg Öqvist, piano</p><p></p><p>W. Walton - Violakonsert</p><p></p><p>Isela Halonen, soloviola</p><p>Maria Itkonen, dirigent</p><p>Orkester med studenter från KMH</p>

This thesis examines and compares two travel accounts in the regions of Phocis and Boeotia in Greece, as they appear in the book of Sir William Gell “The Itinerary of Greece: With a Commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an Account of the Monuments of Antiquity at Present Existing in that Country (1819) and on the two volumed book of Edward Dodwell A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece: During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806, Volume 1 &amp; 11 (1819). More specifically, the thesis explores the extent of the area that these travelers managed to cover during their routes, the places with historical and archaeological interest that they mentioned at least, their moves among the various chronotopes, and the use of their predecessors’ texts for on their routes. With the use of digital platforms such as Recogito, their travel accounts have been annotated, tagged, aligned with ToposText gazetteer and Wikidata, exported as .csv files, and further processed using OpenRefine. By having as a ground theory approach the social construction of space, as Lefebvre has defined it, the thesis, with the assistance of ArcGIS and Python and the necessary manual steps, explored the topics as mentioned above. The analysis of these topics provided interesting results to the thesis. It showed the differences in the area coverage of the two travelers in Phocis and Boeotia. It also highlighted their accuracy in the discovering of ancient places and buildings. Moreover, it delineated their moves through the different chronotopes and the vital role of the physical environment as a bridge for these moves. Ultimately, this thesis revealed the crucial role of their predecessors’ travel accounts for their navigation on the respecting. Mainly, it made clear the vitality of the travel accounts of Strabo and Pausanias. These results were clearly connected with the social construction of space and time from the two British travelers based on their cultural background.

For decades, dengue virus has been a cause of major public health concern in Costa Rica, due to its landscape and climatic conditions that favor the circumstances in which the vector, Aedes aegypti, thrives. The emergence and introduction throughout tropical and subtropical countries of the chikungunya virus, as of 2014, challenged Costa Rican health authorities to provide a correct diagnosis since it is also transmitted by the same vector and infected hosts may share similar symptoms. We study the 2015–2016 dengue and chikungunya outbreaks in Costa Rica while establishing how point estimates of epidemic parameters for both diseases compare to one another. Longitudinal weekly incidence reports of these outbreaks signal likely misdiagnosis of infected individuals: underreporting of chikungunya cases, while overreporting cases of dengue. Our comparative analysis is formulated with a single-outbreak deterministic model that features an undiagnosed class. Additionally, we also used a genetic algorithm in the context of weighted least squares to calculate point estimates of key model parameters and initial conditions, while formally quantifying misdiagnosis.

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