Short Communications

of this thesis is available in electronic version at: http://media.lib.kth.se TRITA-CHE Report 2008:39 ISSN 1654-1081 ISBN 978-91-7178-977-8 www.kth.se

Properly designed and structured groundbased geodetic networks materialize the reference systems to support sub-mm global change measurements over space, time and evolving technologies. Over this past year, the Ground Networks and Communications Working Group (GN&C WG) has been organized under the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) to work with the IAG measurement services (the IGS, ILRS, ...

We present observations of the High Mass X-ray Binary GX 301−2 taken during the Galactic Plane Scan (GPS) with INTEGRAL following our RXTE observations (Kreykenbohm et al., 2004). The optical companion of GX 301−2 is the B1Ia+ hyper-giant Wray 977 with a luminosity of 1.3 × 10 6 L ⊙ and a mass of ∼48 M ⊙ making the system one of the most massive X-ray binaries known. The system was observed 24 ...

BACKGROUND Microbial eukaryotes represent an important component of the human gut microbiome, with different beneficial or harmful roles; some species are commensal or mutualistic, whereas others are opportunistic or parasitic. The diversity of eukaryotes inhabiting humans remains relatively unexplored because of either the low abundance of these organisms in human gut or because they have rece...

The ability of kappa-opioid receptor ligands to modulate dependence-related behavioural effects of drugs like morphine and cocaine is well documented. The present study examined the effects of kappa-opioid agonists on nicotine-induced locomotor stimulation in rats chronically pre-exposed to nicotine (0.4 mg/kg/day). U50,488 [0.5-3 mg/kg subcutaneously (s.c.)], U69,593 [0.08-0.32 mg/kg intraperi...

This paper presents suggestions for the design of a scholarly communications system for the IFIP Working Group 8.2 (WG8.2) community. Learned societies such as IFIP have long been important in the system of scholarly communications. With the affordances of the Internet, WG8.2 can play a larger role in promoting scholarly communications to achieve multiple goals: dissemination and archiving of q...

Our research group at Yonsei University is working on the development of future wireless communications from theory to prototyping. We have collaborated with the NI advanced wireless research team through the RF/Communications Lead User Program since 2014. We demonstrated a real-time full-duplex LTE system at IEEE GLOBECOM in Austin, Texas, in December 2014. Based on this prototype, we can elab...

Patients suffering from schizophrenia have been found to be impaired in their pragmatic abilities in the comprehension of figurative language (e.g., metaphors, ironies, proverbs). Impairments in theory of mind (ToM; that is, the ability to attribute/infer mental states) have been proposed to be underlying high level language understanding. Even though ToM has been shown to be defective in schiz...