Sökning: "defense matters"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade orden defense matters.
1. Gender Matters : Differences and change in disability and health among our oldest women and men
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates gender differences in health and how they have changed between 1992 and 2002 among very old people. It explores gender differences in the association between disability and health, and gender differences in care utilization among our oldest old people. LÄS MER
2. Timing Matters : Wounding and entomopathogenic nematode infection kinetics
Sammanfattning : Over time, insects have developed complex strategies to defend themselves against presenting threats. However, in the evolutionary arms race of survival, pathogens have adapted to quickly overcome the immune response mounted by the host. LÄS MER
3. Packet Order Matters! : Improving Application Performance by Deliberately Delaying Packets
Sammanfattning : Data-centers increasingly deploy commodity servers with high-speed network interfaces to enable low-latency communication. However, achieving low latency at high data rates crucially depends on how the incoming traffic interacts with the system's caches. When packets that need to be processed in the same way are consecutive, i.e. LÄS MER
4. Perspektiv på Patron : Bruksägaren och statsministern Christian Lundeberg (1842–1911)
Sammanfattning : The dissertation is a biography of the industrialist and statesman Christian Lundeberg, a leading and stongly pronounced conservative actor in Swedish political life during the decades around1900, but nowadays almost forgotten. The purpose is to identify the main forces – convictions as well as external factors – behind his actions. LÄS MER
5. Size matters : RNA silencing processes in Phytophthora infestans
Sammanfattning : Non-coding RNAs do not encode proteins but instead function through their own RNA sequence. These molecules range from several thousands of nucleotides (nt) in length down to around 20 nt. Specifically, small RNAs (sRNAs) have critical functions in eukaryotic cells, despite being only 20-30 nt long. LÄS MER