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This paper is about creating identity based on music making as a leisure activity. The questions asked are about how cultural practicing at leisure contributes to the creation of identity, how the roles and self-image is affected by the exercise, if everyone has the dream of making a living on their music still and if one can learn anything beyond the expected by his/hers leisure activity. The pap

Bryophytes play a significant role in various ecological processes, including soil succession and colonization after disturbances. Although they are commonly believed to take up nutrients from soil solutions rather than the soil itself, the influence of soil on their growth and distribution is evident from previous studies. In order to examine the impact of soil conditions on bryophyte species com

ABSTRACT Author: Malena Cronholm-Nouicer Title: When a parent gets cancer – the family viewed from a resilience perspective (translated title) Supervisor: Bodil Rasmusson Assessor: Mats Hilte The aim of this study was to examine how parents describe family members´ experiences when a parent suffers from cancer, how the family has dealt with the situation, how the parents describe the access to su

The purpose of our essay was to investigate whether a certain group of young people felt that they had a chance to live according to the rules and standards that rule our society through certain given support actions. Central issues were, e.g., if we could understand the situation of the adolescents through certain theories about social background and integration. Were the adolescents considered a

This article reviews photoemission experiments that simultaneously resolve at least two of the following degrees of freedom: space (real and momentum space), time (intrinsic time scale of a fast experiment or time-of-flight) and spin. In the spatiotemporal domain, imaging of fast processes by PEEM gives direct insight into plasmon dynamics or magnetization processes. In the category real space &am

The possibility to print out metallic components with complex 3D-structures is could revolutionize the industry. In this master’s thesis the cause of process parameters have been investigated for three alloys; stainless steel, 316L, two nickel-based alloys, a derivative of Alloy 738 and 939. Microstructure, porosity, tensile testing, impact toughness, hardness and surface roughness was investigate

I höst kommer rymdobservatoriet Gaia att sändas upp. Ett av dess mål är att mätapositionen av stjärnor med väldigt hög noggrannhet, denna positionsbestämning kallas astrometri. Gaias noggrannhet är såpass bra att det kommer bli möjligt att även mäta hur planeter när de färdas i sina banor runt stjärnor påverkar positionen av stjärnan. Astrometri kan inte ge en fullständig bild av hur planeten rörContext: The Gaia satellite will be provide astrometry with micro-arcsecond accuracy. This will allow for the determination of the orbital elements of exoplanets with measurable astrometric signature. Astrometry alone is not be able to disentangle an ambiguity in the orientation of planetary orbits, just as radial velocity is only able to give the mass of orbiting planets combined with multiplicat

Internet har under det senaste årtiondet blivit ett modernt inslag i nästan varje människas vardag. Internet ger obegränsade kommunikationsmöjligheter, men det finns också ett antal negativa sidor med internets snabba utveckling i samhället. En av dessa negativa sidor är att folk under den senaste tiden har börjat utnyttja möjligheten att bakom en datorskärm anonymt kränka personer som de kanske iThe Internet has during the last decade become a modern feature in almost every person’s everyday life. The internet gives an unlimited possibility for communication, but there is also a number of negative aspects with the Internet’s fast development in society. One of these negative aspects is that very recently people have started to use the possibility to hide behind a screen and anonymously vi

In this essay the morphing of the interstate relations in the post-World War II Western Europe is taken in to consideration in discussing how these relations were stabilized and consolidated through community cooperation to achieve a state of stable peace. It concludes that the early 1900's of Western Europe comes close to being conditioned by Herz's security dilemma and then continues to

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: För att kunna planera jordbruket så att all mark används på bästa sätt behövs en databas som innehåller lämplig data. Det finns inte någon sådan för Laos, därför har vi valt att göra en databas och med hjälp av den beskriva norra Laos och speciellt Phonxay distriktet. Projektet gjordes i samarbete med National Agricultural and Forestry Institute (NAFRI) i Laos oSummary: When developing policies for agricultural land and land use planning, it is essential to have access to a land resource database. This database should include biophysical information, socio-economic, demographic and administrative data to simplify description of an area. In Lao PDR, no such database previously existed. Our objective therefore became to make a land resource database and to

Ökande skador på skogen har observerats i stora delar av Europa sedan mitten av 1970-talet. Samma indikationer på skador sågs ganska snart även i Sverige. Skadorna observerades först på barrträdsbestånd, men under 1980-talet observerades även skador på lövträd, framförallt hos bok och ek. Skogsstyrelsen lät till följd av detta genomföra skogsskadeinventeringar 1988, 1993 och 1999 av bok (Fagus sylSince the middle of the 1970´s damage to forest have been observed in large areas of central Europe. The same indications on forest damage were soon found in Sweden as well. Forest damage was first observed in coniferous forest stands, but during the 1980´s damage indication were also observed on deciduous forest stand, particularly on beech and oak. To investigate this further the National Board

Construction of historical national accounts has a long history in Sweden. It started in the interwar period and later a number of improvements and extensions backward and forward in time have been made. Thus, now there are series from 1300 onwards. Of course, due to limitations of the source material, the estimates are more and more uncertain the further back in time they refer to. In this paper

This chapter discusses the earliest teaching of post-grotian natural law by Henrik Weghorst and Christian Reitzer in Copenhagen in the decades around 1700. This teaching has often been presented as merely derivative of the ideas of Hugo Grotius or Samuel Pufendorf. In contrast, this chapter argues that Weghorst and Reitzer developed two very different, and antagonistic, forms of natural law, refle

Grafts of five different types of central cholinergic neurons, from the septal-diagonal band region, the nucleus basalis magnocellularis region (NBM), the striatum, the pontomesencephalic tegmentum of the brainstem, and the spinal cord, were compared with respect to their ability to grow and to reinnervate the cholinergically denervated hippocampal formation of adult rats. The areas were dissected

A new approach to understanding the interaction between cortical areas is provided by a mathematical analysis of biased competition, which describes many interactions between cortical areas, including those involved in top-down attention. The analysis helps to elucidate the principles of operation of such cortical systems, and in particular the parameter values within which biased competition oper

To meet the needs of an increasing, heterogeneous, ageing population it is imperative to understand links between home and health. In Latvia, only limited research targeting the health and home situation of very old people is available. Consequently, the aim of this study was to describe how the home environment and aspects of health have changed over nine years between 2002 and 2011 for very old

Varje cell har ett membran som skapar en gräns mot omvärlden och skyddarcellen. Men cellen måste alltjämt utbyta viktiga molekyler med omvärlden för attöverleva. Därför finns specialiserade proteiner, som sitter i membranen och utgörportar i denna barriär. Denna avhandling fokuserar på två membranproteiner, enprotonpump och en jonkanal.Varje dag i våra liv använder vi hjärnan, muskler och hjärtat.NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (Complex I) is the first enzyme of the respiratory chain and is involved in energy conservation generating an electro-chemical gradient across a membrane. The enzyme can be divided into a membrane spanning domain and a hydrophilic domain, which protrudes from the membrane. In the hydrophilic domain electrons from NADH oxidation are transported via a wire of iron-sulfur