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- Aldrin, Viktor, 1980-
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Prayer in Peasant Communities : Ideals and Practices of Prayer in the Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Province of Uppsala, Sweden
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study has been to identify, explain and delineate praying among peasant communities in the ecclesiastical province of Uppsala, Sweden. Four aspects have been examined through the perspectives of ideals and practices, namely the standards of prayer, devotional prayer, prayer in times of need and prayer cultures. The standards of prayer considered the physical and mental behaviour of the praying peasant woman or man. The most ordinary way to act during prayer was to stand with hands together, palm against palm, and to pray in the vernacular often using mental themes to enhance the devotion. Devotional prayers were foremost the three ‘standard’ prayers Paternoster, Hail Mary and Apostolic Creed, and could be used separately or combined. Prayer in times of need was possibly considered a matter of praying to saints, something that cannot be proven to have been either practiced or recommended on other, ordinary occasions where God and the Virgin Mary were considered the proper recipients of prayer. A few authentic prayers exist that were possibly said by peasant women and men in connection with miracles and these show the ability to construct elaborate prayers and to propose businesslike agreements with saints. These three prayers were required knowledge for a peasant woman or man and were put to the test in order to become a godparent, and were therefore made available in the vernacular by the parish priests. Ways to maintain the prayer cultures were through mnemonic techniques, and indulgences stipulating and confirming prayers used or to be used in connection with certain churches, days and places within the churches. Name saints could also be used, since the person and the name saint were considered to have a special bond. Prayer could also be used as protection for the living; since a prayer was considered to generate either merits or favours from a celestial patron to his or her client. The prayer life of those belonging to peasant communities was both elaborate and full of nuances.
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- Aldrin, Viktor, 1980
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Saluting Aron Gurevich and His Legacy - A Round Table Discussion
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, Storbritannien.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A Round Table Discussion on the Legacy of the late A. Gurevich and a book dedicated to his memory and ideas Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Other Related Subjects (Brill, Spring 2010). The session will unite the contributors of the volume, its editor, illustrator, as well as Gurevich's longtime friends, colleagues, and disciples. It should interest and attract all those interested in historians' role in history, Soviet historiography, medieval popular culture, Scandinavian medieval history, historical anthropology, and historical research in general. Participants include Viktor Aldrin (Göteborgs Universitet), John H. Arnold (Birkbeck College, University of London), Michael Clanchy (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Francisca Shilova (Independent Scholar, Amsterdam), and Yury Zaretskiy (State University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow).
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- Aldrin, Viktor, 1980-
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To Explore the Divine Will in Prayer
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, Storbritannien.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How were holy persons selected as recipients for prayer? Most often, miracle stories only tell of the praying person having already made the decision of recipient, but there were exceptions from this pattern: the habit of casting lots to explore the divine will of whom to address in prayer. Lot casting, a seldom studied religious habit will be in focus in my paper.
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- Behrns, Ingrid, 1961, et al.
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Aphasia and text writing
- 2010
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Ingår i: International journal of language and communication disorders. - New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons. - 1368-2822 .- 1460-6984. ; 45:2, s. 230-243
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background:Good writing skills are needed in almost every aspect of life today, and there is a growing interest in research into acquired writing difficulties. Most of the findings reported so far, however, are based on words produced in isolation. The present study deals with the production of entire texts.Aims:The aim was to characterize written narratives produced by a group of participants with aphasia.Methods & Procedures:Eight persons aged 28–63 years with aphasia took part in the study. They were compared with a reference group consisting of ten participants aged 21–30 years. All participants were asked to write a personal narrative titled ‘I have never been so afraid’ and to perform a picture-based story-generation task called the ‘Frog Story’. The texts were written on a computer.Outcome & Results: The group could be divided into participants with low, moderate, and high general performance, respectively. The texts written by the participants in the group with moderate and high writing performance had comparatively good narrative structure despite indications of difficulties on other linguistic levels.Conclusions & Implications:Aphasia appeared to influence text writing on different linguistic levels. The impact on overall structure and coherence was in line with earlier findings from the analysis of spoken and written discourse and the implication of this is that the written modality should also be included in language rehabilitation.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1960
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Hoax - sociala virus på Internet
- 2010
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Ingår i: Kulturelle processer i Europa. Etnologiske Studier. - København : Museum Tusculanums Forlag. - 1398-8980. ; 13, s. 151-160, s. 151-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Ericsson, Claes, 1947, et al.
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Musikklassrummet i blickfånget. Vardagskultur, identitet, styrning och kunskapsbildning
- 2010
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The point of departure of this study is an interest in discussing how the aes-thetics of the market and the music culture of the pupils are expressed in music teaching in Swedish schools, and how these factors are transformed or whether any ideological dilemma arises when we strive to put the music culture of the pupils into practice in the everyday music teaching. In four previous projects with different foci, we have studied aesthetic activities in the school environment. Those studies were a source of inspiration for and a backdrop to this study. The theoretical framework consists of poststructuralist and social con-structionist theory as well as theories of late modernity, while our method-ological point of departure is a combination of continental and Anglo-Saxon approaches to discourse analysis, modified to suit our purposes. The empirical material consists of video recordings of classroom activi-ties in secondary school settings in Sweden, and the data has been thor-oughly analysed using analytical tools developed in accordance with our methodological approaches. Some important analytical concepts used here are identity, dominance, governance and knowledge formation. Our findings indicate that: - There are three different strategies for incorporating market aesthetics and the music culture of the pupils into everyday music teaching: learning about, reflecting on and putting into practice. - The only ideological dilemma occurred when the pupils´music culture was put into practice in everyday music teaching .The problem was that one of the teachers had what might be considered as an over-determined identity. He found it difficult to establish a balance between the need of the pupils for freedom of expression and the teachers’ opinions regarding what was appropriate in the school environment. - Music making activities in small groups was unsuccessful because the pu-pils were not yet good enough at the skills needed for composing music and playing together unsupervised. - Schools are "task-oriented" in a way that is counterproductive to creativity in music making. - Six different strategies of governance in the classrooms could be identi-fied: through charisma and competence, through delegating responsibility, through making mantras of instructions and examination strategies, through creating solidarity or polarization, through disciplining the body and organisation of time and space and through ignoring problematic situa-tions. - Popular music was presented as a canon similar to the canon of art music that is predominant in the teaching of music history at school.
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- Eriksson, Thommy, 1967, et al.
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Environmental Science Investigation using a virtual lab
- 2010
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the Engineering Education for Sustainable Development 2010 conference (EESD’10), Göteborg.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Erlandsson, Lena-Karin, et al.
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Women's Perceived Frequency of Disturbing Interruptions and Its Relationship to Self-Rated Health and Satisfaction with Life as a Whole
- 2010
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Ingår i: Stress and Health. - Oxford : Wiley. - 1532-3005 .- 1532-2998. ; 26:3, s. 225-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract: Daily occupations form a pattern dominated by a few main occupations intertwined with hidden occupations. A third category is denoted unexpected occupations or minor events that interrupt the rhythm of main and hidden occupations. The phenomenon of unexpected occupations can be interpreted as an illustration of interruptions in daily life or daily minor stressors. The study aimed to investigate women's perceived frequency of such disturbing interruptions, and possible relationships with their self-rated health and satisfaction with life as a whole. The study included 202 women aged 38 years, and 286 women aged 50 years who replied to a mailed questionnaire. The results showed that perceived high frequency of interruptions was related to poor subjective health among the younger women, and to low satisfaction with life as a whole in both age groups. Furthermore, the younger women perceived disturbing interruptions more frequently than the older ones, and among the younger women those who had children living at home and lived with a partner experienced disturbing interruptions more frequently than those without children living at home or those living single. The results should be interpreted with caution because the measurement of perceived interruptions has not yet been subjected to psychometric evaluation. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Forssén, Jens, 1968, et al.
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Wind Turbine Noise Propagation over Flat Ground: Measurements and Predictions
- 2010
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Ingår i: Acta Acustica united with Acustica. - Stuttgart : S. Hirzel Verlag. - 1610-1928 .- 1861-9959. ; 96:4, s. 753-760(8)
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Noise from wind turbines is of concern in the planning process of new wind farms, and accurate estimations of immission noise levels at residents nearby are required. Sound propagation from wind turbine to receiver could be modelled by a simplified standard model assuming constant meteorological conditions, by an engineering method taking atmospheric and ground propagation conditions into account, or by a more exact model. Epidemiological studies have found a higher frequency of annoyance due to wind turbine noise than to other community noise sources at equal noise levels, indicating that the often used simplified model is not sufficient. This paper evaluates the variation of immission sound levels under the influence of meteorological variation and explores if the prediction of levels could be improved by taking the effect of wind speed on sound propagation into account. Long-term sound recordings and measurements at a distance of 530 m from a wind turbine show that the simplified standard model predicts the average sound pressure levels satisfactorily under downwind conditions, and that a more complex propagation model might not be needed for wind turbine noise at a relatively short distance. Large variations of sound immission levels at the same wind speed were however present. Statistical analysis revealed that these variations were influenced by meteorological parameters, such as temperature, static pressure and deviation from ideal downwind direction. The overall results indicate that meteorological factors influence the noise generated by the wind turbine rather than the sound propagation.
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