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- Bentham, James, et al.
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A century of trends in adult human height
- 2016
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Ingår i: eLIFE. - : eLife Sciences Publications Ltd. - 2050-084X. ; 5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5–22.7) and 16.5 cm (13.3– 19.7) taller, respectively. In contrast, there was little change in adult height in some sub-Saharan African countries and in South Asia over the century of analysis. The tallest people over these 100 years are men born in the Netherlands in the last quarter of 20th century, whose average heights surpassed 182.5 cm, and the shortest were women born in Guatemala in 1896 (140.3 cm; 135.8– 144.8). The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.
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Changing Satire : Transformations and Continuities in Europe, 1600–1830
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Changing satire demonstrates how satire proliferated in various formats, and discusses a wide range of material from canonical authors like Swift to little known manuscript sources and prints. As the book emphasises, satire was a frame of reference for well-known authors and artists ranging from Milton to Bernini and Goya. It was moreover a broad European phenomenon: while the book focuses on English satire, it also considers France, Italy, The Netherlands and Spain, and discusses how satirical texts and artwork could move between countries and languages. In its wide sweep across time and formats, Changing satire brings out the importance that satire had as a transgressor of borders.
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Drömmar. En vänbok till Ingemar Nilsson
- 2010
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Människor drömmer. På natten, men även under dagen. Drömmar kan vara fantasier och visioner, men också mardrömmar. Drömmars tolkas och nyttjas som en kulturell och social resurs. Drömmar objektiveras, blir söta frestelser och diaboliska hot. De är gåtor som rör sig mellan olika medvetandetillstånd. Ur drömmar vaknar vi upp, bara för att strax åter fångas av dem. Men kanske är det som Leonardo da Vinci hävdade, att våra ögon ser saker klarare i en dröm än vad de ser dem i vaket tillstånd. I den här antologin vände och vrider humanvetenskapliga forskare på drömmarnas problematik. Resultatet är en volym som ge idéhistoriska, filosofiska, kulturantropologiska, litteratur- och religionsvetenskapliga perspektiv på drömmen som fenomen.
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- Emerging Risk Factors, Collaboration, et al.
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The Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration: analysis of individual data on lipid, inflammatory and other markers in over 1.1 million participants in 104 prospective studies of cardiovascular diseases
- 2007
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Ingår i: Eur J Epidemiol. - 0393-2990. ; 22:12, s. 839-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many long-term prospective studies have reported on associations of cardiovascular diseases with circulating lipid markers and/or inflammatory markers. Studies have not, however, generally been designed to provide reliable estimates under different circumstances and to correct for within-person variability. The Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration has established a central database on over 1.1 million participants from 104 prospective population-based studies, in which subsets have information on lipid and inflammatory markers, other characteristics, as well as major cardiovascular morbidity and cause-specific mortality. Information on repeat measurements on relevant characteristics has been collected in approximately 340,000 participants to enable estimation of and correction for within-person variability. Re-analysis of individual data will yield up to approximately 69,000 incident fatal or nonfatal first ever major cardiovascular outcomes recorded during about 11.7 million person years at risk. The primary analyses will involve age-specific regression models in people without known baseline cardiovascular disease in relation to fatal or nonfatal first ever coronary heart disease outcomes. This initiative will characterize more precisely and in greater detail than has previously been possible the shape and strength of the age- and sex-specific associations of several lipid and inflammatory markers with incident coronary heart disease outcomes (and, secondarily, with other incident cardiovascular outcomes) under a wide range of circumstances. It will, therefore, help to determine to what extent such associations are independent from possible confounding factors and to what extent such markers (separately and in combination) provide incremental predictive value.
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- Lind, Lars, et al.
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Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
- 2021
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Ingår i: eLife. - : eLife Sciences Publications Ltd. - 2050-084X. ; 10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of underweight, obesity, and severe obesity in different regions using data from 2896 population-based studies with 187 million participants. Changes in the prevalence of underweight and total obesity, and to a lesser extent severe obesity, are largely driven by shifts in the distribution of BMI, with smaller contributions from changes in the shape of the distribution. In East and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the underweight tail of the BMI distribution was left behind as the distribution shifted. There is a need for policies that address all forms of malnutrition by making healthy foods accessible and affordable, while restricting unhealthy foods through fiscal and regulatory restrictions.
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- Rosengren, Cecilia, 1962
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Conway - Naturfilosofi och kvinnliga tänkare i barockens tidevarv
- 2009
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vad innebar det att vara filosof och kvinna under 1600-talet, en tid då kombinationen kvinna och tänkare betraktades som en självmotsägelse? I Conway – Naturfilosofi och kvinnliga tänkare i barockens tidevarv visar Cecilia Rosengren hur Anne Conways filosofiska verksamhet kan förstås i relation till såväl filosofihistorien som till kvinnliga och manliga filosofer i hennes egen samtid. Conway fångades av de filosofiska och vetenskapliga problem som René Descartes hade aktualiserat, till exempel dualismen mellan kropp och själ. Hon författade en egen naturfilosofisk avhandling som publicerades postumt och som snabbt föll i glömska – ett öde som hon delar med många kvinnliga tänkare i historien. Idag växer intresset för de kvinnor som skrev filosofi under 1600-talet och man talar ofta om Conway som en av den tidens skarpaste rationalister. Hennes filosofi är delvis en uppgörelse med en mekanistisk världsuppfattning, men rör framför allt vårt ansvar för världen och oss själva som människor. Rosengrens studie är den första utförliga presentationen av Conways naturfilosofi på svenska.
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