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- Holmer, Arthur
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A parametric grammar of Seediq
- 1996
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Seediq is an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. It has several characteristics which are typologically unusual but typical for Austronesian languages. VOS word order, subject-focus (i.e. a multipolar voice distinction which does not imply valency reduction) and cliticisation of subject pronouns. This dissertation comprises a surface description of the grammar of the language presented in the same form as traditional grammars, which is included to allow the reader to get acquainted with the surface facts of the language. This is followed by a GB analysis of the syntax. Due to the valency-neutral properties of subject-focus, it is proposed that focus does not imply a change in Case-marking within VP, but rather that it functions as agreement reflecting movement which has taken place for discourse reasons. The consequence of this is that movement in Seediq evidently can and does take place from one Case-position to another. It is furthermore proposed that this is exactly what also takes place in Western passives which imply a valency reduction, the difference being that Austronesian languages have a Case-marked SpecVP whereas Western languages do not. Each parametric value given for Seediq is then compared with languages sharing this value and languages having the opposite value. This concerns both pure word order parameters and parameters which in some way affect movement. The purpose of this is to show how cross-linguistic variation of a given set of parameters can cause important syntactic differences between both related and unrelated languages. This is followed by an analysis of the verbal morphology of Seediq, where a markedness-based model is illustrated which can account for the non-cooccurrence of certain morphemes (such as the active -m- and the imperative -i) and the portmanteau status of other morphemes. The dissertation concludes with a template-based analysis of the morphophonology of Seediq, where the inflection morphemes treated in the preceding section are projected onto a word structure template of the shape CVCVC. This accounts for the rather complex morphophonemic variations in Seediq.
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- van Dijk, Ingrid Kirsten, et al.
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Maternal and infant health development in southern Sweden, 1905-2015: Understanding the role of institutions and medical innovations
- 2022
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Using data from southern Sweden, this work analyses the development of maternal and infant health in five rural parishes and the town of Landskrona in Scania, Sweden, in the last 110 years. First, we address the overall development of maternal, perinatal and infant health using a range of indicators, such as maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and stillbirth rates. We also describe how institutional and medical changes reached the town of Landskrona and the surrounding rural areas. Second, we relate the development of maternal and infant health to the institutions and medical innovations available in the area, such as the expansion of hospital facilities, availability of antibiotics and the opening of maternity wards and neonatal intensive care units. We estimate the magnitude of the impact on a range of indicators of mother and infant health using time series analysis.
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- Sulla, Francesco, et al.
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Distributed generation with voltage control capability in the low voltage network
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract in UndeterminedSmall-scale distributed generators connected tothe low voltage network are generally operated with unitypower factor. However, controlling their reactive powerinjection would have an impact on the voltage at theirconnection point, if the network is sufficiently weak andinductive. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how asmall-scale distributed generator connected to a low voltagenetwork through a power electronic converter can be controlledto improve the voltage quality at its connection point.The possibility to control the voltage at a point in the lowvoltage network by reactive power injection is limited by twofactors, the small rating of the distributed generator comparedto the short-circuit power at its connection point and theresistive nature of the low voltage cables. Here, a scheme forinductively decoupling the distributed generator connectionpoint from the network is proposed and evaluated. For thispurpose, an inductance is placed between the network and thegenerator, allowing voltage regulation by reactive powerinjection.Simulation results and lab measurements show that theproposed scheme improves the voltage quality at themicroturbine connection point.
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- van Dijk, Ingrid Kirsten, et al.
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Disease exposure in infancy affects women's reproductive outcomes and offspring health in southern Sweden 1905–2000
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social Science & Medicine. - 0277-9536. ; 347, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ample evidence demonstrates that early-life adversity negatively affects morbidity and survival in late life. We show that disease exposure in infancy also has a continuous impact on reproduction and health across the female life course and even affects early-life health of the next generation. Using Swedish administrative data, obstetric records, and local infant mortality rates as a measure of disease exposure, we follow women's reproductive careers and offspring health 1905–2000, examining a comprehensive set of outcomes. Women exposed to disease in infancy give birth to a lower proportion of boys, consistent with notions that male fetuses are more vulnerable to adverse conditions and are more often miscarried. Sons of exposed mothers are also more likely to be born preterm and have higher birthweight suggesting in utero out-selection. Exposed women have a greater risk of miscarriage and of male stillbirth, but their overall likelihood of giving birth is not affected.
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- van Dijk, Ingrid Kirsten, et al.
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Kept in the Family : Remarriage, Siblings, and Consanguinity in the Netherlands
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Ingår i: Journal of Interdisciplinary History. - : MIT Press - Journals. - 1530-9169 .- 0022-1953. ; 52:3, s. 313-349
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Widowhood involves many practical challenges next to the emotional impact of bereavement. Remarriage to a blood relative of a deceased spouse can often help a bereaved spouse to solve issues related to inheritance, child care, and comfort in a stressful period. A study of 15,540 widowers and 18,837 widows in the Dutch province of Zeeland—of whom about 8,000 men and 5,000 women eventually remarried—which uses genealogical data about their partners and the links family-reconstitution database, finds that the relatively high likelihood of farmers’ widows remarrying and doing so with kin may have been a strategy to prevent property from falling into the hands of other families. Notwithstanding that the attractiveness of a widow or widower could also be a factor in opportunities to remarry, older widows and widows with many young children, whose chances on the remarriage market tended to be poor, did not usually have such recourse to kin in remarriage.
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