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- Andersson, Jenny, 1974-
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Mellan tillväxt och trygghet : Idéer om produktiv socialpolitik i socialdemokratisk socialpolitisk ideologi under efterkrigstiden
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- For Swedish social democracy, social policy has historically been not only a means for individual security, but also a means for economic efficiency and growth in close relationship to economic policy. This doctoral dissertation shows that an important aspect of the ideological change of contemporary Swedish social democracy is the erosion of its growth oriented social policy ideology in the post-war period. Whereas a key element in the post-war ideology and the so-called “Strong society” was the conceptualisation of social policy as a productive investment, the ideology of the “Third way” is construed around ideas of social policy as a cost.The thesis discusses this ideological change as a dynamic relationship between growth and security as key concepts in the social policy ideology of Swedish social democracy. It argues that while growth and security where perceived as harmonious goals in the post-war period, the period from the late 1960’s can be seen as a development where growth and security became antagonistic goals, and the relationship between social policy and growth became increasingly problematic. The thesis focuses on two periods of antagonism (struggle over knowledge): the late 1960’s as a critique of growth and its social effects, conceptualised as social costs, and the early 1980’s as a critique of security and the economic cost of social policy. It is argued that both these periods can be seen as processes of crisis for social democracy, leading to new articulations and ideological change.
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- Magnusson, Anna-Karin, 1965-
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Blinda personers icke-verbala kommunikation : studier om kroppsspråk, icke-verbal samtalsreglering och icke-verbala uttryck
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of grown-up blind people’s non-verbal communication, including body expressions and paralinguistic (voice) expressions. More specifically, the thesis includes the following three studies: Blind people’s different forms of body expressions, blind people’s non-verbal conversation regulation and blind people’s experience of their own non-verbal expressions. The focus has been on the blind participants’ competence and on their subjective perspectives. I have also compared congenitally and adventitiously blind in all of the studies. The approach is mainly phenomenological and the qualitative empirical phenomenological psychological method is the primary methodological source of inspiration. Fourteen blind persons (and also some sigthed persons) participated. They have no other obvious disability than the blindness and their ages vary between 18 and 54. Data in the first two studies consisted of video recordings and data in the last study consisted of interviews. The overall results can be summarized in the following three points: 1. There are (almost) only similarities between the congenitally blind and adventitiously blind persons concerning their paralinguistic expressions. 2. There are mainly similarities between the two groups with respect to the occurrences of different body expressive forms. 3. There are also some differences between the groups. For example, the congenitally blind persons seem to have a limited ability to use the body in an abstract and symbolic way and they often mentioned that they have been told that their body expressions deviate from sighted people’s norms. But the persons in both groups also struggle to see themselves as unique persons who express themselves on the basis of their conditions and their previous experiences.
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- Magnusson, B. M., et al.
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Biological effects after percutaneous absorption of thyrotropin-releasing hormone and its analogue M-TRH
- 2001
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Ingår i: Peptides. - : Elsevier. - 0196-9781 .- 1873-5169. ; 22:1, s. 73-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Besides its well known endocrinological effects, thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) has potential clinical value in the treatment of neurotrauma and various neurologic and psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was to assess if transdermal delivery of TRH and its analogue, M-TRH, in the presence of enhancers, is an effective means for administration of the peptides. Using the in vitro diffusion cell method, the effect of ethanol and a terpene on the transdermal penetration of the peptides across full-thickness rat skin were studied. Steady-state permeability values for TRH and M-TRH were 8.7 +/- 2.2 and 6.7 +/- 1.4 microg/cm(2) h, respectively. The addition of 3 % terpene in combination with 47 % ethanol increased the penetration of TRH and M-TRH to 16.2 +/- 1.7 and 14.6 +/- 2.1 microg/cm(2) h, respectively. Rats were studied in vivo for release of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) as a biologic effect after transdermally delivered peptide. Topical application of TRH and M-TRH induced an increase in TSH serum concentration from 0.32 +/- 0.09 ng/ml to 32.6 +/- 5.0 and 22.9 +/- 7.6 ng/ml, respectively, after 30 min. The addition of terpene and ethanol in combination with TRH or M-TRH, increased the TSH release to 43.0 +/- 3.8 and 48.4 +/- 4.0 ng/ml, respectively. It is concluded that, in the rat, peptides can be absorbed through the skin with retained biologic activity, and in amounts sufficient to elicit a physiological response.
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- Magnusson, B.M., et al.
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In vitro percutaneous penetration of topically applied capsaicin in relation to in vivo sensation responses
- 2000
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Ingår i: International Journal of Pharmaceutics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0378-5173 .- 1873-3476. ; 195:1-2, s. 55-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Capsaicin, the primary pungent element in several spices, elicits a variety of physiological effects which are due to neurogenic responses. The aim of the study was to explore the in vivo sensation responses of capsaicin and to compare the results with the in vitro percutaneous absorption of the substance. The overall objectives were to determining an in vitro-in vivo correlation for capsaicin. Capsaicin was applied in a chamber on the volar forearm of twelve volunteers and in a flow-through diffusion chamber on excised human epidermal membranes. Topical administration of capsaicin produced a complex cutaneous sensation that changed in intensity and quality as a function of time and was characterized by sting, prick, burn and pain. Percutaneous steady-state penetrations of capsaicin with a receptor fluid consisting either of 4% bovine serum albumin in phosphate buffered saline or 50% ethanol in water were 28.2+/-2.7 and 29.6+/-2.9 microg/cm(2) per h, respectively. The corresponding cumulative penetrated amounts of capsaicin after 30 min were 14. 7+/-1.7 and 19.2+/-2.1 microg/cm(2), respectively. The present investigation indicates that there is a good correlation between in vivo physiological responses and in vitro percutaneous penetration of topically applied capsaicin.
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- Murhem, Sofia, 1969-
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Turning to Europe : A New Swedish Industrial Relations Regime in the 1990s
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation explores the transformation of the industrial relations regime in Sweden during the 1990s. Four areas are studied; industrial relations of the growing service sector, industrial relations of small enterprises, effects of re-regulation and introduction of competition on industrial relations in telecommunications service and internationalisation of industrial relations in the metal sector, showing that in the 1990s, the labour market regime of Sweden changed into a new regime, as a result of altered conditions caused by the third industrial revolution. The changes took place within a certain context and were governed by a strong path dependence. The internationalisation or Europeanization of the economy, foremost the upsurge in ingoing foreign direct investments, increased the Swedish industry’s dependence on non-national actors and economy. The employers and the trade unions had strong incentives to come to an agreement (the Industrial Agreement in 1997), to achieve international competitiveness. The increasing dependence on (Western/European) trade and investments caused additional adjustments of industrial relations. The Europeanization of the political decision making process (EU membership) had also an impact, to which was added liberalisation, abandoning monopolies etc, but the effect were not as substantial as that of (economic) internationalisation.
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