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- Backius, Stefan
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Arbetare på scen : amatörteater som politiskt verktyg
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis focuses on the political dimensions of aesthetic expression during the Long Sixties. The thesis deals with amateur theatre ventures both within and linked to the social democratic labour movement. ’Spelet om Norbergsstrejken’ (The Play about the Norberg Strike) had its première in 1977 in a small industrial village in the industrial region of Bergslagen. Similar plays appeared in many regions of the country and a wave of workers’ plays emerged and made an impact on the internal investments of the educational association ABF in amateur theatre. The empiricism of the thesis concludes in 1982 when a social democratic amateur theatre association was founded and after a breakaway from the social democratic movement was establishing a residential study centre in another small village in Bergslagen. Sixties radicalisation provides the social context of the study and the perspective of sociological social movement research is used and developed. Based on the perspective of cognitive practice and the concepts of cosmology and movement ideology attention is directed towards the theatre assets of performance hosts, expectation horizons and patterns of behaviour. The thesis argues for a deeper understanding of sixties radicalisation partly meaning that the periodisation needs to be extended backwards as well as forwards in terms of time and partly that the political dimensions of aesthetic expression should be focused on. Based upon the results of the thesis the concept of culturactivism was formulated which defines the specific approach that appeared in the space between political and cultural activism. This highlights the need for a concept that covers the cognitive free space that arose between aesthetic expression and political activism and which has not previously attracted the attention of historical studies about sixties radicalisation to any great degree.
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- Menzel, Carolin, et al.
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Molecular structure of citric acid cross-linked starch films
- 2013
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In: Carbohydrate Polymers. - Amsterdam : Elsevier. - 0144-8617 .- 1879-1344. ; 96:2, s. 270-276
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The effect of citric acid (CA) on starch films has been examined. A new method to detect cross-linkingof starch by CA in solution-cast films by molecular weight measurements is described. Furthermore, wemanaged to distinguished between free, mono- and di-esterified CA and quantify di-ester content withinstarch films by using a modification in the method of complexometric titration with copper(II)-sulfate.Cross-linking of starch by CA occurred at low temperature, 70◦C, which we assumed is so far the lowesttemperature reported where cross-linking reaction occurred. This is essential for starch coating applica-tions within paper industry since no high temperatures for curing will be required. However, curing at150◦C and high CA concentrations, 30 pph, increased cross-linking reaction. Furthermore, the physicalproperties like water solubility, gel content and glass transition temperature, were highly reflected bychanges in the molecular structure i.e. cross-linking and hydrolysis, as well as CA content and curingtemperature.
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- Olsson, Erik, 1984-, et al.
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The effect of pH on hydrolysis, cross-linking and barrier properties of starch barriers containing citric acid
- 2013
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In: Carbohydrate Polymers. - : Elsevier BV. - 0144-8617 .- 1879-1344. ; 98:2, s. 1505-1513
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Green cross-linking of thermoplastic starch for food packaging applications has been intensely studied during the last decade as a method of producing water-insensitive renewable barriers. This work has shown how the barrier properties of paper coated with a barrier dispersion containing starch and citric acid were affected by the solution pH and the drying temperature. The barrier properties of the coated paper were linked to molecular properties showing both hydrolysis and cross-linking reaction of starch in the presence of citric acid at different solution pH and different reaction temperatures (curing) on cast films. Hydrolysis was shown to be almost completely hindered at solution pH ≥4 at curing temperatures ≤ 105 °C and at pH ≥ 5 at curing temperatures ≤150 °C, whereas cross-linking still occurred to some extent at pH ≤ 6.5 and drying temperatures as low as 70 °C. The water vapor transmission rate was significantly affected by the competition between these two reactions. Coated paper showed a minimum in water vapor transmission rate at pH was kept around 4 in the starch coating solution, corresponding to the point where hydrolysis was effectively hindered but where a significant degree of cross-linking still occurred.
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