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- Ekengren, Fredrik, et al.
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Sweden in the Delaware Valley: Everyday Life and Material Culture in New Sweden
- 2013
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In: Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena. ; , s. 169-187
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In 1637 the Swedish Crown, encouraged by Dutch merchants, developed a plan to establish a colonial outpost in America to tap into profitable tobacco and beaver pelt trade. The same year the first cargo ships left Sweden and sailed westwards to claim their piece of America along the Delaware River. Although in many ways unsuccessful and short-lived (the colony collapsed in 1656), New Sweden became a home for generations of colonists. This chapter focuses on the different aspects of their daily life: their longing and desperation, practices of homemaking and domesticating the landscape, their perception and interactions with the neighbouring Native American groups. It discusses the ways material culture was used, exchanged and appropriated by the colonists and the local Lenape and Susquehannock in the processes of meeting, negotiations and daily coexistence.
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- Ekström, Ingrid, 1988-, et al.
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Subjective Olfactory Loss in Older Adults Concurs with Long-Term Odor Identification Decline
- 2019
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In: Chemical Senses. - Oxford : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0379-864X .- 1464-3553. ; 44:2, s. 105-112
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Olfactory impairments may provide early indications of future health outcomes in older adults. Thus, an important question concerns whether these impairments can be self-assessed. Previous findings of cross-sectional studies indicate low correlations between self-reported olfactory function and objective olfactory performance. On the other hand, subjective olfactory impairments predict future dementia and mortality in longitudinal settings. No previous study has assessed the relationship between subjectively and objectively measured decline in olfaction over time. Based on data for 903 older adults derived from the Betula Study, a Swedish population-based prospective study, we tested whether rate-of-change in odor identification could be predicted from subjective olfactory decline over a time span of 10 years during which subjective and objective odor functions were assessed on 2 or 3 test occasions. Indeed, we found that participants who experienced subjective olfactory decline over the study period also had significantly steeper rates of decline in odor identification, even after adjusting for demographic, cognitive, and genetic factors that previously have been associated with performance in odor identification. This association was, however, not present in a subsample with baseline cognitive impairment. We interpret these results as evidence that when asked about whether they have an olfactory impairment or not, older persons are assessing intraindividual olfactory changes, rather than interindividual differences. Our results indicate that subjective olfactory loss reflects objective olfactory decline in cognitively intact older adults. This association might be harnessed to predict health outcomes and highlights the need to develop effective olfactory self-assessments.
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En biografi om en bok : Codex Upsaliensis B 68 från 1430
- 2020
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- En biografi om en bok: Codex Upsaliensis B 68 från 1430 är en bokhistorisk studie om en medeltida handskrift och dess levnadshistoria, från tillblivelsen till mitten av 1700-talet. Handskriften är en illustrerad medeltida avskrift av Magnus Erikssons landslag men den är också och ett vittne från de tidsperioder som boken varit i omlopp. Antologin har som bakgrund ett seminarium som hölls 2017 på Uppsala universitetsbibliotek inom ramen för projektet ”Text till tiden! Medeltida texter i kontext – då och nu”. Nio författare ger här sina tolkningar av bokens öde utifrån filologiska, kodikologiska och bokhistoriska perspektiv. I en nyfilologisk tradition studeras boken som artefakt och vi får ta del av analyser av hur den har producerats, vilka som antas ligga bakom dess tillkomst samt av textens sociala sammanhang och dess fortlevnad Codex Upsaliensis B 68 är en av de rikast bildsatta handskrifterna från svensk medeltid. Det icke-religiösa bildmaterialet skildrar andra företeelser och idéer än de bildmotiv som återfinns i våra medeltida kyrkor och är därför ett viktigt komplement till kunskapen om svensk medeltidshistoria.
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- Ericsson, Eva, et al.
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Is the P600/affected by the richness of semantic content? : a linguistic ERP study in Swedish
- 2008
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. - : Wiley. - 0036-5564. ; 49, s. 1-9
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The study investigated whether the P600/SPS component is sensitive to the richness of semantic content in sentences. ERPs were recorded while 30 native Swedish speakers read sentences, of which half were syntactically correct and half contained a syntactic violation. Both kinds of sentences came in one of three types of descending semantic completeness: semantically coherent sentences, sentences which were incoherent due to violations of selectional restrictions, or sentences of pseudo words, hence void of lexical content. In the semantically coherent sentences a P600/SPS was found for the syntactic violation. A less salient positivity was found for the violation in the semantically incoherent sentences. No P600/SPS was found for the syntactic violation in the pseudo word sentences and no LAN component in any sentence type. The results are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that the P600/SPS component reflects a semantically based reanalysis process.
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- Eriksson, Lars, et al.
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Performance and presence with head-movement produced motion parallax in simulated driving
- 2015
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In: Transportation Research Part F. - : Elsevier BV. - 1369-8478 .- 1873-5517. ; 34, s. 54-64
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Driving simulator studies can reveal relevant and valid aspects of driving behavior, but underestimation of distance and speed can negatively affect the driver's performance, such as in performance of overtaking. One possible explanation for the underestimation of distance and speed is that two-dimensional projection of the visual scene disrupts the monocular-based illusory depth because of conflicting binocular and monocular information of depth. A possible solution might involve the strengthening of the monocular information so that the binocular information becomes less potent.In the present study, we used an advanced high-fidelity driving simulator to investigate whether adding the visual depth information of motion parallax from head movement affects sense of presence, judgment of distance and speed, and performance measures coupled with overtaking. The simulations included two types of driving scenario in which one was urban and the other was rural. The main results show no effect of this head-movement produced motion parallax on sense of presence, head movement, time to collision, distance judgment, or speed judgment.However, the results show an effect on lateral positioning. When initiating the overtaking maneuver there is a lateral positioning farther away from the road center as effect of the motion parallax in both types of scenario, which can be interpreted as indicating use of naturally occurring information that change behavior at overtaking. Nevertheless, only showing tendencies of effects, absent is any clear additional impact of this motion parallax in the simulated driving.
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- Eriksson, Niklas, 1976-
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Urbanism Under Sail : An Archaeology of Fluit Ships in Early Modern Everyday Life
- 2014
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the seventeenth- and early eighteenth centuries, fluits were the most common type of merchant ship used in Baltic trade. Originally a Dutch design, the majority of all goods transported between Sweden and the Republic was carried on board such vessels. Far from all voyages reached their destination. Down in the cold brackish water of the Baltic, the preservation conditions are optimal, and several of these unfortunate vessels remain nearly intact today. Although thousands of more or less identical fluits were built, surprisingly little is known about the arrangement of space on board, their sculptural embellishment and other aspects that formed the physical component of everyday life on and alongside these ships. Fluits were a fixture in early modern society, so numerous that they became almost invisible. The study of wrecks thus holds great potential for revealing vital components of early modern life. Inspired by phenomenological approaches in archaeology, this thesis aims to focus on the lived experience of fluits. It sets out to grasp for seemingly mundane everyday activities relating to these ships, from the physical arrangements for eating, sleeping and answering nature’s call, to their rearrangement for naval use, and ends with a consideration of the architectonical contribution of the fluit to the urban landscape.
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- Fredriksson, Anna, Dr. 1967-, et al.
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The Deductionis coloniarum rationes & causae (1668) : Building Arguments for Swedish Colonisation
- 2021
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In: Lias. - : Peeters Publishers. - 2033-4753 .- 2033-5016. ; 48:1, s. 123-193
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The dissertation Deductionis coloniarum rationes & causae, submitted at Uppsala University in 1668 under the presidency of Johannes Schefferus, appears to be the first contribution to the Swedish discourse on the subject of colonisation and colonialism. In this paper, a translation of the text is presented with a commentary and a list of sources. In an introduction to the translation, which discusses the text against the background of academic, political, and cultural contexts, we suggest that the dissertation relates to Swedish seventeenth-century colonial experiences in general, and, more specifically, to the colonial endeavour in Sápmi (i.e. the land of the Sámi) in the northern parts of Fennoscandia. Johannes Schefferus was one of the leading intellectuals of seventeenth-century Sweden, known for important contributions to archaeology, history, and philology. The writing of Deductionis coloniarum rationes & causae is put in relation to Schefferus’ influential Lapponia (Frankfurt 1673), a work dealing with Sámi culture, economy, religion and history, which was published during a period of intensive Swedish colonial expansion in Sápmi.
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