There is a popular discourse in Sweden describing student writing as defective. In the article, the writing part of the national test in Swedish for upper secondary school is analysed, in order to discuss the state and possible change of student writing. Student texts from 1976, 1986, 1996, 2005, and 2012 are investigated. Drawing on Hultman and Westman (1977), in the quantitative part nominality

Purpose: The paper explores what emotions do in social science education through two specific cases and discusses the relation between emotion and politicization in the subject education. Method/approach: The cases are selected from an on-going dissertation project that uses interviews, video and observations in examining how social science education is played out in practice, with a focus on the

AbstractParkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases in humans. It is a slowly progressing neurological disorder exhibiting major symptoms including resting tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability. PD also gives rise to non-motor symptoms such as loss of olfaction, gastrointestinal system disruption, cognitive functional decline, etc. The loss of do

Factors driving the species richness and distribution of bryophytes are poorly studied and not well understood, particularly in grasslands. We analysed the occurrence of bryophyte species and variation in species richness across 674 plots (0.5 m× 0.5 m) in alvar vegetation (grassland on limestone pavement with thin or no soil) on Öland (Sweden) in relation to substrate characteristics and chemistr

Lärarutbildningen står alltid under allmänhetens vakande öga. Gång efter annan uttrycks föreställningar om lärarutbildningen och dess lärare och forskare i mediala debatter. Denna text tar receptionen av en avhandling som utgångspunkt för en redogörelse för vad som sägs i debatterna i dag, vem som tar ton och varför. Det visar sig vara ett fåtal starka röster som får sätta agendan för det samtida

I denna uppsats undersöks sambandet mellan klassiska studier och moralisk fostranunder 1800-talets tre första decennier. Utifrån en genomgång av reformmaterial,debattryck och artiklar spåras argument om antikstudiets samhällsnytta. Återkommande framhölls dess betydelse för att utveckla karaktärsdrag som manlighet, fosterlandskärlek och pliktuppfyllande i debatten. Klassiska språk och antik littera

The article explores how the legacy of ancient Rome served the creative vision of the future found in the british comic Judge Dredd, firstpublished in 1977. The article argues that Judge Dredd appropriated motifs from Roman history to help establish the framework of the future and that the comic’s satirical tone was aided by these allusions to the classical world. The article concludes that the in

Once the Cultural Studies made its presence felt, the concept of culture was broadened so as to include the so-called “pop-culture”. It was very profitable to humanize culture and make it available to all, not only to elites. Extremes are discouraging. A middle ground should be established between the ups and downs. Culture should be democratic, which doesn’t mean it has to be confused with civili

Background: The identification of mismatch-repair (MMR) defective colon cancer is clinically relevant for diagnostic, prognostic and potentially also for treatment predictive purposes. Preselection of tumors for MMR analysis can be obtained with predictive models, which need to demonstrate ease of application and favorable reproducibility. Methods. We validated the MMR index for the identification

In recent times, pragmatics has made more and more room for the theory of discourse. The switch in emphasis was triggered, amid other phenomena and theories, by the flourishing pf the communication theory, with its tenet that the process of communication is quite unstable and unpredictable. It is not only the context the one which distorts the transmission of messages, but also the mood of those i

Brain structure and function are tightly correlated across all animals. While these relations are ultimately manifestations of differently wired neurons, many changes in neural circuit architecture lead to larger-scale alterations visible already at the level of brain regions. Locating such differences has served as a beacon for identifying brain areas that are strongly associated with the ecologi

BACKGROUND: A growing body of studies indicate benefits of physiotherapy for patients in palliative care, for symptom relief and wellbeing. Though physiotherapists are increasingly acknowledged as important members of palliative care teams, they are still an underutilized source and not fully recognized. The aim of this study was to explore the variety of activities described by physiotherapists i

OBJECTIVES: To illuminate patterns observed in International Cancer Benchmarking Programme studies by extending understanding of the various influences on presentation and referral with cancer symptoms.DESIGN: Cross-country comparison of Denmark, England and Sweden with qualitative analysis of in-depth interview accounts of the prediagnostic process in lung or bowel cancer.PARTICIPANTS: 155 women

New genus Upretia S. Y. Kondr., A. Thell & J. S. Hur is characterized by partly pruinose, lobate to subsquamulose, olivaceous grey to brown thallus, small ascospores and narrowly bacilliform conidia. It belongs to the subfamily Caloplacoideae of the Teloschistaceae and includes the ‘Caloplaca’ amarkantakana clade. The new genus is closely related to Ioplaca Poelt according to phylogeny analysi

A portrait poem by the German poet Thomas Kling (1957-2005) about the German artist Joseph Beuys is the starting point to reconsider the current ekphrasis discourse in the light of experienced visuality by combining the concept of ancient rhetoric with modern ideas of imagination, multimodality and performativity.