This article is a critical reappraisal of the understandings of gender and the location of women within theories of late modernity. These theories, as articulated by Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck, have gained a wide use, not the least since they claim to account for changes in intimate relations. We will use four major feminist interventions for our argument – the problematization of the public-

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Folkbildning har under hela 1900-talet varit en av det moderna samhällets viktigaste byggstenar. Olof Palme beskrev en gång Sverige som en ”studiecirkeldemokrati”. Folkbildningen var med om att utveckla den svenska modellen, den moderna staten och en medborgerlig bildning som betonade gemensam identitet, gemensamt språk och nationellt medborgarskap. Idag lever vi sedan flera decennier i ett mångku

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Popular Abstract in Swedish Bakgrund: Signalsystem Alla flercelliga organismer är beroende av informationsöverföring mellan celler. Det behövs signaler från andra celler för att reglera tillväxt, ämnesomsättning m. fl. funktioner i olika vävnader. Oftast överförs signalerna via kemiska ämnen som antingen verkar i hela kroppen (hormoner) eller lokalt. När dessa ämnen når målcellen, binds de till eThe cyclic nucleotide signalling systems are important in vascular smooth muscle and in the immune system, and are of interest from a pharmacological point of view. Drugs which interfere with the cyclic nucleotide levels have profound effects on heart, blood vessels and airways and have actual or potential use in several important diseases, such as heart failure, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, as

During the last ten years a rapid progress has been made in the development of analytical methods for a fire engineering design of load bearing structures and structural members. In a long-term perspective, the development then goes towards an analytical design, directly based on a natural fire exposure, specified with regard to the combustion characteristics of the fire load and the geometrical,

Svarte and Piledal are typical Scanian Late Bronze Age cremation cemeteries.The Piledal cemetery has the quality of an enclosed entity used by a limited group of people. Svarte, on the other hand, is a more diffuse conglomeration of burials spread over a wider area. The article also contains a discussion of the impact of excavation methods and find circumstances on archaeological interpretation.

Om monument över Raoul Wallenberg i Sverige och Ungern.

The European public procurement regulation has been described as a restrictive force on PPP projects, especially in countries which employ a strict interpretation of the directives. One major limitation brought forward has been the restrictions on negotiations during the procurement procedure. In the literature it has been suggested that the negotiation would improve PPP performance because it all

Computerization of control room functions changes the work for the operators to a great extent. Their mental picture of the process, their possibilities to control the process for productivity and quality, the work content, the physical and the social working environment are examples of conditions which are changed one way or another. In order to be able to control the computerization process in a