Objective: To investigate if the improved glucose tolerance previously observed at breakfast following an evening meal with boiled barley kernels derives from colonic events related to the fermentation of the elevated amounts of indigestible carbohydrates present and/or from the low-GI features. Subjects/Methods: Twenty healthy volunteers aged 19–30 years. Design: High-GI white wheat bread (WWB)

Fotografiets möjligheter till seende och deltagande är denna boks tema. Den vänder sig till fotoentusiaster och samhällsvetare och placerar sig såväl framför som bakom kameran. Bildmässigt gör den ett nedslag i Vilda västern med färgstarka personligheter som Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill och Sitting Bull. Den behandlar skärningspunkterna mellan fakta och fiktion, dokumentation och konst, avbildning

In spite of the fact that antonymy is considered to be an important organising lexico-semantic principle, very little research has been conducted to get a better grasp of what ‘goodness’ of binary opposition in human language and thought really is. The focus of this study is what distinguishes antonyms such as bra-dålig ‘good-bad’, lång-kort ‘long-short’, tunn-tjock ‘thin-thick’ from other types o

Popular Abstract in Swedish Självmord och självmordsförsök orsakar mycket lidande för många människor i vårt samhälle. I Sverige begår ungefär 1800 personer självmord varje år. De flesta av dessa personer hade vid tiden för självmordet en psykisk sjukdom. Man har funnit att åtminstone hälften av dessa personer hade en depressionssjukdom, minst en fjärdedel hade alkoholproblem och c:a 5% led av schA suicide attempt is one of the most powerful predictors of eventual suicide. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the social situation, including social support of suicide attempters. One part of the investigations concerned patients admitted to a psychiatric ward following a suicide attempt. Another part concerned significant others (SOs) of suicide attempters, interviewed directly after th

The aim of this study has been to identify, explain and delineate praying among peasant communities in the ecclesiastical province of Uppsala, Sweden. Four aspects have been examined through the perspectives of ideals and practices, namely the standards of prayer, devotional prayer, prayer in times of need and prayer cultures. The standards of prayer considered the physical and mental behaviour of

Fattigdom, ekonomisk utsatthet och social utestängning bland barn har hittills studerats i begränsad utsträckning inom svensk forskning. Denna rapport syftar till att ge en flervetenskaplig belysning av olika aspekter av barnfattigdom i dagens Sverige och Stockholm. Perspektiven är historiska, juridiska, politiska, ekonomiska och sociala. I en historisk jämförelse framträder det bl. a. att barnen

Abstract in Norwegian Thailand har etterhvert utviklet seg til å bli mange skandinaveres turistparadis. Etter tsunamikatastrofen som rammet Sørøst-Asia andre juledag 2004 fikk vi høre at den beste måten å hjelpe den thailandske befolkningen på etter hendelsen var å vende tilbake dit som turister. Den voksende turismen i Thailand har ført med seg en økt økonomisk velstand på mange av øyene solhungr

Rather different problems can be lumped together under the general term 'laser control of atoms and molecules'. They include the laser selection of atomic and molecular velocities for the purpose of Doppler-free spectroscopy, laser control of the position and velocity of atoms (i.e. laser trapping and cooling of atoms), and laser control of atomic and molecular processes (ionization, dissociation)

Gaia is ESA's ambitious space astrometry mission with a foreseen launch date in late 2011. Its main objective is to perform a stellar census of the 1,000 million brightest objects in our galaxy (completeness to V=20 mag) from which an astrometric catalog of micro-arcsec (μas) level accuracy will be constructed. A key element in this endeavor is the Astrometric Global Iterative Solution (AGIS) - th

Wizard of Oz methodology is useful when conducting user studies of a system that is in early development. It is essential to be able to simulate part of the system and to collect feedback from potential users. Using a human to act as the system is one way to do this. The Wizard of Oz tool presented here is called WozARd and it aims at offering a set of tools that help the test leader control the