In a small perception study, our ability to estimate speaker age from speech samples was investigated with respect to stimulus duration, stimulus type and speaker gender. Four separate listening tests were carried out with four different sets of stimuli: 10 and 3 seconds of spontaneous speech, one isolated word, and 6 concatenated isolated words, all produced by the same 24 speakers. The results s

Popular Abstract in Swedish Höftfraktur är ett av de vanligaste benbrotten hos äldre. Var tredje säng på en ortopedklinik upptas av en patient med denna skada. Under de senaste decennierna har antalet höftfrakturer i Sverige fördubblats. Denna ökning beror dels på en större andel äldre i befolkningen och dels på en ökad risk för den enskilde åldringen att få en höftfraktur. Idag beräknas antalet hIn stabilising extracapsular hip fractures, the Medoff sliding plate (MSP) differs from other screw-plates by its compression capacity along the femoral shaft (uniaxial dynamization). Additional compression along the neck of femur can be achieved by primary release of the lag screw (biaxial dynamization). 244 consecutive inter- and subtrochanteric fractures in 243 elderly patients were fixed with

Anthology, consisting of texts on the poetry of Lasse Söderberg. Contributions by Lars Gustaf Andersson & Anders Mortensen ("Foreword"); Jonas Ellerström ("Söderberg, Lasse"); Per Erik Ljung ("Det ringde en man från Rotary"); Jan-Gunnar Sjölin ("I ljuset av surrealismen"); Paul Tenngart ("Bland akrobater och andra märkliga figurer"); Octavio Paz ("Skott"); Lars-Håkan Svensson ("Lasse Söderberg

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Popular Abstract in Swedish Förhållandet mellan utrikespolitik och demokrati har behandlats inom statsvetenskapen i hundratals år. En vanlig uppfattning har varit att behandlingen av utrikespolitiska frågor svårligen kan ske i demokratiska former. Inom utrikespolitiken har riksdagen traditionellt en svagare ställning gentemot regeringen än i inrikespolitiska frågor. I fokus för denna avhandling sThe increasing internationalization puts new demands on national democracy and national parliamentarism. The questions posed in this dissertation are if the parliamentary model for domestic policy or the parliamentary model for foreign policy is the most relevant when describing the role of the Swedish Riksdag (parliament) in European Union (EU) matters, and whether there have been any changes dur

How are musical traditions of minorities integrated in education and the public music life? Can music facilitate transcultural dialogue? And to what extent do musical practice and performance reassert the own cultural tradition in a foreign environment? Answers to those and similar questions as well as a review on what can be observed in the 21st century Europe are gathered in various thematic app

The study examines the character and development of anti-Jewish thinking as manifested in public discourse in Sweden in the post-war era. Using newspapers, periodicals and other publications as source material, the study seeks to uncover the continuity, discontinuity and renewal of anti-Jewish discourse by analysing the reactions to the assassination of the Swedish UN envoy Folke Bernadotte in Isr

When decision on repair has been taken the available repair systems/methods must be evaluated with regard to the immediate requirements. For each type and cause of damage, there are normally only a few possible repair systems. These repair systems should be evaluated with regard to following 5 basic properties, or characteristics: 1) service life/durability, 2) structural stability/safety, 3) exec

Popular Abstract in English Technological devices in our society are used on a daily basis. The speed in processing jobs and the memory capacity are two key parameters used to set their prices. The information is encoded with a binary system physically implemented on semiconductor circuits, where the bit 1 corresponds to a finite voltage and the bit 0 to zero voltage. In order to increase the speThis thesis aims to contribute to the field of time controlled charge and energy transport in mesoscopic systems. In Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 a short review of the scattering matrix theory is presented, including both charge and energy transport, useful to understand the mathematical landscape used in Papers I, II, III and IV. Chapter 3 briefly presents the thermoelectric properties of m