In Western classical music traditions, conventional ways of considering melody have been established. The tones of a melody phrase might be experienced as building up a continuous line moving between dynamical culmination points and relaxation points. In this study, a special visual tool called the Melody phrasing curve (MPhC) has been tested. The MPhC is designed according to some established con

Abstract in UndeterminedVad är det vi anses sakna när vi påstås behöva mer social kompetens och hur kan det komma sig att denna upplevelse av brist på social kompetens uppträder just nu? Frågorna är denna boks utgångspunkt. Social kompetens handlar om individens förmåga att både kunna anpassa sig till en grupp och att kunna samspela med andra människor. För att tolka och förstå fenomenet betraktar

Artikeln undersöker hur praktisk kunskap framställs i bild. En rad tidskrifter inom konsthantverks, hemslöjds- och konstområdet har undersökts. Resultatet pekar på hur viktig just din hand är för att förmedla kopplingen mellan dig som gör och det du gör.

This book studies agrarian change and the factors which have the potential to control and direct the course of such change. Hence it deals with a fundamental issue which has a direct bearing on poverty. Based on a survey of 367 agrarian households in South India, this book systematically compares two major ecotypes in Indian agriculture: rainfed cultivation and irrigated agriculture. The authors l

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to systematically and critically review the extant literature on the design of global production and distribution networks to identify gaps in the literature and identify future research opportunities. The design aspects deal with strategic and structural decisions such as: opening or closing of manufacturing plants or distribution centres, selection of locat

This paper examines the continuity, change and adaptation of blat – as a Soviet time, informal, economic transaction network, that existed as a response to a non-functional economy. The analysis is based on 33 in-depth interviews conducted in 2009 during a pilot field study in Ukraine and Belarus. The main focus is on individuals’ descriptions, justifications and explanations of their ongoing info

Genus är ett samlingsbegrepp för det forskningsfält som rör frågor om kön, genus och feministisk teori, men även jämlikhet och jämställdhet. Detta fält som från början kallades kvinnoforskningen etablerades i Sverige på 1960- och 1970-talen, då frågan om huruvida "manligt" och "kvinnligt" är socialt och historiskt konstruerade företeelser stod i fokus. Begreppet genus började därför användas för a

The experience acquired over a period of 15 years of diagnostic electron microscopy of fine needle aspirates and surgical specimens constitutes the base for this thesis. Some of the tumors analyzed represent rare soft tissue tumors, and consequently not very often ultrastructurally described. In locations where sarcomas are rare and unexpected, electron microscopy may contribute to a correct tumor

Women at the managerial level are an interesting group considering that there are few women managers, especially at the senior level. One purpose of the present study was to examine how individual and situational factors have influenced women managers' career development. A second aim was to find out the personal views of women managers on different aspects of their career and also how they combin

In this thesis, the developments of two different low-cost scanners for positron emission tomography (PET) based on 3D acquisition, are presented. 3D reconstruction methods for these systems are also presented. The first scanner consists of two rotating scintillation cameras, and produces quantitative images, which have shown to be clinically useful . The second one is a system with two opposed se

The plant plasma membrane H+-ATPase is a predominant membrane enzyme that provides the energy for secondary active transport across the plasma membrane. Consequently, the H+-ATPase is thought to play a major role in many cell processes, and it is implicated to be regulated by a number of factors, including hormones, blue light, and fungal toxins The plant plasma membrane H+-ATPase is regulated vi