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This study focused on the coping strategies of parents' with children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and the relation between these strategies and parenting styles. Coping strategies were measured using the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC) and the Purpose in Life Test (PIL-R). Parental attitudes toward loving care, stress, worry, and guilt feelings were assessed using the Family Impact Quest

Micropalaeontological investigations of Upper Ordovician carbonate mud-mounds and enclosing strata of subsurface Gotland, Sweden, demonstrate that jaw-bearing polychaetes formed the most diverse faunal element associated with these build-ups. Although not present within the mound cores (intra-mound facies), scolecodonts, or polychaete jaws, occur abundantly immediately below and particularly above

The first purpose of this dissertation is to encircle meaning conveying narrations about Sweden and “Swedishness” in history textbooks, published between 1931 and 2009. The second aim is to show which of these narratives, or parts of them, that are expressed by a selection of contemporary students. Another ambition has been to show how textbook narratives have been transferred or transformed over

Popular Abstract in Swedish Studien behandlar den förnyade diskussionen kring gudsbegreppet inom delar av den postmoderna filosofin. I den första delen av avhandlingen belyses den idéhistoriska utveckling som lett fram till att gudsfrågan på nytt aktualiserats inom vissa grenar av den västerländska filosofin. Därefter diskuteras två exempel på hur gudsbegreppet formulerats inom ramen för ett postmIn recent years the question of religion in general and of God in particular has moved center stage in contemporary philosophical reflection. The dissertation discusses this development with particular regard to the concept of God. The aim of the study is twofold. First, it examines the historical and intellectual premises for this development. Second, it offers a constructive critical analysis of

Popular Abstract in Swedish Ekonomistyrsystemens utformning och roll är sedan 1980-talet föremål för stor uppmärksamhet mot bakgrund av pågående förändringar i företagens tillverknings- och marknadsmiljö. En grundläggande frågeställning som behandlas i boken är vilken påverkan företagens situation har på ekonomistyrsystemets utformning och om olika ekonomistyrsystem är mer ändamålsenliga än andra The focus of the thesis is the situation of and the management control systems in middle-sized, manufacturing companies. We have examined the relevance of different types of management control systems for different situations and formulated taxonomies of the contingency factors environment, production situation and business strategy. We found two types of situation. The first type, the interactive

The present work is mainly focused on the development of enzyme-based bioanalytical devices, which can further be applied as analytical tools for industrial, medical and environmental applications. The first part of the work deals with the practical applications of thermometric biosensors for determination of various sugars (fructose and lactose) in a real samples. Thermometric biosensors possess