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Per Olov Enquist's 1985 novel Nedstörtad ängel (Downfall) is, despite its modest proportions, one of the most poetically powerful and intriguing works in his oeuvre. It consists of a number of disparate stories which are presented as intertwined fragments. In this article I argue that the novel as a whole creates its meaning in the manner of a large-scale metaphor, in which the different stories s

Home mechanical ventilation (HMV) is increasingly used as a therapeutic option to patients with symptomatic chronic hypoventilation. There is, however, a paucity of solid data on factors that could affect prognosis in patients on home ventilation. In the present study, our aim was to study several factors in these patients with potential influence on survival. We examined 1526 adult patients from

To evaluate polyalkylimide as a possible vitreous tamponading agent. A 20-gauge pars plana vitrectomy and posterior vitreous detachment were performed in the right eye of six pigmented rabbits. Approximately 1 ml of viscoelastic gel, polyalkylimide (Bio-AlcamidA (R)) was thereafter injected into the vitreous space. Full-field ERG and intraocular pressure (IOP, Tonopen) was measured pre-and postope

Det huvudsakliga syftet med denna uppsats har varit att ta reda på ifall man kan tala om ett oberoendekrav på styrelseledamöter i svenska börsbolag utifrån aktiebolagslagen och Svensk kod för bolagsstyrning. Jag har valt att använda mig att rättskälleläran med inslag av rättsvetenskaplig metod. De klassiska rättskällorna lag, förarbeten och doktrin har legat till grund för uppsatsen, kompletterat

Abstract Authors: Sebastian Jerneck & Johan Krantz Title: Where are youths placed by social workers? - What criteria will the social secretary take into account in the placement process? Supervisor: Max Koch Assessor: Johan Cronehed This thesis examines which conditions influence social workers' placements of youths. We interviewed seven social workers in four adminstrative regions. Our r

The paper presents the control server, a real-time scheduling mechanism tailored to control and signal processing applications. A control server creates the abstraction of a control task with a specified period and a fixed input-output latency shorter than the period. Individual tasks can be combined into more complex components without loss of their individual guaranteed fixed-latency properties.

Artikeln behandlar receptionshistoriska betraktarperspektiv på den antika rundskulpturen Endymion i Kongl. Museum, som utgjorde - och utgör - museets centralpunkt.

In the article the question of how to identify and define lacunae is discussed, both in general and exemplified in manuscripts containing collections of monastic sayings of the Desert Fathers. These sayings, organized in different ways, were probably written down in Greek during the early fifth century and were soon translated into many languages. In a relational MySQL database, the sayings as the

The Third Symposium, IAL 3, Progress and problems in lichenology in the nineties, Salzburg, Austria. 1–7 September 1996 Abstracts. Oral Presentation. Section B.