This article describes the development and the testing of the psychometric properties of an instrument, Profiles of Occupational Engagement among people with Schizophrenia, POES, with the aim of concluding data from time-use diaries and providing systematic description of status and progress regarding occupational engagement.

Popular Abstract in Swedish I en tid då allt färre lever på landsbygden har jordbrukslandskapet blivit föremål för ett växande intresse. Landsbygdens landskap har i vår tid kommit att framstå som idylliskt, äkta och naturligt, men också som i hög grad hotat. Den här avhandlingen analyserar ur ett etnologiskt perspektiv vad landskap är och hur landskap skapas. Den behandlar bland annat människors oThe complex character of rural landscapes implies a constant interaction between mind and matter as well as between nature and society. In landscapes, the established division of reality into nature and culture appears all but natural. This book points to the possibilities of regarding landscape as a dialectical process. Landscape is here used as an analytical device to examine nature-culture rela

Grupparbeten används i stor utsträckning i undervisningen på LTH och även som del av examinationen. Studenterna upplever emellanåt problem med att alla i gruppen inte tillför arbetet lika mycket s.k. free-riding och att läraren inte har möjlighet att bedöma de enskilda studenternas insatser i grupparbetena. Syftet med vår studie var att genom aktionsforskning skaffa oss större kunskap om hur man k

Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively participated in the renaissance and reformation of the central and later

In preindustrial society, the loss of a spouse usually impelled the surviving party to adapt quickly by choosing between certain strategies: to remain the head of the household, to remarry, to enter a household headed by a child or the spouse of child, to dissolve the household and enter into an unrelated person's household, or to migrate out of the parish. The use of competing-risk hazard models

Selective catalytic reduction of NOx (SCR) has been recognised as an effective post-combustion method for reducing nitrogen oxides from stationary sources. The cost of replacing the catalyst is a major part of the maintenance of the SCR system, hence it is desirable to advance methods to prolong the catalyst life. The objectives of this thesis were to investigate the extent and the mechanism of de