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Future falls and/or near falls in people with Parkinson’s disease: Sensitivity and specificity of two retropulsion tests

Objective: To investigate the sensitivity and specificity of two retropulsion tests for identifying individuals with PD that will fall and/or experiencing near falls.Background: People with PD have an increased risk for falls and experiencing near falls. They are particularly unstable backwards, and different retropulsion tests exist. Item 30 of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS)

Swedish word stress in optimality theory

The purpose of this paper is to give an introduction to how lexical word stress in Swedish can be analysed with modern phonological theories as metrical phonology (Liberman 1975) and optimality theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993). Central concepts and structures within the phonological theories are introduced and discussed, and examples of how the word stress pattern of Swedish can be treated wit

Does Partnership Exogamy Increase the Risk of Separation? The Impact of Cultural Dissimilarity on Partnership Dissolutions in Sweden 1990-2005

In this paper the connection between exogamy and partnership dissolution is analyzed using individual level register data for natives and immigrants moving to Sweden after 1968. We study both formally married and cohabiting unions, from the birth of the first child until dissolution of the partnership. Using event history models we study the impact of type of union (endogamous, exogamous with a na