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Antikfilm förknippas oftast med storslagna Hollywoodproduktioner, men antika motiv och händelser var även föremål för en lång rad b-filmer producerade i Italien från slutet av 1950-talet. Denna artikel diskuterar denna brokiga skara av mestadels förbisedda filmer. Hur förhöll sig dessa ”B-filmer” till den antika historien och vilken bild av antiken var det som nådde publiken när budget, ambition l
There has been much recent interest in how to help students in higher education develop their generic skills, especially since this is a focus of the Bologna process that aims to standardize European higher education. However, even though the Master thesis is the final and often crucial part of a graduate degree and requires many generic skills very little research has directly focused on them.
In this paper we report from a research project exploring the reasons behind why Swedish domestically invented patents end up being owned a foreign company. Based on survey data, we find that the majority of inventors behind these foreign-owned patents are professional inventors who have a relatively high amount of patent experience. They are also highly educated with about one third of the respon
No abstract. Prepared for the Swedish Tourist Authority, Stockholm, Sweden.
Old bodies – new technologies The biomedical development means a better quality of life for many people. The medical possibilities are, however, not unproblematic. There are ethical and cultural matter to consider, e.g. biomedicine calls for existential questions about the right of human beings to intervene in nature. Further, the possibilities to correct the human body means that new demands ari
Design is often described as a profession where the result of the work is future oriented. Herbert Simon defined it as work that aims at “changing existing situations into preferred ones” . This may refer to a design process where the result can be very unpredictable even if the goal is thoroughly outlined. David Pye has portrayed this performance as “workmanship of risk” which differs from “workm
Atmosfäriska partiklar (aerosoler) finns överallt i jordens atmosfär. Masskoncentrationen av dessa varierar kraftigt beroende på i vilken miljö man mäter. I stadsluft kan man uppmäta tiotals mikrogram per kubikmeter medan man i arktiska områden uppmäter nanogram per kubikmeter. De kolhaltiga aerosolerna är kända för att påverka människors och djurs hälsa negativt, framförallt påverkar dessa kroppe
