In a small perception study, our ability to estimate speaker age from speech samples was investigated with respect to stimulus duration, stimulus type and speaker gender. Four separate listening tests were carried out with four different sets of stimuli: 10 and 3 seconds of spontaneous speech, one isolated word, and 6 concatenated isolated words, all produced by the same 24 speakers. The results s

Popular Abstract in Swedish Höftfraktur är ett av de vanligaste benbrotten hos äldre. Var tredje säng på en ortopedklinik upptas av en patient med denna skada. Under de senaste decennierna har antalet höftfrakturer i Sverige fördubblats. Denna ökning beror dels på en större andel äldre i befolkningen och dels på en ökad risk för den enskilde åldringen att få en höftfraktur. Idag beräknas antalet hIn stabilising extracapsular hip fractures, the Medoff sliding plate (MSP) differs from other screw-plates by its compression capacity along the femoral shaft (uniaxial dynamization). Additional compression along the neck of femur can be achieved by primary release of the lag screw (biaxial dynamization). 244 consecutive inter- and subtrochanteric fractures in 243 elderly patients were fixed with

Anthology, consisting of texts on the poetry of Lasse Söderberg. Contributions by Lars Gustaf Andersson & Anders Mortensen ("Foreword"); Jonas Ellerström ("Söderberg, Lasse"); Per Erik Ljung ("Det ringde en man från Rotary"); Jan-Gunnar Sjölin ("I ljuset av surrealismen"); Paul Tenngart ("Bland akrobater och andra märkliga figurer"); Octavio Paz ("Skott"); Lars-Håkan Svensson ("Lasse Söderberg

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Popular Abstract in Swedish Förhållandet mellan utrikespolitik och demokrati har behandlats inom statsvetenskapen i hundratals år. En vanlig uppfattning har varit att behandlingen av utrikespolitiska frågor svårligen kan ske i demokratiska former. Inom utrikespolitiken har riksdagen traditionellt en svagare ställning gentemot regeringen än i inrikespolitiska frågor. I fokus för denna avhandling sThe increasing internationalization puts new demands on national democracy and national parliamentarism. The questions posed in this dissertation are if the parliamentary model for domestic policy or the parliamentary model for foreign policy is the most relevant when describing the role of the Swedish Riksdag (parliament) in European Union (EU) matters, and whether there have been any changes dur

How are musical traditions of minorities integrated in education and the public music life? Can music facilitate transcultural dialogue? And to what extent do musical practice and performance reassert the own cultural tradition in a foreign environment? Answers to those and similar questions as well as a review on what can be observed in the 21st century Europe are gathered in various thematic app

The study examines the character and development of anti-Jewish thinking as manifested in public discourse in Sweden in the post-war era. Using newspapers, periodicals and other publications as source material, the study seeks to uncover the continuity, discontinuity and renewal of anti-Jewish discourse by analysing the reactions to the assassination of the Swedish UN envoy Folke Bernadotte in Isr