Worries about sleep, negative expectations of sleep, and frustration about sleep loss are assumed to play an important role in the development of insomnia. Eight items designed to measure aspects of vicious cycles of sleeplessness (VCS), on which insomnia patients and controls were found to differ in an earlier study, were used to form a new VCS scale. A sleep questionnaire including the VCS scale

There has been much work concerning the comparative analysis on English and German (e.g. Hawkins 1986), but there is an area still less studied. Diachronic comparative studies in these languages show a typologically unique diversity within a same language family. What is used as a key factor in this paper is alignment change. Alignment can involve various linguistic features, but what various piec

A conjecture in the literature holds that a large and diversified investor base leads to lower volatility by improving the quality of the price signal. In this paper this hypothesis is examined using unique Swedish ownership data. The data does not support the conjecture. Instead, volatility increases in the number of shareholders and in the size of the firm’s micro-float (the fraction of shares h

Detta projekt uppmärksammar brottsoffer och etnicitetsfrågor. I fokus står mellanmänskliga tolkningar av etnicitetens betydelse. Syftet är att analysera etnicitetstillskrivningar hos ungdomar som blivit utsatta för rån eller misshandel av andra ungdomar ”med annan etnicitet”. Med samtalsintervjun som metod studeras hur etnicitet omtalas och behandlas. Innebörden av begreppet är inte entydig, det i

The determination of lead in permanent teeth is a useful measure of past exposure in early childhood since these teeth are mineralized in early childhood. Particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) analysis has been shown to be a method with good applicability for the contamination-free analysis of elements heavier than calcium in dental hard tissues. The method is rapid and nondestructive. The purpos

Just as the world has increasingly been compressed over recent decades through transnationally engaged actors or 'carriers' such as mobile experts, international organisations, and seemingly globalised bodies of knowledge, so have China's politicians and academics increasingly 'gone global' in various fields of social action, including education. China's Open Door policy since the late 1970s is, h

Based on a survey of waste sorting behaviours and perceptions of residents in southern Sweden, we analyse how convenience provided to citizens, among various other factors, may affect the actual waste sorting activities.