Monumental Past is a living text based on a doctoral dissertation submitted by Cornelius J. Holtorf to the University of Wales in 1998. It explores the social and cultural meanings of megaliths from later prehistoric Mecklenburg-Vorpommern located in northeastern Germany. The author engages directly with current debates about the significance of monuments, events and processes in their life histo

Popular Abstract in English Organic synthesis has been defined as the “intentional construction of molecules by chemical means”1 and is often regarded to have commenced with Wöhler’s preparation of urea in 1828.2 Today, the influence of organic synthesis reaches far beyond the domain of chemistry, touching upon fields such as biology, nanotechnology, material science, and medicine. It has thus supThis thesis deals with the development of new reaction methodology for stereoselective synthesis, as well as total synthesis of natural products and investigations of the stereochemical outcome in the Mukaiyama aldol reaction. Chapter 2 describes efforts made towards the total synthesis of the oxindole natural products perophoramidine and the communesin. The first part of this chapter aims to de

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Artikeln ger en översikt av det vikingatida materialet från detektorsökningarna i Uppåkra. Olika föremålsgrupper samt mynt analyseras. Proveniens och kronologi diskuteras. en central aspekt är platsens karaktär i vikingatid samt relationen till det tidigmedeltida Lund.

Beskriver och analyserar de finländska judarnas historia och nuvarande situation.

Gender scholarship has identified how paid care work reproduces male dominance and reinforces women's subordination, but also how labour and workplaces provide a critical space for women through the development of new forms of identity and struggle. In this ethnographic study of Swedish nurses' work, the concept of normative femininity is used in order to explore gender, labour, and changing relat

Christian imagination engaged Hades from the very beginning; already the canonical epistle 1 Peter talks of preaching among the dead. Synesius of Cyrene’s hymns and the Odes of Solomon exemplify, in different ways, how early Christian poets use the katabasis motif. Most of the early texts describe Christ’s visit to the underworld. He descends and resurrects, and in doing so he saves the dead from

In this paper we estimate the computational cutoff rate for sequential decoding when used together with short interleaving to communicate over the Gilbert-Elliot channel.