The modern landscape. Historical orienteering and critical narratives of modern Sweden from 1960 to 1990

Eating disorders in Swedish female elite athletes – coaches’ knowledge and practice in identification and management

The issue of weight preoccupation and eating disorders are receiving growing interest in the sport environment. Success in some sports requires an extremely lean appearance, which may lead to pressure from coaches and parents to be thin. Other sports use weight classifications that determine in which group an athlete will compete, requiring him/her to drop several kilos before competition. The aim

Labour-Market Attachment and Entry into Parenthood. The Experience of Immigrant Women in Sweden

Clinical features of achromatopsia in Swedish patients with defined genotypes.

Purpose: To describe the clinical phenotype, with emphasis on the electrophysiological findings, of patients with autosomal recessive rod monochromacy (RM) and defined mutations in the CNGA3/CNGB3 genes. Methods: RM patients from eight different families were included in the study. Their genotypes were determined by DNA sequencing and/or RFLP analysis of PCR-amplified genomic segments of the CNGA3

America and the Future of Sweden: Americanization as Controlled Modernization

Reliability of the prospective data collection protocol of the Swedish Spine Register: Test-retest analysis of 119 patients.

Soil treatment effects on bark lesions and frost sensitivity of beech (Fagus sylvatica) in southern Sweden

Bark lesions on beech are mostly caused by frost damage and/or insect and fungal infections. Liming, treatment with wood ash and N-fertilization were hypothesised to affect this type of damage. The frost sensitivity was measured as an index of injury, calculated from electrolytic leakage of bark samples. Samples were taken from the same trees in August and November at five sites. Two sites had bee

The economic cost of low back pain in Sweden in 2001

Initial validation of the Swedish version of the London Handicap Scale.

The acquisition of Swedish as a second language in a group of Arabic-speaking pre-school children: word order patterns and phrasal morphology

Securing Europe: The Swedish Presidency and EU Enlargement

Is blood pressure at 68 an independent predictor of cognitive decline at 81? Results from follow-up study "Men born in 1914", Malmö, Sweden.

Bone mineral density assessed by quantitative ultrasound and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Normative data in Malmo, Sweden

We measured bone mineral density (BMD) in 128 men and 143 women, aged 22-90, by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) and quantitative ultrasound (QUS). We found reduced bone mineral density in relation to age as measured both by DEXA and QUS. There was a correlation between 0.28 and 0.52 in men and between 0.53 and 0.77 in women when comparing DEXA and QUS measurements. When including only pers

A study of inter-firm market orientation dimensions in Swedish, British and Italian supplier-retailer relationships

Dynamics of Electric Energy Efficiency in Swedish Residential Buildings

Daily physical activity in Swedish children aged 8-11 years.

Gasification of Swedish Black Shale in the Fluidized Bed. Reactivity in Steam and Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere

Prevalence of hand eczema in an adult Swedish population and the relationship to risk occupation and smoking

Using a postal questionnaire the prevalence of hand eczema was determined in a general population of 11 798 individuals aged 20 - 77 years who were randomly drawn from the population records. The response rate was 78.1%. One-year prevalence of hand eczema among women varied between 1.9% and 10.8%, with the highest figure among those aged 30 - 39 years. The corresponding figures for men were 2.3% a

The Office of Bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and in the Church of Sweden

Lingua in diaspora : studies in the language of the second generation of Yugoslav immigrant children in Sweden