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1. 6. Impacts of Active Transport on Health : with a focus on physical activity, air pollution, and cardiovascular disease

   Författare :Wasif Raza; Johan Nilsson Sommar; Bertil Forsberg; Benno Krachler; Otto Hänninen; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Health impact assessment; Air pollution; Active commuting; Exercise; Interaction. Cardiovascular diseases; Ischemic heart diseases; Stroke; Public health; folkhälsa; Occupational and Environmental Medicine; arbets- och miljömedicin;

   Sammanfattning : Background: There are increasing number of health impact assessment studies investigating the health effects by transferring trips made by motorised transport to active commuting; however, air pollution exposure during active commuting and its impact on health has been less thoroughly assessed. It is furthermore uncertain whether there is any interaction effect between air pollution and physical activity for the risk of cardiovascular diseases. LÄS MER

3. 7. Active school transportation : Understanding the parental decision-making process

   Författare :Hanna Forsberg; Stina Rutberg; Anna-Karin Lindqvist; Lars Nyberg; Maria Hagströmer; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Active commuting to school; children; health promotion; parents; theory of planned behavior; physical activity; social norms; Physiotherapy; Fysioterapi;

   Sammanfattning : Few children and adolescents reach the recommended levels of daily physical activity. This trend is evident in the countries examined in this thesis: Sweden and Spain. LÄS MER

4. 8. Färdmedelsvalets komplexa förutsättningar : En studie av arbetspendling i småbarnshushåll med Kils kommun som exempel

   Författare :Hans Olof Gottfridsson; Sune Berger; Gerhard Gustafsson; Kerstin Westin; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Commuting to work; choice of transport; families with young children; Activity-based approach; arbetspendling; färdmedelsval; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; Geography;

   Sammanfattning : Gottfridsson, H. O., 2007, Färdmedelsvalets komplexa förutsättningar – En studie av arbetspendling i småbarnshushåll med Kils kommun som exempel, (Complex conditions governing choice of transport – A study of parents of young children commuting to work from the municipality of Kil). LÄS MER

5. 9. The effect of physical activity and other lifestyle factors on dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and structural brain changes

   Författare :Suvi Rovio; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Dementia; Alzheimer´s disease; physical activity; lifestyle factors; apoE; brain volume; white matter lesions;

   Sammanfattning : Dementia is one of the major public health concerns and its impact is increasing rapidly in aging populations. Recent research has suggested that the origin of dementia and Alzheimer´s disease (AD), which is the most common form of dementia, is multifactorial including both genetic and environmental factors. LÄS MER

7. 10. Languaging in virtual learning sites : studies of online encounters in the language-focused classroom

   Författare :Giulia Messina Dahlberg; Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta; Mats Tegmark; Sylvi Vigmo; David Malinowski; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; virtual learning sites; synchronous computer mediated communication; Pedagogik; Education; Utbildning och lärande;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses upon a series of empirical studies which examine communication and learning in online glocal communities within higher education in Sweden. A recurring theme in the theoretical framework deals with issues of languaging in virtual multimodal environments as well as the making of identity and negotiation of meaning in these settings; analyzing the activity, what people do, in contraposition to the study of how people talk about their activity. LÄS MER