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1. Ålder och arbete : Föreställningar om ålderns betydelse för medelålders tjänstemän
Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses conceptions and experiences of the significance of being middle-aged in working life. Its main goal has been the identification and increased understanding of various aspects of the significance of age.The main study is based on interviews with 24 people, 12 men and 12 women, aged 45-54 years. LÄS MER
2. Risk faktors for fracture in middle-aged men and women
Sammanfattning : The number of fractures is increasing worldwide, and fractures frequently cause long-term disability, impaired quality of life and sometimes death. The Malmö Preventive Project, a population-based, prospective study, consisting of 22 444 men, mean age 44 and 10 902 women, mean age 50 years, provides data for evaluation of common public health conditions, such as fracture and diabetes. LÄS MER
3. Estimation of Speaker Age : Effects of Speech Properties and Speech Material
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to investigate factors related to accuracy in estimation of speaker age and the role of certain speech properties in perception and manipulation of speaker age, as well as their interaction with the speech material that the age estimates were based on. This thesis consists of three studies. LÄS MER
4. Nämnda ting men glömda : Ortnamn, landskap och rättsutövning
Sammanfattning : The dissertation describes the names related to justice and places in the landscape where justice was administered, applying an interdisciplinary perspective with place names as the chief source material.One aim is to collect and describe place names in Skåne designating or indirectly associated with meeting places and districts of the court, and to study the named places. LÄS MER
5. Tarot : New age i bild och berättelse
Sammanfattning : In the course of my dissertation work, I have sought knowledge about what New Age is, contains, and conveys by looking at practice and rhetoric, how the participants act and reason regarding their commitment, as well as how the contents of the field is discussed. I have put an emphasis on the small details: the objects, the rituals, and the narrating. LÄS MER