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When Stockholms Enskilda Bank hired two women in 1864, it waspresumably the first bank in the world to do so. The fashion ofhiring women gradually spread, and bank telling became femaledominated.We describe and analyze this process, identifying threeperiods in the feminization of the Swedish commercial banksector. Economic, institutional, technological, and cultural factorswere all instrumental in
Objectives: To identify factors that predict the use of community-based home help services in long-term cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI)-treated patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Methods: The Swedish Alzheimer Treatment Study (SATS) is an open, prospective, non-randomized, multicentre study in a routine clinical setting. Patients with AD living at home at the time of inclusion received treatm
Sustainable development; Sweden; Regional
Instructions in Wason’s Selection Task underdetermine empirical subjects’ representation of the underlying problem, and its admissible solutions. We model the Selection Task as an (ambiguous) interrogative learning problem, and reasoning to solutions as: (a) selection of a representation of the problem; and: (b) strategic planning from that representation. We argue that recovering Wason’s ‘normati
In this position paper we give an outline of the Palcom platform for pervasive computing and some of the design issues. With this as a background we initiate a discussion of the balance between the user being in control, and the system behaving in a helpful way.
