A brief introduction to the study of Christian liturgy, in a book devoted to Ritual Studies.

Sven Norberg has had a successful career in European development, which has been multi-faceted, active and very productive. This contribution, however, focuses on the equally impressive and parallel career, which Sven Norberg has pursued: his contributions to academic life and his activities in reforming Swedish legal education. These side activities could easily be regarded as merely incidental,

This paper describes a case of collaboration between academia and business firms in supporting innovation processes based on the CILO method, named after the CILO project (communication in learning organizations). The CILO method is an example of firm-supportive research approach. We describe the outcomes related to enhancing enterprise performance from applying the CILO-method in relation to one

The traditional restrictive attitude towards claim for compensation about non-pecuniary harms in both cause law and legislation become weaker even if the theoretically and practically reason behind the old exception-construction remain. This reason can best be explained by the thesis about incommensurability when it comes to compensate for some losses that money cannot compensate. To explain why t

Gång på gång möter den som oroar sig för risker expertrådet att lära sig att skilja mellan fara och risk. Ofta diskuteras nämligen faror som innebär mycket små risker, men det förstår allmänheten inte. Mycket av vår oro för risker beror på ett enkelt misstag. Det här kapitlet visar dock att det inte är så lätt att skilja mellan fara och risk, åtminstone inte enligt de gängse distinktioner som expe

Popular Abstract in Swedish "Becoming Muslim" är en etnologisk studie som baserar sig på djupintervjuer gjorda med sex svenska respektive tre amerikanska kvinnor vilka konverterat till islam. Utifrån deras livsberättelser studeras konversionsberättelsen (kap. 3), den kognitiva formationen av en muslimsk identitet (kap. 4) samt möten med det omgivande samhället (kap. 5). I avhandlingen ligger fokus"Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam" is an ethnographic study analyzing the identity-making of female Muslim converts. It is based on eighteen in-depth interviews with six women in Sweden and three women in the U.S. The process of becoming Muslim is explored by looking at the conversion narrative, the cognitive organization of a Muslim identity, and encounters with the surrounding wo

Long-term instability in multiplanet exosystems is a crucial consideration when confirming putative candidates, analysing exoplanet populations, constraining the age of exosystems and identifying the sources of white dwarf pollution. Two planets that are Hill stable are separated by a wide-enough distance to ensure that they will never collide. However, Hill-stable planetary systems may eventually

This paper considers off-line optimization of a switching sequence fora given finite set of linear control systems and joint optimization ofcontrol laws. A linear quadratic full information criterion isoptimized and dynamic programming is used to find the optimalswitching sequence and control laws. The main result is a method for efficient pruning of the search tree to avoid combinatoric explosion

Popular Abstract in Swedish Vårt behov av att öka matproduktionen för en växande global befolkning, har sedan mitten av nittonhundratalet drivit jordbrukets utveckling. Det traditionella, småskaliga jordbrukslandskapet med sitt lapptäcke av betesmarker, ängar och åkrar, har över tid ersatts av ett mer produktionsinriktat landskap. Åkrar har slagits ihop för att skapa större odlingsenheter, där nyaThe intensification of agriculture during the second half of the twentieth century, has caused sever declines of farmland biodiversity, where loss of semi-natural habitats is one of the major drivers. To halt further loss of habitat and biodiversity, agri-environmental schemes (AES) are used to compensate farmers to use methods less harmful to the environment. In this thesis, I have investigated t

We have studied the state of Cyt b559 and the Mn cluster by EPR and optical spectroscopy in the different S-states between pH 4.0-10.0. In these experiments, the pH was changed after the OEC turnover to the appropriate S-state (at pH 6.0) by 0-3 saturating flashes. Furthermore, the state of Cyt b559 after a subsequent flash given after the pH modification was also investigated. The results show th