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This book is a study of the construction of gender and desire in trouser roles in both spoken theatre and opera.The long-term presence of cross-dressing in Western theatre history and its specific articulations in performanings arts have been an important part of the discourse in Gender Studies since the 1980's. The trouser role, a woman en travesti, literally in male drag, sings and looks like (i

Connective tissues have many features in common, including resisting and dissipating mechanical load and providing shape, as well as acting to provide barriers regulating water flow and diffusibility of macromolecules. In this chapter we have chosen to focus on cartilage and bone, covering many aspects of connective tissues. We give special focus to the noncollagenous proteins in their matrices.

Gene dispersal through pollen is affected by both abiotic and biotic environmental factors. In this study, I mainly investigated the effect of environmental factors: nutrient availability, simulated herbivory and floral morphology (flower colour), on the siring success of competing pollen donors and fitness of the resulting offspring. In a greenhouse experiments, maternal plants were treated with

Since January 1, 2005 all publicly traded companies within the EU must prepare their consolidated financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The transition to IFRS brought with it major changes in the accounting for financial instruments through the introduction of the highly controversial accounting standard IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognitio

A description of the major reform of the Swedish sickness benefit reform of 2008 and its effects and an analysis of the legal and societal problems it entailed. The major part of the reform being to transfer persons from the sickness insurance social security system to the unemployment insurance system.

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In market-driven requirements engineering for platform-based development of embedded systems such as mobile phones, it is crucial to market success to find the right balance among competing quality aspects (aka nonfunctional requirements). This paper presents a conceptual model that incorporates quality as a dimension in addition to the cost and value dimensions used in prioritisation approaches f

I denna rapport redovisas en utvärdering av Stockholmsmodellen, som är ett samverkansprojekt mellan brukarorganisationen Rainbow-Sweden och Stockholms stad. Stockholmsmodellen syftar till att ge marginaliserade människor bostad, arbete och en aktiv fritid. I september 2003 beslutade socialtjänstnämnden att godkänna ett förslag till samarbete med Rainbow-Sweden och finansiera projektet med två milj

Popular Abstract in Swedish Denna doktorsavhandling i industridesign handlar om utmaningarna och möjligheterna att möta demografiska förskjutningarna och de förmodade förväntningarna hos dagens och morgondagens äldre generationer. Bakgrunden är avsaknaden av möbler som motsvarar efterfrågan hos äldre konsumenter och bristande kunskap om relationerna mellan möbler och äldre människor i hem- och vårThis thesis in industrial design concerns the challenges and possibilities in meeting demographic shifts and the presumed expectations of today’s and tomorrow’s older generations. The background is the lack of furniture that responds to the demands of older consumers and the lack of knowledge about relationships between people and furniture in their home environments and in various forms of elderl

Grundläggande begrepp och allmänna teorier är nödvändiga utgångspunkter för forskning, undervisning och praktisk tillämpning inom ett kunskapsområde. Arkitekturområdet saknar sådana på vetenskaplig grund utarbetade begrepp och teorier om sitt kunskapsobjekt. Arkitekturen behandlar frågor om byggnadsverk och människans användning och upplevelse av byggnadsverk. I avhandlingen antas att vid människaScientifically based concepts and general theories of the object of knowledge are necessary start-ing-points for research, education, and practical application in a field of knowledge. In the field of ar-chitecture such concepts and theories are lacking. Architecture deals with questions of buildings and man’s use and experience of buildings. The hypothesis of the thesis is that with man’s use and

Popular Abstract in Swedish Cellerna I vårt immunförsvar hjälper oss att eliminera olika typer av infektioner orsakade av parasiter, bakterier och virus. Ibland klarar dessa celler även av att ta bort tumörceller, kroppsegna celler som börjat att dela på sig okontrollerbart. Det måste betyda att cellerna i immunförsvaret kan se skillnad på kroppsegna celler och främmande celler och strukturer (antThe present study deals with natural killer (NK) T cells restricted to the antigen presenting molecule CD1d. NKT cells have been suggested to play a role in many diverse immunological situations such as clearance of different pathogens, protection against certain tumors, regulation of autoimmune reactions and as a link between innate and adaptive immune responses. NKT cells are in many respects un