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Roald, Anne Sofie. "The Scandinavian Conference on Middle East Studies." American Journal of Islam and Society 10, no. 1 (April 1, 1993): 132–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v10i1.2533.
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The Nordic Association of Middle East Studies, which was establishedin 1989 in Uppsala, Sweden, recently held its second conference.Delegates from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland participated.John O. Voll (who has with Swedish ancestors), chairman of the MiddleEast Studies Association (MESA), came as guest lecturer.The conference's leitmotif was "Diversity and Unity of the MiddleEastern World," which was also the theme of Voll's lecture. By reconceptualizingthe understanding of Middle East as a holistic region, one inwhich sociopolitical, economic, and cultural patterns have been regardedwithin a narrow "Muslim" or "Islamic," framework, he objected to standardizedconcepts and generalizations. He used the case of the Egyptianpeasant-how new developments and changed structures have transformedthe peasant of the 1970s into the different peasant of the 1990s.He also argued that concepts themselves can be actors in history whenthey have been conceptualized. Thus they do not always describe reality ...
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Pall, Zoltan, and Martijn de Koning. "Being and Belonging in Transnational Salafism." Journal of Muslims in Europe 6, no. 1 (March 9, 2017): 76–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22117954-12341338.
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This article is an inquiry into how the transnational networks of Salafism in Europe and the Middle East are structured by looking at two case studies: one about a Lebanese-Palestinian preacher in Sweden and one about a Dutch preacher in the Netherlands and theuk. By presenting these case studies we explain the predominance of informality in these networks, and highlight the different ways in which they link European Salafi preachers to the Middle East, yielding different types of social capital. Our findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lebanon, the Netherlands, Sweden and theukbetween 2007 and 2012.
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VanDenBerg, Jeff. "Promoting Undergraduate Research at MESA." Review of Middle East Studies 52, no. 1 (April 2018): 160–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rms.2018.1.
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In November 2017, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) sponsored the fourth annual Undergraduate Research Workshop in Washington, D.C. Organized by MESA's Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies, the workshop provides an opportunity for talented undergraduate students to present their scholarship in a professional context. Participants are selected through a competitive application process, and, since the program's inception have come from universities in Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, France, and across the United States.
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Hakky Mohammad, Ahmad. "OMBUDSMAN/HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES." Administracija i javne politike 12, no. 3 (April 22, 2020): 71–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.22182/ajp.1232019.4.
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The Ombudsmen institution is a relatively young institution in the political systems of 133 countries of the world. Although its founder is tied to Sweden, where this institution was founded in the early 19th century, its rapid spread only came in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century. In the Middle East, this institution exists in just a few countries. This institution continues to exist in this region and in certain countries only at the beginning of the 21st century. The institution of ombudsman in the interests of the Middle East is not close to the political systems of these countries, nor to the usual nor the cultural ambience. However, since it protects human rights and controle public administration, it is also necessary in the political regime of the countries of the Middle East. In this paper, special attention is paid to the Ombudsman/National Human Rights Institution in some countries of the Middle East.
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Bennet, Louise, Ruzan Udumyan, Carl Johan Östgren, Olov Rolandsson, Stefan P. O. Jansson, and Per Wändell. "Mortality in first- and second-generation immigrants to Sweden diagnosed with type 2 diabetes: a 10 year nationwide cohort study." Diabetologia 64, no. 1 (September 26, 2020): 95–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00125-020-05279-1.
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Abstract Aims/hypothesis Non-Western immigrants to Europe are at high risk for type 2 diabetes. In this nationwide study including incident cases of type 2 diabetes, the aim was to compare all-cause mortality (ACM) and cause-specific mortality (CSM) rates in first- and second-generation immigrants with native Swedes. Methods People living in Sweden diagnosed with new-onset pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes between 2006 and 2012 were identified through the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register. They were followed until 31 December 2016 for ACM and until 31 December 2012 for CSM. Analyses were adjusted for age at diagnosis, sex, socioeconomic status, education, treatment and region. Associations were assessed using Cox regression analysis. Results In total, 138,085 individuals were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes between 2006 and 2012 and fulfilled inclusion criteria. Of these, 102,163 (74.0%) were native Swedes, 28,819 (20.9%) were first-generation immigrants and 7103 (5.1%) were second-generation immigrants with either one or both parents born outside Sweden. First-generation immigrants had lower ACM rate (HR 0.80 [95% CI 0.76, 0.84]) compared with native Swedes. The mortality rates were particularly low in people born in non-Western regions (0.46 [0.42, 0.50]; the Middle East, 0.41 [0.36, 0.47]; Asia, 0.53 [0.43, 0.66]; Africa, 0.47 [0.38, 0.59]; and Latin America, 0.53 [0.42, 0.68]). ACM rates decreased with older age at migration and shorter stay in Sweden. Compared with native Swedes, first-generation immigrants with ≤ 24 years in Sweden (0.55 [0.51, 0.60]) displayed lower ACM rates than those spending >24 years in Sweden (0.92 [0.87, 0.97]). Second-generation immigrants did not have better survival rates than native Swedes but rather displayed higher ACM rates for people with both parents born abroad (1.28 [1.05, 1.56]). Conclusions/interpretation In people with type 2 diabetes, the lower mortality rate in first-generation non-Western immigrants compared with native Swedes was reduced over time and was equalised in second-generation immigrants. These findings suggest that acculturation to Western culture may impact ACM and CSM in immigrants with type 2 diabetes but further investigation is needed.
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Arvidsson, Daniel, Ulf Lindblad, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist, Leif Groop, and Louise Bennet. "Vigorous Physical Activity may be Important for the Insulin Sensitivity in Immigrants From the Middle East and Native Swedes." Journal of Physical Activity and Health 12, no. 2 (February 2015): 273–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2013-0222.
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Purpose:To compare physical activity measures and their associations with insulin sensitivity, β-cell function and body mass index (BMI) between Iraqi immigrants and native Swedes.Methods:A cross-sectional study of 493 Iraqis (58% men) and 469 Swedes (54% men) aged 30 to 75 years living in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Accelerometry was used for physical activity measures (sedentary time, breaks in sedentary time, moderate and vigorous physical activity, total counts). Insulin sensitivity index and oral disposal index were determined from an oral glucose tolerance test and BMI by body weight and height.Results:Iraqi men were less physically active than Swedish men, while the physical activity was more similar in the women. BMI was a strong predictor of insulin sensitivity and β-cell function and frequently associated with the physical activity measures. BMI modified the associations of insulin sensitivity and β-cell function with the physical activity measures to such extent that only VPA and total counts show direct associations with insulin sensitivity in addition to the indirect associations via BMI. Iraqi women demonstrated weaker associations compared with Swedish women.Conclusions:Physical activity and performed at vigorous intensity may be important mainly for the insulin sensitivity in Iraqi immigrants and native Swedes.
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Agafoshin, M. M., and S. A. Gorokhov. "Impact of external migration on changes in the Swedish religious landscape." Baltic Region 12, no. 2 (2020): 84–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2020-2-6.
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For most of its history, Sweden has been a country dominated by the Lutheran Church, having the status of the official state religion. Starting in mid-to-late 20th century, mass immigration to Europe had a considerable impact on the confessional structure of Sweden’s population. The growing number of refugees from the Balkan Peninsula, the Middle East, and Africa has turned Sweden into a multi-religious state. Sweden has become one of the leaders among the EU countries as far as the growth rates of adherents of Islam are concerned. Immigrants are exposed to adaptation difficulties causing their social, cultural and geographical isolation and making relatively isolated migrant communities emerge. This study aims at finding correlation between the changes in the confessional structure of Swedish population (as a result of the growing number of non-Christians) and the geographical structure of migrant flows into the country. This novel study addresses the mosaic structure of the Swedish religious landscape taking into account the cyclical dynamics of replacement of Protestantism by Islam. The methods we created make it possible to identify further trends in the Sweden’s religious landscape. This study adds to results of the complex sociological and demographic studies of the confessional structure of the Swedish population.
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Söbirk, S. K., M. Inghammar, M. Collin, and L. Davidsson. "Imported leishmaniasis in Sweden 1993–2016." Epidemiology and Infection 146, no. 10 (May 31, 2018): 1267–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950268818001309.
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AbstractIn Sweden, leishmaniasis is an imported disease and its epidemiology and incidence were not known until now. We conducted a retrospective, nationwide, epidemiological study from 1993 to 2016. Probable cases were patients with leishmaniasis diagnoses reported to the Swedish Patient registry, collecting data on admitted patients in Swedish healthcare since 1993 and out-patient visits since 2001. Confirmed cases were those with a laboratory test positive for leishmaniasis during 1993–2016. 299 probable cases and 182 confirmed cases were identified. Annual incidence ranged from 0.023 to 0.35 per 100 000 with a rapid increase in the last 4 years. Of 182 laboratory-verified cases, 96 were diagnosed from 2013 to 2016, and in this group, almost half of the patients were children under 18 years. Patients presented in different healthcare settings in all regions of Sweden. Cutaneous leishmaniasis was the most common clinical manifestation and the majority of infections were acquired in Asia including the Middle East, specifically Syria and Afghanistan. Leishmania tropica was responsible for the majority of cases (42%). A combination of laboratory methods increased the sensitivity of diagnosis among confirmed cases. In 2016, one-tenth of the Swedish population were born in Leishmania-endemic countries and many Swedes travel to these countries for work or vacation. Swedish residents who have spent time in Leishmania-endemic areas, could be at risk of developing disease some time during their lives. Increased awareness and knowledge are needed for correct diagnosis and management of leishmaniasis in Sweden.
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Hjelm, Katarina, Karin Bard, Kerstin Berntorp, and Jan Apelqvist. "Beliefs about health and illness postpartum in women born in Sweden and the Middle East." Midwifery 25, no. 5 (October 2009): 564–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2007.08.007.
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Potter, A. W. "The Ordovician brachiopod genus Bimuria from the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California." Journal of Paleontology 64, no. 2 (March 1990): 200–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000018369.
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The genus Bimuria Ulrich and Cooper, 1942, is a biogeographically important member of middle and late Ordovician brachiopod faunas of the Callahan–Gazelle area in the eastern Klamath Mountains of northern California. In middle Ordovician deposits the genus is widespread and ranges from Nevada in the west to southwestern Siberia in the east; however, in late Ordovician beds it was previously known only in Sweden and Northern Ireland. In addition to the northern California occurrence reported here, new late Ordovician occurrences are also noted in east-central Alaska–Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories. Three species of Bimuria are described, including the new species, B. californiensis.A preliminary survey of species described in the literature suggests that the ratio of the length of the dorsal adductor field to the length of the elongate area in the brachial valve decreases from middle to late Ordovician species, and thus may be of biostratigraphic value.
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K. Flensner, Karin, Göran Larsson, and Roger Säljö. "Jihadists and Refugees at the Theatre: Global Conflicts in Classroom Practices in Sweden." Education Sciences 9, no. 2 (April 13, 2019): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci9020080.
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In democratic societies schools have an obligation to address complex societal issues such as ethnic/religious tensions and social conflicts. The article reports an exploratory study of how theatre plays were used in upper-secondary schools to generate pedagogically relevant platforms for addressing the current Middle East conflicts and their impact on European societies in the context of religious education and civics. The schools are situated in areas with substantive migrant populations of mixed backgrounds, and this has implications for how these issues are understood as a lived experience. In the same classrooms, there were students who had refugee backgrounds, who represented different interpretations of Islam, and religion more generally, and whose families were victims of terrorism. There were also students with strong nationalist views. The study is ethnographic documenting theatre visits and classroom activities in relation to two plays about the Middle East situation. The results show that plays may open up new opportunities for addressing these issues, but that they may also be perceived as normative and generate opposition. An interesting observation is that a play may generate space for students to tell their refugee story in class, which personalized the experience of what it means to be a refugee.
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Demidova, E. E., and A. V. Starikova. "ETHNO-DEMOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE IN EUROPE BEFORE AND AFTER THE MIGRATION CRISIS (EVIDENCE FROM GERMANY AND SWEDEN)." Geopolitics and Ecogeodynamics of regions 6(16), no. 3 (2020): 126–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.37279/2309-7663-2020-6-3-126-135.
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The second half of the 2010-s is associated with a significant change in the ethno-demographic landscape of the most countries of Western Europe. Changes in the geography of migration flows affecting the ethnic composition of their population are considered on the example of Germany and Sweden, the countries most involved in immigration process as a result of crisis situations in Syria, the southern Mediterranean and the Middle East in 2015–2016.
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Çelikaksoy, Aycan. "Labor and marriage market incorporation of individuals with an origin from Turkey in Sweden: A comparative perspective." New Perspectives on Turkey 51 (2014): 97–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600006737.
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AbstractThis paper investigates the labor and marriage market incorporation of individuals originating from Turkey in comparison to other migrant groups in Sweden. Using high-quality register data from Statistics Sweden, the progress of and challenges facing this group are analyzed in comparison to their European and Middle Eastern counterparts, both over time and over generations. The descriptive results point to the economic progress of individuals from Turkey over time and over generations, especially in the case of native-born females. The results show that native-born individuals with an origin from Turkey are more likely to be employed as compared to their counterparts from the New 10 EU member states, Bulgaria and Romania, and the Middle East. However, those originating from Turkey are less likely to intermarry as compared to other groups. Further analyses indicate that individual characteristics are more important for native-born individuals, as compared to immigrants, in explaining the observed gaps in the labor market as well as the marriage market. However, the role of individual characteristics in explaining differences across groups varies by gender as well as by generation.
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Niklasson, Mats, Igor Drobyshev, and Tomasz Zielonka. "A 400-year history of fires on lake islands in south-east Sweden." International Journal of Wildland Fire 19, no. 8 (2010): 1050. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf09117.
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Island-lake ecosystems are suitable for testing scale dependence in forests disturbance theories thanks to differences in the potential for fire spread on islands and the mainland. We investigated past fire regime on the mainland and on islands in a large lake in south-east Sweden. We used dendrochronological methods to reconstruct fire disturbances on 18 small islands (0.04–24.1 ha) and in 43 sites in the surrounding 75-km2 landscape over the last 400 years. In the past, fires were frequent on both islands and mainland but not synchronised on an annual scale. Significant temporal changes occurred around the middle of the 18th century. Before 1750, fires were less frequent on islands than on the mainland (median fire return interval 58 v. 25 years respectively). However, an inversion of this pattern was observed during 1750–1860: islands showed even shorter fire intervals than mainland locations, suggesting additional and likely human-related source of ignitions (median fire return interval 15 v. 29 years respectively). A substantial decrease in fire activity in both islands and mainland was apparent in 1860–1890. We suggest that the present fire regime (the last 100 years) on the small islands is largely natural as fire suppression is not present there. The dynamic nature of the fire regime on islands still requires further studies: islands may, at times, attract lightning, humans with fire, or both.
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Wändell, P. E., S. E. Johansson, C. Gåfvels, M. L. Hellénius, U. de Faire, and J. Sundquist. "Estimation of diabetes prevalence among immigrants from the Middle East in Sweden by using three different data sources." Diabetes & Metabolism 34, no. 4 (September 2008): 328–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diabet.2008.01.012.
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Andersson, Susanne, Veronika Karlsson, Louise Bennet, Klas Fellbrant, and Margareta Hellgren. "Attitudes Regarding Participation in a Diabetes Screening Test among an Assyrian Immigrant Population in Sweden." Nursing Research and Practice 2016 (2016): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1504530.
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Immigrants from the Middle East have higher prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared with native Swedes. The aim of the study was to describe and understand health beliefs in relation to T2D as well as attitudes regarding participation in a screening process in a local group of Assyrian immigrants living in Sweden. A qualitative and quantitative method was chosen in which 43 individuals participated in a health check-up and 13 agreed to be interviewed. Interviews were conducted, anthropometric measurements and blood tests were collected, and an oral glucose tolerance test was performed. In total, 13 of the 43 participants were diagnosed with impaired glucose metabolism, 4 of these 13 had TD2. The interviewed participants perceived that screening was an opportunity to discover more about their health and to care for themselves and their families. Nevertheless, they were not necessarily committed to taking action as a consequence of the screening. Instead, they professed that their health was not solely in their own hands and that they felt safe that God would provide for them. Assyrians’ background and religion affect their health beliefs and willingness to participate in screening for TD2.
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WALLANDER, C., J. FRÖSSLING, I. VÅGSHOLM, A. UGGLA, and A. LUNDÉN. "Toxoplasma gondiiseroprevalence in wild boars (Sus scrofa) in Sweden and evaluation of ELISA test performance." Epidemiology and Infection 143, no. 9 (November 6, 2014): 1913–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950268814002891.
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SUMMARYToxoplasma gondiiis a zoonotic protozoan parasite, infecting a wide range of warm-blooded animals. The Swedish wild boar population is expanding and increased hunting provides its meat to a growing group of consumers. We performed a spatio-temporal investigation ofT. gondiiseroprevalence in Swedish wild boars. An ELISA was set up and evaluated against a commercial direct agglutination test, using Bayesian latent class analysis. The ELISA sensitivity and specificity were estimated to 79% and 85%, respectively. Of 1327 serum samples, 50% were positive. Thirty-four per cent of young wild boars and 55% of adults were positive (P< 0·001). The total seroprevalence ranged from 72% in 2005 to 38% in 2011 (P< 0·001), suggesting a declining trend. The highest seroprevalence, 65%, was recorded in South Sweden. In other regions it varied from 29% in Stockholm to 46% in East Middle Sweden.
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Sacchini, Wahab, Di Giannatale, Zilli, Abass, Garofolo, and Janowicz. "Whole Genome Sequencing for Tracing Geographical Origin of Imported Cases of Human Brucellosis in Sweden." Microorganisms 7, no. 10 (September 26, 2019): 398. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7100398.
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Human infections with Brucella melitensis are occasionally reported in Sweden, despite the fact that the national flocks of sheep and goats are officially free from brucellosis. The aim of our study was to analyze 103 isolates of B. melitensis collected from patients in Sweden between 1994 and 2016 and determine their putative geographic origin using whole genome sequencing (WGS)-based tools. The majority of the strains were assigned to East Mediterranean and African lineages. Both in silico Multiple Loci VNTR (Variable Number of Tandem Repeats) Analysis (MLVA) and core genome Multilocus Sequence Typing (cgMLST) analyses identified countries of the Middle East as the most probable source of origin of the majority of the strains. Isolates collected from patients with travel history to Iraq or Syria were often associated with genotypes from Turkey, as the cgMLST profiles from these countries clustered together. Sixty strains were located within a distance of 20 core genes to related genotypes from the publicly available database, and for eighteen isolates, the closest genotype was different by more than 50 loci. Our study showed that WGS based tools are effective in tracing back the geographic origin of infection of patients with unknown travel status, provided that public sequences from the location of the source are available.
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Ideström, Jonas, and Stig Linde. "Welfare State Supporter and Civil Society Activist: Church of Sweden in the “Refugee Crisis” 2015." Social Inclusion 7, no. 2 (June 24, 2019): 4–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i2.1958.
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2015 was a year of an unprecedented migration from the Middle East to Europe. Sweden received almost 163,000 asylum applications. The civil society, including the former state church, took a notable responsibility. In a situation where the welfare systems are increasingly strained, and both the welfare state and the majority church are re-regulated, we ask: how does this play out in local contexts? This article reports from a theological action research project within a local parish in the Church of Sweden. The Lutheran church has from year 2000 changed its role to an independent faith denomination. The study describes the situation when the local authority and the parish together run temporary accommodation for young asylum seekers. For the local authority the choice of the church as a collaborator was a strategic choice. For the local parish this occasion verified the mission of the church. Confirming its former role as carrier of societal beliefs and values the Church of Sweden supports the welfare state. At the same time, the church explores a new role as a faith denomination and part of the civil society.
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Lang, Ewald. "Biographische Kohärenz in der Wechselwirkung von Philologie und (R‑)Emigration: Wolfgang Steinitz (1905-1967)." Historiographia Linguistica International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences 32, no. 1-2 (2005): 149–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.32.1-2.07lan.
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The article portrays Wolfgang Steinitz (1905–1967) as an broad-minded linguist, whose life was determined by the political events in Europe between 1924 and 1967 and by his personal fate as a Jewish scientist, as a German communist of middle-class intellectual origin, and as a refugee to the USSR, Estonia and Sweden, who became an influential figure in the humanities in post-war East Germany. The paper focuses on detecting features of an inner biographical coherence in Steinitz’ oeuvre — despite the outer changes he had to experience with respect to political systems (Nazi-Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Sweden, Soviet-occupied East-Germany/GDR) and scientific fields he had to deal with (Finno-Ugristics, Ostyakology, folklore, ethnology, German studies, and other subjects). The paper illustrates features of biographical coherence emerging from a productive connection of personal motivation and philological method. The way in which Steinitz (1934) analyzed the grammatical parallelisms in Finno-Karelian folk poetry as ‘variations under conditions of contrast’ provides the over-all pattern for the range of scientific endeavours he addressed in his subsequent scientific undertakings. With reference to the personal friendship of the two émigré scholars Wolfgang Steinitz and Roman Jakobson, the paper suggests the life-saving role a commitment to scientific work can play as a balancing pole in difficult political times.
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Lang, Ewald. "Biographische Kohärenz in der Wechselwirkung von Philologie und (R‑)Emigration." Historiographia Linguistica 32, no. 1-2 (June 8, 2005): 149–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.32.2.07lan.
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Summary The article portrays Wolfgang Steinitz (1905–1967) as an broad-minded linguist, whose life was determined by the political events in Europe between 1924 and 1967 and by his personal fate as a Jewish scientist, as a German communist of middle-class intellectual origin, and as a refugee to the USSR, Estonia and Sweden, who became an influential figure in the humanities in post-war East Germany. The paper focuses on detecting features of an inner biographical coherence in Steinitz’ oeuvre – despite the outer changes he had to experience with respect to political systems (Nazi-Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Sweden, Soviet-occupied East-Germany/GDR) and scientific fields he had to deal with (Finno-Ugristics, Ostyakology, folklore, ethnology, German studies, and other subjects). The paper illustrates features of biographical coherence emerging from a productive connection of personal motivation and philological method. The way in which Steinitz (1934) analyzed the grammatical parallelisms in Finno-Karelian folk poetry as ‘variations under conditions of contrast’ provides the over-all pattern for the range of scientific endeavours he addressed in his subsequent scientific undertakings. With reference to the personal friendship of the two émigré scholars Wolfgang Steinitz and Roman Jakobson, the paper suggests the life-saving role a commitment to scientific work can play as a balancing pole in difficult political times.
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Elwert, Annika. "Opposites Attract: Assortative Mating and Immigrant–Native Intermarriage in Contemporary Sweden." European Journal of Population 36, no. 4 (December 11, 2019): 675–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-019-09546-9.
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AbstractThis paper studies how immigrant–native intermarriages in Sweden are associated with individual characteristics of native men and women and patterns of assortative mating. Patterns of educational- and age-assortative mating that are similar to those found in native–native marriages may reflect openness to immigrant groups, whereas assortative mating patterns that indicate status considerations suggest that country of birth continues to serve as a boundary in the native marriage market. The study uses Swedish register data that cover the entire Swedish population for the period of 1991–2009. The results from binomial and multinomial logistic regressions show that low status of natives in terms of economic and demographic characteristics is associated with intermarriage and that intermarriages are characterized by educational and age heterogamy more than are native–native marriages. The findings indicate that immigrant women as well as immigrant men become more attractive marriage partners if they are considerably younger than their native spouses. This is particularly true for intermarriages with immigrants from certain regions of origin, such as wives from Asia and Africa and husbands from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Gender differences in the intermarriage patterns of native men and women are surprisingly small.
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Al-Majdoub, Mahmoud, Peter Spégel, and Louise Bennet. "Metabolite profiling paradoxically reveals favorable levels of lipids, markers of oxidative stress and unsaturated fatty acids in a diabetes susceptible group of Middle Eastern immigrants." Acta Diabetologica 57, no. 5 (December 20, 2019): 597–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00592-019-01464-w.
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Abstract Aims The population of immigrants from the Middle East in Sweden show a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to native Swedes. The exact reason for this is unknown. Here, we have performed metabolite profiling to investigate these differences. Methods Metabolite profiling was conducted in Iraqi immigrants (n = 93) and native Swedes (n = 77) using two complementary mass spectrometry-based platforms. Differences in metabolite levels were compared after adjustment for confounding anthropometric, diet and clinical variables. Results The Iraqi immigrant population were more obese (44.1 vs 24.7%, p < 0.05), but had a lower prevalence of hypertension (32.3 vs 54.8%, p < 0.01) than the native Swedish population. We detected 140 metabolites, 26 of which showed different levels between populations (q < 0.05,) after adjustment for age, sex, BMI, T2D and use of metformin. Twenty-two metabolites remained significant after further adjustment for HOMA-IR, HOMA-beta or insulin sensitivity index. Levels of polyunsaturated acylcarnitines (14:2 and 18:2) and fatty acid (18:2) were higher, whereas those of saturated and monounsaturated acylcarnitines (14:0, 18:1, and 8:1), fatty acids (12:0, 14:0, 16:0, and 18:1), uremic solutes (urate and quinate) and ketone bodies (beta-hydroxybutyrate) were lower in Iraqi immigrants. Further, levels of phospholipids were generally lower in the Iraqi immigrant population. Conclusions Our result suggests an overall beneficial lipid profile in Iraqi immigrants, despite a higher risk to develop T2D. Higher levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids may suggest differences in dietary pattern, which in turn may reduce the risk of hypertension.
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Daryani, Achraf, Samar Basu, Wulf Becker, Anders Larsson, and Ulf Risérus. "Antioxidant intake, oxidative stress and inflammation among immigrant women from the Middle East living in Sweden: Associations with cardiovascular risk factors." Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 17, no. 10 (December 2007): 748–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2006.07.011.
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AL-HANDAL, ADIL Y., ANGELA WULFF, and CHIARA PENNESI. "Mastogloia jahniae sp. nov., a new diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden." Phytotaxa 484, no. 1 (February 15, 2021): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.484.1.6.
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Described is here Mastogloia jahniae sp. nov. a species new to science from Skatan on the Baltic Sea, east coast of Sweden. Description of this new species is based on light and scanning electron microscopy. The new species is classified in the Mastogloia section Ellipticae and is characterized by having radiating short and long striae around the central area, sinuous raphe branches and partecta displaced toward the middle of the valve by a siliceous flange. M. jahniae sp. nov. in terms of size is rather small whereas in terms of ecology appears an epipelic brackish water species. The new species was rather rare in all samples collected from Skatan and has not been found in the other adjacent regions sampled. A comparison with similar established Mastogloia species is provided.
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Gul, Nazia, and Hafiz M. Yasin. "The Trade Potential of Pakistan: An Application of the Gravity Model." LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 23–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35536/lje.2011.v16.i1.a2.
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This paper attempts to estimate Pakistan’s trade potential, using the gravity model of trade. Panel data for the period 1981-2005 across 42 countries is employed in the analysis. The coefficients obtained from the model are then used to predict the country’s trade potential worldwide as well as within specific trading regions. The results reveal that Pakistan’s trade potential is highest with countries in the Asia-Pacific region (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN]), the European Union (EU), the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Specifically, the maximum potential exists with Japan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Denmark. Therefore, Pakistan should explore ways and means to further improve its trade relations with the countries concerned, and also concentrate on ASEAN, the Middle East, and the EU to increase its market share as far as possible. The volume of trade between Pakistan and other members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is very low, despite the existence of significant potential. The main obstacles to this end are the political and social tensions among neighboring countries, particularly between Pakistan and India, which are the main players of SAARC. The same obstacles exist in the case of the EU and NAFTA, where Pakistani exports are adversely affected by political considerations.
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Juhlin, Christopher, Peter Hedin, David G. Gee, Henning Lorenz, Thomas Kalscheuer, and Ping Yan. "Seismic imaging in the eastern Scandinavian Caledonides: siting the 2.5 km deep COSC-2 borehole, central Sweden." Solid Earth 7, no. 3 (May 18, 2016): 769–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-7-769-2016.
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Abstract. The Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) project, a contribution to the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), aims to provide a deeper understanding of mountain belt dynamics. Scientific investigations include a range of topics, from subduction-related tectonics to the present-day hydrological cycle. COSC investigations and drilling activities are focused in central Scandinavia, where rocks from the middle to lower crust of the orogen are exposed near the Swedish–Norwegian border. Here, rock units of particular interest occur in the Seve Nappe Complex (SNC) of the so-called Middle Allochthon and include granulite facies migmatites (locally with evidence of ultra-high pressures) and amphibolite facies gneisses and mafic rocks. This complex overlies greenschist facies metasedimentary rocks of the dolerite-intruded Särv Nappes and underlying, lower grade Jämtlandian Nappes (Lower Allochthon). Reflection seismic profiles have been an important component in the activities to image the subsurface structure in the area. Subhorizontal reflections in the upper 1–2 km are underlain and interlayered with strong west- to northwest-dipping reflections, suggesting significant east-vergent thrusting. Two 2.5 km deep fully cored boreholes are a major component of the project, which will improve our understanding of the subsurface structure and tectonic history of the area. Borehole COSC-1 (IGSN: http://hdl.handle.net/10273/ICDP5054EEW1001), drilled in the summer of 2014, targeted the subduction-related Seve Nappe Complex and the contact with the underlying allochthon. The COSC-2 borehole will be located further east and will investigate the lower grade, mainly Cambro-Silurian rocks of the Lower Allochthon, the Jämtlandian décollement, and penetrate into the crystalline basement rocks to identify the source of some of the northwest-dipping reflections. A series of high-resolution seismic profiles have been acquired along a composite ca. 55 km long profile to help locate the COSC drill holes. We present here the results from this COSC-related composite seismic profile (CSP), including new interpretations based on previously unpublished data acquired between 2011 and 2014. These seismic data, along with shallow drill holes in the Caledonian thrust front and previously acquired seismic, magnetotelluric, and magnetic data, are used to identify two potential drill sites for the COSC-2 borehole.
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Ghobrial, John-Paul A. "MIGRATION FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EASTERN CHRISTIANS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 27 (November 1, 2017): 153–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s008044011700007x.
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ABSTRACTFrom Lebanese politicians in Argentina to Iraqi immigrants in Sweden, Middle Eastern Christians can be found today scattered across the entire world. Too often, however, this global migration has been seen purely as a modern development, one arising from contemporary political and religious tensions in the Middle East. In fact, this type of mobility had earlier manifestations in the early modern period. From the sixteenth century onwards, Christians from the Ottoman Empire set out for distant worlds and foreign lands, travelling as far as Europe, India, Russia and even the Americas and leaving traces of themselves in countless European and Middle Eastern archives, chanceries and libraries. This paper lays out a framework for understanding movement in the early modern world in a way that pays as much attention to how migrants understood their own travels as to contemporary European ideas about Eastern Christian mobility. Focusing on the intersection of two traditions of sources, I explore here how European and Eastern Christian perspectives about migration drew from one another, reinforcing and feeding on each other in powerful, mutually constitutive ways. In doing so, this paper seeks to make a contribution to our understanding of the everyday experience of circulation and mobility in the early modern world.
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Henriksson, Pontus, Emmie Söderström, Marie Blomberg, Paulina Nowicka, Kerstin Petersson, Kristin Thomas, Marcus Bendtsen, Fernando Estévez-López, and Marie Löf. "Self-Rated Health in Migrant and Non-Migrant Women before, during and after Pregnancy: A Population-Based Study of 0.5 Million Pregnancies from the Swedish Pregnancy Register." Journal of Clinical Medicine 9, no. 6 (June 6, 2020): 1764. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9061764.
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Self-rated health is a strong health marker. Migrants have been suggested to have poorer self-rated health than non-migrants (i.e., native-born). However, little is known about whether there are disparities in self-reported health in relation to pregnancy. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to examine the odds of poor self-rated health before, during and after pregnancy in migrant women as compared to women born in Sweden. We utilized population-based data from the Swedish Pregnancy Register containing 0.5 million women born in Sweden (i.e., non-migrant women) and migrant women between 2010 and 2018. Self-rated health was reported on a 5-point scale (from very poor to very good). Very poor and poor health were categorized as poor self-rated health. Logistic regression was utilized to calculate odds ratios (ORs) that were unadjusted and adjusted for covariates (age, parity, educational attainment and body mass index). The results demonstrate disparities in self-rated health across birth regions. In comparison to women born in Sweden, women born in Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia as well as North Africa and the Middle East had consistently higher odds of poor self-rated health before, during and after pregnancy (ORs ranging from 1.14 to 1.96 in both unadjusted and adjusted models). Although women born in Sub-Saharan Africa did have comparable self-rated health as to women born in Sweden before pregnancy, after accounting for covariates, they had lower odds of poor self-rated health during and after pregnancy (ORs: 0.71 and 0.80 respectively). Therefore, additional measures and support may be needed to tackle disparities in health between migrant and non-migrant women before, during and after pregnancy.
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Ettlinger, Nancy. "Labor Market and Industrial Change: The Competitive Advantage and Challenge of Harnessing Diversity." Competition & Change 4, no. 2 (June 2000): 171–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102452940000400202.
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Comparative cross-national analysis reveals that, irrespective of socio-cultural context, competitive production in the global economy has been predicated on homogeneity. As has been the case in the United States, labor market expansion and diversification is now occurring where alternatives to Anglo-American Taylorism have been considered competitive as well as socially progressive despite exclusionary employment systems. Specifically, in Japan, Germany, and Sweden, new entrants (notably women and immigrants) are increasing substantially in the work force; we may expect to find new entrants in workplaces in Japan and east Germany, and possibly in Sweden, in light of socially constructed labor shortages related to declines in traditional (native, middle-aged male) labor. Diverse workplaces challenge production systems based on homogeneity because the friction of difference counters foundational principles and negatively impacts productivity. Competitiveness in these contexts may require new rounds of corporate strategies that tap diversity while accommodating the needs of different workers. As in the United States, the public and private sectors of these countries to date have responded to increasing diversity by reinforcing existing systems via a deepening of labor market segmentation. Changing production to effectively manage diversity remains unsystematized and requires mechanisms to institutionalize change and sustain diversity; these formidable tasks must be understood as having economic, social, and political dimensions.
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Björquist, E., E. Nordmark, N. A. Almasri, and I. Hallström. "Immigrant Youths with Disabilities and Caregivers from the Middle-East—Challenges and Needs During Transition to Adulthood." Research in Health Science 2, no. 4 (November 23, 2017): 363. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/rhs.v2n4p363.
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<p><strong><em>Background: </em></strong><em>Recent years of research have increased the knowledge about how to support the transition to adulthood for youths with disabilities. In today’s multi-cultural societies knowledge about transitioning immigrant youths and their caregivers is still needed. </em></p><p><strong><em>Objective:</em></strong><em> To describe the expectations and needs of immigrant youths with disabilities residing in Sweden during their transition into adulthood as well as the expectations and needs of their caregivers, all of whom come from Arabic-speaking countries.</em></p><p><strong><em>Method:</em></strong><em> Structured interviews based on the Rotterdam Transition Profile (RTP) questionnaire were conducted with youths 16 to 24 years of age and with caregivers based on the Family Needs Survey (FNS). </em></p><p><strong><em>Results:</em></strong><em> Findings of interest were the youths´ dependence on parents for care demands and leisure activities, their need for information regarding future care and support and their concerns regarding future marriage. Caregivers’ felt unfamiliar with the term ‘intellectual disability’ and had a need for information about their youths’ condition and of available service for their children now and in the future.</em></p><p><strong><em>Conclusion: </em></strong><em>To prepare immigrant youths for future support, health care and habilitation services, it is important to enhance their autonomy. Immigrant families need culturally sensitive support and information, provided by designated professionals in their language of preference during the youths’ transition to adulthood.</em></p>
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Gayer, Rodney A., and Reinhard O. Greiling. "Caledonian nappe geometry in north-central Sweden and basin evolution on the Baltoscandian margin." Geological Magazine 126, no. 5 (September 1989): 499–513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800022822.
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AbstractStructural analysis of the Lower Allochthon in the north-central Scandinavian Caledonides has allowed the construction of restorable cross-sections consistent with the development of a foreland-propagating linked thrust system. The internal geometry of an antiformal stack, the Njakafjäll duplex, within the Lower Allochthon demonstrates tectonic shortening of c. 50% and suggests an overall predeformational width for the Lower Allochthon in this area of at least c. 130 km, and possibly considerably greater if the buried trailing edge of the Lower Allochthon lies in a comparable position to that farther south in Tröndelag. These results, combined with a stratigraphic analysis of the imbricates within the Lower Allochthon and of the adjoining Autochthon and Middle Allochthon, indicate the development, from Proterozoic through Cambrian times, of two sedimentary basins on the c. 200 km wide continental margin of Baltica bordering the Iapetus Ocean. The basins were separated by a region of basement relief, the Børgefjell domain, above which a reduced sequence of Vendian to Cambrian rocks accumulated. This Børgefjell basement high, and the similar Njakafjäll basement high to the east, subsequently became the sites of antiformal stack development. It is argued that the frequent incorporation of basement into the thrust sheets, together with the thin sedimentary fill of these basins, compared with the much greater fill in basins to the south in Jämtland and to the north of Finnmark, implies major palaeogeographic changes along the Baltoscandian margin, possibly related to early rift geometries. The apparent lack of subsequent foreland basin development in north-central Scandinavia compared with areas to the south may indicate a deeper level of thrust detachment beneath the Middle Allochthon to the north, such that any foreland basin sediments have been removed in the hangingwall and subsequently eroded. An alternative possibility is a primary absence of foreland basin development that may relate to a differing response to thrust loading by continental lithosphere which had been variably thinned during the earlier rift regime.
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Sabet, Amr G. E. "Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures for Knowledge." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 35, no. 3 (July 1, 2018): 112–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v35i3.492.
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Middle East Studies for the New Millennium sheds light on the trials and tribulations of Middle East area studies in the highly charged and politi- cized context of American academia and broader US policy. In this respect, it is an important exposition of how American universities produce knowl- edge about different world regions (ix). The study is the outcome of a research project that spanned a period of nearly fifteen years since 2000. The introductory chapter, by book editors Shami and Miller-Idriss and titled “The Many Crises of Middle East Stud- ies” (MES), refers to the contextual status of the field and relates its ‘crises’ to an American setting in which knowledge and power are intrinsically, even if not always clearly, juxtaposed. Shami and Miller-Idriss point out that three main institutional actors define the politics of the field: univer- sities, federal government, and private philanthropic foundations (8). The role of the US federal government in producing knowledge, the relation- ship between knowledge and power, and ways of knowing about ‘other’ cultures and places has long been a source and subject of numerous debates and controversies (1), but the authors problematize it in terms of the “se- curitization of academic knowledge in the name of ‘national interest,’ the challenges arising out of the possibilities of unbounded, transnational fields of scholarship and the future of the university as an institution” (2). The MES also faced an additional crisis as a growing number of social scientists came to perceive it as too focused on in-depth studying of areas instead of seeking to produce knowledge based on universal theories or explanations. MES, thus, increasingly occupied a diminishing space in social sciences in favor of a humanistic turn toward cultural and linguistic approaches (9). This, according to Shami and Miller-Idriss was not simply a matter of intel- lectual skepticism, but rather a reflection of deliberate attempts at siphon- ing social scientists from universities, narrowing knowledge to specific agenda-settings, and limiting space for alternative perspectives. Due to the perceived ‘anti-Americanism’ of MES, in good measure emanating from claims about Edward Said’s “pernicious influence,” the field has increasingly come under siege through federal monitoring, campus watch, scrutiny of scholars exchanges, and funding restrictions (10). Problematizing the context of MES in such terms helps frame the ap- proach of this study around three main themes that comprise the three parts of the book and its eleven chapters. These include the relationship be- tween MES and other social science disciplines, reconfigurations, and new emphases in MES focusing on university restructuring, language training and scholarly trends, and the politics of knowledge as they relate specifical- ly to the many crises in the Middle East (11). Part I, titled “Disciplines and its Boundaries,” comprises four chap- ters, which highlight the interdisciplinary nature of area studies as a sub- field within the entire “problem-solving” structure of social sciences. This tendency distinguished area studies from earlier Orientalist/civilizational scholarly traditions. The four chapters in Part I cover the relationship be- tween area studies and political science (Lisa Wedeen), sociology (Reshat Kasaba), economics (Karen Pfeifer), and geography (Amy Mills and Timur Hammond). Together, they demonstrate how the privileged discipline or “prestige area” for theorizing reflects a different relationship with area studies depending on the discipline’s definition of the “universal” (11). Wedeen challenges positivist/methodological claims about the separation of fact and value, and the unification of liberalism and science in such a fashion as to render the subfield of American studies a standard universal “nonarea”, reflecting American exceptionalism (12). Kasaba examines the historically cyclical relationship between sociology and area studies “as a push-and-pull reaction to particular political imperatives,” related to how social sciences and American foreign policy have been intertwined since WWII (12). Pfeifer focuses on how international financial institutions have shaped much of western economists’ approaches to the Middle East region, entrenching neoclassical economic ideas associated with stabilization, lib- eralization, and privatization (13). Mills and Hammond examine the “spa- tial turn” in area studies, and how spatial methodologies have provided for a means to understand the broad socio-economic and political dynamics that have served to shape the Middle East. They point also to the interdisci- plinary nature of spatial studies that could very well transform area studies by linking the region to its global context (14-15). Part II, titled “Middle East Studies and the University,” comprises four chapters by Jonathan Z. Friedman and Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Elizabeth An- derson Worden and Jeremy M. Browne, Laura Bier, and Charles Kurzman and Carl W. Ernst. These chapters highlight how knowledge about the Middle East are produced through changing institutional structures and architectures, particularly in relation to the rise of “the global” as a major organizational form within American universities. They also focus on the “capacities” needed to produce a new generation of qualified specialists ca- pable of dealing with profound regional changes that would also require dif- ferent policy and educational approaches (15). Friedman and Miller-Idriss look at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University (NYU) in order to investigate how area studies centers as well as universities are to transform themselves into global institutions. They point to two separate but coexisting logics of internationalization: that of the specialist with deeper knowledge of the area, and the cosmopolitan who emphasizes breadth in global experience in order to produce the ‘global citizen’ (15-16). Worden and Browne focus on reasons why it was difficult for American institutions to produce proficient Arabic language speakers in significant numbers. They offer an explanation in terms of structural and cultural factors related to time constraints that graduate students face in or- der to learn the language, the relative lower status of language instructors, the devaluation of language learning by some social sciences disciplines, and, for all practical purposes, the difficulty of learning Arabic. Bier ana- lyzes PhD dissertations concerned with the Middle East across six social sciences disciplines (political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, history and MES) during the period 2000-2010, focusing on their themes, topics and methods (253). She points out that neoliberalism and what is termed the ‘Washington Consensus’ have come to dominate political sci- ence, sociology and economics, while issues of identity, gender, colonial- ism, the nation, and Islam dominate in anthropology, history, and MES. Kurzman and Ernst go beyond Bier’s thematic approach to highlight the renewed and significant institutional growth of interest in Islamic studies for national security concerns. They point as well to the encouragement offered by a number of universities to promote cross-regional approaches, not constrained by narrower definitions of distinct regions, although they also raise the problem of lack of adequate federal funding for such purpos- es. Part III, titled “the Politics of Knowledge,” comprises three chapters by Seteney Sami and Marcial Godoy-Anativia, Ussama Makdisi, and Irene Gendzier; and an ‘Afterward’ by Lisa Anderson. These chapters examine not only the production of knowledge but also how knowledge is frequently silenced by forces that “structure and restrict freedom of speech, censor- ship and self-censorship”—the so-called “chilling effects” (19). Sami and Godoy-Anativia examine the themes of campus watch or surveillance and public criticism of MES, especially after the 9/11 events of 2001, and their impact on academia and “institutional architectures” as knowledge is secu- ritized and “privatized” (19). Makdisi and Gendzier question how Ameri- can scholarship about the region has changed over time, yet almost always highly charged and politicized in large measure due to the Arab-Zionist/ Israeli conflict (20-21). Despite moves toward more critical and postna- tionalist approaches, Makdisi emphasizes that overall academic freedom has nevertheless been curtailed. Genzier, in turn, points to how “ignorance has [come to have] strategic value,” as “caricatured images” pass for anal- ysis (21-22). Finally, given the securitization and other intimidating mea- sures undertaken around campuses and universities, Anderson concludes that the state of a “beleaguered” (442) MES is deplorable, describing it as “demoralized, lacking academic freedom and reliable research data, and function in a general climate of repression, neglect and isolation” (22, 442). This important book—with extensive bibliographies in each chapter and its detailed exploration of the state of the field of United States MES in the twenty-first century—stands as a reference source for all interested in Middle East studies. “Infrastructures for Knowledge” could have made for a provocative main title of this work, in reference to the production of knowledge on the Middle East and the reproduction of new generations of Middle Eastern specialists. Its most salient aspect is that it highlights and underscores the formal and informal authoritarian and securitization mea- sures adopted by US federal agencies as well as universities to set effective restrictions on what can or cannot be said and/or taught about MES, both in academic institutions and in the media. In addition to the proliferation of both private and public watchdogs monitoring how MES is being taught on campuses, the establishment since 2003 of twelve Homeland Security Centers of Excellence at six universities (with grants totaling about 100 million dollars) is indicative of the scale of intrusive measures (101). The broader problem is that such infringements do not take place only in US universities. Given that county’s totalizing and vested interests in influenc- ing how knowledge is produced and consumed globally, not least in and about the Middle East, the extent of its hegemonic control in that region can only be surmised.
Amr G.E. SabetDepartment of Political ScienceDalarna University, Falun, Sweden
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Rohdewald, Stefan. "A Muslim Holy Man to Convert Christians in a Transottoman Setting: Approaches to Sarı Saltuk from the Late Middle Ages to the Present." Entangled Religions 9 (April 30, 2019): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.46586/er.v9.2019.57-78.
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Interpretations of texts on Sarı Saltuk may serve as a central example of the entanglement of Muslim and Christian contexts in (south-)eastern Europe and the Near East. Analyzing the fifteenth-century Saltuk-nâme and reports by Evliya Çelebi from the seventeenth century, a wide extension of the area concerned, as far as Poland-Lithuania, Muscovy and Sweden, can be observed. With the change of the contents of reports from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an increasing interest in Christians participating in the veneration of sites connected to Sarı Saltuk can be remarked. Yet descriptions of a veneration of Sarı S altuk in a non-Muslim setting r emain firmly embedded in Christian contexts, complicating a transreligious interpretation of them. In today’s Turkish perspective, though, Sarı Saltuk is no longer contextualized in a manner encompassing Russia and Poland, too, but much more in a context focusing on and affirming national Turkish Anatolian or nationalized post-Ottoman contents in the Balkans.
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Greiling, R. O., R. A. Gayer, and M. B. Stephens. "A basement culmination in the Scandinavian Caledonides formed by antiformal stacking (Bångonåive, northern Sweden)." Geological Magazine 130, no. 4 (July 1993): 471–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800020549.
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AbstractThe Bångonåive basement culmination, a doubly plunging antiform trending SW-NE in its southern part and SSW-NNE in the north, is part of a major Caledonian antiform in north-central Scandinavia. Crystalline, Proterozoic basement rocks (mainly syenite) are unconformably overlain by a sedimentary cover including tillites at the base, passing up into arkoses, quartzites and shales, capped by black phyllites. This sequence is correlated with the Varangian to Cambrian succession of the Baltoscandian platform farther east. Detailed mapping revealed a succession of five basement-cover horses, which represent the accessible part of an antiformal stack exposed beneath the Middle and Upper Allochthons and taken here as the Lower Allochthon structural level.Caledonian deformation varies in intensity from penetrative near thrusts and in pelitic rocks to very weak in the more internal parts of the horses. A penetrative foliation is associated with the growth of white mica and rare biotite. This early fabric is overprinted by a mylonitic foliation related to localized shear zones, which separate the structural units within the Lower Allochthon. Stretching and mineral lineations trend WNW-ESE and related shear-sense criteria indicate transport (top) towards the ESE. Structural units (horses) are thrust into an antiformal stack and folded around the lowermost horse exposed, which is itself folded into an anticlinal lift-off fold. Towards the northeast, the antiformal stack is overprinted by a pop-up and an out-of-sequence thrust. The latter breached the roof of the Lower Allochthon and transported part of it over the Middle and Upper Allochthons. Further folds are associated with lateral and oblique ramps in the Lower Allochthon. These structures relate very well with the complex fold pattern previously observed in the higher structural units and thrust tectonics provides a straightforward genetic explanation for these folds. Therefore, earlier genetic models of the Bångonåive basement culmination as a simple imbrication of basement into higher units, as a buckling structure or as a gravitational dome structure are rejected here. The structural information, supported by gravimetric data, is consistent with an essentially flat regional detachment surface (2° dip) extending from the present external Caledonian margin to the base of the Bångonåive antiformal stack.
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Tarkiainen, Kari. "Tallinna ja Harju-Viru rüütelkonna alistumine Rootsile 1561: vormid ja põhjused [Abstract: The capitulation of the town of Tallinn and the Harju-Viru knighthood to Sweden in 1561: forms and causes]." Ajalooline Ajakiri. The Estonian Historical Journal, no. 1 (May 3, 2017): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/aa.2017.1.02.
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The subjugation of Northern Estonia to Swedish rule in 1561 is described in all general presentations of history, yet by and large, the course of events has not been traced in newer research. This period of history is very remarkable in three aspects. First of all, it was important for Sweden’s political history because over the course of the subsequent hundred years, Sweden became a major power in the Baltic Sea region, in reference to which the expression dominium maris Baltici is used. Secondly, the events of 1561–62 were of local importance because they led to the demise of the State of the Livonian Order in Livonia, which also meant the end of the Middle Ages in that region. The third viewpoint concerning the effect of these events to constitutional law is perhaps even more important. They started the transformation of previously unitary Sweden into a European conglomerate state where in addition to the motherland, there were other distinctive parts with different rights, so called provinces.
Only a part of this chain of events will be examined in this study, namely the visit of the Swedish envoys Klas Kristersson Horn, Hans Larsson Björnram and Herman Bruser to Tallinn from March to June of 1561 and the events following this visit after the coronation of the king in Stockholm towards the end of the summer. There is abundant source material related to the deliberations (correspondence, presentations, documents verifying privileges, descriptions of oral conversations) and part of it has been published, but there are many loose ends in this material, first and foremost in regard to questions related to constitutional issues.
A completely new picture of the history of the birth of Sweden as a great power emerges as a result of the careful reading of the sources. Unlike later developments, to a great extent the initiative came from Tallinners themselves. Their vision was affected both by the fear of Russia and by the wish to use the opportunities offered by trade with the east. Complete concord prevailed in these matters between the Tallinners and Sweden’s young king Erik XIV. The Harju-Viru knighthood and the nobility of Järvamaa followed the example of Tallinn’s senior magistrates and town council.
The vote with acclamation that took place in Tallinn, where the participants chose “with hand and mouth” the king of Sweden as their ruler, was of central importance. This was followed by detailed consultations, where Horn, Björnram and Bruser in accordance with their authorisation agreed to the existing privileges of the corporations. Two separate “acts of recognition” (Huldigung) took place in Tallinn on 4 and 6 June 1951, the content of which was typical in the case of the declaration of the sovereign as ruler. The central elements of these ceremonies were the oath of allegiance and the affirmation of the ruler, ecclesiastical ceremonies and various kinds of expressions of joy. After this, a delegation from the knighthood and the city travelled to Sweden, but they were late (perhaps for diplomatic reasons) for the king’s coronation celebrations held in Uppsala in June of 1561. In this way they did not have to take the oath of allegiance the same way as the Swedes.
The final phase of the events took place in audiences with Erik XIV in Stockholm as well as its surrounding area. The promises and the written oaths taken in Tallinn were reviewed on the basis of Sweden’s legal expertise and even though the Swedes were not always satisfied with them, the king affirmed them all the same. He was emphatically benevolent and even approved the privileges presented by the delegations without reading them, asking only whether there was not anything in them contrary to natural law. Thus the privileges of both the knighthood and the city were approved in Norrköping on 2 August 1561. The Riksradet (Council of the Realm) did not participate in making the final decisions and the king also did not request any recommendation from the Riksdag (Sweden’s parliament). Instead, he relied on the permit that Riksdag had already granted to Gustav Vasa in the summer of 1560 “to set foot in Livonia”.
The reason as seen from Sweden for incorporating Tallinn and its surrounding region was undoubtedly primarily mercantile. Several features of the policy of Erik XIV, and the selection of envoys (Horn and Björnram) from among persons who knew Russian trade the best, are indicative of this. Yet other reasons also had their effect, for instance state security and the ruler’s ambition and vanity. On the whole, Sweden’s path to becoming a great power can be explained on the basis of the complexity theory and especially the path dependence featured in this theory, where decision-making is limited to the path that has previously been selected. The distinctive feature of the events that took place in Tallinn was the fact that they had the strong support of the city’s inhabitants and that very little military force was used, while on the other hand money was spent liberally to pay for both bribes and awards.
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Pearl, Frederic B. "The Water Dragon and the Snake Witch: Two Vendel Period Picture Stones from Gotland, Sweden." Current Swedish Archaeology 22, no. 1 (June 10, 2021): 137–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.2014.10.
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The style and iconography of two wellknown picture stones are reanalysed. The Hablingbo Havor II pic ture stone shows a motif that occurs frequently in Got landic art from the Vendel Period onwards: the“Water Dragon”. It is suggested that this relates to an ideo logical connection between the dragon and the sea, where the sea is the dragon that ferries ships to distant shores. This is reflected not only in picture stones, but in Viking Age art in general. The iconography of När Smiss III (the “Snake Witch”) has been interpreted in a variety of ways, but special consideration is given to Peel’s (1999) suggestion that it relates closely to the Vi tastjärna myth from the 13thcentury Guta Saga. The artistic style of the zoomorphs on both stones (Style II) is typically dated to the Vendel Period. It is suggested that Sune Lindqvist’s insistence that the stones date from before AD 600 comes from a longstanding de bate with Nils Åberg over the date and context of the east mound at Uppsala, and by association, the date of the artistic style found on Hablingbo Havor II and När Smiss III. This debate has been resolved in favour of Åberg’s interpretation. These two picture stones rep resent an artistic tradition that should be dated con servatively from the beginning of the 5th century AD to the middle of the 7th century AD.
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Lindencrona, Fredrik, Solvig Ekblad, and Edvard Hauff. "Mental health of recently resettled refugees from the Middle East in Sweden: the impact of pre-resettlement trauma, resettlement stress and capacity to handle stress." Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 43, no. 2 (December 3, 2007): 121–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-007-0280-2.
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Al-Imam, Ahmed, and Ban A. AbdulMajeed. "Novel Psychoactive Substances: Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Analysis of Literature." Global Journal of Health Science 9, no. 11 (September 18, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v9n11p1.
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BACKGROUND: The research output within the discipline of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) has been evolving since the end of the last decade. The introduction of the concept of evidence-based Medicine led to a revolutionary growth of all fields of medical research. The enhancements of research quality were also paralleled by the development of tools for critical analysis of literature.MATERIALS & METHODS: The aim of the study is to assess the NPS research output, by means of evaluation of the level-of-evidence and the implemented statistical analyses. An extensive database of near 600 published manuscript was created; the papers were selected from the PubMed/Medline database by using pre-specified keywords. Each manuscript will be systematically scanned for; the first author, research institution, country, year of publication, type of study, statistical analysis, level-of-evidence, and journals of publication. Research efforts from the Middle East were also observed and quantified.RESULTS: Teams of NPS researchers included members in the range of one to twenty-nine, with and an average of 4.75 authors per publication. Research output was densely mapped in the developed countries including the UK (53%), US (19%), Italy (14%), Germany (14%), and Sweden (10%); the Middle East contribution was minimal (<1%). The top two research institutes were; King’s College London (UK) and Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). Studies included; Cross-sectional analyses (15%), Reviews (18%), and Analytic chemistry (36%). A considerable number of publications (34%) had no statistics at all, while only 14% had inferential statistics. Top journals of publication were; Journal of Psychopharmacology, Current Neuropharmacology, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.CONCLUSION: Research output should always be assessed for quality control purposes. This study represents an innovative and systematic method of critical analysis of NPS literature. Future study efforts should be respondent to this study to achieve a better quality of research.
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Christensen, Walter Kegel. "Gradualistic evolution in Belemnitella from the middle Campanian of Lower Saxony, NW Germany." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 47 (September 11, 2000): 135–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-2000-47-10.
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Nine samples of the Belemnitella lineage, including the uppermost Lower and lower Upper Campanian B. mucronata and the uppermost lower Upper Campanian B. misburgensis sp. nov., from the expanded uppermost Lower and lower Upper Campanian succession of the Lehrte West Synclinee east of Hannover, Lower Saxony, northern Germany have been subjected to univariate and bivariate statistical analyses. The succession consists of monotonous marly limestones and calcareous marls, which were deposited during 4–5 m.y. in a fairly stable environment. Based on superficial resemblance alone the nine samples are nearly identical, but trends have been recognized in the morphological characters when treated quantitatively. Three characters, the length from the apex to the protoconch, the slenderness of the guard and the alveolar angle, show evolutionary reversals (socalled zig-zag evolution) with net decreases or increases. The Schatzky distance shows stasis in B. mucronata and decreases in B. misburgensis sp. nov. The fissure angle displays unidirectional evolution and increases gradually. These morphological changes are interpreted as long term phyletic gradualism, although this model of evolution has almost universally been depicted as one of unidirectional change. B. misburgensis sp. nov. is closely allied to B. mucronata (its ancestor), but differs in its slightly smaller and more slender guard, in addition to its smaller Schatzky distance and larger fissure angle. B. praecursor is recorded from the uppermost five metres of the Lower Campanian, and this is the first record of this species from the highest Lower Campanian of northern Germany. The uppermost Lower and Lower Upper Campanian belemnite assemblages of the Misburg/Höver area in northern Germany are reviewed. The Upper Campanian Belemnitella successions of Norfolk in England, the Maastricht-Liège district in The Netherlands and Belgium, the Mons Basin in southern Belgium, Scania in southern Sweden and the Misburg-Höver area in northwest Germany are compared and contrasted.
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Laskar, Pia, Anna Johansson, and Diana Mulinari. "Decolonising the Rainbow Flag." Culture Unbound 8, no. 3 (February 28, 2017): 193–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1683193.
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The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic center. Through three case studies in the global North and South, held together by a multi-ethnographic approach, as well as a certain theoretical tension between the rainbow flag as a boundary object and/or a floating signifier, we seek to study where the flag belongs, to whom it belongs, with particular focus on how. The three case studies, which are situated in a city in the Global South (Buenos Aires), in a conflict war zone in the Middle East (the West Bank) and in a racialised neighbourhood in the Global North (Sweden), share despite their diversity a peripheral location to hegemonic forms of knowledge production regimes. Central to our analysis is how the rainbow flag is given a multitude of original and radical different meanings that may challenge the colonial/Eurocentric notions which up to a certain extent are embedded in the rainbow flag.
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Franceschi, Silvia, and Marco Geddes. "Epidemiology of Classic Kaposi's Sarcoma, with Special Reference to Mediterranean Population." Tumori Journal 81, no. 5 (September 1995): 308–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030089169508100502.
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An excess of classic Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in individuals of southern European ancestry has long been suspected and recently quantified in terms of age-standardized rates. In Italy and most notably in southern Italy for the period 1976-84, prior to the AIDS epidemic, KS incidence rates were two-to-three-fold higher than in the United States and Sweden and many ten-fold higher than in England and Wales and Australia. A high frequency of classic KS has also been documented in Israel and, in low-risk countries, in individuals born in southern Europe and the Middle East. Many infections have been suspected to play a role in the etiology of KS, including cytomegalovirus, malaria and, most recently, a new virus of the herpes family, identified in AIDS-associated and classic KS. The present review deals with epidemiologic data concerning KS in the Mediterranean and stresses the opportunity to combine the study of KS in AIDS as well as non-AIDS patients in order to shed light on this no longer rare disease.
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Hollander, Anna-Clara, Euan Mackay, Hugo Sjöqvist, James B. Kirkbride, Sofie Bäärnhielm, and Christina Dalman. "Psychiatric care use among migrants to Sweden compared with Swedish-born residents: a longitudinal cohort study of 5 150 753 people." BMJ Global Health 5, no. 9 (September 2020): e002471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002471.
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BackgroundTo investigate differences in psychiatric care use over time between Swedish born and those born abroad who migrate to Sweden.MethodsPopulation-based cohort study analysing linked population and health registers, following individuals born 1944–1990 from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2016. Time-stratified survival analysis using Cox regression estimated time to psychiatric care use. Population included 5 150 753 individuals with 78.1% Swedish born. Migrant status was coded as Swedish born or migrant. Migrants were grouped by year of immigration and region of origin. The main outcome: psychiatric care use, defined as any psychiatric care; psychiatric inpatient or outpatient care; or use of psychotropics.ResultsMigrants arriving before 2005 had a higher use of any psychiatric care relative to Swedish born but migrants arriving 2005 onwards had lower use. Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia had a lower use of any psychiatric care during the first decade in Sweden whereas migrants from Middle East and North Africa had a higher use, driven by use of psychotropics.ConclusionsThe lower use of psychiatric care during the first decade contrasts with higher use among migrants with a longer duration of stay. Psychiatric care use among migrants should be analysed multi-dimensionally, taking duration of stay, region of origin and type of care into account.
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Holst, Sarah, and Sara Hägg. "Positive bias for European men in peer reviewed applications for faculty position at Karolinska Institutet." F1000Research 6 (December 18, 2017): 2145. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.13030.1.
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Background: Sweden is viewed as an egalitarian country, still most of the professors are Swedish and only 25% are women. Research competence is evaluated using peer review, which is regarded as an objective measure in the meritocracy system. Here we update the investigation by Wold & Wennerås (1997) on women researcher’s success rate for obtaining a faculty position, by examining factors (gender, nationality, productivity, etc.) in applications for an Assistant Professorship in 2014 at Karolinska Institutet. Methods: Fifty-six applications, 26 Swedish and 21 women applicants, were scored both on merits and projects by six external reviewers. Additional variables, including grants and academic age, calculated as the number of years since PhD excluding parental or sick leave, were gathered. Productivity was assessed by calculating a composite bibliometric score based on six factors (citations, publications, first/last authorships, H-index, high impact publication). Results: Overall, academic age was negatively correlated with scores on merits, as assessed by peer review, although not reaching statistical significance. In men, associations between scores on merits and productivity (P-value=0.0004), as well as having received grants (P-value=0.009) were seen. No associations were found for women. Moreover, applicants with a background from the Middle East were un-proportionally found in the lowest quartile (Fisher exact test P-value=0.007). Conclusions: In summary, the gender inequality shown in peer review processes in Sweden 20 years ago still exists. Furthermore, a bias for ethnicity was found. In order to keep the best scientific competence in academia, more efforts are needed to avoid selection bias in assessments to enable equal evaluations of all researchers.
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Holst, Sarah, and Sara Hägg. "Positive bias for European men in peer reviewed applications for faculty position at Karolinska Institutet." F1000Research 6 (August 14, 2018): 2145. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.13030.2.
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Background: Sweden is viewed as an egalitarian country, still most of the professors are Swedish and only 25% are women. Research competence is evaluated using peer review, which is regarded as an objective measure in the meritocracy system. Here we update the investigation by Wold & Wennerås (1997) on women researcher’s success rate for obtaining a faculty position, by examining factors (gender, nationality, productivity, etc.) in applications for an Assistant Professorship in 2014 at Karolinska Institutet. Methods: Fifty-six applications, 26 Swedish and 21 women applicants, were scored both on merits and projects by six external reviewers. Additional variables, including grants and academic age, calculated as the number of years since PhD excluding parental or sick leave, were gathered. Productivity was assessed by calculating a composite bibliometric score based on six factors (citations, publications, first/last authorships, H-index, high impact publication). Results: Overall, academic age was negatively correlated with scores on merits, as assessed by peer review, although not reaching statistical significance. In men, associations between scores on merits and productivity (P-value=0.0004), as well as having received grants (P-value=0.009) were seen. No associations were found for women. Moreover, applicants with a background from the Middle East were un-proportionally found in the lowest quartile (Fisher exact test P-value=0.007). Conclusions: In summary, the gender inequality shown in peer review processes in Sweden 20 years ago still exists. Furthermore, a bias for ethnicity was found. In order to keep the best scientific competence in academia, more efforts are needed to avoid selection bias in assessments to enable equal evaluations of all researchers.
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Wang, Lu, Lingxia Li, Cai Cheng, Hua Tian, Yang Li, and Minwei Zhao. "Global scientific production in the field of knee arthroplasty: A cross-sectional survey of research activities." Journal of International Medical Research 45, no. 3 (April 18, 2017): 897–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060517701356.
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Objective To determine the quantity and quality of articles in the field of knee arthroplasty worldwide and elucidate the characteristics of global scientific production. Methods Web of Science was used to identify articles in the field of knee arthroplasty from 2011 to 2015. The total number of papers, number of papers per capita, total number of citations, and mean number of citations were collected. Results In total, 11,590 papers were identified. The number of publications significantly increased from 2011 to 2015. Most originated from North America, East Asia, and West Europe. Most (88.51%) were from high-income countries, 11.48% were from middle-income countries, and only 0.01% were from lower-income countries. The United States had the most articles and total citations. Sweden had the highest mean citations, followed by Denmark and Canada. However, when adjusted by population size, Denmark had the most articles per million population, followed by Switzerland and the Netherlands. Conclusions The number of knee arthroplasty publications has rapidly increased in recent years. The United States is the most prolific, but some European countries are more productive relative to their population.
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Ogbonna, P. C., E. C. Nzegbule, and P. E. Okorie. "Soil Chemical Characteristics in Wet and Dry Season at Iva Long Wall Underground Mined Site, Nigeria." Nigerian Journal of Environmental Sciences and Technology 2, no. 1 (March 2018): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.36263/nijest.2018.01.0068.
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In a bid to diversify the sources of revenue generation in Nigeria, the Government of the Federation has initiated plans to resuscitate coal mining. This study, therefore, assessed the impact of previous mining activities on soil chemical characteristic of the abandoned site. A single factor experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications to obtain information on soil status of Iva mined site. Soil samples were collected randomly from ten different sampling points at 0-10, 10-20, and 20-30 cm soil depth in four cardinal points at north (N), south (S), east (E), west (W), and at the centre (c) of crest, middle slope, and valley of Iva mined site. The samples were analysed for heavy metals, macronutrient, soil pH, and organic matter content. The organic matter values ranged from 0.00 ± 0.00 to 1.14 ± 0.02% in dry season and 0.00 ± 0.00 to 1.04 ± 0.06% in wet season, with higher levels of organic matter in the valley (OM ≤ 1.14 %). Soil pH values ranged from 3.98 to 6.00 in wet season and 3.82 to 5.34 in dry season, with higher levels of acidity in the middle slope (pH ≤ 4.37). The range of values of soil macronutrients (K, Mg, N and P) were higher in wet season than in dry season with higher levels of K, Mg, N and P, at middle slope. Similarly, the values of the concentration of heavy metals (Ni and Pb) in soil were higher in wet season than in dry season with higher levels of Ni and Pb at middle slope. The levels of Ni, Pb and Cd in this study are above their allowable limits in Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, and United Kingdom. The high concentrations of Cd and Ni in soils could be taken up in plants via the roots, thus, exposing both man and herbivores to serious health risks.
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Michelsen, Olaf, Lars H. Nielsen, Peter N. Johannessen, Jan Andsbjerg, and Finn Surlyk. "Jurassic lithostratigraphy and stratigraphic development onshore and offshore Denmark." Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin 1 (October 28, 2003): 145–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v1.4651.
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A complete updated and revised lithostratigraphic scheme for the Jurassic succession of the onshore and offshore Danish areas is presented together with an overview of the geological evolution. The lithostratigraphies of Bornholm, the Danish Basin and the Danish Central Graben are described in ascending order, and a number of new units are defined. On Bornholm, the Lower–Middle Jurassic coal-bearing clays and sands that overlie the Lower Pliensbachian Hasle Formation are referred to the new Sorthat Formation (Lower Jurassic) and the revised Bagå Formation (Middle Jurassic). In the southern Danish Central Graben, the Middle Jurassic succession formerly referred to the Lower Graben Sand Formation is now included in the revised Bryne Formation. The Lulu Formation is erected to include the uppermost part of the Middle Jurassic succession, previously referred to the Bryne Formation in the northern Danish Central Graben. The Upper Jurassic Heno Formation is subdivided into two new members, the Gert Member (lower) and the Ravn Member (upper). The organic-rich part of the upper Farsund Formation, the former informal ‘hot unit’, is established formally as the Bo Member. Dominantly shallow marine and paralic deposition in the Late Triassic was succeeded by widespread deposition of offshore marine clays in the Early Jurassic. On Bornholm, coastal and paralic sedimentation prevailed. During maximum transgression in the Early Toarcian, sedimentation of organic-rich offshore clays took place in the Danish area. This depositional phase was terminated by a regional erosional event in early Middle Jurassic time, caused by uplift of the central North Sea area, including the Ringkøbing–Fyn High. In the Sorgenfrei–Tornquist Zone to the east, where slow subsidence continued, marine sandy sediments were deposited in response to the uplift. Uplift of the central North Sea area was followed by fault-controlled subsidence accompanied by fluvial and floodplain deposition during Middle Jurassic time. On Bornholm, deposition of lacustrine muds, fluvial sands and peats dominated. The late Middle Jurassic saw a gradual shift to shallow marine deposition in the Danish Central Graben, the Danish Basin and Skåne, southern Sweden. During the Late Jurassic, open marine shelf conditions prevailed with deposition of clay-dominated sediments while shallow marine sands were deposited on platform areas. The Central Graben received sand by means of sediment gravity flows. The clay sediments in the Central Graben became increasingly rich in organic matter at the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition, whilst shallow marine coarse-grained deposits prograded basinwards in the Sorgenfrei– Tornquist Zone.
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Duruisseau, Fabrice, Nathalie Huret, Alice Andral, and Claude Camy-Peyret. "Assessment of the ERA-Interim Winds Using High-Altitude Stratospheric Balloons." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 74, no. 6 (June 1, 2017): 2065–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-16-0137.1.
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Abstract This study focuses on the ability of ERA-Interim to represent wind variability in the middle atmosphere. The originality of the proposed approach is that wind measurements are deduced from the trajectories of zero-pressure balloons that can reach high-stratospheric altitudes. These balloons are mainly used to carry large scientific payloads. The trajectories of balloons launched above Esrange, Sweden, and Teresina, Brazil, from 2000 to 2011 were used to deduce zonal and meridional wind components (by considering the balloon as a perfect tracer at high altitude). Collected data cover several dynamical conditions associated with the winter and summer polar seasons and west and east phases of the quasi-biennial oscillation at the equator. Systematic comparisons between measurements and ERA-Interim data were performed for the two horizontal wind components, as well as wind speed and wind direction in the [100, 2]-hPa pressure range to deduce biases between the model and balloon measurements as a function of altitude. Results show that whatever the location and the geophysical conditions considered, biases between ERA-Interim and balloon wind measurements increase as a function of altitude. The standard deviation of the model–observation wind differences can attain more than 5 m s−1 at high altitude (pressure P < 20 hPa). A systematic ERA-Interim underestimation of the wind speed is observed and large biases are highlighted, especially for equatorial flights.
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Nielsen, Michael Houmark. "PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY AND GLACIAL HISTORY OF THE CENTRAL PART OF DENMARK." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 36 (October 9, 1987): 1–189. http://dx.doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-1988-36-01.
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The Pleistocene deposits of Denmark are largely composed of two major facies that interfinger with each other: 1) tills, and 2) waterlaid outwash material. The two facies are occasionally interbedded with interglacial or interstadial deposits. By applying lithostratigraphy combined with structural analysis in open exposures, a glacial stratigraphy of the Pleistocene has been established, and the glacial history interpreted. Only till units are classified lithostratifically because of their high regional consistency compared to waterlaid outwash deposits. Correlation of till units is based on three basic properties: lithology, stratigraphic position and associated glaciotectonic boundaries. Lithic characteristics, some of which have local value whilst others indicate regional properties, include data on local glacier flow directions from fabric analyses and the contents of provenance dependent compositional features, the latter may provide information on the long range path of glaciers. Fine gravel analyses and stone counts demonstrate, that distinct stratigraphical relationships exist between tills rich and poor in quartz as well as between tills of Fennoscandian and Baltic provenance primarily indicated by the quantities of Paleozoic limestone clasts. The contests of re-deposited Quaternary foraminifera primarily serve as lithic characteristica and secondly as a guide line to estimate the possible age of a till unit. Bounding relations between till units are studied with special emphasis on glaciotectonic unconformaties. They not only serve as supreme marker horizons on a regional scale, but they also supply high rank information on the local direction of glacier movement. Analysis of glaciotectonic structures often constitutes the implement by which the stratigraphy of a dislocated glacial sequence can be recognized. Using a combined set of glacial-stratigraphic methods, about 200 selected localities in the central part of Denmark have been investigated over the past ten years. Studies at eight principal localities and two key localities, some of which are classical exposures, provide the foundation for a litho-stratigraphic model for the till units. The Elsterian glaciaiton is represented by three till units (S0NDER VISSING TILL, PALSGARD TILL, SNOGH0J TILL) of Norwegian, Middle Swedish and Baltic provenance respectively. The Saalian comprise three till units (TRELDE NIES TILL, ASHOVED TILL, LILLEBJELT TILL), the two former are of Fennoscandian provenance and the latter of Baltic provenance; deposited in the above mentioned order by icesheets from the north, the north east and from the east respectively. The Weichselian is build up of six till units, the oldest of which (RISTINGE KLINT TILL) was most probably deposited later than 36800 BP. This Baltic till is followed by three tills of Fennoscandian provenance (KATTEGAT TIL:i.,, MID DANISH TILL, NORTH SJ,ELLAND TILL) deposited respectively from the north, the northeast, and the east. The two youngest Weichselian till units are of Baltic provenance (EAST JYLLAND TILL, BJELTHAV TILL) and they were deposited from south-easterly directions before 13500 BP. Till beds are erected into formal lithostratigraphic units of Formation rank and they are extended to cover extraregional till units, correlation is based on stratigraphic position, lithology and boundaries. The following glacial history can be outlined. During the Elsterian the S0nder Vissing till, the Palsgard till and the Snoghl'lj till were deposited by three glacial advances probably in the chronological order as mentioned above. During the Holsteinian interglacial, marl and diatomite were deposited in lake basins in the central part of the region. The Saalian glaciation was initiated with the deposition of outwash material by southerly to southwesterly directed meltwater streams and succeeded by an ice-stream from southern Norway, which deposited the Trelde Nres Till. After deposition of this till, interstadial conditions prevailed, and outwash material was deposited by westward flowing meltwater streams. This interstadial phase was followed by the second Saalian glacial advance during which the Ashoved Till was laid down by an ice-sheet from Middle Sweden. Prior to the last Saalian glacial phase, outwash material was deposited by generally westward flowing meltwater streams, that probably emerged from the Palaeobaltic ice. This latter deposited the Lillebrelt Till and invaded the country from the western part of the Baltic. During the Eemian, lake sediments were formed in kettle bogs on the surface of the Lillebrelt Till, while at the same time, marine sediments were deposits in the southern and northern part of the examined region. Tundra vegetation developed in a dry polar climate characterize the Early- and the larger part of the Middle Weichselian. Interstadial deposits with an age of about 36800 BP were formed on Sejerl'l - probably prior to the Old Baltic ice advance, which in the southern and eastern part of the region deposited he Ristinge Klint Till from the Baltic. The Old Baltic advance was succeeded by the Norwegian advance which came from southern Norway crossing the Kattegat depression and deposited the Kattegat TIU in the northern part of the region. After deposition of the previously mentioned two till units, interstadial condi• tions re-occurred and meltwater streams transported outwash material northward into the Kattegat basin. A change in meltwater palaeocurrent direction towards the west indicates the approach of the Main Weichselian advance. This advance crossed Middle Sweden and deposited the Mid Danish Till, and it probably reached its maximum extension along the Main Stationary Line at around 20000 BP. A read• vance during the general retreat of the Main Weichselian icestream crossed Fyn from the NE, and outwash streams were generally directed towards the north until a younger re-advance from easterly directions deposited the North Sjrelland Till in the eastern part of Denmark. This re-advance may have occupied the northeastern part of Denmark and Kattegat before giving way to the transgression of the Younger Yoldia Sea, which was initiated about 15000 BP in Vendsyssel. Whilst this transgression was progressing the Main Weichselian ice sheet retreated to a probable position along the Swedish west coast. Northward flowing meltwater streams prevailed, at this time, in the central Danish region, until the Young Baltic icesheet ad• vanced from the Baltic depression and deposited the East Jylland Till. This advance formed the East Jyl• land ice border line, probably around 14000 BP. During the East Jylland advance, northward directed drainage patterns prevailed in the northern part of the region, whereas outwash material was deposited by westward flowing streams in southern Jylland. The East Jylland ice sheet retreated to a position south-east of the examined region before the Brelthav re-advance deposited the Brelthav Till. Still supplied from the Baltic this readvance reached the classical Odsherred ice marginal zone of Northwest Sjrelland and gave rise to the final molding of the ice marginal hills of North Sams0 and the archshaped shoals in Storebrelt. During the Weichselian, the Saalian, and probably also the Elsterian, the direction of the majority of ice sheet advance that invaded Denmark changed in a "clockwise" manner. During each glacial, an initial advance from the north was succeeded by one from northeast ending up with one from the east and south· east. The change in direction of advance is accompanied by a corresponding change in the provenace dependent elements of the till units. Hence, the "clockwise" pattern established for the Danish region can reflect a fundamental trend in the dynamic evolution of consecutive Scandinavian ice sheets. The present study therefore, may provide important guide lines for future attempts to establish more detailed the• oretical glaciological models for the dynamics of these former Scandinavian ice sheets.