Sorg och drömmar - nostalgi och tystnad : : surusta haaveisiin - nostalgiasta hiljentymiseen : Emotioner och narrativer 11-12.8.2008, Åbo

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Att möta sorg i arbetet : En kvantitativ enkätundersökning över begravningsrådgivare anslutna till SBF (Sveriges Begravningsbyråers Förbund).

This quantitative survey aims to highlight the impact of the meeting with the grief for customer advisers and representatives of funeral homes connected to the SBF (Sveriges Begravningsbyråers förbund). It also aims to demonstrate any differences between the sexes on this subject. Issues include: How does the person experience expectations and requirements in relation to their professional role? Does the person experience a personal impact due to the encounter with grief and death in their profession, in what way and to what extent? What consequences does the expectations, reactions and the possible impact result in for that person? What conditions does the person have to help cope with the professional role? Is there a gender difference in this experience? The theory base, which consists of theories taken from The Managed Heart: The commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Hochschild (2003) and descriptions taken from Yrke: begravningsentreprenör. Om utanförskap, döda kroppar, riter och professionalisering by Anna Davidsson Bremborg (2002), has been fundamental in both the preparatory work and the analysis. The population consists of those with client contact at funeral homes connected to the SBF. The questionnaire was answered through an internet page and the contact with the particiants were made via e-mail. The questionnaire consisted of 44 claims which were answered by how well the respondents agreed with them. The responses were then coded and calculations were made of mean and significance of these figures. Comparisons were made on several levels between the different variables in order to find patterns and indications. The results showed trends that the respondents to some extent experienced high demands in their profession, stress connected with the customer interactions and that this to some extent resulted in negative consequences. The results suggests that respondents were expected to and strove to go the "extra mile" to please the customers. The results also showed trends that the respondents enjoyed their work, experienced relatively good conditions in their profession and that the benefits outweighed the sacrifices. The results also showed an interesting pattern of that women, more than men, experience pressures and stress due to the encouter with grief at work, and that the higher education the respondents had the greater the impact. This study resulted in some interesting indications that can be used in further research.

Barn som förlorat en nära anhörig : Pedagogers bemötande av barn i sorg

Mitt examensarbete handlar om barn i sorg och pedagogers syn kring barn sorgarbete. Jag har intervjuat fyra verksamma pedagoger från förskolan till grundskolas tidigare år. Forskning har visat att det finns för lite kunskap kring barn i sorg i förskolan och skolan. Därmed såg fanns intresse att undersöka huruvida detta stämde överens med forskningen. Jag har även undersök hur länge pedagoger anser att sorg är ett argument för minskad skollust. Pedagogerna jag intervjuat har berättat för mig att de känner sig osäkra kring arbetet med barn i sorg och att de sedan tidigare har få kunskaper i ämnet.

Top left: F. Sorg, house sign and ornamental painter, dealer in oils, varnishes, glass, 26 & 28 East Washington St., Ann Arbor, Mich. Left: Res. of Mrs. Chas. Behr, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Botttom: Res. of Andrew Ten Brook, Ann Arbor, Mich. (na11,064)

Ann Arbor, Mich. residences and business. Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Everts & Stewart, 1874.

Das Neue königliche l'hombre, auch wie quadrille, cinquille, piquet, trisett, taroc etc. nach jetziger art zu spielen; wobey nebst noch andern kartenspielen das billard, pielkentafel, schach und ball spiel, etc. genau beschrieben und sorg fältig erkläret werden.

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Rhetorica vnd Formulare/ Teütsch/ dergleichen nie gesehen ist/ durch Alexander Hugen/ vil iaerigen Stattschreiber zů mindern Basel/ [et]c. beinach alle Schreiberei betreffend ... ein gantz Gerichtlicher proceß ... : Darauß die jungen/ beinach alle schreiberei leichtlich lernen/ vnd die erfarnen dieselben on groß sorg vnd arbeit/ wol vnderweisen mügen. Zů sampt einem ... Register ...

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Sorg och sorgebearbetning hos anhöriga vid väntade och plötsliga dödsfall - En litteraturstudie

Introduktion: När en närstående dör, oavsett om det är väntat eller sker plötsligt, drabbas anhöriga av sorg. Sorg innefattar fysiska, känslomässiga, kognitiva, andliga och sociala utmaningar. För att kunna hantera dessa utmaningar är det viktigt att bearbeta sorgen.  Syfte: Att belysa sorgereaktioner samt förhållanden som påverkar sorgebearbetningen hos anhöriga vid väntade och plötsliga dödsfall. Metod: Studiens datainsamlingsmetod är en litteraturstudie vars resultat bygger på redan befintlig vetenskaplig litteratur. Sökningarna genomfördes i databaserna CINAHL och PubMed och resulterade i 12 artiklar. Artiklarnas resultat lästes noggrant igenom, enskilt och tillsammans.  Resultat som svarade på syftet bearbetades och delades in i två sektioner med tillhörande teman. Resultat: Litteraturstudiens resultat visar att anhöriga upplever många olika sorgereaktioner när en närstående dör. Reaktionernas intensitet varierar beroende på hur den närstående dör samt den närståendes och anhörigas relation samt ålder och den anhörigas kön. Hur sorgebearbetningen utvecklas beror på olika förhållanden: närstående och anhörigas inställning kring döden, den döendes lidande samt olika former av stöd. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskor är ofta de som först möter anhöriga efter en närståendes död. Det är därför viktigt att sjuksköterskor har kunskap om sorg för att kunna bemöta och ge god omvårdnad till dessa anhöriga samt underlätta den kommande sorgebearbetningen. 

Evaluating plant breeding strategies by simulating gene action and dryland environment effects

Functional genomics is the systematic study of genome-wide effects of gene expression on organism growth and development with the ultimate aim of understanding how networks of genes influence traits. Here, we use a dynamic biophysical cropping systems model (APSIM-Sorg) to generate a state space of genotype performance based on 15 genes controlling four adaptive traits and then search this spice using a quantitative genetics model of a plant breeding program (QU-GENE) to simulate recurrent selection. Complex epistatic and gene X environment effects were generated for yield even though gene action at the trait level had been defined as simple additive effects. Given alternative breeding strategies that restricted either the cultivar maturity type or the drought environment type, the positive (+) alleles for 15 genes associated with the four adaptive traits were accumulated at different rates over cycles of selection. While early maturing genotypes were favored in the Severe-Terminal drought environment type, late genotypes were favored in the Mild-Terminal and Midseason drought environment types. In the Severe-Terminal environment, there was an interaction of the stay-green (SG) trait with other traits: Selection for + alleles of the SG genes was delayed until + alleles for genes associated with the transpiration efficiency and osmotic adjustment traits had been fixed. Given limitations in our current understanding of trait interaction and genetic control, the results are not conclusive. However, they demonstrate how the per se complexity of gene X gene X environment interactions will challenge the application of genomics and marker-assisted selection in crop improvement for dryland adaptation.

Effects of the naturally occurring food mycotoxin ochratoxin A on brain cells in culture.

The potential of ochratoxin A (OTA) to damage brain cells was studied by using a three-dimensional cell culture system as model for the developing brain. Aggregating cell cultures of foetal rat telencephalon were tested either during an early developmental period, or during a phase of advanced maturation, over a wide range of OTA concentrations (0.4 nM to 50 microM). By monitoring changes in activities of cell type-specific enzymes (ChAt and GAD, for cholinergic and GABAergic neurones, respectively, GS for astrocytes and CNP for oligodendrocytes), the concentration-dependent toxicity and neurodevelopmental effects of OTA were determined. OTA proved to be highly toxic, since a 10-day treatment at 50 nM caused a general cytotoxicity in both mature and immature cultures. At 10 nM of OTA, cell type-specific effects were observed: in immature cultures, a loss in neuronal and oligodendroglial enzyme activities, and an increase in the activity of the astroglial marker glutamine synthetase were found, Furthermore, at 2 and 10 nM of OTA, a clustering of microglial cells was observed. In mature cultures, OTA was somewhat less potent, but caused a similar pattern of toxic effects. A 24 h-treatment with OTA resulted in a concentration-dependent decrease in protein synthesis, with IC50 values of 25 nM and 33 nM for immature and mature cultures respectively. Acute (24 h) treatment at high OTA concentrations (10 to 50 microM) caused a significant increase in reactive oxygen species formation, as measured by the intracellular oxidation of 2',7'-dichlorofluorescin. These results suggest that OTA has the potential to be a potent toxicant to brain cells, and that its effects at nanomolar concentrations are primarily due to the inhibition of protein synthesis, whereas ROS seem not to be involved in the toxicity mediated by a chronic exposure to OTA at such low concentrations.

L'estraperlo a Artesa de Segre: la lluita per la supervivència: el pa de cada dia

Treball de recerca realitzat per una alumna d’ensenyament secundari i guardonat amb un Premi CIRIT per fomentar l'esperit científic del Jovent l’any 2008. L’estraperlo es pot definir com el comerç il•legal que es va dur a terme durant la postguerra espanyola i que consistia a comprar o intercanviar productes a baix preu a un lloc i vendre’ls o aconseguir-ne d’altres en un indret on es cotitzaven millor. Aquests productes eren articles intervinguts per l’estat o subjectes a racionament (1936-1952) i va passar a ser el mitjà de subsistència per a la majoria de persones que el van practicar. S’ha desenvolupat una aproximació a l’estraperlo a Artesa de Segre des de tres perspectives. La recollida de bibliografía ha permès situar-la dins l’ampli món de la postguerra espanyola. En el treball de camp, els testimonis ofereixen diferents punts de vista sobre les vivències de l’estraperlo i posteriorment s’analitzen els principals aspectes convergents i divergents a través d’un estudi comparatiu. Tota aquesta informació s’ha organitzat i presentat també en format audiovisual: el testimoni de l’estraperlista és narrat amb la seva pròpia veu. Les conclusions que s’en deriven són: l’estraperlo sorgí com a solució a la manca d’aliments i no és assimilable a el contraban; les circumstàncies precàries, les mancances de la postguerra i la disciplina arbitrària imposada pel mateix govern obligaren a la seva pràctica.

The naturally occurring food mycotoxin fumonisin B1 impairs myelin formation in aggregating brain cell culture.

The effects of subchronical applications of the mycotoxin Fumonisin B1 (FB1) were analyzed in vitro, using aggregating cell cultures of fetal rat telencephalon as a model. As cells in the aggregates developed from an immature state to a highly differentiated state, with synapse and compact myelin formation, it was possible to study the effects of FB1 at different developmental stages. The results showed that FB1 did not cause cell loss and it had no effects on neurons. However it decreased strongly the total content of myelin basic protein, the main constituent of the myelin sheath, during the myelination period (DIV 18-28). The loss of myelin was not accompanied by a loss of oligodendrocytes, the myelinating cells. However FB1 had effects on the maturation of oligodendrocytes, as revealed by a decrease in the expression of galactocerebroside, and on the compaction of myelin, as shown by a reduction of the expression of the mnyelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein MOG. The content of the cytoskeletal component glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was decreased in differentiated astrocytes, exclusively, while neurons were not affected by 40 microM of FB1 applied continuously for 10 days. In summary, FB1 selectively affected glial cells. In particular, FB1 delayed oligodendrocyte development and impaired myelin formation and deposition.