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The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and Author
No full textThe Gunnar Ekelöf Room is a reconstructed memorial museum of the late home of the Swedish modernist poet at the Sigtuna Foundation not far from Stockholm. While Gunnar Ekelöf’s original manuscripts are archived at Uppsala University Library, their copies are accessible in the duplicate so-called Home Archive, set up by his widow Ingrid Ekelöf and housed in the Gunnar Ekelöf Room, as is also the extensive correspondence between her and the literary critic Brita Wigforss. Guided by cultural memory studies and archival studies which regard archives and writers’ houses as texts and media, this chapter explores how the Home Archive through this correspondence recounts its own origin, thereby offering new aspects of the metonymic principles that generally guide archival work.</p
"Thou Shalt Make No Graven Maps!": An Interview with Gunnar Olsson
No full textThe author spoke with renowned Swedish geographer Gunnar Olsson about maps, GIS and the power of imagination in both history and geography
Re:Reading piece on author Gunnar Hansen of Northeast Harbor. Hansen wrote I
No full textRe:Reading piece on author Gunnar Hansen of Northeast Harbor. Hansen wrote Islands at the Edge of Time, and recently worked on the screenplay for a documentary produced by the Penobscot Nation
Inkorporasjon av løsøre i fast eiendom
No full textDenne avhandlingen tar sikte på å undersøke dagens rettssituasjon i tilfeller når løsøregjenstander sammenføyes med fast eiendom. Avhandlingen diskuterer problemstillingen i lys av Lov om hendelege eigedomshøve som ble innført i 1969. Nyere lovgivning er benyttet for å ytterligere belyse temaets utvikling frem til i dag. Behandlingen av temaet har vist at det er skjedd en utvikling for reglene om inkorporasjon av løsøre i fast eiendom siden 1969 og frem til idag. Lov om hendelege eigedomshøve er fortsatt gyldig
Da síntese do lugar. O Crematório do Bosque, Gunnar Asplund
No full textTendo como objecto o Crematório do Bosque, obra ancorada num autor, num lugar, e num contexto, a presente dissertação propõe uma análise arquitectónica a partir da interpretação do processo de desenho de Gunnar Asplund.
Este estudo pretende, a partir do mapeamento das diferentes fases do projecto, valorizar o seu processo de concepção e reflectir sobre a relação entre aquitectura e paisagem propondo, assim, a leitura do seu processo de desenho enquanto síntese do lugar onde se insere.Having as an object the Woodland Crematorium, a work anchored in an author, in a place and in a context, this dissertation proposes an architectural analysis from the interpretation of Gunnar Asplund's drawing process.
This study intends, through the mapping of the different phases of the project, enhance its design process and reflect on the relationship between architecture and landscape, proposing the reading of its design process as a synthesis of the place where it is inserted
A presumptive pigovian tax on gasoline : analysis of an air pollution control program for Mexico City
No full textWithout continuous monitoring of emissions, a pollution control agency needs to evaluate abatement options itself. Apart from making activities cleaner, it should also stimulate reductions in the level of activity in polluting sectors. The author develops an analytical framework to show that a tax on a variable input, such as gasoline, is useful for this purpose. It encourages individuals and firms to sacrifice trips when they would prefer those sacrifices to those of higher spending on abatement. The instrument exploits privately held information about which trips can be saved at a low social cost. Other weaknesses of a program based on indirect instruments - as opposed to one induced by a theoretically conceived pollution tax - remain. One of these is that the agency may have poorer information than individuals and firms about the status of vehicles and the effectiveness of individual abatement options. Such an information gap - which could be bridged by a true pollution tax - is abstracted from the analysis. The author shows that the tax rate that belongs in a cost-effective pollution control program is independent of the price elasticity of demand for the polluting good. But the higher the demand elasticity, the higher are the costs of not including a presumptive tax on the polluting good in the tool kit of the pollution control agency. The author estimates the cost savings available when an optimal gasoline tax is included in an otherwise well-composed program, appropriately accounting for the welfare costs ofdemand consumption. He shows that the targeted emission reductions can be obtained at 11 percent lower costs, saving 350 million a year. After recent price increases, implicit tax rates in Mexico City are higher than suggested by the author's analysis. Higher rates may or may not be justified due to the benefits of demand conservation not accounted for in the analysis.Energy and Environment,Pollution Management&Control,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Transport and Environment
Towards minimizing variations in the comet assay: The electric potential during electrophoresis and implications of circulating the electrophoresis solution
No full textThe comet assay (single cell gel electrophoresis) is a sensitive and versatile technique for measuring DNA damage and repair at the single cell level. Östling and Johanson were the first to introduce the comet assay in 1984, and the method has been continuously improved thereafter. However, considerable variations in results obtained between different laboratories as well as within the same laboratory are still being observed. Even neighboring cell/agarose samples can give highly different levels of DNA damage.
Minimizing the variability of the comet assay is highly desirable in order to achieve consistent results in different experiments as well as in collaborative studies involving different laboratories. The assay protocol consists of several steps, one of which involves electrophoretic separation of the negatively charged DNA molecules in an electric field. Variations in the electrophoresis condition, have shown to be a major source of error in the comet assay. Potential difference (V/cm) is the driving force in electrophoresis and control of the local voltages during electrophoresis is thus particularly important in order to reduce variability of the comet assay.
The ultimate aim of this thesis was to reduce variation in the comet assay results within and between laboratories, by developing a more stable and robust comet assay protocol. This thesis was chosen to examine systematically the effect of circulating the electrophoresis solution during electrophoresis. Two main experimental works were carried out. The first involved measurements of electric potentials in agarose at defined positions across the platform as a function of electrophoresis time under different experimental conditions. The second included the complete comet assay procedure on human peripheral blood lymphocytes irradiated with X-rays using a high-throughput format with 96 minigels on a plastic support film. No previous studies have investigated in such detail as was done in this thesis regarding the implication of adding circulation of the electrophoresis solution during electrophoresis in the comet assay.
This study showed that the variations in the electric potential across the platform were considerably reduced by circulating the electrophoresis solution. It was then anticipated that these variations would be reflected in parallel variations in DNA damage. However, the variations in voltages observed from the electric potential measurements during electrophoresis without circulation, were only partly paralleled with the variations in tail DNA intensities from the comet assay performed with or without circulation of different flow rates during electrophoresis. A decrease of approximately 1-2% in the CV in the per cent tail DNA intensity using the high-throughput format was obtained by circulating the electrophoresis solution at flow rates above 109 ml/min compared to without circulation in this study. In addition, a less variable per cent tail DNA intensity was obtained by circulating the electrophoresis solution. The circulation also contributed to a better temperature stability. Based on these observations, circulation of the electrophoresis solution during electrophoresis in the comet assay is thus recommended.
A closer examination of the electrochemical processes occurring at the electrodes was conducted. It was concluded that the electrode system initially constructed for local measurements of potential, were insufficient due to the lack of a reference electrode suitable for the system. A reference electrode must be used in order to determine if the observed variations in electric potentials could have occurred due to minute concentration gradients between the electrodes. Due to limited time available in the thesis this was not accomplished/completed
Asian Transformations
No full textGunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. He was deeply pessimistic about development prospects in Asia. The fifty years since then have witnessed a remarkable social and economic transformation in Asia – even if it has been uneven across countries and unequal between people – that would have been difficult to imagine, let alone predict at the time. This book analyses the fascinating story of economic development in Asia spanning half a century. The study is divided into three parts. The first part sets the stage by discussing the contribution of Gunnar Myrdal, the author, and Asian Drama, the book, to the debate on development then and now, and by providing a long-term historical perspective on Asia in the world. The second part comprises cross-country thematic studies on governments, economic openness, agricultural transformation, industrialization, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, education and health, employment and unemployment, institutions and nationalisms, analysing processes of change while recognizing the diversity in paths and outcomes. The third part is constituted by country-studies on China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, and sub-region studies on East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia, highlighting turning points in economic performance and analysing factors underlying success or failure. This book, with in-depth studies by eminent economists and social scientists, is the first to examine the phenomenal changes which are transforming economies in Asia and shifting the balance of economic power in the world, while reflecting on the future prospects in Asia over the next twenty-five years. It is a must-read
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