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    Reptricket. Förord till Lars Gustafsson: Mot noll

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    Introduction to a collection of philosophical essays by Swedish author Lars Gustafsson (b. 1936)

    Author Functions in Lars Kepler\u27s The Hypnotist: An Analysis

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    This paper examines Foucault\u27s notion of the author function as it pertains to Lars Kepler\u27s bestselling 2011 crime thriller, The Hypnotist. Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of a Swedish husband-wife writing duo, making him the perfect subject for analysis centering on illusory notion of the author. This paper will answer these questions: Who is the true author of The Hypnotist? What factors influence the author function of this bestelling novel? And what can The Hypnotist phenomenon tell us about the relationships between authors and their readers? This paper will demonstrate that no literary works may be ascribed to an individual person, and that authors hold no privileged knowledge of the works they produce, because authors cease to be authors the moment pen is lifted from page

    ”Lärda nyheter” i Peter Hernquists korrespondens till Carl von Linné och Abraham Bäck - med kommentarer och utvikningar

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    I detta Meddelande nr 55 från Veterinärhistoriska museet har författaren - professor emeritus Lars-Erik Appelgren - gjort ett urval av den korrespondens som Peter Hernquist hade med sina mentorer Carl von Linné och Abraham Bäck under sin vistelse i Frankrike, varvid ”Lärda nyheter” varit en ledstjärna för urvalet. Speciellt har breven till Bäck försetts med författarens personliga kommentarer men även kompletterats med faktaupplysningar från andra källor än breven om berörda nyheter. För att underlätta läsningen har dessa kommentarer omgetts med enkelkonturerad och utvikningarna med dubbelkonturerad ram. Lars-Erik Appelgren har inte bara genom sitt veterinärhistoriska författarskap utan också genom att ställa sina fackliga kunskaper och sin eminenta estetiska läggning till förfogande gjort Veterinärhistoriska museet ovärderliga tjänster. Det är med stor glädje jag noterar att region Uppsala nyligen visat sin uppskattning genom att tilldela Lars-Erik sitt Medicinhistoriska stipendium med motiveringen att de vill ”lyfta fram ett viktigt men ofta förbisett område inom medicinhistorien: veterinärmedicinen”. Med de varmaste gratulationer

    Interpreting Wage Bargaining Norms

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    From the mid-1990s onwards, Swedish wage bargaining has been characterised by informal co-ordination of the wage claims of big unions and bargaining cartels. In particular, it has been understood that the manufacturing sector should lead by first agreeing on a pay increase, whereafter the service sector and public sector unions choose a similar increase. We analyse his setup with two possible theoretical interpretations: (i) the manufacturing sector as a tackelberg leader and (ii) a normative role for the manufacturing sector’s pay increase, upported either by unmodelled social pressure or a modeled loss aversion (envy) of the heltered sector unions. The conclusion of the analysis is that the normative or leading role of one sector – in the Swedish case the manufacturing sector – can potentially bring big benefits for employment and output. Generalising an idea suggested by Lars Calmfors and Anna Larsson, our analysis also generates a rudimentary theory of why the wage increase norm sometimes binds and sometimes not. A comparison of the model predictions and the observed outcomes of the last five wage bargaining rounds in Sweden suggests that the model is generally consistent with the empirical observations: wage moderation and norm observance are stronger when the manufacturing industry’s initial relative wage is low.wage bargaining; bargaining co-ordination

    Equatorwards-breaking Rossby waves in the North Atlantic storm track : forecast quality, predictability and dynamics

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    Upper-level disturbances (ULDs) penetrating from the extratropics into low lati- tudes are a frequent feature of the synoptic-scale circulation over the North Atlantic and can be involved in significant weather events such as heavy precipitation over the western and northern parts of Africa, or Saharan dust outbreaks. The present project is the first to systematically explore the huge dynamical information content of long-term data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts operational ensemble prediction system (EPS) and from the recently established THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) for that particular at- mospheric feature. It investigates the dynamics, forecast quality and predictability of this atmospheric phenomenon exploring a wide range of verification and analysis tools based on potential vorticity (PV). The main conclusions from this work are: (i) The EPSs shows a generally underdispersive behaviour in the ULD region. (ii) Forecast errors are reduced by about 50% if each TIGGE centre's own analysis is used instead of the ECMWF analysis, particularly in regions of large PV gradients. (iii) There is a tendency of too weak Rossby wave breaking and therefore a north- ward shift of the PV streamers in the forecasts. (iv) Ensemble-mean multi-model forecasts of a four-day accumulated precipitation event appear accurate enough for a successful severe-weather warning in contrast to some single-model EPSs. (v) Diabatic processes upstream early in the forecasts appear to be more impor- tant than blocking downstream for strengthening the PV streamers in the medium range. The results and the analysis tools developed in this project have improved the understanding of such ULDs and their impacts and has advanced the verifica- tion of EPSs, which can both contribute to an improvement of numerical weather forecasting in the long term

    Dan Andersson

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    Special feature issue on the Swedish author Dan Andersson, with articles by Anders Hallengren, Nisse Munck, Lars Furuland, Lars Järnemo (2), Gösta Ågren, Inge Mattsson, Arne Säll, and Bure Holmbäck.</p

    Representation of female characters in the films of Lars von Trier

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    Oslanjajući se na sličnosti u ženskim likovima Lars Von Triera, detektirani su patrijarhalni i religijski obrasci koji su okosnica radnje filmova Lomeći valove, Dogville i Antikrist. Kroz religijsku i patrijarhalnu optiku autor čita Lars Von Triera kao redatelja koji istu optiku kritizira i preispituje u svom stvaralaštvu.Relying on the similarities in Lars von Trier's female characters, patriarchal and religious patterns have been detected that are the backbone of the plot of the films Breaking the Waves, Dogville and the Antichrist. Through religious and patriarchal optics, the author reads Lars Von Trier as a director who criticizes and questions the same optics in his work

    Representation of female characters in the films of Lars von Trier

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    Oslanjajući se na sličnosti u ženskim likovima Lars Von Triera, detektirani su patrijarhalni i religijski obrasci koji su okosnica radnje filmova Lomeći valove, Dogville i Antikrist. Kroz religijsku i patrijarhalnu optiku autor čita Lars Von Triera kao redatelja koji istu optiku kritizira i preispituje u svom stvaralaštvu.Relying on the similarities in Lars von Trier's female characters, patriarchal and religious patterns have been detected that are the backbone of the plot of the films Breaking the Waves, Dogville and the Antichrist. Through religious and patriarchal optics, the author reads Lars Von Trier as a director who criticizes and questions the same optics in his work

    Representation of female characters in the films of Lars von Trier

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    Oslanjajući se na sličnosti u ženskim likovima Lars Von Triera, detektirani su patrijarhalni i religijski obrasci koji su okosnica radnje filmova Lomeći valove, Dogville i Antikrist. Kroz religijsku i patrijarhalnu optiku autor čita Lars Von Triera kao redatelja koji istu optiku kritizira i preispituje u svom stvaralaštvu.Relying on the similarities in Lars von Trier's female characters, patriarchal and religious patterns have been detected that are the backbone of the plot of the films Breaking the Waves, Dogville and the Antichrist. Through religious and patriarchal optics, the author reads Lars Von Trier as a director who criticizes and questions the same optics in his work

    Is all that is new therefore good? The Swedish author Lars Gyllensten and ecocritical tendencies of today

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    The article want to raise the awareness of some urgent questions that is concerned with the development of new theory and methods in the service of addressing the problematic situation of the Anthropocene. With the aid of the 20th century Swedish author Lars Gyllensten’s general ideas of the function of critique (iconoclasm) and creativity (iconoplasm), the aim is to point to two basic patterns when moving towards new, and hopefully better paradigms
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