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In the last few decades, Western governments have spent huge sums of money to promote democracy abroad. We do not know which, if any, of these programs actually work. If we cannot measure democracy in sufficient detail and with the necessary nuance, we cannot mark its progress and setbacks or affect its future course. While distinguishing the most democratic countries from the least democratic one

[1] Baddeleyite is a reliable geochronometer for dating the crystallization of mafic and other silica-undersaturated intrusive rocks. Its high U and negligible initial Pb content enable precise age determinations with statistical errors of a few million years or less. The widespread use of baddeleyite for dating has, however, been limited by the low content of baddeleyite in many samples and by di

The main purpose with this essay is to increase the knowledge of product placement in horror movies by examine how fear effects brand recall. The aim is further to get a clearer view of what kind of product placements the different genders remember, focusing on visual and verbal product placements.

The aim of this thesis is to critically investigate and problematize the Swedish Teacher Unions’ use of the concept of professionalism within the political negotiation of how to ascribe meaning and content to the idea of teacher professionalism within contemporary Swedish education debates. Departing from two recent educational reforms – the certification of teachers and the reformation of teacher

I artikeln presenterar forskarna Tillsammans-projektet, som syftar till att förbättra socialt stöd genom samverkan mellan civilsamhället och vården. Projektet bygger på community connector-modellen, där en samhällskontakt agerar som mellanhand för att koppla patienter till stöttande resurser. Modellen, som utvecklats genom workshops, strävar efter att skapa ett mer omfattande stöd utanför vården,

Denna studie undersökte nio personers erfarenheter av ha ett syskon med långvarig psykossjukdom. Studien hade en fenomenologisk utgångspunkt och materialet analyserades med tematisk analys. Studiens huvudsakliga fynd var att anhöriga syskon upplevt skuld, sorg, maktlöshet, oro, ambivalenta känslor av närhet och autonomi i förhållande till det drabbade syskonet och att det funnits en rädsla över atThis study has investigated nine people's experiences of having a sibling who suffers from long-term psychosis. The study had a phenomenological point of departure and the material were thematically analyzed. The main findings from the study was that the patients’ siblings experienced guilt, sadness, powerlessness, anxiety, ambivalence towards intimacy, and autonomy in their relationship with