News tagged with university of gothenburg
Difficult balance between play and learning
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Mar 10, 2009 |
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If the teacher is not capable of understanding the perspective of six year olds then the child's learning becomes unnecessarily difficult, or in some cases the child's interest in learning may not be aroused at all. This ...
Rearrangements of multifunctional genes cause cancer in children and young people
Mar 10, 2009 |
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A doctoral thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that three genes that lie behind a number of malignant tumour diseases are normally involved in several fundamental processes ...
Children seriously affected when a parent suffers from depression
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Life is hard for the children of a parent suffering from depression. Children take on an enormous amount of responsibility for the ill parent and for other family members. It is therefore important for the health services ...
Tools for more accurate dosage of drugs against HIV/AIDS and malaria
Mar 06, 2009 |
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A doctoral thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that it is possible to describe and quantify the relationships between dose, concentration and effectiveness of several drugs ...
What the Romans learnt from Greek mathematics
Mar 01, 2009 |
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Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilisation. The three Roman authors Varro, Cicero and Vitruvius ...
Bolivia: Colonialism understood as a sickness
Feb 27, 2009 |
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When Evo Morales, Bolivia's first president of Indian origin, was appointed in 2006 he initiated a "decolonising revolution". In a new thesis in social anthropology at the University of Gothenburg, Anders Burman examines ...
What is good science?
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Scientific knowledge is important in today's knowledge society. Research is the guarantor of the quality of knowledge, though it is often not clear how scientific research guarantees the reliability of knowledge. How different ...
New light shed on marine luminescence
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Feb 23, 2009 |
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The phenomenon of light emission by living organisms, bioluminescence, is quite common, especially in marine species. It is known that light is generated by chemical reactions in which oxygen molecules play ...
Can different languages be analyzed using the same model?
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Spanish and Russian are relatively different languages, even if they historically share a common basis in the Indo-European family. The differences extend to the verbal system. Spanish has inherited a system that is relatively ...
Unexplained chest pain can be due to stress
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Each year, many people seek emergency treatment for unexplained chest pains. A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, indicates several common factors among those affected, including stress ...
Computerized writing aids make writing easier for persons with aphasia
Feb 03, 2009 |
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It is possible to improve writing skills for those with aphasia with the aid of computerised writing aids. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Blast overpressure is generated from the firing of weapons and may cause brain injury
Jan 28, 2009 |
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The brain may be injured by the noise, which is produced when, for example, an anti-tank weapon (Bazooka, Karl Gustav) or a howitzer (Haubits) is fired. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy demonstrated mild injury to brain ...
New research findings may enable earlier diagnosis of uterine cancer
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Cancer of the uterus (womb) is the commonest gynaecological malignancy in the West. Research carried out at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now identified a gene that may simplify future diagnosis.
