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Health Economic Evaluation of Varicella Vaccination Within the Swedish National Vaccination Programme for Children

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To assess the cost‐effectiveness of including varicella vaccination in the Swedish national vaccination programme for children together with the added impact of catch‐up vaccination of susceptible older children. Methods An epidemiological transmission model was used to assess the cost‐effectiveness of a two‐dose national varicella ...
Frida Kasteng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing syntax: The development of a DP in North Germanic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Grammaticalization as standardly conceived is a change whereby an item develops from a lexical to a grammatical or functional meaning, or from being less to more grammatical.
Börjars, K   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Late‐Holocene evolution of a small Sub‐Arctic glacier, Gljúfurárjökull (Tröllaskagi, northern Iceland)

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Gljúfurárjökull, located on the Tröllaskagi Peninsula in northern Iceland, is a small glacier approximately 3.8 km in length. This study analyses the glacier's evolution through a combination of methods including: (i) geomorphological mapping, (ii) Cosmic‐Ray Exposure (CRE) dating, (iii) lichenometry and (iv) palaeoglacier reconstruction (volume ...
Nuria Andrés   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remembering Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga Ketilsdóttir: construction of cultural memory and female religious identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Medieval Icelandic literature recounts stories of both pagans and Christians settling in Iceland. Most of these stories focus on a male protagonist. However one of these tales centres around a female settler, namely Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)úðga Ketilsdóttir ...
Vanherpen, Sofie
core   +1 more source

Refining the timing of Middle Pleistocene (MIS 12 to MIS 6) ice advances into northern central Europe: sedimentological analysis and single‐grain luminescence dating of glaciotectonic complexes and tunnel‐valley fills

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
We summarize the current state of knowledge on the age of the Middle Pleistocene ice advances into northern central Europe and provide 25 new single‐grain feldspar luminescence ages of Elsterian and Saalian glacigenic sediments to constrain the age of the ice advances and their tentative correlation with marine isotope stages/substages.
Niklas von Soest   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Magic in Old Norse-Icelandic literature: a typology of modes

open access: yesFilologia Germanica
Magic often plays a significant role in medieval European narratives, where it can be used in a variety of ways, including as a literary tool. In this essay, I briefly consider magic as a narrative device and propose a typology of modes of presentation (
Stephen A. Mitchell
doaj   +2 more sources

Racial Thinking in Old Norse Literature: The Case of the Blámaðr [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
There are not many kind words to be said about the notion of ‘race’. In the last century alone, it has shown itself to be a way of thinking that both lacks any basis in empirical reality (Montagu 1997, 121–44), and is liable to cause a great deal of ...
Cole, RKE
core  

Views and Experiences of Children and Social Workers About Communication in Social Work Exchanges: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Communication is critical to effective social work. Successful communication supports relationship‐based practices and higher quality assessments of children's needs and safety. The aim of this systematic review is to examine the existing evidence about the views and experiences of children and social workers about communication in social work
Charlotte Friel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Juxtaposing Cogadh Gaedel re Gallaib with Orkneyinga saga [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
My intent in the following paper is to make a case for the usefulness of comparative analysis in a narrower and more specific context, that is, in examining two fascinating but often marginalized medieval works: the Irish Cogadh Gaedel re Gallaib (modern
DuBois, Thomas A.
core   +1 more source

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