ABSTRACT Background: In all cancer therapies occurs more or less side effects, there one of them are mucositis. Symptoms of mucositis include wound and blister in the oral mucosa and affects 50-80% of children undergoing cancer treatment. Today there is no Swedish tested assessment scale for mucositis. Aim: To describe how teenagers with cancer and parents of children younger than 12 years with cancer perceive issues in a mouth-assessment instruments, Children’s International Mucositis Evaluation Scale (ChIMES), that have recently been translated into Swedish. Method/Design: The study was a quantitative descriptive research design. The participants were teenagers with cancer 12- 18 years (N=15), and parents (N=15) of children younger than 12 years. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, independent t-test and manifest content analysis. The theoretical framework used is Orem nursing theory from 1995.  Results: The result shows that there is no difference in the comprehension of the Swedish version of the ChIMES between parents and teenagers. The result also shows that the participants believes the questionnaire contained adequate questions for the assessment of mucositis. They also think that ChIMES is an easy tool to use for assessing the severity of mucositis. A manifest content analysis identified three categories: Unclear increments, more questions demanded, and hard to underestimate younger children.   Conclusion: The Swedish version of the ChIMES is understood by Swedish citizens, both by teenagers and parents. Furthermore, they agree that this is a well designed tool to use when assessing the severity of mucositis in children. / SAMMANFATTNING   Bakgrund: I all cancerbehandling förekommer mer eller mindre svåra biverkningar, varav mukosit är en av dem. Symtom vid mukosit är bland annat sår- och blåsor i munslemhinnan och drabbar 50-80% av de barn som genomgår cancerbehandling. Idag finns inget svenskt testat munskattningsinstrument för mukosit. Syfte: Att beskriva hur tonåringar med cancer och föräldrar till barn under 12 år med cancer uppfattar frågorna i ett munbedömningsinstrument, Children’s International Mucositis Evaluation Scale (ChIMES) som nyligen översatt till svenska. Metod/Design: Studien har kvantitativ deskriptiv forskningsdesign. Deltagarna var tonåringar med cancer 12- 18 år (N=15), och föräldrar (N=15) till barn med cancer yngre än 12 år. Data analyserades med deskriptiv statistik, oberoende t-test samt manifest innehållsanalys. Den teoretisk referensram som används är Orems egenvårdsteori från 1995. Resultatet: visar att det inte föreligger någon skillnad mellan hur tonåringar och föräldrar till barn under 12 år förstår frågorna i ChIMES. Frågornas relevans vid skattningen av mukosit anses hög och ChIMES ansågs också vara ett lättanvänt instrument för skattning av blåsor i munnen.  En manifest innehållsanalys identifierade tre kategorier: Otydliga skalsteg, Fler frågor efterfrågas, & Svårt att skatta yngre barns signaler.   Slutsatsen: Den svenska versionen av ChIMES är lätt att förstås och innehåller relevanta frågor.

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A brief overview of the workings of the human auditory system is followed by a review of literature concerning both the theories and experimental investigations of human pitch perception. The application of these theories to the inharmonic complex tones produced by bells is discussed, and further experiments using bell sounds are reviewed. A methodology for psychoacoustic experiments with specific reference to those investigating pitch perception of inharmonic complex tones is presented. This methodology is then implemented in an experimental investigation of pitch perception of ringing and chiming bell sounds. A pitch matching experiment using ringing and chiming sounds from four bells aimed to determine perceived pitch differences between ringing and chiming bells. This experiment was inconclusive because insufficient data was collected. Known experimental results, such as the inability of non-musicians to match the pitches of sounds with different timbres were confirmed. Spectral analyses of the stimuli were performed. The presentation of stimuli at a low level of sensation is questioned, as this might have prevented pseudo high frequency noise resulting from stronger upper partials in the ringing sound from being audible, and hence the pitch differences between ringing and chiming bells would not be observed.

abstract: Contemporary Chinese composers have a rich palette from which to draw inspirations of the distinctive timbres of ancient instruments, the diverse musical types, and the development of musical instruments. Zhou Long, an internationally recognized Chinese-American composer, has created a compositional style that transfers the sounds and techniques of ancient Chinese musical traditions to modern Western instruments. An examination of Zhou Long’s compositions Secluded Orchid and Spirit of Chimes demonstrates his synthesis of Chinese and Western techniques as well as cross-cultural integration. To gain a better understanding of the compositional process of these two piano trios, the author conducted a personal interview with Zhou Long on October 21, 2016, during which he provided unique insight into the influences and inspirations of these pieces. This document describes how the history of ancient Chinese music, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, as well as Zhou Long’s life and education, influenced Seclude Orchid and Spirit of Chimes. The inspirations, formal structures, harmonic language, and compositional techniques that are presented in these works are also discussed. Finally, other repertoires of Zhou Long that share similar ideas or inspirations are explored. / Dissertation/Thesis / Secluded Orchid / Spirit of Chimes / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2017

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Against Adaptation: Toward Transdisciplinarity and Minor Cinema Linda Petříková Abstract Over the past decades, the field adaptation studies has been trying to break new grounds and escape the confines of the predominant fidelity discourse. This thesis wants to propose new perspectives that have been widely underrepresented, at least in the Anglo-American context, drawing attention to the great relevance to adaptation of the writings of French critical thinkers, most notably Gilles Deleuze and his two-volume publication on cinema and Jacques Rancière and his continuation/reevaluation of Deleuze's film-related concepts. Without directly addressing questions of adaptation, the way both philosophers think about cinema is inseparable from their thinking about literature and indeed about other arts and media, exemplifying new transdisciplinary approaches to adaptation this thesis hopes to encourage. Even though it might seem counterintuitive, considering the efforts of adaptation studies to cut the roots it has grown within literary departments, I chose three Shakespearean adaptations for the case studies as I believe that such focus will enable us to see more clearly the significance of interstices as much as of the links the films form with the text. Jean-Luc-Godard's King Lear, Orson Welles's Chimes at...