This study is intended to shed light on similarities and differences in terms of functional structure of the clause when modality is expressed by use of modal operators in Russian and English, in order to arrive at findings which inform, and are applicable to, the process of English language acquisition by the Russian learner. The need for the investigation was prompted by the author’s work experience in the field of English teaching, and the lack of explicit guidance in available textbooks currently used in Russian schools and institutions with regard to the particular issue highlighted. While learning the subject of Systemic Functional Linguistics, I drew parallels between the functional structures in the two languages, the purpose of which is to provide a roadmap which facilitates the learning and teaching of English modality to the Russian learner. The approach of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), focusing on the metafunctions as the correspondence in the sociolinguistic message of the clause, is used as a basis for comparing the functional structures in both languages. The investigation of functional grammar features is carried out in order to spotlight  both the similarities and the differences inherent in expressing a degree of probability of an event or statement indicated, not only by the choice of an appropriate modal verb, but also its placement within the clause. The role of the social context in which the text is set is noted as significant for delivering the precise meaning of the message. Hence, the proposition will be pursued through further investigation in the field of modality, and viewed from perspectives of sociolinguistics.

[pt] A falta de consciência dos déficits cognitivos ou da doença (ou anosognosia) é uma característica frequente na doença de Alzheimer (DA). No entanto, existe uma variabilidade na apresentação e na severidade da anosognosia em pacientes com DA. Com base no Cognitive Awareness Model (CAM), esta tese tem como objetivo explorar experimentalmente dois fatores que podem possivelmente influenciar a consciência das habilidades cognitivas, a saber, o estado de humor atual e a perspectiva através da qual a informação é apresentada, na DA. A primeira parte desta tese explora o impacto do estado de humor na consciência dos déficits. Como sugerido no CAM que vieses emocionais podem influenciar o acesso para memórias pessoais, consequentemente levando a anosognosia, uma revisão sistemática da literatura foi conduzida para entender melhor o efeito de memória congruente ao humor em adultos saudáveis (Article 1). Em seguida, apresentamos um estudo experimental investigando esta hipótese na DA (Article 2). Nesse estudo, estados de humor negativos e neutros foram experimentalmente induzidos usando quatro tarefas de Success-Failure Manipulation (SFM), duas tarefas com base no tempo de reação e duas com base na memória. Os resultados mostraram um aumento da consciência dos sintomas após a indução de humor negativo, mas somente quando a tarefa usada no SFM era com base na memória. A segunda parte deste trabalho investiga se a perspectiva através qual a informação é apresentada (auto vs. outro) influencia as habilidades metacognitivas de pacientes com DA. De fato, uma revisão da literatura destacou que estudos explorando o impacto da tomada de perspectiva na metacognição com diferentes populações neurológicas e psiquiátricas mostraram que os pacientes são capazes de reconhecer déficits em outros, apesar da apresentar uma falta de consciência das suas próprias dificuldades (Article 3). Em seguida, um estudo experimental foi conduzido pedindo para pacientes com DA e controles avaliar o seu próprio desempenho em quatro diferentes tarefas, assim como avaliar o desempenho de uma pessoa conhecida (cuidador/esposo/amigo) (Article 4). Nossos resultados destacam que, em geral ambos os grupos superestimaram mais quando avaliavam o desempenho de uma pessoa conhecida. No entanto, pacientes com DA tenderam a superestimar mais o desempenho em comparação com controles, mas somente no experimento envolvendo tarefas de memória. Em resumo, os resultados destes estudos dão suporte experimental a três aspectos sugeridos pelo CAM como fatores influenciando a consciência de déficits. Em primeiro lugar, as achados sobre a relação entre humor e consciência apoiam à ideia de vieses emocionais na memória como uma explicação parcial para anosognosia. Em segundo lugar, os resultados mostrando que os pacientes com DA avaliam o próprio desempenho de uma forma diferente em comparação a avaliação do desempenho de uma pessoa conhecida apoiam à inclusão de diferentes registros de memória para informações pessoais e para informações sobre os outros na versão reformulada do CAM. Em terceiro lugar, nossos achados mostrando diferenças nos resultados dependendo do tipo de tarefa usado no SFM (tempo de reação vs. memória) reforçam o conceito de uma consciência dos déficits como sendo multidimensional, conceito que está na base do aspecto modular do CAM. / [en] Lack of awareness about cognitive deficits or illness, also named anosognosia, is a common feature of Alzheimer s disease (AD). However, there is variability in the presentation and severity of anosognosia in patients with AD. Based on the Cognitive Awareness Model (CAM), this thesis aims to explore experimentally two factors which could possibly influence the awareness of cognitive abilities in AD, namely current mood state and the perspective through which the information is presented. The first section of this thesis explores the impact of mood state on awareness of deficits. As it has been suggested in the CAM that emotional biases could influence the access to personal memories, consequently leading to anosognosia, a systematic literature review was conducted to understand better the mood-congruent memory effect in healthy adults (Article 1). Then, we present an experimental study investigating this hypothesis in AD (Article 2). In this study, negative and neutral mood states were experimentally induced using four Success-Failure Manipulation (SFM) tasks, two based on reaction time tasks and the other on memory tasks. The results showed an improvement of awareness of symptoms after negative mood induction, but only when the task used in the SFM was memory-based. The second section of this work investigates if the perspective through which the information is presented (self vs. other) has an influence on metacognitive abilities of patients with AD. Indeed, a literature review highlighted that studies exploring the impact of perspective taking on metacognition with different neurologic and psychiatric populations showed that patients are able to recognize deficits in others, despite lack of awareness of their own difficulties (Article 3). Then, an experimental study was conducted by asking AD patients and controls to evaluate their own performance on four different tasks, as well as the performance of a well-known person (caregiver/spouse/friend) (Article 4). Our findings highlight that overall both groups made higher overestimation when evaluating the performance of a well-known person. However, AD patients tended to overestimate more the performance compared to controls but only in the memory experiment. In summary, results of these studies give experimental support to three aspects suggested by the CAM as factors influencing awareness of deficits. First, the findings on the relationship between mood and awareness support the idea of emotional biases in memory as a partial explanation for anosognosia. Second, the results showing that AD patients appraise the evaluation of selfperformance differently than the evaluation of a well-known person s performance support the inclusion of different memory records for self- and otherinformation in the reformulated version of the CAM. Third, by presenting differences in results depending on the type of task used in the SFM (reaction time vs. memory), our findings reinforce the concept that awareness is multidimensional, on which is based the modular aspect of the CAM.

Det saknas en beskrivning i den svenska grammatiken över hur adjektiv förstärks med hjälp av förled. Forskning visar att fenomenet med förstärkningar, även kallade intensifierare, uppmärksammats mer i andra språk. Syftet med denna undersökning var att beskriva och kartlägga användandet av förledsförstärkningar, samt se om det fanns några hittills oskrivna regler och mönster. Här gjordes en kvantitativ undersöking där frågeställningarna analyserades utifrån statistiska data insamlade ur två korpusar bestående av bloggtext. Adjektiv inom sinnelag, stabila egenskaper, och sinnesstäming, temporära egenskaper, samt parametrarna positiva och negativa adjektiv undersöktes. Adjektiven visade sig vara olika förstärkningsbenägna. Temporära adjektiv förstärktes hellre än stabila, negativa adjektiv hellre än positiva, kortare ord hellre än längre, och högfrekventa ord hellre än lågfrekventa. De mest grammatikaliserade förstärkningarna går att använda på större delen adjektiv och de mer lexikalt bundna på ett mindre antal adjektiv / There is no description in the Swedish grammar regarding how adjectives can be reinforced with prefixes, also known as intensifiers. Research shows that this phenomenon have recieved greater attention in other languages. The purpose of this study was to describe and map the use of prefix reinforcements, and see if any patterns or rules could be found. The quantitative research is based on statistical data collected from informal blog texts in two Swedish corpora. Adjectives on two types of mood, solid and temporary, as well as positive and negative, were investigated. The results showed that some types were more inclined to take reinforcements than others. Temporary adjectives took on more than solid ones, negative more than positive, as well as the short and frequent adjectives where more often reinforced than the longer and uncommon ones

La tesi approfondisce alcune delle risorse strategiche che permettono la sopravvivenza e il miglioramento delle organizzazioni. Essa si divide in tre articoli, il fil rouge è l’utilizzo degli esperimenti come metodologia di ricerca. Riconoscendo la creatività dei lavoratori come una competenza strategica e una misura di performance sia a livello individuale che di gruppo, il primo articolo confronta gli effetti di tre stili di leadership – trasformazionale, transazionale e laissez-faire – sulla creatività individuale e mostra quale di essi sia più appropriato per il suo incremento. I mood positivi e negativi sono stati inclusi nel modello di ricerca come mediatori e la motivazione intrinseca è stata inclusa come moderatore. Il secondo articolo estende il primo e indaga le medesime relazioni a livello di team. Non solo i leader, ma anche i follower sono rilevanti per le organizzazioni: i talenti sono la linfa vitale delle organizzazioni e il loro comportamento deve essere indagato in modo da attrarli, trattenerli e gestirli. Il terzo articolo indaga quindi il comportamento dei talenti nella ricerca di una posizione lavorativa e nella scelta del datore di lavoro tramite l’utilizzo di social media e l’analisi delle pagine sui social network. / The purpose of the thesis is to provide an in-depth understanding of some strategic resources that allow organizational survival and improvement. The thesis is divided into three papers and the fil rouge is the use of experimental design as research methodology. Recognizing creativity as a strategic competence and a measure of individual or team performance, the first paper compares the effect of three leadership styles – transformational, transactional and laissez-faire – on individual creativity, thus showing which leadership behavior is the most suitable for enhancing it. Positive and negative moods are included in the research design as mediators and individual intrinsic motivation is included as moderator. The second paper is an extension of the first one and investigates the same relationships at a team level of analysis. Furthermore, not only leaders are relevant for the organizations, but followers too. Talents are the life-bloods of organizations and their behaviours have to be detected for attracting them, but also for retaining and managing them. The third paper untangles the job seekers’ behaviors in looking for a job and choosing a company rather than another one basing their choice on the screening of social media and social network pages.

Cette étude porte sur la forme périphrastique había- + do/-to/-cho que la tradition grammaticale répertorie comme le « plus-que-parfait de l’indicatif », en espagnol contemporain. Après avoir interrogé les différentes approches auxquelles a donné lieu l’étude de cette forme verbale, nous en proposons un signifié unique en langue qui en subsume l’ensemble des manifestations discursives. Pour cela, nous adoptons les principes théoriques de la « linguistique du signifiant », laquelle postule l’unicité du signe linguistique – à un signifiant correspond un seul signifié, et inversement – et accorde la primauté à la lecture de la structure sémiologique du signifiant. Cette approche nous conduit à replacer había- + do/-to/-cho au sein des réseaux signifiants de l’espagnol, et à reconsidérer la structuration modale du système verbal de cette langue. Enfin, nous nous employons à décrire le fonctionnement discursif de la périphrase en syntaxe, dans l’élaboration de séquences narratives, d’une part, mais aussi dans les « cas limites » que représentent les emplois diatopiques en situation de contact de langue en Amérique (contact espagnol / guarani en particulier) / This study focuses on the periphrastic form había- + do/-to/-cho that the grammatical tradition identifies as the ‘pluperfect (past perfect) indicative’ in contemporary Spanish. After reviewing the different approaches to this verbal form, we provide a unique signified for this form that is able to subsume all its discursive manifestations. For this purpose, we adopt the theoretical principles of the ‘Linguistics of the signifier’, which postulates the unity of the linguistic sign – i.e. a signifier corresponds to a single signified, and vice versa – and gives priority to the semiological structure of the signifier. This approach leads us to reexamine había- + do/-to/-cho within the signifying networks of Spanish, and to reconsider the modal structure of the verbal system. Finally, we describe the discursive syntactic behaviour of the Spanish pluperfect, in the development of narrative sequences, but also in certain Latin American diatopic occurrences (contact Spanish / Guarani in particular) since they are ‘borderline case’ among the pluperfect discursive occurrences

My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and clauses in Early Modern British English (EModE).  The focus of the project is on the forms, structure, meanings, and history of these subordinators and clauses. My primary aim is to analyse stability and change in temporal subordinators and clauses across the EModE period; second comes the study of linguistic features, such as aspect, tense, mood and modality, ellipsis and non-finite forms, positions, coordination, and subordination of the temporal clauses. In addition, I examine the progress of these subordinators, and WHEN in particular, across text categories, text types, and the sub-periods. Regarding temporal subordinators, I account for the use of simple, complex, and correlative forms. I also address alternative expressions of temporal subordinators such as the repetition and replacement of temporal subordinators. The influence of negation on the choice of subordinators, and the modification patterns of subordinators are also treated. Primary meanings of anteriority, simultaneity, and posteriority as well as secondary meanings of temporal subordinators are studied. I uncover the evolution of temporal subordinators and trace their various forms, as far back as possible to the Old English and Middle English periods. I also make some comparisons with Present-day English. The investigation is based on the EModE section of the computerized Helsinki Corpus of English Texts and the manual literary Major Authors Corpus which I designed for the purposes of the study. Consequently, my study is carried out within corpus linguistics methodology. All in all, the primary material yielded 3,269 instances of 17 different prototypical temporal subordinators, called sub-types.

This thesis deals with the relationship between mood and behavior of bettors using a dataset provided by a betting company, Chance a.s., which operates in the Czech Republic. We consider three types of proxies for the mood: weather in regions, sport successes and the results of elections, and we build a fixed effect model to estimate the effect of mood on betting behavior. We provide strong evidence that the weather proxy has a significant effect on daily turnovers of the betting company and there also seems to be an effect of sport optimism. On the contrary, we failed to find any impact of elections. The results show that better mood tend to discourage clients from sports and lottery betting which is consistent with the increase in risk aversion or the depletion of a common self-control resource due to active mood regulation attempts. Additionally, we provide an evidence that the intra-month cycle in turnovers corresponds to liquidity constraint of bettors which disproves the permanent income hypothesis.

The mood-as-input hypothesis was developed to explain perseverative worry. Based on this model, it is predicted that the amount of time individuals persist on tasks is based on their mood, and this hypothesis may explain the tendency for some individuals to engage in prolonged episodes of depressive rumination. However, surprisingly few studies have examined the applicability of the hypothesis to depressive rumination. Based on the mood-as-input hypothesis, it was predicted that persistence at a rumination task would be greatest in a "sad mood" condition paired with an "as many as can" (AMA) stop rule because individuals with depression have a difficult time assessing when to disengage from the rumination process. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three mood conditions (positive, negative, or neutral) through the use of movie clips from the Lion King and one of two stop rules conditions (as many as can or feel like stopping). Participants then completed the Catastrophic Interview Procedure (CIP), in which they were asked to recall a situation or event in their life that is associated with a depressed mood. More steps are indicative of greater rumination. Contrary to previous literature on the topic, there was no significant interaction between mood and stop rules on depressive steps; however the current study was the first to identify rumination as a predictor of variance after controlling for mood and stop rules indicating that the natural tendency to engage in rumination is an additional relevant variable in a basic perseveration task.

Background Polypharmacy is often prescribed for bipolar disorder, yet medication non-adherence remains a serious problem. This study investigated the regularity in the daily dosage taken of mood stabilizers and second generation antipsychotics. Methods Daily self-reported data on medications taken and mood were available from 241 patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder who received treatment as usual. Patients who took the same mood stabilizer or second generation antipsychotic for ≥ 100 days were included. Approximate entropy was used to determine serial regularity in daily dosage taken. Generalized estimating equations were used to estimate if demographic or clinical variables were associated with regularity. Results There were 422 analysis periods available from the 241 patients. Patients took drugs on 84.4% of days. Considerable irregularity was found, mostly due to single-day omissions and dosage changes. Drug holidays (missing 3 or more consecutive days) were found in 35.8% of the analysis periods. Irregularity was associated with an increasing total number of psychotropic drugs taken (p = 0.009), the pill burden (p = 0.026), and the percent of days depressed (p = 0.049). Conclusion Despite low missing percent of days, daily drug dosage may be irregular primarily due to single day omissions and dosage changes. Drug holidays are common. Physicians should expect to see partial adherence in clinical practice, especially with complex drug regimens. Daily dosage irregularity may impact the continuity of drug action, contribute to individual variation in treatment response, and needs further study.

Nyfikenhet och känsla av att kontakt med vår omgivning är viktigt för vårt välbefinnande. Däremot bidrar kombinationen av att vara hemmablind och mobiltelefonens tjuvande av vår uppmärksamhet till att vi distanserar än mer från den. Genom att engagera människor genom ljud för att rikta vår uppmärksamhet mot omgivningen och bort från mobiltelefonen kan man väcka nyfikenheten till liv, och på så sätt få ökad kontakt med omgivningen. En konceptdriven designstudie ligger till grund för ett designkoncept som den här kandidatuppsatsen presenterar. Syftet är att studien skall skall bidra med insikter och lärdomar för framtida forskning inom området. Arbetet undersöker hur användarupplevelsen av ett förstärkt ljudlandskap potentiellt kan designas för att människor ska få ökad kontakt med sin omgivning. I en empiriskt studie får deltagarna jämföra hur deras sinnesstämning påverkas av ett förstärkt ljudlandskap med det naturliga ljudlandskapet i en, för dem, känd miljö. Resultatet visar att det går att påverka användarens sinnesstämning, men att det råder delade meningar om den ger ökad kontakt med omgivningen. Slutsatsen blir att; sinnesstämningen påverkas olika, vilket kan bero på vilka personliga preferenser användaren redan har med sig. / Curiosity and a sense of connection with our everyday environment is important for our well-being. However, the combination of not being able to appreciate what is close to us and smartphones stealing our attention just makes a larger gap between us and everyday environments. By engaging people through sound to direct our focus towards our surroundings and away from the smartphone, you can bring your curiosity to life, and in that way get an enhanced connection to the everyday environment. This paper presents a design concept based on a study made with a Concept-Driven Design method. The purpose of the suggested design concept is that the insights and knowledge that is drawn from it can be used to help future research within the field. This paper examines how a user experience of an augmented soundscape could be designed for people to enhance their connection to their surroundings. In an empirical study, participants get to compare how their mood is affected by a natural soundscape compared to an augmented soundscape in an everyday environment. The result shows that all of the participants' mood was affected by the soundscape, however when it comes to enhanced connection to their surroundings only 40% of the participants said it did. A conclusion was made that the mood is affected differently depending on personal preferences and previous experience.