In one study, Swedish high school students learning Interlingua were able to translate passages from Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian that students of those languages found too difficult to understand.

dr .) in 1987, with a study on Swedish romanticism, but had meanwhile been active as a literary critic, translator and journal editor, and was one of the introducers of the continental tradition of literary scholarship in Sweden.

As part of a study launched in 1980 by Ambio, a journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Paul Crutzen and John Birks circulated a draft paper in early 1982 with the first quantitative evidence of alterations in short-term climate after a nuclear war.

Another line of study by Frode Strømnes examined why Finnish factories had a higher occurrence of work related accidents than similar Swedish ones.

Queen Christina was generous to the university, gave scholarships to Swedish students to study abroad and recruited foreign scholars to Uppsala chairs, among them several from the University of Strassburg, notably the philologist Johannes Schefferus ( professor skytteanus ), whose little library and museum building at S: t Eriks torg now belongs to the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.

In the Överkalix study, Marcus Pembrey and colleagues observed that the paternal ( but not maternal ) grandsons of Swedish men who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease.

The party's latest policy platform on immigration has called for immigrants to study Finland's official languages, Finnish or Swedish, or lose social welfare benefits.

One study on the Swedish population estimates that 8-10 % are affected.

However, the requirement to study Swedish is often referred to as pakkoruotsi, a somewhat charged term in Finnish meaning " mandatory Swedish ", or " enforced Swedish ".

This has contributed to students ' lack of motivation to study Swedish, and many may not learn to speak the language beyond a very basic level.

University students are required not only to master their selected field, but also to study at least two languages beside their mother tongue, one of which is obligatorily Swedish for Finnish-speakers.

As study material is often in English, this effectively removes the free choice ; the two " voluntarily chosen " languages must be Swedish and English.

Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren (, 15 October 1889 – 20 October 1978 ) was a Swedish sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods.

The university has a policy that non-Swedish speaking applicants from the Nordic countries are required to participate in a Swedish language test, in order to prove their ability to successfully study in Swedish.

For example, the daily question that used to be answered by about 150 000 members per day and was used by polling institutes to study opinions of Swedish youth has now shrunk to about 10, 000-12, 000 daily answers, as of summer 2009.

In a further study, Thornberg concluded that there are seven stages of moral deliberation as a bystander in bystander situations among the Swedish schoolchildren he observed and interviewed: ( a ) noticing that something is wrong, i. e., children pay selective attention to their environment, and sometimes they don't tune in on a distressed peer if they're in a hurry or their view is obstructed, ( b ) interpreting a need for help-sometimes children think others are just playing rather than actually in distress or they display pluralistic ignorance, ( c ) feeling empathy, i. e., having tuned in on a situation and concluded that help is needed, children might feel sorry for an injured peer, or angry about unwarranted aggression ( empathic anger ), ( d ) processing the school's moral frames-Thornberg identified five contextual ingredients influencing children's behavior in bystander situations ( the definition of a good students, tribe caring, gender stereotypes, and social-hierarchy-dependent morality ), ( e ) scanning for social status and relations, i. e., students were less likely to intervene if they didn't define themselves as friends of the victim or belonging to the same significant social category as the victim, or if there were high-status students present or involved as aggressors-conversely, lower-status children were more likely to intervene if only a few other low-status children were around, ( f ) condensing motives for action, such as considering a number of factors such as possible benefits and costs, and ( g ) acting, i. e., all of the above coalesced into a decision to intervene or not.

In a Swedish study, Coal Tits and Goldcrests foraged in the outer foliage, whilst the larger Willow and European Crested Tits used the inner canopy.

Also, the University of Gothenburg made another study during the Swedish 2006 general election, comparing SVT's news programme Rapport to the country's five largest newspapers.

In a study by Sifo, a Swedish polling institute, Reinfeldt was the " most admired man in Sweden " in 2006.

The Swedish Allergy study ( SOU 1989: 76 ) designated " sick building " as a cause of the allergy epidemic as was feared.

A Swedish study, which followed more than 61, 000 women for 13 years, has found a significant link between milk consumption and ovarian cancer.

In Berlin, Munch involved himself in an international circle of writers, artists and critics, including the Swedish dramatist and leading intellectual August Strindberg, whom he painted in 1892.

Swedish Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson ( 1885 – 1946 ) had a circle of friends, jokingly referred to as the " peralbinians " ( peralbinerna ), who for a number of years came to his home every Thursday to eat pea soup, drink hot punsch and play bridge.

History has now come full circle as the remainder of the site, used for the public telephone networks side of the businesses, is now occupied by the Swedish Ericsson company, following their take-over of Marconi in early 2006.

The word ' varve ' is derived from the Swedish word varv whose meanings and connotations include ' revolution ', ' in layers ', and ' circle '.

By 1631, it was recognised that Swedish iron was the best raw material and then or later particularly certain marks ( brands ) such as double bullet ( so called from the mark OO ) from Österby and hoop L from Leufsta ( now Lövsta ), whose mark consisted of an L in a circle, both belonging to Louis De Geer and his descendants.

It is made of pork or veal, and is usually decorated with a caper-filled circle of either genuine anchovies or the Swedish " fake " ansjovis ( made of brine-cured sprats ).

He decided to try to circle the Danish army to the west to join the remains of the Swedish center.

The beginnings of the Arcadian Academy date to February, 1656, when a literary circle formed under the patronage of Queen Christina of Sweden, who had abdicated the Swedish crown in 1654, converted to Catholicism, and taken up her residence in Rome, where she spent much of the rest of her life.

* 1948 – Uschi Digard, Swedish porn actress and model

* 1968 – Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model and actor

Over 10 % of Swedish pupils were enrolled in charter schools in 2008 and the number is growing fast, leading the country to be viewed as a pioneer of the model.

* 1992 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model ( b. 1911 )

In 1975, Moon began a relationship with Swedish model Annette Walter-Lax.

In 2010 Koenigsegg released information at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show on a new model called the Agera, which translates into " take action / act " in Swedish.

* 1964 – Cécilia Rodhe, Swedish model, Miss Sweden 1978

* 1968 – Emma Wiklund, Swedish model and actress

* 1974 – Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model, actress, and singer

A lifesize model of a Swedish 1850s horse artillery team towing a light artillery piece at full gallop on display at the Swedish Army Museum | Army Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

A Swedish Ericsson 1001 model, from 1939.

** Frida Gustavsson, Swedish model

** Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model ( d. 1992 )

** Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model

* February 4 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model ( b. 1911 )

Sweden created a successful model of democratic socialism because of the unique way in which Sweden's labor leaders, politicians, and classes cooperated during the early development period of Swedish social democracy.

When the Social Democratic Party came into power in 1932, its leaders introduced a new political decision-making process, which later became known as " the Swedish model.

It was little used in America, but the Televerket Swedish governmental agency manufactured an own design ( the Gotthilf Betulander design from 1919, inspired by the Western Electric system ), and used it in Sweden from 1926 until the digitalization in the 1980s in small and medium sized A204 model switches.

In 1945, a similar design by Swedish Televerket was installed in Sweden, making it possible to increase the capacity of the A204 model switch.

Arguably, the subsequent budget cut-backs agreement with the Social Democrats, and after 1994, continued spending cuts by the Social Democratic government, did more to reform the Swedish economy and the Swedish model, than Bildt's governments programme as such.

In 1948, Niven met Hjördis Paulina Tersmeden ( née Genberg, 1919 – 1997 ), a divorced Swedish fashion model.

The approach seems somewhat similar to the Swedish model, though no influence from Sweden has ever been acknowledged.

The first of these missiles were purchased from Swedish air force inventory, while late a higher performance model was acquired directly from the United States, with deliveries commencing in 1995.