Star Wars as modern myth : a comparative analysis of George Lucas`s Star Wars and Joseph Campbell´s The hero with a thousand faces

Masteoppgave i engelsk- Universitetet i Agder 201

Temporal Patterns of Medications Dispensed to Children and Adolescents in a National Insured Population

This study aimed to comprehensively describe prevalence and temporal dispensing patterns for medications prescribed to children and adolescents in the United States. Participants were 1.6 million children (49% female) under 18 years old enrolled in a nation-wide, employer-provided insurance plan. All medication claims from 1999–2006 were reviewed retrospectively. Drugs were assigned to 16 broad therapeutic categories. Effects of trend over time, seasonality, age and gender on overall and within category prevalence were examined. Results: Mean monthly prevalence for dispensed medications was 23.5% (range 19.4–27.5), with highest rates in winter and lowest in July. The age group with the highest prevalence was one-year-old children. On average each month, 17.1% of all children were dispensed a single drug and 6.4% were dispensed two or more. Over time, prevalence for two or more drugs did not change, but the proportion of children dispensed a single drug decreased (slope -.02%, p = .001). Overall, boys had higher monthly rates than girls (average difference 0.9%, p = .002). However, differences by gender were greatest during middle childhood, especially for respiratory and central nervous system agents. Contraceptives accounted for a large proportion of dispensed medication to older teenage girls. Rates for the drugs with the highest prevalence in this study were moderately correlated (average Pearson r.66) with those from a previously published national survey. Conclusion: On average, nearly one quarter of a population of insured children in the United States was dispensed medication each month. This rate decreased somewhat over time, primarily because proportionally fewer children were dispensed a single medication. The rate for two or more drugs dispensed simultaneously remained steady

Trener-utøverrelasjon i skihopping

I denne oppgaven har trener-utøverrelasjonen fra et utøverperspektiv i skihopping blitt undersøkt i lys av kommunikasjon og treneratferd i skihopping. Johari-vinduet (Luft, 1984) og Chelladurais (1990) multidimensjonale modell for ledelse i idrett, samt tidligere forskning på temaet, har vært det teoretiske rammeverket jeg har benyttet for å belyse problemstillingen min. Datainnsamling i form av dybdeintervju er gjennomført i samarbeid med medstudent Jonas Viken. Vi har til sammen gjort seks intervjuer, med tre utøvere og tre trenere. Utøverne og trenerne kommer fra ulike nivåer i norsk og internasjonal hoppsport. Ved bruk av én felles intervjuguide har vi fått resultater som sammen med den teoretiske rammen danner grunnlaget for oppgavens diskusjon. Funn i denne oppgaven viser at trener-utøverrelasjonen er en avgjørende del av utøvernes idrettslige utvikling. Både kommunikasjon og treners atferd er sentrale elementer, selv om utøverne på ulike nivå vektlegger dette noe ulikt. Det kan se ut som om jo høyere nivå du kommer på, jo mindre personlig forhold til treneren foretrekkes. Nøkkelord: skihopping, trener-utøverrelasjon, kommunikasjon, treneratfer