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The purpose of this essay is to exam Ericsson's role in the Øresund region, both past and present. We also describe the networks surrounding Ericsson, including other companies and Lund Institute of Technology. Methodology: Structured interviews face to face with key actors and intervjues by phone with representatives from local high-tech companies. Theoretical perspectives: Cluster theory, tripple-helix-model, network theory and creative capital theory. Conclusions: Ericsson has a key role in the regional innovation systems, both as costumer to minor corporations and as partner and sponsor of research at Lund Institute of Technology (LTH). The networks between Ericsson, local corporations, and LTH are well-established and play an important role in spreading knowledge. However, the local authorities have not supported the innovation processes, and both corporations and LTH experience a lack of understanding from the local authorities.

This study examines how differences in national culture, as indicated by financial secrecy, affect the impact of mandatory adoption of IFRS on earnings quality across the countries of Europe. Using 24,034 firm-year observations from 16 European countries over the period 1998 -2014, we find that the higher the level of secrecy in a country the lower the level of earnings quality of firms, as measured by signed abnormal accruals. We find that mandatory adoption of IFRS improves earnings quality in all countries. However, our study indicates that the impact of mandatory adoption of IFRS on earnings quality is stronger the higher the level of secrecy in a country. Our evidence thus helps to explain the different impacts of IFRS adoption on earnings quality across different jurisdictions.

Turun yliopisto, PALO-tutkimushanke 2021 ISBN 978-951-29-8496-1 (sähköinen) Raportti on laadittu ja julkaistu osana Strategisen tutkimuksen neuvoston rahoittamaa Osallistuminen pitkäjänteisessä päätöksenteossa (PALO) -tutkimushanketta (päätösnumero 312671) Suomen Akatemian COVID-19-erityisrahoituksella (päätösnumero 335690).

This article aims to reconstruct features of John Forbes' compositional process in his first decade of serious practice, through analysing drafts and early versions of his poems. I compare early versions of 'Here', 'The Joyful Mysteries' and 'Stalin's Holidays' to their final incarnations to show how Forbes was resistant to a fixed, or single, idea when writing a poem. In the context of such openness, Forbes' poems often moved towards a sense of closure, through the pressure his use of form applied and through its more suggestive qualities. Following a comment Forbes made in an interview, I label this process 'formal association'. I contend that Forbes sought a balance between closure and openness, while arguing that the dynamic interplay of this openness with formal association, during the composition, was crucial to his achievement.

This article aims to reconstruct features of John Forbes’ compositional process in his first decade of serious practice, through analysing drafts and early versions of his poems. I compare early versions of ‘Here’, ‘The Joyful Mysteries’ and ‘Stalin’sHolidays’ to their final incarnations to show how Forbes was resistant to a fixed, or single, idea when writing a poem. In the context of such openness, Forbes’ poems often moved towards a sense of closure, through the pressure his use of form applied and through its more suggestive qualities. Following a comment Forbes made in an interview, I label this process ‘formal association’. I contend that Forbes sought a balance between closure and openness, while arguing that the dynamic interplay of this openness with formal association, during the composition, was crucial to his achievement.

Swedish citizenship education is charged with a double mission: socialization and education of democratic citizens. This means that textbooks exist in a field of tension between conveying content as true knowledge and offering it as a perspective amongst others. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is employed in order to analyse how textbooks navigate between these poles. Thus, the thesis explores how ten textbooks in social science in upper secondary school construct citizenship and democracy as systems of knowledge and beliefs, relationships and subject positions, with special attention given to the question of how they regulate pupils’ civic activities. The analysis of ten textbooks showed that democracy is constructed as liberal, representative government, and that textbooks describe contemporary Swedish government as a truly democratic, rational and effective form of government. Consequentially, citizens are predominantly described as voters, as opposed to politicians. The relati...

Abundances and distributional changes of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) in fluvially influenced sediments are used in various paleoclimate studies to reconstruct variations in soil export, continental air temperature and soil pH in corresponding river basins. For accurate interpretation of these records, it is important to understand the provenance and the evolution of biomarker signals as they move through the river system. Here we investigate the brGDGT composition of modern river sediments of the Danube River, the second largest river in Europe. BrGDGT-based mean annual air temperature and soil pH parallel the actual values of air temperature and soil pH from the upper to the lower basin, showing that signals predominantly reflect local as opposed to basin-wide environmental conditions. Furthermore, data generated using the recently developed method with improved chromatography, separating the 6-methyl-isomers from the 5-methyl-isomers, was compared with that resulting from the conventional method. We show that the temperatures and pH values reconstructed using the data obtained by improved chromatography best resemble the local environmental conditions throughout the Danube River basin. Our results highlight the importance of in-depth studies within river systems to better understand the provenance of biomarker signals in fluvially derived sedimentary archives.

Foramina or openings in the skull are very important as they allow passage of important structures likes nerves and blood vessels through them. Various people have studied variations in foramina as these variants have been found to be related to many disease states, which can be either acquired or inherited. Out of various skull foramina, we studied three atypical foramina named lacrimal, emissary sphenoidal & parietal in 103 dried human skulls. We looked for their presence unilaterally/bilaterally, their numbers, dimension and comparison bilaterally. Lacrimal foramen was absent bilaterally in 41% of the skulls while present unilaterally in 29% with an average size of 0.86 mm. Emissary sphenoidal foramen was absent bilaterally in 49%of the skulls, present unilaterally in 20% with an average size of 0.87 mm. When compared bilaterally 11% of the skulls showed difference of more than 0.5mm in emissary sphenoidal foramen while it was multiple in 2% of the skulls studied. Parietal foramen was absent bilaterally in 20% of the skulls while it was present unilaterally in 29% with an average size of 0.91 mm. When compared bilaterally 15% of the skulls had difference of more than 0.5mm.The foramen studied showed variation in different parameters observed which might be due to genetic, nutritional, environmental differences or some disease conditions. Knowledge of presence and variation in its anatomical parameter can be crucial for surgeons and anesthetists.

Hälso-och sjukvård Kommunal verksamhet Minskad mänskligt lidande? Ja, visas i fall via BroByggares utsagor och i personalens kommentarer. "Ökad tillit och förståelse". Ja, enligt personals och BroByggares utsagor. "Ökad tillit och förståelse". Effektivitetsvinst i verksamhet? Ja, enligt personals utsagor i synnerhet på akutavdelning och på en vårdcentral. "Bättre flyt". Ja, enligt viss personals och i BroByggares utsagor från samhällsinformation. Tecken finns på förbättrad språkinlärning på SFI Förbättrad arbetsmiljö? Ja, enligt personals utsagor "Ökad trygghet", " mindre konflikter". SFI personalens arbetssituation underlättas när elever kan få hjälp direkt Hälsoekonomiskt lönsamt? Sannolikt *, men mer systematiska studier behöver genomföras. Tabell 1: Sammanfattning av svaren på utvärderingsfrågor * Ytterligare studier behövs för att jämföra kostnader för felanvändning av resurser med kostnader för BroByggare. Beräkning för felanvändning av resurser som kan göras är för stopp i "flyt" på vårdenheter, fallstudie av högkonsumenters besöksprofil (PASIS), möjliga kostnader för medicinska komplikationer som t.ex. kejsarsnitt, felaktig läkemedelsanvändning.

Constructivism is based on the premise that learners construct their own learning from their experiences. Effective learning occurs when learners actively process the information in a way that is meaningful to them.Constructivism is of two waves: Piaget's psychological/individual constructivism; ‗the first wave constructivism' or ‗solo constructivism', and Vygotsky's social constructivism; ‗the second wave constructivism'. The first, Piaget constructivism, is concerned with knowledge that focuses on the individual and psychological sources of learning. Piaget views learning as active construction of knowledge that challenges and guides thinking toward understanding. Learning is the process of exploration and discovery; experience influences thinking and thinking in its turn influences knowledge. Piaget further refers to four stages of cognitive development that all humans go through: The sensorimotor stage, the pre-operational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. For Piaget, assimilation, accumulation and equilibratium areessential processes for effective learning. The latter, Vygotsky's Social constructivist theory views language learning as socialization, not only as cognition. It recognizes that social interaction and culture are important in shaping individuals' learning. It also views teachers and students as co-constructors of meaningful interaction. Vygotsky constructivism is based on the following terms:-Zone of Proximal Development‖ (ZPD), mediation, and scaffolding. Hence, the constructivist view of learning is at the heart of developing autonomous learners who either individually-Piaget-or interactively-Vygotsky-construct their own knowledge.

This thesis explores the appeal of 'professionalism' to New Zealand journalists as an occupational ideal, as a collective strategy to advance their interests, and as a model of internal reform. As an explicit rejection of the 'traits based' analyses of journalistic professionalism drawn from the sociology of professions, this thesis applies an alternative approach which explores the changing nature of journalists' conceptions of professionalism over time, as well as the structures through which they have been conveyed. In doing so, this thesis offers insight into the historical development of the journalistic occupation, as well as its contemporary configuration. This thesis shows that during the post-war period, the representative organisation of New Zealand journalists, the New Zealand Journalists' Association (NZJA) appealed to the nature and importance of journalistic work to sustain journalists' claims to professionalism. NZJA leaders argued that the...

In upland areas of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, thin deposits and paleosols show late Quaternary episodes of eolian sedimentation, pedogenesis, and climate change. Interpretation of the stratigraphy and optically stimulated luminescence ages of eolian and nearby alluvial deposits, their pollen, and intercalated paleosols yields the following history: (1) Eolian deposition at ca. 46 ka, followed by several episodes of alluviation from some time before ca. 40 ka until after 16 ka (calibrated). (2) Eolian deposition from ca. 17 ka to 12 ka, interrupted by periods of pedogenesis, coinciding with late Pleistocene alluviation as local climate became warmer and wetter. (3) A wetter period from 12 to 8.5 ka corresponding to the peak of summer monsoon infl uence, during which soils formed relatively quickly by infi ltration of eolian silt and clay, and trees and grasses were more abundant. (4) A drier period between ca. 8.5 and 6 ka during which sheetwash deposits accumulated and more desertlike vegetation was dominant; some dunes were reactivated at ca. 8 ka. (5) Episodic eolian and fl uvial deposition during a wetter, cooler period that began at ca. 6 ka and ended by ca. 3-2 ka, followed by a shift to drier modern conditions; localized mobilization of dune sand has persisted to the present. These interpretations are similar to those of studies at the Chaco dune fi eld, New Mexico, and the Tusayan dune fi eld, Arizona, and are consistent with paleoclimate interpretations of pollen and packrat middens in the region. A period of rapid deposition and infi ltration of eolian dust derived from distant igneous source terranes occurred between ca. 12 and 8 ka. Before ca. 17 ka, and apparently back to at least 45 ka, paleosols contain little or no such infi ltrated dust. After ca. 8 ka, either the supply of dust was reduced or the more arid climate inhibited translocation of dust into the soils.

Att undersöka vad ambulanssjuksköterskor upplever kan finnas för problemområden vid arbete på skadeplats med maximalt fyra drabbade. Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ ansats. Nio ambulanssjuksköterskor i Uppsala, mellan 27 och 53 år, intervjuades. Ett bekvämlighetsurval gjordes. Tillstånd för studien anskaffades hos ambulansstationens verksamhetschef. Intervjuerna var semistrukturerade och spelades in med ljudupptagning. Intervjuerna transkriberades sedan och analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet gav 11 kategorier och 19 underkategorier. Resultat: Prehospitala problem på skadeplats är mörker, dåligt väder samt trafik. Prehospital sjukvårdsledning används inte i tillräcklig mån. Mental förberedelse är viktigt inför ankomst till skadeplats. Det nya radiosystemet fungerar inte optimalt och därmed försvåras kommunikationen mellan ambulans, räddningstjänst och polis. Samarbetet med räddningstjänst på skadeplats behöver förbättras. Mer interprofessionell övning och utbildning efterfrågas. De svåraste patientgrupperna är barn samt traumafall. Slutsats: Prehospital sjukvårdsledning används för lite vid arbetet på en mindre skadeplats. Radiosystemet fungerar inte optimalt och det försvårar kommunikationen och samarbetet mellan ambulans, polis och räddningstjänst. Mer övning och utbildning behövs kring barn samt trauma. Mer interprofessionell övning och gemensamma utbildningar efterfrågas.

The objectives of multinational firms expanding overseas in search of new markets and new resources, or risk-spreading and overcoming competition are widely cited. On the other hand, without the host governments' incentives, such as tax exemptions and economic liberalisation, expansions into foreign countries would not be an easy move, or even possible. Host governments normally seek cooperation from multinational firms to invest locally in order to improve the countries' infrastructure, employment levels, knowledge exchange and technological advancement. This paper examines the international hotel industry development to illuminate the interdependent relationships that exist between governments and multinationals. It utilises cases from the Intercontinental Hotels Corporation and the Hilton Hotels International to illustrate elements critical to facilitating cooperation, and the flexibility of such elements that enabled overseas expansion, as well as the subsequent changes in industry structure. Multinational hotel firms not only helped to generate economic growth for host countries; they also stimulated competition within the hotel industry that, arguably, improved the quality of products and services. The intensified competition in the industry, contrasted with the lengthy process of design and building of a hotel, instigated the separation of bricks and brains in the hotel industry. Such separation further evolved into different cooperation perspectives; that is expansion via management contracts and franchising which became key cooperative approaches for today's hotel development strategy.

This thesis examines the perceptions of tourism as a graduate career from the view of key stakeholders of tourism - the government, industry, educators and students. It aims to understand what key tourism stakeholders in Malaysia do in promoting tourism as a graduate career, and how students perceive tourism as a career option. The literature suggests that the issue of perceptions of tourism as a career be investigated from the perspective of key stakeholders. Hence, a stakeholder-inclusive approach in tourism human resource development is suggested as a measure to address the skilled labour shortage in tourism and the needs of various stakeholders. An analytical framework has been developed in this thesis to illustrate the relationships and gaps amongst stakeholders and how they view tourism as a graduate career in Malaysia. A total of 11 semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior officials from relevant Ministries, industry bodies, a major employer, and directors of tou...

The objective of this study was to describe how surrogacy is constructed by the government official investigators through a document study consisting of five documents. Findings showed that the ethical dilemmas are difficult to handle and therefore difficult to prosecute. Family constellations have changed from the traditional family to HBTQ families to be accepted. This development has resulted in a risk for exploitation of human trafficking, since every country has their own laws, and no one knows which country’s law should be applied within surrogacy. The mothers are seen as containers and the children as goods and gifts which can be purchased and sold. Recording to the result, surrogacy is constructed by the government official investigators as a phenomenon where the surrogate mothers are objectified and seen as standard switch. It was shown that surrogacy is a new form of family building and is believed to soon be the standard family in the community. (Less)

We report a computational study on the spontaneous self-assembly of spherical particles into two-dimensional crystals. The experimental observation of such structures stabilized by spherical objects appeared paradoxical so far. We implement patchy interactions with the patches point-symmetrically (icosahedral and cubic) arranged on the surface of the particle. In these conditions, preference for self-assembly into sheet-like structures is observed. We explain our findings in terms of the inherent symmetry of the patches and the competition between binding energy and vibrational entropy. The simulation results explain why hollow spherical shells observed in some Keplerate-type polyoxometalates (POM) appear. Our results also provide an explanation for the experimentally observed layer-by-layer growth of apoferritin - a quasi-spherical protein.

tryckt hos elanders Gotab, stockholm Arbete och Hälsa är en av Arbetslivsinstitutets vetenskapliga skriftserier. Serien innehåller arbeten av såväl institutets egna medarbetare som andra forskare inom och utom landet. I Arbete och Hälsa publiceras vetenskapliga originalarbeten, doktors avhandlingar, kriteriedokument och litteraturöver sikter. Arbete och Hälsa har en bred målgrupp och ser gärna artiklar inom skilda områden. Språket är i första hand engelska, men även svenska manus är välkomna. Instruktioner och mall för utformning av manus finns att hämta på Arbetslivsinstitutets hemsida Där finns också sammanfattningar på svenska och engelska samt rapporter i fulltext tillgängliga från och med 1997 års utgivning.

In pattern matching algorithms, two characteristic parameters play an important rôle : the number of occurrences of a given pattern, and the number of positions where a pattern occurrence ends. Since there may exist many occurrences which end at the same position, these two parameters may differ in a significant way. Here, we consider a general framework where the text is produced by a probabilistic source, which can be built by a dynamical system. Such "dynamical sources" encompass the classical sources -memoryless sources, and Markov chains-, and may possess a high degree of correlations. We are mainly interested in two situations : the pattern is a general word of a regular expression, and we study the number of occurrence positions -the pattern is a finite set of strings, and we study the number of occurrences. In both cases, we determine the mean and the variance of the parameter, and prove that its distribution is asymptotically Gaussian. In this way, we extend methods and results which have been already obtained for classical sources [for instance in [9] and in ] to this general "dynamical" framework. Our methods use various techniques: formal languages, and generating functions, as in previous works. However, in this correlated model, it is not possible to use a direct transfer into generating functions, and we mainly deal with generating operators which generate... generating functions.

structure-preserving recalls were substantially higher than were their meaning-preservingrecalls, and that the effects of particular structural properties (i.e., causal connections and story-grammar category) interacted with the scoring crite- rion. These results indicate that these L2 readers used topdown processing to preserve the structural integrity of a text.

This study analyzes eye movements while zoning out during reading in order to come to more general conclusions about the phenomenon of mind wandering. The eye movements of 15 participants were recorded as they read 300 sentences from a historic psychology text. Participants were prompted intermittently to report whether they were zoning out as they read. Focused participants exhibited shorter forward fixations, longer regressions, and a greater proportion of saccades to regressions than unfocused participants, and individuals aware that they were focused displayed longer saccades than unaware participants. These results indicate that zoning out while reading results in both high and low-level deficits for readers and that zoning out is both frequent and disruptive to the reading process.

Los sipúnculos, “gusanos cacahuate” o “gusanos maní”, son invertebrados marinos con gran importancia, tanto en el proceso de disolución de rocas, como por ser una importante fuente de alimento para otras especies marinas. Se realizó una búsqueda en la literatura de todas las familias, géneros y especies registradas para el Gran Caribe. Esta región comprende desde Carolina del Sur, en Estados Unidos, hasta el litoral norte de Brasil, incluyendo el Golfo de México, Antillas Mayores y Menores, y las costas de Centro y Sur América, dentro de esos límites. La revisión incluyó la mayor cantidad de información publicada, tanto electrónica como en papel, la cual se recopiló en forma de listado en orden alfabético y no fiogenético. Se diferenciaron especies que no son de la región, así como las sinonimias, para ofrecer una idea acerca de los problemas taxonómicos que presenta el grupo. Se encontraron 84 nombres de especies, distribuidas en 14 géneros y seis familias. De los 84 nombres encontrados, sólo 23 nombres corresponden a especies válidas; 10 nombres no tienen información alguna. De esta forma, se comienza a organizar este grupo a través de la estandarización y organización sistemática preliminar. Por lo tanto se espera que este listado sea un aporte importante para el conocimiento del grupo en el Caribe y otras regiones cercanas.

The biogeomorphology of nebkha dunes, was investigated in the Fahraj Plain, which is located in southern part of the Lut Plain in southeastern Iran. Field investigations were performed to determine nature of nebkha dunes, whose genesis and growth involves the trapping of aeolian sand within the body of a plant. This study demonstrated that Tamarix, a shrub/tree in the Tamaricaceae family, has played a major role in reducing dust and sand storms in the region by trapping aeolian sediments and accumulating them in the form of nebkhas. In contrast, another tree/shrub that grows in the area, Prosopis cineraria (a variety of mesquite in the Fabaceae family), due to its structure seems not to have played an important role in aeolian sediment accumulation or in shaping any nebkha dunes in the area. Whereas previous investigations indicated that the highest nebkhas, which are located at the western margin of the Lut basin on the Takab plain, were no more than 12 m in height, our field investigations and measurements revealed that on the Fahraj plain there are nebkhas greater than 20 m in height. This would suggest that some of these nebkhas are among the largest and highest that have been reported in the world. Some were connected by rows of Tamarix and formed very long ridges more than 200 m in length. It seems that their form may be due to human activity. During our survey of nebkhas in the region we observed ongoing and increasing degradation in the nebkha field that we were examining. This seemed to be due to current climate variability and human impact. Investigation of the past climate of this region reveals that the Indian monsoon is and has been a major factor. Examination of this history also reveals the relationship between climate and sand movement in the region, and the inferred past history of nebkha dunes. Past analogue conditions from that history can provide a scenario of future nebkha evolution, and reveal if their current, ongoing degradation is a long-term trend or simply a short-term cycle.

Blood levels of cyto-and chemokines might reflect immune deregulations which might be related to lymphomagenesis. Potential utility of stored blood samples of a prospective cohort was evaluated by the effect of different blood sample types and freeze-thaw cycles on analyte levels. Bead-based immunoassays were performed on two fresh samples (serum, citrate and heparin plasma) of 10 asymptomatic adults collected fourteen days apart and on aliquots of the first samples which were put through one to three freezethaw cycles to measure 11 cytokines, 4 chemokines and 2 adhesion molecules. Median CVs of the measured analytes were 20%, 24% and 32% in serum, citrate and heparin plasma, respectively. Strong correlations (Rsp, 0.74-0.98) were observed between sample types, although small differences in analyte levels were observed for most analytes. Freeze-thaw cycles did not markedly change analyte levels. Our study supports the use of this assay among asymptomatic subjects in epidemiological studies. Sample type Test day Cytokines (Ln)

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This article outlines successful practices employed by two experienced researchers from different knowledge fields (in this case, creative writing/applied arts and nursing/applied science) who bring diverse research methodologies and approaches to work on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary projects. Defining single discipline, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, and based on a review of their own disciplinary – as well as multidisciplinary and traditional ‘mixed methods’, research methodologies – this article investigates how these researchers navigate the range of available methodologies to both make meaning in their research projects and also allow a wide, and project-relevant, dissemination of their findings. It profiles completed collaborative projects and evaluates the approaches utilised, including how this rationale has influenced their practice as higher degree research student supervisors.

When nurses are featured in narratives associated with death and dying, the common stereotype of the good nurse – of mother, or angel of mercy – is often invoked. Although such imaging can be flattering for nurses, whose work might otherwise go unnoticed and unappreciated, this representation is also unrealistic and dehumanising. Darker representations of nurses, and particularly the uncomfortable or profane aspects of nursing work, are not only rare outside of the horror genre, they have also largely escaped examination. Consequently, writers, as well as others including the public and those involved in the practice, teaching and scholarship of nursing, have a limited lexicon with which to describe that large part of nursing work which is situated in the realm of the abject, turbulent and traumatic. This article examines Franco’s film, Chronic (2015), which features a nurse who works in home-based palliative care, and whose character defies stereotypes. Analysing this richly drawn ...

This article reports on a learning design project that encourages the creative (re)use of popular literature as educational materials by bringing together scholars and insights from diverse disciplines to engage learners and build the human(ising) skills needed in health professions. A capable health professional is one who has technical competence, interpersonal and critical thinking skills. They need to be able to understand and cope with complexity and ambiguity, human diversity, and the reality that people differ in the factors that assist them to become ready for change and stay well. Critics of the direction that health education has taken to prepare graduates indicate that there is a preference for technical skill development, whilst overlooking craft knowledge. Students still need to learn bio-technological knowledge, but they also need to understand the multiple social, cultural, and environmental contexts that can impact on a person’s journey of change in health. The proje...

The telling, listening to, and re-telling of stories is a fundamental human activity. In the mental health context, storytelling can take on another layer of meaning, when clinicians begin to be more conscious of the stories they hear, recall these, and then re-tell them to their clients and carers. This process has many benefits. It helps to clarify communication between someone who may not be very trusting, with another who may not fully understand; and it can reconnect mental health clinicians with a deeply embedded cultural value that can be overwhelmed by the bio-medical approach – professional empathy. This article argues that the conscious use of re-storying, an aspect of Story Theory, can extend mental health nursing practice, deepening the quality of the interpersonal relationship so that the patient, family and nurse can mutually achieve greater understanding of needs and goals, and transform a crisis into a turning point. This suggests that stories shared, reflected upon ...

The English Patient, a novel by Michael Ondaatje (1993), is a romantic drama set in the chaos of Europe at the end of World War II. In the ruins of an Italian church, a terribly burned man is being tended to by Hana, a young nurse too traumatised from her own war experiences to return home. Ondaatje’s acclaimed novel contains rich imagery, complex characters and interactions, as well as a story that weaves back and forward in time. The novel is a writerly text; the meaning needs to be unravelled by the reader and, due to this feature, it also makes for interesting reading about nursing. Too often texts about nursing are reductionist and stereotyped – nurse characters are often angels or lovers, sometimes villains and sleuths. Rarely are they portrayed as a wounded healer – an ancient, intriguing and illuminating myth. Within this paper, Hana’s struggles are read as a metaphor for those that similarly confront many nurses. She is a vulnerable young person thrust, because of the natur...

Det är de stora företagen som skapar de små företagens villkor och som avgör vilken typ av företag som kan överleva på marknaden, skriver Elisabeth Sundin. "Småforetak i et stordrifssamfunn" var titeln på den del av den norska maktutredningen som behandlade små och medelstora företag. Den publicerades för mer än 20 år sedan (1980) men skulle kunna sättas som rubrik också över detta kapitel som behandlar Sverige idag -och kanske också i framtiden. En utgångspunkt för framställningen är den stora positiva betydelse som nu tillskrivs små och medelstora företag (SMF) på snart sagt alla offentliga arenor. Politiker från alla partier betonar vikten av små-och medelstora företag och menar att deras verksamhet bör underlättas. Vidare har småföretag och entreprenörskap blivit ett etablerat forskningsområde. Professurer i ämnet finns runt om i landet och vid alla universitet och högskolor ges specialkurser i entreprenörskap. 1 Småföretagaren, och alldeles särskilt då nyföretagaren, ses som vår tids hjälte. Men vad är ett litet företag? Vad är en entreprenör? Och varför är just små företag stödvärda och positiva? Svaren, eller snarare föreställningarna om svaren, på den sist nämnda frågan rör sig både på samhällelig, organisatorisk och individuell nivå. Det brukar ofta anföras att små företag svarar för en stor del av sysselsättningen, cirka en tredjedel, av dem som finns i arbete idag. Vidare betonas att småföretagen utgör en stödtrupp till storföretagen genom att fungera som underleverantörer och stå för en del av den flexibilitet som de stora organisationerna anses sakna. Små företag anses vara innovativa och förnyande. Hos dem utvecklas nya produkter och tjänster som prövas förhållandevis lätt och snabbt på marknaden efter-

Suffix trees and suffix arrays are two of the most widely used data structures for text indexing. Each uses linear space and can be constructed in linear time for polynomially sized alphabets. However, when it comes to answering queries with worst-case deterministic time bounds, the prior does so in O(m log |Σ|) time, where m is the query size, |Σ| is the alphabet size, and the latter does so in O(m + log n) time, where n is the text size. If one wants to output all appearances of the query, an additive cost of O(occ) time is sufficient, where occ is the size of the output. Notice that it is possible to obtain a worst case, deterministic query time of O(m) but at the cost of super-linear construction time or space usage. We propose a novel way of combining the two into, what we call, a suffix tray. The space and construction time remain linear and the query time improves to O(m + log |Σ|) for integer alphabets from a linear range, i.e. Σ ⊂ {1, • • • , cn}, for an arbitrary constant c. The construction and query are deterministic. Here also an additive O(occ) time is sufficient if one desires to output all appearances of the query. We also consider the online version of indexing, where the text arrives online, one character at a time, and indexing queries are answered in tandem. In this variant we create a cross between a suffix tree and a suffix list (a dynamic variant of suffix array) to be called a suffix trist; it supports queries in O(m + log |Σ|) time. The suffix trist also uses linear space. Furthermore, if there exists an online construction for a linear-space suffix tree such that the cost of adding a character is worst-case deterministic f (n, |Σ|) (n is the size of the current text), then one can further update the suffix trist in O(f (n, |Σ|) + log |Σ|) time. The best currently known worstcase deterministic bound for f (n, |Σ|) is O(log n) time.

por el rector Miguel de Unamuno. 1 Frente a la arrogancia militar del General Millán-Astray, 2 su protesta se puede contemplar como la cumbre de la defensa valiente de la libertad de conciencia por un académico contra la fuerza del despotismo. 3 ¿Qué quiso decir Unamuno? Una sucesión de escritos desde sus años juveniles hasta su muerte en su "cárcel desdichosa" (Cancionero, 1754) 4 nos ofrece la clave respecto a lo que Unamuno mismo pronunció ese día en plena guerra "incivil" española. 5 Al lado de sus palabras, buscamos al "hombre de carne y hueso", según manifiesta en el Sentimiento trágico (1999: Cap. 1). En nuestra investigación de las reflexiones de Unamuno sobre la vida y la verdad, la religión y la ideología, la conciencia y la autoridad, perseguimos esa inteligencia viva e inquisidora con la cual escribió, discutió y actuó. Por tanto,

This paper concerns a puzzle about the interpretation of Korean direct evidential -tein interrogatives which I call evidential perspective shift in questions ('origo shift of evidentials' in quesitons in Garrett 2001). This puzzle consists in the evidential being interpreted as regarding a source of information of the answerer rather than the questioner. Here I introduce a novel semantic approach to this phenomenon which derives it as a consequence of the interaction of the meaning of questions and of evidentials. I will also illustrate the conceptual and empirical advantages of this view over previous accounts. 2.1 Semantics of Indexicals: Kaplan (1989) theory of indexicals is intended to explain the difference between (2a) and (2b): 2 Higginbotham (2009) also pointed out this characteristics under the term First-person authority.

for their comments and questions. I am also indebted to the discussion with Semoon Hoe and Barry Schein. Special thanks go to Elena Guerzoni for her comments and suggestions to the earlier version of this paper. All remaining errors are mine, of course. This work is partly supported by the project Estructura eventiva y 'construcción' léxico-sintáctica de las oraciones. Teoría y experimentación (FF2009-07114).

that comprises almost ten staff members, and a project team across the world with four Principal Investigators, fifteen Project Managers, 30+ Regional Managers, 170 Country Coordinators, Research Assistants, and 2,500 Country Experts, the V-Dem project is one of the largest-ever social science research-oriented data collection programs.

pour les discutions parfois longues que j'ai pu avoir avec eux. Je remercie tous ceux sans qui cette thèse ne serait pas ce qu'elle est ; bien que fondamentalement personnelle, la rédaction d'une thèse découle d'une somme d'inspirations extérieures. Je pense ici en particulier à Sebastien Migeon, qui m'initia à la description des carottes « de boue », Lionel Carter dont les connaissances régionales furent précieuses, Hans Nelson expert en sédimentation turbiditique et en paléoseismicité, avec qui les discussions furent toujours enrichissantes.

150 Assibilation and Palatalisation in Cornish 5.1. Old Cornish Assibilation The assibilation of dental stops in Cornish is undoubtedly one of the most characteristic features of the phonology of the language that distinguishes it from Breton and Welsh. ...

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The ligand Hpyramol (Hpyramol ¼ 4-methyl-2-N-(2-pyridylmethyl)aminophenol) is found to undergo an oxidative dehydrogenation of its amine function to an imine group upon coordination with iron(II) chloride and manganese(II) perchlorate. X-ray diffraction analyses for both complexes shows differences in the coordination geometry of the complexes most likely because of the two different counter-ions namely the strong coordinating chloride anions and the weak coordinating perchlorate anions. The coordination sphere of the iron(III) complex in [FeCl 2 (pyrimol)(MeOH)](MeOH) is best described as a distorted octahedral FeN 2 O 2 Cl 2 chromophore, while the manganese(II) ions in [Mn(ClO 4 )(pyrimol)(Hpyrimol)] 2 are in a distorted octahedral MnN 4 O 2 environment with a 2:1 ligand to metal ratio instead of 1:1.

Mit der Energiewende in Deutschland ist ein langfristiger Monitoring-Prozess verankert worden, um die Zielerreichung regelmasig zu uberprufen und bei Bedarf nachzusteuern. In dem Monitoring werden auch gesamtwirtschaftliche Effekte betrachtet. Zu Beginn des Prozesses stellen sich verschiedene methodische Fragen. GWS und Prognos haben im Rahmen des BMWI Forschungsprojekts 46/12 „Analyse der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Effekte des Energiemarktes“ einige der Punkte auch mit Blick auf die Datenverfugbarkeit beleuchtet. Die Untersuchung erhebt nicht den Anspruch der Vollstandigkeit. Verschiedene Fragen bleiben zu klaren. Zugleich liegen mit bereits abgeschlossenen Analysen vielfaltige Erfahrungen und gute Ansatzpunkte vor, die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Effekte der Veranderungen auf den Energiemarkten zu erfassen.

Information technology development has driven many New Zealand educational initiatives. Projects have been undertaken, and strategies released to integrate computers into classroom teaching and learning processes. Pre-eminent among them was Interactive Education: An Information and Communication Technologies Strategy for Schools setting out a 'National Strategy' for integrating computer technology in schools. Other initiatives included: (a) The New Zealand Curriculum Framework, released in 1993, defining official policy for teaching, learning and assessment in New Zealand schools. (b) The statement of Mathematics in New Zealand Curriculum (MiNZC) (c) Information Technology Professional Development (ITPD) initiative to fund schools to organise and manage their own training and development. (d) Financial Assistance Scheme (PAS) to provide schools with at least half of the cost of approved cabling projects for local area networking, and (e) NetDay to provide practical help for ...

To date, interdisciplinary research is becoming increasingly popular because it combines the achievements of diverse disciplines, having the potential of providing a completely new angle to pertinent research problems. Using increasingly sophisticated tools allowed obtaining large sets of high resolution data but also created the challenge of using this information effectively and interpreting it in a reliable way. Searching for “simplicity in complexity” inspired by engineering and computer sciences, is a new trend in biological sciences, which allows integrating the vast amount of existing knowledge. Single cell analysis is a good example of interdisciplinary research: dissecting a cell population to specific individuals is at instances necessary in order to obtain information on heterogeneity and cellular dynamics, which might be obscured when investigating, for instance, protein levels in extracts obtained from cell populations. In this thesis I have presented quantitative and t...