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Positional analysis for sustainable development : Reconsidering policy, economics and accounting
- 2017
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science. Mainstream neoclassical economics may be able to contribute to a more sustainable society but it has also played a dominant role in a period where problems have been aggravated. A pluralist and democratic view of economics is therefore very much warranted. This book presents a multidimensional and ideologically more open view of economics: understanding economics in multidimensional terms is in accordance with the 17 sustainable development goals recognized by nations at the UN-level in 2015. Accordingly, approaches to decision making and accounting at the national- and business levels have to be reconsidered. Neoclassical Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) with focus on the monetary dimension and an assumed consensus about a specific market ideology to be applied is not compatible with democratic societies where citizen and actors in other roles normally differ with respect to ideological orientation. Environmental Impact Statements and Multi-Criteria methods are used to some extent to broaden approaches to decision-making. In this book, Positional Analysis is advocated as a multidimensional and ideologically open approach. Positional Analysis is based on a political economic conceptual framework (as part of ecological economics) that differs from neoclassical ideas of individuals, firms and markets. And since approaches to decision-making and to accounting are closely connected, a new theoretical perspective in economics similarly raises issues of how national and business accounting can be opened up to meet present demands among various actors in society. This perspective raises also numerous ethical questions at the science and policy interface that need to be properly addressed for sustainability decision making.
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Positions on Emancipation - Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the last decades architecture has been largely characterized by a lack of strong positions. A form of neoliberal indifference has become endemic, something that can be attributed to the fact that modernism has lost its claim to be both emancipatory and educational. More recently though, one can again observe attitudes that claim to address architecture and urbanism as more engaged with the social and political effects of global capitalism. This book relays a passionate debate between some of the most outstanding theoreticians and eloquent protagonists of this new attitude, leaving us with an overview of such postulated ambitions. Against the liberal “anything goes” and the revival of architectural autonomy, these attitudes believe less in the possibility for even the most experimental architectural object to have a changing effect on society. Their approaches instead vary from activism to the construction of new critical narratives. A debate with Anne-Julchen Bernhardt, Arno Brandlhuber, Gilles Delalex, Manuel Gausa, Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy, Adrian Lahoud, Bart Lootsma, Markus Miessen, Can Onaner, Laurent Stalder, Peter Swinnen, Pelin Tan, Milica Topalovic, Stephan Trüby, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Paola Viganò.
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- Romero, Mario, 1973-, et al.
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Evaluating Video Visualizations of Human Behavior
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. ; , s. 1441-1450
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previously, we presented Viz-A-Vis, a VIsualiZation of Activity through computer VISion [17]. Viz-A-Vis visualizes behavior as aggregate motion over observation space. In this paper, we present two complementary user studies of Viz-A-Vis measuring its performance and discovery affordances. First, we present a controlled user study aimed at comparatively measuring behavioral analysis preference and performance for observation and search tasks. Second, we describe a study with architects measuring discovery affordances and potential impacts on their work practices. We conclude: 1) Viz-A-Vis significantly reduced search time; and 2) it increased the number and quality of insightful discoveries.
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- Stahl, D., et al.
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Continuous practices and Devops: Beyond the buzz, what does it all mean?
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings - 43rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2017. ; 2017-January, s. 440-448
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- DevOps and continuous practices are attracting steadily growing attention by both practitioners and researchers in the software engineering community. The terms are often used inconsistently, interchangeably and with unclear meaning, however. Taking the position that this ambiguity and miscommunication renders the community great harm, in that it impedes our ability to critically appraise these practices, their effects and interplay between them, we analyze how published literature on both continuous practices and DevOps treat the terms. Based on this analysis, along with statements by often cited sources in the community as well as personal experience from researching and practicing these concepts, we propose guidelines to help authors reduce ambiguity in their publications. Additionally, definitions designed to reflect mainstream interpretation while disentangling the terms from one another are presented.
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- Thuresson, Ann-Charlotte, 1964-
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Regulation of Mammalian Poly(A) Polymerase Activity
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Poly(A) polymerase (PAP) is the enzyme catalyzing the synthesis of the adenine tail to the 3’-end of mRNA. This A-tail is present on the majority of the primary RNA transcripts of protein-coding genes, and is important for mRNA stability, export to the cytoplasm and translation. Therefore, PAP is a key regulator of eukaryotic gene expression. This thesis describes the heterogeneity of PAP and the functional significance of multiple isoforms of PAP.PAP exists in many different isoforms generated by three different mechanisms, gene duplication, alternative mRNA processing and post-translational modification. In HeLa cell extracts three different forms of PAP being 90, 100 and 106 kDa in size have been detected, where the 106 kDa isoform is a phosphorylated version of the 100 kDa species. It is shown that the N-terminal region of PAP contains a region required for catalysis, while the C-terminal end is important for the interaction with the cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor (CPSF). Interestingly, it was found that also the extreme N-terminal end is important for the interaction with CPSF. This region is post-translationally modified by phosphorylation. Five alternatively spliced forms of PAP mRNAs are encoded by the PAPOLA gene while one unique species is encoded by the PAPOLG gene. The analysis showed that the exact structure of the alternatively spliced C-terminal end of PAP played an important role for catalytic efficiency. Thus, the C-terminal end contains a region important for modulating the catalytic efficiency of PAP.Aminoglycoside antibiotics inhibit PAP activity, most likely by displacement of catalytically important divalent metal ions. Data shows that different aminoglycosides inhibit PAP activity by different mechanisms suggesting that the binding sites for the different aminoglycosides do not completely overlap. It is concluded that aminoglycosides interfere with enzymes important for housekeeping functions in mammalian cell, which may explain some of the toxic side effects caused by aminoglycoside antibiotics in clinical practice.
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- Josefsson, Per Olof, et al.
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Closed treatment of Jones fracture. Good results in 40 cases after 11-26 years
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Ingår i: Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica. - : Medical Journals Sweden AB. - 0001-6470. ; 65:5, s. 545-547
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 40 patients with transversal or short oblique fractures of the proximal shaft of the fifth metatarsal bone (Jones fracture) were treated with full weight bearing with or without elastic bandage in 39 cases and plaster cast immobilization in one. 24 cases were acute traumatic fractures, 14 stress fractures and 2 refractures. After 17 (11-26) years, 33 of the fractures had healed primarily, evidence of refracture or delayed union was found in 7 and there were no non-unions. All but one of the patients were free of symptoms.
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- Josefsson, Pernilla, et al.
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Primary school teachers experience of the digitalisation of teaching
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to understand primary school teachers' experience of the ongoing process of digitalisation of teaching. The study is done in the Swedish context and includes eight interviews with teachers from six different municipal schools. The results showed that the teachers were positive toward integration of technology and that several of the teachers did perceive an increased use of digital teaching, which is in line with the recently revised school curriculum. However, they reveal a lack of prerequisites for digital teaching that can hinder the goals to be fully achieved, these are both internal and external character. Emphasizes among other things, the need to increase the elements of digital teaching in the teacher education programs, as well as offer competence development courses for active teachers.
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