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- Amoson, Jonas, 1973-, et al.
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A light-weigh non-hierarchical file system navigation extension
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Plan 9. - Dublin, Ireland. ; , s. 11-13
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Drawbacks in organising and finding files in hierarchies have led researchers to explorenon-hierarchical and search-based filesystems, where file identity and belonging is pred-icated by tagging files to categories. We have implemented a chdir() shell extension en-abling navigation to a directory using a search expression. Our extension is light-weightand avoids modifying the file system to guarantee backwards compatibility for applicationsrelying on normal hierarchical file namespaces.
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- Andersson, H. Robert H., et al.
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Flipping the Data Center Network : Increasing East-West Capacity Using Existing Hardware
- 2017
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Ingår i: 2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 9-12 Oct. 2017. - : IEEE. - 9781509065233 - 9781509065226 ; , s. 211-214
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In today's datacenters, there is an increasing demand for more network traffic capacity. The majority of the increase in traffic is internal to the datacenter, i.e., it flows between different servers within the datacenter. This category of traffic is often referred to as east-west traffic and traditional hierarchical architectures are not well equipped to handle this type of traffic. Instead, they are better suited for the north-southbound traffic between hosts and the Internet. One suggested solution for this capacity problem is to adopt a folded CLOS topology, also known as spine-leaf, which often relies on software defined network (SDN) controllers to manage traffic. This paper shows that it is possible to implement a spine-leaf network using commodity-ofthe-shelf switches and thus improve the east-west traffic capacity. This can be obtained using low complexity configuration and edgerouting for load balancing, eliminating the need for a centralized SDN controller.
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- de Blanche, Andreas, 1975-, et al.
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A methodology for estimating co-scheduling slowdowns due to memory bus contention on multicore nodes
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, PDCN 2014. - : ACTA Press. - 9780889869677 - 9780889869653 ; , s. 216-223
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- When two or more programs are co-scheduled on the same multicore computer they might experience a slowdown due to the limited off-chip memory bandwidth. According to our measurements, this slowdown does not depend on the total bandwidth use in a simple way. One thing we observe is that a higher memory bandwidth usage will not always lead to a larger slowdown. This means that relying on bandwidth usage as input to a job scheduler might cause non-optimal scheduling of processes on multicore nodes in clusters, clouds, and grids. To guide scheduling decisions, we instead propose a slowdown based characterization approach. Real slowdowns are complex to measure due to the exponential number of experiments needed. Thus, we present a novel method for estimating the slowdown programs will experience when co-scheduled on the same computer. We evaluate the method by comparing the predictions made with real slowdown data and the often used memory bandwidth based method. This study show that a scheduler relying on slowdown based categorization makes fewer incorrect co-scheduling choices and the negative impact on program execution times is less than when using a bandwidth based categorization method.
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- de Blanche, Andreas, 1975-, et al.
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Addressing characterization methods for memory contention aware co-scheduling
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Supercomputing. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0920-8542 .- 1573-0484. ; 71:4, s. 1451-1483
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ability to precisely predict how memory contention degrades performance when co-scheduling programs is critical for reaching high performance levels in cluster, grid and cloud environments. In this paper we present an overview and compare the performance of state-of-the-art characterization methods for memory aware (co-)scheduling. We evaluate the prediction accuracy and co-scheduling performance of four methods: one slowdown-based, two cache-contention based and one based on memory bandwidth usage. Both our regression analysis and scheduling simulations find that the slowdown based method, represented by Memgen, performs better than the other methods. The linear correlation coefficient (Formula presented.) of Memgen's prediction is 0.890. Memgen's preferred schedules reached 99.53 % of the obtainable performance on average. Also, the memory bandwidth usage method performed almost as well as the slowdown based method. Furthermore, while most prior work promote characterization based on cache miss rate we found it to be on par with random scheduling of programs and highly unreliable.
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- de Blanche, Andreas, 1975-, et al.
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Node Sharing for Increased Throughput and Shorter Runtimes : an Industrial Co-Scheduling Case Study
- 2018
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Co-Scheduling of HPC Applications (COSH 2018). ; , s. 15-20
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The allocation of jobs to nodes and cores in industrial clusters is often based on queue-system standard settings, guesses or perceived fairness between different users and projects. Unfortunately, hard empirical data is often lacking and jobs are scheduled and co-scheduled for no apparent reason. In this case-study, we evaluate the performance impact of co-scheduling jobs using three types of applications and an existing 450+ node cluster at a company doing large-scale parallel industrial simulations. We measure the speedup when co-scheduling two applications together, sharing two nodes, compared to running the applications on separate nodes. Our results and analyses show that by enabling co-scheduling we improve performance in the order of 20% both in throughput and in execution times, and improve the execution times even more if the cluster is running with low utilization. We also find that a simple reconfiguration of the number of threads used in one of the applications can lead to a performance increase of 35-48% showing that there is a potentially large performance increase to gain by changing current practice in industry.
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- Loconsole, Annabella, et al.
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Comparing the CDIO educational framework with University West’s WIL certification: do they complement each other?
- 2021
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Ingår i: VILÄR. - 9789189325036 ; , s. 15-16
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Higher education institutions (HEIs) need to continuously improve their quality to prepare the students to the society of the 21st Century. They need to develop efficient ways of collaborating with various partners in the surrounding community. Close ties with business and industry, and diversity among staff and students are necessary, especially within engineering education. An engineering degree should prepare students to develop a wide range of knowledge and skills. These range from technical, scientific, and mathematical knowledge but also soft skills such as teamwork, business skills and critical analysis, which are also central sustainability competences. It is vital that learning for engineers takes place in the context of authentic engineering problems and processes to develop these skills and to put theory into practice. Several initiatives focused on incorporating these skills in higher education exists. CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate) is one of the most prominent initiatives within engineering education. CDIO targets the typical tasks an engineer performs when bringing new systems, products and services to the market or the society. The CDIO initiative was created to strengthen active and problem-based learning and improving students' communication and professional skills. CDIO focus on improving practical and work-related skills to better prepare engineering students for their future professional life.University West employs another initiative, Arbetsintegrerat lärande (AIL), which “roughly” translates to Work Integrated Learning (WIL). WIL shares much of the same philosophy as CDIO. All programs at University West are currently undergoing an AIL-certification process. For engineering programs, that have been working with CDIO, it is interesting to compare them. It is currently unclear how they differ. In this study we compare the CDIO educational framework with the WIL-certification through a series of workshops to identify in which areas they overlap and which areas they differ. Would a program that has adopted the CDIO educational framework automatically fulfill the WIL-certification?
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- Lundmark, Elias, et al.
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Increasing Throughput of Multiprogram HPC Workloads : Evaluating a SMT Co-Scheduling Approach
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) is a technique that allows formore efficient processor utilization by scheduling multiple threadson a single physical core. Previous research have shown an averagethroughput increase of around 20% with an SMT level of two, e.g.two threads per core. However, a bad combination of threads canactually result in decreased performance. To be conservative, manyHPC-systems have SMT disabled, thus, limiting the number ofscheduling slots in the system to one per core. However, for SMT tonot hurt performance, we need to determine which threads shouldshare a core. In this poster, we use 30 random SPEC CPU job mixedon a twelve-core Broadwell based node, to study the impact ofenabling SMT using two different co-scheduling strategies. Theresults show that SMT can increase performance especially whenusing no-same-program co-scheduling.
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- Lundqvist, Lars-Olov, 1958-, et al.
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Risk markers for not returning to work among people with acquired brain injury
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Research shows that variety of factors are related to risks of not returning to work among people with acquired brain injury (ABI). In Sweden, 40% of those with ABI in working age return to work within two years after the injury, which in line with international findings. However, since countries may differ in work rehabilitation, social security systems, culture and laws, different factors may influence the possibilities of returning to work across countries.AIMS: The aim of this study was to investigate person, injury, activity and rehabilitation related risk markers for not return to work among persons with ABI in Sweden.METHODS: Retrospective data of an ABI cohort of 2008 people from the WebRehab Sweden quality register were used.RESULTS: Analyses showed that the risk ratio for not returning to work was larger for people that, among the Personal factors, were woman, born outside of Sweden, had low education level, and not having children in the household; among the injury related factors, had long (> 2 months) hospital stay, aphasia, low motor function, low cognitive function, high pain/discomfort, and high anxiety/depression; among the activity related factors, had low function in self-care, inability to perform usual activities, and had their driver´s license suspended; and finally among the rehabilitation related factors, were satisfied with treatment and having influence over their rehabilitation plan.DISCUSSION / CONCLUSION: Several factors in different areas were risk markers for not returning to work among people with ABI. This suggest that work rehabilitation and interventions, in addition to direct injury related issues, need to address personal related, activity related and rehabilitation related factors in order to increase the patient´s possibility to return to work. Influences of general and country specific factors on returning to work among people with ABI will be discussed.
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- Lundqvist, Thomas, 1967
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A WCET Analysis Method for Pipelined Microprocessors with Cache Memories
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- When constructing real-time systems, safe and tight estimations of the worst case execution time (WCET) of programs are needed. To obtain tight estimations, a common approach is to do path and timing analyses. Path analysis is responsible for eliminating infeasible paths in the program and timing analysis is responsible for accurately modeling the timing behavior of programs. The focus of this thesis is on analysis of programs running on high-performance microprocessors employing pipelining and caching. This thesis presents a new method, referred to as cycle-level symbolic execution, that tightly integrates path and timing analysis. An implementation of the method has been used to estimate the WCET for a suite of programs running on a high-performance processor. The results show that by using an integrated analysis, the overestimation is significantly reduced compared to other methods. The method automatically eliminates infeasible paths and derives path information such as loop bounds, and performs accurate timing analysis for a multiple-issue processor with an instruction and data cache. The thesis also identifies timing anomalies in dynamically scheduled processors. These anomalies can lead to unbounded timing effects when estimating the WCET, which makes it unsafe to use previously presented timing analysis methods. To handle these unbounded timing effects, two methods are proposed. The first method is based on program modifications and the second method relies on using pessimistic timing models. Both methods make it possible to safely use all previously published timing analysis methods even for architectures where timing anomalies can occur. Finally, the use of data caching is examined. For data caching to be fruitful in real-time systems, data accesses must be predictable when estimating the WCET. Based on a notion of predictable and unpredictable data structures, it is shown how to classify program data structures according to their influence on data cache analysis. For both categories, several examples of frequently used types of data structures are provided. Furthermore, it is shown how to make an efficient data cache analysis even when data structures have an unknown placement in memory. This is important, for example, when analyzing single subroutines of a program.
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- Lundqvist, Thomas, 1967-, et al.
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Comparing the Cdio Standards with the Work Integrated Learning Certification
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference 18th International CDIO Conference, CDIO 2022 Reykjavik. - : Chalmers University of Technology. - 9789935965561 ; , s. 37-47
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Improving the quality of higher education is an important responsibility of universities and colleges. Several approaches have been developed with the goal of improving the quality of university study programs. In this paper we compare the CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate) and the work-integrated learning (WIL) initiatives based on recently completed WIL certifications at University West. Through a series of workshops, the CDIO standards are compared with the aspects and criteria of the WIL certification guidelines, to identify overlapping areas and differences between the two initiatives. The results show that both initiatives overlap but also differ in several aspects. These differences could be useful to strengthen the WIL certification process at University West as well as clarifying the connection between CDIO and work-integrated learning.
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- Lundqvist, Thomas, 1967-, et al.
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Thing-to-thing electricity micro payments using blockchain technology
- 2017
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Ingår i: Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS), 2017. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 9781509058730 ; , s. 261-266
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Thing-to-thing payments are a key enabler in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, to ubiquitously allow for devices to pay each other for services without any human interaction. Traditional credit card-based systems are not able to handle this new paradigm, however blockchain technology is a promising payment candidate in this context. The prominent example of blockchain technology is Bitcoin, with its decentralized structure and ease of account creation. This paper presents a proof-of-concept implementation of a smart cable that connects to a smart socket and without any human interaction pays for electricity. In this paper, we identify several obstacles for the widespread use of bitcoins in thing-to-thing payments. A critical problem is the high transaction fees in the Bitcoin network when doing micro transactions. To reduce this impact, we present a single-fee micro-payment protocol that aggregates multiple smaller payments incrementally into one larger transaction needing only one transaction fee. The proof-of concept shows that trustless, autonomous, and ubiquitous thing-to-thing micro-payments is no longer a future technology.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-, et al.
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Change in quality of life in relation to returning to work after acquired brain injury : a population-based register study
- 2018
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Ingår i: Brain Injury. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0269-9052 .- 1362-301X. ; 32:13-14, s. 1731-1739
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: This study investigated changes in quality of life (QoL) in relation to return to work among patients with acquired brain injury (ABI).METHOD: The sample consisted of 1487 patients with ABI (63% men) aged 18-66 years (mean age 52) from the WebRehab Sweden national quality register database. Only patients who worked at least 50% at admission to hospital and were on full sick leave at discharge from hospital were included. QoL was measured by the EuroQol EQ-5D questionnaire.RESULTS: Patients who returned to work perceived a larger improvement in QoL from discharge to follow-up one year after injury compared to patients who had not returned to work. This difference remained after adjustment for other factors associated with improved QoL, such as having a university education, increased Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale scores and getting one's driving licence reinstated.CONCLUSION: Return to work is an important factor for change in QoL among patients with ABI, even after adjusting for other factors related to QoL. This is consistent with the hypothesis that having employment is meaningful, increases self-esteem and fosters participation in society. Thus, helping patients with ABI return to work has a positive influence on QoL.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-, et al.
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Opportunities and barriers for successful return to work after acquired brain injury : A client perspective
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Research aimThe aim of this study was to increase our knowledge about the opportunities and barriers for successfully return to work (RTW) among individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI).MethodologyAdults who have ABI were interviewed in regard to their experiences of the work rehabilitation process. The informants (5 females, 5 males) had participated in a work rehabilitation, had successfully RTW and had worked at least 50 % in at least a year after the injury. The interviews were transcribed, structured and analyzed by latent content analysis with a hermeneutic approach.Findings and conclusionsThree main themes that influenced RTW after ABI were identified: (i) individually adapted rehabilitation process, (ii) motivation for RTW and (iii) cognitive abilities and inabilities.The findings indicated that an individually adapted vocational rehabilitation (VR) process was important because the individuals with ABI involved actively in their own rehabilitation process and they required continuous support from the society, the specialists, their employers and colleagues. A moderate level of motivation for RTW was necessary to achieve the best result for RTW and it was important to achieve a balance between too high and too low motivation. Finally, a comprehensive knowledge about the cognitive abilities and inabilities of the individual after ABI helped the individuals and their employers to find compensatory strategies to handle their work tasks.One implication of the findings was the necessity of a good support system and a good VR that functions well and lasts for a longer period. When there are obstacles in the VR process, it is important to have strategies and awareness of how to proceed further.Consequently the support built for a person individually, with a balanced motivation, a high knowledge about the cognitive abilities and awareness of how to proceed further in the process will help to build a successful and sustainable RTW.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-, et al.
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Opportunities and barriers for successful return to work after acquired brain injury : A patient perspective
- 2017
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Ingår i: Work. - Amsterdam, The Netherlands : IOS Press. - 1051-9815 .- 1875-9270. ; 56:1, s. 125-134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Many people who suffer an acquired brain injury (ABI) are of working age. There are benefits, for the patient, the workplace, and society, to finding factors that facilitate successful return to work (RTW).Objective: The aim was to increase knowledge of opportunities and barriers for a successful RTW in patients with ABI.Method: Five men and five women with ABI participated. All had successfully returned to work at least 20 hours a week. Their experiences were gathered by semi-structured interviews, which were subsequently subjected to qualitative content analysis.Results: Three themes that influenced RTW were identified: individually adapted rehabilitation; motivation for RTW; and cognitive and social abilities. An individually adapted rehabilitation was judged important because the patients were involved in their own rehabilitation and required individually adapted support from rehabilitation specialists, employers, and colleagues. A moderate level of motivation for RTW was needed. Awareness of the person's cognitive and social abilities is essential, in finding compensatory strategies and adaptations.Conclusions: It seems that the vocational rehabilitation process is a balancing act in individualized planning and support, as a partnership with the employer needs to be developed, motivation needs to be generated, and awareness built of abilities that facilitate or hinder RTW.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-, et al.
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Risk Markers for Not Returning to Work Among Patients with Acquired Brain Injury : A Population-Based Register Study
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of occupational rehabilitation. - : Springer. - 1053-0487 .- 1573-3688. ; 29:4, s. 728-739
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate person-related, injury-related, activity-related and rehabilitation-related risk markers for not return to work among patients with acquired brain injury (ABI).Methods: Retrospective data from the Quality register, WebRehab Sweden, on an ABI cohort of 2008 patients, was divided into two groups: those who had returned to work (n = 690) and those who had not returned to work (n = 1318) within a year of the injury.Results: Risk ratio analyses showed that several factors were risk markers for not returning to work: personal factors, including being a woman, being born outside of Sweden, having a low education level, and not having children in the household; injury-related factors, including long hospital stay (over 2 months), aphasia, low motor function, low cognitive function, high pain/discomfort, and high anxiety/depression; activity-related factors, including low function in self-care, inability to perform usual activities, and not having a driver's license; and rehabilitation-related factors, including being dissatisfied with the rehabilitation process and the attentiveness of the staff having limited influence over the rehabilitation plan, or not having a rehabilitation plan at all. Conclusion Several factors in different aspects of life were risk markers for not returning to work among patients with ABI. This suggests that rehabilitation and interventions need to address not only direct injury-related issues, but also person-related, activity-related, and rehabilitation-related factors in order to increase the patient's opportunities to return to work.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-, et al.
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Successful return to work after acquired brain injury : support person’s perception of supporting
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Introduction and aim:Return to work (RTW) after acquired brain injury (ABI) is a demanding process for the client and need support. This study’s aim was to understand the support person’s perception of supporting clients with ABI to a successful RTW.Method:Nine persons who acted as support persons in the vocational rehabilitation (VR) process were chosen by clients with ABI participating in a previous study. Three of the support persons had a formal mandate to support the client by the employer and six of them were characterized as providing informal support. All the support persons had different kind of work. Semi structured interviews were conducted and analyzed by latent content analysis.Findings:The analysis elicited three themes describing the support person’s perception in the assistance for the client to successfully RTW: (i) Commitment, (ii) Adaptation and (iii) Cooperation. Within each of the theme multiple mechanisms were identified, reflecting the complexity that the VR process had for the client. The mechanisms were about strategic issues, reflection and decision making. The support persons experienced that their role was extra valuable for the client in contexts where adaptation and cooperation was required. Commitment built on social relations is linked to sustainability of the support.Conclusion:Support persons play a multi-dimensional role which is important for client with ABI to successfully RTW.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-, et al.
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Successful return to work after acquired brain injury : opportunities and barriers from a patient perspective
- 2016
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Ingår i: Brain Injury. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0269-9052 .- 1362-301X. ; 30:5-6, s. 516-516
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is often a lifelong disability that entails a marked change in a person’s life. It involves biopsychosocial levels and return to work (RTW) is one of the main goals for the person. Several of those suffering an ABI are of working age. The society and the individuals are both winners if the person could get back to work and sustain working.Objective: The aim of this study was to increase knowledge about the opportunities and barriers for successful RTW among individuals with ABI.Methods: Adults who have ABI and had participated in work rehabilitation were interviewed in regard to their experiences of the process. The informants (five females, five males) had participated in work rehabilitation, had successfully RTW and had worked at least 50% in at least a year after the injury. The interviews were transcribed, structured and analysed by latent content analysis with a hermeneutic approach.Results: Three main themes that influenced RTW after ABI were identified: (i) individually adapted rehabilitation process, (ii) motivation for RTW and (iii) cognitive abilities and inabilities. The results indicate that an individually adapted vocational rehabilitation (VR) process was an important issue. The individuals with ABI actively involved in their own rehabilitation process also required continuous support from the society, the specialists, their employers and colleagues; this support has to be designed for each individual. A moderate level of motivation for RTW was necessary for the best result to RTW, in other words it was important to achieve a balance between too high and too low motivation. Finally, a comprehensive knowledge about the cognitive abilities and inabilities of the individual after ABI helped the individuals and their employers to find compensatory strategies to handle their work tasks. One implication of the findings was the necessity of a good support system and a good VR that functions well and lasts for a longer period. When there are obstacles in the VR process, it is important to have strategies and awareness of how to proceed further.Conclusions: Consequently, the support built for a person individually, with a balanced motivation, knowledge about the cognitive abilities and awareness of how to proceed further in the process will help to build a successful and sustainable RTW.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-, et al.
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Support Persons' Perceptions of Giving Vocational Rehabilitation Support to Clients With Acquired Brain Injury in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation. - : Routledge. - 1536-710X .- 1536-7118. ; 15:3-4, s. 351-369
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim is to explore the perception of being a support person for clients with acquired brain injury undergoing vocational rehabilitation. Nine support persons, identified by clients with brain injury, were interviewed. Interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis, resulting in three themes for assisting the client: (i) commitment; (ii) adaptation; and (iii) cooperation. Within each theme, multiple dimensions were identified, reflecting the complexity of vocational rehabilitation following acquired brain injury. Commitment built on social relations is linked to sustainability of support. The included support persons' role was especially valuable in contexts where adaptation and cooperation were required.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-
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Återgång i arbete efter förvärvad hjärnskada : livskvalitet, möjligheter och hinder
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In Sweden, about 35–40 percent of people who acquire a brain injury can return to work. To be able to help people with acquired brain injury to return to work, it is important to know about experiences and factors that facilitate return to work and how they affect quality of life. The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the opportunities and barriers for people with acquired brain injury to return to work, as well as the importance of returning to work for their quality of life. Four studies were conducted: two interview studies and two register studies, giving qualitative and quantitative data.The major finding in this thesis was that people with acquired brain injury who could return to work had high functioning in all levels of the biopsychosocial model. The opportunities increased if the return to work was individually adapted in all phases of the process and if the person was motivated and supported by support persons with commitment, cooperation and adaptation. Those who had a university education, got their driver’s license reinstated, had high motor function and could return towork showed the greatest increase in their quality of life.Return to work is a complex process for people with acquired brain injury that could be successful if they are motivated, can balance the internal and external demands to return to work, get individual adaptation, and receive committed support. Their quality of life also increased more if theywere able to return to work.
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- Rosén, Anders, Dr, et al.
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Mapping the CDIO Syllabus to the UNESO Key Competences for Sustainability
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference. - 2002-1593. ; , s. 67-84
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper a framework of key competencies for sustainability defined by UNESCO is used to evaluate the relevance of the CDIO Syllabus for promoting engineering education for sustainable development. The evaluation is performed in two steps. First, topics, terms and concepts in the CDIO Syllabus that corresponds to the different UNESCO key competencies are identified. The second step is a qualitative discussion where areas of strong mapping are highlighted and aspects that could be better visualized or strengthened in, or added to, the Syllabus are identified. Differences in definitions of various concepts between the CDIO Syllabus and the UNESCO key competencies and the overall relation between the two frameworks are discussed. It is concluded that the CDIO Syllabus is rather well aligned with the UNESCO framework, however several opportunities (not to say needs) for strengthening the Syllabus in relation to the key competencies are identified. The UNESCO key competencies are found to be useful instruments for scrutinizing and updating the CDIO Syllabus. Other opportunities for knowledge and methods transfer between the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) domain and the Engineering Education domain are identified. The paper is proposed to be used as basis for updating the CDIO Syllabus into a version 3.0 for maintaining its relevance in a changing world.
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