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- Hudson, Lawrence N, et al.
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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ecology and Evolution. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2045-7758. ; 7:1, s. 145-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.
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- Cozza, Michela, et al.
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C’era una volta l’ITC
- 2010
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Ingår i: Trasformazioni. Identità istituzionale e organizzazione della ricerca: la Fondazione Bruno Kessler. - Trento : FBK Press. - 9788890538902
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Gherardi, Silvia, et al.
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Organizational members as storywriters : on organizing practices of reflexivity
- 2018
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Ingår i: Learning Organization. - 0969-6474 .- 1758-7905. ; 25:1, s. 51-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how organizational members became storywriters of an important process of organizational change. Writing became a practice designed to create a space, a time and a methodology with which to author the process of change and create a learning context. The written stories produced both the subjectivity of practical authors and reflexively created the con/text for their reproduction.Design/methodology/approach – A storywriting workshop inspired by a processual and participatory practice-based approach to learning and knowing was held in a research organization undergoing privatization. For six months, 31 organizational members, divided into two groups, participated in writing one story per week for six weeks. The written story had to refer to a fact that had occurred in the previous week, thus prompting reflection on the ongoing organizational life and giving a situated meaning to the change process.Findings – Storywriting is first and foremost a social practice of wayfinding, that is of knowing as one goes. Writing proved to be an effective practice that involved the authors, their narratives and the audiences in a shared experience where all these practice elements became connected and through their connection acquired agency.Originality/value – Narrative knowledge has been studied mainly in storytelling, while storywriting by organizational members has received less attention. This paper explores storywriting both as a situated, relational and material practice and as the process that produces narratives which can be considered for their content and their style.
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- Sánchez Van Kammen, Mayte, et al.
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Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia
- 2021
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Ingår i: JAMA Neurology. - : American Medical Association. - 2168-6149 .- 2168-6157. ; 78:11, s. 1314-1323
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Importance: Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) has been reported after vaccination with the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines ChAdOx1 nCov-19 (Oxford-AstraZeneca) and Ad26.COV2.S (Janssen/Johnson & Johnson).Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with and without TTS.Design, Setting, and Participants: This cohort study used data from an international registry of consecutive patients with CVST within 28 days of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination included between March 29 and June 18, 2021, from 81 hospitals in 19 countries. For reference, data from patients with CVST between 2015 and 2018 were derived from an existing international registry. Clinical characteristics and mortality rate were described for adults with (1) CVST in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, (2) CVST after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination not fulling criteria for TTS, and (3) CVST unrelated to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.Exposures: Patients were classified as having TTS if they had new-onset thrombocytopenia without recent exposure to heparin, in accordance with the Brighton Collaboration interim criteria.Main Outcomes and Measures: Clinical characteristics and mortality rate.Results: Of 116 patients with postvaccination CVST, 78 (67.2%) had TTS, of whom 76 had been vaccinated with ChAdOx1 nCov-19; 38 (32.8%) had no indication of TTS. The control group included 207 patients with CVST before the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 63 of 78 (81%), 30 of 38 (79%), and 145 of 207 (70.0%) patients, respectively, were female, and the mean (SD) age was 45 (14), 55 (20), and 42 (16) years, respectively. Concomitant thromboembolism occurred in 25 of 70 patients (36%) in the TTS group, 2 of 35 (6%) in the no TTS group, and 10 of 206 (4.9%) in the control group, and in-hospital mortality rates were 47% (36 of 76; 95% CI, 37-58), 5% (2 of 37; 95% CI, 1-18), and 3.9% (8 of 207; 95% CI, 2.0-7.4), respectively. The mortality rate was 61% (14 of 23) among patients in the TTS group diagnosed before the condition garnered attention in the scientific community and 42% (22 of 53) among patients diagnosed later.Conclusions and Relevance: In this cohort study of patients with CVST, a distinct clinical profile and high mortality rate was observed in patients meeting criteria for TTS after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination..
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- Webster, Juliet, et al.
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Innovations in Information Society Sectors: Implicatons for Women's Work, Expertise and Opportunities in European Workplaces : SERVEMPLOI : Final Report of project SOE1-CT98-1119
- 2001
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall objective of project SERVEMPLOI was to examine, in the context of considerable technological and organisational innovations and uphe avals, the prospects for women working in low-grade service jobs to develop skills and knowledges which would allow them to move out of low-grade work and into better work, or ‘good work’. A literature survey and a contextual analysis of retailing and fin ancial services sectors was undertaken. Fieldwork was conducted in eight countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Case studies of workplaces in the two sectors were carried out. In addition, qualitative panel studie s followed the employment trajectories of female employees in the two sectors through the duration of the project.Women working in junior positions in these two service sectors are experiencing significant organisational and technological changes. Both sectors are becoming more highly concentrated in ownership terms, and competition is becoming fiercer between companies. Deregulation at member state and European level has had a major effect on the market and consequently on the strategic behaviour of co mpanies in both sectors. There has been an overall trend towards increasing commercialisation, de -bureaucratisation, and an intensive struggle for market share through increases in opening and operating hours. Customer service has become the watchword of their competitive strategies. The development and application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) has been done in pursuit of these objectives. Company - and supply-chain-wide information systems allow companies to maintain logistical c ontrol and reach into new markets. Customer information and customer relationship management systems are now key tools in the capture of markets and the delivery of customer service.Although knowledge and information, particularly concerning markets and customers, are assuming increasing importance in retail and financial services companies, these resources and their attendant benefits are not filtering down to women working in junior positions in the two sectors. At the level of workplaces in which wom en perform the routine functions of selling, checkout work, clerical and cashiering work, skill development is more concerned with providing customer service than with fostering substantive knowledge or encouraging the use of SERVEMPLOI final report information. Training opportu nities and progression prospects for women to move out of these jobs are variable, and highly contingent upon national training régimes and local company practices. Lengthening and unpredictable working hours also act as a major obstacle to women’s progression. Where women do enter managerial positions, this coincides with a removal of authority from these jobs. Our conclusion is the Knowledge Economy has not strongly benefited these women, nor are they able to harness its potential for their own develop ment. The potential of many women is being wasted.
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