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- Jacobsson, Staffan, 1951, et al.
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Merituulivorma on mahdollisuus
- 2013
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Ingår i: Kaleva.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Jacobsson, Susanne, et al.
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Molecular characterisation of group A Neisseria meningitidis isolated in Sudan 1985–2001
- 2003
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Ingår i: Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica (APMIS). - : Wiley. - 0903-4641 .- 1600-0463. ; 111:11, s. 1060-1066
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A total of 33 group A Neisseria meningitidis (Mc) isolates, collected in Sudan between 1985 and 2001, were studied in order to describe the changes over time in a country within the meningitis belt of Africa. The isolates were characterised by traditional phenotypic methods (serogrouping, serotyping, serosubtyping and antibiogram) and molecular techniques (genosubtyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE] with restriction endonucleases SpeI and NheI, and multilocus sequence typing [MLST]). Three clones of group A Mc were identified: one before 1988 (sulphadiazine sensitive, serotype 4, genosubtype P1.7,13-1,35-1, sequence type 4 [ST-4]); another during and after the 1988 epidemic (sulphadiazine resistant, serotype 4, genosubtype P1.20,9,35-1, ST-5); and a third causing the 1999 epidemic (sulphadiazine resistant, serotype 4, genosubtype P1.20,9,35-1, ST-7). The first clone showed major differences compared to the other two. The second and third clones had many similarities with differences in only a single gene (pgm) in the MLST (47 of the 450 bp) but significant other differences according to the PFGE patterns. Within the clones, genosubtyping and MLST gave identical information (except one base substitution in the aroE gene in one isolate). However, the PFGE patterns showed changes over time within the clones, where SpeI revealed somewhat more diversity than NheI.
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- Neumüller, Kristina, 1975-
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Vattensjön och Vattenån : Samband mellan sjönamn och ånamn i Medelpad
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main aim of this study of pairs of lake and river names in the northern Swedish province of Medelpad is to establish whether, as a rule, the lake name or the river name is (in formal terms) the primary name. The study also seeks to ascertain whether there are geographical variations in ‘name priority’ in this sense within the region studied, and whether there are any signs of the priority pattern having changed over time. An additional aim is to shed light on other aspects of the water feature names of Medelpad. The area covered by the study comprises five parishes. Two of them (Borgsjö and Haverö) are situated in the western part of Medelpad, the other three (Attmar, Njurunda and Tuna) in the south-east. In the hydronym pairs studied (just over 200 in all), the secondary names are most commonly formed by composition. In a few cases derivation may be involved instead, but here the element of uncertainty is quite large. Name pairs formed by composition have been affected by elliptical processes of various kinds, above all by reduction. The investigation of the name pairs shows that lake-name priority is more than ten times as common as river-name priority; this stock of names thus follows a pattern also found in more southerly parts of Sweden. The modern-day dominance of lake-name priority in Medelpad seems to be partly the result of a growing influence of this pattern in more recent times. The proportions of primary lake names and primary river names vary between the different parts of Medelpad studied; the further west one goes, the more common – or less uncommon – primary river names seem to become. The most important reasons for this difference probably have to do with the physical geography and settlement history of these areas.
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- Simeth, M., et al.
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Losing talent by partnering up? : The impact of R&D collaboration on employee mobility
- 2022
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Ingår i: Research Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0048-7333 .- 1873-7625. ; 51:7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Firms frequently enter collaborations with other organizations for the purpose of innovating. In this paper, we argue that engaging in R&D collaboration can have the unintended consequence of increasing the mobility of highly skilled personnel. We investigate our research question using a representative dataset that combines information from the Swedish Community Innovation Survey (CIS) with employer–employee registry data. Our econometric analysis shows that R&D collaborations by firms are associated with higher levels of outgoing mobility among skilled employees, particularly among those with technical (“STEM”) education and master's or doctoral degrees. We also find support for the interpretation that R&D collaboration augments employees’ general human capital, subsequently increasing their outside employment options. We discuss important implications for firm collaboration strategies.
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- Alexandre, Ali Bitenga, et al.
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A man never cries : barriers to holistic care for male survivors of sexual violence in eastern DRC
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Ingår i: Medicine, conflict and survival. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1362-3699 .- 1743-9396. ; 38:2, s. 116-139
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While we know that most male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) do not have access to care, little attention has been devoted to a systematic analysis of why this is so. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with staff of service providers and male survivors of sexual violence, as well as from focus group discussions with community members in eastern DRC, this article sets out to explore challenges and barriers related to meeting the needs of male survivors of sexual violence with respect to their medical, psychological, socioeconomic and legal needs. Our findings suggest that local framings of masculinity can both negatively and positively influence support-seeking behaviour depending on how survivors themselves engage with masculinity ideals. Based on these findings, a conceptual framework including seven levels of barriers to care for male survivors has been developed. Although service providers strive to provide high-quality care to male survivors, we show that existing responses to sexual violence have mainly been designed to address sexual violence against women and need to be re-adapted to male survivors. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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- Amaral, Cleber Jorge, et al.
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Towards Jacamo-rest: A Resource-Oriented Abstraction for Managing Multi-Agent Systems
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 14th Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications (WESAAC 2020). - Ponta Grossa : Universidade Tecknologica Federal do parana (UTFPR). ; , s. 140-151
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Multi-Agent Oriented Programming (MAOP) paradigm provides abstractions to model and implements entities of agents, as well as of their organisations and environments.In recent years, researchers have started to explore the integration of MAOP and the resource-oriented web architecture (REST).This paper further advances this line of research by presenting an ongoing work on jacamo-rest, a resource-oriented web-based abstraction for the multi-agent programming platform JaCaMo.Jacamo-rest takes Multi-Agent System (MAS) interoperability to a new level, enabling MAS to not only interact with services or applications of the World Wide Web but also to be managed and updated in their specifications by other applications.To add a developer interface to JaCaMo that is suitable for the Web, we provide a novel conceptual perspective on the management of MAOP specification entities as web resources.We tested jacamo-rest using it as a middleware of a programming interface application that provides modern software engineering facilities such as continuous deployments and iterative software development for MAS.
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- Amaral Féris, Marco Antônio, et al.
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Enhancing software development through project-based learning and the quality of planning
- 2021
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Ingår i: R&D Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 0033-6807 .- 1467-9310. ; 51:5, s. 447-467
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- R&D plays a crucial role in developing new products, the commercialisation of which can drive corporate growth. Over three decades, research has focused the new product development (NPD) process and it is known that developing new products is a knowledge-intensive, risky activity. Since industry surveys show that many NPD projects, particularly software-based ones, fail to meet their schedules and objectives. Consequently, today’s R&D managers still need ways to plan and conduct NPD more effectively. Project-based Learning (PBL) – the generation of specific technical and process knowledge during and after a project – is a potential way to improve NPD. Therefore, this paper investigated the research question: Does PBL enhance the quality of planning in subsequent software development projects? The study used a sample of 47 software development projects at three multinational organisations. Significantly, the findings show that PBL does enhance the quality of planning of subsequent software development projects. In particular, the quality of planning is increased in projects with high levels of uncertainty; where team members work in a project-based structure with strong collaboration; and when the pressure to deliver projects is high. The contribution of the research at a theoretical level is that it identified an important link between learning and the quality of planning in subsequent NPD projects. At a practical level, the study identifies specific steps R&D managers can take to improve the performance of software development projects, with all their associated challenges.
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- Amaral, L., et al.
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Disentangling hand and tool processing: Distal effects of neuromodulation
- 2022
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Ingår i: Cortex. - : Elsevier BV. - 0010-9452. ; 157, s. 142-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Neural processing within a local brain region that responds to more than one object category (e.g., hands and tools) nonetheless have different functional connectivity patterns with other distal brain areas, which suggests that local processing can affect and/or be affected by processing in distal areas, in a category-specific way. Here we wanted to test whether administering either a hand-or tool-related training task in tandem with trans -cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to a region that responds both to hands and tools (posterior middle temporal gyrus; pMTG), modulated local and distal neural processing more for the trained than the untrained category in a subsequent fMRI task. After each combined tDCS/training session, participants viewed images of tools, hands, and animals, in an fMRI scanner. Using multivoxel pattern analysis, we found that tDCS stimulation to pMTG indeed improved the classification accuracy between tools vs. animals, but only when combined with a tool and not a hand training task. Surprisingly, tDCS stimulation to pMTG also improved classification accuracy between hands vs. animals when combined with a tool but not a hand training task. Our findings suggest that overlapping but functionally-specific networks may be engaged separately by using a category-specific training task together with tDCS -a strategy that can be applied more broadly to other cognitive domains using tDCS. By hypothesis, these effects on local processing are a direct result of within-domain connectivity constraints from domain-specific networks that are at play in the processing and organization of object representations.(c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Amaral, L., et al.
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Temporal differences and commonalities between hand and tool neural processing
- 2023
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - 2045-2322. ; 13:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Object recognition is a complex cognitive process that relies on how the brain organizes object-related information. While spatial principles have been extensively studied, less studied temporal dynamics may also offer valuable insights into this process, particularly when neural processing overlaps for different categories, as it is the case of the categories of hands and tools. Here we focus on the differences and/or similarities between the time-courses of hand and tool processing under electroencephalography (EEG). Using multivariate pattern analysis, we compared, for different time points, classification accuracy for images of hands or tools when compared to images of animals. We show that for particular time intervals (~ 136–156ms and ~ 252–328ms), classification accuracy for hands and for tools differs. Furthermore, we show that classifiers trained to differentiate between tools and animals generalize their learning to classification of hand stimuli between ~ 260–320ms and ~ 376–500ms after stimulus onset. Classifiers trained to distinguish between hands and animals, on the other hand, were able to extend their learning to the classification of tools at ~ 150ms. These findings suggest variations in semantic features and domain-specific differences between the two categories, with later-stage similarities potentially related to shared action processing for hands and tools.
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