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- Sager, Morten, 1972, et al.
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Materialities of Post-Evidence-Based Practice
- 2020
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Ingår i: Conference Program 4S/EASST Prague, August, 18-21, 2020, online.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Together with changes in governance related to New Public Management, evidence-based practice (EBP) has amounted to a paradigm shift in the Swedish welfare sector and elsewhere concerning the management, monitoring and measurements of operations in health care, education and social care. Critics have pointed to the de-contextualized character of aggregated knowledge of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews and subsequent guidelines and indicators that fail to acknowledge complex localities and the temporal unfolding of practices. While it is tempting to align with such concerns, we experiment with developing a “post-EBP approach” through a quality improvement program within a large social care and welfare organization to create a different infrastructure for evidence-basing that enacts a dynamic, non-linear evidence-practice-entwinement. This infrastructure consists of harvesting quality improvement knowledge and turning it into a situated evidence base. It also consists of aiming to revise procurement processes in which municipalities require care organizations to prove that their work is ‘evidence based’, without having the faintest idea what that might entail in practice, nor how that helps enact good social care and welfare. By working creatively with graphic illustrations in close relation with practitioners in a social care setting for mentally disabled we are investigating ethnographically how improvement work is affected by the materials used to train and maintain competences of improvement coaches. Among the most important illustrations are the evidence hierarchy often depicted in the form of a pyramid, venn diagrams of various spheres of knowledge and participants, and also images of a knowledge pipeline from top to bottom. These pictures harness and reproduce particular disembodied forms of agency, as it were, outside time and place. By developing a quality improvement program that considers evidence and practice as entwined, we aim to put bodies, time and place back into knowledge governance. We are harvesting practice-derived improvement knowledge and create and experiment with new illustrations for the training, maintaining and use of competences in improvement work. Important points for tracing the consequences are the material and mental effects made available through observations, interviews and quantitative indicators. The care of mentally disabled in the operations studied here, is led by and pursued mostly by staff without academic training. But, they are both using and producing knowledge with considerable consequences for a vulnerable group in society. By the disembodied nature of present EBP infrastructures both practitioners and clients are systematically disenfranchised. Studies, reviews and guidelines do not take their bodies, time and space into account. This project attempts to change the epistemic conditions by investigating how local complexities and temporal unfolding of local improvement work can be embodied in the materialities of post-EBP.
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- Karagiannis, F., et al.
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Technological and organisational aspects of global research data infrastructures towards year 2020
- 2013
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Ingår i: Data Science Journal. - 1683-1470. ; 12, s. GRDI1-GRDI5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A general-purpose Global Research Data Infrastructure (GRDI) for all sciences and research purposes is not conceivable for the next decade as there are too many discipline-specific modalities that currently prevail for such generalisation efforts to be effective. On the other hand, a more pragmatic approach is to start from what currently exists, identify best practices and key issues, and promote effective inter-domain collaboration among different components forming an ecosystem. This will promote interoperability, data exchange, data preservation, and distributed access (among others). This ecosystem of interoperable research data infrastructures will be composed of regional, disciplinary, and multidisciplinary components, such as libraries, archives, and data centres, offering data services for both primary datasets and publications. The ecosystem will support data-intensive science and research and stimulate the interaction among all its elements, thus promoting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary science. This special issue includes a set of independent papers from renowned experts on organisational and technological issues related to GRDIs. These documents feed into and compliment the GRDI2020 roadmap, which supports a Global Research Data Infrastructure ecosystem.
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- Karagulyan, Davit
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On certain aspects of the möbius randomness principle
- 2019
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Ingår i: Colloquium Mathematicum. - : Institute of Mathematics. Polish Academy of Sciences. - 0010-1354 .- 1730-6302. ; 157:2, s. 231-250
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We study different aspects of the Möbius randomness principle. We rephrase the Chowla and Sarnak conjectures and the Riemann hypothesis for abstract sequences and study their relationship. In particular, we show that in this setting the Chowla and Sarnak conjectures do not imply the Riemann hypothesis. We also study the connections between the multiplicative and additive van der Corput criteria.
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- Keller, Christina, et al.
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Students’ Perceptions of E-learning in University Education
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Ingår i: Learning, Media and Technology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1743-9884 .- 1743-9892. ; 27:1-2, s. 55-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines students’ perceptions of e‐learning taking students at Jönköping University in Sweden as an example. The students had experiences from two years of e‐learning on campus. Students (n = 150) filled in a questionnaire with closed as well as open‐ended questions. The answers were analysed in a multiple regression analysis, putting the students’ perceptions in relation to gender, age, previous knowledge of computers, attitudes to new technology, learning styles and the way of implementing e‐learning at the university. Advantages and disadvantages of e‐leaming were categorized in a qualitative content analysis. The main conclusion from the study was that the strategy of implementing the e‐leaming system at the university was more important in influencing students’ perceptions than the individual background variables. Students did not regard access to e‐learning on campus as a benefit. Male students, students with previous knowledge of computers and students with positive attitudes to new technologies were all less positive to e‐leaming on campus than other students.
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- Rivano Eckerdal, Johanna
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Information sources at play: the apparatus of knowledge production in contraceptive counselling
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Ingår i: Journal of Documentation. - : Emerald. - 0022-0418. ; 68:3, s. 278-298
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to suggest that the information interaction between midwives and young women during counselling meetings about contraceptives can be approached as loci of knowledge production and discuss the consequences this has for the understanding of information practices. The overarching question is: how is knowledge produced during the interaction between the midwives and the young women and what roles do their bodies play in this interaction?Design/methodology/approachQualitative methods inspired by ethnography were used, including conversation transcripts of ten counselling meetings, 19 interviews and participatory observations at five youth centres in the South of Sweden. The study took place over a period of nine months. The feministic conceptual framework presented by Donna Haraway concerning knowledge production was used to analyse the material.FindingsAs they meet, both midwives and young women are information sources to each other, and the information conveyed is negotiated in both words and actions. Both parties are involved in a careful negotiation to establish what information is needed and appropriate for the situation at hand, but the midwives have the final say. However, the midwives balance between exerting a generalised expertise and entering in a situated dialogue with the young women.Practical implicationsThis study may contribute to awareness among information professionals of counselling meetings as information interactions where both words and actions are important as well as the inequality of power in that interaction.Originality/valueThis study contributes to library and information studies by broadening the understanding of what an information source may be and by exploring the usefulness of feminist researcher Donna Haraway's analytical tools for understanding information interactions as knowledge producing negotiations.
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- Wang, F., et al.
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Current status and challenges of the ammonia escape inhibition technologies in ammonia-based CO2 capture process
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Ingår i: Applied Energy. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 0306-2619 .- 1872-9118. ; 230, s. 734-749
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- CO2 capture using ammonia solvent is an alternative to the conventional amine-based CO2 capture technology. While ammonia escape is one of the main barrier limiting its implementation. The present work reviews the current status of ammonia escape mechanisms and its inhibition technologies. The chemistry of ammonia-based absorption and desorption are analyzed, and the mass transfer of the ammonia escape are presented and discussed. Most suppression approaches for ammonia slip are in lab- and bench-scale studies. The representative development of the pilot-scale tests involves NH3 abatement and recycling process and chilled ammonia process (CAP). Some other novel processes have been reported the potential to reduce ammonia slip significantly and relatively lower energy penalty, but some technical issues including the process modification and parameters optimization should be resolved to secure economic feasibility. Integration of different ammonia inhibition approaches is suggested for the future development of ammonia slip suppression process.
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