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- Säll, Olof, 1980-, et al.
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Prevalence and persistence of Neisseria meningitidis carriage in Swedish university students
- 2023
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Ingår i: Epidemiology and Infection. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0950-2688 .- 1469-4409. ; 151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis causes life-threatening disease worldwide, typically with a clinical presentation of sepsis or meningitis, but can be carried asymptomatically as part of the normal human oropharyngeal microbiota. The aim of this study was to examine N. meningitidis carriage with regard to prevalence, risk factors for carriage, distribution of meningococcal lineages and persistence of meningococcal carriage. Throat samples and data from a self-reported questionnaire were obtained from 2744 university students (median age: 23 years) at a university in Sweden on four occasions during a 12-month period. Meningococcal isolates were characterised using whole-genome sequencing. The carriage rate among the students was 9.1% (319/3488; 95% CI 8.2-10.1). Factors associated with higher carriage rate were age ≤22 years, previous tonsillectomy, cigarette smoking, drinking alcohol and attending parties, pubs and clubs. Female gender and sharing a household with children aged 0-9 years were associated with lower carriage. The most frequent genogroups were capsule null locus (cnl), group B and group Y and the most commonly identified clonal complexes (cc) were cc198 and cc23. Persistent carriage with the same meningococcal strain for 12 months was observed in two students. Follow-up times exceeding 12 months are recommended for future studies investigating long-term carriage of N. meningitidis.
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- Elldér, Erik, et al.
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Is a car necessary for active aging? Relationships between aging, car use, and time spent on activities that sustain health and well-being
- 2023
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Ingår i: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. - 2590-1982 .- 2590-1982. ; 22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aging population of the Global North is increasingly car dependent, with repercussions for health and well-being. This article analyzes how car use interacts with living an active life and how this has changed over time in Sweden. National time use data were used to analyze change in two cross sections of older people (65–84 years old) over a ten-year period (2000/01–2010/11). Previous studies concentrated on the relationship between travel behavior as such and older adult’s access to driver’s licenses and cars. We offer an integrated approach that includes all daily activities as we explore the changing social distribution of car use, as well as how different levels of car use are associated with time spent on active aging activities that benefit individuals and society. We conclude that an increasing proportion of the older population in Sweden are moderate to heavy car users and identify convergence over time between car use by older women and older men. We also find that heavy car users spend more time traveling to active aging activities. At first glance, this finding suggest that older people in Sweden are dependent on a car for living an active life. However, examination of how much time is actually spent on active activities after travel time is excluded reveals that few significant differences remain. This nuances the idea that access to a car is a necessity for spending time in activities that contribute to society and to personal well-being in old age.
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- Li, C. J., et al.
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Changes in Everyday Internet Use and Home Activity During and After Pandemic-Related Lockdowns: A Case Study in Shuangjing Subdistrict, Beijing
- 2023
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Ingår i: Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie. - : Wiley. - 0040-747X .- 1467-9663. ; 114:2, s. 117-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the everyday lives of people. Recent studies have found that Internet use increased during lockdowns and helped people cope with spatial constraints on daily activity. However, long-term implications on the digitalization of everyday life are still unknown. This study aims to improve the understanding of changes in Internet use during and after lockdown and how these changes relate to home activity and activity context. We draw on a case study of pre-, mid- and post-lockdown periods in Shuangjing Subdistrict, Beijing. We find that Internet use increased during and after the lockdown, indicating a persistent effect. Home activity mediated the increase in Internet use, suggesting that people stayed at home engaging in more Internet use when restrictions were eased. Work activity and family affairs strengthened the positive impact on Internet use during the lockdown. The influence on Internet use differed depending on sociodemographic characteristics.
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- Li, Chunjiang, et al.
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Understanding the Hybridization of Everyday Activities from a Time-Geographic Perspective
- 2023
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Ingår i: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. - 2469-4452 .- 2469-4460. ; 114:1, s. 185-199
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In contrast to the dichotomous distinction between offline and online activity in much previous research, we argue for hybridization as a key feature of the digitalized postpandemic society, shaping and constraining the everyday lives and activities of individuals in new, unforeseen ways. The current understanding of the complex ways in which hybridization plays out and reorders everyday life is limited, partly due to a lack of relevant conceptualizations and methodological tools. The aim of this article is to further develop the time-geographic approach, as theory and method, to understand and visualize the hybridization of everyday activities. The article contributes to previous literature on everyday life digitalization in several important respects. The notions of hybrid activities, grounds, and sequences are proposed for an enhanced theoretical understanding of hybridization. Moreover, we argue that interrelated hybrid constraints shape the spatiotemporal organization of everyday activities. The concept of pocket of mediated order is proposed as a new domain of everyday activities in the hybrid era, supporting the accomplishment of everyday projects, yetalso transforming the local pockets of order. Finally, drawing on a real family case, we refine the time-geographical notation system to capture and visualize the full complexity of hybridization in the time–space setting of daily life.
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- Thulin, Eva, 1974, et al.
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Absent Friends? Smartphones, Mediated Presence, and the Recoupling of Online Social Contact in Everyday Life
- 2020
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Ingår i: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2469-4452 .- 2469-4460. ; 110:1, s. 166-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to the geographical understanding of how mobile online presence enabled by smartphones transforms human spatial practices; that is, people's everyday routines and experiences in time and space. Contrasting a mainstream discourse concentrating on the autonomy and flexibility of ubiquitous (anywhere, anytime) use of social media, we examine new and mounting constraints on user agency. Building on time-geographic theory, we advance novel insights into the virtualities of young people's social lives and how they are materialized in the physical world. Critically, we rework the classical time-geographic conceptions of bundling, constraints, rhythms, and pockets of local order; draw on the emerging literature on smartphone usage; and use illustrative examples from interviews with young people. We suggest a set of general and profound changes in everyday life and sociality due to pervasive and perpetual mediated presence of friends: (1) the emergence of new coupling constraints and the recoupling of social interaction; (2) the changing rhythms of social interaction due to mediated bundles of sociality becoming more frequent and insistent; (3) the shifting nature of the streaming background of online contacts, which are becoming more active, intervening in, and intruding on ongoing foreground activities of everyday life; and (4) the reordering of foreground activity as well as colocated and mediated presences, centering on processes of interweaving, congestion and ambivalence, and colocated absence. Key Words: intervening background, local and mediated pockets of order, online copresence, rhythm, spatial practice.
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- Thulin, Eva, 1974, et al.
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Fading togetherness? Exploring generational changes in shared time use among the older population in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0167-4943 .- 1872-6976. ; 101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We explore changes in everyday togetherness among upcoming cohorts of older people by examining their shared time use during the day. Theoretically, we elaborate on the existential condition of being co-present with others when performing activities. We compare cohorts using data from Swedish time-use surveys conducted in 2000/2001 and 2010/2011. Results indicate that everyday togetherness clearly increased among the older old, including in-home and out-of-home forms of togetherness. These results remained when looking at cohabitants and single-living people separately, indicating a notable change in behaviour. Change was not as evident among the young old, and togetherness declined among the older middle-aged, possibly signalling more solitary aging among upcoming generations of pensioners. Besides by household composition, total time spent together was also affected by gender, retirement, geography, and Internet access. The findings establish a basis for exploring future post-pandemic trends in levels and forms of togetherness.
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- Thulin, Eva, 1974, et al.
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Pacesetters in contemporary telework: How smartphones and mediated presence reshape the time–space rhythms of daily work
- 2022
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 37:2, s. 250-269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We examine how mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) and mediated interaction transform daily work activity in contemporary, extended telework. We expand on the concepts of mediated bundles and pacesetters to understand how the rhythms and employee control of work activity change. We draw on in-depth interviews with 22 teleworkers with varying skills and work tasks. We find that mobile technology not only relaxes the time–space constraints of telework but fosters countering processes of recoupling and fixity. New ICTs shift the relative importance of individually defined and work-related pacesetters. The rhythm of daily work is increasingly set by horizontal interaction between spatially dispersed coworkers. It is informally regulated through practices of the continuous-mediated interweaving of workflows and synchronised responsivity in relation to changing work intensity. Highly qualified teleworkers more often signal that they are in control and setting the pace compared to less qualified.
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