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- Georgsson, Fredrik, et al.
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QAEMP : en verktygslåda för att utveckla ingenjörsutbildning med hjälp av kritiska vänner
- 2015
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In: 5:e Utvecklingskonferensen för Sveriges ingenjörsutbildningar. - Uppsala : Uppsala universitet. ; , s. 24-26
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- På denna workshop kommer vi att jobba med en process för att förbättra ingenjörsutbildning. Kärnan i denna process är en modell för Cross-Sparring där olika utbildningar agerar kritiska vänner. Grunden för Cross-Sparring utgörs av en självvärdering där utbildningsprogrammet identifierar vilka kvalitetskriterier man vill ha hjälp utifrån för att förbättra. En del av processen består i att dokumentera Best Practice som man kan dela med sig av på en Market Place och genom att koppla Best Practice till kvalitetskriterier gör dem effektivt sökbara.Utifrån detta underlag kan man sedan hitta lämpliga partners för Cross-Sparring.
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- Holm, Anders, 1963-
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Den avtalsgrundade lojalitetsplikten : en allmän rättsprincip
- 2004
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- There are a number of legal principles regulating contract law, of which good faith (bona fides) is one. In the Nordic countries the equivalence is the principle ofloyalty. The acceptance of this principle within Swedish contract law has increased during the last two decades, but the principle has not yet been subject to codification. The scope of it has yet to be developed in order to establish its framework. The aim of this thesis is primarily to analyse the premises and conclusions of the legal justification of the principle, scientifically as well as judicially. This dissertation discusses a number of aspects ofthis principle ofloyalty. Most market transactions are connected with certain assumptions about risks. To enable cost efficient market exchange a certain amount of trust between the parties is required. The law can to a certain degree protect justified assumptions about risk by extending agreements with implied terms. In case a party breaches such a term damages may be claimed or some other sanction may be imposed. The principle can be used in the interpretation process involving contracts. It relates in particular to the determination of implied terms within contractual agreements, in order to protect the reasonable expectations of the contract parties. The principle of loyalty also obliges a party to make sure that the person and the property of the other party do not suffer any damage during the performance.
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- Kotilainen, Aarno T., et al.
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Echoes from the Past : A Healthy Baltic Sea Requires More Effort
- 2014
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In: Ambio. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 43:1, s. 60-68
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Integrated sediment multiproxy studies and modeling were used to reconstruct past changes in the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Results of natural changes over the past 6000 years in the Baltic Sea ecosystem suggest that forecasted climate warming might enhance environmental problems of the Baltic Sea. Integrated modeling and sediment proxy studies reveal increased sea surface temperatures and expanded seafloor anoxia (in deep basins) during earlier natural warm climate phases, such as the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Under future IPCC scenarios of global warming, there is likely no improvement of bottom water conditions in the Baltic Sea. Thus, the measures already designed to produce a healthier Baltic Sea are insufficient in the long term. The interactions between climate change and anthropogenic impacts on the Baltic Sea should be considered in management, implementation of policy strategies in the Baltic Sea environmental issues, and adaptation to future climate change.
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- Mossberg, Oskar, 1987-
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Avtalets räckvidd I : Om avtals tredjemansverkningar, särskilt vid tredjemansavtal och direktkrav
- 2020
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The idea that a contract should affect other people than the parties has seemingly always been a provocative notion. A contract binds the contracting parties – and only them – together in a legal relationship, and yet according to contemporary law a contract can have various legal effects for third parties, i.e. non-parties. The parties can conclude a contract for the benefit of a third party, and third parties can be affected by the contracts of others pursuant to both statutory law and uncodified general principles of law.The legal theme of contractual third party effects involves both theoretical and practical challenges. This doctoral dissertation addresses a number of these challenges, by examining (mainly) Swedish and Nordic private law sources. The study explores third party contracts and direct claims, as well as the relationship between these two legal figures, by placing them in a historical and theoretical context and by performing a series of contextualizing readings of sources revealing developments in both case law and legal scholarship.The research is based on a legal scientific methodology, enriched by theoretical and methodological imports pillaged from the classical teachings and contemporary scholarship on rhetoric. The result can be characterized as a form of rhetorically infused, topically oriented, hermeneutic study of contemporary legal discourse on third party effects of contract.
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- Munukka, Jori, 1966-
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Kontraktuell lojalitetsplikt
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis addresses the emergence and position of a duty of loyalty in Swedish law after the execution of a contract. According to Swedish law, a party to a contract may have a duty to take reasonable care of the counterparty’s interests, a duty of loyalty (lojalitetsplikt). Even if the existence of such a duty is incontestable, the reasons for the emergence are quite unclear. Also, it has been unclear whether it has general applicability in the law of contracts, or if it is limited to some types of contract. The Supreme Court has only on a few occasions found behaviour to be loyal or disloyal, sometimes also invoking a duty of loyalty. In scholarly writing, however, the use of the concept of the duty of loyalty has become very popular, and the legislator often refers to the duty of loyalty as a basic principle in the laws of contract and obligations. Depending on how the content of a concept of a duty of loyalty is defined, Swedish law may be seen as including such a duty at least since the emergence of laws governing employment and fiduciary agents. There are signs of an even broader scope of application of a duty of loyalty beyond employment law and fiduciary duties, covering the law of obligations as a whole, or even private law in its entirety. The origins in central Swedish contract law as to the duty of loyalty occurred sometime in the 1970’s, followed by an expansion in contract law that accelerated in the 1990’s and has not slowed since. This development was initiated by the legislator in the mid-1970’s and received scholarly support in the mid-1980’s. The duty of loyalty is defined in Nordic law as a duty to effectuate or observe the other party’s interests (with care). The duty of loyalty means that the contract is to be applied loyally. In this lies a duty to interpret and perform the contract loyally; this often arises in that a party can have obligations entailing an effectuation of the opposing party’s interests despite the fact that these obligations are perhaps not explicit in the contract. A requirement of loyalty as a concept is used in this thesis that is prioritized over the duty of loyalty. The requirement of loyalty covers the duty of loyalty, a prohibition against the abuse of rights and a requirement of fairness. The thesis concludes that the duty of loyalty during the most recent 30 years has been sharpened and expanded.
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- Roslin, Tomas, et al.
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A molecular-based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland
- 2022
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In: Molecular Ecology Resources. - : Wiley. - 1755-098X .- 1755-0998. ; 22:2, s. 803-822
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- To associate specimens identified by molecular characters to other biological knowledge, we need reference sequences annotated by Linnaean taxonomy. In this study, we (1) report the creation of a comprehensive reference library of DNA barcodes for the arthropods of an entire country (Finland), (2) publish this library, and (3) deliver a new identification tool for insects and spiders, as based on this resource. The reference library contains mtDNA COI barcodes for 11,275 (43%) of 26,437 arthropod species known from Finland, including 10,811 (45%) of 23,956 insect species. To quantify the improvement in identification accuracy enabled by the current reference library, we ran 1000 Finnish insect and spider species through the Barcode of Life Data system (BOLD) identification engine. Of these, 91% were correctly assigned to a unique species when compared to the new reference library alone, 85% were correctly identified when compared to BOLD with the new material included, and 75% with the new material excluded. To capitalize on this resource, we used the new reference material to train a probabilistic taxonomic assignment tool, FinPROTAX, scoring high success. For the full-length barcode region, the accuracy of taxonomic assignments at the level of classes, orders, families, subfamilies, tribes, genera, and species reached 99.9%, 99.9%, 99.8%, 99.7%, 99.4%, 96.8%, and 88.5%, respectively. The FinBOL arthropod reference library and FinPROTAX are available through the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility (www.laji.fi) at https://laji.fi/en/theme/protax. Overall, the FinBOL investment represents a massive capacity-transfer from the taxonomic community of Finland to all sectors of society.
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- Samuelsson, Joel, 1973-
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Tolkning och utfyllning : Undersökningar kring ett förmögenhetsrättsteoretiskt tema
- 2008
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This is a thesis in contract law concerning the distinction between interpretation of contracts (“tolkning”) and construction of contracts (“utfyllning”) traditionally upheld within Scandinavian doctrine. To some extent, this distinction has always been a source of conceptual confusion, but in late-modern times, it has, in certain respects, become almost unintelligible – owing to the gradual loss of function of the form of rationality that originally sustained it. The distinction is now a mere artefact. In itself, this fact does, of course, not make this particular conceptual contraption exceptional. As they are absorbed into the language of contract law, all successful contract law concepts undergoes a process of reification. In the case of the distinction between interpretation and construction, the result is, however, unusually curious.In its traditional form, the distinction expresses the hope for a law of contract that is organized according to scientific principles. It rests on the assumption that it is desirable and possible, in principle, to separate science from non-science. It presupposes that questions of fact are separable from questions of law, Is from Ought, and the uncovering of the meaning of legal documents from the application of the rules they contain. The distinction promises that it is possible to escape the confines of the law-text, to reach beyond the text and the play of words constituting its interpretation, in order to ground interpretive discourse in factual reality. Yet, the distinction itself is nothing but text, i e, nothing but law.Drawing on the Kantian tradition, specifically on the writings of Wittgenstein, the author subjects this contradictory structure to criticism. The aim of the study is, however, not to once and for all remove the contradiction. On the contrary, the policy advocated is one of acceptance – mediated through historical awareness. By distancing ourselves from the vision of law and science that is immanent in the distinction under scrutiny, we would be able to come to terms with the hermeneutical side of contract interpretation, and with the inscrutability of the subjective dimension of the contract construct. When interpretation is called for, it is due to the very fact that there is no verifiable intention, yet the conclusions of the interpreter are given in the form of reports on what the parties actually intended. This, the author concludes, does not make the interpretation of contracts unscientific, even though we, being Scandinavian private law lawyers, were fostered to think otherwise.
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- Ukkonen, Pirkko, et al.
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MIS 3 mammoth remains from Sweden - implications for faunal history, palaeoclimate and claciation chronology
- 2007
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In: Quaternary Science Reviews. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-3791. ; 26, s. 3081-3098
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The distribution of low-arctic megafaunal remains in time and space from the area previously covered by the Scandinavian Ice Sheet(SIS) suggests the presence of breeding mammoth populations in the circum-Baltic region during the time interval from 44 to 26 ka ago. The transport history of 30 mammoth teeth and bones from southern and north-central Sweden was estimated and the remains were subjected to osteological analyses and 14C dating. Oxygen isotope analyses of tooth enamel indicate a palaeoclimate considerably more homogenous than that experienced in Sweden today, showing moderate north–south gradients in the d18O value of precipitation and temperature. In general, the results support the model of restricted ice sheet distribution during the second half of the Middle Weichselian. The clear discrepancy in the inferred absence of glaciation in the central Swedish uplands and the Baltic basin as evidenced by the Swedish mammoth data versus the Danish OSL-based glaciation chronology in the period from 40 to 30 ka ago is discussed in the light of radiocarbon calibration and glacial dynamics. r 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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- Vartanyan, Sergey L., et al.
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Collection of radiocarbon dates on the mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) and other genera of Wrangel Island, northeast Siberia, Russia
- 2008
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In: Quaternary Research. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 0033-5894 .- 1096-0287. ; 70:1, s. 51-59
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present and discuss a full list of radiocarbon dates for woolly mammoth and other species of the Mammoth fauna available from Wrangel Island, northeast Siberia, Russia. Most of the radiocarbon dates are published here for the first time. Of the 124 radiocarbon dates on mammoth bone, 106 fall between 3700 and 9000 yr ago. We believe these dates bracket the period of mammoth isolation oil Wrangel Island and their ultimate extinction, which we attribute to natural causes. The absence of dates between 9-12 ka probably indicates a period when mammoths were absent from Wrangel Island. Long bone dimensions of Holocene mammoths from Wrangel Island indicate that these animals were comparable in size to those on the mainland, although they were not large animals, neither can they be classified as dwarfs. Occurrence of mammoth Holocene refugia on the mainland is suggested. Based on other species of the Mammoth fauna that have also been radiocarbon on Wrangel Island, including horse, bison, musk ox and woolly rhinoceros, it appears that the mammoth was the only species of that fauna that inhabited Wrangel Island in the mid-Holocene.
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