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- Engström, Gunnar, et al.
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The Swedish CArdioPulmonary BioImage Study : objectives and design
- 2015
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In: Journal of Internal Medicine. - : Wiley. - 0954-6820 .- 1365-2796. ; 278:6, s. 645-659
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cardiopulmonary diseases are major causes of death worldwide, but currently recommended strategies for diagnosis and prevention may be outdated because of recent changes in risk factor patterns. The Swedish CArdioPulmonarybioImage Study (SCAPIS) combines the use of new imaging technologies, advances in large-scale 'omics' and epidemiological analyses to extensively characterize a Swedish cohort of 30 000 men and women aged between 50 and 64 years. The information obtained will be used to improve risk prediction of cardiopulmonary diseases and optimize the ability to study disease mechanisms. A comprehensive pilot study in 1111 individuals, which was completed in 2012, demonstrated the feasibility and financial and ethical consequences of SCAPIS. Recruitment to the national, multicentre study has recently started.
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- Edenius, Lars, et al.
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The effects of changing land use and browsing on aspen abundance and regeneration: a 50-year perspective from Sweden
- 2011
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In: Journal of Applied Ecology. - : Wiley. - 0021-8901 .- 1365-2664. ; 48, s. 301-309
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- 5. Synthesis and applications. Our results suggest that changes in land use practices are the main cause of changes in aspen abundance at regional and national scales in Sweden during the last 50 years. Restoring regeneration niches, most importantly emulating natural disturbance processes, viz. fire at various spatial scales, and retaining aspen in cleaning and pre-commercial thinnings are the most important management recommendations to secure regeneration of aspen. Protecting established aspen ramets at designated sites from browsing either by fencing or reducing ungulate numbers could be used as complementary management tools.
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- Madestam, Jenny, et al.
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Public or Private – Does It Matter? How School Leaders in Public and Private Schools Perceive Their Roles
- 2018
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. - : University of Gothenburg. - 2001-7405 .- 2001-7413. ; 22:3, s. 129-152
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article takes its stand in an international discussion about how NPM reforms affect public servants’ notions about core public values. More specifically, it analyses how school leaders relate to the values of political control, rule of law, economic efficiency, professionalism and users’ influence. It raises the question whether it matters, in terms of how they embrace these values, their organisation beeing public or private. 975 school leaders (481 working for public schools and 472 for private schools) have completed a written questionnaire containing 15 postulations linked to the five core values. The study’s main finding is that the differences between the two categories of school leaders are quite small although differences exist. The similarities could reflect a development in recent decades where private schools have undergone politicisation and public schools companyisation. The study indicates that school leaders on both sides try to defend all values simultaneously, in some way. Furthermore, when trying to handle value conflicts they seem to avail themselves of other strategies than those connected to dominating models of rationality, which often conceptualise public actors’ response to value conflicts as a matterof balancing or striking trade-offs.
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- Sundström, Göran, et al.
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Privat eller offentligt - spelar det någon roll?
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In: Att leda mot skolans mål. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140685742 ; , s. 47-66
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This chapter analyzes if Swedish principals embrace a number of public core values differently depending on whether they are working for public or private schools. 371 principals (202 working for public schools and 148 for private schools) have completed a written questionnaire containing 15 postulations connected to five core values: political control, rule of law, economic efficiency, professionalism and users’ influence. The study’s main finding is that the differences between the two categories of principals are quite small. Discernible differences are expected, e.g. that principals in independent schools are a bit more prone than principals in public schools to letting pupils and parents influence school activities, and that principals in public schools seem a bit more inclined to interact and listen to politicians than principals in independent schools. The result implies that factors other than the type of organization – private or public – are more important for the way principals relate to public core values. For example, the comprehensive and detailed regulation of the Swedish educational system, or professional norms among principals, might explain the high degree of conformity.
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