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- Överlien, Carolina, et al.
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Children’s actions when experiencing domestic violence
- 2009
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In: Childhood. - : Sage Publications. - 0907-5682 .- 1461-7013. ; 16:4, s. 479-496
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this article is, by analysing childrens discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that the childrens stories contain two aspects of actions: one related to the actions during the ongoing episode, and one the child perceives as possible/desirable for the future. The findings are discussed in the light of Lazarus and Folkmans theory of coping.
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- Berndtsson, Inger, 1957
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- 2009
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In: Paper publicerat i Proceedings CD, 13th International Mobility Conference 14–17 July, Marburg, Tyskland. ; , s. 1-9
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
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- Brown, James, et al.
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- 2012
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In: European Economic Review. - : Elsevier. - 0014-2921 .- 1873-572X. ; 56:8, s. 1512-1529
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Information problems and lack of collateral value should make R&D more susceptible to financing frictions than other investments, yet existing evidence on whether financing constraints limit R&D is decidedly mixed, particularly in the studies of non-U.S. firms. We study a large sample of European firms and also find little evidence of binding finance constraints when we estimate standard investment-cash flow regressions. However, we find strong evidence that the availability of finance matters for R&D once we directly control for: (i) firm efforts to smooth R&D with cash reserves and (ii) firm use of external equity finance. Our study provides a framework for evaluating financing constraints when firms rely extensively on external finance and endogenously manage buffer stocks of liquidity to keep investment smooth, and our findings show that controlling for this smoothing behavior is critical for uncovering the full effect of financing constraints. Our findings also indicate a major role for external equity in financing R&D, highlighting a causal channel through which stock market development and liberalization can promote economic growth by increasing firm-level innovative activity.
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- Berndtsson, Inger, 1957, et al.
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- 2009
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In: Paper publicerat i Proceedings CD, 13th International Mobility Conference 14–17 July, Marburg, Tyskland. ; , s. 1-7
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Both as researchers and professionals in the field of disability we make attempts to understand people’s life situations in different respects. We present research results in various media, where everyone can read about the life circumstances of a particular group or persons, and as professionals we intend to interpret people’s life situations for the purpose of rehabilitation plans, teaching activities, etc. The question we will address concerns the trustworthiness in understanding another person’s life. For instance, in the tradition of life-world phenomenological research, how is it possible to understand another person’s world? And, to make it even more difficult; how is it possible to understand the world of a person with functional or activity limitations, in this case a person who is blind? Within a life-world approach, this question is imperative. What are the possibilities, but also difficulties or limitations, in trying to understand a blind and a sighted person’s world respectively? From interpretative standpoint it is of great importance to find usable concepts in the ‘research communication arena’, but also to penetrate the perceptual ground for the language used. To answer these questions qualitative research is the preferred strategy to approach O&M practice, for instance when introducing new environments and orientation activities. In the presentation we will address these questions from the perspective of the researcher and the professional, but also from the perspective of our own experiences of blindness and normal vision. Here we will use our own experiences in trying to understand the world of blindness and sightness respectively.
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- Ax, Christian, et al.
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- 2002
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Book (other academic/artistic)
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- Denti, Leif, 1983, et al.
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- 2012
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In: Academy of Management The informal economy Boston 2012. ; 2012
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study models individual characteristics, leader-member exchange, and organizational support in relationship to individual innovativeness in highly complex research and development (R&D) settings. The paper reports on a survey of 166 R&D team members, 43 team leaders, and 10 department managers in five Swedish industrial organizations. Innovative behavior was measured using quantitative indicators (e.g., new patent applications, new products, and scientific and other publications) and team leaders’ ratings. Personal initiative predicted individual innovative behavior, while intrinsic motivation and leadership (conceptualized by leader-member exchange theory) did not. A mediating effect was found where leader-member exchange was associated with innovation through the personal initiative of team members. Organizational support moderated the relationship between leader-member exchange and individuals’ personal initiative. High organizational support strengthened the relationship.
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- Jakobsson, Erik, et al.
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Little pieces of a large puzzle : evaluation use and impact
- 2013
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The implementation of the eight Swedish ERDF programmes involves a large number of projects in which innovative and entrepreneurial environments are developed and regional attractiveness is enhanced. Many projects show good results in terms of new initiatives, new methods and new forms of collaboration between academia, business and public agencies, but also in terms of new businesses and jobs created. The projects, and the regional ERDF programmes funding the projects, are expected to be in line with the revised Lisbon Strategy, the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Swedish national strategy for regional competitiveness, entrepreneurship and employment 2007–2013. It is therefore important to describe and analyze the projects in the Swedish ERDF programmes as little pieces of a large puzzle involving far-reaching ambitions, not least regarding prerequisites for innovation and growth. From this perspective, the impact of ongoing evaluation on strengthening the project’s abilities and efforts to create sustainable change is of great interest. The concept of ongoing evaluation was introduced for the current programming period and around 120 major projects in the Swedish ERDF programmes have made use of it. In the study on which our paper is based, we conducted a systematic review of final evaluation reports from ongoing evaluations at project level in Sweden. The empirical base of the study includes half of the then (late 2011) existing ongoing project evaluations. As a complement to the review of reports, we also conducted seven case studies in order to obtain a deeper understanding of the projects, their ability to achieve long-term effects and the role of the ongoing evaluations. The analysis was carried out by using three mechanisms for sustainable change, namely, active ownership, collaboration and developmental learning. The study has shown that ongoing evaluation is still an immature ’profession’ and the reports reveal varying degrees of quality in the performance of the evaluations. In some cases the efforts of the evaluators have contributed to important improvements in the projects, while in other cases the evaluator’s efforts can be seen as a traditional monitoring of objectives and short-term results. A learning – interactive and supportive – evaluation is important, because many projects struggle with significant problems concerning, e.g. organization, steering and efforts in relation to overall objectives. But the study has also demonstrated that many successful projects do not only exhibit expected quantitative results, but also appear to create sustainable change in line with regional, national and EU strategies. The seven case studies presented in the report illustrate how ongoing evaluation has helped to improve the projects and generate long-term effects.
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- Adamie, Birhanu Addisu, et al.
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Dairy cow welfare measures: Can production economic data help?
- 2022
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In: Sustainable Production and Consumption. - : Elsevier BV. - 2352-5509. ; 32, s. 296-305
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Using a dataset from dairy farms in Germany that combines two types of welfare measures, namely welfare quality protocol (WQP) measures and production economic and herd-management data, this study aims to validate the use of production economic and herd-management data to proxy dairy cow welfare measures. The paper implements two multivariate estimation approaches of Seemingly Unrelated Estimation and Canonical Correlation Analysis. Data from on-farm animal welfare assessments based on WQP require time intensive collection and are typically unavailable for research based on large-scale panel datasets. On the other hand, survey data on production economic and herd management are available for such analysis, especially in European countries, but their informational value regarding animal welfare is debated. In this paper, we were able to establish relationships between the four WQP principles (feed, health, housing, behaviour) and variables from production economics and herd-management data. We find that concentrated feed, building costs, cell counts, milk fat content, calving intervals, and age at calving have strong links to the different principles of the WQP measures. In conclusion, our findings support the use of already existing and routinely collected production economic and herd-management data from dairy cows to enable an analysis of farm animal welfare on a larger scale using panel data. (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Institution of Chemical Engineers. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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- Klinter, Stefan, et al.
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Diversity and evolution of chitin synthases in oomycetes (Straminipila : Oomycota)
- 2019
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In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. - : ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. - 1055-7903 .- 1095-9513. ; 139
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The oomycetes are filamentous eukaryotic microorganisms, distinct from true fungi, many of which act as crop or fish pathogens that cause devastating losses in agriculture and aquaculture. Chitin is present in all true fungi, but it occurs in only small amounts in some Saprolegniomycetes and it is absent in Peronosporomycetes. However, the growth of several oomycetes is severely impacted by competitive chitin synthase (CHS) inhibitors. Here, we shed light on the diversity, evolution and function of oomycete CHS proteins. We show by phylogenetic analysis of 93 putative CHSs from 48 highly diverse oomycetes, including the early diverging Ewychasma dicksonii, that all available oomycete genomes contain at least one putative CHS gene. All gene products contain conserved CHS motifs essential for enzymatic activity and form two Peronosporomycete-specific and six Saprolegniale-specific clades. Proteins of all clades, except one, contain an N-terminal microtubule interacting and trafficking (MIT) domain as predicted by protein domain databases or manual analysis, which is supported by homology modelling and comparison of conserved structural features from sequence logos. We identified at least three groups of CHSs conserved among all oomycete lineages and used phylogenetic reconciliation analysis to infer the dynamic evolution of CHSs in oomycetes. The evolutionary aspects of CHS diversity in modern-day oomycetes are discussed. In addition, we observed hyphal tip rupture in Phytophthora infestans upon treatment with the CHS inhibitor nikkomycin Z. Combining data on phylogeny, gene expression, and response to CHS inhibitors, we propose the association of different CHS clades with certain developmental stages.
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