Normalisering av ungdomar i problem genom styrning av föräldrar : Från strukturella orsaksförklaringar till familjecentrerade lösningar

Normalizing problematized youth by governing their parents: From structural explanations to family-centred solutions The current article explores the ways that organizational representatives outline the causes of and propose solutions to the problematic behaviour of youth living in, what is described as, an immigrant neighbourhood in a Swedish city. The empirical material, consisting of interviews with representatives from various organizations (such as the police, schools, social services and NGOs) as well as field observations, has been analyzed using the theory of governmentality. The causes of problematic youth behaviour are related to disadvantaged immigrant urban space, unemployment, unstable home situations and family relations, and parents’ deviant norms, knowledge and culture. In the discourses about causes and solutions, a recurring frame of reference is the issue of immigration in general and parent’s migrant background in particular. In spite of the complexity of the proposed causes, the pronounced solutions are directed towards the fostering of immigrant parents, the establishment of zones of communication and early prevention. Hence, the prevailing solutions are permeated by discourses of activation of parents.

"Det handlar om att nå ett resultat" : En fallstudie om partsrelationer och förhandling under en omstruktureringsprocess

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka relationerna mellan parterna under en omstruktureringsprocess. Syftet är också att granska nedläggningsprocessen samt när lagar och avtal träder in. Uppsatsens referensram tar upp nedläggningsprocesser av Rydell (2015) och Wigblad & Österberg (2009), den svenska modellen med lagar och avtal Elvander (1995) Iseskog (2014) förtroende och förhandling Fischer et al. (1992) och Walter & McKersie (1991). Med hjälp av dessa begrepp och modeller analyseras och tolkas relationerna i en nedläggningsprocess vid SSAB i Borlänge, där 210 medarbetare varslades i början av 2015. Av dem var 170 kollektivanställda. Nedläggningsprocessen genomfördes med hjälp av Trygghet- och Flexibilitetavtalet (ToF), utan att någon tillsvidareanställd förlorade sitt arbete. Undersökningen bygger på kvalitativ forskning med semistrukturerade expertintervjuer där sammanlagt fem respondenter från SSAB och IF Metall intervjuades. Dessa respondenter var nyckelpersoner under nedläggningsprocessen och förhandlingsprocessen. Resultatet av intervjuerna har analyserats och tematiserats utifrån referensramen. Studiens resultat visar att goda relationer mellan parterna ger enklare förhandlingar med framgångsrika resultat. Samverkan mellan parterna bygger på ett långvarigt ömsesidigt förtroende. Detta förtroende är av vikt för att samverkan skall bli till verklighet.

Intern kontroll: En fallstudie på Trafikverket

Internal control is something that’s grown more important for enterprises to keep in mind. The community is increasingly affected by the IT-development which demands a bigger degree of security. Enterprises needs to make sure that their systems are up to date and secure enough to keep it safe from unauthorized to take part of sensitive information. Internal control can exist in a major part of the work. If an enterprise have a goal for no harm or serious injury at work, internal control is necessary to reach that goal. The purpose for this essay is to examine how five different departments of Trafikverket practices internal control. How internal control is described. How the guidance from the managements is described and how it reaches the rest of the enterprise. This will lead to a proposal of improvement of the internal control at Trafikverket. We focus our frame of reference on the COSO-model and its five components. The components included in the COSO-model are control environment, risk valuation, control activities, information and communication and monitoring. The essay is a case-study of Trafikverket. We have chosen a qualitative method and interviewed five respondents from the different departments on Trafikverket. The respondents we interviewed works with internal control in their everyday work or have a god insight in the subject. We used a semi structured interview guide with questions based on the COSO framework. The results from our study shows that it exist big variations between how the departments work with internal control. It emerged that there are new guidelines for how the work should be done. This makes it necessary with education to implement the new ways to work. How the departments use the COSO-model varies. Some of them have incorporated the model in their new ways to work others have never heard of it. The conclusion of our study shows that the COSO-model and it´s components contribute to a functioning internal control. Implementing the components is important and the most important feature to good internal control is the corporate management. Education within the enterprise is the most effective way to inform the staff about the model and to implement it.

Shakespeare and the Colonial Encounter in India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-03

Relatório de estágio de qualificação profissional

Relatório EPE - Relatório de estágio em Educação Pré-Escolar: O presente Relatório de Estágio de Qualificação Profissional situa-se no contexto de Educação Pré-Escolar, tendo como propósito revelar o que foi sendo realizado no Centro Social da Paróquia Nossa Senhora da Ajuda ao longo de quatro meses em contexto de creche. A prática educativa sustentou-se num quadro teórico-concetual de referência, com vista à construção de saberes para a Educação de Infância, pelo compromisso e responsabilização progressiva da ação docente, tendo sido encarado como um momento de singular importância. O contexto de formação assumiu-se, portanto, como um lugar privilegiado de articulação entre teoria e prática, onde o processo de ensino e aprendizagem ficou pautado por intencionalidades educativas com vista ao desenvolvimento integral de cada criança, bem como para a construção de saberes e competências profissionais. No âmbito da investigação-ação e associada à observação, à planificação, à avaliação e à ação propriamente dita, esteve sempre presente a comunicação e a articulação, pois são estas etapas interligadas que revelam a intencionalidade do processo educativo que carateriza a intervenção profissional do educador. A reflexão evidenciou-se também fulcral, pois só mediante uma reflexão na ação e sobre a ação é possível uma introspeção pessoal, despoletando uma compreensão mais sustentada da ação, facilitando a tomada de decisões conscientes. Salienta-se, ainda, a importância de uma formação profissional ao longo da vida, de modo a potenciar o desenvolvimento de uma atitude perante a Educação cada vez mais crítica, indagadora e reflexiva, em prol do desenvolvimento de cada criança.

Relato integrado: utopia ou realidade

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Contabilidade e Finanças

Die mißverstandene Krise. Theoriedefizite in der umweltpädagogischen Kommunikation

Der Beitrag stellt den Versuch dar, unzureichende Annahmen über Mensch und Gesellschaft in der umweltpädagogischen Literatur zu identifizieren und zur Diskussion zu stellen. Dazu bietet der Verfasser zunächst einen Reflexionsrahmen an, der am Beispiel der Aufstellung einer Prioritätenliste für Maßnahmen gegen die Luftverschmutzung auf die Schwierigkeiten aufmerksam machen soll, die auftreten, wenn man sich in einer als Ganzes nicht überschaubaren Gesellschaft um Verständigung über die Umweltkrise bemüht. Danach analysiert der Verfasser einige in der umweltpädagogischen Literatur verbreitete Stellungnahmen zur Beschreibung, Erklärung und Eindämmung der Umweltkrise. Er kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß Ignoranz gegenüber den Verständigungsschwierigkeiten über die Umweltkrise fundamentalistischen Behauptungen über Menschen und Gesellschaft in der umweltpädagogischen Literatur Vorschub leistet. (DIPF/Orig.)

Estudio comparativo de cuatro factores: depresión, somatización, ansiedad y agotamiento en dos empresas colombianas

En el transcurso de los últimos años se ha evidenciado con mayor frecuencia la influencia de factores sociales en el desarrollo de síntomas como estrés, depresión, ansiedad, somatización, entre otras. Dentro del ámbito laboral han surgido enfermedades que parten de condiciones sociales y de la interrelación de sus empleados dentro de la organización. Este estudio tuvo como finalidad revisar y analizar la información referente a la influencia de los entornos laborales y factores psicosociales que pueden incurrir en el desarrollo de psicopatología en el trabajo. Como apoyo en el análisis de las distintas teorías que surgen alrededor de esta temática y teniendo como marco de referencia la descripción de los factores que influyen en el desarrollo de estas, se aplicó, el cuestionario QDS4 adaptado por Castillo (2010), cuestionario que buscó analizar las diferentes sintomatologías en dos empresas de distintos sectores en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia. Generando un sondeo sobre la presencia y posible desarrollo de estas cuatro sintomatologías dentro de cada una de las organizaciones.

A motivação dos docentes no ensino superior face ao processo de Bolonha: um estudo de caso

Este trabalho pretende estudar a motivação dos docentes da licenciatura de radioterapia da Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde de Lisboa, face ao processo de Bolonha. Realizou-se um enquadramento teórico dos conceitos base, como motivação e processo de Bolonha. O estudo foi definido como um estudo de caso, com uma amostra de 3 elementos. Aplicou-se três entrevistas a cada um dos entrevistados, denominadas por entrevista, entrevista reflexiva e entrevista reflexiva aprofundada. Para a análise dos dados utilizou-se um software de análise de conteúdo -AQUAD 6.0. Os resultados são apresentados em forma de tabelas e segmentos de texto extraídos do software. Na discussão dos resultados verifica-se que de uma forma geral os resultados vão ao encontro da literatura existente e nas considerações finais respondem-se às questões de investigação inicialmente realizadas, mas também são apresentadas as limitações ao estudo, bem como futuras investigações. ABSTRACT: lt is intended with this work to study the motivation of the radiotherapy graduated professors of the Higher School of Health Technology of Lisbon, regarding the Bologna process. lt was performed a theoretical frame of reference of the basic concepts such as motivation and the Bologna Process. The study was defined as a case study, with a sample of three elements. Three interviews were performed to each interviewed person, defined as interview, reflexive interview and deepened reflexive interview. For the data analysis it was used a content analysis software - AQUAD 6.0. The results are presented in table form and with text sectors obtained from the software. ln the discussion of the results one comes to the conclusion that, in general, they match the available literary writings and in the final reflexions it is answered to the investigation questions initially asked but also presented the study limitations as well as future investigations.

Dominance of the proximal coordinate frame in determining the locations of hippocampal place cell activity during navigation.

The place-specific activity of hippocampal cells provides downstream structures with information regarding an animal's position within an environment and, perhaps, the location of goals within that environment. In rodents, recent research has suggested that distal cues primarily set the orientation of the spatial representation, whereas the boundaries of the behavioral apparatus determine the locations of place activity. The current study was designed to address possible biases in some previous research that may have minimized the likelihood of observing place activity bound to distal cues. Hippocampal single-unit activity was recorded from six freely moving rats as they were trained to perform a tone-initiated place-preference task on an open-field platform. To investigate whether place activity was bound to the room- or platform-based coordinate frame (or both), the platform was translated within the room at an "early" and at a "late" phase of task acquisition (Shift 1 and Shift 2). At both time points, CA1 and CA3 place cells demonstrated room-associated and/or platform-associated activity, or remapped in response to the platform shift. Shift 1 revealed place activity that reflected an interaction between a dominant platform-based (proximal) coordinate frame and a weaker room-based (distal) frame because many CA1 and CA3 place fields shifted to a location intermediate to the two reference frames. Shift 2 resulted in place activity that became more strongly bound to either the platform- or room-based coordinate frame, suggesting the emergence of two independent spatial frames of reference (with many more cells participating in platform-based than in room-based representations).

Basic and other measurements of radiation from the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) Station Ny-Ålesund in the years 1992 to 2013, reference list of 253 datasets

At Ny-Ålesund (78.9° N), Svalbard, surface radiation measurements of up- and downward short- and longwave radiation are operated since August 1992 in the frame of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN), complemented with surface and upper air meteorology since August 1993. The long-term observations are the base for a climatological presentation of the surface radiation data. Over the 21-year observation period, ongoing changes in the Arctic climate system are reflected. Particularly, the observations indicate a strong seasonality of surface warming and related changes in different radiation parameters. The annual mean temperature at Ny-Ålesund has risen by +1.3 ± 0.7 K per decade, with a maximum seasonal increase during the winter months of +3.1 ± 2.6 K per decade. At the same time, winter is also the season with the largest long-term changes in radiation, featuring an increase of +15.6 ± 11.6 W/m**2 per decade in the downward longwave radiation. Furthermore, changes in the reflected solar radiation during the months of snow melt indicate an earlier onset of the warm season by about 1 week compared to the beginning of the observations. The online available dataset of Ny-Ålesund surface radiation measurements provides a valuable data source for the validation of satellite instruments and climate models.

Implementation of a new reference values database for semiquantification in123I-FP-CIT brain single emission tomography

Brain dopamine transporters imaging by Single Emission Tomography (SPECT) with 123I-FP-CIT (DaTScanTM) has become an important tool in the diagnosis and evaluation of Parkinson syndromes.This diagnostic method allows the visualization of a portion of the striatum – where healthy pattern resemble two symmetric commas - allowing the evaluation of dopamine presynaptic system, in which dopamine transporters are responsible for dopamine release into the synaptic cleft, and their reabsorption into the nigrostriatal nerve terminals, in order to be stored or degraded. In daily practice for assessment of DaTScan TM, it is common to rely only on visual assessment for diagnosis. However, this process is complex and subjective as it depends on the observer’s experience and it is associated with high variability intra and inter observer. Studies have shown that semiquantification can improve the diagnosis of Parkinson syndromes. For semiquantification, analysis methods of image segmentation using regions of interest (ROI) are necessary. ROIs are drawn, in specific - striatum - and in nonspecific – background – uptake areas. Subsequently, specific binding ratios are calculated. Low adherence of semiquantification for diagnosis of Parkinson syndromes is related, not only with the associated time spent, but also with the need of an adapted database of reference values for the population concerned, as well as, the examination of each service protocol. Studies have concluded, that this process increases the reproducibility of semiquantification. The aim of this investigation was to create and validate a database of healthy controls for Dopamine transporters with DaTScanTM named DBRV. The created database has been adapted to the Nuclear Medicine Department’s protocol, and the population of Infanta Cristina’s Hospital located in Badajoz, Spain.

Chronology of Events in relation to Organ Retention Inquiry

  Mid 1999 Investigation into cardiac surgery practice on children at Bristol Royal Infirmary. Dec 1999 Inquiry into organ retention in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. May 1999: Contact from Our Lady’s Hosptial Crumlin re pathology and post mortem practice Dec 1999 PFJ meetings with Minister Apr 2000: Government Decision setting up Inquiry. Apr 2000: Ms Anne Dunne appointed Chairman. Feb 2001: Public Notice published, setting out terms of reference of Inquiry and inviting submissions. Mar 2001: Terms of Reference and Interpretation Published. Contact invited. “Six months N/A. Now 18 months” Jun 2001: Department commenced Discovery. Aug 2001: Memorandum on procedures received in Department. Sept 2002: 18 months time-frame had expired. Minister requested a meeting with Ms Anne Dunne. This happened in early September – Minister requested a progress report. 2 Oct 02 Ms Dunne’s progress report received by Minister – although substantial progress no definitive timeframe for completion of her work – a lot more work outstanding. Co-operation forthcoming from all parties 16 Oct 2002: Minister’s meeting with Parents for Justice – he assured them of his commitment to resolve any difficulties, but they decided to withdraw from the Inquiry process 2004: Minister calls on PFJ to co-operate. Chairman informs Minister that she has sufficient involvement of parents to conclude her report. Minister expects paediatric report by the end of the year

Manufacturing and characterization of a recombinant adeno-associated virus type 8 reference standard material.

Gene therapy approaches using recombinant adeno-associated virus serotype 2 (rAAV2) and serotype 8 (rAAV8) have achieved significant clinical benefits. The generation of rAAV Reference Standard Materials (RSM) is key to providing points of reference for particle titer, vector genome titer, and infectious titer for gene transfer vectors. Following the example of the rAAV2RSM, here we have generated and characterized a novel RSM based on rAAV serotype 8. The rAAV8RSM was produced using transient transfection, and the purification was based on density gradient ultracentrifugation. The rAAV8RSM was distributed for characterization along with standard assay protocols to 16 laboratories worldwide. Mean titers and 95% confidence intervals were determined for capsid particles (mean, 5.50×10(11) pt/ml; CI, 4.26×10(11) to 6.75×10(11) pt/ml), vector genomes (mean, 5.75×10(11) vg/ml; CI, 3.05×10(11) to 1.09×10(12) vg/ml), and infectious units (mean, 1.26×10(9) IU/ml; CI, 6.46×10(8) to 2.51×10(9) IU/ml). Notably, there was a significant degree of variation between institutions for each assay despite the relatively tight correlation of assay results within an institution. This outcome emphasizes the need to use RSMs to calibrate the titers of rAAV vectors in preclinical and clinical studies at a time when the field is maturing rapidly. The rAAV8RSM has been deposited at the American Type Culture Collection (VR-1816) and is available to the scientific community.

Marked increase in the secretion of a fully antigenic recombinant carcinoembryonic antigen obtained by deletion of its hydrophobic tail.

Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a well-known tumor marker, consisting of a single heavily glycosylated polypeptide chain (mol. wt 200 kD), bound to the cell surface by a phosphatidylinositol-glycan anchor. The hydrophobic domain, encoded by the 3' end of the open reading frame of the CEA gene is not present in the mature protein. This domain is assumed to play an important role in the targeting and attachment of CEA to the cell surface. To verify this hypothesis, a recombinant CEA cDNA lacking the 78 b.p. of the 3' region, encoding the 26 a.a. hydrophobic domain, was prepared in a Rc/CMV expression vector containing a neomycin resistance gene. The construct was transfected by the calcium phosphate technique into CEA-negative human and rat colon carcinoma cell lines. Geneticin-resistant transfectants were screened for the presence of CEA in the supernatant and positive clones were isolated. As determined by ELISA, up to 13 micrograms of recombinant CEA per 10(6) cells was secreted within 72 hr by the human transfected cells and about 1 microgram by the rat cells. For comparison, two human carcinoma cell lines, CO112 and LS174T, selected for high CEA expression, shed about 45 and 128 ng per 10(6) cells within 72 hr, respectively. Western blot analysis showed that the size of the recombinant CEA secreted by the transfected human cells is identical to that of reference CEA purified from human colon carcinomas metastases (about 200 kD). The recombinant CEA synthesized by the transfected rat carcinoma cells has a smaller size (about 144 kD, possibly due to incomplete glycosylation), as has already been observed for CEA produced by rat colon carcinoma cells transfected with full-length CEA cDNA. The 100-fold increase in secretion of rCEA encoded by truncated CEA cDNA transfected in human cells confirms the essential role of this domain in the targeting and anchoring of the glycoprotein. These results suggest a new approach for the in vitro production of large amounts of CEA needed in research laboratories and for immunoassay kits.