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Teachers’ perceptions related to structural influences in physical education: a comparative study of Finland and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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“Like, you would like to just play” – Everyday affectivity and materiality of organised youth sport
Full text linkDoctoral thesis (PhD) - Nord University, 2025This doctoral thesis focuses on the everyday affectivity and materiality of organized youth sport in Finland. It argues that there are multiple processes at play which both restrict and release body’s capacities to connect. To study these processes, the thesis asks how connections and relationships are produced in youth sport and how they contribute to creating new valuations that go beyond the pre-known benefits often assigned to youth sport participation. The study is based on the immanent ontological perspective, which considers the world as continuously becoming. The work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari offers the main theoretical and conceptual apparatus for the study, connected with newmaterialist discussions on affectivity and materiality. The methodology of the study is an ethnographic approach. The empirical material generated in the fieldwork with a girls’ football team for 8-10-year-old children in Finland includes observation notes, interviews, a video recording, photographs taken by the players and a scrapbook. The analysis scrutinizes the different everyday events that matter for the football girls. It follows the role of friends in the hobby, desire to play, the team’s habitual practices, joy of movement, getting hurt, the role of adults and other mundane micro-movements that connect and affect bodies on the football ground. With the concepts of territory and deterritorialization, affect, desire, and desiring-machine from Deleuze and Guattari and a conceptualization of play as infinite movement, the study connects these events to the analysis of sport arrangement and its openness to life. The thesis suggests that a more generous analysis of play and movement, beyond the normative goals of youth sport, shows the importance of understanding excess in the social-material processes and its potentially expanding effects in the most ordinary events of youth sport. This can contribute to creating more joyous sport hobbies for children. Keywords: youth sport, play, affect, desire, materialitypublishedVersio
Impact of Vachellia etbaica on soil properties and socioeconomic benefits in Tigray Ethiopia
Full text linkAuthor’s accepted manuscript (postprint). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Springer Nature in Agroforestry Systems on 28/3/2025, available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-025-01173-0.acceptedVersio
Unleashing Potential: Rethinking Entrepreneurship Education for Students with ADHD
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Comparative safety analysis of take-over control mechanisms of conditionally automated vehicles
Full text linkConditionally Automated driving (CAD) represents a pivotal point in the evolution of automotive technology, bridging full automation and human intervention through effective control mechanisms that ensure safe driver-system transitions. This research consisted of a comparative analysis of take-over mechanisms, focusing on ordinary merging and diverging maneuvers and critical collision-avoidance scenarios. Three take-over control (TOC) methods, including (i) accelerating/braking, (ii) pressing a dedicated button, and (iii) steering, were investigated. Thirty participants were recruited using a mixed factorial design with both within- and between-subject factors. The experimental simulations were conducted on the fixed-base driving simulator. The participants completed three runs on a motorway track comprising ordinary merging and diverging sections, with the final run involving a sudden critical decision to avoid the collision against two crashed vehicles. Weibull accelerated failure time models with and without shared frailty, mixed effects linear regression and multiple linear regression were used to model TOC time, maximum resultant acceleration, and minimum time to collision values. The results indicate that the pedal mechanism generally provides faster and safer takeovers, especially in critical situations, while the button mechanism results in the longest TOC times, and lowest minimum time to collision values, indicating higher risks. The steering wheel mechanism, associated with the highest maximum resultant acceleration and TOC times in merging and diverging maneuvers, suggests that lateral control may be more cognitively demanding for drivers. These findings emphasize the importance of selecting appropriate TOC mechanisms to improve the safety and efficiency of CAD systems.publishedVersio
Foreign Language Learning and Outdoor Education at Lower Secondary School: A Mixed-Methods Study on Experiences, Emotions and Motivation
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En pedagogs sang- og stemmefaglige utvikling rettet mot pedagogisk arbeid på en skuespillerutdanning
Full text linkDenne rapporten beskriver og dokumenterer et sang- og stemmefaglig FoU - prosjekt jeg gjennomførte mellom 2010 og 2018. Jeg var ansatt som sangpedagog ved skuespillerutdanninga ved HiNT/Nord universitet i perioden. Prosjektet dannet grunnlaget for et videre pedagogiske prosjekt ved samme utdanning, beskrevet i Oppbyggingen av sangfag ved skuespillerutdanningen ved Nord universitet i perioden 2012 til 2017.
For å utvikle et fungerende og relevant sangfag på en utdanning, som var ny i Norge, startet jeg et praktisk og utprøvende FoU - prosjekt for å utvikle sang- og stemmefaglig arbeid på en måte som kunne svare på de pedagogiske hensyn utdanninga krevde. Denne rapporten er et av flere resultatet av dette FoU-prosjektet. Andre resultater er at forfatterne ble en mer bevisst og effektiv pedagog, men først og fremst at den nye utdanninga faktisk fikk et sangfag som svarte til studenters, utdanningsinstitusjonens og markedets behov. Denne rapporten er en beskrivelse og en dokumentasjon på at et faglig FoU - prosjektet ble gjennomført, side om side med det pedagogiske prosjektet. Det pedagogiske prosjektet vokste ut av det faglige utviklingsprosjektet som denne rapporten omhandler.
Prosjektet er delt i to, sang og stemme, og hver av disse består at flere delprosjekter som beskrives i rapporten.
Rapporten er skrevet i narrativ form som beskrives i kapittel 2, og er videre delt i to hovedkapitler: sang som beskrives i kapittel 3, og utviklingen i stemmefag i kapittel 4. Etter selve rapporten ligger det ulike vedlegg som dokumenterer ulike delprosjekter underveis.
Rapporten er skrevet i en fortellende, deskriptiv form og tar sikte på å berette så presist som mulig hvordan prosjektet ble gjennomført
A Cross-Sectional Study of Psychological Demands, Decision Authority and Social Support at Work in Norwegian Farmers Compared to Other Major Occupational Groups: The HUNT Study, Norway
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce lodging of teff [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] under N fertilizer applications
Full text linkAuthor’s accepted manuscript (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Arid land research and Management on 19/6/2025.Available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/15324982.2025.2518417acceptedVersio