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Pakningsdesign for sukkerfrie bakemikser : Hvordan markedsføre sukkerfrie bakemikser?
Get PDFFor mange er det en selvfølge å legge vanlig hvitt sukker i handlekurven, men ingen er klare over hvor mye sukker vi får i oss i løpet av én dag. Mangel på kunnskap og gamle vaner har ført til at vi legger vekk den mørke siden ved sukker under teppet. Økt risiko for sykdommer som diabetes type 2, fedme og overvekt kommer av høyt sukkerinntak. Likevel er det godterihylla nærmest kassen og de naturlige produktene lenger bak. Bakgrunnen for mitt prosjekt er å normalisere sukkerfrie produkter, som kommer fra en naturlig kilde, i dagligvarebransjen. Hvordan kan vi markedsføre slike produkter blant ordinære kunder som vanligvis kjøper hvitt sukker? Hvordan kan vi få de til å gå over til en sukkerfri livstil uten at det skal være for dyrt eller for lang reisevei? Oppgaven resulterte i en serie med sukkerfrie OG økologiske bakemikser. Disse skal stå sammen med Toro Brownies og Møllerens Langpanne i dagligvarebutikkene. I løpet av prosessen har jeg gjort research på sukkerindustrien, sukkerfrie produkter og hvordan markedet ser ut i dag. Deretter gjorde jeg research på pakningsdesign som var et helt nytt fagfelt for meg og til slutt skisserte meg frem til det endelige produkt
Brotandläkarna : En trygg tandläkarklinik
Get PDFDetta bachelorprojekt syftar till att förbättra tandvårdsmiljön och ska utreda på vilket sätt inredningsarkitektur kan påverkar upplevelsen av ett tandläkarbesök. Projektet tar utgångspunkt på Brotandläkarna, en privat tandvårdsklinik i Kristinehamn, Sverige. Vidare baseras arbetet på den oro många känner inför ett tandläkarbesök. Detta undersöks i en teoridel samt med individuella intervjuer.
I utformningen av en tandläkarklinik är det också viktigt med funktion då tandvården har speciella behov knutna till teknisk utrustning, renlighet och specialinredningar. Det gjordes därför en grundlig research med hjälp av observationer på kliniken och workshop med personalen för att få en god förståelse för dessa behov.
I projektet är det lagt fokus på att patienten ska känna sig trygga och omhändertagen. Det är därför lagt stor vikt på färgsättning och materialval för att skapa en trevligare miljö samtidigt som kliniken uppfyller de funktionella och tekniska kraven. Detta för att visa att god estetik och god funktion inte behöver vara i motsättning till varandra
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities
Get PDFThis article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences in everyday smartphone use, drawing on the concepts flow and responsibilization to conceptualize central dimensions of such ambivalences. The notion of conflicting flows illuminates how brief checking cycles expand at the expense of other activities, resulting in a temporal conflict experienced by users. Responsibilization points to how users take individual responsibility for managing such conflicting flows, and to how this practice is difficult and conflict-ridden. We conclude that while individual time management is often framed as the solution to temporal conflicts, such attempts at regulating smartphone use appear inadequate. Our conceptualization of temporal ambivalence offers a more nuanced understanding of why this is the case.publishedVersio
Oppdragsbasert ledelse: Ledelse og styring gjennom intensjoner
Get PDFAbstract: In recent decades we have seen examples of how some organizations lack
the capabilities necessary to maneuver in times of uncertain, rapidly changing and
unstable environments. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the importance of the ability to make quick responses to changing environments became evident. In a military context, dealing with such unstable circumstances has been commonplace for
some hundred years. Based on this observation, we seek to answer the following
questions: What can we learn from the military concept mission command that can
have an impact on leadership in civilian organizations? In order to answer these
questions, we first discuss and define the concept of mission command. Using
document analysis and participatory observation, we define mission command as
a leadership concept and examine examples of mission command leadership styles
in civilian organizations. Furthermore, we discuss whether classic leadership theory includes important characteristics of mission command. Main findings include
what civilian organizations can learn from how military units have maneuvered
in uncertain and complex environments, and secondly, how mission command is
based on an understanding of how leadership is an organizational capability. This
article focuses on the leader as part of an organizational system, and not the “heroic
perspective” of the leader in person. We conclude by suggesting developing intention-based leadership as a theoretical concept for civilian use of the military leadership philosophy.publishedVersio
Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study
Get PDFBackground While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for policy makers. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study used methods to provide highly detailed estimates of global injury burden that meet these criteria.
Methods In this study, we report and discuss the methods used in GBD 2017 for injury morbidity and mortality burden estimation. In summary, these methods included estimating cause-specific mortality for every cause of injury, and then estimating incidence for every cause of injury. Non-fatal disability for each cause is then calculated based on the probabilities of suffering from different types of bodily injury experienced.
Results GBD 2017 produced morbidity and mortality estimates for 38 causes of injury. Estimates were produced in terms of incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability, cause-specific mortality, years of life lost and disability-adjusted life-years for a 28-year period for 22 age groups, 195 countries and both sexes.
Conclusions GBD 2017 demonstrated a complex and sophisticated series of analytical steps using the largest known database of morbidity and mortality data on injuries. GBD 2017 results should be used to help inform injury prevention policy making and resource allocation. We also identify important avenues for improving injury burden estimation in the future.Seyed Aljunid acknowledges the Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University and International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia for the approval and support to participate in this research project. Alaa Badawi acknowledges support by the Public Health Agency of Canada. Till Bärnighausen acknowledges support by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Alexander von Humboldt Professor award, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Traolach Brugha received support from NatCen Social Research (http://natcen.ac.uk/) via NHS Digital and Department of Health and Social Care London, for the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) programme. Felix Carvalho received support from UID/MULTI/04378/2019 with funding from FCT/MCTES through national funds. Vera M Costa acknowledges support from grant (SFRH/BHD/110001/2015), received by Portuguese national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), IP, under the Norma Transitória DL57/2016/CP1334/CT0006. Kebede Deribe is supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust [grant number 201900] as part of his International Intermediate Fellowship. Tim Driscoll acknowledges that work on occupational risk factors was partially supported by funds from the World Health Organization. Eduarda Fernandes acknowledges support from UID/QUI/50006/2019 with funding from FCT/MCTES through national funds. Yuming Guo acknowledges support from Career Development Fellowships of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (numbers APP1107107 and APP1163693). Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam is funded by a Fellowship from National Heart Foundation of Australia and Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University. Mihajlo Jakovljevic acknowledges support by the Ministry of Education Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia through the Grant number OI175014; publication of results was not contingent upon Ministry's censorship or approval. Sudha Jayaraman acknowledges support from: NIH R21: 1R21TW010439-01A1 (PI); Rotary Foundation Global Grant #GG1749568 (PI); NIH P20: 1P20CA210284-01A1 (Co-PI) and DOD grant W81XWH-16-2-0040 (Co-I), during the period of this study. Yun Jin Kim acknowledges support from a grant from the Research Management Centre, Xiamen University Malaysia [grant number: XMUMRF/2018-C2/ITCM/0001]. Kewal Krishan is supported by UGC Centre of Advanced Study (CAS II) awarded to the Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Mansai Kumar acknowledges support from FIC/ NIH K43 1K43MH114320-01. Amanda Mason-Jones acknowledges support by the University of York. Mariam Molokhia is supported by the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Center at Guy’s and St Thomas’s National Health Service Foundation Trust and King’s College London. Ilais Moreno Velasquez is supported by the Sistema Nacional de Investigación (SNI, Senacyt, Panama). Mukhammad David Naimzada acknowledges support from Government of the Russian Federation (Agreement No – 075-02-2019-967). Duduzile Ndwandwe acknowledges support from Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council. Stanislav S. Otstavnov acknowledges the support from the Government of the Russian Federation (Agreement No – 075-02-2019-967). Ashish Pathak acknowledges support from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India (Grant number 2013-1253). Michael R Phillips acknowledges support in part by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81761128031). Abdallah M. Samy received a fellowship from the Egyptian Fulbright Mission Program. Milena Santric Milicevic acknowledges the support from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia (Contract No. 175087). Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA. Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos was supported in part by the national grant PI17/00719 from ISCIII-FEDER. Sojib Bin Zaman acknowledges support from an "Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship.”publishedVersio
How do Orthoses Impact Ease of Donning, Handwriting, Typewriting, and Transmission of Manual Torque? A study of Three Prefabricated Wrist Hand Orthoses
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Sponsorship-based health care programs and their impact on employees' motivation for physical activity
Get PDFResearch question: This study investigates the impact of a healthcare portal and employee attitude toward a healthcare program on sponsorship-based employee motivation to do physical exercises. Research methods: Applying a case methodology, the sponsorship object was the Norwegian National Cross-Country Skiing Team, and the sponsor was Aker, a major international corporation involved in fishing, offshore construction and engineering. By means of mixed methods, qualitative data were collected from 10 employees and then, quantitative data from 544 employees were used to test the hypotheses. Results and Findings: The findings show that the user-friendliness of the healthcare portal, and the attitude towards the health care program are significant predictors of employees’ sponsorship-based motivation to do physical exercises. These findings held when controlling for sex, education, income, portal usage, and physical activity level. Implications: These findings have practical implications for sponsors and the use of sponsorships as a strategic tool to improve employee matters. ‘The Internal CSR and Sponsorship-linked Health Care Strategy Model’ is presented. This paper establishes connections between internal sponsorship activation, employee health care program, and their motivation to do physical exercise.publishedVersio
Cluster-based information retrieval using pattern mining
Get PDFThis paper addresses the problem of responding to user queries by fetching the most relevant object from a clustered set of objects. It addresses the common drawbacks of cluster-based approaches and targets fast, high-quality information retrieval. For this purpose, a novel cluster-based information retrieval approach is proposed, named Cluster-based Retrieval using Pattern Mining (CRPM). This approach integrates various clustering and pattern mining algorithms. First, it generates clusters of objects that contain similar objects. Three clustering algorithms based on k-means, DBSCAN (Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise), and Spectral are suggested to minimize the number of shared terms among the clusters of objects. Second, frequent and high-utility pattern mining algorithms are performed on each cluster to extract the pattern bases. Third, the clusters of objects are ranked for every query. In this context, two ranking strategies are proposed: i) Score Pattern Computing (SPC), which calculates a score representing the similarity between a user query and a cluster; and ii) Weighted Terms in Clusters (WTC), which calculates a weight for every term and uses the relevant terms to compute the score between a user query and each cluster. Irrelevant information derived from the pattern bases is also used to deal with unexpected user queries. To evaluate the proposed approach, extensive experiments were carried out on two use cases: the documents and tweets corpus. The results showed that the designed approach outperformed traditional and cluster-based information retrieval approaches in terms of the quality of the returned objects while being very competitive in terms of runtime.publishedVersio
