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Future Ready by RISE - Från kundbehov till framsynt ledarskapsprogram
No full textI en samtid präglad av snabb förändring och komplexa samhällsutmaningar står skolan inför nya utmaningar och ett växande behov av förnyelse. Behovet av ledare som kan leda den förnyelsen och anpassa verksamheten till samtiden har aldrig varit större. Den här rapporten beskriver hur forskningsinstitutet RISE, tillsammans med Lidingö stad och AcadeMedia, med hjälp av etablerade modeller för innovation utforskat behovet av stöd samt utvecklat ett unikt ledarprogram som adresserar frågeställningar kring ledarskapet i en tid av stark samhällsförändring. Arbetet i projektet har utgått från design thinking där den första fasen handlat om att förstå vilka utmaningar som skola och utbildningsväsendet står inför samt ta fram insikter som bidrar till att projektet kan stötta skolans ledarskap. I den andra fasen sattes fokus på att utifrån insikterna utveckla lösningar, som i detta fall föll ut som ett skolledarprogram; FutureReady by RISE. Programmet genomfördes och utvärderades första gången under våren 2024, och har mottagits övervägande positivt från deltagarna. I utvärderingarna bedöms såväl innehåll som design av programmet som ”mycket tillfredsställande”. Många av deltagarna beskriver innehållet som nytt och till viss del även utmanande. Deltagarna lyfter att det har varit värdefullt att sätta fokus på framtidsfrågor tillsammans med kollegor och forskare som ett komplement till och påbyggnad av det statliga rektorsprogrammet. I utvärderingarna av programmet kopplas deltagarnas ökade vilja och förmåga att initiera förnyelse i sina respektive verksamheter till programmet. Programmet som utvecklades och döptes till FutureReady by RISE riktar sig till skolhuvudmän som ser behov att rusta sina skolledare för framtiden och utveckla sin förståelse av och förmåga att leda verksamheten under de nya förutsättningarna som ett samhälle i stark transformation kräver
Utvärdering av tejp för lufttätning i småhus: : En intervjustudie om tejpning av skarvar
No full textUtvärdering av tejp för lufttätning i småhu
Riding with strangers : profiling potential users and refusers of shared autonomous vehicles in Swedish cities
No full textIn exploring the societal readiness for shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) in Swedish cities, this study profiles two distinct user groups—potential users and refusers—based on their willingness to share rides with strangers. By analyzing responses from a significant sample in Stockholm and Gothenburg, the study reveals key traits of these groups: potential users tend to be progressive, environmentally conscious men with public transport habits and positive experiences with AVs, while refusers are often women with traditional values, less formal education, and a preference for private cars, exhibiting concerns about safety and privacy. The research underscores the necessity of addressing the unique concerns of refusers to foster broader acceptance of SAVs. It highlights the potential of SAVs to revolutionize urban transport if societal concerns are aptly managed through policy and education, leveraging positive public transport experiences as a gateway to shared autonomous mobility.The authors acknowledge Vinnova Innovation Agency’s financing that made this project possible, as well as SOM Institute at University of Gothenburg’s invaluable contribution for their help administering the questionnaire. </p
Stockholmsenkäten : En genomlysning utifrån enkätkonstruktion och psykometri med förslag på förändringar
No full textEnvironmental Impacts of Waste Management Strategies : Case studies compilation
No full textRegional approaches are taken to develop waste management strategies. The environmental impacts of waste management strategies vary significantly ranging from waste prevention to disposal, and the existing waste management strategy which is being upgraded. This report provides a case study compilation of waste management strategies employed in two Task 36 countries, Ireland, an EU member state, and the U.S. The case study report considers waste management strategies, applied to tackle particular waste challenges in each location, and the technical and environmental aspects of the strategies in relation to energy valorisation within the framework of IEA Bioenergy Task 36. Each case study begins with an overview of relevant regional policies for waste management which provides context for each waste management strategy employed in the case studies.The case studies included in this compilation are:Waste-to-Energy facility (Indaver Ltd.) in Meath, Ireland: The Meath Waste-to-Energy (WtE) facility is a grate incinerator located near Duleek in County Meath. The incinerator was the first of its kind to operate in Ireland and it opened its gates in August 2011. The waste-toenergy facility has capacity to divert up to 235,000 tonnes of municipal waste from landfill per year and generates 18MW of electricity with 41.5% considered renewable due to combustion of waste of biological origin. Further environmental benefits arise as due to the avoided production of electricity generated at the average grid mix. Further, metals sent for recovery are assumed to displace the virgin production of such metals, hence the CO2emissions from production are considered to be avoided.Renewable Energy & Urban Agriculture Campus (Green Era) in Illinois: The Green Era Renewable Energy & Urban Agriculture Campus is a local hub for renewable energy generation, urban farming, and community programming and education in the AuburnGresham neighbourhood of Chicago’s South Side in Illinois. The campus’ anaerobic digester system can process approximately 80,000 tons of food waste per year. The food waste is collected from restaurants, food companies, manufacturers, and residents, providing an alternative to the current practice of landfilling and prevents 42,500 tons of CO2-equivalent emissions every year. Further social benefits arise from the community focus, for example by providing an onsite Education Center which will offer workshops and trainings across a variety of topics led by community practitioners
Perspektivpåminnelser: Ohörda röster för framtidens mobilitet
No full textDu har öppnat en sida in till en annan tid - till framtider som bygger på det vi redan kan ana idag. Har får du möta röster som sällan hors i trafik- och samhällsplaneringen: ungdomar och föräldrar i Sundsbruk, en stadsdel i Sundsvall, vars erfarenheter, tankar och drömmar ligger till grund for detta material. Framför dig vantar tio olika teman där mobilitet formar liv, städer och möjligheter. I varje tema möter du två versioner: en utopi och en dystopi. Det är inte framtiden som den faktiskt kommer att bli - utan framtidsscenarier, uppskruvade, för att synliggöra risker och inspirera till möjligheter. Föreställ dig att du kliver in i en biosalong. Filmaffischerna ger en första glimt av de olika framtiderna, men vid dem hittar du också nyhetsnotiser från framtiden, frågor för reflektion och texter som hjälper dig att se på mobilitetens roll ur nya perspektiv. Låt materialet tala till dig, väcka frågor och kanske känslor. Även om affischerna föreställer Sundsbruk kan de lika gärna spegla vilken ort som helst. För det här handlar inte om en plats - utan om vad som står på spel när mobiliteten formar vår vardag. Och kom ihåg: framtiden är inte avgjord. Du är inte bara en åskådare.Du ar en medskapare.Detta är resultatet av projektet Formel 1 - Ohörda röster för framtidensmobilitet (2024-2025), där vi tillsammans med invånare i Sundsbruk,Sundsvalls kommun, RISE och Din Tur har utforskat hur resande och mobilitet påverkar vardag, möjligheter och framtidsdrömmar.</p
Disrupting climate adaptation lock-ins? : Swedish local civil servants’ strategies to enable adaptation
No full textLocal climate adaptation is constrained and steered along specific paths by various mechanisms, which together form a lock-in. The study focuses on Swedish local civil servants’ strategies to deal with climate adaption lock-ins and to what extent the strategies disrupt the lock-ins. Interviews were conducted with civil servants in six municipalities, complemented by interviews at regional and national public agencies. The study investigates the presence of physical infrastructural, institutional, mental/cognitive, and discursive lock-in mechanisms and finds that they together limit and steer local civil servants’ work on climate adaptation. The study shows that the lock-in mechanisms are dealt with by civil servants through two types of strategies. Influencing strategies target others to change their thinking, behavior, or decisions, while subversive strategies involve ignoring, violating, or undermining formal and informal institutions. Civil servants used influencing strategies to mitigate several types of lock-in mechanisms. The strategies had a higher impact when targeted at mental/cognitive mechanisms, as influencing others to change their mindsets and practices widened opportunity spaces. This increased the possibilities to disrupt also other types of lock-in mechanisms. Civil servants also employed subversive strategies in the form of disregarding the legislation, departmentalization, mindsets, and practices. The subversive strategies were successful in, for example, enabling decisions, but did not weaken the lock-in mechanisms. The study shows that to disrupt climate adaptation lock-ins, civil servants need to use influencing strategies to sequentially target lock-in mechanisms. This study was funded by Formas: A Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development. Grant numbers FR-2018/0006 and FR-2022/0006.</p
The impact of climatic factors on negative sentiments : An analysis of human expressions from X platform in Germany
No full textExpressions in social media can provide a rapid insight into people’s reactions to events, such as periods of climatic stress. This study explored the link between climatic stressors and negative sentiment on the X platform in Germany to inform climate-related health policies and interventions. Natural language processing was used to standardize the text, and a comprehensive approach for sentiment analysis was utilized. We then conducted spatiotemporal modeling fitted using integrated nested laplace approximation (INLA). Our findings indicate that higher and lower level of temperature and precipitation is correlated with an increase and decrease in the relative risk of negative sentiments, respectively. The findings of this study illustrate that human sentiment of distress in social media varies with space and time about exposure to climate stressors. This emotional indicator of human exposure and responses to climate stress indicates potential physical and mental health impacts among the affected populations.
Development of a Mesoscopic Egress Model to Estimate the Evacuation on Board Ro–Ro Ships
No full textThis paper presents a new evacuation model for fast and affordable simulations of evacuation based on Togawa’s theory for multi-compartment configurations. The aim is to track the evacuee’s path and to estimate the congestion (or the queues) behind each doorway at each time step to model the evacuation process. In this approach, only two parameters drive the formation of congestion, namely the maximum out-coming people flux and the width of the doorway. For a real application, such as evacuation in a building or a boat, a geometrical configuration is considered by a “tree structure” where each doorway is connected to the others up to the main exit. The originality of this paper is in proposing a theoretical expression for the people flux feeding the congestion for people which are located just behind a given doorway. Moreover, this contribution proposes various new experimental tests to qualify and to validate the proposed model. All experimental data (146 evacuation exercises) are available in an open access database for further uses. In this communication, a sensitivity analysis is proposed on a single deck evacuation of the RMS Titanic (the best documented ship for its geometry) with 1126 people. This analysis demonstrates that, between the free walk speed and the maximum out-coming people flux per length of doorway, this latter variable is the most influential parameter of the present model, accounting for 22% of variations in evacuation time. The model has been applied to estimate evacuation times for generic Ro–Ro ships, to test some existing alternatives to abandon a ship and to propose some new perspectives to optimize the evacuation. . This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program through grant agreement No. 814975 as part of the international research project of LASH FIRE. </p
Identification of a surface texture parameter panel characterizing surface micromorphologies of differently processed oral implant surfaces
No full textObjectives: Inconsistent characterization of oral implant microtopography makes it difficult to compare and evaluate available data on microtopography and the biological response to topographical characteristics. The aim of this investigation was therefore to identify a surface texture parameter panel that enables a discriminative characterization of differently processed oral implant surfaces. Materials and methods: Surface micromorphologies of titanium- and ceramic-based biomaterials processed by machining or by machining and subsequent post-processing, including blasting, etching, anodization or porous sintering, were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy and white light interferometry. It was then analyzed which of the parameters Sa, Sq, Sz, Ssk, Sku, Str, Sal, Spd, Spc, Sdq and Sdr best characterized morphological surface features and hence should be reported as minimum parameter panel for implant surface characterization. Results: SEM demonstrated that each surface processing resulted in a specific and biomaterial-dependent micromorphology. The data revealed that the micromorphology of machined surfaces was best characterized by Sa, Sdr, Str and Ssk, and that for post-processed surfaces Spd and Spc were additionally required. Based on these data, Sa, Sdr, Str, Ssk, Spd and Spc were identified as minimum parameter panel for discriminative description of the investigated implant microtopographies. Significance: The present investigation identified Sa, Sdr, Str, Ssk, Spd and Spc as minimum parameter panel for discriminative oral implant surface characterization. The widespread use of such a panel combined with biological data will help to identify cell-relevant implant surface structures, thus enabling the design of oral implants with predefined biological response. his work was funded by the German Association of Oral Implantology (DGI) and the Berta-Ottenstein-Program for Advanced Clinician Scientists, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg.</p