54 research outputs found
Profilering i offentliga sektorn : En studie i varför statliga förvaltningsmyndigheter bedriver profileringsarbeten
No full textTitle: Branding the public sector Author: Rasmus Bergmark and David Backman Tutor: Magnus Fredriksson Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to examine branding in the public sector. The frame extends to government agencies and authorities in the Swedish public sphere, and aims to identify ulterior motives for their work with branding. Method/Material: The material used in this thesis consists 102 graphic manuals for government agencies in the Swedish public sector. The examination was based on an inductive survey where we extracted prominent motives among the graphic manuals. Main results: The main results of this survey shows which ulterior motives are more prominent than others, why they are more prominent and correlations between different motives. Number of pages: 53 Course: Media and Communications studies C University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information sience, Uppsala university Period: Fall 2013 Keywords: Corporate branding, public sector, motives, market communicationDenna studies syfte är att undersöka vilka motiv som myndigheter anger vara skäl till att arbeta med profilering och vilka av dessa motiv som är de mest framträdande. Uppsatsen bygger på en övergripande frågeställning och tre stycken mer specificerade frågor som berör den övergripande frågan på en närmare nivå. Den övergripande frågan är: Varför vill man profilera sig som myndighet? Vidare är de tre andra frågorna som uppsatsen ämnar besvara dessa: Hur motiverar svenska myndigheter sitt arbete med profilering? Vilka motiv är vanligast förekommande? Hur beskrivs det att myndigheter arbetar med profilering? Undersökningen baseras på en kvantitativ studie och genomfördes med hjälp av en innehållsanalys. Studien är utförd på samtliga tillgängliga profilmanualer för statliga förvaltningsmyndigheter i Sverige. Utifrån dessa har vi utformat ett eget ramverk med kategorier baserat på vad vi kunnat utläsa ur manualerna. Genom detta ramverk har vi kunnat ta fasta på vad och hur svenska myndigheter motiverar sitt arbete med profilering. Undersökningens resultat visade vad som motiverar svenska myndigheter att bedriva arbete med profilering. Resultatet i underökningen visade i vilken utsträckning myndigheterna angav dessa motiv. Majoriteten angav tydlighet som motiv till att bedriva arbetet med profilering och detta motiv tycks även vara grundläggande för resterande faktorer i deras arbete. Vidare kan vi konstatera att det är viktigt att arbetet bedrivs konsekvent då majoriteten av svenska myndigheter angav detta som ett motiv
Visualizing the Marrow of Science
No full textThis study proposes a new methodology that allows for
the generation of scientograms of major scientific domains,
constructed on the basis of cocitation of Institute
of Scientific Information categories, and pruned using
PathfinderNetwork, with a layout determined by algorithms
of the spring-embedder type (Kamada–Kawai),
then corroborated structurally by factor analysis. We
present the complete scientogram of the world for the
Year 2002. It integrates the natural sciences, the social
sciences, and arts and humanities. Its basic structure
and the essential relationships therein are revealed,
allowing us to simultaneously analyze the macrostructure,
microstructure, and marrow of worldwide scientific
output
'Living lightly on the Earth': Building an ark for Prince Edward Island, 1974–76 by Steven Mannell (review)
No full textLiving Lightly on the Earth is a shining example of publicly engaged scholarship in the environmental humanities. Steven Mannell, an architect and director of Dalhousie University’s College of Sustainability, is not a historian but, rather, a public scholar, and, like the college, this book is an accomplishment in interdisciplinary public teaching and research. Mannell curated an exhibit at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown in the months prior to the book’s publication. The book’s “project team” lists three members, including Mannell as author and exhibit curator, Lukas Bergmark as assistant curator, and Megan Peck as research and curatorial assistant. Full credit is also given to the two original architects, two curators at the Confederation Centre, one additional writer (historian Daniel A. Barber wrote a short introduction), and four other collaborators. The ratio of authors to words published is thus substantially higher than most of the books reviewed in this journal, but the result is a richly illustrated, well-researched, and deeply personal account of this unique moment in architectural and environmental history
Automatic Extraction of Reference Linking Information from OnlineDocuments
No full textThe Web, with its explosive growth, is becoming an efficient resource for up-to-date information for the scientific researcher. Informal online archives are repositories for technical reports. Proceedings are more and more commonly published on the Web. The collection of online journals is growing. Indeed, a good number of online journals are "born digital". Many researchers simply put their papers up on their own web site. The large volume of online material makes it quite desirable to be able to access cited documents immediately from the citing paper. Implementing this direct access is called "reference linking". Some reference linking services exist today. A number of commercial publishers, recognizing the significant value-added nature of reference linking, have banded together to form the CrossRef organization. The CrossRef publishers share their metadata, which enables them to interlink their journals. This metadata is not, however, available without a fee to organizations or individuals outside of CrossRef. The vast majority of online scholarly literature is accompanied by little or no metadata. Since it is desirable to link up this literature as well, the problem of automatically reference linking online scholarly literature in the absence of metadata and author intervention is a problem very much worth considering. This paper explores this problem in detail, and presents some algorithms for extracting metadata from online texts and linking full-text documents together. The extent to which reference linking of the online literature can be done automatically is therefore the main topic of this paper
A new technique for building maps of large scientific domains based on the cocitation of classes and categories
No full textOur objective is the generation of schematic visualizations as interfaces for scientific domain analysis. We propose a new technique that uses thematic classification (classes and categories) as entities of cocitation and units of measure, and demonstrate the viability of this methodology through the representation and analysis of a domain of great dimensions. The main features of the maps obtained are discussed, and proposals are made for future improvements and applications
Analytical study of contents of LANL physics and cross-listed e-print archives, 1994-2002
No full textThe frontiers of physics and cross-listed e-print archives posted during the years 1994-2002 at http://www.arxiv.org/archives/physics web service of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are explored from 7770 submissions. E-print archives posted to top most six physics-cross-listed research categories besides physics (5390) are: Condensed matter (754), Quantum physics (279), Astrophysics (222), Chemical physics (129), High energy physics - Phenomenology (118), and High energy physics-Theory (100). Prominent contributors are B.G. Sidharth (India), V.V. Flambaum (Australia), Antonina N. Fedorova (Russia), and Michael G. Zeitlin (Russia). Most preferred journals for rechannelising e-print archives are Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review E, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, and Journal of Chemical Physics
Gravity flow of broken rock : What is known and unknown
No full textThe knowledge in the field has been reviewed by literature studies, and using experience from personal research in sublevel caving. There is a lot of material regarding gravity flow of fine grained materials in bins, but the theory of flow for these materials are normally not applicable for coarse blasted rock. This study was therefore concentrated towards coarse rock fragments created after blasting in orebodies. The goal for this study was to make a report of known knowledge, and identify what we have to learn more about. The Bergmark-Roos theory, which was a paradigm shift in the science of gravity flow, is today the best mathematical theory for calculation of the drawbody for a homogenous material or when we wish to simulate the mean drawbody for a large number of draws. The Bergmark-Roos theory must however be improved, so it can take into account the flow pipe effect. When this is done it will be possible to construct a 3D computer model for calculation of ore extraction versus amount of loaded ore and waste. It is also necessary to find the 3D shape of the flow cone to be able to calculate the 3D ore rest that normally develops on footwalls. Calculations should be done for the draw on several sublevels including determination of the ore losses and temporary ore rests. First when this computer model is developed optimisation of ore recovery and waste rock dilution can start for a given orebody. The author points out the importance for international co-operation and standardisation of methods for determination of material properties. More field tests and model blasting tests should also be done. When enough knowledge is gathered, a handbook of the optimisation of sublevel and block caving should be written</p
Ungdomsromanens liv : En komparativ undersökning av tilltal i fyra samtida ungdomsromaner
No full textDenna uppsats har i syfte att analysera tilltalen i fyra samtida ungdomsromaner: Grim (2021) av Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Fula tjejer (2020) av Johanna Lindbäck, Lisa Bjärbo och Sara Ohlsson, Bergtagen (2020) av Camilla Sten och A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2019) av Holly Jackson. Metoden och den huvudsakliga teorin är baserade på Barbara Walls The Narrative Voice: The Dilemma of Children’s Fiction från 1991 och hennes användning av narratologiska koncept om berättarperspektiv för att avgöra om en bok är skriven för barn. Analysen visar hur de fyra romanerna använder olika och unika sätt att tilltala de implicita unga läsarna. Den implicita författaren syns ibland via berättarens röst, beroende på vilket berättarperspektiv romanerna har. I slutändan är det dock svårt att försöka definiera ungdomslitteraturgenren på samma sätt som Wall definierar barnlitteratur. Jag menar att man skulle behöva överväga ungdomslitteraturens unika förutsättningar samt dess läsare för att försöka definiera genren ännu tydligare. This thesis aims to analyse the narrative address of four contemporary novels for young adults: Grim (2021) by Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Fula tjejer (2020) by Johanna Lindbäck, Lisa Bjärbo och Sara Ohlsson, Bergtagen (2020) by Camilla Sten, and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2019) by Holly Jackson. The method and main theory are based on Barbara Wall’s The Narrator’s Voice: The Dilemma of Children’s Fiction from 1991 and her use of narratological concepts of narrative perspective to determine if a book is written for children. The analysis shows how the four novels use unique and different approaches to address their implied young readers. The implied author can sometimes be shown through the narrator’s voice, depending on which narrative perspective the novels have. In the end, however, it is difficult to try to define the genre of young adult fiction in the same way that Wall defines the genre of children’s fiction. I argue that one would need to consider the unique conditions of young adult literature and its readers to try to define the genre even clearer.
Ungdomsromanens liv : En komparativ undersökning av tilltal i fyra samtida ungdomsromaner
No full textDenna uppsats har i syfte att analysera tilltalen i fyra samtida ungdomsromaner: Grim (2021) av Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Fula tjejer (2020) av Johanna Lindbäck, Lisa Bjärbo och Sara Ohlsson, Bergtagen (2020) av Camilla Sten och A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2019) av Holly Jackson. Metoden och den huvudsakliga teorin är baserade på Barbara Walls The Narrative Voice: The Dilemma of Children’s Fiction från 1991 och hennes användning av narratologiska koncept om berättarperspektiv för att avgöra om en bok är skriven för barn. Analysen visar hur de fyra romanerna använder olika och unika sätt att tilltala de implicita unga läsarna. Den implicita författaren syns ibland via berättarens röst, beroende på vilket berättarperspektiv romanerna har. I slutändan är det dock svårt att försöka definiera ungdomslitteraturgenren på samma sätt som Wall definierar barnlitteratur. Jag menar att man skulle behöva överväga ungdomslitteraturens unika förutsättningar samt dess läsare för att försöka definiera genren ännu tydligare. This thesis aims to analyse the narrative address of four contemporary novels for young adults: Grim (2021) by Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Fula tjejer (2020) by Johanna Lindbäck, Lisa Bjärbo och Sara Ohlsson, Bergtagen (2020) by Camilla Sten, and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2019) by Holly Jackson. The method and main theory are based on Barbara Wall’s The Narrator’s Voice: The Dilemma of Children’s Fiction from 1991 and her use of narratological concepts of narrative perspective to determine if a book is written for children. The analysis shows how the four novels use unique and different approaches to address their implied young readers. The implied author can sometimes be shown through the narrator’s voice, depending on which narrative perspective the novels have. In the end, however, it is difficult to try to define the genre of young adult fiction in the same way that Wall defines the genre of children’s fiction. I argue that one would need to consider the unique conditions of young adult literature and its readers to try to define the genre even clearer.
Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication
No full textScientific research is a competitive business – in order to secure funding, promotion and tenure researchers must demonstrate their work has impact in their field. To maximise impact researchers undertake high priority research, aim to get results first, and publish in the highest impact journals. The Internet now presents a new opportunity to the scholarly author seeking higher impact: s/he can now make their work instantly accessible on the Web through author self-archiving. This growing body of open access literature (coupled with new publishing models that make journals available for-free to the reader) maximises research impact by maximising the number of people who can read it, and making it available sooner. Open access also provides a new opportunity for bibliometric research. This thesis describes the relatively recent phenomenon of open access to research literature, tools that were built to collect and analyse that literature, and the results of analyses of the effect of open access and its effect on author behaviour. It shows that articles self-archived by authors receive between 50-250% more citations, that rapid pre-printing on the Web has dramatically reduced the peak citation rate from over a year to virtually instant and how citation-impact – now widely used for evaluation – can be expanded to include a new web metric of download impact
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