57,423 research outputs found
Icke-formell självbildning : En ny undersökningskategori i historisk forskning
No full textVad skiljer folkbildning från bildning? Vilket är folket i folkbildningen? Är folkbildningsidealet fortfarande användbart? Eller behöver det förnyas? I så fall hur? Kan vi folkbilda oss på egen hand? Kan universiteten inrymma folkbildning? Se [http://abfstockholm.se/event/2016/02/perspektiv-pa-folkbildning/]Möt de fyra forskarna Anne Berg, Anders Burman, Samuel Edquist och Kerstin Rydbeck i ett samtal om folkbildning som leds av Per Sundgren. Utgångspunkten tar vi i den nyutkomna boken Perspektiv på folkbildning. Fyra forskares tankar om folkligt bildningsarbete.</p
Scrivere per liberare l'infanzia. Leila Berg tra impegno pedagogico, attivismo politico e letteratura per l'infanzia
No full textIl saggio si inscrive in un lavoro di ricerca che intende riscoprire e valorizzare il contributo di Leila Berg, scrittrice ed editor anglosassone scomparsa a 94 anni nel 2012: pienamente inserita nel contesto di profonda trasformazione della letturatura per l'infanzia in Europa negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, il suo impegno si caratterizza per la stretta relazione tra riflessione pedagogica e scrittura, adesione al dibattito sui limiti dell'educazione tradizionale e scelte letterarie. La portata innovativa del progetto editoriale più noto di Leila Berg, la serie dei Nippers per primi lettori, avviato nel 1967, può essere pienamente compresa attraverso i saggi che la scrittrice dedica ai problemi dell'educazione e dell'apprendimento linguistico: in essi è assegnato alla letteratura per l'infanzia, ripensata nei temi e nelle scelte stilistiche, un ruolo centrale per l'empowerment dei bambini della working class, spesso deprivati di esperienze di lettura motivanti sia nel contesto familiare che in quello scolastico
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
No full textNatural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Per Erland Berg Wendelbo, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4107205. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, https://bionomia.net using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, https://gbif.org.http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q410720
Why a simple herding model may generate the stylized facts of daily returns: Explanation and estimation
No full textThe paper proposes an elementary agent-based asset pricing model that, invoking the two trader types of fundamentalists and chartists, comprises four features: (i) price determination by excess demand; (ii) a herding mechanism that gives rise to a macroscopic adjustment equation for the market fractions of the two groups; (iii) a rush towards fundamentalism when the price misalignment becomes too large; and (iv) a stronger noise component in the demand per chartist trader than in the demand per fundamentalist trader, which implies a structural stochastic volatility in the returns. Combining analytical and numerical methods, the interaction between these elements is studied in the phase plane of the price and a majority index. In addition, the model is estimated by the method of simulated moments, where the choice of the moments reflects the basic stylized facts of the daily returns of a stock market index. A (parametric) bootstrap procedure serves to set up an econometric test to evaluate the model's goodness-of-fit, which proves to be highly satisfactory. The bootstrap also makes sure that the estimated structural parameters are well identified
The brig Marthe Andrea and Captain Lars Berg: An account of the 19thc. Norwegian timber trade in Cornwall
No full textOn Friday 15 July 1859, the Royal Cornwall Gazette reported on a coroner’s
inquest held the previous Monday at Restronguet Passage, Mylor. The body of
Lars Berg, a 56-year-old Norwegian ship’s captain and half-owner of the brig
Marthe Andrea had been discovered in the creek.1 Three to four weeks earlier the
ship had arrived at Restronguet from Tønsberg, Norway, laden with deals and
battens (processed timber used for housing and ship building).2 She became leaky
on the voyage, and after the cargo was unloaded, she docked at Restronguet Point
to be inspected and caulked. The ship did not lie on an even keel however, and
the hull became badly damaged. The Marthe Andrea was found to be damaged
beyond repair, and as co-owner of the ship, Lars Berg anticipated great financial
loss and took his own life:
… after retiring to bed early on Friday night, at his lodgings, he stole out of
the house secretly, and, having dressed himself in his old clothes and tied a
stone about 10lbs. weight across his chest, he walked down to the water side a
little above Great Wood, and committed suicide by drowning himself. On his
not coming down for breakfast on Saturday morning, search was made for
him, and some parties dredged for him opposite the passage; but in the course
of the afternoon two little boys bathing near Great Wood, discovered the body
by treading on it. They immediately gave an alarm, and some parties went
down and had the body taken up and conveyed to his lodgings.
This report caught the interest of the authors, and a joint venture began to
discover what had led to this tragedy. Through an extensive investigation of
British and Norwegian archives and newspapers, a tale unfolded of the days of
the nineteenth century Norwegian timber trade, when Europe required
interminable importation of lumber and timber. This was particularly so in
Cornwall where timber was required in vast quantities for the mining and
shipbuilding industries.
By exploring the social histories of the Marthe Andrea and one of her longest
serving captains, Lars Berg, this paper reveals the significance of the timber trade
for Norwegian and Cornish maritime communities. The authors explore the
political and economic contexts of the time and how these affected the
individuals working in this industry. The story begins with the tale of the ship,
the Marthe Andrea.publishedVersio
Monitoring sickness insurance claimants: evidence from a social experiment
No full textThe paper exploits a unique social experiment carried out in 1988 in Sweden to identify the effect of monitoring on sickness absence. The treatment consists of postponing the first formal point of monitoring during a sickness absence spell, a requirement for a doctor’s certificate, from day eight to day fifteen. The experiment was conducted in two geographical areas, and the treatment group was randomized by birth date. The results show strong effects on sickness absence duration from extending the waiting period in both areas. On average, the durations increased by 6.6 percent. No effect on incidence of sickness absence is found. A heterogeneity analysis reveals that monitoring affects men more than women.Absenteeism; sickness insurance; monitoring; social experiment
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