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Backman, Sigrid
No full textSigrid Backman
f. 1.12. 1880 i Helsingfors
d. 26.5. 1938 i Helsingfors
Sigrid Backman var en starkt personlig svenskspråkig prosaförfattare aktiv under 1910-30-talen, lite vid sidan om modernismen och andra samtida litterära strömningar. Hennes författarskap har blivit något förbisett både under hennes samtid och i senare litteraturhistorieskrivning. Som författare stod Backman ändå i dialog med den samtida utvecklingen och aktuella frågor. Hon behandlade teman som aktualiserades av kvinnosaksrörelsen under 1920- och 30-talen, den nya kvinnans livsvillkor, en svensk arbetarmiljö i Helsingfors. I ett par böcker skrev hon även om det finska inbördeskriget, t.ex. i romanen Familjen Brinks öden (1922). Återkommande i åtminstone delar av Backmans produktion är en ambivalent civilisations- och modernitetskritik och ett spänningsförhållande mellan naturen och den tekniska utvecklingen. I ett par av hennes verk är miljöskildringen realistisk, men i övrigt är verken mera stiliserade och utmärks av sagans drag. En viss humor är genomgående i produktionen. Hennes kanske kändaste är verk är den självbiografiska romanen De fåvitska trollen (1932).
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-----Sigrid Backman
s. 1.12. 1880 Helsingissä
k. 26.5. 1938 Helsingissä
Sigrid Backman on omaleimainen ja vahvaääninen prosaisti, joka julkaisi teoksiaan 1910-1930-luvulla. Backman kulki omaa polkuaan poiketen aikansa modernistisista ja muista kirjallisista virtauksista, ja hänet on usein sivuutettu niin omana aikanaan kuin kirjallisuushistorioissakin. Tuotannossa on kuitenkin näkyvissä myös vuoropuhelua yhteiskunnallisesti ajankohtaisista kysymyksistä. Backmanin käsittelemät teemat, kuten uuden naisen elämänehdot ja Helsingin ruotsinkielisen työläismiljöön ongelmat, ovat keskeisiä 1920 ja -30-lukujen naisasialiikkeelle. Muutamassa teoksessaan, kuten romaanissaan Familjen Brinks öden (1922), Backman käsittelee Suomen sisällissotaa. Osassa Backmanin tuotantoa korostuu yhteiskunnan modernisoitumisen kritiikki sekä jännitteinen suhde luonnon ja teknisen kehityksen välillä. Joissakin teoksissa miljöökuvaus on esittävää ja realistista, kun taas muissa teoksissa korostuu stilisoidumpi ja sadunomainen ote. Humoristisuus on koko tuotannolle tyypillistä. Tunnetuimpana Backmanin teoksena voidaan pitää omaelämäkerrallista romaania De fåvitska trollen (1932).
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G. H. Backman, Abstracts, Salt Lake City
No full textCartoon portrait of G. H. Backman, Licensed Abstracter and Attorney at Law at Salt Lake City, Utah, in the early 20th centuryArtwork from the book Just for Fun: Cartoons and Caricatures of Men in Utah published in 1906 by E. A. Thompson, Press of the F. W. Gardiner Company
IODP Proposal 626: "Cenozoic Equatorial Age Transect – Following the Palaeo-equator"
No full textAs the largest ocean, the Pacific is intricately linked to major changes in the global climate system that took place during the Cenozoic. Throughout the Cenozoic the Pacific plate has had a northward component. Thus, the Pacific is unique, in that the thick sediment bulge of biogenic rich deposits from the currently narrowly focused zone of equatorial upwelling is slowly moving away from the equator. Hence, older sections are not deeply buried and can be recovered by drilling. Previous ODP Legs 138 and 199 were designed as transects across the paleo-equator in order to study the changing patterns of sediment deposition across equatorial regions, while this proposal aims to recover an orthogonal “age-transect” along the paleo-equator. Both previous legs were remarkably successful in giving us new insights into the workings of the climate and carbon system, productivity changes across the zone of divergence, time dependent calcium carbonate dissolution, bio- and magnetostratigraphy, the location of the ITCZ, and evolutionary patterns for times of climatic change and upheaval. Together with older DSDP drilling in the eastern equatorial Pacific, both Legs also helped to delineate the position of the paleo-equator and variations in sediment thickness from approximately 150°W to 110°W. As we have gained more information about the past movement of plates, and where in time “critical” climate events are located, we now propose to drill an age-transect (“flow-line”) along the position of the paleo-equator in the Pacific, targeting selected time-slices of interest where calcareous sediments have been preserved best. Leg 199 enhanced our understanding of extreme changes of the calcium carbonate compensation depth across major geological boundaries during the last 55 million years. A very shallow CCD during most of the Paleogene makes it difficult to obtain well preserved sediments, but we believe our siting strategy will allow us to drill the most promising sites and to obtain a unique sedimentary biogenic carbonate archive for time periods just after the Paleocene- Eocene boundary event, the Eocene cooling, the Eocene/Oligocene transition, the “one cold pole” Oligocene, the Oligocene-Miocene transition, and the Miocene, contributing to the objectives of the IODP Extreme Climates Initiative, and providing material that the previous legs were not able to recover
An expanded Cretaceous−Tertiary transition in a pelagic setting of the Southern Alps (central-western Tethys)
No full textThe central part of the Piave River valley in the Venetian pre-Alps of NE Italy exposes an expanded and continuous marine sediment
succession that encompasses the Paleocene series and the Paleocene to Eocene transition.
The Paleocene through lower most Eocene succession is >100 m thick and was deposited at middle to lower bathyal depths in a
hemipelagic, near-continental setting in the central western Tethys. In the Forada section, the Paleocene succession of limestone-marlm couplets is sharply interrupted by an ~3.30-m-thick unit of clays and marls (clay marlunit). The very base of this unit represents the biostratigraphic Paleocene-Eocene boundary,
and the entire unit coincides with the main carbon isotopeexcursion of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum event. Concentrations of hematite and biogenic carbonate, δ13C
measurements, and abundance of radiolarians, all oscillate in a cyclical fashion and are interpreted to represent precession cycles. The main excursion interval spans fi ve complete cycles, that is, 105 ± 10 k.y. The overlying carbonisotope recovery interval, which is composed of six distinct limestone-marl couplets, is interpreted to represent six precessional cycles with a duration of 126 ± 12 k.y. The entire carbon isotope excursion interval in Forada has a total duration of ~231 ± 22 k.y., which
is 5%–10% longer than previous estimates derived from open ocean sites (210–220 k.y.).
Geochemical proxies for redox conditions indicate oxygenated conditions before, during, and after the carbon isotope excursion event.
The Forada section exhibits a nonstepped sharp decrease in δ13C (−2.35‰) at the base of the clay marl unit. The hemipelagic, near-continental depositional setting of Forada and the sharply elevated sedimentation rates throughout the clay marl unit argue for continuous rather than interrupted deposition and show that the initial nonstepped carbon isotope shift was not caused by a hiatus. A single sample at the base of the unit lacks biogenic carbonate.
Preservation of carbonate thereafter improves progressively up-section in the clay marl unit, which is consistent with a prodigiously abrupt and rapid acidifi cation of the oceans followed
by a slower, successive deepening of the carbonate compensation depth. Increased sedimentation rates through the clay marl unit
(approximately the main interval of the carbon isotope excursion) are consistent with an intensifi ed hydrological cycle driven by supergreenhouse conditions and enhanced weathering and transport of terrigenous material to this near-continental, hemipelagic environment
in the central western Tethys.
The sharp transition in lithology from the
clay marl unit to the overlying limestonemarl
couplets in the recovery interval and
the coincident shift toward heavier δ13C values
suggest that the silicate pump and continental
weathering, the cause of the enhanced
terrigenous fl ux to Forada, stopped abruptly.
This implies that the source of the light CO2
ceased to be added to the ocean-atmosphere
system at the top of the clay marl unit
Topological bijections for oriented matroids
No full textIn previous work by the first and third author with Matthew Baker, a family of bijections between bases of a regular matroid and the Jacobian group of the matroid was given. The core of the work is a geometric construction using zonotopal tilings that produces bijections between the bases of a realizable oriented matroid and the set of (σ, σ∗ )-compatible orientations with respect to some acyclic circuit (respectively, cocircuit) signature σ (respectively, σ∗). In this work, we extend this construction to general oriented matroids and circuit (respectively, cocircuit) signatures coming from generic single-element liftings (respectively, extensions). As a corollary, when both signatures are induced by the same lexicographic data, we give a new (bijective) proof of the interpretation of TM(1, 1) using orientation activity due to Gioan and Las Vergnas. Here TM(x, y) is the Tutte polynomial of the matroid.Work of S. Backman is supported by the Zuckerman STEM Postdoctoral Scholarship and DFG–Collaborative Research Center, TRR 109 “Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics”. Work of F. Santos is supported by grant MTM2017-83750-P of the Spanish Ministry of Science and grant EVF-2015-230 of the Einstein Foundation Berlin, as well as the Clay Institute and the National Science Foundation (Grant No. DMS-1440140) while he was in residence at MSRI Berkeley, California during the Fall 2017 semester “Geometric and Topological Combinatorics”. Work of C.H. Yuen is supported by NWO Vici grant 639.033.514
Oulunsalon kirjaston asiakasanalyysi
No full textTIIVISTELMÄ
Oulun seudun ammattikorkeakoulu
Kirjasto- ja tietopalvelun koulutusohjelma
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Tekijä: Jenni Backman
Opinnäytetyön nimi: Oulunsalon asiakasanalyysi
Työn ohjaaja: Ulla Virranniemi
Työn valmistumislukukausi ja -vuosi: Syksy 2012 Sivumäärä: 61
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Tässä työssä tarkastellaan kunnan väestön demografisia muuttujia sekä kartoitetaan kirjaston palvelut ja käyttäjät. Tutkimuksessa kirjaston kohderyhmänä tarkastellaan kaikkia kuntalaisia. Kirjaston palveluita sekä olemassa olevia asiakkaita tarkastellaan kunnan väestöön verraten. Opinnäytetyön on tilannut Oulunsalon kirjasto.
Tutkimuksessa on käytetty valmiita tilastoja sekä dokumentteja kunnasta ja kirjastosta. Tilastokeskus on suurin aineiston lähde Oulunsalon kunnan ohella. Lisäksi menetelmänä käytettiin teemahaastattelua. Haastateltavina olivat Oulunsalon kirjaston työntekijät.
Työn viitekehyksessä käsitellään kuntalaista kirjaston asiakkaana sekä kirjastonkäyttöä ja sen tutkimista. Oulunsalon historiaa tarkastellaan hieman ja uuden Oulun kirjastoverkko esitellään. Kulttuuriympäristön selvityksessä käydään läpi kunnan aktiivista harraste-, järjestö- ja kulttuuritoimintaa.
Väestöselvityksessä saatuja tietoja pyritään havainnollistamaan graafisin esityksin. Palvelu- ja käyttäjäryhmäselvityksen sekä aiempien yleisistä kirjastoista tehtyjen tutkimusten perusteella Oulunsalon kirjasto on piirteiltään tyypillinen suomalainen kunnankirjasto.ABSTRACT
Oulu University of Applied Sciences
Degree Programme in Library and Information Services
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Author(s): Jenni Backman
Title of thesis: Customer analysis of Oulunsalo Library
Supervisor(s): Ulla Virranniemi
Term and year when the thesis was submitted: Autumn 2012 Number of pages: 61
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In this thesis I examine demographical variables of local population and survey the library’s services and users. Every habitant of Oulunsalo is considered as library’s target group. Library services and existing customers are assimilated on local population. Thesis is made for the library of Oulunsalo.
As research material is used statistics and documents. Majority of the material is produced by Statistics Finland and Oulunsalo municipal. Thesis contains also theme interview where the workers of the library is interviewed.
I review citizen as library user, library use and library research in the framework. I examine the history of Oulunsalo and its library briefly. Library services of new Oulu are also reviewed. In survey of culture environment I look in to lively organization and culture activities of Oulunsalo.
In report of population structure information is clarified with graphics. Library of Oulunsalo didn’t depart from other public libraries in the service and customer group survey, if compared on other research made from public libraries
Evolutionary trends of tropical calcareous nannofossils in the Late Neogene
No full textExamination of Middle-Late Miocene sediments recovered during ODP Leg 154 in western equatorial Atlantic has led to identification of evolutionary transitions in some groups of late Neogene calcareous nannofossils. Through analyses of high resolution samples (10-cm sample interval equivalent to average interval of 6 kyr) we were able to document the origin of the genera Catinaster, Amaurolithus, and Ceratolithus, and the nannofossil species Discoaster berggrenii and D. quinqueramus. The presence of intermediate morphotypes between end-members representing distinct species sheds new light on phylogenetic relationships and/or confirms relationships suggested in previous studies. The mode and timing of the evolutionary transitions described are discussed. Successive branching from Triquetrorhabdulus rugosus is demonstrated for Amaurolithus primus, 'Amaurolithus amplificus', and Ceratolithus acutus. A new genus is therefore established, Nicklithus, type species Nicklithus amplificus n. comb. A new species is described, Ceratolithus larrymayeri n. sp. The genera Triquetrorhabdulus, Amaurolithus, Nicklithus and Ceratolithus all belong to the family Ceratolithaceae
Immigrant girls perceive less stress
No full textImmigrant girls perceive less stress.Lindblad F, Backman L, Akerstedt T.Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. [email protected]: To develop a new stress scale and use it for investigating impact of ethnicity on perception of stress. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: One thousand one hundred and twenty-four students (grades 6-9) from 14 schools filled in a questionnaire at school with questions about age, sex, use of language at home (proxy for cultural background), stress and stressors. Factor analysis and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: Two-stress dimensions were identified, 'pressure'(7 items, Cronbach's alpha 0.862) and 'activation'(4 items, Cronbach's alpha 0.767). Scores on the two scales and a separate 'stress' item were higher in girls and increased with grade. Use of another language than Swedish at home showed a significant effect only for activation, with lower scores in girls. The interaction effect between sex and language was significant for all variables and was due mainly to lower stress in girls using another language than Swedish at home. CONCLUSION: This new stress scale has some promising qualities like a condensed format, basis in a specific stress concept and formulated to be as age and culture independent as possible. Immigrant girls seem to perceive less stress than Swedish born girls, which opens up for questions about protective mechanisms.</p
An expanded Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in a pelagic setting of the Southern Alps (central-western Tethys)
No full textAn integrated micropalaeontological (planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils), mineralogical and stable isotope investigation was carried out across the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary in a previously undescribed hemipelagic section (Forada
section) cropping out in the Piave River Valley (Southern Alps, Belluno Province, NE Italy). Our results suggest that an apparently
complete K/T transition with an expanded basal Danian is preserved in the Forada section. The K/T boundary is marked by a ca. 1.5-
cm-thick clay interval intercalated in the pelagic carbonates of the Scaglia Rossa Formation. The boundary clay, characterised by an
iridium anomaly, is constituted by a basal 1–2 mm-thick “green layer” and an overlying “red layer”. Below the boundary clay, the
calcareous nannofossil Micula murus Zone and the planktonic foraminiferal Plummerita hankteninoides Zone, that characterise the
terminal Maastrichtian in complete sections, have been identified. Virtually all the calcareous plankton biohorizons normally utilised
in the early Danian have been recognised. Interestingly, the ranking of the various biohorizons is the same observed elsewhere if
considering the single plankton groups separately, while several inconsistencies emerge if considering the relative succession of the
two calcareous plankton groups simultaneously.We caution to infer hiatuses on a section based only on the spacing of the biohorizons
of a single group because of the risk of diachroneities in the stressed early Danian environment. By comparing the “distance” of the
key biohorizons (i.e. the First Occurrence (FO) of Cruciplacolithus primus and the Last Occurrence (LO) of Parvularugoglobigerina
eugubina) from the boundary clay at Forada and in other complete classical sections, we have inferred that the early Danian is
expanded in the Forada section. The section seems ideally suited for studying the recovery pattern of the pelagic ecosystem and
calcareous plankton communities in the aftermath of the K/T catastrophe in a pelagic setting of the western central Tethys. The
adaptive radiation of planktonic foraminifera was very rapid in contrast with the delayed diversification of coccolithophores. The
latter show a ca. 21-cm-thick “dead zone” that is followed by a long-lasting survival interval (ca. 180-cm-thick, that might represent some 200 kyr) dominated by persistent Cretaceous coccolithophores and calcareous dinoflagellate Thoracosphaera spp. The temporal pattern in recovery of the coccolithophore and planktonic foraminiferal communities is decoupled as well pointing to their varying sensitivities to the K/T perturbation. It appears that the ecospace occupied by coccolithophores in the terminal Maastrichtian was occupied in the initial Danian by the calcareous dinoflagellates (Thoracosphaera spp.), that remained a significant component of the assemblage up to the base of the Prinsius dimorphosus Zone of Romein [Romein, A.J.T., 1979. Lineages in Early Paleogene calcareous nannoplankton. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins, 22. 231 pp.], probably in the early Chron C29n. On the contrary,planktonic foraminifera seem to reach stable conditions earlier, in the late Cruciplacolithus primus Zone. The early Danian interval considered is also characterised by low Sr/Ca ratio of the biogenic carbonates that would suggest dramatically low coccolithophore productivity conditions, in agreement with previous flux studies.We speculate that the altered ecological structure of phytoplankton community and the low productivity of coccolithophores severely affected the efficiency of the transfer of organic carbon from the photic zone to the deep ocean, thus supporting the early Danian “living ocean” model of D'Hondt et al. [D'Hondt, S., Donaghay, P., Zachos, J.C., Luttenberg, D., Lindinger, M., 1998. Organic carbon fluxes and ecological recovery from the Cretaceous–Tertiary mass extinction. Science 282, 276–279]
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum from a central western Tethys perspective: The Forada Section (NE Italy)
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