177 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-dst-10.1177_19322968231157431 – Supplemental material for Diagnostic Accuracy of Perception Threshold Tracking in the Detection of Small Fiber Damage in Type 1 Diabetes
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-dst-10.1177_19322968231157431 for Diagnostic Accuracy of Perception Threshold Tracking in the Detection of Small Fiber Damage in Type 1 Diabetes by Johan Røikjer, Suganthiya Santhiapillai Croosu, Benn Falch Sejergaard, Tine Maria Hansen, Jens Brøndum Frøkjær, Chris Bath Søndergaard, Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Rayaz A. Malik, Esben Nielsen, Carsten Dahl Mørch and Niels Ejskjaer in Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology</p
Sæbygaar Forest Chapel and Crematorium: the last journey in the light of the forest
No full textDette afgangsprojekts emne er et kapel og krematorium i Sæbygård Skov ved Sæby i Vendsyssel. Projektet tager afsæt i at skabe en speciel og meningsfyldt oplevelse omkring menneskets sidste rejse – et rum for afskeden. Kapellet og krematoriet etablerer værdighed og nærhed i afskeden samt danner rammen om en fortælling omkring den sidste rejse. Danmark er religionsmæssigt præget at pluralisme – et multietnisk samfund - og intentionen bag kapellet og krematoriet i Sæbygård Skov er at skabe et multireligiøst afskedsrum. Gennem det multireligiøse rums placering i skoven opnås der en helhed mellem oplevelse og atmosfære. Den landskabelige kontekst og stedets ånd indarbejdes i kapellet og krematoriet og påvirker udtrykket og atmosfæren od derved opstår der en samme Det faglige fokus er lagt i bearbejdningen af lys – både dagslys og kunstig belysning. Lyset er i projektet stemningsskabende og er virkemiddel der understreger konstruktion og materialitet og giver derigennem kapellet og krematoriet stoflighed og dybde. Bearbejdningen af lyset som et arkitektonisk virkemiddel skaber interaktion mellem rumligheder, funktioner og stemningen i kapellet og krematoriet, hvilket indfanger afskeden og stedets ånd.The theme for this thesis is a Chapel and Crematorium in Sæbygård Skov near Sæby in Vendsyssel – the northern part of Denmark. The project takes its starting point in the creating of a special and meaningful experience in relation to the death and the human’s last journey. The Chapel and Crematorium establish dignity and intimacy around the death and creates a narrative about the last journey. Religion in Denmark is marked by pluralism and is a multi-ethnic society. The intention behind the Chapel and Crematorium in Sæbygård Skov is to address this multi-ethnic society. The location in the forest creates an entirety between experience and atmosphere. The scenic context and the genius loci are incorporated in the Chapel and Crematorium and affect the visual expression and atmosphere. This creates a connection between landscape, space and atmosphere which altogether generates the settings for the last goodbye. Daylight and artificial light has been the academic focal point throughout the thesis. In the project light has been used to create atmosphere by using it to emphasise construction and materiality. This gives the Chapel and Crematorium texture and depth. Light as an architectural effect fosters interaction between spatiality, functions and atmosphere in the Chapel and Crematorium, which captures the last farewell and the genius loci
Polyphenolers hæmmende effekt på fedtsyresyntesen: Inhibition of fatty acid synthesis by polyphenols
No full textAbstrakt I dette projekt ønskes en klarlægning af, hvordan den mest aktive polyphenol strukturelt vil være karakteriseret, på baggrund af dens hæmmende effekt på dannelsen af fedtsyrer. Polyphenoler er naturligt forekommende stoffer, hvor et antal af disse forbindelser, anses som værende særlige virkningsfulde i forbindelse med fedtsyresyntesen. Sidstnævnte er et væsentligt område i forskningen omkring fedme, med dets uønskede konsekvenser for den almene sundhedstilstand. Med udgangspunkt i ovenstående, undersøges i dette projekt, hvilke polyphenoler der eksisterer i rabarberroden Rheum Rhabarbarum ”Timberley Early”. Dette udføres ved eksperimentel oprensning, efterfulgt af LC-massespektrometrisk analyse af fraktionerne. Det litterære aspekt har taget udgangspunkt i studier, omhandlende identifikation af potentielle strukturer for inaktivering af fedtsyresyntesen. Kilder påpeger hvorledes morin og lignende forbindelser hæmmer syntesen reversibelt ved lav koncentration, samt hvordan catechiner esterificeret med gallussyre, hæmmer syntesen irreversibelt, ved omtrent samme koncentration. Det ses, at en inhibitor der hæmmer reversibel og irreversibel vil være at foretrække. I den pågældende rabarberrod blev oprenset et stof med samme molmasse som resveratrol. Det konkluderes at resveratrol hæmmer FAS, men hvorvidt denne kan føre til en vægtreduktion er endnu uvist.Abstrakt I dette projekt ønskes en klarlægning af, hvordan den mest aktive polyphenol strukturelt vil være karakteriseret, på baggrund af dens hæmmende effekt på dannelsen af fedtsyrer. Polyphenoler er naturligt forekommende stoffer, hvor et antal af disse forbindelser, anses som værende særlige virkningsfulde i forbindelse med fedtsyresyntesen. Sidstnævnte er et væsentligt område i forskningen omkring fedme, med dets uønskede konsekvenser for den almene sundhedstilstand. Med udgangspunkt i ovenstående, undersøges i dette projekt, hvilke polyphenoler der eksisterer i rabarberroden Rheum Rhabarbarum ”Timberley Early”. Dette udføres ved eksperimentel oprensning, efterfulgt af LC-massespektrometrisk analyse af fraktionerne. Det litterære aspekt har taget udgangspunkt i studier, omhandlende identifikation af potentielle strukturer for inaktivering af fedtsyresyntesen. Kilder påpeger hvorledes morin og lignende forbindelser hæmmer syntesen reversibelt ved lav koncentration, samt hvordan catechiner esterificeret med gallussyre, hæmmer syntesen irreversibelt, ved omtrent samme koncentration. Det ses, at en inhibitor der hæmmer reversibel og irreversibel vil være at foretrække. I den pågældende rabarberrod blev oprenset et stof med samme molmasse som resveratrol. Det konkluderes at resveratrol hæmmer FAS, men hvorvidt denne kan føre til en vægtreduktion er endnu uvist
Erratum: Internet and mobile-based psychological interventions: Applications, efficacy and potential for improving mental health. A report of the EFPA E-Health Taskforce (European Psychologist (2018) 23 (167-187) DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000318)
No full textThe article entitled Internet and mobile-based psychological interventions: Applications, efficacy and potential for improving mental health. A report of the EFPA E-Health Taskforce. by Ebert, D. D., Van Daele, T., Nordgreen, T., Karekla, M., Compare, A., Zarbo, C., Brugnera, B., Overland, S., Trebbi, G., Jensen, K. L., Kaehlke, F. (on behalf of the EFPA E-Health Taskforce), & Baumeister, H. (2018, European Psychologist, 23(2), 167-187. https://doi.org/ 10.1027/1016-9040/a000318) contained an error on the first page: The author Jacqui Taylor is missing and the list of authors should correctly read as follows: David Daniel Ebert1, Tom Van Daele2, Tine Nordgreen3, Maria Karekla4, Angelo Compare6, Cristina Zarbo5, Agostino Brugnera5, Svein Overland7, Glauco Trebbi8, Kit L. Jensen9, Fanny Kaehlke (on behalf of the EFPA E-Health Taskforce)1, Harald Baumeister10, and Jacqui Taylor11 1Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen- Nrnberg, Erlangen, Germany 2Department of Applied Psychology, Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Antwerp, Belgium 3Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 4Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus 5Department of Human and Social Science, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy 6Human Factors and Technology in Healthcare, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, BG, Italy 7SuperEgo AS, Trondheim, Norway 8Trebbipsicologie, Luxembourg & Societe Luxembourgeoise de Psychologie SLP, Luxembourg 9Private Practice, Skagen, Denmark 10Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Germany 11Psychology Department, Bournemouth University, UK The authors regret any inconvenience or confusion this error may have caused
Vi har brug for dit blod, mand!
No full textThis project is a study of the audience and reception to the campaign Vi har brug for dit blod, mand! The campaign is aimed at young men at the age of 17 to 25, and consist of a poster and an article. The famous duo, Peter Falktoft and Esben Bjerre, are ambassadors for the campaign. The study is based on interviews with representatives of the target group. This empirical material is used to form a general knowledge about the target group and their relation to blood donation, and to examine their view on the poster and the article. Three theorists support the analysis: Sepstrup, Schutz and Schrøder. Preben Sepstrup on the five features of the receiver is used as a guideline to cover relevant themes in the audience analysis. Alfred Schutz contributes to define blood donations relevance to the target group, and Kim Schrøder’s media reception subsidizes with identification of the target group’s perception of the poster and article. The results show that the target group was influenced by the personal relationship between the ambassadors, Esben and Peter. Furthermore they emphasise that the motivation to give blood increases if a friend need it. However, the lack of information has a negative effect on them. They especially seek practical information, for example on how long the blood collection takes. In future development of the campaign, it is important to implement practical information. Many informants finds it cumbersome to donate blood, which should be met with information. Furthermore, it is important for the sender, GivBlod, to meet their audience on the social media, since it is a big part of the everyday.This project is a study of the audience and reception to the campaign Vi har brug for dit blod, mand! The campaign is aimed at young men at the age of 17 to 25, and consist of a poster and an article. The famous duo, Peter Falktoft and Esben Bjerre, are ambassadors for the campaign. The study is based on interviews with representatives of the target group. This empirical material is used to form a general knowledge about the target group and their relation to blood donation, and to examine their view on the poster and the article. Three theorists support the analysis: Sepstrup, Schutz and Schrøder. Preben Sepstrup on the five features of the receiver is used as a guideline to cover relevant themes in the audience analysis. Alfred Schutz contributes to define blood donations relevance to the target group, and Kim Schrøder’s media reception subsidizes with identification of the target group’s perception of the poster and article. The results show that the target group was influenced by the personal relationship between the ambassadors, Esben and Peter. Furthermore they emphasise that the motivation to give blood increases if a friend need it. However, the lack of information has a negative effect on them. They especially seek practical information, for example on how long the blood collection takes. In future development of the campaign, it is important to implement practical information. Many informants finds it cumbersome to donate blood, which should be met with information. Furthermore, it is important for the sender, GivBlod, to meet their audience on the social media, since it is a big part of the everyday
Mediated relations - the use of smartphones among youths
No full textThe project’s research interest originates as a reaction to the on-going debate that takes place in the media and among researchers and scholars wherein polarizing views on the relationship between and long-term effects of technology, humans and society are being argued. In this case especially youths’ so called ‘excessive use’ of the smartphone and social media are being criticized and articulated as a social and psychological problem that in result will affect them negatively, making them emotionally stunted and unequipped to further their development in becoming law abiding citizens that can live up to the norms and requirements of society. To challenge this point of view and gain insight as to why this view came to dominate the discourses of youth problems, this paper researches the understandings and experiences of conditions for young people’s lives understood and articulated by the youths themselves. By talking to them about how their social relationships are practiced without and through the technology we attempt to align the paper’s understandings with those of youth researcher Sven Mørch, who advocates the exploring of their experienced living conditions in order to comprehend their intentions and actions. In this case the smartphone becomes a collective tool for young people to deal with their lives, seek stability in their many abrupt networks (that takes place across time and space) and ultimately in their process of becoming.In order to understand the significance of the smartphone and the social networking site Facebook have for young people’s social relationships, and how the use of the technology can be understood a combination of a social constructionist understanding and an extended Actor-Network Theory (ANT) approach was applied. This was done to capture the workings of how different actors – these being both human and non-human - intermingle, ultimately creating hybrid relations and networks.It is concluded that the smartphone and social media together are so intermingled with the young subject that one cannot transcend it and separate oneself from the hybrid relation and the workings of networks they are effected by. This observation is one that showcase the strength of combining ANT and a social constructionist approach to discourse as yet another actor within the network. By doing this it became possible to understand the implicit understandings and the use of normative discourses of things and phenomena that are naturalized among the youths when asked about what role the smartphone and social media play when practising friendship and networks.<br/
ITQ subscales:SPSS syntax for score conversion and DIF-equating after Rasch analysis
No full textThe SPSS syntax provides is concerned with conversions of the scores from the International Trauma Questionnare (ITQ) following ietm analysis by Rasch measurement models. More specifically, it provides: 1) Conversion of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) raw scores to weighted maximum likelihood estimates of person parameter estimates adjusted for DIF as well as DIF-equating of the raw score for differential item functioning (DIF) relative to gender and time since trauma. 2) Conversion of disturbances in self-organisation (DSO) raw scores to weighted maximum likelihood estimates of person parameter estimates. The syntax is based on results reported in Tables 6 and 7 in: Nielsen, T., Elklit, A., Vang, M. L., Brødsgaard Nielsen, S. Auning-Hansen, M. & Palic, A. (2023). Cross-cultural validity and psychometric properties of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) in a clinical refugee sample. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2023.217225
Sundhedsplatformen - bare et it-system?: Et kritisk psykologisk projekt om spændingsfeltet mellem intentioner og oplevelser i en forandringsproces
No full textIn this project we look into the implementation of a new it-system called Sundhedsplatformen within the danish healthcare system. The it-system is developed by an american software company and it will take over from 30 different independent it-systems which are currently used in danish hospitals. By the end of 2017 all hospitals in two large regions of Denmark will have implemented the new platform.We focus on one of the first hospitals to go-live with the platform which happens on the 21st May this year. We look into the period before the actual go-live, when the implementation is in its preliminary stage and before the healthstaff has started using the new platform. Our purpose is to investigate how the nurses on this first hospital experience the implementation of the new platform during this preliminary stage and how these experiences relate to the intentions and hopes of the hospital management. In order to do so, we have interviewed two members of the hospital management and five members of staff who are all nurses on the same ward of the hospital. Our theoretical point of view comes from the critical psychology. In addition to this we include theory on liminality. On this basis we have found out that there is a difference between how the nurses experience the implementation, and the hospital managements hopes and intentions of the implementation. The different standpoints of all the participants lead to different possibilities for participating in the implementation. In this liminal period of the implementation the nurses experience insecurity and inaction. The management on the other hand, do not experience the same insecurity in the liminal period, as they are engaged with fulfilling the goals of the implementation. Finally, some of the intentions of the management turn out to have the opposite effect. This is due to a rational perspective of the implementation, which does not leave room for incorporating conflicts. This leads to the nurses experiencing a removal of their responsibility.AbstractIn this project we look into the implementation of a new it-system called Sundhedsplatformen within the danish healthcare system. The it-system is developed by an american software company and it will take over from 30 different independent it-systems which are currently used in danish hospitals. By the end of 2017 all hospitals in two large regions of Denmark will have implemented the new platform. We focus on one of the first hospitals to go-live with the platform which happens on the 21st May this year. We look into the period before the actual go-live, when the implementation is in its preliminary stage and before the healthstaff has started using the new platform. Our purpose is to investigate how the nurses on this first hospital experience the implementation of the new platform during this preliminary stage and how these experiences relate to the intentions and hopes of the hospital management. In order to do so, we have interviewed two members of the hospital management and five members of staff who are all nurses on the same ward of the hospital. Our theoretical point of view comes from the critical psychology. In addition to this we include theory on liminality. On this basis we have found out that there is a difference between how the nurses experience the implementation, and the hospital managements hopes and intentions of the implementation. The different standpoints of all the participants lead to different possibilities for participating in the implementation. In this liminal period of the implementation the nurses experience insecurity and inaction. The management on the other hand, do not experience the same insecurity in the liminal period, as they are engaged with fulfilling the goals of the implementation. Finally, some of the intentions of the management turn out to have the opposite effect. This is due to a rational perspective of the implementation, which does not leave room for incorporating conflicts. This leads to the nurses experiencing a removal of their responsibility. <br/
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