163 research outputs found
Fotografier i Emilie Demant Hatts bok Med Lapperne i Højfjeldet: Fotografiske møter, biografiske inskripsjoner og "våre" historier
No full textArtikkelen utforsker fotografier tatt av den danske kunstneren, fotografen og forfatteren Emilie Demant Hatt
(1873–1958). Fotografiene ble første gang publisert i 1913 i boka Med lapperne i højfjeldet. Gjennom ulike perspektiver
på bildene viser artikkelen hvordan det er mulig å se forbi den koloniale «overflaten» til bilder tatt av denne periodens
reisende og etnografer, og hvordan repatriering og kunstneriske reappropriasjoner kan aktivere bildenes innhold på
nye måter.
This article explores photographs taken by the Danish artist, photographer and author Emilie Demant Hatt
(1873–1958), first published in 1913 in the book Med Lapperne i Højfjeldet. Taking on different perspectives, these
images show how it is possible to look behind the colonial «surface» of images taken by former ethnographers and
travellers, and how repatriation and artistic reappropriations can activate the images’ content in new ways
Biographical disruption following traumatic brain injury and experienced transition returning to work
No full textMaster i rehabilitering og habiliteringFormål: Å bidra med kunnskap om hvordan mennesker som har fått en mild traumatisk hodeskade erfarte og opplevde prosessen tilbake til arbeid. En stor andel av dem som opplever en traumatisk hodeskade er i arbeidsfør alder, og arbeidsdeltakelse er en viktig målsetting for rehabiliteringen. Det å være i arbeid er viktig for både selvet, sosial interaksjon, livskvalitet og økonomi.
Metode: Det ble gjennomført individuelle intervjuer med fire kvinner og to menn (29-61 år). Intervjuene ble analysert med bruk av stegvis-deduktiv induktiv metode (SDI).
Resultater: Oppstarten i arbeidet ble referert til som å «stå i det». Informantene beskrev en opplevd krise, viktigheten av å ta valget om å starte og betydningen av tilstedeværelse på arbeidsplassen. Opptrappingsfasen uttrykkes som en «berg-og-dal-bane» med en endret opplevelse av tid og en redusert kapasitet, samt viktigheten av å bli sett og verdsatt på arbeidsplassen. Gjenintegrert i arbeidet ble sitert som «tilbake – med enkelte planer lagt på hyllen», og informantene formidlet at erfaringene hadde ført til endrede prioriteringer og planer.
Konklusjon: Arbeidsdeltakelse betraktes som viktig for strukturering og oppfattelse av tid. Det er tidkrevende å orientere seg i en ny situasjon, få erfaring med egen mestring og skape balanse i hverdagen. Det er viktig å legge til rette for sosial interaksjon og bruk av sosiale ferdigheter i oppgaveutførelsen på arbeidsplassen. Arbeidssituasjonen er ikke umiddelbart synlig og observerbar for omgivelsene og den enkeltes opplevelse av nåværende og fremtidig arbeidsevne er betydningsfull i prosessen tilbake til arbeid. En viktig følelse i arbeidsdeltakelsen oppstod gjennom engasjement i sosiale relasjoner, lik «å gjøre», som førte til trivsel og selvfølelse, lik å «være». Det som utføres i arbeidet, og dets innflytelse på selvfølelsen vil sammen påvirke prosessens endring og utvikling. I et utviklingsperspektiv vil denne prosessen fortsette, og en slik prosess endrer fokus etter hvert som man beveger seg gjennom den.Purpose: To contribute knowledge about lived experiences regarding return to work following mild traumatic brain injury. Most brain injuries occur in people of working age, and employment participation is a key rehabilitation goal. Employment participation is important for self, social interaction, quality of life and economy.
Methods: Individual interviews were conducted with four women and two men (aged 29–61) and analysed using a stepwise-deductive inductive method.
Result: When starting the process of returning to work, referred to as “hang in there”, the informants described an experienced crisis, the importance of making the decision to return, and the value of being present at work. In the process, expressed as a “roller coaster”, they expressed having reduced capacity and a changed perception of time. To be seen and valued at the workplace was significant. Reintegrated at workplace was cited as “back – with some plans put aside”, the newly acquired knowledge led to some changed priorities and plans for further work.
Conclusions: Work participation is important for structure and time perception. It is time-consuming to orient in a new situation, gain experience with own proficiency and create balance in daily life. Facilitating social interaction and the use of social skills in task performance is important. A sense of being through occupational engagement arose in social relationships and self-exploration that enhanced feelings of self-worth. Occupation includes what has been done, and its influence on self-worth will together affect the process's change and development. From a developmental perspective, the process of development in adapting to the new work situation will continue, and focus will change as the individual moves through the process.publishedVersio
The discovery of SycO reveals a new function for type three secretion effector chaperones
No full textThe Type Three Secretion (T3S) system is a device used by many Gram-negative pathogens that allows bacteria to deliver effector proteins straight into the eukaryotic cell cytosol. These effectors interfere with various signaling pathways to subvert the host cell functions. The secretion machinery of the T3S system consist of a basal body spanning the bacterial inner and outer membrane followed by a stiff hollow needle outside the bacterium. The fully assembled secretion apparatus constitute a continuous hollow conduit that connects the bacteria to the eukaryotic target cell. After cell contact, virulence proteins -called effectors- are injected directly into the cytosol of the host cell via the T3S apparatus. Several effectors of the T3S system require the assistance of specific cytosolic chaperones to be efficiently exported. There are three classes of T3S chaperones. Effector proteins are assisted by Class I chaperones. Although Class I chaperones are well characterized, their main function is still a matter of controversy. In this thesis, we demonstrate that orf155 encodes a specific chaperone for the effector YopO that we called SycO. We showed that SycO enhances YopO secretion in vitro and is required for translocation of YopO into infected cells. By pulldown assay we demonstrated that residues 20 to 77 of YopO are required and sufficient for SycO binding. Using crosslinking experiments and size exclusion chromatography analysis, we determined the stoichiometry of purified SycO and YopO-SycO complexes. SycO alone forms dimers in solution and the YopO-SycO complex has a 1:2 stoichiometry. These results suggested that SycO is a typical chaperone of the Class I. YopO is a serine/theronine kinase that interacts with Rho and Rac and disrupts the cytoskeleton of the target cells. YopO has been shown to localize at the cell plasma-membrane. By transfection of YopO-EGFP hybrid proteins into HEK293T cells, we demonstrated that the chaperone-binding domain (CBD) coincides with the membrane localization domain of YopO. Nevertheless, the CBD was not needed for the kinase activity of YopO. By ultracentrifugation, we also showed that the CBD causes YopO aggregation in the bacteria, when SycO does not cover it. Further, we show that the CBD of YopE and YopT also caused aggregation in the bacteria in the absence of SycE and SycT respectively. YopE, YopT and T3S effectors in other systems also act at the membrane of the eukaryotic host cell. We propose a new hypothesis concerning the role of T3S chaperones. The sub-cellular localization domain of effectors is aggregation-prone and creates the need for a chaperone inside bacteria. We propose that masking such aggregation-prone localization domains may be a general function for type III effector chaperones
How I Picture Us
No full textHow I Picture Us is a novel exploring the definition of family and the factors that determine how different people choose to apply their own definitions. The story unfolds through the eyes of Frances, her daughter Emilie, and occasionally her daughter Vanessa, all of whose lives and genes create a web that sometimes engenders and sometimes inhibits familial ties, depending on whose definitions are in effect. As events in the novel unfold, Emilie is forced to confront and redefine her own concepts of family. Her actions shape the reactions of her mother and her sister as all three women arrive at an altered perception of their family ties.
Note: This thesis is under a author requested embargo until 2210, after which it will become available in accordance with end of expected copyright protection. This embargo year is intentional and not an error
Ett leende på läpparna - stöd och strategier i bakfickan, En arbetsmiljöstudie på DSB First Sverige AB
No full textAbstract Author: Emilie Premberg Title: “A smiling face – support and strategies up one`s sleeve” A work environment study at DSB First Sverige AB. Supervisor: Charlotta Zettervall Assessor: Hans Swärd The aim of this study has been to find different “healthy-factors” that helps trainmanagers at DSB First to handle their situation at work with threat, violence and other negative stressors. A further purpose was to explain possible functions of these factors. The fact that many workplaces today invest a lot of resources in promoting health in the category of personnel without really having the knowledge of which factors that brings good effects makes this question interesting. It may be considered valuable to find out the staffs own opinion about effective “healthy-factors” that helps them to handle and feel good in their sometimes destructive workcondition. The empiric results have been analyzed from the theories of different coping strategies and the human resource management theory. The choice of theories was based on the idea that the coping strategies theory could help to explain the function of the more personal strategies, and that the human resource management theory could help to explain the function and need of different “healthy-factors” that more are related to the relationship between the human individual and organization. The method that I have used in this study is quantitatively, based to make a statistic comparison possible. The quantitative approach has been completed with qualitative methods in order to make the work up of the data possible, and to receive a deeper understanding for the results. The outcome of the study shows that colleagues are very important for the trainmanagers. This can be understood as a need of social support in times of negative stressors. Other important “healthy-factors” were well being on the workplace for example in appreciating social interaction with the passengers, an understanding management and the strategy of not taking conflicts and critic personal. Key words: healthy-factors, threat and violence, coping strategies, human resource management, trainmanager
Return to work after traumatic brain injury: A randomised controlled trial, long-term employment probability and predictors of employment status
No full textThe aims of this thesis were to investigate: 1) the feasibility of delivering a compensatory cognitive rehabilitation intervention to individuals with mild and moderate TBI in Norway, 2) the effectiveness of a combined cognitive and vocational intervention compared to treatment as usual on employment outcomes after mild and moderate TBI, and 3) long-term employment probability and associated predictors up to 10 years after moderate and severe TBI.
The compensatory cognitive intervention was found feasible in a Norwegian civilian sample with TBI. Compared to those who received treatment as usual, a larger proportion of individuals who received the combined intervention had returned to work 3 months following study inclusion. Employment probability remained stable up to a decade after moderate and severe TBI, and could be predicted by injury severity and specific sociodemographic characteristics.
The findings demonstrate that interventions which include collaboration between healthcare and employment services may positively influence employment outcomes after TBI. The importance of providing regular follow-up to individuals at-risk of long-term unemployment after TBI is underlined
The effects of urban hydrology and elevated atmospheric deposition on nitrate retention and loss in urban wetlands
No full textWetlands are known for their ability to process nitrate inputs from uplands and groundwater and thus prevent nitrate discharge to sensitive waters. Wetlands in urban landscapes are subjected to numerous disturbances which may prevent them from serving as N sinks. The objective of this dissertation is to document N cycling in urban wetlands in the context of altered hydrology and elevated atmospheric N deposition, and to determine whether urban wetlands serve as sinks or sources of nitrate to receiving waters.
This study was conducted in palustrine, forested wetlands in northeastern New Jersey. In situ rates of net N mineralization, net nitrification, and denitrification were measured monthly for one year. Water table levels were monitored over five years, and soil and vegetation properties were characterized. Weekly nitrate inputs as throughfall and outputs as leachate were measured for one year and analyzed for stable isotopes of nitrogen and oxygen.
Due to altered hydrology, natural hydrogeomorphic setting was not an effective predictor of N cycling rates in urban wetlands. Many assumptions of functional assessment models used to make wetland management decisions were not met. Alternative models I developed using indicators of specific N functions successfully predicted nitrification rates, but they did not predict denitrification rates. Assessment of biogeochemical functions and reference standard site selection should be based on long-term monitoring of water table levels. Assessment models should be targeted to specific functions and may need to utilize intensive field or laboratory techniques. Local scale factors are better descriptors of N cycling rates than indicators of landscape scale urbanization.
Nitrate inputs were higher in more urban sites, but there was no urban effect in nitrate outputs. Urban wetlands generally retained nitrate, as demonstrated by higher nitrate inputs than outputs. However, two sites did demonstrate overall loss of nitrate. Two other sites exhibited direct leaching of atmospherically-derived nitrate, suggesting a lower capacity for N retention. Nitrate retention is not universal in urban wetlands.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references
But Is It Art? Female Performers in the Café-Concert
No full textThe Café-Concert as an object of study has tended to attract the interest of art rather than theatre historians, despite the fact that it was the major form of popular entertainment in France during the nineteenth century. Similar but not identical to the English music hall of the same period, the Café-Concert produced a number of stars of national importance, a large majority of whom were women. Through the writings of journalists and commentators of the period, this article explores how these female performers were perceived and constructed as objects of the public gaze. The author, Geraldine Harris, is a Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster, with interests in both popular and feminist theatre
Paul Auster projektrapport
No full textAbstract The human race is still studying the likes of identity and existentialism, and has been doing so for the last many millenniums. The interest in knowing our own kind and origins has been subject in the field of humanities, from ancient greek to our day’s science of art, and we continue to study this endeavour. Through out history, literature has treated this question with a great deal of interest. To understand our own kind, we must explore and study what we as a race produce, in terms of art and literature, for these are expressions of the human mind. In this project report I will examine Paul Austers novel City of Glass, in which I will analyse the content using theory of litterateur. It will treat issues highlighted through the novel, concerning late modernity and self-identity as well as the metropolitan influence on the individual. The main focus is, the narration and creation of the characters within the story and how the author brings fourth different themes related to the late modern society. I have thought Paul Auster to not only imply the late modern society’s ambivalence nature, but also question the very existence of an identity core and the notion of a fixed identity.Abstract The human race is still studying the likes of identity and existentialism, and has been doing so for the last many millenniums. The interest in knowing our own kind and origins has been subject in the field of humanities, from ancient greek to our day’s science of art, and we continue to study this endeavour. Through out history, literature has treated this question with a great deal of interest. To understand our own kind, we must explore and study what we as a race produce, in terms of art and literature, for these are expressions of the human mind. In this project report I will examine Paul Austers novel City of Glass, in which I will analyse the content using theory of litterateur. It will treat issues highlighted through the novel, concerning late modernity and self-identity as well as the metropolitan influence on the individual. The main focus is, the narration and creation of the characters within the story and how the author brings fourth different themes related to the late modern society. I have thought Paul Auster to not only imply the late modern society’s ambivalence nature, but also question the very existence of an identity core and the notion of a fixed identity
Vem är ansvarig? : En samhällsvetenskaplig diskussion om utbrändhet
No full textUniversity of Örebro Department of social Sciences Sociology, Contnuation Course, 61-90hp. Essay 15hp. Spring 2008 Title: Who is resbonsible? A soceityscientific discussion about burnout. Author: Emilie Fuchs Abstract The purpose with this essay is to do a critical comparation between two different perspectives, burnout as an individual problem and burnout as a social problem. The first perspective states that the individual itself is responsible for her sickness while the second perspective states that the society and foremost the labour market should work in order to prevent people from beeing burned out. With that purpose in mind I want to enlighten and hopefully bring up the topic for discussion. The essay is based upon the following questions: • How can you sociologically understand the labour market of today? • How can you understand burnout in an individual context? • How can you understand burnout in a social context? By studying and reading four books, I have presented the two different perspectives of burnout. Two books represents burnout out of a social perspective whereas the individual perspective is advocated in the other two books. The results founded shows that the individual perspective means that the individual has to resolve his own problems even though the labour market is the main cause to why people becomes burned out. The social perspective, on the other hand, basically want the labour market to take responsibility and prevent burnouts. Through the results, my conclusion is that the individual perspective represents the individualised world we live in. The social perspective of burnout shows the importance of a good solidarity, mainly at work. This point of view could probably lead to a growing safety on the labour market, which presumably results in less burned out people. There are, after reading this essay, a few questions the reader may ask herself: Should not the society take responsibility and help those who are burned out? Does the structure of society contribute to the fact that people becomes burned out? Keywords: Burnout, Individual, Society, Work, FlexibilitySammanfattning Syftet med uppsatsen är att göra en kritisk jämförelse av två olika perspektiv, utbrändhet som ett individuellt problem och utbrändhet som ett samhälleligt problem. Det första perspektivet menar att individen själv ansvarar för om hon blir sjuk eller inte medan det andra perspektivet är av den åsikten att samhället och främst arbetsmarkanden ska arbeta för att människor inte ska bli utbrända. Med hjälp av detta syfte ska problemet utbrändhet belysas och förhoppningsvis få upp ämnet till diskussion. Denna uppsats baseras på följande frågeställningar: • Hur kan man sociologiskt förstå dagens arbetsmarknad? • Hur går det att förstå utbrändheten i en individuell kontext? • Hur kan man förstå utbrändheten i en samhällelig kontext? Genom att studera och läsa fyra böcker har jag presenterat de två olika perspektiven av utbrändhet. Två böcker representerar utbrändhet ur ett samhälleligt perspektiv medan det individuella perspektivet förespråkas i de andra två böckerna. De resultaten jag har fått fram visar att det individuella perspektivet menar att individen själv ska lösa och ta tag i sina problem trots att arbetsmarknaden är huvudorsaken till att vi människor blir utbrända. Det samhälleliga perspektivet är av den åsikten att arbetsmarkanden, och samhället till viss del, ska ta ansvar och hjälpa individen. Individen ska i viss mån också själv förebygga och komma ur sin utbrändhet. Genom resultatet har jag kunnat dra slutsatsen att det individuella perspektivet representerar den individualiserade värld som vi lever i. Det andra synsättet på utbrändhet visar vikten av att vi har en bra sammanhållning i främst arbetet, vilket leder till en trygghet som gör att vi inte kommer att ha lika stor mängd sjuka. Efter att ha läst denna uppsats kan exempelvis följande frågor ställas: Borde inte hela samhället ta ett ansvar och hjälpa de som är utbrända? Är det de samhällsstrukturer vi lever i som bidrar till att vi blir utbrända? Nyckelord: Utbrändhet, Individ, Samhälle, Arbete, Flexibilite
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