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Swedish sniper on urban environment : Transformation, development and requirements
No full textDagens konflikter utspelar sig mestadels i helt eller delvis bebyggd miljö och vikten av en uppdaterad och väl fungerande prickskytteförmåga är därför central. Detta till trots, återfinns stora brister i den svenska prickskytteutbildningen vad avser just den urbana miljön. Denna uppsats syftar till att dels bidra med nya infallsvinklar samt ge ett användbart arbetsunderlag för Försvarsmaktens vidare utveckling i ämnet. Genom att komma på det klara med hur prickskyttar utbildas och används i Sverige idag och jämföra detta med utländska modeller och andra länders goda och sämre erfarenheter, vill jag ge förslag på hur den svenska prickskytteutbildningen skulle kunna utvecklas. För att ge uppdaterad information har jag begränsat min efterforskning genom att mina studier av andra länders prickskytteerfarenheter avser det senaste decenniets förehavanden, snarare än utvalda länders specifika tillvägagångssätt. Jag har även endast studerat, för svensk trupp, etiskt tillämpbara delar av stridsteknik. Tidigare forskning kring ämnet är koncentrerat till lessons learned-dokument, och en av anledningarna till denna uppsats är att dra faktiska slutsatser av sådana och lägga grund för en tillämpbar utveckling. Uppsatsen behandlar förutom ovanstående även en del historia om prickskytten som sådan, beskrivning av problem jag uppmärksammat i den svenska prickskytteutbildningen samt en del om det urbana slagfältet kontra det traditionella. Med detta som grund ger jag i min slutsats förslag på förbättrande förändringar avseende de urbana delarna i den svenska prickskytteutbildningen.Today's conflicts are mainly taking place in urban environments and the importance of updated and well-functioning sniper ability is central. Despite this, there are significant deficiencies in the Swedish sniper training with regard to the urban environment. This document aims to partly contribute to new approaches and provide a useful working basis for the Swedish armed forces´ further development on the subject. By defining how snipers are trained and used in Sweden today, and compare it with other countries' experiences, I would like to give suggestions on how the Swedish sniper training could be developed. To provide updated information, I have limited my search to studying different countries´ sniper experience from the last decade, rather than a country-specific approach. I have only studied, for Swedish soldiers, ethically applicable parts of the battle techniques. Earlier research on the subject is concentrated on lessons learned documents, and one of the reasons for this essay is to draw real conclusions from them and present a useful structure for future development. The essay also deals with some history about the sniper concept, the description of the problems I highlighted in the Swedish sniper training and part of the urban battlefield versus the traditional. On this basis, I am presenting my conclusion and suggestions for improvement changes for the urban parts in Swedish sniper training
Must i förändring : Kvalitet, hastighet och kommersialisering i en transversell underrättelsemiljö
No full textThis study investigates how increasing competition from private intelligence providers affects the analytical practices of state intelligence services, focusing on the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (Must). It examines how commercial actors influence internal procedures, credibility assessments, institutional authority, and organizational adaptation. Using a qualitative, abductive design based on semi-structured elite interviews and narrative analysis, the research finds that private providers challenge traditional norms by introducing new temporal logics, market-driven priorities, and alternative standards of analytical validity. In response, Must has reconfigured workflows, increased operational tempo, and selectively engaged external expertise while maintaining strict quality controls. The study concludes that private actors serve not only as competitors but also as catalysts for innovation. Their presence fosters reflexivity, institutional learning, and epistemic pluralism. These findings contribute to understanding intelligence work as a hybrid, contested field shaped by evolving public-private dynamics and shifting expectations of expertise
Must i förändring : Kvalitet, hastighet och kommersialisering i en transversell underrättelsemiljö
No full textThis study investigates how increasing competition from private intelligence providers affects the analytical practices of state intelligence services, focusing on the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (Must). It examines how commercial actors influence internal procedures, credibility assessments, institutional authority, and organizational adaptation. Using a qualitative, abductive design based on semi-structured elite interviews and narrative analysis, the research finds that private providers challenge traditional norms by introducing new temporal logics, market-driven priorities, and alternative standards of analytical validity. In response, Must has reconfigured workflows, increased operational tempo, and selectively engaged external expertise while maintaining strict quality controls. The study concludes that private actors serve not only as competitors but also as catalysts for innovation. Their presence fosters reflexivity, institutional learning, and epistemic pluralism. These findings contribute to understanding intelligence work as a hybrid, contested field shaped by evolving public-private dynamics and shifting expectations of expertise
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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