272 research outputs found
Logging History Maps Annotated by Miron Heinselman
No full textMaps in set: "Logging Roads in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, 1974" (showing year-round and winter roads) and "Extent of Early Cuttings in the Superior National Forest" (includes index sheet).The Logging History Maps are maps annotated by Miron "Bud" Heinselman and J.W. "Bill" Trygg. The maps were given to the University of Minnesota by the author in 1992. The maps were used by the author for his book, The Boundary Waters Wilderness Ecosystem (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).Heinselman, Miron L.; Trygg, J. W.; United States Department of Agriculture; United States Forest Service. (2014). Logging History Maps Annotated by Miron Heinselman. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/168200
Analyzing variables for district heating collaborations between energy utilities and industries
No full textOne vital means of raising energy efficiency is to introduce district heating in industry. The aim of this paper is to study factors which promote and inhibit district heating collaborations between industries and utilities. The human factors involved showed to affect district heating collaborations more than anything else does. Particularly risk, imperfect and asymmetric information, credibility and trust, inertia and values are adequate variables when explaining the establishment or failure of industry-energy utility collaborations, while heterogeneity, access to capital and hidden costs appear to be of lower importance. A key conclusion from this study is that in an industry-energy utility collaboration, it is essential to nurture the business relationship. In summary, successful collaboration depends more on the individuals and organizations involved in the relationship between the two parties than on the technology used in the collaboration.Original Publication:Patrik Thollander, Inger-Lise Svensson and Louise Trygg, Analyzing variables for district heating collaborations between energy utilities and industries, 2010, ENERGY, (35), 9, 3649-3656.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2010.05.009Copyright: Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.http://www.elsevier.com
Essays on Risk, Privatization and Regulated Markets [Elektronisk resurs]
No full textThis dissertation contains three essays on the theme of risk, privatization, and regulated markets. In the first chapter, the author analyzes the deregulation of the Swedish pharmacy market. Of specific interest is how the market expands and the chains' decisions on opening new stores. The second chapter is joint work between the author and his supervisor Professor Richard Friberg. They consider a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and analyze how competition affects the firms' risk-taking. Using the model, the consequences for the economy of voluntary insurance are compared with mandating it. The third chapter studies the use of private providers in welfare services such as elderly care. The author models the trade-off between possible cost reductions and innovations against the loss of control from introducing competition. The conclusions are then evaluated using data from in-home services for the elderly in Sweden. The dissertation aims to add to the understanding of the specific markets studied and provide insight into how market outcomes are shaped by regulation.
Er medikamentell hjemmeabort under svangerskapsuke 9 en effektiv og trygg metode?
No full textFra 12.januar 2009 ble det ved Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge avd. Tromsø innført et tilbud om hjemmeabort blant abortsøkende kvinner med svangerskapsvarighet under 9 uker. Metoden benyttes også ved flere andre sykehus i Norge. Det finnes ingen publisert studie om hjemmeabort i Norge. Dette er en kvalitetsstudie for å se om hjemmeabort er trygt og gjennomførbart.
All data i studien var registrert prospektivt av behandlende lege og sykepleier. Pasientjournaler til kvinner som hadde gjennomgått medikamentell abort ble gjennomgått, og de som valgte og gjøre det hjemme ble plukket ut. Ved legekonsultasjon ble det fylt ut standardisert skjema; «journal ved begjæring av svangerskapsavbrudd» hos alle kvinnene. Fra dette skjema ble informasjon om kvinnene og svangerskapsvarighet hentet fra. Sykepleiere og leger har journalført all kontakt de har hatt med pasienten, disse journalnotatene har vært brukt for å hente informasjon om inngrep, eventuelle komplikasjoner og oppfølgingsblodprøven.
Av 1482 pasienter henvist til gynekologisk avdeling UNN Tromsø for gjennomføring av abort i studieperioden, valgte 605 å utføre medikamentell abort hjemme. Elleve pasienter hadde svangerskapslengde over 9 uker. Informasjon manglet på 12 pasienter. Totalt ble data fra 582 pasienter inkludert i analysen. Suksessraten var 99,3 %, og andelen komplikasjoner var 8,9 %. Nitten pasienter behøvde revisio, 25 pasienter fikk ytterligere behandling med misoprostol grunnet intrauterine rester og elleve pasienter mottok antibiotikabehandling for mistanke om infeksjon. Seksti prosent møtte til oppfølgingsblodprøve med takning av serum-hCG. Det ble vist en sammenheng mellom pasienter med hCG over 140 IU/L etter 28 dager og komplikasjoner etter inngrepet.
Studien konkluderer med at medikamentell abort med mifepriston etterfulgt av vaginal misoprostol som administreres hjemme er en trygg, effektiv og akseptabel metode for kvinner med svangerskapslengde under 9 uker
Six Million in Melbourne or a Network of Sustainable Midi-Cities? - A thought experiment
No full textThe State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research.
This paper was presented at SOAC 6, held in Sydney from 26-29 November 2013.
SOAC 6was the largest conference to date, with over 180 papers published in collected proceedings. All papers presented at the SOAC 2013 have been subject to a double blind refereeing process and have been reviewed by at least two referees. In particular, the review process assessed each paper in terms of its policy relevance and the contribution to the conceptual or empirical understanding of Australian cities
En trygg stad? : Stockholmarnas riskuppfattning, anno 2016
No full textUppsatsen undersöker hur de upplevda riskerna påverkar stockholmarnas vardagliga liv. Denna studie genomfördes med hjälp av kvalitativ metod och ett induktivt tillvägagångssätt valdes av författaren. 24 intervjuer med stockholmare genomfördes inom ramen för projekten. Dessa, med hjälp av innehållsanalysen bearbetade intervjuer, lades till grund för de slutsatser som presenteras i studien. Uppsatsen uppmärksammar kluvenheten i frågan om uppfattning av sin livsmiljö och dess säkerhet/trygghet som präglar stockholmarnas existens. Den kluvna uppfattningen av säkerhet och trygghet benämns av författaren för den partiella tryggheten. Samexistensen av känslan av trygghet och otrygghet kännetecknar den partiella tryggheten. Upplevelsen av den partiella tryggheten ses i ett större sammanhang och det påvisas hur den vid applicering på stockholmarnas vardag försämrar deras livskvalité, sätter begränsningar på deras rörelse- och handlingsfrihet samt i slutändan gör staden mindre tillgänglig.The thesis studies how perceived risks affect the daily life of inhabitants of Stockholm, Sweden. The study was conducted through qualitative method and an inductive approach was selected by the author. 24 interviews with Stockholmers were conducted within the framework of the projects. These through the means of content analysis processed interviews were used as a basis for the conclusions presented in the study. The thesis considers the ambiguity in the question of perception of environment and the security/safety thereof, which characterises the existence of Stockholmers. The ambiguous perception of security and safety is by the author named partial safety. Coexistence of the sense of safety and unsafety characterizes partial security. The experience of partial safety is seen as a more comprehensive context and it is shown how it, when applied to the everyday life of Stockholmers, has a negative impact on their quality of life, imposes limits on their freedom of movement and -action, as well as ultimately makes the city less accessible
Dricksvattenutredningens prelimin\ue4ra f\uf6rslag till \ue5tg\ue4rder f\uf6r trygg och s\ue4ker dricksvattenf\uf6rs\uf6rjning – Vilka \ue4r de samh\ue4llsekonomiska nyttorna och vad beh\uf6vs f\uf6r att dessa ska bli verklighet?
No full textRegeringen har givit Dricksvattenutredningen (L 2013:02) i uppdrag att bl.a. identifiera nuvarande och potentiella utmaningar f\uf6r en s\ue4ker dricksvattenf\uf6rs\uf6rjning i Sverige. Detta inneb\ue4r bl.a. att f\uf6rslag ska l\ue4mnas p\ue5 l\ue4mpliga \ue5tg\ue4rder som skapar f\uf6ruts\ue4ttningar f\uf6r en trygg och s\ue4ker dricksvattenf\uf6rs\uf6rjning. F\uf6r de f\uf6reslagna \ue5tg\ue4rderna ska en samh\ue4llsekonomisk analys genomf\uf6ras som visar kostnaderna och nyttorna med \ue5tg\ue4rderna. Den h\ue4r rapporten utg\uf6r resultatet fr\ue5n en studie av den samh\ue4llsekonomiska nyttan av prelimin\ue4ra f\uf6rslag fr\ue5n Dricksvattenutredningen. Studien har utf\uf6rts av DRICKS (Chalmers centrum f\uf6r dricksvattenforskning) och Enveco Milj\uf6ekonomi AB p\ue5 uppdrag av Dricksvattenutredningen.Syftena med det arbete som presenteras i denna rapport \ue4r att (1) beskriva vad som konceptuellt menas med samh\ue4llsekonomisk nytta, (2) beskriva vad som menas med en riskbaserad syn p\ue5 dricksvattenf\uf6rs\uf6rjningen och identifiera och kategorisera huvudsakliga potentiella h\ue4ndelser/st\uf6rningar som kan \ue4ventyra en s\ue4ker tillg\ue5ng till dricksvatten av god kvalitet, dvs. h\ue4ndelser som orsakar avbrott eller f\uf6rs\ue4mrad vattenkvalitet som p\ue5verkar allm\ue4nheten och andra anv\ue4ndare av dricksvatten, (3) identifiera samh\ue4llsekonomiska nyttor som kan uppst\ue5 till f\uf6ljd av Dricksvattenutredningens prelimin\ue4ra f\uf6rslag, och (4) identifiera f\uf6ruts\ue4ttningar som m\ue5ste uppfyllas f\uf6r att dessa nyttor faktiskt ska uppst\ue5
Metabolic profiling and population screening of analgesic usage in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy-based large-scale epidemiologic studies
No full textThe application of a 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based screening method for determining the use of two widely available analgesics (acetaminophen and ibuprofen) in epidemiologic studies has been investigated. We used samples and data from the cross-sectional INTERMAP Study involving participants from Japan (n = 1145), China (n = 839), U.K. (n = 501), and the U.S. (n = 2195). An orthogonal projection to latent structures discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) algorithm with an incorporated Monte Carlo resampling function was applied to the NMR data set to determine which spectra contained analgesic metabolites. OPLS-DA preprocessing parameters (normalization, bin width, scaling, and input parameters) were assessed systematically to identify an optimal acetaminophen prediction model. Subsets of INTERMAP spectra were examined to verify and validate the presence/absence of acetaminophen/ibuprofen based on known chemical shift and coupling patterns. The optimized and validated acetaminophen model correctly predicted 98.2%, and the ibuprofen model correctly predicted 99.0% of the urine specimens containing these drug metabolites. The acetaminophen and ibuprofen models were subsequently used to predict the presence/absence of these drug metabolites for the remaining INTERMAP specimens. The acetaminophen model identified 415 out of 8436 spectra as containing acetaminophen metabolite signals while the ibuprofen model identified 245 out of 8604 spectra as containing ibuprofen metabolite signals from the global data set after excluding samples used to construct the prediction models. The NMR-based metabolic screening strategy provides a new objective approach for evaluation of self-reported medication data and is extendable to other aspects of population xenometabolome profiling
Dricksvattenutredningens preliminära förslag till åtgärder för trygg och säker dricksvattenförsörjning – Vilka är de samhällsekonomiska nyttorna och vad behövs för att dessa ska bli verklighet?
No full textRegeringen har givit Dricksvattenutredningen (L 2013:02) i uppdrag att bl.a. identifiera nuvarande och potentiella utmaningar för en säker dricksvattenförsörjning i Sverige. Detta innebär bl.a. att förslag ska lämnas på lämpliga åtgärder som skapar förutsättningar för en trygg och säker dricksvattenförsörjning. För de föreslagna åtgärderna ska en samhällsekonomisk analys genomföras som visar kostnaderna och nyttorna med åtgärderna. Den här rapporten utgör resultatet från en studie av den samhällsekonomiska nyttan av preliminära förslag från Dricksvattenutredningen. Studien har utförts av DRICKS (Chalmers centrum för dricksvattenforskning) och Enveco Miljöekonomi AB på uppdrag av Dricksvattenutredningen.Syftena med det arbete som presenteras i denna rapport är att (1) beskriva vad som konceptuellt menas med samhällsekonomisk nytta, (2) beskriva vad som menas med en riskbaserad syn på dricksvattenförsörjningen och identifiera och kategorisera huvudsakliga potentiella händelser/störningar som kan äventyra en säker tillgång till dricksvatten av god kvalitet, dvs. händelser som orsakar avbrott eller försämrad vattenkvalitet som påverkar allmänheten och andra användare av dricksvatten, (3) identifiera samhällsekonomiska nyttor som kan uppstå till följd av Dricksvattenutredningens preliminära förslag, och (4) identifiera förutsättningar som måste uppfyllas för att dessa nyttor faktiskt ska uppstå
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Land use impacts of rapid transit: implications of recent experience. Final report
No full textEvidence of land use impacts of recent major rapid transit improvements are reviewed and conclusions drawn concerning the extent and nature of such impacts and the conditions under which they have occurred. Transit improvements studied are primarily post-World War II in origin. American and Canadian examples are stressed, although European experience is teated briefly. Virtually all major modern American and Canadian rapid transit investments are included, covering conventional rapid rail, commuter rail, light rail and bus/busway. In addition to conclusions on general patterns of land use impact and causes, research recommendations and Federal policy implications are drawn
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