22 research outputs found
Begrebet bæredygtighed og socialøkonomiske virksomheder
No full textSustainability is a concept which contain a great deal of different connotations, depending on in which context it is applied. A widely used definition is the one, from the report developed by the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future. In this report sustainability or sustainable development is defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.This understanding of the sustainability concept, is indeed a very general definition and is often to be accused of being vague in its formulation of the concept, however it is still the most commonly used definition of sustainability. The definition from Our Common Future, will also serve as fundamental for my understanding of the concept of sustainability in this thesis, as the theories used to illustrate the concept of sustainability is based upon this definition.It is my attention, that this thesis could contribute to a clearer definition of what sustainability really means, throughout the use of the following theories. Poul Lübckes theory aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the concept of sustainability, by splitting the definition up into four categories, respectively named; species and substance-specific sustainability, ecological sustainability, economic sustainability and social sustainability. These four categories clarify, that even though they are based on the same basic structure, containing reproducibility, yield and optimization within the four systems in the described categories, it is simply not possible to include all aspects of the sustainability concept within one joined definition.Also applied in this thesis, is the theory of the Triple Bottom Line, as described by John Elkington, with the intend to describe how sustainability can be obtained in companies focusing on respectively: economic prosperity, environmental quality and social justice.These theories are then confronted with theories of social-economic enterprises, in an attempt to clarify whether or not the social-economic enterprises have a significant impact on the sustainability debate.It is my intention, that this thesis, will be able to contribute to a clarification of the concept of sustainability starting from an understanding of social-economic enterprises.Significant issues that can be made in relation to this thesis, is whether it is possible for one, to speak of sustainability within social-economic enterprises. Are these companies by virtue of the way they are driven, in itself sustainable? And which aspects of sustainability is implicit applied in companies of this kind. <br/
How Party-System Dynamics Shape Political Parties’ Use of Facebook Between Elections
No full textWe investigate the use of Facebook in the Danish system over a two-month period in 2021, with an increased political polarization, during the COVID-19 lockdown. Based on the analysis of 5093 posts, we find indications of how party-system dynamics shape niche parties and catch-all parties’ use of Facebook. While catch-all party members share political information with relatively low reach, niche parties are much more inclined to criticize opponents, a strategy that often produces higher interactivity. Finally, we discuss the impact of party-system dynamics on the strategic use of Facebook among different parties. Our findings indicate that the social media use of niche parties with irrelevant features is often shaped by a centrifugal logic (competition towards the poles), while the social media use of catch-all parties is often shaped by a centripetal dynamic (competition towards the center)
Visionens mørkerøde frugt : Det imaginære i Stagnelius’ lyrik
No full textMads Nygaard Folkmann, Visionens mørkerøde frugt. Det imaginære i Stagnelius’ lyrik. (The Dark Red Fruit of Vision. The Imaginary in the Lyrical Poetry of Stagnelius.) The aim of the article is to read the lyrical poetry of the Swedish Romantic author Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793–1823) in light of the concept of imagination dominant within European Romanticism. While more readily debated in England and Germany at the time, the concept appears in Sweden as well, namely, in the aesthetic journal Phosphoros. While Stagnelius doesn’t participate in the discussions of his time, his work (especially the lyrical poetry) displays an imaginary or phantasmagoric world of its own. To understand the ways and functions of this imaginary, the article argues that it is necessary to examine Stagnelius’ work as an expression of a poetic imagination, that is, how the imaginary world is created as and through poetic devices. The article states three related concepts in order to analyze the poetic imagination in Stagnelius’s work, namely, internalization, unrealization, and transfiguration. The processes of internalization and unrealization should be understood as altering a relation to meaning through being formulated according to the premises of the speaking subject and placed in a productive distance to reality. The thesis proposes that Stagnelius, through the processes of internalization and unrealization, seeks a transfiguration of the given. In the texts of Stagnelius, this is often expressed through the discourse of religious salvation. Crucial, however, to the article’s understanding of the poetic imagination, is that transfiguration paradoxically becomes ‘real’ by remaining inside the space of the lyrical text. Paradigmatic for this structure of literary inversion is the famous poem “Endymion” (after 1821), in which the dreams of transcendence are ‘only a dream’, but where transcendence at the same time has a reality of its own within the immanent space of dream. In analyzing a series of poems, the article seeks to broaden the understanding of the concepts internalization, unrealization, and transfiguration. For example, in a reading of “Afsked till Lifvet” (“Parting from Life”, after 1818) it is shown how internalization doesn’t function as a principle of absolute self-knowledge but as the subject’s meeting with its own fractures and boundaries. Further, unrealization is discussed in the figure of ‘Amanda’, which plays a dominant role in a series of poems. Whereas in older scholarship ‘Amanda’ forms the basis for various kinds of biographical speculation, which in itself is problematic as very little is known about Stagnelius’ life, the article reads Amanda as a point of textual construction where meaning takes the form of an unrealizing textual presence based on a process of negation (in sympathy with the Sartrean notion of the imaginary’s capacity of pure negation). Finally, the principle of transfiguration is discussed in light of one of Stagnelius’ few theoretical prose fragments and through a reading of the enigmatic untitled and unfinished poem “Se blomman! På smaragdegrunden” (“See the Flower! On the Emerald Ground”, 1821–23). In conclusion, the article claims an inversion of transfiguration within the limits of poetic language whereby Stagnelius finds his specificity as a Romantic author: the lyrical text at one and the same time points to an explanatory ground (“förklaringsgrund”) beyond itself, thus suggesting a dimension of transfiguration, and states this kind of ’pointing beyond’ as solely a matter of the density of poetic language. Thus the title of the article: the vision can be retained within the figure of a mysterious dark red fruit, which points to a new way of understanding that is not yet part of given, known reality
Is Physical Activity Good or Bad for the Female Pelvic Floor? A Narrative Review
No full textThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.More women participate in sports than ever before and the proportion of women athletes at the Olympic Games is nearly 50%. The pelvic floor in women may be the only area of the body where the positive effect of physical activity has been questioned. The aim of this narrative review is to present two widely held opposing hypotheses on the effect of general exercise on the pelvic floor and to discuss the evidence for each. Hypothesis 1: by strengthening the pelvic floor muscles (PFM) and decreasing the levator hiatus, exercise decreases the risk of urinary incontinence, anal incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, but negatively affects the ease and safety of childbirth. Hypothesis 2: by overloading and stretching the PFM, exercise not only increases the risk of these disorders, but also makes labor and childbirth easier, as the PFM do not obstruct the exit of the fetus. Key findings of this review endorse aspects of both hypotheses. Exercising women generally have similar or stronger PFM strength and larger levator ani muscles than non-exercising women, but this does not seem to have a greater risk of obstructed labor or childbirth. Additionally, women that specifically train their PFM while pregnant are not more likely to have outcomes associated with obstructed labor. Mild-to-moderate physical activity, such as walking, decreases the risk of urinary incontinence but female athletes are about three times more likely to have urinary incontinence compared to controls. There is some evidence that strenuous exercise may cause and worsen pelvic organ prolapse, but data are inconsistent. Both intra-abdominal pressure associated with exercise and PFM strength vary between activities and between women; thus the threshold for optimal or negative effects on the pelvic floor almost certainly differs from person to person. Our review highlights many knowledge gaps that need to be understood to understand the full effects of strenuous and non-strenuous activities on pelvic floor health.publishedVersionSeksjon for idrettsmedisinske fag / Department of Sports Medicin
The macroscopic pancake bounce
No full textWe demonstrate that the so-called pancake bounce of millimetric water droplets on surfaces patterned with hydrophobic posts (Liu et al 2014 Nat. Phys. 10 515) can be reproduced on larger scales. In our experiment, a bed of nails plays the role of the structured surface and a water balloon models the water droplet. The macroscopic version largely reproduces the features of the microscopic experiment, including the Weber number dependence and the reduced contact time for pancake bouncing. The scalability of the experiment confirms the mechanisms of pancake bouncing, and allows us to measure the force exerted on the surface during the bounce. The experiment is simple and inexpensive and is an example where front-line research is accessible to student projects
Hearing Faces and Seeing Voices: The Integration and Interaction of Face and Voice Processing
No full textCognitive understanding of voice recognition has borrowed much from the area of face processing, both in terms of the theoretical framework within which results are interpreted, and the methodology used to assess performance. A considerable body of research now exists to suggest that voice recognition may proceed in parallel with face recognition, and that the two pathways may combine to inform person recognition. However, rather than being independent or equivalent, these parallel pathways appear to interact to reveal interesting interference effects. The present paper reviews a series of studies that focus on a considerable and growing literature. The vulnerability of voice processing will be explored relative to face processing, and the interaction of these two pathways will be examined with reference to broader theoretical frameworks for person recognition
Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty : an analysis of neighbourhood histories of individuals
No full textThe research reported in this paper was made possible through the financial support of the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) at Uppsala University, Sweden and the financial support of the Marie Curie programme under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / Career Integration Grant n. PCIG10-GA-2011-303728 (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects).The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing on the concept of neighbourhood biographies, this study contends that there are links between the places individuals live with their parents and their subsequent neighbourhood experiences as independent adults. Using individual-level register data tracking the whole Stockholm population from 1990 to 2008, and bespoke neighbourhoods, this study is the first to use sequencing techniques to construct individual neighbourhood histories. Through visualisation methods and ordered logit models, we demonstrate that the socioeconomic composition of the neighbourhood children lived in before they left the parental home is strongly related to the status of the neighbourhood they live in 5, 12 and 18 years later. Children living with their parents in high poverty concentration neighbourhoods are very likely to end up in similar neighbourhoods much later in life. The parental neighbourhood is also important in predicting the cumulative exposure to poverty concentration neighbourhoods over a long period of early adulthood. Ethnic minorities were found to have the longest cumulative exposure to poverty concentration neighbourhoods. These findings imply that for some groups, disadvantage is both inherited and highly persistent.Peer reviewe
Refshaleøen - A critical perspective on strategic planning in practice: A critical perspective on strategic planning in practice
No full textDette projekt undersøger, hvad der kendetegner merværdien på Refshaleøen i relation til midlertidig anvendelse og hvordan den strategiske planlægning i praksis, har betydning for hvorvidt denne merværdi, vi identificerer, kan videreføres i fremtidig byudvikling. Vi søger at belyse hvordan midlertidighed bliver brugt som et redskab i den kapitaliske strategiske planlægning på Refshaleøen. Her stilles et kritisk blik på kapitalistisk byudvikling, hvor vi ser en tendens til at de værdier, der bliver skabt i midlertidige områder, ikke medtages i fremtidig byudvikling. Projektets teoretiske ramme består af midlertidighedsbegrebet med udgangspunkt i Rasmus Frisk og John Pløger, sted og stedsidentitet med udgangspunkt i Tim Cresswell. David Harvyes teoretiske forståelse af byudvikling på markedsvilkår, samt Albrechts og Balduccis 4-sporstilgang til strategisk planlægning. Undersøgelsen benytter metodekombination af en række kvalitative metoder; Det semistrukturerede interview, the walking interview, street phenomenology og dokumentanalyse er anvendt, for at kunne afdække alle relevante aktører i relation til problemstilling. I tråd med undersøgelsens videnskabsteori, den kritiske teori, spiller det eklektiske metodevalg sammen med teorien i en abduktiv forskningsproces. Analysedel 1 identificerer en række værdier forskellige aktører beskriver og diskuterer til slut hvilken bekymring de forskellige aktører har for udviklingen af Refshaleøen. Analysedel 2 bygger videre herpå og afdækker hvordan strategisk planlægning forløber sig på Refshaleøen. Dette gøres med et kritisk blik på den kapitalistisk drevne byudvikling. Slutteligt sammenfattes hovedpointer, der løber fra analysedel 1 til analysedel 2. Vi konkluderer til slut at der er nogle værdier vi kan identificere på Refshaleøen, der relaterer sig stedets midlertidige anvendelser og dets fysiske historie, samt at disse bruges som et led i strategisk planlægning. Vi problematiserer yderligere muligheden for at disse værdier kan videreføres med den nuværende strategiske planlægningspraksis.This project examines what characterizes the added values of Refshaleøen in relation to temporary use and how the strategic planning in practice affects whether this added value we identify can be continued in future urban development. We seek to shed light on how temporary is used as a tool in the capitalist strategic planning at Refshaleøen. Here is a critical look at capitalist urban development, where we see a tendency towards the values formed in temporary areas are not included in future urban development. The theoretical framework of the project consists of the concept of temporality based on Rasmus Frisk and John Pløger, place and place identity based on Tim Cresswell. David Harvey's theoretical understanding of urban development on market terms, as well as Albrechts and Balducci's 4-track approach to strategic planning. The study uses method combination of a number of qualitative methods; The semi-structured interview, the walking interview, street phenomenology and document analysis have been used to illustrate several dimensions of our problem. In line with the study's theory of science, the critical theory, the eclectic methodology plays along with the theory in an abductive research process. Analysis part 1 identifies a number of values that different actors describe and finally discusses what concern the different actors have for the development of Refshaleøen. Analysis part 2 builds on this and reveals how strategic planning progresses at Refshaleøen. This is done with a critical look at the capitalist-driven urban development. Finally, we conclude that there are values we identify at Refshaleøen that relate to the site's temporary uses and its physical history, and that these are used as part of strategic planning. We further problematize the possibility that these values can be continued with the current strategic planning practice.<br/
