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Brottsförebyggande i praktiken: Svenska kommuners stadsplanering för trygghet och säkerhet
No full textDetta examensarbete undersöker implementeringen av brottsförebyggande åtgärder genom miljödesign i Umeå och Gävle, kommuner belägna i norra Sverige. Studien använder sig av en deduktiv ansats och utnyttjar en strukturerad kategoriseringsmatris för att undersöka både det manifesta och latenta innehållen i kommunernas översiktsplaner. Innehållsanalysen visar att långsiktig planering tar ett holistiskt grepp om brottsförebyggande design. Intervjuer med nyckelaktörer inom stadsplanering ger värdefulla insikter om den praktiska tillämpningen av brottsförebyggande strategier. Resultaten lyfter fram vikten av tydliga ansvarsområden och samarbeten för att skapa säkrare och mer hållbara städer. Betydande utmaningar för kommunernas utvecklingsarbete är bristen på en enhetlig kunskapsbas och utgångspunkt samt begränsade resurser. Sammantaget bidrar denna studie till en djupare förståelse för hur stadsdesign kan bidra till brottsprevention och förbättra kvaliteten på stadsmiljöer.This thesis investigates the implementation of crime prevention through environmental design measures in Umeå and Gävle, municipalities located in northern Sweden. The study adopts a deductive approach, utilizing a structured categorization matrix to examine both the manifest and latent content of the municipalities comprehensive plan. The content analysis shows that the long–term planning takes a holistic approach of crime prevention design. Interviews with key stakeholders in urban planning provide valuable insights into the practical application of crime prevention strategies. The findings highlight the importance of clear responsibilities and collaborations in creating safer and more sustainable cities. Notable challenges for the municipalities development work is the absence of a unified knowledge foundation and starting point, alongside limited resources. Overall, this study provides a deeper understanding of how urban design can contribute to crime prevention and enhance the quality of urban environments
Brottsförebyggande i praktiken: Svenska kommuners stadsplanering för trygghet och säkerhet
No full textDetta examensarbete undersöker implementeringen av brottsförebyggande åtgärder genom miljödesign i Umeå och Gävle, kommuner belägna i norra Sverige. Studien använder sig av en deduktiv ansats och utnyttjar en strukturerad kategoriseringsmatris för att undersöka både det manifesta och latenta innehållen i kommunernas översiktsplaner. Innehållsanalysen visar att långsiktig planering tar ett holistiskt grepp om brottsförebyggande design. Intervjuer med nyckelaktörer inom stadsplanering ger värdefulla insikter om den praktiska tillämpningen av brottsförebyggande strategier. Resultaten lyfter fram vikten av tydliga ansvarsområden och samarbeten för att skapa säkrare och mer hållbara städer. Betydande utmaningar för kommunernas utvecklingsarbete är bristen på en enhetlig kunskapsbas och utgångspunkt samt begränsade resurser. Sammantaget bidrar denna studie till en djupare förståelse för hur stadsdesign kan bidra till brottsprevention och förbättra kvaliteten på stadsmiljöer.This thesis investigates the implementation of crime prevention through environmental design measures in Umeå and Gävle, municipalities located in northern Sweden. The study adopts a deductive approach, utilizing a structured categorization matrix to examine both the manifest and latent content of the municipalities comprehensive plan. The content analysis shows that the long–term planning takes a holistic approach of crime prevention design. Interviews with key stakeholders in urban planning provide valuable insights into the practical application of crime prevention strategies. The findings highlight the importance of clear responsibilities and collaborations in creating safer and more sustainable cities. Notable challenges for the municipalities development work is the absence of a unified knowledge foundation and starting point, alongside limited resources. Overall, this study provides a deeper understanding of how urban design can contribute to crime prevention and enhance the quality of urban environments
Kartläggning av regninducerad översvämningsrisk och strategier för att mildra riskerna i Gävle kommun, Sverige
No full textThe recent increase in climate change impacts has led to consequences such as more frequent and intense rainfall events. Gävle is a municipality that has been particularly affected by this development, with the August 2021 rainfall standing out as a significant event in this context. The August rainfall corresponds to a 300-year rainfall event, with a total precipitation of 167.9 mm recorded between August 17 and 18. This study aims to identify vulnerable areas to intense cloudbursts within three study areas in Gävle municipality, and to propose measures for how municipal land can be used to reduce the risk of flooding. The method used is a precipitation simulation of the August 2021 rainfall event in Gävle, carried out to complement the municipality’s existing cloudburst data. The precipitation modelling was carried out using the software Hydrologic Engineering Center – River Analysis System (HEC-RAS). To identify vulnerable areas, a multicriteria analysis was conducted, where the identification of vulnerable areas was carried out in relation to the objective of reducing the adverse effects of flooding on human health, the environment, cultural heritage, and economic activity. Results highlight the most exposed areas according to the defined objectives within the three study sites, showing impacts on infrastructure and critical functions such as a school and a care facility. In addition, the study also identifies existing structures that are considered important to preserve due to their current role in mitigating cloudburst impacts and reducing flood risk. Based on an overview analysis of the characteristics of the high-risk areas, additional cloudburst mitigation measures are proposed, which are then intended to be further developed by the municipality through more detailed site analysis. Generated cloudburst mapping provides a foundation for identifying critical areas in relation to future climate change with increased precipitation. However, it should be interpreted with caution, as factors such as infiltration should be included to obtain more realistic results in the modelling. Regardless, the results of combining different layers and data to identify risk areas within the municipality are of great significance for their climate adaptation efforts, with the aim of reducing the adverse impacts of flooding on human health, the environment, cultural heritage, and economic activity
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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