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Reimagining Species Relations : A Decade of Studying and Teaching Critical Animal Studies at Lund University
No full textThe year 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the course Critical Animal Studies: Animals in Society, Culture and the Media at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. As the first initiative of its kind in Sweden, the course explores the shifting roles and positions of non-human animals in today’s complex societies. It aims to equip students with analytical tools to critically assess norms and structures that organise human-animal relations, along with their ethical, cultural, and social consequences.What started as a one-course offering driven by an idea has evolved into a decade-long project of education and emancipation for non-human animals. This anthology stands as a testament to the course’s impact, aiming to extend the rich discussions, debates, and insights cultivated beyond the classroom walls.This celebratory collection assembles writings from former students, instructors, and guest lecturers, delving into themes ranging from critical media analysis over activist strategies to pedagogical reflections. The anthology’s scope not only reflects the diverse facets of the course but also unveils the myriad, often subtle intersections between human-centered society and the lives of non-human animals.The Lund Critical Animal Studies CollectionCritical animal studies (CAS) is a new and growing research field that since 2011 has been expanding in both research and education at Lund University. In February 2016 the Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) was formed with the aim of supporting initiatives centering on education and research in CAS. The network runs the course Critical Animal Studies: Animals in Society, Culture and the Media, host a seminar series, research conferences, and are active in building networks of national and international scholars. This book series aims to further consolidating these initiatives and to act as a platform for future work in the field of CAS at Lund University.Editors for the series: Tobias Linné, Jana Canavan, María R. Carreras,Marie Leth-Espensen, Lena Lindström, Gina Song Lopez, Naja Yndal-OlsenThe Lund Critical Animal Studies Collection can be found at: www.ht.lu.se/serie/lcasc/e-mail: [email protected]
Reimagining Species Relations [Elektronisk resurs] : A Decade of Studying and Teaching Critical Animal Studies at Lund University
No full textThe year 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the course Critical Animal Studies: Animals in Society, Culture and the Media at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. As the first initiative of its kind in Sweden, the course explores the shifting roles and positions of non-human animals in today’s complex societies. It aims to equip students with analytical tools to critically assess norms and structures that organise human-animal relations, along with their ethical, cultural, and social consequences. What started as a one-course offering driven by an idea has evolved into a decade-long project of education and emancipation for non-human animals. This anthology stands as a testament to the course’s impact, aiming to extend the rich discussions, debates, and insights cultivated beyond the classroom walls. This celebratory collection assembles writings from former students, instructors, and guest lecturers, delving into themes ranging from critical media analysis over activist strategies to pedagogical reflections. The anthology’s scope not only reflects the diverse facets of the course but also unveils the myriad, often subtle intersections between human-centered society and the lives of non-human animals. The Lund Critical Animal Studies Collection Critical animal studies (CAS) is a new and growing research field that since 2011 has been expanding in both research and education at Lund University. In February 2016 the Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) was formed with the aim of supporting initiatives centering on education and research in CAS. The network runs the course Critical Animal Studies: Animals in Society, Culture and the Media, host a seminar series, research conferences, and are active in building networks of national and international scholars. This book series aims to further consolidating these initiatives and to act as a platform for future work in the field of CAS at Lund University. Editors for the series: Tobias Linné, Jana Canavan, María R. Carreras, Marie Leth-Espensen, Lena Lindström, Gina Song Lopez, Naja Yndal-Olsen The Lund Critical Animal Studies Collection can be found at: www.ht.lu.se/serie/lcasc/ e-mail: [email protected]
A story about how MR-imaging grew up in Lund.
No full textEtt av mina första uppdrag som nybliven professor i Medicinsk Strålningsfysik vid Lunds Universitet var att i slutet av april 1981 åka till München för att delta i en Europeisk (EU) workshop om möjligheterna att reducera patient bestrålning vid röntgendiagnostik. Av deltagarna från Storbritannien framkom att man på flera håll i Storbritannien utvecklade metoder för medicinsk avbildning utan röntgenstrålning. I stället för joniserande strålning utnyttjade man magnetfält och väteatomernas spinn för att avbilda kroppens inre organ och vävnader. Man kallade metoden ”Magnet Resonans Imaging” MRI.Då jag hörde detta, förstod jag genast att något oerhört spännande var på gång och åkte omgående till UK. Där kom jag i kontakt med Professor John Mallard som företrädde medicinsk fysik, som var mycket tillmötesgående och gav mig en ingående genomgång av fysiken bakom NMR avbildning och hur deras bildrekonstruktions algoritmer fungerade.När han visade världens första kliniskt användbara NMR-scanner med 4 Helmholtz spolar som genererar ett homogent statiskt magnetfält i ett virrvarr av spolar och trådar blev jag fångad. Ett nära samarbete etablerades med Aberdeen och redan i december 1981 låg jag själv i deras MR scanner och avbildade mitt hjärta som pryder omslaget till min bok som sammanfattar mina föreläsningar om ”Medicinska tillämpningar av kärnspinnresonans NMR” som hölls i Novenber 1982 vid en workshop på Landstingets kursgård vid seminstationen i Hörby, Skåne. Där såddes fröet till den fruktsamma kliniska NMR verksamheten i Lund!Forsknings verksamhet i Lund började med att studera proton relaxations egenskaper i olika biologiska vävnadsprover. Parallellt pågick arbetet med att bygga vår egen version av en NMR-scanner som baserade sig på vårt eget koncept med en ram i mjukjärn som magnetiserades med elektromagneter.Det första Symposiet om “NMR imaging” : 1st Symposium on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in medicine and biology ägde rum under 14 – 15 oktober 1983 i Geneve, Schweiz. Där presenterade vi vår ”window-frame” NMR scanner och resultaten av våt forskning.Genom kontakter med forskarkollegor i Köpenhamn etablerades tidigt ett forskningssamarbete mellan Lund och Hvidovre Hospital, som i mitten på 1980-talet hade en världsledande MR-utrustning till förfogande. Här fick Freddy Ståhlberg utlopp för sina ambitioner att utveckla flödes MR imaging som så småningom blev till en doktorsavhandling. Ett flertal doktorander från Lund var under ett tiotal år aktiva på båda sidor om sundet. Detta ledde till MR-forskargruppen i Lund snart växte till mer än tjugo aktivt forskande fysiker och läkare. Med denna unika kompetens i ryggen lyckades Freddy Ståhlberg i hård konkurrens få den Nationella 7 Tesla MR-forskningen etablerad till Lund 2014.Magnetkameratekniken har inneburit en revolution inom bilddiagnostik och uppföljning av olika terapimetoder. Trots att den funnits tillgänglig i mer än fyra decennier är den stadd i ständig teknisk utveckling. Dagens magnetkameror är långt överlägsna äldre magnetkameror vad gäller såväl bildkvalitet som snabbhet. Nya dörrar öppnas för funktionell och molekylär avbildning med tillämpningar inom kardiologi, neurologi, psykiatri med flera andra medicinska discipliner
Så började klinisk NMR i Lund [Elektronisk resurs]
No full textInnehållsförteckning: I. Konferens i München II. Resan till England och Skottland III. Forskningsverksamheten startar i Lund IV. Workshopen i Hörby V. NMR boken VI. NMR apparaten VII. Diagnostisk radiolog
Bakre r i svenskan. En alternativ hypotes
No full textThe sound values of /z/ and /r/ in proto-Nordic are discussed. It is suggested that the modern Swedish [r] and [R] are different results in different areas of the merger between /z/ and /r/ in Old Swedish, depending on the distribution of stress in polysyllabic words. The article is a shorter version of Teleman, U. (2005), Om r-fonemets historia i Svenskan (Nordlund 5). Insittutionen för nordiska språk. Lund
Three-particle Bose-Einstein correlations - a sensitive probe for Lund string fragmentation
No full textI discuss how a difference in the correlation length longitudinally and transversely with respect to the jet axis in e+e- annihilation, arises naturally in a model for Bose-Einstein correlations based on the Lund string picture. This difference is, due to the longitudinal stretching of the field, more apparent in genuine three-particle correlations. They can therefore be used as a sensitive probe of Lund string fragmentation
Epistemic injustice and the task of ‘staying with the trouble’ in academic publishing: A conversation with Rebecca Lund
No full textOn a sunny autumn afternoon in Copenhagen I sat down with Dr Rebecca Lund to talk about
her incoming group editorial tenure for NORA: The Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender
Research. Dr Lund is a post-doctoral fellow in Gender Studies at the University of Tampere in
Finland. The conversation traversed many facets of academic publishing and I have chosen to
call on Donna Haraway’s notion of ‘staying with the trouble’ (2016) as an appropriate theme that
linked many of Dr Lund’s insights to her feminist publishing agenda. As a feminist academic
activist now tasked with the editorship of a prominent Nordic feminist academic journal,
Dr Lund explores her ethical obligations to provide a platform that is inclusive and makes
some kind of intervention to the edifces of patriarchal power so embedded in the academic
publishing space. Dr Lund provides an interesting account of how her own research focus
on epistemic injustice can be refexively used in the academic leadership role of editorship
by engaging ‘head on’ with the prominent debates and challenges facing Nordic academia
around intersectionality, race, gender, class, and the political economy of gender politics. As
Haraway insists, ‘staying with the trouble’ involves the ability to face challenges head on
while also recognising the importance of working together, ‘in unexpected collaborations and
combinations … we become-with each other or not at all (2016, p. 4). Dr Lund provides a
wonderful demonstration of a feminist approach to collaboration in academic publishing
and the importance of insisting all voices can be heard and visibilised on and through the
conventional platform of the academic journal. As the frst issue of the new editorial collective
in WSJ, Dr Lund’s experiences and hopes ft well with our own feminist agenda of continuing
the political work of academic publishing in these often ‘troubling’ times
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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