322 research outputs found
Tireless in His Service: Rasmus Andersen, Pastor and Author 1878-1924
No full textOf the four founders of the Danish Lutheran Church in America in 1872, the one concerning whom the most information exists is Rasmus Andersen. Yet it has been my observation that comparatively little is known about him. A reason for this is that, to my knowledge, no comprehensive biography exists, and there is almost nothing available in the English language. Most of the material that does exist is to be found in the Danes World Wide Archives ( Udvandrerarkivet ) in Aalborg, Denmark. According to Birgit Flemming Larsen, who oversees that archive, the Andersen collection is the largest at the Aalborg archive. It consists of 104 archival boxes, filled with books, letters, diaries, memoirs, ministerial records, copies of letters sent, unpublished manuscripts and much more. The Danes World Wide Archives constitutes a treasure trove for the researcher who is interested in Rasmus Andersen
Conflicts of Capitalism: Condoms as a mass-produced commodity in the US, 1920s-1930s
No full textThe emergence of mass-produced condoms in the US during the 1920s and 1930s is considered a prime example of modern industry and big business. By retelling the history of condoms in the US during this period from production to circulation and impact, this article highlights the social and cultural conflicts that shaped the trajectory from brothel necessity to modern commodity. This history corresponds to Arjun Appadurai’s assertion that capitalism is more than a ‘techno-economic design’ and manifests the cultural and social dimensions of modernity. Such a narrative also illuminates the concept of the ‘medicalisation’ of society and highlights its corporeal and material dimensions
Perehdytysopas Pirkanmaan saneerauspalvelu Oy:lle
No full textTämän opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena on perehdytysopas toimeksiantajayritys
Pirkanmaan saneerauspalvelu Oy:n uusille työntekijöille. Yrityksellä ei ole aiemmin ollut perehdytysopasta työntekijöilleen, vaan uusien työntekijöiden perehdytys on toteutunut kokeneempien työntekijöiden toimesta työmailla. Lisäksi perehdytyksen yhteydessä yrityksen hallilla on pidetty perehdytyskierros, jolloin työnjohto on näyttänyt eri materiaalien sijainnit, kertonut lyhyesti yleisiä asioita yrityksestä ja työntekijän työtehtävistä.
Tämän opinnäytetyön tavoitteena on, että jatkossa uusien työntekijöiden töiden aloittaminen on helpompaa sekä selkeämpää. Lisäksi tavoitteena on myös vähentää työnjohdon sekä kokeneempien työntekijöiden kuormitusta uusien työntekijöiden perehdyttämisessä.
Opinnäytetyössä perehdyttämisen lisäksi työssä käsitellään rakennusalan työturvallisuutta, työsuoritteita ja niissä käytettäviä materiaaleja. Työssä tarkastellaan myös työkoneiden ja- välineiden turvallista käyttöä, Easoft-toiminnanohjausjärjestelmää sekä laadunvarmistukseen liittyviä asioita. Lopuksi pohditaan mahdollisia jatkotoimenpiteitä. Tämän perehdytysoppaan tekemiseen on kerätty tietoa kirjallisista lähteistä, haastateltu pitkään yrityksessä olleita ammattilaisia sekä tämän opinnäytetyön tekijän kokemuksia rakennusalalta.
Tulevaisuudessa perehdytysopas on tarkoitus jakaa uusille työntekijöille (työsopimusta kirjoittaessa) sekä uusille vuokratyöntekijöille. Uusien työntekijöiden sekä vuokratyöntekijöiden tulee tutustua perehdytysoppaaseen ennen varsinaisten töiden aloitusta.
Perehdytysopasta voidaan tulevaisuudessa muokata työnjohdon toimesta työntekijöiltä kerätyn palautteen perusteella. Lisäksi opasta muokataan, mikäli yrityksen toimintatavat ja työsuoritteet muuttuvat.The purpose of this thesis is an orientation guide for the new employees of the employer company Pirkanmaan Saneerauspalvelu Ltd. The company has not previously had an orientation guide for its employees, so the orientation of new employees has been implemented by more experienced workers in the workplace. In addition, during the orientation an induction tour has been held in the hall, where the supervisors have shown the locations of different materials, briefly told general things about the company and which tasks belong to whom. The objective of this thesis is to make it easier and clearer for the new employees to start working. In addition, the aim is to reduce the burden on supervisors as well as more experienced employees when orienting a new employee.
In addition to orientation, this thesis deals with construction occupational safety, work processes and the materials used. The work also examines the safe use of machines and equipment used to work, ERP system called Easoft and issues regarding quality assurance. In the end potential follow-ups are pondered. To create this orientation guide information was collected from various written sources. In addition, professionals working in the company has been interviewed and the own experiences of the author of this thesis on the construction industry has been collected.
In the future, the orientation guide will be distributed to new employees when writing an employment contract and also for new agency workers. The new employees as well as the agency workers should read the orientation guide before starting the actual work.
In the future, the orientation guide can be modified by the management based on feedback from employees. In addition, the guide will be modified according to the changes of the company's policies and processes
Bibliometric author evaluation through linear regression on the coauthor network
No full textThe rising trend of coauthored academic works obscures the credit assignment that is the basis for decisions of funding and career advancements. In this paper, a simple model based on the assumption of an unvarying “author ability” is introduced. With this assumption, the weight of author contributions to a body of coauthored work can be statistically estimated. The method is tested on a set of some more than five-hundred authors in a coauthor network from the CiteSeerX database. The ranking obtained agrees fairly well with that given by total fractional citation counts for an author, but noticeable differences exist
Rasmus Sorensen and Danish Emigration, 1847-1863
No full textProbably no individual played a more seminal role in the limited Danish emigration to North America before and during the Civil War than Rasmus Sorensen. From the late 1840s until the early 1860s this author, educator, politician, and social reformer led three groups of his countrymen to Wisconsin and, through numerous booklets, speeches, and letters encouraged others to settle elsewhere in the United States and Canada. Yet Sorensen has generally been little more than a supernumerary in the historiography of this transatlantic migration. Its pioneering historian, Peter Sorensen Vig, devoted twelve pages to him in his mammoth compendium, a dozen more than John Bille allowed him in his disjoint narrative of 1896. Arne Hall Jensen described Sorensen \u27s life in two paragraphs in 1937, giving various biographical details without interpreting their significance. There is little to indicate that the recent revival of interest in the Danish-American field will reverse this long tradition of neglect. In his monumental study of emigration from Denmark, Kristian Hvidt relates his activities in a scant paragraph, perhaps justifiably, because Sorensen \u27s lifespan fell completely outside Hvidt\u27s chronological framework
Introduction to the New Edition of Niels Ege's 1993 Translation of Rasmus Rask's Prize Essay of 1818
No full textThis edition constitutes a photographic reprint of the English edition of Rasmus Rask's prize essay of 1818 which appeared as volume XXVI in the Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1993. The only difference, besides the new front matter, is the present introduction, which serves to introduce the author Rasmus Rask, the man and his career, and to contextualize his famous work. It also serves to introduce the translation and the translator, Niels Ege (1927-2003). The prize essay was published in Danish in 1818. In contrast to other works by Rask, notably his introduction to the study of Icelandic (on which, see further below), it was never reissued until Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) published a corrected version in Danish as part of his edition of Rask's selected works (Rask 1932). It was thus rare, but not impossible, to find, and certainly very expensive to buy, until Roy Harris included a photographic reprint of the original 1818 edition in his 13-volume Routledge series Foundations of Indo-European Comparative Philology 1800-1850, where it makes up volume 2 (Rask 1999). Thus there are now two Danish editions readily available to the public, the original and the corrected edition (Rask 1932). The present work is, however, the only translation of the work into English and indeed into any other language
Introduction to the New Edition of Niels Ege's 1993 Translation of Rasmus Rask's Prize Essay of 1818
No full textThis edition constitutes a photographic reprint of the English edition of Rasmus Rask's prize essay of 1818 which appeared as volume XXVI in the Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1993. The only difference, besides the new front matter, is the present introduction, which serves to introduce the author Rasmus Rask, the man and his career, and to contextualize his famous work. It also serves to introduce the translation and the translator, Niels Ege (1927-2003). The prize essay was published in Danish in 1818. In contrast to other works by Rask, notably his introduction to the study of Icelandic (on which, see further below), it was never reissued until Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) published a corrected version in Danish as part of his edition of Rask's selected works (Rask 1932). It was thus rare, but not impossible, to find, and certainly very expensive to buy, until Roy Harris included a photographic reprint of the original 1818 edition in his 13-volume Routledge series Foundations of Indo-European Comparative Philology 1800-1850, where it makes up volume 2 (Rask 1999). Thus there are now two Danish editions readily available to the public, the original and the corrected edition (Rask 1932). The present work is, however, the only translation of the work into English and indeed into any other language
Introduction to the New Edition of Niels Ege's 1993 Translation of Rasmus Rask's Prize Essay of 1818
No full textThis edition constitutes a photographic reprint of the English edition of Rasmus Rask's prize essay of 1818 which appeared as volume XXVI in the Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1993. The only difference, besides the new front matter, is the present introduction, which serves to introduce the author Rasmus Rask, the man and his career, and to contextualize his famous work. It also serves to introduce the translation and the translator, Niels Ege (1927-2003). The prize essay was published in Danish in 1818. In contrast to other works by Rask, notably his introduction to the study of Icelandic (on which, see further below), it was never reissued until Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) published a corrected version in Danish as part of his edition of Rask's selected works (Rask 1932). It was thus rare, but not impossible, to find, and certainly very expensive to buy, until Roy Harris included a photographic reprint of the original 1818 edition in his 13-volume Routledge series Foundations of Indo-European Comparative Philology 1800-1850, where it makes up volume 2 (Rask 1999). Thus there are now two Danish editions readily available to the public, the original and the corrected edition (Rask 1932). The present work is, however, the only translation of the work into English and indeed into any other language
Rasmus Kristian Rasks Konzeption Einer Welthilfssprache
No full textSummary
Apart from his numerous works in comparative linguistics, Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787–1832) is also the author of a manuscript in which he sets forth in detail his conception of a universal auxiliary language. Written during 1819–1820, this 72-page treatise, entitled Optegnelser til en Pasigraphie, has been neglected by linguistic research up to the present, in part because it remained in manuscript form. Rask’s draft of a planned language is divided into three sections: (1) The grammatical system and basic vocabulary; (2) numerous examples of word-formation, morphology etc. and (3) samples of texts. Rask deplores the waste of energy resulting from the multiplicity of languages in international communication. In his opinion, many intellectual achievements are lost or cannot be further developed owing to lack of exchange facilities. Instead of having to learn words and structures, people should be placed in a position to tackle the subject matter. The practical aim of linguistic studies should therefore be the creation of an international means of communication to be used in the field of science as well as in every-day life. Important postulates of such a conception would be: improved learnability by means of simplification of grammatical structures, consistency in word-formation and easy articulation for people of different language communities. To conform to these aims, Rask decided to create a system mainly on the basis of romance languages, i.e., Latin, Spanish, French and Portugese, complemented by Greek and English. Rask’s essay presents a hitherto unknown type of planned language, commonly described as ‘naturalistic’. Whereas other aposterioric systems like Esperanto give priority to regularity and logic and are therefore called ‘autonomous’, Rask tries to remain faithful to the results of historical evolution. In that respect, Rask’s project resembles Otto Jespersen’s ‘Novial’, which was to be conceived a century later.</jats:p
Algorithms and Interaction Potentials: phase density, surface tension and carbon dioxide
No full textThis thesis is an amalgamation of articles (Papers I–V) by the author.
We present a perturbation algorithm to calculate the phase density, and thus the
partition function including its temperature dependence. It works for Hamiltonians
that are not too dissimilar, for which an extra degree of freedom interpolating
between the two is defined so that microcanonical sampling allows the calculation of
the ratio between the phase densities at any energy. The method is illustrated on a
number of problems of different dimensionalities. In Paper I, we consider an
anharmonic Einstein crystal, the square-well tetradecamer, and liquid gold. In
addition, we consider the one-dimensional rotor and the low-dimensional ideal gas in
a homogeneous external field, two Hamiltonians that display a phase transition at
well-defined critical energies.
We consider the interaction of linear molecules and discuss two coarse-grained
pair potentials for their description. In Paper III, one of these potentials has been
parametrized for the vapor-liquid envelope of carbon dioxide using two
adjustablesobtaining good agreement, but for a detailed description of the carbon
dioxide dimer and trimer structures, such coarse-graining fails. As reported in Paper
IV, conventional all-atom force field descriptions also fail in describing the
experimental second and third virial coefficients but an all-atom description with
coarse-grained, single-site anisotropic three-body dispersion and single-site
electrostatic induction manages to reproduce them. In addition, we note that this
simple anisotropic three-body dispersion correction is essential for predicting the
correct relative stability of the experimental trimer conformations when combined
with a literature parametrization of the dimer ab initio potential energy surface.
We present a simple method for calculating the surface tension with respect to
vacuum from cluster simulations, by relating the scalar pressure to the infinitesimal
isothermal pressure-volume work and equating it with the expression from classical
nucleation theory. We then discuss the effect of molecular polarization on the surface
tension using this method, as well as study its effect on the second and third virial
coefficients of the fluid of polarizable Stockmayer molecules. The surface tension
increases with polarizability, but so does its rate of decrease with temperature. The
Tolman length is found positive and largely insensitive to temperature but increases
non-linearly with increasing molecular polarizability.
We discuss the semi-empirical calculation of the crystal-water surface tension of
the pharmaceutical bicalutamide as reported in Paper V and provide a slight
modification of the procedure
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