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Ergonomic T-Handle for Minimally Invasive Surgical Instruments
No full textA T-handle has been designed to be used for minimally invasive implantation of a dynamic hip screw to repair fractures of the proximal femur. It is capable of being used in two actions: (i) push and hold (while using an angle guide) and (ii) application of torque when using the insertion wrench and lag screw tap. The T-handle can be held in a power or precision grip. It is suitable for either single (sterilised by γ-irradiation) or multiple (sterilised by autoclaving) use. The principles developed here are applicable to handles for a wide range of surgical instruments
Urban Shepherd : Att kultivera landskapet, maten och oss.
No full textUrban shepherd advocates the design and implementation of coherent productive living systems in urban environments. Central to urban shepherd is the creation of multifunctional urban space networks designed to improve ecosystem health while meeting human needs by inducing top-down institutional and bottom-up individual change. Urban Shepherd creates such change through a strategic vision, process and system. Exploring the urban experience through social and environmental landscape use, community ecologies and future architectural practice, urban shepherd offers effective practices of experimentation, future urban natures and the occasional sighting of sheep, pigs and chickens.Urban Shephard förespråkar utformningen och tillämpningen av naturliga system integrerade i vår urbana miljö. I fokus ligger skapandet av det multifunktionella urbana systemet, designat att förbättra de befintliga ekosystemen och samtidigt möta människors behov genom att möjliggöra förändringar på såväl systemnivå som för enskilda individer. Genom att utforska arkitekturens roll i det sociala och praktiska användandet av det urbana rummet med hänsyn till samhällets behov av anknytningen till naturen, kan Urban Shepherd erbjuda effektiva lösningar i nydanande urbana miljöer med hjälp av en och annan gris, ko och höna
Modul 1: Introduktion til kurset - Course Introduction
No full textCourse introduction - Editorial Workflow in OJS 3
Kevin Stranack (Author) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Editor)Introduktion til kurset Det redaktionelle workflow i OJS 3
Kevin Stranack (Forfatter) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Redaktør
Transgressive femininity: gender in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough
No full textThis PhD thesis deals with how new discourses on femininity and gender developed in
Scandinavian literature during the Modern Breakthrough, 1880-1909. Political,
economic and demographic changes in the Scandinavian societies put pressures on the
existing, conventional gender roles, which literature reflects; however, literature also
created and introduced new discourses on gender.
The main focus has been on transgressive female characters in Danish, Swedish
and Norwegian novels, which I have seen as indicators of emerging new forms of
femininity. The study shows how the transgression of gender boundaries is used in the
novels, when presenting their views on what femininity is, should be or could be. In
addition to analysing the textual strategies in the representation of these ‘deviant’
literary characters, I have examined how the relevant texts were received by critics and
reviewers at the time, as reviews are in themselves discursive constructs.
The theoretical basis of this study has mainly been Michel Foucault’s discourse
theory, Judith Butler’s theory of performativity and Yvonne Hirdman’s theory of
gender binarism. I have also used concepts from several (mainly Anglo-American and
Scandinavian) literary gender theorists and historians in the analyses.
The four novels analysed in this study are as follows: 1) Danish author Herman
Bang’s early decadence novel Haabløse Slægter (1880), where I use a queer theory
perspective. 2) Norwegian author Ragnhild Jølsen’s Rikka Gan (1904), where the
strong elements of pre-psychoanalysis are analysed. 3) Swedish author August
Strindberg’s Le Plaidoyer d’un fou (1887-88), where I make a narratological
examination of the narrative voice from a gender perspective. 4) Swedish author Annie
Quiding’s Fru Fanny (1904), analysed as an example of ‘negative’ New Woman
literature.
The thesis shows how literature of the time represented and introduced new forms
of femininity, often in the form of ambiguous female characters, and often to the
disapproval of the critics. It also shows that gender discourses were much alike within
Scandinavia. Furthermore, my study lays bare the skeleton of normative Breakthrough femininity, what can be called the dominant discourse on femininity at the time: a nonexisting
sexual desire, feminine immobility/containment in the home and an imperative,
self-sacrificing motherliness
Becoming an Editor
No full textUdviklerne bag PKP/OJS delagtiggør her læseren i, hvilke overvejelser man bør gøre sig, når man påtænker at starte et nyt tidsskrift op. Den kommende redaktør får ligeledes en række gode værktøjer til håndtering af det redaktionelle arbejde.
PKP-OJS (Forfatter) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Redaktør af dette tidsskrift)Udviklerne bag PKP/OJS delagtiggør her læseren i, hvilke overvejelser man bør gøre sig, når man påtænker at starte et nyt tidsskrift op. Den kommende redaktør får ligeledes en række gode værktøjer til håndtering af det redaktionelle arbejde.
PKP-OJS (Author) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Editor of this Journal
Registering with an OJS Journal
No full textVejledning i hvordan du lader mig registrere som bruger i OJS.Bemærk: Videoen er lavet inden det nye registreringsfelt ORCID iD kom med, så vær venligst opmærksom på, at få udfyldt dette. Kræver, at du opretter dig hos ORCID.
PKP-OJS (Author) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Editor of this Journal)
Vejledning i hvordan du lader mig registrere som bruger i OJS.Bemærk: Videoen er lavet inden det nye registreringsfelt ORCID iD kom med, så vær venligst opmærksom på, at få udfyldt dette. Kræver, at du opretter dig hos ORCID.
PKP-OJS (Forfatter) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Redaktør af dette tidsskrift
OJS for Editors
No full textHer er hvad udviklerne bag OJS selv skriver i introduktionen til dette kursus:
"This course will help you become an expert with the OJS editorial workflow."
Og det har de absolut ret i. Læseren får en grundig indføring i hele det redaktionelle workflow fra forfatterens upload af manuskript over kommunikation med bedømmer og forfatter til korrekturlæsning og publicering.
PKP-OJS (Forfatter) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Redaktør af dette tidsskrift)
Her er hvad udviklerne bag OJS selv skriver i introduktionen til dette kursus:
"This course will help you become an expert with the OJS editorial workflow."
Og det har de absolut ret i. Læseren får en grundig indføring i hele det redaktionelle workflow fra forfatterens upload af manuskript over kommunikation med bedømmer og forfatter til korrekturlæsning og publicering.
PKP-OJS (Author) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Editor of this Journal
Norwegian cultural policy: a civilising mission?
No full textThis dissertation aims to explore the extent to which what has been termed „the civilising mission‟ has been a central rationale behind Norwegian cultural policy.
In order to contextualise the research the German term Bildung, which refers to human growth processes, is used as a conceptual framework. Bildung can be achieved in two different, albeit related, ways: firstly, through an object approach, which takes great works of arts as its point of departure and where personal growth can be achieved through exposure to these and which endorses clear cultural hierarchies, and secondly, through a subject approach, which emphasises each individual‟s own preferences and desires and where a much greater range of cultural activities can facilitate personal growth.
In addition to an historical analysis of the ideas that have informed Norwegian cultural policies dating back to 1814, this project draws upon „green papers‟ published by the Norwegian government through its Ministry of Culture. This is supplemented by a more detailed analysis of a key cultural policy initiative of the 2000s: den kulturelle skolesekken (DKS)1, which is a major programme initiated to enable children in primary school to be exposed to art-works produced by professional artists.
The project concludes that although a subject and an object approach to Bildung have co-existed throughout the period charted here there has since the 90s been an increased focus on the object oriented approach. This appears evident both in the general cultural policy discourse but articularly through the disciplining aspect of DKS and its strong focus on, what is being referred to as, the „professional arts‟ as a vehicle for Bildung
The precautionary demand for commodity stocks
No full textThis paper develops a theory of the precautionary demand for commodity stocks. It suggests that commodity stocks are held for precautionary purposes by producers, consumers, and intermediate processors, while speculators hold stocks on the expectation of capital gains from a subsequent price rise. Producer and consumer stocks usually account for the largest share of commercial stocks held at any point in time. For example, at the end of 1990, stocks held by producers and consumers of copper were 72 percent of all commercial stocks of the market economy countries. Yet, the theory explaining the behavior of this class of stocks has not progressed much beyond the concept of convenience yield, first introduced by Kaldor (1939). This paper proposes an alternative theory. Holding of stocks by producers and consumers is viewed as precautionary behavior towards output and price risks. As a theory of behavior towards risks, the precautionary stock demand model encompasses speculative demand by both producers and consumers. Furthermore, both stocks and futures are treated as precautionary instruments, in contrast to the dichotomy that only stocks provide convenience yield while futures are hedging instruments.Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Non Bank Financial Institutions
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