361 research outputs found
Degrees of Disrespect
No full textWhen evaluating their own politicians, do partisans tolerate or punish the incivility now common in political discourse? While the answer is crucial to understand rising incivility, prior findings are mixed. I propose that co-partisans tolerate milder degrees of incivility, which out-partisans punish, but that a limit exists beyond which the rhetoric becomes too extreme for even the base. Consequently, to examine whether co-partisans tolerate or punish the incivility in current discourse, we must compare: 1) how strong incivility they will tolerate to 2) how strong the incivility in current discourse is. To make this comparison, I develop a method integrating survey experiments with crowdsourced content analysis, which maps stimuli onto the distribution of online incivility among Congress members. I find that co-partisans tolerate typical degrees of incivility, as the incivility in current discourse is rarely so extreme that favorability among co-partisans drops. However, typical degrees lower out-party favorability, reinforcing polarization
Replication Data for: Dimensions of Elite Partisan Polarization: Disentangling the Effects of Incivility and Issue Polarization
No full textElite partisan polarization has been found to have several potentially problematic effects on citizens, such as creating political distrust and different types of polarization among partisans. However, it remains unclear whether these effects are caused by the parties moving apart in terms of issue positions (issue polarization) or by the rise of disrespectful rhetoric (incivility). In the literature, these two dimensions of elite polarization often appear to affect citizens in similar ways, but typical research designs have not been well-suited for disentangling their effects. To determine their unique effects, four studies have been conducted using original designs and a mix of experimental and observational data. The results show that issue polarization and incivility have clearly distinct effects. A more uncivil tone lowers political trust but increasing issue polarization does not. Conversely, only issue polarization creates attitude polarization among partisans. Both aspects of elite polarization create affective polarization
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
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
Self-Affirmation and Identity-Driven Political Behavior
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this recordData availability: The data, code, and any additional materials required to replicate all analyses in this article are available at the Journal of Experimental Political Science Dataverse within the Harvard Dataverse Network, at: doi:10.7910/DVN/HUJZMOPsychological attachment to political parties can bias people’s attitudes, beliefs, and group evaluations. Studies from psychology suggest that self-affirmation theory may ameliorate this problem in the domain of politics on a variety of outcome measures. We report a series of studies conducted by separate research teams that examine whether a self-affirmation intervention affects a variety of outcomes, including political or policy attitudes, factual beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, affective polarization, and evaluations of news sources. The different research teams use a variety of self-affirmation interventions, research designs, and outcomes. Despite these differences, the research teams consistently find that self-affirmation treatments have little effect. These findings suggest considerable caution is warranted for researchers who wish to apply the self-affirmation framework to studies that investigate political attitudes and beliefs. By presenting the “null results” of separate research teams, we hope to spark a discussion about whether and how the self-affirmation paradigm should be applied to political topics.European Union Horizon 2020NASAEnergy FoundationUniversity of MinnesotaNational Science Foundation (NSF
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
Sketch Based Design towards Computational BIM: Objectdesign with Dynamo
No full textRapporten indledes med en betragtning af den danske byggebranche anno 2015. Det beskrives hvordan der med paradigmeskiftet fra 2D dokumentbaseret projektering til 3D objektbaseret, er sket en teknologisk udvikling. Der opleves imidlertid udfordringer med arbejdet med Autodesk Revit som det primære BIM-værktøj for objektbaseret parametrisk modellering. Disse udfordringer søges gennem rapporten løst med Dynamo, hvilket leder hen mod den initierende problemformulering:”Hvordan kan Dynamo løse virksomheders oplevede problemer med bygningsmodellering i Revit og ændrer det på et eksisterende workflow ved projektering?”Gennem en problemanalyse undersøges virksomhedernes oplevede problemer og et nøgleproblem udvælges som genstandsfelt for den senere bearbejdning. Dynamo undersøges som værktøj, og der udvikles eksempler på løsning af problematikker, som argument for at det kan løses med Dynamo. Ud af analysen belyses det, hvordan man kan beskrive anvendelsen af Dynamo for en automatiseret proces, som et arbejde med Computational BIM. I forhold til traditionel projektering som en skitsebaseret proces, gives der eksempler på potentialer ved at anvende ny teknologi som middel til et optimeret workflow. Der undersøges specifikt hvordan Dynamo kan løse en opgave med at optimere et workflow omkring et dimensionerende varmetab og et automatiseret design af bygningsobjekter. Dette problem er skrevet direkte ind i rapportens endelige problemformulering:”Hvordan kan der med Dynamo udføres et automatiseret workflow med varmetabsberegning og design af bygningsobjekter?”Resultatet af rapportens bearbejdning er udviklingen af en prototype, der besvarer problemformuleringens hovedspørgsmål. Gennem Contextual Design metoden arbejdes der med udvikling af et system, hvor konceptuelle modeller og sekvens beskrivelser anvendes som storyboard for den endelige løsning. Arbejdet med Dynamo giver en indikation af, at der ikke kræves programmeringserfaring, for at kunne udvikle simple og mindre komplicerede løsninger.Afslutningsvis konkluderes det at den udviklede prototype skaber et optimeret workflow for faggrupperne ved projektering, samt udfører en automatiseret proces af en varmetabsberegning. Prototypen skal ses netop som en udvikling af løsning, og ikke et færdig system. Kernen for løsningen har været at udføre et proof-of-concept, hvor funktionaliteten af Dynamo undersøges. Konklusionen er at Dynamo egner sig til at tage over, hvor der opleves problemer med funktionalitet i Revit.Som implementering og perspektivering omtales vigtigheden for virksomheder i at følge nye teknologier og tillære sig egenskaber for disse. Det kan betyde meget for en virksomhed, dels at være parat til mulige paradigmeskift eller nye teknologier, og dels for at give dem en competitive edge.The report begins with a reflection on the Danish construction industry anno 2015. It describes how the paradigm shift from 2D document-based design to 3D object-based, has caused a technological development. Challenges are however experienced when working with Autodesk Revit as the primary BIM tool for object-based parametric modeling. These challenges are through the report sought to be solved by using Dynamo, which lead towards the initiating problem formulation:"How can Dynamo solve the current problems experienced by companies when using Revit for building modeling and change an existing workflow for design?"Through a problem analysis several companies experienced problems are examined from where a key-problem is chosen as a field for later processing. Dynamo is investigated as a tool, and examples of solving problems are developed that argument that it can be solved with Dynamo. Out of the analysis, it is emphasized how to describe the use of Dynamo for an automated process as a work in Computational BIM. Compared to traditional design as a sketch-based process provides examples of the potential of using new technology as a means to an optimized workflow. It specifically examined how the Dynamo can solve a problem of optimizing a workflow around a dimensioning heat-loss and an automated design of building objects. This issue is written directly into the report's final problem-formulation:"How can Dynamo be used to perform an automated workflow with heat-loss calculation and design of building objects?"The result of the report processing is the development of a prototype that answers the problem-formulation main issues. Through the use of Contextual Design methodology a system in which conceptual models and sequence descriptions using as a storyboard for the final solution is developed. Working with Dynamo gives an indication of that no programming experience is required in order to develop simple and less complex solutions. Finally, it is concluded that the developed prototype creates an optimized workflow of professions by design, as well as performing an automated process by a heat-loss calculation. The prototype should be seen just as a developing solution, and not as a complete system. The core of the solution has been to perform a proof-of-concept where the functionality of Dynamo is examined. The conclusion is that Dynamo is suited to take over where functionality problems are experienced in Revit.As implementation and perspectives discussed the importance for companies to follow new technologies and learning compulsive, their properties. It can mean a lot to a company and to be prepared for possible paradigm shift or new technologies, and partly to give them a competitive edge and
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
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