362 research outputs found
A Hybrid Building in Concrete and Wood
No full textThe estimated lifespan of a building today is only 50 years. They are often designed down to the minimum for a specific target group or one specific use. In many cases constructed with load-bearing walls that divide function-specified rooms, making conversion into any other form of function impossible. Locking buildings to a specific function is not very clever, as buildings are subject to a wide range of trends and changes. The goal of this project has been to investigate how the built environment can be resilient to changing societal trends to avoid becoming obsolete and in the worst case having to be demolished. This leads to the question of how a building can be designed to enable change and how to build and plan a building when its future use and users are unknown.
GDH 2004: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Gerasimov-drell-hearn Sum Rule And Its Extensions
No full textAngela Biselli is a contributing author, Spin asymmetries for exclusive and semi-exclusive reactions with CLAS.
Article abstract: An extensive experimental program to measure the spin structure of the nucleons is being carried out with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab using a longitudinally polarized electron beam incident on a longitudinally polarized target. Spin degrees of freedom offer new tools to explore the baryon structure and test the many theoretical approaches that attempt to characterize it, such as effective Lagrangian models and transverse momentum dependent parton distributions. I will present preliminary results for single and double spin asymmetries for exclusive π0, π+, and η electroproduction in the resonance region compared with unitary isobar and dynamical models, as well as ρ electroproduction for DIS kinematics. I will also report on an analysis of the semi-inclusive and exclusive channels where double and single spin asymmetries were used to study transverse momentum dependent parton distributions.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/physics-books/1002/thumbnail.jp
Flerspråkighet i matematikundervisning
No full textForskning visar att matematikinlärning kan vara problematisk för flerspråkiga elever och att lärare skulle behöva mer kunskap i området. Forskningen visar vidare att lärare tenderar att missgynna de lärandemöjligheter som flerspråkiga elever behöver och att lärarens förhållningssätt till flerspråkigheten i klassrummet avgör vilken lärandemiljö som skapas.
Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka en lärares förståelse av fenomenet flerspråkighet i matematikundervisning genom tolkning av hens utsagor och handlingar. Studien är en kvalitativ fallstudie som bygger på en intervju och två observationer av en lärare. Studien har en fenomenologisk teoretisk utgångspunkt och det som studeras är lärarens förståelse för fenomenet. Resultatet analyseras tematiskt och utifrån analysverktyget LAR-modellen.
Resultatet visar att läraren upplever att elevernas språkliga tillkortakommanden är något som kan kompenseras för med olika typer av stöttning såsom praktiskt material, bildstöd och studiestöd. Det visar vidare att läraren uppfattar flerspråkighet som en resurs, utifrån ett bristperspektiv, där modersmålet ska agera likt en hävstång för att möjliggöra att eleverna når målspråket svenska. Läraren upplever tydlighet som extra viktigt vid undervisning av flerspråkiga elever och lyfter vikten av att använda ett formellt matematikspråk framför informellt. I analysen är läraren till viss del rörlig i LAR-modellen men befinner sig nästan uteslutet i nedre vänstra kvadranten där hen separerar på såväl matematik som språk
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES NEEDED FOR LEADING CLAS STANDARDS COMPETENT ORGANIZATIONS: A DELPHI STUDY
No full textBefore this study, the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead a CLAS Standards competent organization and workforce were unknown. The purposes of the presentation are two. First, to discuss a qualitative Delphi dissertation research study identifying the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead CLAS Standards competent organizations and workforces effectively. Second, to discuss what the study meant to the growth of the lead author. Twenty-one expert behavioral health leaders located in the United States participated in the study (N = 7 for the pilot study and N = 14 for full panel study). Analyses of data gathered from experts across two rounds of the pilot study and four rounds of the main study revealed 15 leadership competencies were very or extremely critical to leading a CLAS Standards competent organization. While 11 of the 15 identified competencies were very similar to existing competency frameworks identified by the HLA and NCHL, four unique competencies emerged: cultural competence and adaptation, collaboration and teamwork, care planning and care coordination, and systems oriented practice, with the two most critical competencies being (a) cultural competence and adaption, and (b) collaboration and teamwork
Balansen mellan kundernas krav och företagets förmåga att leverera rätt produkter vid rätt tidpunkt. : En fallstudie av Clas Ohlsons efterfrågestyrning.
No full textBackground: Today’s market offers customers many more possibilities to choose than before. With that the customer’s requirements on the company have become higher, products of the best possible quality to the less possible price when the customer demands them,specially concerning seasonal products that become out of date when the seasontime has finished. In the recent years the Supply chain management technic has gott attention because of its succesfully way to integrate the companys business processes. Demand Management is an important part of that technic since demand management is dealing with managning the demand, with the pourpose to find the balance between supply and demand. In this way the company can satisfy its custormers needs effective and creates good relationships with them. Companies that do not succeed to manage the demand, run the risk of taking away from the market. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how Clas Ohlson handles the demand of seasonal products. Method: Because this study is a case study of Clas Olhsons demand management, the author has used personal interviews as primary material. The persons interviewed have leading positions within Clas Ohlson. The secondary material consists of information from the annual account, personnel magasine, homepage, etc. The secondary material is a complement of the primary material. In this way the problem will be analyse from different perspectives. Conclusion: Today is Clas Ohlson a successful company thanks to the companys product mix, the prices, specially seasonal products which have good prices, and the customer service. Clas Ohlson is expanding in Sweden and vill expand outside the Skandinavien in the comming years as well. The company’s business processes work good. The question is whether Clas Ohlson is going to manage to satisfy its future customers demand using its traditional methods in those business processes which have a big impact on the demand. Clas Ohlson needs to improve its informationflow. The informationflow and the materialflow have to work together more effectively. This can achive with help of modern technic within information technology. It is true that Clas Ohlson has considered the posibility to use technical solutions, but no final desicions have be made. The company was in the opinion that such solutions weren’t bring benefits to the company at the time the discussion was going on
Balansen mellan kundernas krav och företagets förmåga att leverera rätt produkter vid rätt tidpunkt. : En fallstudie av Clas Ohlsons efterfrågestyrning.
No full textBackground: Today’s market offers customers many more possibilities to choose than before. With that the customer’s requirements on the company have become higher, products of the best possible quality to the less possible price when the customer demands them,specially concerning seasonal products that become out of date when the seasontime has finished. In the recent years the Supply chain management technic has gott attention because of its succesfully way to integrate the companys business processes. Demand Management is an important part of that technic since demand management is dealing with managning the demand, with the pourpose to find the balance between supply and demand. In this way the company can satisfy its custormers needs effective and creates good relationships with them. Companies that do not succeed to manage the demand, run the risk of taking away from the market. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how Clas Ohlson handles the demand of seasonal products. Method: Because this study is a case study of Clas Olhsons demand management, the author has used personal interviews as primary material. The persons interviewed have leading positions within Clas Ohlson. The secondary material consists of information from the annual account, personnel magasine, homepage, etc. The secondary material is a complement of the primary material. In this way the problem will be analyse from different perspectives. Conclusion: Today is Clas Ohlson a successful company thanks to the companys product mix, the prices, specially seasonal products which have good prices, and the customer service. Clas Ohlson is expanding in Sweden and vill expand outside the Skandinavien in the comming years as well. The company’s business processes work good. The question is whether Clas Ohlson is going to manage to satisfy its future customers demand using its traditional methods in those business processes which have a big impact on the demand. Clas Ohlson needs to improve its informationflow. The informationflow and the materialflow have to work together more effectively. This can achive with help of modern technic within information technology. It is true that Clas Ohlson has considered the posibility to use technical solutions, but no final desicions have be made. The company was in the opinion that such solutions weren’t bring benefits to the company at the time the discussion was going on
Comparative cost analysis of reuse- and disposable packaging
No full textThis report analyzes disposable packaging and returnable packaging with the methods life cycle analysis and life cycle costs analysis. These two different packaging are analyzed through the company Clas Ohlson’s packaging-flow. To get a picture of how the flow works, a visit at the company and email contact have been done with Clas Ohlson to get relevant information Today Clas Ohlson has a big flow of articles to the stores without larger variations in the demand, with the exception of autumn, which is when customers start shopping for Christmas. Clas Ohlson’s articles are placed on a pallet and are wrapped into plastic-film for protection and to make sure that nothing will be stolen. In this report Plastic-film is compared to the company Nycopac AB’s product Nyco Sleeve. In Sweden Posten takes care of Clas Ohlson’s transports and is the company’s third party-logistics provider. Nyco Sleeve is a type of pallet box, which is placed on a pallet with the possibility to place three units upon each other. The pallet box is possible to fold, which makes it doable to place pallet boxes upon each other in reverse transportation. Our Life cycle costs analysis shows that Nyco Sleeve is profitable compared to continue using plastic-film as secondary packaging. Nyco Sleeve demands a larger investment, almost seven times larger than the price for plastic-film but the expenses will be recovered relatively fast because of decreasing transportation costs. Posten’s pricing depends on each pallet place that is used which means that Nyco Sleeve’s higher weight does not affect the price. The total costs decreases because Nyco Sleeve increases the fill ratio on each pallet place, which results that less pallet places need to be used in the transport. If Nyco Sleeve is used the total pallet places decrease from about 116 000 to about 93 000 pallets considering 2012s flow. Due to decreasing costs each year, the pay-off-method shows that the investment reaches break even in about 0.7 years The life cycle analysis that examines the environmental impact of the packaging shows the same trend as the life cycle cost analysis, it is the transport that has the decisive influence on the environment. Important to note is that the transportations from Clas Ohlson’s warehouse to stores and the reverse transports stand for the largest carbon dioxide emissions and not the transportations from production or to waste disposal. The production phase’s emission is also important especially for Nyco Sleeve, which causes large amounts of emission compared to the plastic film. Decreasing transportations and that it is possible to reuse Nyco Sleeve even out the differences between the two packaging types when it comes to emission in production. The life cycle analysis’ scenario analysis shows that Nyco Sleeve environmental impact reaches break even after about two years compared to break even for the economic costs in 0.7 years. If only one loop is investigated the calculations show that Nyco Sleeve has larger environmental impact then plastic film but over time and when several loops are considered Nyco Sleeves carbon dioxide emission is economized. Rapporten analyserar engångs- och returemballage genom de två analysmetoderna, livscykelkostnads- och livscykelanalys. Emballagen analyseras utifrån företaget Clas Ohlsons emballageflöde där studiebesök gjorts för att se hur flödet fungerar. Mailkontakt har också förekommit för annan viktig information kring företagets flöde av artiklar och emballage. Clas Ohlson har idag ett stort och jämnt flöde av produkter till deras butiker med säsongstoppar på hösten inför julhandeln. Deras produkter paketeras idag på lastpallar som sedan sveps in i plastfilm för att skydda och säkerställa att ingen stöld har skett. Det är detta engångsemballage, plastfilm, som jämförs emot returemballaget, Nyco Sleeve. Clas Ohlsons transporter sker idag med en tredjepartslogistiker där Posten är deras distributör inom Sveriges gränser, som är det system som undersöks. Nyco Sleeve är en form av pallbox som ställs på en lastpall och det går lasta tre stycken i höjd, ovan på varandra. Pallboxen går att fälla ihop vid returer och lastas även då ovan på varandra. Livscykelkostnadsanalysen visar att Nyco Sleeve är en ekonomisk lönsam investering i relation till att behålla plastfilmen som sekundärförpackning. Kostnaden att investera i Nyco Sleeve är ca sju gånger högre i jämförelse med inköpskostnaden för plastfilmen, men investeringen blir lönsam relativt snabbt eftersom Nyco Sleeve sänker transportkostnaderna. Posten tar idag betalt per pallplats och därmed gör inte tyngden på en Nyco Sleeve någon påverkan på den ekonomiska kostnaden. Kostnaden minskar genom användning av Nyco Sleeve eftersom fyllnadsgraden ökar och därmed minskar antalet levererade pallplatser. Skulle Nyco Sleeve användas minskas antalet från 116 100 stycken till ca 93 000 pallplatser utifrån Clas Ohlsons flöde under 2012. Genom den stora transportbesparingen per år visar pay-off-metoden att investeringen når break-even efter omkring 0,7 år. Livscykelanalysen som undersöker emballagens koldioxidutsläpp visar på samma tendens som livscykelkostnadsanalysen, att det är transporten som är den stora miljöboven. Viktigt att poängtera är att det är transporterna från Clas Ohlsons centrallager ut till butikerna och returtransporterna för samma sträcka som ger störst miljöpåverkan och inte transporterna från emballagens produktionsanläggningar till centrallagret eller till avfallshanteringen. Produktionen är även den en stor aktivitet som ger stor miljöpåverkan där Nyco Sleeve bidrar till betydligt större utsläpp än plastfilmen. Den stora skillnaden i miljöpåverkan från produktionen kompenseras genom de minskade transporterna och att Nyco Sleeve återanvänds. Livscykelanalysens scenarioanalys visar att Nyco Sleeves miljöpåverkan når break even efter ca två år. Undersöks bara en loop visar beräkningarna att Nyco Sleeve har större miljöpåverkan än om plastfilm används men detta inbesparas genom de minskade transporterna.
In search of the author: narrative voice in Svetlana Aleksievich's Chrnobyl'skaia molitva
No full textSvetlana Aleksievich is a contemporary Belarusian author whose works straddle the divide between Soviet and post-Soviet time. Based on tape-recorded interviews with eyewitnesses to events of historical and political significance, such as the Chornobyl’ nuclear disaster and the Soviet-Afghan war, her works can be considered a hybrid form of journalism and fiction. This form of writing, where the statements of a multitude of individuals are selected, processed and arranged by a single author, raises important questions about representation and authorial agency.
Focusing on Aleksievich’s fifth book, Chernobyl’skaia molitva: khronika budushchego (Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future) [1985], this MA thesis examines the unresolved tension between the voices of the eyewitnesses and that of Aleksievich. Its aim is firstly to contextualise and conceptualise the question of authorial agency in Aleksievich’s writing in general, and secondly to examine the concrete textual manifestations of authorial agency in Chernobyl’skaia molitva. The thesis will explore the extent to which Chernobyl’skaia molitva displays a clear political bias through the ideological position that its implied author occupies in relation to the narrators. Moreover, it will show that in its thematic insistence, Chernobyl’skaia molitva presents a specific eco-critical perspective on the nuclear accident, a particular interpretation of the relationship between the Soviet state and its citizens, and a specific view on issues related to the possibilities of language to adequately communicate an experience – points which, contrary to the implicit assertion of the text of being the product of a multitude of authors, can only be attributed to a single consciousness. Thus, this thesis argues that Chernobyl’skaia molitva performs two separate functions: “giving a voice” to the witnesses of the event and, through these voices, presenting a particular “message” or “worldview”
In search of the author: narrative voice in Svetlana Aleksievich's Chrnobyl'skaia molitva
No full textSvetlana Aleksievich is a contemporary Belarusian author whose works straddle the divide between Soviet and post-Soviet time. Based on tape-recorded interviews with eyewitnesses to events of historical and political significance, such as the Chornobyl’ nuclear disaster and the Soviet-Afghan war, her works can be considered a hybrid form of journalism and fiction. This form of writing, where the statements of a multitude of individuals are selected, processed and arranged by a single author, raises important questions about representation and authorial agency.
Focusing on Aleksievich’s fifth book, Chernobyl’skaia molitva: khronika budushchego (Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future) [1985], this MA thesis examines the unresolved tension between the voices of the eyewitnesses and that of Aleksievich. Its aim is firstly to contextualise and conceptualise the question of authorial agency in Aleksievich’s writing in general, and secondly to examine the concrete textual manifestations of authorial agency in Chernobyl’skaia molitva. The thesis will explore the extent to which Chernobyl’skaia molitva displays a clear political bias through the ideological position that its implied author occupies in relation to the narrators. Moreover, it will show that in its thematic insistence, Chernobyl’skaia molitva presents a specific eco-critical perspective on the nuclear accident, a particular interpretation of the relationship between the Soviet state and its citizens, and a specific view on issues related to the possibilities of language to adequately communicate an experience – points which, contrary to the implicit assertion of the text of being the product of a multitude of authors, can only be attributed to a single consciousness. Thus, this thesis argues that Chernobyl’skaia molitva performs two separate functions: “giving a voice” to the witnesses of the event and, through these voices, presenting a particular “message” or “worldview”
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