The household effect on electoral participation:A contextual analysis of voter signatures from a French polling station (1982-2007)

We use electoral participation data coded from signature lists to show that patterns of voter turnout, be they related to average participation, versatility or precise moments of voting, are strongly related to what we call “electorate households”, i.e. groups of voters registered in the same polling station and living together. Each household tends to be homogeneous, at levels much higher than chance would explain, so that modelling individual participation without taking this household effect into account ignores much of what actually happens. The status in the household also plays an important role among individual factors of voter participation. Not only do people who live together often participate together, but the precise shape of their relationships influences their behaviour

Sverigedemokraternas nationsbygge - En normkritisk diskursanalys av Sverigedemokraternas centrala dokument

In this thesis, I aim to make visible and discuss the norms that can be found in some of the Sweden Democrats’ central documents pertaining to a definition of their nation-building. I have used critical discourse analysis to discuss these documents, that is Sweden Democrats’ party program, and a speech held by the leader of the party, Jimmie Åkesson. In this material, I identified three themes: essential differences; family, equality and gender; and the People’s home. The People’s home is a subcategory to essential differences and family, equality and gender. I analysed these themes by using a norm critical perspective. The results of my study are, among others, that the norms in the central documents create a normative Swedish “we” that excludes the “other”. The “other” is sometimes the “cultural other” and sometimes the “sexual other”. The Sweden democrats paints a picture of the “cultural other” as unable to adapt in to the Swedish normative “we”

Sverigedemokraternas nationsbygge - En normkritisk diskursanalys av Sverigedemokraternas centrala dokument

In this thesis, I aim to make visible and discuss the norms that can be found in some of the Sweden Democrats’ central documents pertaining to a definition of their nation-building. I have used critical discourse analysis to discuss these documents, that is Sweden Democrats’ party program, and a speech held by the leader of the party, Jimmie Åkesson. In this material, I identified three themes: essential differences; family, equality and gender; and the People’s home. The People’s home is a subcategory to essential differences and family, equality and gender. I analysed these themes by using a norm critical perspective. The results of my study are, among others, that the norms in the central documents create a normative Swedish “we” that excludes the “other”. The “other” is sometimes the “cultural other” and sometimes the “sexual other”. The Sweden democrats paints a picture of the “cultural other” as unable to adapt in to the Swedish normative “we”

Sverigedemokraternas nationsbygge - En normkritisk diskursanalys av Sverigedemokraternas centrala dokument

In this thesis, I aim to make visible and discuss the norms that can be found in some of the Sweden Democrats’ central documents pertaining to a definition of their nation-building. I have used critical discourse analysis to discuss these documents, that is Sweden Democrats’ party program, and a speech held by the leader of the party, Jimmie Åkesson. In this material, I identified three themes: essential differences; family, equality and gender; and the People’s home. The People’s home is a subcategory to essential differences and family, equality and gender. I analysed these themes by using a norm critical perspective. The results of my study are, among others, that the norms in the central documents create a normative Swedish “we” that excludes the “other”. The “other” is sometimes the “cultural other” and sometimes the “sexual other”. The Sweden democrats paints a picture of the “cultural other” as unable to adapt in to the Swedish normative “we”

Där det dagliga brödet bereds: en intervjustudie om kontinuitet och förändring inom den svenska livsmedelsindustrin ur ett feministiskt-marxistiskt perspektiv

In this thesis, I investigate change and continuity within the food industry in Sweden, building on seven interviews with workers in different factories and locations in Sweden. Through a feminist-Marxist understanding of productive and reproductive work, and an analysis of how gender and class are produced and reproduced in organizations, this study examines production work and its impact on the workers’ lives. The thesis further explores how digitalization has come to change social relations at the work place, leading to an increased sense of alienation and preventing social organization at the workplace. The digitalization has also changed how gender is seen and constructed within the food industry. Through concepts such as producers’ pride and commodity fetishism, I make visible that it is human work that creates value in products, through labor processes in which the worker takes pride. This thesis also underlines the food industry’s function as both productive and reproductive, since it produces commodities that are central to the society and every human’s continued reproduction

Tarmstomins påverkan på patienters upplevda livskvalitet

Bakgrund Skada eller sjukdom i mag- och tarmkanalen kan leda till att det utsatta området av tarmen behöver avlastas, varav en stomi appliceras, antingen tillfälligt eller permanent. Stomin ersätter kroppens naturliga tarmfunktion vilket gör att patienten förhoppningsvis kan fortsätta leva ett obehindrat liv.   Syfte  Syftet med litteraturstudien är att undersöka hur patienters upplevda livskvalitet påverkas av tarmstomier.   Metod I denna deskriptiva litteraturstudie användes kvalitativa originalartiklar, tagna från databaser som PubMed och CINAHL. Artiklarna granskades enligt “bedömning av studier med kvalitativ metodik” och avgjorde artiklarnas risk för bias. Vid analys av resultatet användes analysmodellen av Popenoe, där teman skapades och lade grunden för resultatets struktur.  Resultat Fem kategorier identifierades. Dessa beskriver hur individen upplevde sin livskvalitet. Kontroll över sitt liv innebar hur deltagarna behövde planera sitt liv efter stomin. Emotionellt välbefinnande involverade oro, ångest och depression orsakat av läckage, förändrad kroppsbild och rädsla för exponering. Socialt välbefinnande beskrevs som isolering på grund av stomins främmande roll och det materiella välbefinnandet påverkades av förändrade jobbsituationer. Många av deltagarna i studierna upplevde att deras fysiska kapacitet försämrades efter deras stomioperation, vilket beskriver det fysiska välbefinnandet.   Slutsats Stomi är en stor livsförändring och kan påverka sin självbild, relationer och fysiska förmågor. Hur livskvaliteten påverkas beror på hur väl individen anpassar sig till sin stomi i relation till välbefinnandet. Att ha en god vårdkontakt kan eventuellt främja en god upplevelse av livskvalitet vilket innefattar möjligheten att kunna leva ett obehindrat liv.Background Injury or disease in the gastrointestinal tract can lead to the need for the exposed area of the intestine to be surgically removed, of which a stoma is applied, either temporarily or permanently. The stoma replaces the body´s natural bowel function, which means that the patient hopefully can continue to live a normal life.  The aim The purpose of this literature study is to examine the perceived quality of lives affected by intestinal ostomies.  Method In this descriptive literature study, qualitative, original articles were taken from databases such as PubMed and CINAHL. When analyzing the results, the analysis of Popenoe was used, where themes were created which laid the foundation of the structure of the results. ResultsFive categories were identified. These described how the individual´s experienced their quality of life. The control over their lives described how the participants needed to plan their everyday lives after their stoma. Emotional well-being involved anxiety caused by leakage, altered body image and fear of exposure of the stoma. Social well-being was explained as isolation because of the stomata's foreign role, and material well-being was affected by changed job situations. Many of the participants in the studies, experienced physical capacity deteriorating after their stoma surgery, which describes their physical well-being.  Conclusion Having an ostomy is life-changing and can affect one's self–image, relationships and physical abilities. How the quality of life is affected depends on how well the individuals adapt to their stoma in relation to their well-being. Having a good care contact can possibly promote a good experience of the quality of life

Tarmstomins påverkan på patienters upplevda livskvalitet

Bakgrund Skada eller sjukdom i mag- och tarmkanalen kan leda till att det utsatta området av tarmen behöver avlastas, varav en stomi appliceras, antingen tillfälligt eller permanent. Stomin ersätter kroppens naturliga tarmfunktion vilket gör att patienten förhoppningsvis kan fortsätta leva ett obehindrat liv.   Syfte  Syftet med litteraturstudien är att undersöka hur patienters upplevda livskvalitet påverkas av tarmstomier.   Metod I denna deskriptiva litteraturstudie användes kvalitativa originalartiklar, tagna från databaser som PubMed och CINAHL. Artiklarna granskades enligt “bedömning av studier med kvalitativ metodik” och avgjorde artiklarnas risk för bias. Vid analys av resultatet användes analysmodellen av Popenoe, där teman skapades och lade grunden för resultatets struktur.  Resultat Fem kategorier identifierades. Dessa beskriver hur individen upplevde sin livskvalitet. Kontroll över sitt liv innebar hur deltagarna behövde planera sitt liv efter stomin. Emotionellt välbefinnande involverade oro, ångest och depression orsakat av läckage, förändrad kroppsbild och rädsla för exponering. Socialt välbefinnande beskrevs som isolering på grund av stomins främmande roll och det materiella välbefinnandet påverkades av förändrade jobbsituationer. Många av deltagarna i studierna upplevde att deras fysiska kapacitet försämrades efter deras stomioperation, vilket beskriver det fysiska välbefinnandet.   Slutsats Stomi är en stor livsförändring och kan påverka sin självbild, relationer och fysiska förmågor. Hur livskvaliteten påverkas beror på hur väl individen anpassar sig till sin stomi i relation till välbefinnandet. Att ha en god vårdkontakt kan eventuellt främja en god upplevelse av livskvalitet vilket innefattar möjligheten att kunna leva ett obehindrat liv.Background Injury or disease in the gastrointestinal tract can lead to the need for the exposed area of the intestine to be surgically removed, of which a stoma is applied, either temporarily or permanently. The stoma replaces the body´s natural bowel function, which means that the patient hopefully can continue to live a normal life.  The aim The purpose of this literature study is to examine the perceived quality of lives affected by intestinal ostomies.  Method In this descriptive literature study, qualitative, original articles were taken from databases such as PubMed and CINAHL. When analyzing the results, the analysis of Popenoe was used, where themes were created which laid the foundation of the structure of the results. ResultsFive categories were identified. These described how the individual´s experienced their quality of life. The control over their lives described how the participants needed to plan their everyday lives after their stoma. Emotional well-being involved anxiety caused by leakage, altered body image and fear of exposure of the stoma. Social well-being was explained as isolation because of the stomata's foreign role, and material well-being was affected by changed job situations. Many of the participants in the studies, experienced physical capacity deteriorating after their stoma surgery, which describes their physical well-being.  Conclusion Having an ostomy is life-changing and can affect one's self–image, relationships and physical abilities. How the quality of life is affected depends on how well the individuals adapt to their stoma in relation to their well-being. Having a good care contact can possibly promote a good experience of the quality of life

FIRE DESIGN OF CLT IN EUROPE

The fire safety design of cross-laminated timber (CLT or X-Lam) in Europe is governed by the Construction Products Regulation and its essential requirements, as for all other building products. These requirements are mandatory, to be used in all European countries. They include classification systems for reaction to fire of building products, fire resistance of building elements, and structural Eurocodes. The reaction-to-fire performance of CLT in accordance with the European classification system is specified. Higher classes can be reached by chemical treatments, but the durability of the reaction-to-fire performance needs to be fulfilled according to a new European system. The fire resistance design of CLT building elements is not included in Eurocode 5, the structural Eurocode for timber, but can be either tested according to European standards or calculated by using design methods being developed recently. This article provides information about both reaction to fire and fire resistance of CLT in Europe

Determination of organophosphorous flame retardants in fish tissues by matrix solid-phase dispersion and gas chromatography

Organophosphate esters (OPEs), utilized as flame retarding agents and/or plasticizers, are almost ubiquitous in environmental compartments, and biota and foods could be contaminated by bioaccumulation or during the treatment processes. A multiresidue method is proposed for the determination of 13 OPEs in fish tissues: analytes were simultaneously extracted and purified using the matrix solid phase dispersion technique and then determined by gas chromatography with nitrogen–phosphorus detection. The main parameters affecting extraction yield and selectivity, such as the type of dispersant material, clean-up co-sorbent, rinse and elution solvents, were evaluated to obtain lipid-free extracts and quantitative recoveries for OPEs. Under optimal conditions, 0.5 g of samples was dispersed with 2 g Florisil and 1 g anhydrous sodium sulphate and transferred to a solid phase extraction cartridge containing 1 g alumina. The lipids were removed using 5 mL n-hexane/dichloromethane (1:1) and analytes were recovered with 10 mL n-hexane/acetone (6:4) and directly analysed. The method developed provided recoveries between 70 and 110% for different kinds of fish, and the day-to-day variability was between 1 and 9%. This procedure constitutes the first analytical method for the analysis of OPEs in a food matrix and it is applicable to analyse a large number of samples to evaluate the occurrence and sources of OPEs in biota and foods

Effekter av ledarutveckling för individ och organisation

Denna rapport är en delrapport inom ramen för ett longitudinellt forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt vid HELIX VINN Excellence Centre vid Linköpings universitet. Det övergripande projektets syfte är att beskriva och analysera förutsättningar för en förbättrad koordination bland toppchefer i en växande och geografiskt expanderande organisation, samt hur koordinationen cheferna emellan kan förstås i termer av en kollektiv lärprocess. Som en del i detta större projekt har det även ingått att göra vissa fördjupningsstudier. Denna rapport är en sådan fördjupningsstudie där fokus varit på effekter av en ledarutvecklingssatsning som genomförts under ett antals års tid i en del av organisationen. Det empiriska underlaget samlades in under våren 2009. Rapporten har tagits fram i ett nära samarbete mellan forskarna i projektet. Cecilia Höglund och Lisa Östman, studenter vid PA-programmet i Linköping, har även samlat in och presenterat empirin inom ramen för sin kandidatuppsats ”Ledarutvecklingsprogram - användbart eller ej?”. Vi vill speciellt tacka de personer på fallföretaget som öppnat sina dörrar och tagit av sin tid för att möjliggöra vårt intervjuande