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Church Property Disputes in the Civil Courts
Denna uppsats bygger pÄ ett uppdrag att utvÀrdera de lokala trygghetssgrupperna i Sundsvalls kommun. Syftet med uppsatsen Àr att analysera hur denna nya form av lokalt sammansatta grupper fungerar i teorin och praktiken. Detta görs med sÀrskilt fokus pÄ grÀsrotsbyrÄkraternas roll och deras arbetssituation inom omrÄdet för det brottsförebyggande- och trygghetsskapande arbetet i kommunen. Uppsatsens metod bestÄr av intervjuer med tio deltagare frÄn trygghetsgrupperna och deltagande observationer som Àr direkt anslutna till det vardagliga arbetet. Det analytiska ramverket bestÄr av Michael Lipskys begrepp om grÀsrotsbyrÄkrater, vars breda skara av poliser, rektorer, socialtjÀnstemÀn m.fl. arbetar direkt med och mot mÀnniskor, och dessutom har ett stort svÀngrum att sjÀlva kunna utforma mÄl och arbetssÀtt i praktiken. Vidare anvÀnds Kirk Emerson et. al. artikel om samverkansstyrning som ligger till grund för den nya samarbetsformen som utvecklas under de senaste Ären i Sundsvalls kommun. Avsnittet behandlar Àven utvÀrderingsbegreppet och dess betydelse för studiens upplÀgg. Resultat frÄn studien visar bland annat att det under en lÀngre tid har funnits ett stort engagemang att gemensamt arbeta för att skapa en tryggare miljö runtom i stadsomrÄdena, men det har inte alltid fungerat fullt lika effektivt. Deltagarens gemensamma nyckel till framgÄng i det lokala brottsförebyggande- och trygghetsskapande arbetet Àr informationsutbytet. En annan viktig aspekt för deltagarna har varit utvecklingen med mÄl och resurser som upprepade gÄnger har skapat ett produktivt samarbete. Detta gynnar arbetet inom trygghetsgrupperna och arbetssituationen för deltagarna i deras vardagliga arbete. I studiens slutsatser sÄ framgÄr det att grÀsrotsbyrÄkrater i Sundsvall upplever en brist pÄ tid och resurser. Men de kan med ett aktivt deltagande och via samverkan med andra samhÀllsaktörer inom trygghetsgrupperna minska sin egen arbetsbördagenom, samt skapa en större lokal kÀnnedom om andra deltagares arbetsomrÄden. Informationsutbytet ger dem möjlighet att skapa förutsÀttningar för att vara "steget före" och kunna förutsÀga hÀndelser som kan skapa social oro och otrygghet runtom i stads- och bostadsomrÄden
A performance measure for manual control systems
A new performance measure is introduced for multivariable closed loop experiments with a human operator. The essential feature of the phase margin performance measure (PMPM) is that the performance of each control loop can be determined independently, with prescribed disturbance and error levels. A variable filter parameter is used as the PMPM within the loop and it assures a high workload at the same time. There is a straightforward relationship between the PMPM and the inner loop feedback augmentation that can be utilized in trade-off studies. An adjustment scheme that seeks the PMPM automatically is described as employed in a single loop control task. This task applies directly to the experimental study of displays for helicopters and VTOL aircraft
Bodily attractiveness and egalitarianism are negatively related in males.
Ancestrally, relatively attractive individuals and relatively formidable males may have had reduced incentives to be egalitarian (i.e., to act in accordance with norms promoting social equality). If selection calibrated one's egalitarianism to one's attractiveness/formidability, then such people may exhibit reduced egalitarianism ("observed egalitarianism") and be perceived by others as less egalitarian ("perceived egalitarianism") in modern environments. To investigate, we created 3D body models of 125 participants to use both as a source of anthropometric measurements and as stimuli to obtain ratings of bodily attractiveness and perceived egalitarianism. We also measured observed egalitarianism (via an economic "dictator" game) and indices of political egalitarianism (preference for socialism over capitalism) and "equity sensitivity." Results indicated higher egalitarianism levels in women than in men, and moderate-to-strong negative relationships between (a) attractiveness and observed egalitarianism among men, (b) attractiveness and perceived egalitarianism among both sexes, and (c) formidability and perceived egalitarianism among men. We did not find support for two previously-reported findings: that observed egalitarianism and formidability are negatively related in men, and that wealth and formidability interact to explain variance in male egalitarianism. However, this lack of support may have been due to differences in variable measurement between our study and previous studies
Six Permutation Patterns Force Quasirandomness
A sequence of permutations is said to be "quasirandom" if
the induced density of every permutation in converges to
as . We prove that is quasirandom
if and only if the density of each permutation in the set
converges to . Previously, the
smallest cardinality of a set with this property, called a
"quasirandom-forcing" set, was known to be between four and eight. In fact, we
show that there is a single linear expression of the densities of the six
permutations in this set which forces quasirandomness and show that this is
best possible in the sense that there is no shorter linear expression of
permutation densities with positive coefficients with this property. In the
language of theoretical statistics, this expression provides a new
nonparametric independence test for bivariate continuous distributions related
to Spearman's .Comment: 27 pages, 1 figure, 5 appendices included as ancillary file
Pairwise balanced designs covered by bounded flats
We prove that for any and , there exist, for all sufficiently large
admissible , a pairwise balanced design PBD of dimension for
which all -point-generated flats are bounded by a constant independent of
. We also tighten a prior upper bound for , in which case
there are no divisibility restrictions on the number of points. One consequence
of this latter result is the construction of latin squares `covered' by small
subsquares
Creating a clinician. A methodology to evaluate clinical reasoning and case-based decision making.
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