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Inspiration är det som ligger som grund för mitt lärdomsprov. Framför allt avsaknaden av den. Mina verk behandlar situationer som uppstår när inspirationen inte tycks uppenbara sig. Problem som måste lösas och tillvägagångssätt som måste tas för att den kreativa glöden ska tändas. Mitt lärdomsprov är en serie teckningar som visualiserar känslor som väcks till liv när den här problematiken ger sig tillkänna i den kreativa arbetsprocessen. Teckningar med realismen som utgångspunkt, men som även har symboliska inslag. Serien i sig är en återspegling av min egen situation med lärdomsprovet och hur jag gick till väga för att själv inspireras inför arbetet. Samtidigt är den även en blick tillbaka på min skolgång, hur mitt uttryck har utvecklats och hur jag vill fortsätta med mitt konstnärskap. En sorts sammanställning av tidigare projekt och den erfarenhet som jag fått under den tid som jag studerat vid Novia. I mitt lärdomsprov har jag använt mig av det simpla verktyget pennan, blyerts och färg, för att framställa mina arbeten. Detaljrikedom har alltid varit ett återkommande drag i mina verk, vilket också var fallet i mitt examensarbete. Resultatet blev fyra teckningar i A2-format som alla ger en bild av inspirationens problematik. Frank HydénInspiration is what I have based my final thesis on. The absence of it specifically. My work is about situations that arise when inspiration doesn´t want to appear. Problems that have to be solved and different approaches that are needed to find the creative spark. My final thesis consists of a series of drawings that visualize feelings that emerge when this problem occurs during the creative work process. Drawings that are based in realism, but that also feature elements of symbolism. The series is also a reflection of my own situation with my final work and how I went about finding inspiration for it. By the same token, it is also a look back on my time in school, how my ways of expressing myself through my art have changed and how I want my art to evolve. A compilation of previous works and the experience that I´ve gained as a student at the Novia university. In my final thesis I´ve used graphite- and color pencils to create my pieces. Attention to detail has always been a recurring feature in my work, and it is also present in this project. The result is a series of four A2-sized drawings that all bring forth a visualization of the problems with inspiration. Frank Hydé

The complexities of 'otherness': reflections on embodiment of a young White British woman engaged in cross-generation research involving older people in Indonesia

This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.If interviews are to be considered embodied experiences, than the potential influence of the embodied researcher must be explored. A focus on specific attributes such as age or ethnicity belies the complex and negotiated space that both researcher and participant inhabit simultaneously. Drawing on empirical research with stroke survivors in an ethnically mixed area of Indonesia, this paper highlights the importance of considering embodiment as a specific methodological concern. Three specific interactions are described and analysed, illustrating the active nature of the embodied researcher in narrative production and development. The intersectionality of embodied features is evident, alongside their fluctuating influence in time and place. These interactions draw attention to the need to consider the researcher within the interview process and the subsequent analysis and presentation of narrative findings. The paper concludes with a reinforcement of the importance of ongoing and meaningful reflexivity in research, a need to consider the researcher as the other participant, and specifically a call to engage with and present the dynamic nature of embodiment

The interaction process between medical students and families in a context of community health promotion: the case “one student, one family” at Lúrio University (Napula)

This work aims to address the main features of communication used by students from Lúrio University (Nampula, Mozambique) in the family health promotion process under the project "one student, one family". Therefore, reflections on interpersonal communication were made, based on the analysis of verbal and nonverbal language, and the relationship/interaction between medical student and family during their conversation. This is a qualitative exploratory study using observation by video recording during the meetings between medical student and family. For data analysis, conversation analysis was used. For the research, we used as scenario, the Muatala community where the Unilúrio project took place, and the families are composed of several members living in the same house. And therefore, we worked with 10 medical students who attend different courses and different semester. From the results found it is necessary to highlight the relevance that medicine student and the environment exert in their interaction to the visited families; It was clear enough that there is an insecurity for the student of what he is going to speak in the meeting. It has been in a pacific way he sits down each one accept his mistakes. As a result of that it was concluded that it is worth noting to look at the necessity of developing a work that can make the students be aware of the importance that an effective communication has in the process of interaction between students and the households of Muatala quarter

Re-identifying residential mixing: emergent identity dynamics between incomers and existing residents in a mixed neighbourhood in Northern Ireland

Research on residential diversification has neglected its impact on neighbourhood identity and overlooked the very different identity‐related experiences of new and existing residents. The present research examines how incoming and established group members relate to their changing neighbourhood in the increasingly desegregated city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Thematic analysis of interviews with 24 residents (12 Protestant long‐term residents, 12 Catholic incomers) from an increasingly mixed neighbourhood identified asymmetrical concerns and experiences: Incomers reported undergoing an ‘identity transition’ between local communities, while long‐term residents faced an ‘identity merger’ within their neighbourhood. Where their identity concerns diverged, emergent intergroup perceptions of the residents were negative and divisive; where they accorded, positive intergroup perceptions and a shared neighbourhood identity evolved. From this, we propose a Social Identity Model of Residential Diversification (SIMRD) to encourage future research into how different identity concerns shape emergent intergroup dynamics between long‐term residents and incomers within diversifying neighbourhoods

Dilemmas of Sustaining Parastatal Success: The Botswana Meat Commission

SUMMARY Parastatals typically receive little detailed treatment in studies of the African state, and are commonly regarded as failures. The experience of the Botswana Meat Commission, one instance of a highly successful state enterprise, is useful in revealing the complex contingencies involved in sustaining success in Africa. Debilitating environmental changes, costly efforts to secure a position in highly?prized markets, administrative bloat and institutional density have combined in recent years to make it increasingly difficult for this parastatal to fulfil its assigned political mission of serving the interests of Botswana's elite cattle owners. SOMMAIRE Typiquement les parastatals ne reçoivent guère d'attention dans les études de l'état africain, et sont normalement perçus comme des échecs. L'expérience de la Commission de la Viande du Botswana est un exemple d'une entreprise d'état très réussie, et se révèle tort utile afin de prévoir imprévus complexes impliqués dans la poursuite d'un succès en Afrique. Des changements environnementaux, des efforts coûteux afin de maintenir une position dans des marchés de hauts prix, une croissance de l'administration et une densité institutionelle, tous ces facteurs combinés ont rendu difficile, ces dernières années l'accomplissement de la mission politique de ce parastatal; celle de servir les intérêts de l'élite des propriétaires de bétail du Botswana. RESUMEN En general, las entidades paraestatales reciben un tratamiento poco acucioso en los estudios sobre el estado africano y frecuentemente son consideradas un fracaso. La experiencia de la Comisión de la Carne de Botswana, un ejemplo de empresa estatal altamente exitosa, es útil para revelar las complejas contingencias involucradas en la mantención del éxito en Africa. Los cambios ambientales debilitadores, los costosos esfuerzos para asegurarse un lugar en mercados altamente preciados, la hipertrofia administrativa y la densidad institucional, han conspirado en los años recientes para dificultar crecientemente el cumplimiento de la misión política asignada a esta entidad paraestatal de servir los intereses de la elite de propietarios ganaderos de Botswana

Design of a SCARA Based Mobile 3D Printing Platform

Currently 3D printers rely heavily on people to run them, there is no automatic way to start a new print after one has finished. On top of this 3D printers are limited in the area they can print on. Even though the additive manufacturing market is rapidly growing and is increasingly being used in product manufacturing there has yet to be a solution to this problem. This research proposes using mobile 3D printing robots to solve both of these issues. The proposed prototype utilizes a Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm (SCARA) based robot capable of cooperatively manufacturing parts. This allows for multiple robots to build single parts, decreasing the time taken for 3D printing and allowing for multiple materials to be used. With the robots being mobile it allows for multiple prints to be done consecutively without the need for human input. The design shown here features a fused deposition modeling (FDM) tool-head. In this research a concept was designed and realized through a prototype and subsequent evaluation. From the evaluation of this prototype design, knowledge was gained to be used in the design of a production version at a later date