När arbetet följer med hem: arbetstagares relation till bärbar teknologi som arbetsredskap

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine employees’ relationship to information and communication technology used as working equipment, while away from the workplace. Being explorative the aim was to generate hypotheses for future search. The study was carried out with a phenomenological approach putting the employees’ experiences within their unique context in focus. The homogenous sample consisted of six participants employed at a staffing and recruitment company in southern Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were held following an interview schedule and the transcribed interview data was analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The outcome of the analysis was five main themes: “Instrument to cope with responsibility and expectations”, “Flexibility”, “Curbing availability”, “Cause for unhealthy mental job presence” and “Unintentional behaviour”. These themes with constituent sub-themes are discussed in relation to prior theories and research. The themes are interpreted as an answer to the research question with both negative and positive aspects. Each theme is considered a possible hypothesis för future research. Methodological suggestions for future research are also provided

The popular model annelid Enchytraeus albidus is only one species in a complex of seashore white worms (Clitellata, Enchytraeidae)

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Ordered and ushered; the assembly and translocation of the adhesive Type I and P Pili

Type I and P pili are chaperone-usher pili of uropathogenic Escherichia coli, which allow bacteria to adhere to host cell receptors. Pilus formation and secretion are orchestrated by two accessory proteins, a chaperone, which catalyses pilus subunit folding and maintains them in a polymerization-competent state, and an outer membrane-spanning nanomachine, the usher, which choreographs their assembly into a pilus and drives their secretion through the membrane. In this review, recent structures and kinetic studies are combined to examine the mechanism of type I and P pili assembly, as it is currently known. We also investigate how the knowledge of pilus biogenesis mechanisms has been exploited to design selective inhibitors of the process

Structure of a Chaperone-Usher Pilus reveals the molecular basis of rod uncoiling

Types 1 and P pili are prototypical bacterial cell-surface appendages playing essential roles in mediating adhesion of bacteria to the urinary tract. These pili, assembled by the chaperone-usher pathway, are polymers of pilus subunits assembling into two parts: a thin, short tip fibrillum at the top, mounted on a long pilus rod. The rod adopts a helical quaternary structure and is thought to play essential roles: its formation may drive pilus extrusion by preventing backsliding of the nascent growing pilus within the secretion pore; the rod also has striking spring-like properties, being able to uncoil and recoil depending on the intensity of shear forces generated by urine flow. Here, we present an atomic model of the P pilus generated from a 3.8 Å resolution cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction. This structure provides the molecular basis for the rod’s remarkable mechanical properties and illuminates its role in pilus secretion

EFSA BIOHAZ Panel (EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards), 2013. Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (bovine animals).

A risk ranking process identified Salmonella spp. and pathogenic verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) as current high-priority biological hazards for meat inspection of bovine animals. As these hazards are not detected by traditional meat inspection, a meat safety assurance system for the farm-to-chilled carcass continuum using a risk-based approach was proposed. Key elements of the system are risk-categorisation of slaughter animals for high-priority biological hazards based on improved food chain information, as well as risk-categorisation of slaughterhouses according to their capability to control those hazards. Omission of palpation and incision during post-mortem inspection for animals subjected to routine slaughter may decrease spreading and cross-contamination with the high-priority biological hazards. For chemical hazards, dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls were ranked as being of high potential concern; all other substances were ranked as of medium or lower concern. Monitoring programmes for chemical hazards should be more flexible and based on the risk of occurrence, taking into account the completeness and quality of the food chain information supplied and the ranking of chemical substances, which should be regularly updated to include new hazards. Control programmes across the food chain, national residue control programmes, feed control and monitoring of environmental contaminants should be better integrated. Meat inspection is a valuable tool for surveillance and monitoring of animal health and welfare conditions. Omission of palpation and incision would reduce detection effectiveness for bovine tuberculosis and would have a negative impact on the overall surveillance system especially in officially tuberculosis free countries. The detection effectiveness for bovine cysticercosis, already low with the current meat inspection system, would result in a further decrease, if palpation and incision are removed. Extended use of food chain information could compensate for some, but not all, the information on animal health and welfare lost if only visual post-mortem inspection is applied

Intersecting housing discrimination : A socio-legal study on the limits of Swedish anti-discrimination law

This qualitative socio-legal study critically examined the protection against housing discrimination found in chapter 2 § 12 of the Swedish Discrimination Act (SFS 2008:567), in light of United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union housing and non-discrimination (human rights) standards. As an applied socio-legal study it aimed to be critical towards the limits of law in context. By applying an intersectional approach as the theoretical framework for the study, it aimed to identify legal weaknesses from an intersectional point of view. The study made use of a descriptive doctrinal analysis method and a critical text analysis method. The material for analysis consisted of civil housing discrimination law: legislation, preparatory works and case law. The case law, anonymized for this study, consisted of three district court judgments and three appeal court judgments processed during the years 2007-2016. The first research question asked what, if any, forms of intersectional discrimination the housing discrimination law face and comprise. The descriptive doctrinal analysis revealed that all cases shared the discrimination ground ‘ethnicity’ and discrimination form ‘direct discrimination’. The critical text analysis resulted in three themes illustrating intersectional discriminating facing the law: “aggressive men” (the intersection of sex and ethnicity), “resourceless women” (the intersection of sex, socio-economic class and ethnicity) and “unsettled strangers” (the intersection of socio-economic class and ethnicity). The second research question asked what, if any, the limits of law are from an intersectional point of view. By discussing the three themes in relation to the legal landscape and previous research it was possible to identify several limits of law relating to intersectionality, such as the exhaustive list of discrimination grounds, absent discrimination grounds and an absence of intersectional awareness. The study concluded that Swedish housing discrimination law rely on formal equality, which renders intersectional discrimination invisible and the power of housing human rights disputable

Frihet, jämlikhet, faderskap : Om relationen mellan faderskap och svenskhet i kommunikationen av svensk familjepolitik till utlandet

“I’ve read that women in Sweden find a man pushing the pram sexier than anything else”. Så startar inslaget i australiensiska 60 Minutes om svensk pappaledighet (60 Minutes: 2017) Inslaget sändes i samband med att fotoutställningen Swedish Dads visades i Sydney. Bakom utställningen stod Svenska institutet tillsammans med svenska ambassaden i Australien. Visningen i Sydney var endast ett av stoppen på utställningens långa världsturné. Under 2016 och 2017 visades Swedish Dads i sammanlagt 40 länder (Svenska institutet 1: 2017). Fotoutställningen utgjorde en del av Svenska institutets informationsinsatser till utlandet om Sverige och svenska förhållanden. Svenska institutet är en statlig myndighet och har som mål att via ”strategisk kommunikation /…/ öka omvärldens förtroende och intresse för Sverige” och stärka ”Sveriges attraktionskraft” (Svenska institutet 2: 2017). Svenska institutets arbete kan beskrivas som en form av varumärkesbyggande (Klinth: 2012). Eller som institutet själva uttrycker saken: ”Vi levandegör berättelsen om dagens Sverige.” (Svenska institutet 2: 2017

High school students’ safety awareness during chemistry labs

Denna studie ämnar utforska gymnasieelevers medvetenhet om kemisäkerhet genom att analysera deras förståelse och efterlevnad av ordningsregler för laboratoriearbete. Trots elevernas årliga bekräftelse av förståelse genom skriftlig försäkran, har observerade överträdelser väckt frågor kring elevernas verkliga medvetenhet och följsamhet. Studien bygger på socialkonstruktivismen och säkerhetskulturteori för att undersöka elevers varierande tolkningar av information och deras medvetenhet om kemisäkerhet. En enkätundersökning användes för att analysera elevers individuella förhållningssätt kvantitativt och kvalitativt. Enkäten innehöll både flervalsfrågor och öppna frågor, vilket gav en möjlighet att analysera data både kvantitativt och kvalitativt. Två elevgrupper med olika kunskapsnivåer inom kemi studerades, där den äldre gruppen visade större medvetenhet om vikten av att följa säkerhetsföreskrifter under laborativt arbete. Bristen på önskan om ytterligare kunskap om labbsäkerhet, trots elevernas självuppskattade förståelse, indikerar behovet av kontinuerlig säkerhetsutbildning för elever. Resultaten betonar därmed betydelsen av att integrera säkerhetsundervisning i den ordinarie utbildningen för att säkerställa en effektiv medvetenhet och efterlevnad av säkerhetsföreskrifter