Making home or making do : a critical look at homemaking without a home

This paper critically examines the concept of alternative forms of ‘homemaking’ among people without a settled home. The introductory section establishes the framework for the paper, providing an overview of homelessness and the homemaking literature. Strengths in the homemaking approach are identified, which reconceptualises homelessness as a human-centered phenomenon that can be understood as ‘resistance’ to societies that block accesses to mainstream housing for people who are (also) socially and economically marginalised. Homemaking moves beyond mainstream academic analyses which explore homelessness in terms of ‘sin’ (addiction and criminality), ‘sickness’ (poor health, especially poor mental health) and ‘systems’ (housing market failure and inadequate social protection and public health systems). The paper argues that, while important in refreshing our thinking about homelessness by offering a new, radical epistemology of housing, homemaking is limited by not contextualising the dwelling practices it seeks to explain, particularly in respect of how it defines ‘homelessness’ and also risks misinterpreting transitory behavioural adaptations as something deeper

Towards a new NATO certification capability for HLA interoperability

The integration of distributed simulations and tools into interoperable federations is a complex and time consuming task requiring extensive testing of individual components, interfaces and the integrated solution. To support this task, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) relies on standards and agreements on their use. The Allied Modelling and Simulation Publication "NATO M&S Standards Profile" (AMSP-01) provides a list of recommended M&S related standards and best practices. Efficient interoperability using the HLA (High Level Architecture) standards requires compliance with a shared reference data exchange model (Federation Object Model), a federation agreement and the ability to certify conformance. The modular RPR FOM (Real-time Platform Reference FOM) and the more recent NETN FOM (NATO Education Training Network FOM) provide building blocks for creating federation agreements and FOMs. Prior to the arrival of the HLA IEEE 1516-2010 standard, the United States provided to NATO and nations a tool for federate HLA certification at the API (Application Programming Interface) level and SOM (Simulation Object Model) conformance checking. This paper presents the current work of NMSG-134 (NATO Modelling Simulation Group) responsible for defining the new NATO distributed simulation certification process and tools. This includes the CONOPS (Concept of Operations), the design and development of the IVCT (Integration Verification & Certification Tool) and test cases for distributed simulation interoperability. The concept of capability badges will be introduced to capture the interoperability requirements, test cases sequencing and conformance statements

Stress related magnetic imaging of iron-based metallic glass produced with laser beam powder bed fusion

Additive manufacturing makes the production of bulk metallic glasses possible in thicknesses exceeding the critical casting thickness. However, a crucial challenge is the build-up of thermally induced stress, often resulting in printed parts suffering from cracking. In this study, the process parameters are optimised for printing soft-magnetic metallic glass samples of an Fe-based alloy (Fe73.8P10.6Mo4.2B2.3Si2.3C6.7), using laser beam powder bed fusion. In addition, the structural and magnetic properties of as-received and heat-treated powder are investigated and compared to those of the printed samples. Kerr microscopy is used for imaging the magnetic domains on single track cross-sections produced on top of a polished printed sample. This reveals the shape of the melt pool of a single laser track, as well as the magnetic domains around it and in other regions of the printed sample. The shape and size of the magnetic domains reflect the residual stress in the sample through the effect of magneto-elastic coupling. This magnetic contrast could be used to get further insights into how to control the development of stress during the printing process.De två första författarna delar förstaförfattarskapet</p

Sub-10 nm Block Copolymer Lithography: Sequential Infiltration Synthesis into Poly(Styrene)-block-Maltoheptaose

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"What about the child issue?" Group negotiations of gender and parenthood contracts in recruitment situations

Men and women becoming parents are supposed to have equal opportunities in working life. However, inequality and discrimination are not easily avoided. The aim of this study was to investigate how argumentation related to parenthood and careers takes form in group discussions of a fictional recruitment situation, and how stereotypes such as competence and warmth are manifested in such discussions. Thirty-five ad-hoc groups of university students were asked to make a choice between three candidates for a consultancy position. The first two candidates were a man and a woman, while the third alternately was described either as a man or a woman described as having a newborn child. Parenthood was sometimes seen as reducing competence, but it was more often viewed as adding to competence. Parenthood was also considered to add warmth to the organization. Interestingly, all groups avoided relating the parenthood issue to gender. Three conversation patterns were found, differing in the amount of elaboration of the topic of parenthood and work. It was concluded that the most elaborated kind seems to foster a situation where implicit norms are made visible more easily