Resultater fra QUO VADIS projektet i Aalborg.

Dette indlæg beskriver de evalueringsresultater, der er fremkommet under evalueringen af QUO VADIS projektet. Evalueringsmetoderne og resultaterne af første evalueringsrunde af QUO VADIS, blev præsenteret ved Trafikdage på AUC i 1995. I den samlede forsøgsperiode, der strakte sig over et år, er der taget yderligere evalueringsmetoder i brug

We Are Human, Just Like You: Albinism in Malawi – Implications for Security

The plight of people with albinism in Malawi has received little attention, despite evidence of increasing attacks on people with albinism for their body parts for use in rituals in recent years. While a recent spate of attacks on people with albinism in late 2020 and early 2021 has drawn the attention of international organizations, relative inaction on the part of the authorities places the security of people with albinism in Malawi firmly in their own hands, and those of their families and communities. This article draws on the findings of participatory research undertaken between 2015 and 2019 to explore context-specific knowledge about the security of people with albinism in Malawi and to reveal perceptions of what makes people with albinism secure or insecure. It traces the roots of these attacks in the beliefs associated with albinism and other disabilities,  the various threats to people with albinism in Malawi,  and responses put in place at different levels of society to ensure their personal security. Framed in relation to critical work in the field of human security, our findings underscore the importance of changing societal attitudes and developing a coordinated collaborative response to bring about effective and lasting change. Keywords: Albinism; Human Security; Beliefs; Malaw

Re-organizing for Digital Product Platforms: The Work of Vehicle Motion Engineers

As flexibility and generativity of digitized information continuously afford new possibilities, a significant challenge for organizations becomes pinpointing forms and kinds of practice that are befitting from various aspects. Two overarching digitization eras have so far determined the greatness of the challenge for organizations; ‘computerization’, and ‘the Internet’. Today, a third era of digitization is marked by the emergence of digitized products. As an increasing number of code lines and software are being incorporated in previously physical products such as cars, they can be used as complete products on one layer, and simultaneously turn into platforms enabling other firms to develop and integrate new components, content, or services on another layer. As digital product platform’s multiple design layers need to be open to various applications and agendas, their development requires new justifications and approaches for organizing work. By looking into the characteristics of digital product platforms, we discuss the shifts in the work of engineers as they engage in developing digitized products along three main courses of action. We illustrate how these courses of action are formed based on the requirements of developing digital product platforms rather than managerial presuppositions

Migrants’ Work Environment in the Danish Construction Sector: a Scoping Study

This study of existing research maps out what is known about the work environment of migrant workers employed in the construction sector in Denmark. Through the systematic approach offered by a scoping study and using two conceptual models identifying determinants of worker health and safety as analytical frameworks, we identify an overall paucity of research concerned specifically with the health and safety of migrants. A broader literature shows that migrants are vulnerable workers who are channeled into 3D jobs and face job insecurity. Migrants also face poor treatment and segregation. We conclude by identifying 10 gaps in the current literature, including a lack of valid evidence concerning accidents and risks

Stability of person ability measures in people with acquired brain injury in the use of everyday technology : the test-retest reliability of the Management of Everyday Technology Assessment (META)

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the person ability measures to manage everyday technology generated from the observation-based instrument Management of Everyday Technology Assessment (META) in a sample of participants with acquired brain injury (ABI). Method: The META was administered twice within a two-week timeframe in 25 people with ABI. A Rasch measurement model was used to convert the META ordinal raw scores into equal-interval linear measures of each participant’s ability to manage everyday technology (ET). Test-retest reliability of the stability of the person ability measures in the META was examined by a standardized difference Z-test and an intra-class correlations analysis (ICC 1). Result: The result showed that 22 of the 25 participants’ ability measures generated from the META were stable over the test-retest period of time. The ICC 1 of 0.63 indicates a good overall reliability. Conclusion: The META demonstrated acceptable test-retest reliability in the sample of ABI. The results indicate the importance of using sufficiently challenging ETs in relation to a person’s abilities when assessing people with META in order to generate stable measures over time.The Swedish Association for STROKEThe Strategic Research Health Care Programme of Umeå University Norrbotten County CouncilLuleå University of TechnologyAccepte

The Goldilocks Day for healthy adiposity measures among children and adolescents

BackgroundThe optimal balance of time spent on daily movement behaviors (“The Goldilocks Day”) associated with childhood obesity remains unknown.ObjectiveTo estimate the optimal durations of sleep, sedentary behavior (SB), light physical activity (LPA), and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MPVA) associated with excess adiposity in a paediatric population.MethodsAccelerometer-measured 24-h movement behaviors were obtained from 659 Czech children and adolescents (8-18-year-olds). Adiposity indicators were body mass index z-score, fat mass percentage, fat-free mass index, and visceral adipose tissue. Excess adiposity was defined as exceeding the 85th percentile for an adiposity indicator. Compositional regression analyses were used investigate the associations between movement behaviors and adiposity indicators and estimating “The Goldilocks Day.”ResultsThe movement behavior composition was associated with visceral adipose tissue (Fdf1 = 3,df2 = 317 = 3.672, p = 0.013) and fat mass percentage (Fdf1 = 3,df2 = 289 = 2.733, p = 0.044) among children and adolescents. The Goldilocks Day consisted of 8.5 h of sleep, 10.8 h of SB, 3.9 h of LPA, and 0.8 h of MVPA among children and 7.5 h of sleep, 12.4 h of SB, 3.6 h of LPA, and 0.5 h of MVPA among adolescents.ConclusionOptimizing the time spent sleeping, and in sedentary and physical activities appears to be important in the prevention of excess adiposity