Food Fight: Violence and Exploitation in Fruit Still Life

Aidan Maurstad ‘20 submitted this piece for his ID1 course, The Problem of Form: Sonnet, Still Life, Life, with Professor Colleen Rosenfeld, in Fall 2016. It was selected as one of the three prize-winning papers

"Bare et kutt i fingeren"

Bakgrunn for fordypningsoppgaven var å sette fokus på pasienter med fingerskader og hvilke behov for sykepleie denne pasienten gruppen har i møte med legevakt. Med bakgrunn i tall fra Folkehelseinstituttet(2010) utgjør åpne sårskader 24% av skadenene i Norge, og er med dette de hyppigste skadene i landet. Dette gjør oppgaven høyst aktuell. Lite litteratur og forskning på fingerskader i legevakt, viser også behovet for at temaet blir beskrevet og tatt opp. Metoden som er benyttet er litteraturstudie kombinert med erfaringsbasert kunnskap. Oppgavens problemstilling er: «Hvordan skal sykepleier håndtere pasienter med fingerskader i legevakt». I oppgaven har jeg vist at pasienter med fingerskader trenger helhetlig og individuell behandling. Tiden fra pasienten kommer til legevakten og er ferdig behandlet er begrenset, og i løpet av det korte møtet er det mye som skjer. Dette tilsier at kunnskap om psykiske reaksjoner, kommunikasjon, medmennesklighet, individuell behandling og behandling av sår bare er noen av feltene en legevaktsykepleier må mestre

Physical Therapy management of Lower Exteremity Weakness and Balance Dysfunction Due to Sarcopenia and Frailty: A case report

Introduction: The aging population is on the rise and is expected to increase from 8.5% to 16.5% for those aged sixty-five years and older by 2050. With the expected rise comes the increased prevalence of frailty that leads to a decline in physiological function placing individuals at risk for sarcopenia, disability, falls, hospitalization, and death. The purpose of this case study is on lower extremity muscle weakness (sarcopenia) and frailty and the effectiveness of physical therapy to improve muscle strength, balance, proprioception, and functional mobility to decrease the risk of falls, improve performance with daily activities, and improve overall quality of life. Case Description: The patient was a 77-year-old female who presented to physical therapy with bilateral lower extremity weakness and decreased functional mobility due to an extensive list of comorbidities starting at the age of 2. The initial examination and evaluation found deficits in muscle strength, range of motion, balance, and functional mobility placing her at an increased risk for falls; given the diagnosis of decreased lower extremity strength, unspecified abnormalities of gait and mobility, and unsteadiness on feet. Intervention: The patient was seen twice per week for eight weeks. Sessions focused on bilateral lower extremity neuromuscular re-education, strength, aerobic, and gait training, along with balance and proprioceptive training. Outcomes: The patient showed both subjective and objective improvements in strength and mobility over the course of the eight weeks and was able to decrease her risk of falls from a moderate fall risk to a low fall risk per functional outcome measures. Discussion: After evaluation the patient presenting with bilateral lower extremity weakness due to sarcopenia and frailty, it was shown that physical therapy intervention moderately improves muscle strength, active range of motion, balance, and gait to improve overall functional mobility and quality of life for the completion of daily activities. Case findings reporting on similar literature have also shown that physical therapy plays a significant role in reducing fall risk, hospitalization, and death in patients with sarcopenia and frailty. Further quality evidence is needed within the topic of physical therapy treatment parameters, successful interventions, and prognosi

Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader og Adam Dodd (red.) 2013. Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History

Animals on Display. The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History setter lys på et viktig tema som framstilling av dyr i kultur- og naturhistorie. Artikkel­sam­lingen er fundert i et internasjonalt og flerfaglig forskningsprosjekt ved Universi­tetet i Oslo: ’Dyr som ting og dyr som tegn’. Forfatterne til de 9 kapitlene representerer ulike kunnskapsområder. Spenn­vidden er stor, noe som illustreres ved at fag som ornitologi, museologi og kulturhistorie finner plass sammen. Det er egen forskning fra ulike posisjoner ved museer og universiteter som presenteres. Artiklene er ulike, men svarer til hovedintensjonene, som redegjort for i innledningen

Hvor langt rekker multinasjonale selskapers etiske ansvar? : en studie av Statkrafts vannkraftutbygging i Laos

I denne utredningen ser jeg på et case som omhandler Statkraft sitt engasjement i en vannkraftutbygging i Laos. Problemstillingen er: ”Hvordan vurderer Statkraft selv, og andre interessenter, Statkrafts ansvar overfor mennesker og natur i Theun-Hinboun vannkraftutbyggingen i Laos?” Jeg har benyttet meg av en kvalitativ metode og har gjennomført intervjuer med ledere og ansatte i Statkraft, FIVAS, IRN og WCS. Problemstillingen er belyst ut fra tre ulike vinkler: fra Statkrafts eget synspunkt, fra FIVAS, IRN og WCS sine synspunkt og til slutt fra et teoretisk synspunkt. De avbøtende tiltakene som Statkraft og THPC har planlagt, eller igangsatt, blir målt opp mot ansvarsteori, personlig ansvarsteori og moralsk etisk teori. Funnene jeg har gjort munner ut i at Statkraft har et stykke igjen før de oppfyller ansvaret overfor mennesker og natur i Theun-Hinboun området

Perceptions of trends in Seychelles artisanal trap fisheries: comparing catch monitoring, underwater visual census and fishers' knowledge

Fisheries scientists and managers are increasingly engaging with fishers' knowledge (FK) to provide novel information and improve the legitimacy of fisheries governance. Disputes between the perceptions of fishers and scientists can generate conflicts for governance, but can also be a source of new perspectives or understandings. This paper compares artisanal trap fishers' reported current catch rates with landings data and underwater visual census (UVC). Fishers' reports of contemporary 'normal' catch per day tended to be higher than recent median landings records. However, fishers' reports of 'normal' catch per trap were not significantly different from the median CPUE calculated from landings data, and reports of 'good' and 'poor' catch rates were indicative of variability observed in landings data. FK, landings and UVC data all gave different perspectives of trends over a ten-year period. Fishers' perceptions indicated greater declines than statistical models fitted to landings data, while UVC evidence for trends varied between sites and according to the fish assemblage considered. Divergence in trend perceptions may have resulted from differences in the spatial, temporal or taxonomic focus of each dataset. Fishers may have experienced and understood behavioural changes and increased fishing power, which may have obscured declines from landings data. Various psychological factors affect memory and recall, and may have affected these memory-based estimates of trends, while different assumptions underlying the analysis of both interview data and conventional scientific data could also have led to qualitatively different trend perceptions. Differing perspectives from these three data sources illustrate both the potential for 'cognitive conflicts' between stakeholders who do not rely on the same data sources, as well as the importance of multiple information sources to understand dynamics of fisheries. Collaborative investigation of such divergence may facilitate learning and improve fisheries governance

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Atlantic spiny lumpsucker Eumicrotremus spinosus (Fabricius, 1776)

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Comparative study of the gasification of coal and its macerals and prediction of the synergistic effects under typical entrained-bed pulverized coal gasification Conditions

This research is focused on the gasification performance of coal and its corresponding macerals as well as on the interactions among macerals under typical gasification conditions by Aspen Plus modeling. The synergistic coefficient was employed to show the degree of interactions, while the performance indicators including specific oxygen consumption (SOC), specific coal consumption (SCC), cold gas efficiency (CGE), and effective syngas (CO + H2) content were used to evaluate the gasification process. Sensitivity analyses showed that the parent coal and its macerals exhibited different gasification behaviors at the same operating conditions, such as the SOC and SCC decreased in the order of inertinite > vitrinite > liptinite, whereas CGE changed in the order of liptinite > vitrinite > inertinite. The synergistic coefficients of SOC and SCC for the simulated coals were in the range of 0.94–0.97, whereas the synergistic coefficient of CGE was 1.05–1.13. Moreover, it was found that synergistic coefficients of gasification indicators correlated well with maceral contents. In addition, the increase in temperature was found to promote the synergistic coefficients slightly, whilst at an oxygen to coal mass ratio of 0.8 and a steam to coal mass ratio of 0.8, the highest synergistic coefficient was obtained