Military teams - A demand for resilience

The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-162298BACKGROUND: The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNoNA) has an interest in enhancing military teams’ knowledge, skills and abilities to deal with complex situations and environments. OBJECTIVE: The objective is to document the need for resilience in military teams and to expand the understanding of how such behavior can be meaningfully instilled through team training interventions. METHOD: Norwegian military subject matter experts (SMEs) assessed the performance of military teams participating in complex military training exercises. Eight cadet teams at the RNoNA were assessed during two separate 4-hour simulator training exercises and a 48-hour live training exercise. RESULTS: Positive Spearman rank correlation coefficients between resilience assessments in the simulator training exercises and the live training exercise were strongest when the simulator scenario emphasized resilience factors inherent in the live exercise, and weakest when the simulator scenario did not facilitate the task demands in the live exercise. CONCLUSION: The study showed that resilience assessed in teams during simulator training exercises predicted their resilient behavior in a subsequent live training exercise and that the proper design of scenario-based simulator training can realistically and effectively represent resilience stressors found in live operations.This work was sponsored by The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy

“This one Grandma knew, too, exactly this one!” Processes of canonization in children’s music

This is an Open Access article licenced under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. The original article can be found on publisher's homepage by following this link: http://www.artandresearch.info/Processes of musical canonization occur at different levels of culture and society. People have a strong propensity to categorize, differentiate, and evaluate the music that is important to them, and music is ascribed value in action by people in real-life settings. Based in these premises, the article discusses two questions: First, how does the idea of a canon of children’s music influence the daily musical activities and repertoires used in children’s day care facilities and family homes? Second, in what ways is music legitimized in the everyday lives of children? Our data is collected by observation and interviews conducted in two pedagogical day care facilities and nine family homes. Children, day care staff and parents participated in the study. We find that a discussion of canonization in children’s music along the following four paths of legitimation is meaningful: the “good, old stuff,” the need for renewal, the inclusion of other types of music other than that aimed at a child audience, and the need for a wide array of genres and sentiments. Finally, we argue that although the legitimation and canonization in children’s music obviously involve considerations of musical aspects, separating these canonization processes from the prevailing socio-cultural ideas of childhood and children’s best interest is impossible.publishedVersio

Decades of recorded music for children. Norwegian children’s phonograms from World War II to the present

This is an Open Access article licenced under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. The original article can be found on publisher's homepage by following this link: http://www.artandresearch.info/This article presents a study of Norwegian-recorded music for children from World War II to the present, combining a historical perspective with an ethnographic approach. The underlying research has employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches, producing various data sets. The results of the data analyses indicate that the evolution of children’s phonograms is characterized by some distinct genre- and style-related development features. This article describes and interprets such features in light of concepts and theories of children’s culture and music sociology. It also elaborates on the emergence of a music market aimed at children, with an emphasis on phonograms. The association with the popular music industry enables an apparent contradiction, addressed in this article, between pedagogical and commercial considerations and outcomes.publishedVersio

Characterization of wooden breast myopathy: a focus on syndecans and ECM remodeling

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Feltrapport fra JOVA-programmet for Kolstad 2017

Det dyrkes stort sett korn og gras i feltet. I 2017 var det korn på 66 % og gras på 28 % av jordbruksarealet. Det ble i gjennomsnitt gjødslet med 17,5 kg N/daa og 2,9 kg P/daa, som er noe høyere enn gjennomsnittet for overvåkingsperioden 1991–2016. Både husdyrtallet og husdyrgjødselandelen av tilført nitrogen og fosfor har økt i feltet i løpet av perioden

Feltrapport fra JOVA-programmet for Bye 2017

Det ble i 2017 dyrket potet i Bye-feltet, og det ble bare gjødslet med mineralgjødsel. Nitrogentilførselen (8,3 kg/daa) lå under gjennomsnittet for potet i perioden 1996 – 2016 (9,2 kg/daa). Fosfortilførselen (2,8 kg/daa) var også litt lavere enn gjennomsnittet. Feltet høstpløyes årlig.publishedVersio

Feltrapport fra JOVA-programmet for Kolstad 2017

Det dyrkes stort sett korn og gras i feltet. I 2017 var det korn på 66 % og gras på 28 % av jordbruksarealet. Det ble i gjennomsnitt gjødslet med 17,5 kg N/daa og 2,9 kg P/daa, som er noe høyere enn gjennomsnittet for overvåkingsperioden 1991–2016. Både husdyrtallet og husdyrgjødselandelen av tilført nitrogen og fosfor har økt i feltet i løpet av perioden.publishedVersio

Feltrapport fra JOVA-programmet for Bye 2017

Det ble i 2017 dyrket potet i Bye-feltet, og det ble bare gjødslet med mineralgjødsel. Nitrogentilførselen (8,3 kg/daa) lå under gjennomsnittet for potet i perioden 1996 – 2016 (9,2 kg/daa). Fosfortilførselen (2,8 kg/daa) var også litt lavere enn gjennomsnittet. Feltet høstpløyes årlig

“This one Grandma knew, too, exactly this one!” Processes of canonization in children’s music

Processes of musical canonization occur at different levels of culture and society. People have a strong propensity to categorize, differentiate, and evaluate the music that is important to them, and music is ascribed value in action by people in real-life settings. Based in these premises, the article discusses two questions: First, how does the idea of a canon of children’s music influence the daily musical activities and repertoires used in children’s day care facilities and family homes? Second, in what ways is music legitimized in the everyday lives of children? Our data is collected by observation and interviews conducted in two pedagogical day care facilities and nine family homes. Children, day care staff and parents participated in the study. We find that a discussion of canonization in children’s music along the following four paths of legitimation is meaningful: the “good, old stuff,” the need for renewal, the inclusion of other types of music other than that aimed at a child audience, and the need for a wide array of genres and sentiments. Finally, we argue that although the legitimation and canonization in children’s music obviously involve considerations of musical aspects, separating these canonization processes from the prevailing socio-cultural ideas of childhood and children’s best interest is impossible

Decades of Recorded Music for Children: Norwegian Children’s Phonograms from World War II to the Present

This article presents a study of Norwegian-recorded music for children from World War II to the present, combining a historical perspective with an ethnographic approach. The underlying research has employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches, producing various data sets. The results of the data analyses indicate that the evolution of children’s phonograms is characterized by some distinct genre- and style-related development features. This article describes and interprets such features in light of concepts and theories of children’s culture and music sociology. It also elaborates on the emergence of a music market aimed at children, with an emphasis on phonograms. The association with the popular music industry enables an apparent contradiction, addressed in this article, between pedagogical and commercial considerations and outcomes.This article presents a study of Norwegian-recorded music for children from World War II to the present, combining a historical perspective with an ethnographic approach. The underlying research has employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches, producing various data sets. The results of the data analyses indicate that the evolution of children’s phonograms is characterized by some distinct genre- and style-related development features. This article describes and interprets such features in light of concepts and theories of children’s culture and music sociology. It also elaborates on the emergence of a music market aimed at children, with an emphasis on phonograms. The association with the popular music industry enables an apparent contradiction, addressed in this article, between pedagogical and commercial considerations and outcomes