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Employees as Individually and Collectively Acting SubjectsâKey Contributions from Nordic Working Life Research
The Nordic countriesâDenmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Swedenâare societies that share many features among themselves that also distinguish them from other industrialized countries. The paper poses the question whether the distinct character of the Nordic societies has generated working life research that is clearly distinguishable from similar research in other countries in terms of distinctness in topics, methods, empirical findings, or theoretical concepts. The aim of this paper is to answer this question by identifying, analyzing, and discussing selected key contributions from Nordic working life research to understand how they research and construe the conditions of humans at work with a special focus on the psychosocial well-being of industrial workers. The paper concludes that the key contributions to Nordic working life research have a distinctive emphasis on collective employee voice and autonomy and an extensive use of empirical and actionoriented research methods. Employees are construed not only as workers resisting exploitations from management or as workers pursuing individual careers, but also as members of collectives who share ideas and aspirations and who legitimately influence the management (and research) using cooperation and pressure
Employees as Individually and Collectively Acting SubjectsâKey Contributions from Nordic Working Life Research
The Nordic countriesâDenmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Swedenâare societies that share many features among themselves that also distinguish them from other industrialized countries. The paper poses the question whether the distinct character of the Nordic societies has generated working life research that is clearly distinguishable from similar research in other countries in terms of distinctness in topics, methods, empirical findings, or theoretical concepts. The aim of this paper is to answer this question by identifying, analyzing, and discussing selected key contributions from Nordic working life research to understand how they research and construe the conditions of humans at work with a special focus on the psychosocial well-being of industrial workers. The paper concludes that the key contributions to Nordic working life research have a distinctive emphasis on collective employee voice and autonomy and an extensive use of empirical and actionoriented research methods. Employees are construed not only as workers resisting exploitations from management or as workers pursuing individual careers, but also as members of collectives who share ideas and aspirations and who legitimately influence the management (and research) using cooperation and pressure
En vurdering av finanstilsynets retningslinjer for forsvarlig utlĂĽnspraksis for lĂĽn til boligformĂĽl
Denne masterutredningen har til hensikt ĂĽ vurdere Finanstilsynets kapitalkrav for forsvarlig
utlünspraksis som ble innført 1. desember 2011.
Utredningen starter med ĂĽ se pĂĽ sammenhengen mellom gjeld, boligpriser og finansiell
stabilitet. Videre vurderer vi om det er nødvendig ü innføre tiltak for ü redusere risikoen
blant husholdningene. Herunder undersøker vi risiko knyttet til utviklingen i
husholdningenes gjeld, gjelds- og rentebelastning samt risikoen knyttet til utvikling i
boligprisene.
Videre gjennomgĂĽr vi kjente boligprismodeller for ĂĽ identifisere faktorer som kan forklare
utviklingen i boligprisene i senere tid. Vi undersøker ogsü om det kan vÌre bobletendenser i
dagens boligmarked.
Vi ser sĂĽ pĂĽ de mulige effektene kapitalkravet kan ha pĂĽ husholdningenes gjeldsoppbygging
og boligprisutviklingen, og vurderer i hvilken grad kapitalkravet oppnür det ønskede mület
om redusert risiko blant husholdningene. Det vil ogsĂĽ bli foretatt en vurdering av
alternative/komplementerende tiltak som kan oppnĂĽ det samme.
Vi ser at det har vĂŚrt en kraftig opplĂĽning i husholdningssektoren sammen med en voldsom
boligprisvekst de siste 20 ĂĽrene. Det ser ikke ut til at fundamentale faktorer kan forsvare
boligprisveksten fullt ut, og vi finner indikasjoner pĂĽ at det er en bobledannelse. Uavhengig
om det er en boble i boligmarkedet har vi identifisert en potensiell nedside i gjelds- og
boligmarkedet dersom det skulle komme negative sjokk i de fundamentale faktorene vi har
identifisert. Vi mener derfor at tiltak for ĂĽ redusere risikoen i husholdningssektoren er
berettiget, men vi finner svakheter ved kravet, og drøfter derfor alternativer til kapitalkravet
Detailed analysis of the lattice Boltzmann method on unstructured grids
The lattice Boltzmann method has become a standard for efficiently solving
problems in fluid dynamics. While unstructured grids allow for a more efficient
geometrical representation of complex boundaries, the lattice Boltzmann methods
is often implemented using regular grids. Here we analyze two implementations
of the lattice Boltzmann method on unstructured grids, the standard forward
Euler method and the operator splitting method. We derive the evolution of the
macroscopic variables by means of the Chapman-Enskog expansion, and we prove
that it yields the Navier-Stokes equation and is first order accurate in terms
of the temporal discretization and second order in terms of the spatial
discretization. Relations between the kinetic viscosity and the integration
time step are derived for both the Euler method and the operator splitting
method. Finally we suggest an improved version of the bounce-back boundary
condition. We test our implementations in both standard benchmark geometries
and in the pore network of a real sample of a porous rock.Comment: 42 page
4-BromoÂselenoÂanisole
The title compound, 1-bromo-4-methylÂselenoÂbenzene, C7H7BrSe, was prepared by methylÂation of 4-bromoÂselenoÂphenolate with methyl iodide, and crystals suitable for structure determination were obtained by sublimation. The molÂecule is essentially planar; the SeâMe bond is rotated by only 2.59â
(19)° out of the least-squares plane of the benzene ring. The most pronounced intermolecular interactions are two hydrogen bonds of the type CâHâŻĎ, which determine a herring-bone pattern in the crystal packing
Reconstruction of Single-Grain Orientation Distribution Functions for Crystalline Materials
A fundamental imaging problem in microstructural analysis of metals is the reconstruction of local crystallographic orientations from X-ray diffraction measurements. This work deals with the computation of the 3D orientation distribution function for individual grains of the material in consideration. We present an iterative large-scale algorithm that uses preconditioned regularizing CGLS iterations with a stopping criterion based on the information available in the residual vectors
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