Two-term silting and τ\tau-cluster morphism categories

We generalise $\tau$-cluster morphism categories to the setting of triangulated categories containing a silting object. The compatibility of silting reduction with support $\tau$-tilting reduction will be an essential ingredient when linking our definition to that of Buan--Marsh. We also define two-term presilting sequences in the bounded derived category in such a way that they correspond to signed $\tau$-exceptional sequences in the module category.Comment: 37 pages v2: Some updates throughout. Section 3 has been restructured, and some proofs have been simplifie

Pregnant Bodies: Norwegian female employees in global working life

"This article examines the impact that the interplay between workplace, the welfare state and global working life has on female workers when they become pregnant. By focusing on two highly educated Norwegian female workers, it explores how this change process takes place in two companies operating in the global market located in different countries: Norway and the US. Pregnancy contributes to transforming the neutralized bodiless female worker into an embodied worker with gender. The female workers' experiences and negotiations represent forms of global action on local stages. This is illustrated by four processes: `married to work', `pregnant and still married to work', `negotiating separation from work' and `excluding mothering'. The findings indicate the significance of taking welfare state and workplace policy approaches into consideration in studies of global effects on employees." [author's abstract

The Nordic Model in a Global Company Situated in Norway. Challenging Institutional Orders?

In this article, we explore the impact of internationalization as organizational processes where institutional actors meet in local contexts and negotiate the institutional order. The internationalization of working life implies that different traditions and practices meet and challenge each other. The focus is on how important elements of the Nordic micro model like cooperation between employees and employers and regulation of working hours are implemented in a global company situated in Norway. In general, it seems that employees and employers cooperate in line with this tradition in the Nordic micro model. Norwegian manager’s practices are described to be in accordance with Scandinavian management traditions, while managers from the United States appear to practice management consistent with the liberal working life model. The findings show a tension-filled clash between two different management practices, which indicates that the Nordic micro model in this field might be under pressure. Manager’s recommendation to the employees was not to become members of the trade union. The absence of trade unions in the organization implies that employees and employers are not cooperating on a collective level. This means that only parts of the regulatory arrangement related to participation and cooperation are implemented. Findings concerning working time and the relation to the institutional order represented by the Norwegian Work Environment Act indicate a clear tension between different institutional traditions in the organization. The company does not respect the Norwegian in working time regulations. These regulations are seen as counterproductive for a company that competes in the international market. This devaluation of the regulations in the Nordic model implies that the institutional order represented in the Nordic micro model is challenged.publishedVersio

The Nordic Model in a Global Company Situated in Norway. Challenging Institutional Orders?

In this article, we explore the impact of internationalization as organizational processes where institutional actors meet in local contexts and negotiate the institutional order. The internationalization of working life implies that different traditions and practices meet and challenge each other. The focus is on how important elements of the Nordic micro model like cooperation between employees and employers and regulation of working hours are implemented in a global company situated in Norway. In general, it seems that employees and employers cooperate in line with this tradition in the Nordic micro model. Norwegian manager’s practices are described to be in accordance with Scandinavian management traditions, while managers from the United States appear to practice management consistent with the liberal working life model. The findings show a tension-filled clash between two different management practices, which indicates that the Nordic micro model in this field might be under pressure. Manager’s recommendation to the employees was not to become members of the trade union. The absence of trade unions in the organization implies that employees and employers are not cooperating on a collective level. This means that only parts of the regulatory arrangement related to participation and cooperation are implemented. Findings concerning working time and the relation to the institutional order represented by the Norwegian Work Environment Act indicate a clear tension between different institutional traditions in the organization. The company does not respect the Norwegian in working time regulations. These regulations are seen as counterproductive for a company that competes in the international market. This devaluation of the regulations in the Nordic model implies that the institutional order represented in the Nordic micro model is challenged

Quantum particle in a split box: Excitations to the ground state

We discuss two different approaches for splitting the wavefunction of a single-particle-box (SPB) into two equal parts. Adiabatic insertion of a barrier in the center of a SPB in order to make two compartments which each have probability 1/2 to find the particle in it is one of the key steps for a Szilard engine. However, any asymmetry between the volume of the compartments due to an off-center insertion of the barrier results in a particle that is fully localized in the larger compartment, in the adiabatic limit. We show that rather than exactly splitting the eigenfunctions in half by a symmetric barrier, one can use a non-adiabatic insertion of an asymmetric barrier to induce excitations to the first excited state of the full box. As the barrier height goes to infinity the excited state of the full box becomes the ground state of one of the new boxes. Thus, we can achieve close to exact splitting of the probability between the two compartments using the more realistic non-adiabatic, not perfectly centered barrier, rather than the idealized adiabatic and central barrier normally assumed.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure

The Translation of Nordic Workplace Democracy to the United States

This paper explores a translation process of Nordic workplace democracy by using an empirical case study of a Norwegian company setting up a subsidiary company in the US. The paper con- tributes to existing accounts of how ideas and practices in international companies are translated from one institutional context to another by focusing on the role of agency in translation processes. Drawing on advances in Scandinavian institutional theory, the findings show how employees from the source context acted as skilled translators in the new local context and helped to close the skills-gap between employees with and without experience of workplace democracy. In addition, the US managers had work experience from the company in Norway as well as from the US. The employees’ and managers’ complementary contextual knowledge represented important institutional bridging skills in the process of reproducing workplace democracy in the new local setting. However, during the translation process, some of the elements in the workplace democracy model were discussed and modified. This demonstrates how the organizations’ approach can change over time, from a reproducing to a modifying mode

Preharvest application with calcium and maturity at harvest affects postharvest fungal fruit decay of European plum

The combination of preharvest treatments with calcium chloride and fungicides, and storage of maturity graded fruit were assessed in five European plum cultivars. At harvest, samples of fruit within a commercially suitable range in ripening were divided into two categories: less-ripe (tree ripe-) and more-ripe (tree ripe+). The fruit were stored for 10–14 days at 4 °C followed by 2–3 days at 20 °C before the assessment of fungal decay. If calcium chloride was applied six times each season, postharvest fruit decay was significantly reduced in four of nine experiments, with a total mean reduction of around 50%. Two calcium applications in combination with a fungicide treatment reduced decay by approx. 60% compared to the untreated in one experiment. In six of seven experiments there was no effect of preharvest fungicide applications. In six of 10 experiments, fruit of the category tree ripe- had fewer fruit with fungal decay after storage than the tree ripe+fruit. The higher incidence in the category tree ripe+fruit was primarily due to brown rot, Mucor rot, and blue mould. For the category tree ripe+, there was two to ten times more decay than on tree ripe- fruit after a simulated shelf-life period. To ensure low incidence of fungal decay, fruit of commercial harvest maturity may thus be separated in two ripening categories, one for rapid distribution to the market (tree ripe+) and another for extended distribution time (tree ripe-).publishedVersio

Soppsjukdomen heggeflekk- eit litteraturoversyn

Heggeflekk er den mest alvorlege soppsjukdomen på surkirsebær. Angrep kan føra til både omfattande avlingstap i året med infeksjon og i åra etter. Heggeflekk har liknande livvssyklus som epleskurv og difor potensiale til å varslast ved hjelp av automatiserte tenester. Faktorar og kunnskap som er viktige for at varsling av heggeflekk skal kunne etablerast i Noreg er vektlagt i litteraturoversynet.Soppsjukdomen heggeflekk- eit litteraturoversynpublishedVersio

Pollinatorpassages in city environments

Fokuset på problemene rundt pollinatorer begynner å få mer og mer plass i planleggingen. Dette er et relativt nytt tema hvor flere av tiltakene er nye. Ved enkle grep som allerede eksisterer i vår verktøykasse skal jeg vise hvordan man kan planlegge for å få insekter inn i og gjennom en by planlagt for mennesker. Passasjen skal være for både mennesker og insekter, for å vise at planlegging for insektene ikke går på bekostning av planlegging for mennesker. Det å få fremmet en sameksistens er viktig, og noe vi må jobbe hardt for i årene framover for å oppnå, om vi ønsker å se insekter i byen. Utviklingen av et skalasystem gjør analysering av områder lettere. Skalaene vil etter like kriterier gi områdene poengscorer. Poengscoren viser hvilke områder man bør starte å utbedre, eller hvilke områder man slipper å utbedre. Ved å kartlegge et strekke som krysser Trondheim by og velge ut tre områder som eksempler, ser jeg på hvordan det å planlegge for både mennesker og insekter er mulig, og enkle konkrete tiltak som kan gjennomføres.The focus on the problems around pollinators is starting to get a bigger space in planning. It is a relatively new topic where the measures are untried. By simple steps that already exist in our toolbox, I will show how to plan to get insects into and through a city designed for humans. The passage will be for both humans and insects. To show that planning for the insects does not come at the expense of planning for humans. Promoting coexistence is important, and something we must work on in the years to come, if we want to keep seeing insects in cities. The development of a scale system makes analysis of areas easier. Based on the same criteria, the scales will give the areas a score. The score shows which areas you should start to improve, or which areas you do not need to improve. By mapping an area that crosses the city of Trondheim and selecting three small areas as examples, I look at how planning for both humans and insects is possible, and specific measures that can be taken within these areas.M-L

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