On the geometry of coset branes

Coset models and their symmetry preserving branes are studied from a representation theoretic perspective, relating e.g. the horizontal branching spaces to a truncation of the space of bulk fields, and accounting for field identification. This allows us to describe the fuzzy geometry of the branes at finite level.Comment: 26 pages, 5 figure

Journal Staff

Sju forskare vid Linköpings universitet ventilerar olika sidor av samhällsundervisningens problematik och möjligheter, såsom hur samhällsundervisningens villkor ständigt förändras och konsekvenserna av detta, vilken roll teknikhistoria bör ha i grundskolan, hur gymnasieskolans nya kursplan i historia har påverkat läromedlen, innehållet i sponsrade läromedel, betydelsen av religionsundervisning i särskolan, hur staten främjar utbildning i samband med ett jubileum samt vikten av internationellt utbyte.

Multistage Voting Model with Alternative Elimination

The voting process is formalized as a multistage voting model with successive alternative elimination. A finite number of agents vote for one of the alternatives each round subject to their preferences. If the number of votes given to the alternative is less than a threshold, it gets eliminated from the game. A special subclass of repeated games that always stop after a finite number of stages is considered. Threshold updating rule is proposed. A computer simulation is used to illustrate two properties of these voting games

Бессварные муфтовые стыковые соединения стержневой арматуры в железобетонных конструкциях

Popkov, Jurij Viktorovich - kandidat tehnicheskih nauk, docent, Polockij gosudarstvennyj universitet. Попков, Юрий Викторович - кандидат технических наук, доцент, Полоцкий государственный университет. Chuprov, V. V., Polockij godarstvennyj universitet. Чупров, В. В., Полоцкий годарственный университет. Hot'ko, Anatolij Anatol'evich - kandidat tehnicheskih nauk, Polockij gosudarstvennyj universitet. Хотько, Анатолий Анатольевич - кандидат технических наук, Полоцкий государственный университет. Koltunov, Aleksandr Ivanovich - kandidat tehnicheskih nauk, Polockij gosudarstvennyj universitet. Колтунов, Александр Иванович - кандидат технических наук, Полоцкий государственный университет.Представлены результаты исследований новой конструкции механического стыкового соединения, отличающейся от известных аналогов более простым устройством и обеспеченностью необходимой прочности, а также универсальности при знакопеременных нагрузках. Установлены характер распределения деформаций по длине опытных образцов соединения и его податливость в виде линейных перемещений стыкуемых стержней относительно муфты. Определены участки, создающие концентрации деформаций по длине стыка. Получены экспериментальные данные о прочности и деформативности нового бессварного стыкового муфтового соединения арматуры и разработаны рекомендации по практическому его использованию в железобетонных конструкциях. Показана необходимость для Республики Беларусь в активном освоении в практике строительства механических способов стыкования арматурных стержней взамен энерго- и материалоемких сварных и нахлесточных

Women Leaving Violent Men: Crossroads of Emotion, Cognition and Action

This thesis addresses battered women’s leaving processes. Leaving is conceptualised in a wider sense, i.e. as disentanglement from violent relationships beyond the physical break-up. The general aim of the thesis is to study how emotion and cognition are shaped around the act of leaving. Feminist theory on violence against women and the sociology of emotions are the main theoretical frameworks used to enhance understanding of women’s exiting from violence. The thesis is built on two sets of qualitative interview material with women who have left abusive heterosexual relationships. The material consists of a total of 49 interviews. In Paper I, Why Does She Leave? The Leaving Process(es) of Battered Women, three overlapping leaving processes are described: Breaking Up, Becoming Free and Understanding. Breaking Up covers action, i.e. the physical breakup. Becoming Free covers emotion and involves release from the strong emotional bond that battered women may develop to their batterers. Understanding covers cognition and is a process that entails women defining the relationships they have lived in as abusive and themselves as victimised. In Paper II, A Fool to Keep Staying” – Battered Women Labelling Themselves “Stupid” as an Expression of Gendered Shame, the informants labelling themselves “stupid” is investigated. Feeling stupid for staying in the abusive relationship and “allowing” oneself to be mistreated are the main themes. It is proposed that feeling – and labelling oneself – stupid is an expression of gendered shame and reflects unfinished Understanding processes. In Paper III, Leaving Jekyll and Hyde – Emotion Work in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence, battered women’s emotion work is investigated. The results suggest a process in which victims initially conceptualised abusers as good, but subjection to violence led to a cognitive-emotive dissonance responded to by emotion work. Over time, conceptualisations of abusers shifted from good to bad and efforts were made to change emotions from warm to cold. In Paper IV, Jekyll and Hyde or “Who is this Guy?” – Battered Women’s Interpretations of their Abusive Partners as a Mirror of Opposite Discourses, the informants’ interpretations of their abusers as “Jekyll and Hyde” are analysed against the background of two opposite discourses: the pathology/deviance discourse and the feminist/normality discourse. Complex mixes and combinations of understandings were found in the informants’ interpretations which were, however, dominated by the pathology/deviance discourse. During analysis of the material, a third image emerged, beyond Jekyll and Hyde, i.e. the abusers as “hurt boys”; it was argued this image might prolong the Becoming Free process and serve as a direct impediment to leaving. The results of the thesis indicate that emotion and cognition are interconnected and in process around the act of leaving

Damages for Wrongful Death in Alaska

I den här rapporten presenteras den forskning om ledarskap inom offentliga sektorn som bedrivs vid Linköpings universitet. Kartläggningen är indelad i fem olika teman: Chefers arbete och förutsättningar Ledarskap och lärande Genus och jämställdhet Ledarskap och hälsa Förändring och förändringsarbete Resultatet visar att flest studier handlar om ledarskap inom skola och äldreomsorg. Sammanställningen sträcker sig från 2009 och framåt. Rapporten vänder sig inte minst till ledarskapsforskare som kan ha nytta av att känna till vilken annan forskning som finns inom området. Den vänder sig även till personer som på olika sätt arbetar med ledarskap inom offentlig sektor. Sammanställningen ger också en snabb överblick över möjliga föreläsare i ämnet