Background

As the group of very old persons will form an increasing part of society, the study of how well-being is described and affected by specific factors will be of importance to meet the future needs of these persons. The aim of the study was to increase knowledge of well-being in very old persons by combining assessments and perceptions using the Philadelphia Geriatric Morale Scale (PGCMS).

Method

In a mixed method, convergent parallel design, 52 persons 80 years or older were assessed and interviewed using the PGCMS to combine assessment of morale and descriptions of perceptions of well-being using a mixed method approach.

Results

Quantitative and qualitative results converged in four areas: not feeling lonely and being included, rating and perceiving health as good, high physical function/ability and being physically active, living in own house and feeling at home. Areas perceived as important to well-being captured only in qualitative analysis were having freedom and engagement. An example of insights not achievable from the quantitative or qualitative analysis alone was that individuals with high morale expressed anxiety about losing their health due to potential ageing-related threats and that individuals with low morale struggled with acceptance. Acceptance was the key strategy for handling adverse consequences of ageing in all described areas.

Conclusion

When using standardized assessment scales in clinical practice, it could be useful to combine quantitative and qualitative data. Acceptance was key for well-being; however, acceptance could be resigned or reorienting in nature.

This study is looking at “the changed” world for employees that were lucky and could continue their work from places other than the office since the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak using teleworking tools. Their numbers grew exponentially and while they still had to perform their duties as usual, they could not rely on the security infrastructure built at the office. The attackers saw this immediately and took the opportunity to unleash various techniques with malicious intent. Now the time is right to find out whether the coronavirus pandemic did at least some good and to what extent the remote workers are aware of information security guidelines. This quantitative study begins with the formation of the research question and first thoughts about the research model. Then the search thru the literature thoroughly finds mostly used attacks as well as the best way how to protect against them and the review of theory builds a research model that fits the aim of the study. Thru a quantitative online survey via snowballing method answers from users from all over the world are collected and analyzed and the hypotheses drawn from the model are verified. Lastly, results are discussed, and a conclusion is provided. The study findings are that the teleworkers are quite highly aware of information security awareness or ISA, thanks to sufficient knowledge and attitude towards information security, and in turn, this awareness leads to correct behavior in information security. More specifically, knowledge is more strongly associated with ISA of telework risks than recommendations, attitude, on the other hand, is more strongly related to telework recommendations than the risks, also ISA of telework risks has a greater influence on behavior than ISA of telework recommendations. The contribution of this study is the revelation that the impact of telework and the coronavirus pandemic did not change the course of information security awareness perception in comparison to pre-pandemic studies. Also, thanks to the subcategorization of ISA to risks and recommendations it was revealed that awareness of teleworking risk is quite higher than awareness of recommendations after the Covid-19 period.

I detta arbete undersöks möjligheten av att stärka en kompetensfokuserad utbildningskultur genom att använda artefakter som stöd för självreglerat lärande och förändring av undervisningspraktik. En utgångspunkt är att både ledare, lärare och studenter behöver omsätta utbildningsmål till vardaglig praktik för att påverka kvaliteten i undervisningspraktiken och lärandet. Sbret omfattar ett strategiskt pedagogiskt utvecklingsprojekt som stöd före en förändrad undervisningspraktik, där artefakter använts för att rikta studenters självreglerande lärande mot avsedda utbildningsmål. På mikronivå handlar detta om vad den enskilde studenten och läraren kan göra i sin dagliga verksamhet. På en mesonivå handlar det om vad institutionen kan göra för att påverka och stödja studenternas lärande. På makronivå kan det även omfatta nationella och internationella perspektiv på strategisk pedagogisk utveckling som kan eller bör påverka en utbildningskultur. Självreglerande lärande omfattar att en individ tar ansvar för sin egen skicklighet och kunskapsinhämtning. Artefakter är medvetet designade objekt som kan bidra till självreglerat lärande i och med att de öppnar upp undervisningspraktiken för studentens handling mot avsedda kunskapsobjekt. Tre olika case har använts för att utforska användandet och den upplevda nyttan av tre olika artefakter: målbild, dialogduk och kompetensprofil. Artefakterna utvecklades i samarbete med lärare och studenter för att stödja implementeringen. i samtliga fall beskrivs artefakterna bidra till ökad självinsikt och förståelse av utbildningsmålen. I våra studier har vi sett att artefakter stödjer metareflektion och självvärdering, vilket i sin tur stödjer en konstruktiv undervisningspraktik. I förlängningen är intentionen att artefakterna ska bidra till att stärka meningsförhandling genom att stödja dialoger och reflektioner om sammanhang, syfte och mål i en kompetensfokuserad utbildningskultur. 

The aim of the present work was to use the displacement information generated from the spatial alignment in order to compute wood shrinkage in the radial and tangential directions in computed tomography (CT) images, and to compare the results with those obtained with computer-aided design software on the same images. To estimate the shrinkage coefficients from tomography images, wood specimens in the green state, equilibrium moisture content 15% and 8% state and oven dry condition were scanned. Specimens were taken from Norway spruce and Scots pine logs. The root-mean-square-error calculations showed acceptable small differences between the two measuring methods, which means that the algorithm is a useful tool for estimating the shrinkage coefficients in radial and tangential direction from CT images. This provides an image processing tool to monitor the dimensional changes during the drying and heat treatment process. 

Lulea University includes a large teacher training college, a growing college of music and a qualified economics and business administration programme. In total there are now 3500 students at the university and almost 2000 students in engineering. Together with the six large Swedish university cities, Lulea has permanent research facilities within the technical faculty. The library is a service institution for the entire university, and actually consists of three libraries: the Technical University Library and the Teacher Training College Library, both in Lulea, and the Music Teachers Training College Library in Pitea. The author discusses the user education programme. This is discussed in terms of online databases; funding; the pedagogic model; planning; the contents; evaluation; and the future

Paper presented at the Joint 2Fourth Annual IAMSLIC Conference and Seventeenth Polar Libraries Colloquy, 1998. The Ragnar Lassinantti Collection at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, acquired the Ragnar Lassinantti Book Collection in 1990. The collection consists of about 13000 volumes, most of which are works of fiction and works on history, social science, geography, the history of literature, art and religion. The main focus of the literature in the collection is on Nordic conditions, with about 2000 volumes treating the Arctic regions of Fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, including the Sami (Lapps) and the Laestadian movement. The collection not only contains literature in Swedish, but also in all of the other Nordic languages, especially Finnish. The archive material that belongs to the collection includes about 600 audio tape recordings. The tapes contain Ragnar Lassinantti's radio recordings from a radio programme which mostly consists of interviews with people from the Arctic regions of Fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula

IT-support at the Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, 14000 students, consisted up to the beginning of 2006 mainly of technical support. The support was described in terms of technology like computer model, amount of CPU, size of core memory, backup descriptions in terms of online storage, frequency time between backups etc. The quality of service was orally said to be ”as soon as possible” which implied that an incident would be “looked upon the next day and the ambition was to fix it in a week”. The security problems were immense – e.g. some webservers were restarted once a day due to hacking. To that the IT-service 2005 got a drop in funding with 23 % and an order to maintain service level. Although the IT-service cut out almost everything from support contracts to education of staff it was almost on its knees. The familiar place where most people had their own rooms had to be replaced with an office landscape. The formal organisation was changed. The informal structure was beaten and the mood was low. With that in background we also had to implement the new IT-strategy vision. The challenge was now to implement a system and even more important – the attitude - that delivers ”service not technology”. We are still on the route to do so. Slowly are we changing the thinking from ”we need more people” to ”how can we deliver in another way”. But still the arguments often heard are ”IT-service must forbid the users to use that specific application” or “they should only be allowed to use one type of application and one single version” etc. How we attacked these issues with SLA’s, agreements, negotiations, introducing “computer power”, guaranties, consolidation, change of billing system, and how we at the same time found the lack of internal communication to be one of the main problems in this development – this and some errors will shortly be described by the officer for customer relations. For in the end - we did deliver - although we didn’t cut 23 %– we cut 15% - and we did implement the alfa version of our Service Level Agreements.

This second paper will present what happened with IT-delivery after centralization during an economically difficult period in the university’s history. It will tell how the late introduced ITgovernment (The Demanding Board of IT) worked and made a change in both the internal discussion climate and how the attitudes changed from blaming to collaboration. It will present some of the good statements taken. The paper will then shortly discuss the conflict between a fully paid quality dependent service delivery and the public service’s way of looking at costs, payments and management. It will present some updated SLAs (Service Level Agreements). But also how we removed all internal invoices by replacing them with a direct transfer system, reducing internal handling costs from 40 to near 0 Euro per invoice and how we solved the invoice information. Of course it will resume some of our new mistakes. In the end this paper will question if a detailed IT-price list leads to sub optimization. The paper is a free standing follow-up from a paper published as a poster at Eunis Conference 2006 in Grenoble with the title “From technical specification to service delivery”. That described how we reduced IT-costs with 15% (goal 23%), introduced ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), described many standard services in SLDs (a sort of Service Level Agreements) and introduced rented computers in order to standardize the computer environment. It also told how we handled fines and penalties and what mistakes we made during that revolutionary period.Some Headlines: Who we are; IT as a service; The Demanding Board of IT; The conflict; Invoicing removal; Web affirmation

The main purpose of this project has been to examine the accessibility of refereed conference articles and the OA- and publishing policies of conferences in order to in this way elucidate different aspects concerning self-archiving in Swedish institutional repositories. For this purpose, the project participants have examined a number of conferences and references to conference articles via their institutional repositories during a specific time period and described these from the perspective of a common scheme. The study has showed that the local institutional repositories fill an important role to make conference publications visible. We have found that ca. 50% of the conference papers can be published as postprints in our institutional repositories. We have noticed that ca. 15% or the studied conference articles are not available at all. It is, therefore, of great importance to use local institutional repositories as a publishing channel, not only for primary published material such as dissertations and reports, but also as a source for finding these conference articles "without a home". Between 20-25% of the examined articles were found in some type of OA archive; ca. half of these were found in one of the project participants' own institutional repositories. This indicates that the publishing database of respective higher education institution is an important factor for open accessibility. Ca. 10% of the conferences in the study had an explicit OA policy or expressed such a policy by openly making conference articles accessible on their conference sites. A big problem when it comes to self-archiving of conference articles is the lack of information about OA policy. The landscape of conference publishing is complex and the self-archiving of documents from conferences is very time-consuming. Above all, we would wish a policy resource for conferences similar to the SHERPA/RoMEO. At present, however, there is no other alternative than scrutinizing the conferences' copyright information to the authors and from this attempt to draw conclusions about possible self-archiving. To facilitate the future handling and classification of conference articles in Swedish institutional repositories a number of recommendations are suggested

C programming dominates the mainstream of embedded development as of today. To aid the development, hardware abstractions, libraries, kernels, and light-weight operating systems are commonplace. However, these typically offer little or no help to automatic worst-case execution time (WCET) estimation, and thus manual test and measurement based approaches remain the de facto standard. For this paper, we take the outset from the Real-Time For the Masses (RTFM) framework, which is developed to facilitate embedded software development for IoT devices and provides highly efficient implementations, suitable to the mainstream of embedded system design. Although the Rust language plays currently a minor part in embedded development, we believe its properties add significant improvements and thus implement our RTFM framework in Rust. We present an approach to worst-case execution time estimation in the context of RTFM tasks and critical sections, which renders sufficient information for further response time and schedulability analysis. We introduce our test bench, which utilizes the KLEE tool for automatic test vector generation and subsequently performs cycle accurate hardware-in-the-loop measurements of the generated tests. The approach is straightforward and fully automatic. Our solution bridges the gap in between measurement based and static analysis methods for WCET estimation. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach on a running example throughout the paper and conclude with a discussion on its implications and limitations.

MyHealth@Age projektet utvecklade tjänster och produkter som aktivt involverar äldre personer i deras egen vård- och omsorg för att de ska få bättre hälsa, trygghet och välbefinnande. Målsättningen var att de äldre ska förbli så friska och välmående att de klarar sig själva 3-5 år längre än vad som annars vore fallet. På så sätt ökas de äldres livskvalitet samtidigt som vård- och omsorgsorganisationerna ges bättre verksamhetsförutsättningar. I nära samverkan med äldre slutanvändare, vård- och omsorgspersonal, leverantörer och forskare utvecklades produkter och tjänster för mobilt trygghetslarm, ordinerad egenvård samt social samverkan. Syftet var att de nya produkterna och tjänsterna ska bli viktiga för medverkande aktörers konkurrenskraft, tillväxtmöjligheter (företag) och verksamhetsförutsättningar (organisationer).De vård- och omsorgsorganisationer som involverades i det svenska fältprovet var Luleå och Bodens kommun samt Norrbottens läns landsting. Projektet genomfördes januari 2008-december 2010. Fältprov genomfördes september 2009 – november 2010 i Boden/Luleå, Tromsö och Belfast för utvärdering och vidareutveckling av tjänsterna och produkterna. Fältproven involverade 15-tal äldre slutanvändare per land samt berörd primärvård- och kommunal omsorgspersonal. Totalt var 15 organisationer och företag engagerade i projektet. MyHealth@Age projektet finansierades av EU programmet Norra Periferin.

Interoperability is a central problem in digitization and System of Systems (SoS)engineering which concerns the capacity of systems to exchange information and cooperate. The task to dynamically establish interoperability between heterogeneous cyber-physical systems (CPSs) at run-time is a challenging problem. Different aspects of the interoperability problem have been studied in fields such as SoS, neural translation and agent based systems, but there are no unifying solutions beyond domain-specific standardization efforts. The problem is complicated by the uncertain and variable relations between physical processes and human-centric symbols, which result from, e.g., latent physical degrees of freedom, maintenance, re-configurations, and software updates. Therefore, we surveyed the literature for concepts and methods needed to automatically establish SoSs with purposeful CPS communication, focusing on machine learning and connecting approaches that are not integrated in the present literature. Here, we summarize recent developments relevant to the dynamic interoperability problem, such as representation learning for ontology alignment and inference on heterogeneous linked data; neural networks for transcoding of text and code;concept-learning based reasoning; and emergent communication. We find that there is a recent interest for deep learning approaches to establish communication under different assumptions about the environment, language and nature of the communicating entities. Furthermore, we present examples of architectures and discuss open problems associated with artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solutions in relation to SoS interoperability requirements. While these developments open new avenues for research there are still no examples bridging the necessary concepts required to establish dynamic interoperability in complex SoSs, and realistic testbeds are needed.

This study develops and investigates a framework for better understanding employer branding. More specifically, the overall purpose is to provide a deeper understanding on how employer branding is used to attract and retain talent. An extensive literature review leads to a proposed conceptual framework focusing on two key research questions: How can the relationship between corporate branding, internal branding and employer branding in service industries be described? And, How can the role of corporate values in delivering the brand promise be described? A qualitative, case study approach is used to collect data from a financial services company in Sweden. The data collected and analyzed reveals that the areas of employer, internal and corporate branding are not mutually exclusive, but instead an intertwined collection of branding issues that together form the corporation's core values. All of this together is what allows the corporation to in turn deliver its brand(s) promise to several stakeholder groups

Fastelaboratoriet är ett VINN Excellence Center för innovation inom Funktionella Produkter. Centret skapades till minne av innovatören Rolf Faste som under många år var verksam vid Stanford University i Kalifornien, USA

Riskhantering i ett byggprojekt har stor inverkan på tid, kostnad och kvalitet på utfallet. I och med ökad storlek och komplexitet på byggprojekten har förmågan att hantera risker således blivit en central faktor för att förebygga oönskade konsekvenser i projekten. På vilket sätt olika risker fördelas mellan aktörerna i byggprocessen påverkas av hur projektet är upphandlat. Valet av lämplig entreprenad- och samverkansform är därför viktigt för att stödja riskhantering i ett byggprojekt. Det övergripande syftet med den här studien är att öka förståelsen av riskhanteringen inom de olika entreprenadformerna generalentreprenad, totaltentreprenad och projekt med samverkansformen partnering. Fördjupade kunskaper om riskhantering förväntas bidra till bättre slutresultat för både beställare och entreprenör. Studien omfattar nio byggprojekt som nyligen genomförts i Sverige. Datainsamlingen har skett via både intervjuer och enkäter till beställarna, entreprenörer och konsulter som deltagit i projekten. Resultaten visar att nuvarande genomförandeformer saknar en fungerande process för riskhantering. Det är viktigt att aktörerna i större utsträckning fokuserar mer på processen för att riskhanteringen skall bidra till projektet. Frånvaron av systematisk riskhantering var speciellt tydlig i det tidiga skedet av byggprocessen, programfasen, där en systematisk hantering av risker dock ger det bästa utfallet. I produktionsfasen var intresset och användningen av en systematisk riskhantering större. Resultatet av studien visar att kommunikationen av risker mellan aktörerna inte fungerar i den utsträckning den borde, oavsett vilken genomförandeform som användes, för att projektsäkerheten skulle säkerställas. Vidare visar studien på ett tydligt samband mellan genomförandeformen och riskhanteringen. Generalentreprenadformen skapar inte rätt förutsättningar för en öppen diskussion om projektrisker och gemensam riskhantering. Totalentreprenaden ger en större möjlighet till diskussion av projektrisker mellan konsulter och entreprenörer i ett tidigt skede av byggprocessen. Samverkansformen partnering stöder en tidig samverkan mellan aktörerna och medför att alla aktörer deltar tidigt i riskhanteringen. Studien visar också på att det finns en del drivkrafter och hinder för en effektiv riskhantering. Rapporten avslutas med ett antal rekommendationer till aktörerna i byggprocessen för en mer effektiv riskhantering.

Detta forskningsprojekt avser att utveckla och testa en modell för systematisk gemensam riskhantering som kan ge vägledning om hur riskhantering bör utformas vid olika typer av projekt för att främja projektframgång. De flesta byggprojekt påverkas i hög grad av osäkerhet. Snabbare förändringar i en globaliserad värld, nya material och tillverkningsmetoder samt ökad tidspress är exempel på faktorer som gör att osäkerheten har ökat och spås fortsätta öka. Dessa osäkerheter leder i sin tur till ökad risk som ofta orsakar mer eller mindre allvarliga problem i byggprojekt. Byggbranschens aktörer har fått kritik för otillfredsställande projektresultat, som till exempel bristande kvalitet och kundtillfredsställelse, förseningar och kostnadsökningar. Dessa problem härstammar från ökad risk och bristande hantering av dessa risker. Med ökad osäkerhet har därför riskhantering blivit allt viktigare i dagens byggbransch. Riskhantering baseras oftast på erfarenhet och subjektiva bedömningar. Detta är olämpligt och har visat sig leda till dåliga resultat ur ett riskhanteringsperspektiv. För att minska risken för tids- och kostnadsöverskridanden bör projektaktörerna istället använda sig av systematiska och analytiska kalkylmodeller där aktörerna gemensamt identifierar och hanterar risker.

Föreläsning Sjöfartsmuseet, Göteborg

Föreläsning Billströmska folkhögskolan, Tjörn

Föreläsning på Arkeologiföreningen, Umeå universitet

Docentföreläsning, Humanistisk fakultet Umeå universitet

Julföreläsning, Institutionen för Konst- och bildvetenskap, göteborgs universitet

Föreläsning Sjöfartsmuseet, Göteborg

Offentlig föreläsning på Stockhoms stadsmuseum arrangerad av Sanfundet S:t Erik.

Offentlig föreläsning på Ateneum, Helsingfors.

Offentlig föreläsning på Bildmuseet i Umeå i samband med Populärvetenskapens vecka.