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Listening to music usually elicits emotions that can vary considerably in their intensity over the course of listening. Yet, after listening to a piece of music, people are easily able to evaluate the music's overall emotional intensity. There are two different hypotheses about how affective experiences are temporally processed and integrated: (1) all moments' intensities are integrated, resulting in an averaged value; (2) the overall evaluation is built from specific single moments, such as the moments of highest emotional intensity (peaks), the end, or a combination of these. Here we investigated what listeners do when building an overall evaluation of a musical experience. Participants listened to unknown songs and provided moment-to-moment ratings of experienced intensity of emotions. Subsequently, they evaluated the overall emotional intensity of each song. Results indicate that participants' evaluations were predominantly influenced by their average impression but that, in addition, the peaks and end emotional intensities contributed substantially. These results indicate that both types of processes play a role: All moments are integrated into an averaged value but single moments might be assigned a higher value in the calculation of this average.

Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka tandvårdspersonals erfarenhet, agerande och faktorer vid misstanke om att barn far illa samt vilka hinder som påverkar beslutet att göra en orosanmälan. Metod: En allmän litteraturstudie baserad på 20 vetenskapliga artiklar av kvantitativ ansats. Datainsamlingen utfördes i databaserna DOSS, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed och Google Scholar. Urvalet begränsades med inklusions- och exklusionskriterier. Valda artiklar besvarade litteraturstudiens syfte, var publicerade mellan år 2017-2022 och kvalitetsgranskades för att säkerställa hög kvalitet. Resultat: Majoriteten av tandvårdspersonalen hade erfarenheter av att möta barn som misstänks fara illa. Vanliga ageranden vid misstanke var att dokumentera skador, rapportera till polis eller klinikchef, fråga barnet och föräldrarna samt följa upp observationerna. Anmälningsfrekvensen till barnskyddsmyndigheter var genomgående låg. Hinder för orosanmälan var oro för negativa konsekvenser, osäkerhet om misstankens tillförlitlighet, bristande kunskap samt att riktlinjer och rutiner saknades. Slutsatser: Tandvårdspersonals erfarenheter av att möta barn som misstänks fara illa, tydliga riktlinjer och rutiner, kunskap i ämnesområdet och den subjektiva uppfattningen är faktorer som påverkar anmälningsbenägenheten. Vidare forskning behövs för att undersöka vilka åtgärder som kan leda till en ökad anmälningsbenägenhet hos tandvårdspersonal och på så vis möjliggöra att fler barn kan få leva ett liv fritt från våld. / Aim: The aim was to examine dental healthcare professionals experience, actions and factors when suspecting child maltreatment and to determine barriers that affect the decision to report a concern. Method: A literature study based on 20 scientific articles of a quantitative approach. Data collection was performed using the databases DOSS, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed, and Google Scholar. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were used to limit the sample. The selected articles that answered the purpose of the literature study were published between 2017-2022 and were quality-reviewed to ensure high quality. Results: The majority of dental professionals had experienced suspected cases of child maltreatment. Common actions in case of suspicion were to document injuries, report to the police or clinic manager, question the child and the parents and follow up the observations. The frequency of reports to the child protection authorities was consistently low. Barriers to reporting were concern about negative consequences, uncertainty about the reliability of the suspicion, lack of knowledge, guidelines, and routines. Conclusions: Dental professionals experiences of meeting children who are suspected of being maltreated, clear guidelines and routines, knowledge in the subject area and the subjective perception are factors that influence the tendency to report. Further research is needed to investigate which measures can lead to an increased propensity to report among dental professionals and in such a way enable more children to live a life free of violence.

<p>Workplace bullying is a major global issue which has received a lot of recognition because of its negative effects on victims’ health and work productivity. There have been many attempts to mitigate the effects of workplace bullying, leading researchers to extensively study the phenomenon in various contexts and relationships. Information on workplace bullying in the academic context, precisely relationships between academic advisors and graduate student advisees, is however, lacking. This study aimed at filling in the gap by seeking information about communicative behaviors from advisors that graduate advisees characterized as bullying, and common responses graduate advisees resorted to in the face of adversity. We also sought to understand why advisees may have responded to maltreatment in specific ways. We, therefore, proposed a working model which hypothesized a relationship between advisor negative acts, commitment levels of advisees, and advisee responses. Using Amazon’s Mechanical (MTurk) to recruit our sample, participants filled out a survey which included a few demographic questions, the revised version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ-R) to measure advisor negative acts, the Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect (EVLN) typology to measure advisee responses, and the Investment Model Scale (IMS) to measure advisee commitment levels to the work relationship with advisors. We verified the reliability and validity of the scales adopted for this study and ran some correlation and mediation analyses to answer our research questions and test our hypotheses. From our findings, we learned that most advisees reported personal insults occurring more frequently in their work relationships with advisors. Advisees also reported a high commitment to the work relationships with their advisors, despite maltreatment, and often responded by adopting the voice or neglect strategy. Findings from this exploratory study imply there is more information to be sought on workplace bullying between advisees and advisors in academic contexts.</p> <br> <p> </p>

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Multi-Agent coordination and control has been studied for a long time, but has recently gained more interest because of technology improvements allowing smaller, more versatile robots and other types of agents. To facilitate multi-agent experiments between heterogeneous agents, including robots and UAVs, we have created a test-bed with both simulation and hardware capabilities. This thesis discusses the creation of this unique, versatile test-bed for multi-agent experiments, also a unique graph creation algorithm, and some experimental results obtained using the test-bed.

Studiens syfte är att belysa och undersöka hur förskolepersonal upplever att barns mående och beteende påverkas när de växer upp under missförhållanden i hemmet. Vi vill undersöka på vilket sätt personalen på förskolan uppmärksammar barnets mående och beteende. Studiens frågeställningar fokuserar på hur förskolepersonalen uppmärksammar barnets mående. De teorier som används i studien är Bronfenbrenners utvecklingsekologiska teori samt Anknytningsteorin som utvecklades av John Bowlby och Broberg som förklarar vilka anknytningsmönster barn utvecklar. Resultatet av studien har påvisat att barn som växer upp under missförhållanden i hemmet uttrycker särskilda beteenden och måenden på förskolan. För att besvara syftet och frågeställningen gjordes sex semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex informanter som arbetar på förskola i Malmö och två andra närliggande kommuner.  Det resultatet som belyses är att personal på förskolan uppmärksammar olika signaler hos barnet som kan vara tecken på att barnet far illa i hemmet samt hur barnet utvecklas. Förskollärare kan bidra till att ett barn får stöd och hjälp utifrån att personalen uppmärksammar barnets beteende och kan göra en orosanmälan som kan leda till att barnet får stöd och hjälp. Resultatet belyser även att personal på förskolan upplever att det är svårt när en ska göra en orosanmälan på grund av att det är svårt att avgöra om barnet far illa och vilka konsekvenser det får om de väljer att genomföra en orosanmälan eller inte. / The purpose of this study is to highlight and investigate how preschool staff experience how children's attitude and behavior are affected when they grow up under abusive conditions at home. We want to investigate how the teachers at the preschool pay attention to the child's attitude and behavior. The study's questions focus on how the preschool staff pay attention to the child's well-being. The theories used in the study are Bronfenbrenner's developmental ecology theory and the attachment theory developed by John Bowlby and Broberg which explains which attachment patterns children develop. The results of the study have shown that children who grow up under abusive conditions at home are shown through certain behaviors and attitudes at the preschool. To answer the purpose and the question, six semi-structured interviews were conducted with six informants who work at preschools in Malmö, Svedala and Trelleborg. The result that is highlighted is that staff at the preschool pay attention to various signals in the child that may be signs that the child live under abusive conditions at home and are at risk för adverse growth. Preschool teachers can contribute to a child receiving support and help based on the staff paying attention to the child's behavior. They can make a report of concern that can result in the child receiving support and help. The results also highlight that staff at the preschool experience that it is difficult to know when to make a report of concern because it is difficult to determine if the child is in danger.

This study explores the link between the presence of childhood trauma and adult criminal behavior. In this study, four distinct categories of childhood trauma (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect) were examined. In addition, this study conducts a comparative analysis of the United States crime rate with that of Switzerland and Japan. This study examines and compares the policies utilized in ensuring the protection of child welfare. The ultimate goal is to provide research which may build a foundation that will assist in creating and improving policies which will ensure a child's psychological health.

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