Memory and nostalgia work in complex, paradoxical ways in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and The Road, both haunting the main protagonists, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell and the father, as well as bringing them to crucial realizations. These men give up the traditional hero role for the more meaningful and generative image of “carrying the fire,” which unites these two novels. Carrying the fire represents a memorial and nostalgic longing for home and family. Bell and the father attain this vision because of their obsession with the past, and because of their struggle with memory and nostalgia. Memory, for these characters, has both personal and collective dimensions. Nostalgia, likewise, has a dual function, following Svetlana Boym's definition of nostalgics as being capable of restorative and reflective longing for the past. Family, or Paul Ricœur’s theory of close relations, bridges the gap between the conflicts of memory and nostalgia, acting as the means by which they understand this vision of carrying the fire while also embodying it. Additionally, the duality of both memory and nostalgia drive Bell and the father to seek for a prophetic vision, for stability in the past to deal with the threats in the present, which appears in the narrative structures of each novel.

Bakgrund: Vård i hemmet tycks bli allt mer nödvändigt när befolkningen blir allt äldre och det förordas i nationella utredningar om framtidens vårdorganisation. Det finns dock stora utmaningar med att förflytta vård av akut sjuka patienter från akutmottagningar till patienters hem.  Syfte: Studiens syfte är att beskriva erfarenheter av den mobila vården. Metod: Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförs med 12 personer med erfarenhet av mobil vård i Sverige, så som sjuksköterskor, läkare, tjänstemän och politiker. Kvalitativ latent innehållsanalys användes som analysmetod. Resultat: Studiens resultat redovisas utifrån ett tema “En holistisk vård given genom samverkan i patientens hemmiljö”, med tre huvudkategorier “gränslöst samarbete”, “resurser i närmiljö” och “helhetssyn av patienten”.  Studiens resultat visade att samverkan är av stor vikt för fungerande mobil vård. Det behövs både organisatoriskt samarbete mellan olika vårdorganisationer och ett nära samarbete mellan de olika läkare och sjuksköterskor som har hand om samma patient för att de ska kunna ta ett gemensamt ansvar för patienten. Eftersom mobil vård främst används för äldre multisjuka behövs en helhetssyn på patienten, där mobil vård ger patienter och anhöriga en upplevelse av trygghet. Slutsats:  Studien antyder att den mobila vården ses som en rörlig vård som kommer till den vårdsökande och inte tvärtom. Resurserna fördelas där de gör mest nytta, det vill säga närmast individen. Den mobila vården ses som ett komplement till den traditionella sjukhusvården. Det innebär ett annorlunda arbetssätt som kräver ett tätt samarbete mellan olika personalkategorier och organisationer, där det inte pratas om gränser utan om patientens behov och situation. / Introduction: Provision of mobile care at the home of patients appears to become necessary as the population becomes increasingly older. But there are challenges in moving acute care from hospitals to the home of patients. Aim: The aim of the study is to describe the experiences of the mobile care. Method: Semi structured interviews are conducted with 12 persons with experience of mobile care in Sweden, such as nurses, doctors, civil servants and politicians. Qualitative latent content analysis was used as an analysis method. Result: The study's result is presented on the basis of a theme "A holistic care given through collaboration in the patient's home environment", with three main categories "borderless cooperation" "resources in the immediate environment" and "holistic view of the patient". The results show that cooperation is of utmost importance to achieve functioning mobile care. Cooperation both on an interorganizational level and on a close teamwork level is required for all of the involved parties in mobile care to take on a joint responsibility for the patient. As mobile care is foremost provided to elderly multimorbid patients, a comprehensive view on patient care is required in which the patient and its relatives experience security. Conclusion: This study suggests that mobile care is seen as a moving care that comes to the seeking person and not the other way around. The resources are distributed where they make the most use, that is, closest to the individual. Mobile care is seen as a complement to the traditional hospital care. This means a different way of working that requires close collaboration between different categories of personnel and organizations, where it does not talk about boundaries but about the patient's needs and situation.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka socialsekreterares och polisers upplevelser och erfarenheter av samverkan mellan dessa två myndigheter vid mäns våld mot kvinnor och barn i nära relation. Metoden som användes var en kvalitativ med semistrukturerade intervjuer. Tre socialsekreterare inom socialtjänsten samt två utredare inom polisen har intervjuats. Samverkan användes som teoretisk tolkningsram. Resultatet visade att samverkan uppfattas som mer omfattande och strukturerad när barn finns med i bilden, jämfört med våldsutsatta kvinnor utan barn och att olika arbetssätt, rutiner, sekretessbestämmelser, resursbrist och tidsbrist påverkar samverkan. Resultatet visade också att personliga relationer påverkar samverkan och att det finns kunskap och medvetenhet kring våld i nära relationer hos båda myndigheterna. Samverkan mellan socialtjänsten och polisen är nödvändig eftersom den bidrar till att hjälpa de våldsutsatta kvinnor och barn till att få det hjälp och stöd de behöver. / The purpose of this study was to investigate social workers and police investigators perceptions and experiences of cooperation between the two authorities in cases of violence against women and children by men in a close relationship. The method used was qualitative with semi-structured interviews. Three social workers in the social services and two police investigators were interviewed. Cooperation was used as a theoretical frame. The result showed that cooperation is perceived as more extensive and structured when children are involved, compared to when women without children are abused. Collaboration is affected by different work methods, procedures, rules of confidentiality, lack of resources and time. Results showed further that personal relationships affect cooperation and there is knowledge and awareness of violence in close relationships in both authorities. Cooperation between social services and the police is necessary and contributes to help abused women and children to get the support they need.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 created a crisis of epic proportions for the airline industry. The attacks, on the heels of the first financial losses in four years, threatened the existence of many airlines. It was incumbent on the CEO to make sense and offer a plan to control the crisis and move forward. There were fewer audiences more attentive to this senemaking activity than the stockholders. On the cusp of the organization, shareholder management is a central job of CEOs in the 21st century. This study focuses on CEO presentations to shareholders for American, Delta and Frontier Airlines before during and after the events of 9/11. Using Close Textual Analysis as configured by Michael Leff, the time focused rhetorical analysis is extended to include slices of time. How CEOs use experienced time and interpreted time to gain stockholder confidence, control the crisis and create a shared vision of the future is the goal of this project. A longitudinal study across the years of 2001-2003, this dissertation considers how the organizational, leadership and personal goals of each of these airlines and their leaders are met through rhetorical configurations of time.

點雲（point cloud）為以大量三維坐標描述地表實際情形的資料形式，其中包含其三維坐標及相關屬性。通常點雲資料取得方式為光達測量，其以單一波段雷射光束掃描獲取資料，以光達獲取點雲，常面臨掃描時間差、缺乏多波段資訊、可靠邊緣線及角點資訊、大量離散點雲又缺乏語意資訊（semantic information）難以直接判讀及缺乏多餘觀測量等問題。 攝影測量藉由感測反射自太陽光或地物本身放射之能量，可記錄為二維多光譜影像，透過地物在不同光譜範圍表現之特性，可輔助分類，改善分類成果。若匹配多張高重疊率的多波段影像，可以獲取包含多波段資訊且位於明顯特徵點上的點雲，提供光達以外的點雲資料來源。 傳統空中三角測量平差解算地物點坐標及產製數值表面模型（Digital Surface Model, DSM）時，多採用可見光影像為主；而目前常見之高空間解析度數值航照影像，除了記錄可見光波段之外，亦可蒐集近紅外光波段影像。但較少採用近紅外光波段影像，以求解地物點坐標及建立DSM。 因此本研究利用多波段影像所蘊含的豐富光譜資訊，以取像方式簡易及低限制條件的近景攝影測量方式，匹配多張可見光、近紅外光及紅外彩色影像，分別建立可見光、近紅外光及紅外彩色之DSM，其目的在於探討加入近紅外光波段後，所產生的近紅外光及紅外彩色DSM，和可見光DSM之異同；並比較該DSM是否更能突顯植被區。 研究顯示，以可見光點雲為檢核資料，計算近紅外光與紅外彩色點雲的均方根誤差為其距離門檻值之相對檢核方法，可獲得約21%的點雲增加率；然而使用近紅外光或紅外彩色影像，即使能增加點雲資料量，但對於增加可見光影像未能匹配的資料方面，其效果仍屬有限。 / Point cloud represents the surface as mass 3D coordinates and attributes. Generally, these data are usually collected by LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging), which acquires data through single band laser scanning. But the data collected by LIDAR could face problems, such as scanning process is not instantaneous, lack of multispectral information, breaklines, corners, semantic information and redundancies. However, photogrammetry record the electromagnetic energy reflected or emitted from the surface as 2D multispectral images, via ground features with different characteristics differ in spectrum, it can be classified more efficiently and precisely. By matching multiple high overlapping multispectral images, point cloud including multispectral information and locating on obvious feature points can be acquired. This provides another point cloud source aparting from LIDAR. In most studies, visible light (VIS) images are used primarily, while calculating ground point coordinates and generating digital surface models （DSM） through aerotriangulation. Although nowadays, high spatial resolution digital aerial images can acquire not only VIS channel, but also near infrared (NIR) channel as well. But there is lack of research doing the former procedures by using NIR images. Therefore, this research focuses on the rich spectral information in multispectral images, by using easy image collection and low restriction close range photogrammetry method. It matches several VIS, NIR and color infrared (CIR) images, and generate DSMs respectively. The purpose is to analyze the difference between VIS, NIR and CIR data sets, and whether it can emphasize the vegetation area, after adding NIR channel in DSM generation. The result shows that by using relative check points between NIR, CIR data with VIS one. First, VIS point cloud was set as check point data, then, the RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) of NIR and CIR point cloud was calculated as distance threshold. Its data increment is 21% ca. However, the point cloud data amount can be increased, by matching NIR and CIR images. But the effect of increasing data, which was not being matched from VIS images are limited.

This essay aims to examine how the synthetic non-human subjects, EDI and Legion, are constituted in terms of their bodies, gender, desire and emotion, in the gaming series Mass Effect. In a close-gaming method I also want to explore in which way the gamer can effect or even change the expressions of the body, gen­der, desire, and emotion made by the synthetic non-human subjects. In order to do this I use Judith Butlers and Sara Ahmeds queer theory, and Donna Haraways cyborg feminism. I concluded that EDI em­braces her embodiments and is given a highly sexualized female body, being more of a woman than a machine. While Legion is rather embracing disembodiment and is given a non sexualized, androgynous male body, be­ing more of a machine than a man. The gamer can decide whether EDI should have a romance with a human in the game or not, but the gamer cannot in the same way decide whether or not Legions and EDIs subject­ivity will be reco­gnized as human subjectivity or at least almost-human subjectivity.

En utfackningsvägg är en icke bärande väggkonstruktion, ofta av trä som har för syfte att minimera energiförbrukningen för byggnader i betong. Inuti konstruktionen används ibland stålpelare för att bära ovanliggande konstruktioner. Stålpelarna utsätts för laster som de måste dimensioneras för. Över och under pelarna svetsas plåtar fast för att öka den belastade arean och hindra brott i betongen. I detta examensarbete har därför en datormodell i programmet Excel framtagits. Modellen dimensionerar kantpelare i stål enligt Eurokoderna. De brottsfall som ingår i modellen är genomstansning, prägling, spjälkning, avstånd till betongkant, reducering vid håltagning i betong, tryckkraftskapacitet för fot respektive topplåtarna och böjmoment för plåtarna.   Genomstansning är ett koniskt sprött brott som sker i betongen, det spröda brottet sker direkt utan förvarning och betongplattas bärförmåga sjunker snabbt vilket kan leda till ras.  Prägling är en lokal krossning av betongen och spjälkningen innebär att på grund av tryckkraften så uppstår en horisontell dragkraft i betongen vilket kan leda till brott. Då det är svårt att uppfatta i Eurokoderna för hur avståndet mellan plåtarna och betongkanten påverkar hållfastheten har därför en beräkningsmetod framställts, likvärdigt gäller för påverkan av håltagning nära en pelare. Exempel på hål kan vara trappor, hissar eller håltagning för värmestammar till radiatorer. Plåtarna beräknas i tvärsnittsklass tre. Modellen är uppbygg så att olika dimensioner och kvalitéer väljs, hållfastheten för konstruktionen beräknas och sedan redovisa om lasten klaras eller inte. I och med det så kan till exempel olika dimensioner och kvalitéer testas fram för att få en så optimal konstruktionslösning som möjligt. Avgränsningar har gjorts. Modellen beräknar bara de olika brottsfall som ovan nämns och berör endast kvadratiska VKR- profiler och plåtar. Pelare har beräknats som ledat infäst i båda upplagen där endast tryckkrafter dimensionerat betongen och plåtarna. Under det första skedet av arbetet så har fakta inhämtning för det olika brottsfallen gjort. Fakta har hämtats från litteratur, rapporter, undersökningar, forskningar, tidigare lösningar, diskussion med branscherfarna och tidigare respektive nyare regelverk. Därefter har datormodellen gjorts, målet med modellen är att få ett snabbt resultat och en komplett redovisning. Därför är modellen uppbygg så att varje brottsfall har en egen flik och kan redovisas enskilt.  För att modellen ska kunna användas av utomstående har standardbeteckningar, bilder och kommentarer använts. Modellen har kontrollerats med diverse beräkningsexempel och program för att få ett trovärdigt/användbart resultat. Slutsats: En väl fungerande modell har tagits fram och som kan användas av utomstående byggnadsingenjörer med minst gymnasieingenjörsutbildning. / A infill wall is a non-bearing wall construction, often is made af wood, which has the aim of minimizing the energy consumption of buildings in concrete. The inside the construction is sometimes steel designed for supporting the overlyingstructures. Steel studs are subjected to loads that they must be dimensioned to support. Above and below the colums plates are welded to increase the loaded area and prevent damages to the concrete. In this thesis a computer program in Excel has been created, the program dimensions border pillars in steel that follows the Eurocodes. Included in the program is punching, local pressure, splitting, distance to concrete, reduction when drilling in concrete, compression load capacity of foot and top plates, and bending torque the plates. Punching is a conical damage that occurs in the concrete, the damage occurs without warning and the concrete’s bearing capacity decreases rapidly which can lead to collapse. Local pressure is a local damage of the concrete and splitting, meaning that because of the pressure force arising can lead to a horizontal thrust in the concrete, which can lead to injuries. Since it is difficult to perceive the distance between the plates and the concrete edge of structural strength in the Eurocodes a calculation method has been made, equally applies to the consequences when drilling near a pillar. Examples of holes can be stairs, elevators or holes for heat strain for radiators. The plates are calculated in cross-section class three. The program is built so that different dimensions and qualities is selected, then the program calculates the strength of the structure and reports if will support the load. Different dimensions and qualities can be tested to get the optimal structure sollution. Limits have been set, the program only calculates the various injuries mentioned above and applies only to square VKR-sections and plates. Pillar has been calculated as articulated in both secured repository where the only pressure forces dimensioned concrete and plates. During the first phase of the work, gathering facts for the various types of damages has been done. Facts have been gathered from literature, reports, studies, researches, previous solutions, discussions with industry experienced and previous and more recent regulations. Since then, the computer program has been made, the goal of the program is to get a quick result and a complete report. Therefore, the program is made so that all damages is on different tabs and can be reported separately. So that the program can used by third parties standard names, images and comments are used. The program has been checked with various calculation examples and applications to achieve a credible / useful result. Conclusion: A well-functioning model has been developed and can be used by structural engineers with a education at least of technical college.

This essay examines the subject-object dichotomy between men and women in Toni Morrison’s Jazz and the thesis of the essay is that this dichotomy develops into subject-object harmony. Through Simone de Beauvoir’s theory regarding the subject-object dichotomy and a close reading of the novel, this essay concludes that Jazz shows the possibility of reciprocal relationships built on friendship. In other words, the dichotomy changes into harmony, which makes it possible for both men and women to reach freedom and fulfilment in transcendence.

In this essay I consider a self-experienced dilemma, and review how I, as a preschool teacher, treat a child with special needs. With the support of literature and theory, I can, with an essay writing approach, reflect and analyze the dilemma. In this way I will examine my practical knowledge and personal experiences of a complex situation. I want to examine whether children with special needs who are included in regular preschool activities, really get the support they need and deserve. Do educators have the conditions and does preschool have sufficient resources to realize this? Do educators have sufficient knowledge of how children with special needs should be responded to? I want to find out how the included children's social development and self-image is shaped by the treatment they receive at the preschool. I also question whether the preschool of today with its increased focus on learning and the additional duties it entails in terms of planning, documentation and evaluation of projects, reduce the time for the important close contact between teachers and children. I further discuss of whether children with special needs are affected to a greater extent than other children by reduced time for socializing. Finally I also explore how the balance between learning, caring and ethical values appears in preschool and how it may affect children's ability to develop good social relationships. / I min essä utgår jag ifrån ett självupplevt dilemma, där jag granskar mig själv som pedagog i hur jag bemöter ett barn i behov av särskilt stöd. Med stöd av litteratur och teorier kan jag med den metod som essäskrivande innebär, reflektera och analysera över dilemmat. På så vis prövar jag mina praktiska kunskaper och egna erfarenheter kring en komplex situation. Jag vill undersöka om barn i behov av särskilt stöd som är inkluderade i förskolans ordinarie verksamhet, verkligen får det stöd de behöver och har rätt till. Hur ser pedagogers förutsättningar och förskolans resurser ut för att kunna förverkliga detta? Har pedagoger tillräckliga kunskaper i hur barn i behov av särskilt stöd bör bemötas? Jag vill ta reda på hur inkluderade barns sociala utveckling och självbild formas av det bemötande de får på förskolan. Jag ställer mig även frågan om det ökade kravet på lärandet och de tillkommande arbetsuppgifter det för med sig i form av planering, dokumentation och utvärdering av projekt, minskar tid till den viktiga nära samvaron mellan pedagoger och barn. Vidare ställer jag mig frågan om barn i behov av särskilt stöd påverkas i större utsträckning av minskad tid för samvaro än andra barn. Slutligen utforskar jag även hur balansen mellan lärande, omsorg och värdegrundsfrågor ser ut i förskolan och hur det kan komma att påverka barns förmåga att utveckla goda sociala relationer.

Data mining is an area to find valid, novel, potentially useful, and ultimately understandable abstractions in a data. Frequent itemset mining is one of the important data mining approaches to find those abstractions in the form of patterns. Frequent Closed itemsets provide complete and condensed information for non-redundant association rules generation. For many applications mining all the frequent itemsets is not necessary, and mining frequent Closed itemsets are adequate. Compared to frequent itemset mining, frequent Closed itemset mining generates less number of itemsets, and therefore improves the efficiency and effectiveness of these tasks. Recently, much research has been done on Closed itemsets mining, but it is mainly for traditional databases where multiple scans are needed, and whenever new transactions arrive, additional scans must be performed on the updated transaction database; therefore, they are not suitable for data stream mining. Mining frequent itemsets from data streams has many potential and broad applications. Some of the emerging applications of data streams that require association rule mining are network traffic monitoring and web click streams analysis. Different from data in traditional static databases, data streams typically arrive continuously in high speed with huge amount and changing data distribution. This raises new issues that need to be considered when developing association rule mining techniques for stream data. Recent works on data stream mining based on sliding window method slide the window by one transaction at a time. But when the window size is large and support threshold is low, the existing methods consume significant time and lead to a large increase in user response time. In our first work, we propose a novel algorithm Stream-Close based on sliding window model to mine frequent Closed itemsets from the data streams within the current sliding window. We enhance the scalabality of the algorithm by introducing several optimization techniques such as sliding the window by multiple transactions at a time and novel pruning techniques which lead to a considerable reduction in the number of candidate itemsets to be examined for closure checking. Our experimental studies show that the proposed algorithm scales well with large data sets. Still the notion of frequent closed itemsets generates a huge number of closed itemsets in some applications. This drawback makes frequent closed itemsets mining infeasible in many applications since users cannot interpret the large volume of output (which sometimes will be greater than the data itself when support threshold is low) and may lead to an overhead to develop extra applications which post processes the output of original algorithm to reduce the size of the output. Recent work on clustering of itemsets considers strictly either expression(consists of items present in itemset) or support of the itemsets or partially both to reduce the number of itemsets. But the drawback of the above approaches is that in some situations, number of itemsets does not reduce due to their restricted view of either considering expressions or support. So we propose a new notion of frequent itemsets called clustered itemsets which considers both expressions and support of the itemsets in summarizing the output. We introduce a new distance measure w.r.t expressions and also prove the problem of mining clustered itemsets to be NP-hard. In our second work, we propose a deterministic locality sensitive hashing based classifier using clustered itemsets. Locality sensitive hashing(LSH)is a technique for efficiently finding a nearest neighbour in high dimensional data sets. The idea of locality sensitive hashing is to hash the points using several hash functions to ensure that for each function the probability of collision is much higher for objects that are close to each other than those that are far apart. We propose a LSH based approximate nearest neighbour classification strategy. But the problem with LSH is, it randomly chooses hash functions and the estimation of a large number of hash functions could lead to an increase in query time. From Classification point of view, since LSH chooses randomly from a family of hash functions the buckets may contain points belonging to other classes which may affect classification accuracy. So, in order to overcome these problems we propose to use class association rules based hash functions which ensure that buckets corresponding to the class association rules contain points from the same class. But associative classification involves generation and examination of large number of candidate class association rules. So, we use the clustered itemsets which reduce the number of class association rules to be examined. We also establish formal connection between clustering parameter(delta used in the generation of clustered frequent itemsets) and discriminative measure such as Information gain. Our experimental studies show that the proposed method achieves an increase in accuracy over LSH based near neighbour classification strategy.