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Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2002.

Federal policies and laws as well as research in the area of self-determination have encouraged meaningful student involvement in the IEP process for over twenty years. Active student involvement in the IEP process allows for students to practice important self-determination skills in an applied setting and to be meaningful participants in their education. The purpose of this literature review is to establish what constitutes meaningful student involvement in the IEP process and identify evidence-based practices for increasing meaningful student involvement. / text

Möten mellan sjuksköterska och barn återfinns inom de flesta verksamheter, eftersom barn är en stor patientgrupp inom hälso- och sjukvården. Sjuksköterskans kunskap och erfarenhet har avgörande betydelse för hur dessa möten avlöper. Det är av stor vikt att barns möten med sjuksköterskan blir en positiv erfarenhet, eftersom en negativ händelse kan få livslånga konsekvenser genom att barnet undviker hälso- och sjukvården under resten av sitt liv. Följden av ett negativt möte kan också bli att barnets kommande möten kräver mer resurser, såsom fler och längre möten och mer personal, resurser som annars kan vara till nytta för fler barn. Sjuksköterskan bör individanpassa mötet utifrån barnets individuella utvecklingsnivå och involvera barnet och familjen, som kan bestå av flera medlemmar. Detta kan göras genom att sjuksköterskan avsätter tillräckligt med tid, befinner sig på barnets nivå och anpassar kommunikationen, kanske med lek. Ett gynnsamt läge uppstår då för att familjen skall känna sig och vara delaktiga i vården, och en trygg och tillitsfull relation skapas för alla inblandade. Undersökningar och behandlingar underlättas när sjuksköterskan och familjen samarbetar. Hur mötet avlöper beror till stor del på sjuksköterskans kunskaper och erfarenheter. Kunskap är grunden för sjuksköterskans yrke och en sjuksköterska blir aldrig fullärd utan behöver söka ny kunskap hela tiden. Ett primärt sätt för sjuksköterskan att göra det, är med reflektion. Reflektion kan ske enskilt, med kollegor och andra yrkesgrupper. Vid reflektion ökar sjuksköterskans kunskap genom att hen tar del av någon annans erfarenhet och reviderar den och gör den till egen ny kunskap. Författarna anser att de resultat som framkommit kan användas som verktyg vid möten mellan sjuksköterskor, barn och deras föräldrar. / Background: Research have shown children to be a large patient group within the health care sector. Nurses, should therefore, have knowledge about how to individually adapt meetings so it will be a positive experience for the child, the parents, and for themselves. Historically, this has not been the case and created immense care suffering for several families. Aim: The aim of this study was to illuminate nurses' experiences of meeting children and their parents within the health care sector. Method: A method to contribute to evidence-based nursing with ground in analysis of qualitative research was performed. An analysis of nine scientific articles was carried out. The analysis resulted in three main themes and eight subthemes. Results: The main themes were: "To see the child as an individual", "to built trust", and "knowledge and experience are crucial". Knowledge were fundamental for creating a positive meeting. Conclusion: By individually adapting communication to the child and the parents, good conditions allowed for a trusting relationship to emerge. Time was needed to create a safe and trusting relationship. However, it did not always exist. With knowledge and experience the nurse could see the child as an individual and adapt the meeting to the child. It was the responsibility of the nurse to gain the necessary knowledge, and to reflect with colleagues was seen as an important source to attain new knowledge.

This dissertation is an historical anthropology investigating the late 19th century liturgical landscapes of the National Camp‐Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness, an organization of Methodist clergy who sought ecclesiastical and social reform primarily through camp‐meeting revivals promoting the experience of entire sanctification. National camp meetings drew from the liturgical and architectural traditions of early 19th century frontier revivalism, yet, as this dissertation argues, these meetings were not simply an appropriation of the structure of Second Great Awakening revivals for the purpose of promoting holiness theology in decidedly more urban areas of the Northeast and Mid‐Atlantic. Rather, these meetings were a (re)imagining of the cultural practice of the camp‐meeting through a Victorian system of symbolic meanings, a middle‐class, (ex)urban geographic context, and a distinctive set of liturgical performances, social interactions, and cognitive‐environmental and architectural cues designed to elicit a changed subjectivity among attendees. Each of these transformations shaped the social space, architectural configuration, and site selection of the liturgical landscapes of the National Camp‐Meeting Association, and it is these spatial and material traces that offer a substantial body of data for the interpretation of past religious and ritual landscapes in North America. Such interpretation of revival landscapes is possible through a process of cross‐mending archival sources (diaries, autobiographies, biographies, historic correspondence, newspaper reports, sermon texts, organizational documents, maps, photographs), material culture, archaeological reports, geo‐spatial and environmental data to reconstruct and thickly interpret the ritual landscapes of three early meetings of the National Camp‐Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness – Vineland, New Jersey, Manheim, Pennsylvania, and Round Lake, New York. In its results, this dissertation argues for a significant connection between Methodism, geographic regions, and 19th century holiness practices, and an interpretation of holiness revivalism as a means of renegotiating moral orders amidst industrialization, urbanization, vacationing, and changing social fault lines in the church including race and gender.

Europe is taking on a new meaning to many people these days and is now referred to as the European Union. For those countries, which are not yet members, to join the European Union is a very important and defining decision. Romania is one of the “next to be” members. With Romania being the next inline to join the Union, large corporations and enterprises are turning to Romania for new opportunities. It might be interesting for Swedish or foreign companies to open a business or start investing in Romania. That step is a very important one because there is no specific literature, which can provide relevant information about the Romanian business market and management style. These potential investors or business executives have no idea about the project management procedures or the implementation of technical projects inside the Romanian economy. To provide the answer to these questions more extensive and deeper studies will have to be done in the future. The purpose of this thesis is to become a reference in the future for those companies which are considering doing business in Romania. The goal of this research is to provide valuable and reliable answers concerning the attitude of Swedish and Romanian leaders in meetings with their employees. These attitudes build on the differences in culture and nationality. The leadership of companies in Romania and Sweden has very different meanings in those countries. In the beginning I will provide definitions to the terms that will use: attitude, culture, leadership and meeting. The respondents were chosen based on their previous leadership positions in the institution they used to work. This research will demonstrate the aspects that Swedish leaders have or do not have in common with their Romanian colleagues.

The growing size of organizations is making it increasingly expensive to attend meetings and difficult to retain what happened in those meetings. Meeting video capture systems exist to support video conferencing for remote participation or archiving for later review, but they have been regarded ineffective. The reason is twofold. Firstly, the conventional way of capturing video using a single static camera fails to capture focus and context. Secondly, a single static view is often monotonous, making the video onerous to review. To address these issues, often human camera operators are employed to capture effective videos with changing views, but this approach is expensive. In this thesis, we argue that camera views can be changed automatically to produce meeting videos effectively and inexpensively. We automate the camera view control by automatically determining the visual focus of attention as a function of time and moving the camera to capture it. In order to determine visual focus of attention for different meetings, we conducted experiments and interviewed television production professionals who capture meeting videos. Furthermore, television production principles were used to appropriately frame shots and switch between shots. The result of the evaluation of the automatic camera control system indicated its significant benefits over conventional static camera view. By applying television production principles various issues related to shot stability and screen motion were resolved. The performance of the automatic camera control based on television production principles also approached the performance of trained human camera crew. To further reduce the cost of the automation, we also explored the application of computer vision and audio tracking. Results of our explorations provide empirical evidence in support of the utility of camera control encouraging future research in this area. Successful application of television production principles to automatically control cameras suggest various ways to handle issues involved in the automation process.

A growing number of private limited companies are formed today. The distribution of shares in a corporation can be done in different ways. The most common one is that the most suitable shareholders, for the future development of the company, have a majority in the company in order to govern and control the company and its affairs. In a company with a solid majority decisions are fairly easy to make and there are seldom disputes, in terms of such decision-making.   But in today's legal arena companies are formed where shares are divided evenly between the partners. This is done to spread the control of the company between several shareholders. But what happens when a company of two people, or groups of equally strong shareholders, can not agree within the general meeting for a decision on who will be appointed as the Chairman, or in the case of important issues concerning the company's affairs.   One such company whose shares are scattered among the shareholders is generally called a 50/50 company. The company is not regulated in the Swedish Companies Act which makes it difficult to determine how certain decisions will be resolved when there are disagreements. What is regulated in the legislation for limited companies is very generally applied, which is why agreements and contracts are often used as a complement and an instrument to combat locked situations in smaller companies, especially in the 50/50 company. Contracts are made to complement the law and statutes. There are many types of contracts which can be conducted between the shareholders however; this essay will deal only with the shareholders and consortium agreements/contracts.   When a small company, such as the 50/50 company, with few shareholders does not sign agreements or contracts between them in order to fully regulate the situations and problems that may arise, the results can be devastating. When shareholders can not agree on decisions in the general meeting it may pertain to two specific decisions. One is the decision which must be taken when appointing the Board to prevent that there is a draw of lots, which is certainly not the optimal way of decision-making for a company. The second decision is the one pertaining to other important issues which must be decided  in the general meeting, and where the Chairman’s casting vote will decide the outcome if the shareholders can not agree. It is there important to examine which possibilities exist for 50/50 companies to remedy a locked situation and maintain an optimal decision-making process.