The Stig Claesson Centre at Nytorget is an art museum, a foundation and a meeting place with focus on Stig Claesson’s life’s work and artistic achievements. The Stig Claesson Centre manages the public legacy of Stig Claesson at Nytorget, Södermalm. The Stig Claesson Centre offers a relevant and challenging experience to both Claesson enthusiasts, locals, tourists, architecture fans and other curious visitors. The site, adjacent to Nytorget, is a natural junction between the new, gentrified Södermalm and the old working-class Södermalm that Claesson represents. The building facing the entrance to the Stig Claesson Centre called Malongen is where Claesson had his studio and where he worked for the mostpart of his life. / Stig Claessoncenter vid Nytorget är ett konstmuseum, en stiftelse och en mötesplats med fokus på Stig Claessons livsverk och konstnärliga landvinningar. Stig Claessoncenter eller Slashus, som jag också har valt att kalla det, hanterar det offentliga arvet från Stig Claesson vid Nytorget på Södermalm. Slashus erbjuder en relevant och utmanande upplevelse för både Claessonentusiaster, lokalbefolkning, turister, arkitekturintresserade och andra nyfikna besökare. Platsen, som gränsar till Nytorget, är en naturlig skärningspunkt mellan den nya gentrifierade Södermalm och den gamla arbetarklasssödermalm som Claesson representerar. Byggnaden som vetter mot ingången till Slashus kallas Malongen är där Claesson hade sin ateljé och där han arbetade stora delar av sitt liv.

Cloud computing is in current demand and widely used for businesses because of its scalability and flexibility. An agreement is signed between cloud providers and customers to guarantee the level of services are available as promised, it is called Service Level Agreement (SLA). To assess if the services are compliant with SLA, availability of the cloud services is important to be monitored. There are some existing monitoring tools provided by the cloud service providers. However, those can be often biased that leads to calls for independent SLA evaluation. This study aims to solve the problem of verifying service availability parameters in terms of uptime/downtime against SLA by proposing a monitoring tool. This paper focuses on reliable assessment of SLA for both customers and service providers. Furthermore, this research discusses the challenges of SLA tracking and consequences of not assessing it. This study also explores that automated monitoring systems minimizes human-effort, time and the potential risk of errors. This approach is even more essential for organizations that use multiple cloud services from different vendors. The proposed monitoring tool can automatically verify the SLA by monitoring the availability of the cloud services. To avoid business losses and maintain reputation for customer trust, it is crucial to validate the SLA. The research problem related to SLA monitoring is challenging in terms of relevant previous studies of this area. Using experiment-based research strategy and quantitative data analysis method, the results have shown that the proposed solution is able to monitor the service availability and validate with SLA. The recommended solution is of significant interest to organizations as they are migrating and using single or multiple cloud services by different vendors as per the business need. The monitoring system serves as a valuable tool for both customers and service providers to solve issues related to availability monitoring of the cloud services and ensure the SLA commitment is met.

yes / This briefing paper reports on research exploring ten detailed case studies of livelihoods-oriented interventions operating in Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda and Lesotho. As a proxy for best practice, these interventions were analysed through an audit of sustainable livelihood `principles¿. This revealed general lessons about both the practical opportunities and challenges for employing sustainable livelihoods approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions and also about the changing format of development interventions. / Department for International Development.

Yes / This briefing paper compares two approaches to community-based planning in Tanzania, South Africa and Uganda. Analysing these interventions through an audit of sustainable livelihood `principles¿ (as a proxy for best practice) reveals general lessons about both the practical opportunities and challenges for employing sustainable livelihoods approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions and also about the changing format of development interventions. / Department for International Development

Yes / This paper is one in a series of working papers prepared under a research project on Goodbye to Projects? The Institutional Impacts of a Livelihood Approach on Projects and Project Cycle Management. This is a collaborative project between the Bradford Centre for International Centre for Development (BCID) with the Economic and Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Uganda; Khanya ¿ managing rural change, South Africa; and, the Institute for Development Management (IDM), Tanzania. The project is supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under their Economic and Social Research Programme (ESCOR). / Department for International Development

The objective of this paper is to examine narrative techniques used by the Swedish author Stig Claesson, especially his transformations of texts out of the own authorship into new stories. In order to achieve my objective, I will specifically study two novels; Rosine (1991) and Efter oss syndafloden (2002) and the method practiced will be intentional reading, as described by H. Porter Abbott. For the analysis I will, with the complementary support of Abbott and Beata Agrell, turn to Gerard Genette and his theories concerning transformation and transtextuality, in particular its sub idiom hypertextuality. As a result of my analysis, various subgroups of transformation used by Claesson are identified, but also proven is how Claesson, largely by utilizing two of them; transvocalisation and transvaluation, provides the reader with the implied author of his own choice. Moreover, my investigation demonstrates how Claesson when reusing narratives already told by himself, i.e. transforming hypotexts of his own into hypertexts, recycles characters;  reprocesses master as well as sub plots; alters trivial details; re-interprets events; switches from one narrative view to another, all well documented techniques described by Genette as elements of transformation.

<p>The objective of this paper is to examine narrative techniques used by the Swedish author Stig Claesson, especially his transformations of texts out of the own authorship into new stories. In order to achieve my objective, I will specifically study two novels; <em>Rosine</em> (1991) and <em>Efter oss syndafloden</em> (2002) and the method practiced will be intentional reading, as described by H. Porter Abbott. For the analysis I will, with the complementary support of Abbott and Beata Agrell, turn to Gerard Genette and his theories concerning transformation and transtextuality, in particular its sub idiom hypertextuality. As a result of my analysis, various subgroups of transformation used by Claesson are identified, but also proven is how Claesson, largely by utilizing two of them; transvocalisation and transvaluation, provides the reader with the implied author of his own choice. Moreover, my investigation demonstrates how Claesson when reusing narratives already told by himself, i.e. transforming hypotexts of his own into hypertexts, recycles characters;  reprocesses master as well as sub plots; alters trivial details; re-interprets events; switches from one narrative view to another, all well documented techniques described by Genette as elements of transformation.</p>

Yes / This briefing paper reports on research exploring four detailed case studies of rural livelihoods interventions operating in Tanzania, South Africa and Uganda. Analysing these interventions through an audit of sustainable livelihood `principles¿ (as a proxy for best practice) reveals general lessons about both the practical opportunities and challenges for employing sustainable livelihoods approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions. / Department for International Development

Yes / This briefing paper reports on research exploring detailed case studies of HIV/AIDS livelihoods-oriented interventions operating in Uganda, Lesotho and South Africa. The interventions were analysed through an audit of sustainable livelihood `principles¿. This revealed general lessons both about the practical opportunities and challenges for employing sustainable livelihoods approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions and also about the changing format of development interventions. / Department for International Development

The objective of this paper – Trusting the reader: On impressionistic narrating in Stig Claesson's writings with the novel Brev till en hembygdsgård as starting point – is to examine narrative techniques used by the Swedish author Stig Claesson, specifically some which fall within the broad field known as literary impressionism: e.g. omission, repetition, juxtaposition, episodic narration and how access to the narrator’s as well as individual characters' consciousness is handled. The method used for the study will be that of illustrative comparison. The analysis will seek its theoretical grounds in the works by Gerard Genette and Jonathan Culler. In the major parts of the study, narrative techniques used by Claesson in the novel Brev till en hembygdsgård (1974), is examined with the help of Robert Paul Lamb and James Nagel, and their studies concerning the crafts of Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Crane. In addition, other novels by Claesson are used in order to find, illustrate and then compare his craftsmanship with techniques already studied and described by scholars and critics. The main result from the analysis is that a need to trust the reader follows from Claesson’s choice of narrative techniques; by having the narrating instance mainly represent perception – without allowing the narrator, or the characters of the narrative, to interpret what’s rendered – the reader is left to experience sensation on her own. To assist the reader, Claesson binds together his episodic narration with a frequent use of juxtaposition, in which colors, objects and scenes already used, are re-used – hence having one scene charge the next, and so on, with previously evoked emotions. Furthermore, Claesson frequently uses omission in conjunction with repetition as a narrative technique; often when the narrator returns to an already used scene, she is excluding some of the information given to the reader earlier in exchange for some previously omitted information or for elements belonging to other scenes. The study finds that a consequence of Claesson’s combination of the above mentioned techniques, is that his texts calls for a reader to take an active part in creating meaning both from the text and from their own experience. Finally, the study suggests that Claesson, like any craftsman, recognized that once the work is done and delivered, it is up to the recipient to use it according to their own ability, imagination and discretion.