The climate and ecological emergency (CEE) is depicted as far in space and time to the (yet) unaffected human through politics not acting according to it as well as media not doing the topic justice. No experiences or experiences only through media depiction are created which the human bases its reality on. This is not only problematic but also mediates a distorted reality of not being and feeling affected by the CEE. (Climate) activism can be seen as a counter-perspective of politics. Extinction Rebellion (XR) – a decentralized movement – mostly aims for polarization, actions in the physical space, and disruptions. Decentral XR groups practice close-making of the CEE through different strategies and affect-mediations in the public space. Nevertheless, like most climate activist actions, it also deals with the dilemma of media depictions. The reach of the action within the public space as an affect-mediation is lesser than the reach through the media translation. If most humans are negatively affected through the media reach, what happens if affect-mediations are executed in the coded infrastructure(s) that surrounds the humans? As human entanglements with the coded infrastructure(s) can be seen as a body-mind-life extension, I aim with this work to intervene in it. By proposing to seed digitally induced disruptions as affect-mediations in the human entanglements with coded infrastructures(s) surrounding them, the work is aiming to practice close-making and enhance the notion of feeling affected. The approach was explored by mapping out the coded infrastructure(s) of the author, making it public through two workshops as well as setting up affect-mediation prototypes. By empowering local (XR) activist groups to explore and generate disruptive ideas based on my proposal, the research question emerged: How can local activist (Extinction Rebellion) groups be empowered to create affect-mediations and therefore affecting bodily experiences with the CEE through executing digitally induced disruptions to support their local demands? While conceptualizing a platform for XR as the Design Project – incorporating and digitally translating the workshop as well as other elements – the concept aims to host a collective pool of digitally induced disruption actions and approaches.

Bakgrund: Globalt lever 55 miljoner människor med en demensdiagnos. När en familjemedlem drabbas av demenssjukdom påverkas de närstående. Sjuksköterskan måste vara medveten om att båda parters hälsa och välmående samverkar med och påverkas av varandra. Syfte: Att beskriva närståendes upplevelser av att vara närstående till en person med demenssjukdom i ordinärt boende. Metod: Kvalitativ litteraturöversikt med induktiv ansats som grundas på 14 vetenskapliga artiklar. Analysen genomfördes med Fribergs femstegsanalys. Resultat: Efter analys framkom tre teman: "Upplevelsen av en förändrad livssituation”, ”Känslomässiga upplevelser” och ”Upplevelsen av ansvarsfördelning”. Resultatet visar att det var en lång och energikrävande väg till demensdiagnosen och att rollen som närståendevårdare väckte många känslor. Ansvarsfördelningen upplevdes inte som jämlik varken inom familjen eller relaterat till stöd och stödinsatser från hälso- och sjukvården. Slutsats: Det framgår att personal inom hälso- och sjukvården behöver få ökade kunskaper om demenssjukdom för att kunna informera och utbilda närstående och således kunna stärka deras empowerment. Resultatet kan öka hälso- och sjukvårdens förståelse för att vårdpersonal har bristande kunskap om demenssjukdom och att det påverkar hela vårdkedjan. / Background: Globally, 55 million people are living with a dementia diagnosis. When a family member suffers from dementia, the close relatives are affected. Nurses must be aware that the health and well-being of both parties interact with and are influenced by eachother. Aim: To describe close relatives’ experiences of being a close relative to a person with dementia in ordinary accommodation. Method: Qualitative literature review with an inductive approach based on 14 scientific articles. The analysis was made with Friberg’s five-step-analysis. Results: After analysis, three themes emerged: “The experience of changed life cirumstances”, “Emotional experiences” and “The experience of responsibility distribution”. Results show that the road to diagnosis was long and energy-consuming and that the role of an informal caregiver evoked many emotions. Responsibility distribution was not perceived as equal, either within the family or in relation to support from healthcare services. Conclusion: Healthcare professionals need increased knowledge of dementia to be able to inform and educate close relatives and thus strengthen their empowerment. The results can increase the healthcare system's understanding that healthcare professionals lack knowledge about dementia which affects the entire care trajectory.

Bakgrund: Våld mot kvinnor i nära relationer orsakar stora samhällskostnader, samt skador hos offren vilket leder till behov av akutsjukvård. Därav krävs rätt beredskap hos de sjuksköterskor som arbetar på akutmottagningar. Syfte: Beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser och erfarenheter av att på akutmottagningar bemöta kvinnor som misstänks vara utsatta för våld i nära relationer. Metod: Studien bestod av en kvalitativ metod med ett urval på sexton sjuksköterskor som arbetade på akutmottagningar i Västra Götaland och som haft kontakt med en kvinna där misstanke om våld i nära relationer funnits. Vid insamlingsmetoden besvarade informanterna nio frågor i ett digitalt frågeformulär som analyserades genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Fyra huvudkategorier identifierades: misstanke att allt inte står rätt till, viktigt att skapa trygghet, hinder för skapandet av en trygg miljö och förekomst av rutiner. Resultatet pekade på avvikande beteende hos de våldsutsatta kvinnorna och anhöriga, samt förekomsten av suicidförsök eller intoxikationer orsakade av en rädsla för närstående. Behov av kontinuitet i vården, skapandet av tillit, användning av utbildade tolkar, utbildning och mer personal uttrycktes. Konklusion: Resultatet tyder på ett behov av gemensamma rutiner, mer utbildning, mer personal och tid till samtal. Det är även viktigt att alltid ställa frågor om våld i nära relationer. / Background: Violence against women in close relationships causes high societal costs and injuries, leading to the victims needing emergency care. Therefore, the nurses who work at the Emergency department require proper preparedness.  Purpose: Describing nurses’ experiences of encountering violence against women in close relationships at the Emergency department. Method: The study consisted of a qualitative method with a selection of sixteen nurses who worked at Emergency departments in Västra Götaland and who had contact with women with a suspicion of violence in close relationships. During the collection, the informants answered nine questions in a digital questionnaire analyzed with qualitative content analysis.  Results: Four main categories were identified: the suspicion that not everything is as it should be, the importance of creating security, barriers to creating a safe environment and prevalence of routine. The result pointed at deviating behaviors, the occurrence of suicidal attempts or intoxication caused by fear of a relative. A need for care continuity, creating trust, using educated interpreters and educated healthcare staff was presented.  Conclusion: There is a need for a standard routine, educated staff and time for conversation. Also, it is essential to ask about violence in close relationships.

Title: Effects of isokinetic strength and postural muscles on dynamic strength, velocity and angular velocity of a front kick with and no carried load. Objectives: The aim of the work was to find the effect of the isokinetic strength of hip and knee flexors and extensors of the lower limb performing a front kick, hip rotators during concentric and eccentric contraction of the standing lower limb and the postural muscles on dynamic forces, velocity and angular velocity of a front kick with and no carried load. Methods: This correlation study was conducted on 16 male participants (age: 22 ± 1,5 years⁏ weight: 79 ± 6,6 kg⁏ height: 182 ± 6,1 cm) studying military physical education at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports of Charles University in Prague. Participants performed 5 consecutive front kicks with or without additional load (0 kg, 5 kg, 15 kg, 30 kg, 45 kg). The dynamic strength of the kicks was measured using a Kistler force plate. The velocity and angular velocity of the kicks were measured using a motion capture system (Qualisys). The isokinetic strength of hip and knee flexors and extensors and hip internal and external rotators were measured using a Humac Norm isokinetic dynamometer (CSMI). Postural muscles strength was assessed using 5 different stability tests. The correlation...

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Density functional theory calculations were performed to study the dissociative chemisorption of methane over Pt(111) with the idea of finding the minimum energy path for the reaction and its dependence on surface coverage. Two approaches were used to evaluate this problem; first, we used different sizes of supercells (2x2, 3x3, 4x4) in order to decrease surface coverage in the absence of pre-adsorbed H and CH3 fragments to calculate the energy barriers of dissociation. The second approach uses a 4x4 unit cell and surface coverage is simulated by adding pre-absorbed H and CH3 fragments. Results for both approaches show that in general the height of the dissociation barriers increases as the surface coverage increases, although, the first approach yields slightly lower barriers due to the fact that all repeatable images of the incident molecule are approaching the surface simultaneously. Using the reaction path formulation we were able to compute the potential energy surface for CH4 dissociation. Our results suggest that excitation of the symmetric stretch and bend modes will likely increase the probability for reaction.

This thesis is a close reading of the horror film His House (2020) and has its theoretical base in the works of Sara Ahmed. It focuses on the emotional experience of the film’s lead characters who are South Sudanese asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. The study is set out to chart which emotions the characters feel, which of them are the most overpowering and what does the presence of these emotions imply about the asylum experience. Close reading shows that feelings typically understood as negative are dominant – guilt being particularly present as it is tied to the film’s monster. The thesis argues that the film calls for attention to asylum seekers’ mental health through showing the horrors experienced by the heavily traumatized lead couple. The study also argues that horror fiction is a window to public anxieties, and as such offers a valuable research avenue to ethnic and migration studies as well as social sciences at large.

NFC is a technology that allows close-range communication between mobile devices. Unfortunately, not all modern smartphones have the required API’s or hardware to utilize it. This thesis seeks therefore to develop a viable alternative to NFC for close range communication (less than 10 cm) between mobile smart phones. The goal is to evaluate the feasibility of using a novel scheme that utilizes near ultrasonic frequencies for close range communication for both Android and iOS.An iPhone and an Android device were used to test our proposed scheme. Range test were preformed on a quiet and noisy environment (food court in a shopping mall), and an interference test was done in the quiet environment. The scheme was shown to work in the tested quiet and noisy environment for ranges less than 1 cm. In the noisy environment, significant data loss happened at 5 cm for the tested android device, while data was somewhat reliably received at up to 10 cm in a quiet environment among both tested devices. Our tests also show that concurrently communicating devices spaced at least 110 cm away will not interfere with each other.Our findings show that the proposed scheme could be a viable alternative for close range communication. By employing an error correcting code, tolerance to data loss could be improved. Using a different modulation technique is also advisable in order to improve the data transfer rate.For future work, we suggest testing the near ultrasonic capabilities of a wider array of devices in order to determine the usefulness of the proposed scheme. / NFC är en teknologi som tillåter kommunikation på korta avstånd mellan mobila enheter. Dessvärre finns det enheter som saknar hårdvarustöd för NFC samt att vissa enheter inte har denna funktionalitet tillgänglig för apputvecklare. Denna uppsats försöker därför att utveckla ett gångbart alternativ till NFC som möjliggör kommunikation på korta avstånd mellan mobila enheter. Målet med uppsatsen är att undersöka utförbarheten av utvecklandet av ett schema som använder frekvenser som ligger nära ultraljudsspektrumet för att tillhandahålla kommunikation på korta avstånd för både Android och iOS.En Android och en iPhone enhet användes för att testa schemat. Ett avståndstest utfördes i både en tyst och en bullrig miljö (restaurangtorg i en köpcenter), samt ett inteferenstest som gjordes i en tyst miljö. Vårt utvecklade schema har påvisats fungera i både den tysta och bullriga miljö vi testade i, på avstånd kortare än 1 cm. I den bullriga miljön försämrades överföringsmöjligheterna avsevärt på ett avstånd av 5 cm för den Android enhet vi testade på, medan avstånd på upp till 10 cm var gångbara i den tysta miljön vi testade i. Våra test visade även på att enheter positionerade minst 110 cm bort ifrån varandra kan kommunicera samtidigt utan att störa varandra.Våra resultat visar på att vårt schema skulle kunna fungera för kommunikation på korta avstånd. Användandet av felkorrigerande koder skulle kunna förbättra schemats tolerans mot dataförluster. Användandet av en alternativ moduleringsteknik är också att föreslå för att förbättra överföringshastigheten.För framtida arbeten anser vi att förmågan att producera frekvenser som ligger nära ultraljudsspektrumet bör undersökas hos en större mängd mobila enheter, för att fastställa användbarheten av det föreslagna schemat.

We report on both high-precision photometry from the Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars (MOST) space telescope and ground-based spectroscopy of the triple system δ Ori A, consisting of a binary O9.5II+early-B(Aa1 and Aa2) with P=5.7 days, and a more distant tertiary(O9 IV P 400 years). This data was collected in concert with X-ray spectroscopy from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Thanks to continuous coverage for three weeks, the MOST light curve reveals clear eclipses between Aa1 and Aa2 for the first time in non-phased data. From the spectroscopy, we have a well-constrained radial velocity (RV)curve of Aa1. While we are unable to recover RV variations of the secondary star, we are able to constrain several fundamental parameters of this system and determine an approximate mass of the primary using apsidal motion. We also detected second order modulations at 12 separate frequencies with spacings indicative of tidally influenced oscillations. These spacings have never been seen in a massive binary, making this system one of only a handful of such binaries that show evidence for tidally induced pulsations.

Bakgrund: I Sverige insjuknar cirka 220–250 personer av Amyotrofisk Lateralskleros (ALS) per år. Sjukdomen innebär att nervceller som styr skelettmusklerna förtvinar och slutligen dör vilket leder till svåra symtom. Idag finns inget botemedel utan insatserna riktas till symtomlindring och livslängden är cirka två till tre år. Sjuksköterskor som vårdar personer med ALS upplevde svårigheter att balansera både den sjukes och anhörigas vilja/upplevelser samtidigt.   Syfte: Att beskriva upplevelser om hur det är att vara anhörig till personer som lever med Amyotrofisk lateralskleros (ALS). Metod: En deskriptiv litteraturstudie bestående av 14 vetenskapliga artiklar med kvalitativ ansats som söktes i databasen Medline via PubMed. Huvudresultat: Känslor som maktlöshet och sorg uppstod hos de anhöriga samt en känsla av att vara fängslad till personen med ALS och hemmet. Anhöriga genomgick en livsomställning och hittade olika hanteringsstrategier för att klara av situationen. Förändrade roller i familjen medförde starkare och svagare familjerelationer samtidigt som kärleken blev mer komplex. Anhöriga fick en negativ bild av vården och lyfte bristen på information, istället verkade stödet från det sociala nätverket vara mer betydelsefullt.  Slutsats: Anhöriga till personer med ALS kände sig maktlösa och sorgsna men dem hittade hanteringsstrategier som underlättade vardagen. Anhöriga sökte stöd inom det sociala nätverket då vården ofta var en besvikelse. Dem lyfte ett behov av bättre informationshantering från vården och önskade att den skulle vara familjecentrerad. Denna litteraturstudie kan komma att bidra till ett ökat perspektiv hos anhöriga, personer med ALS och vården. / Background: 220–250 people get diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) every year in Sweden. The disease entails that the nerve cells controlling skeletal muscles degenerate and die creating severe symptoms. Today, there is no cure, so the resources focus on symptom-management, the average lifespan after diagnosis is two to three years. Nurses caring for people with ALS struggled with balancing the will/experience of the person with ALS and the close relatives concurrently.  Aim: Describe experiences of being a close relative to people living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Method: Descriptive literature study based on 14 scientific articles with qualitative approach searched on the database Medline via PubMed. Main results: Emotions such as feeling powerless and grief was identified, they felt imprisoned to the person with ALS and their home. Close relatives went through life-changing events and found coping strategies. Changed family roles created stronger and weaker family relationships and love got complex. Close relatives got a negative picture of the health-system and highlighted the lack of information, instead they valued the support from their social networks. Conclusion: Close relatives to people with ALS felt powerless and grief but found coping strategies that eased their situation. Close relatives soughed support within the social network since the health-system disappointed. They highlighted needs for better information management from the health-system and whished for it to be family-focused. This literature study may create wider perspectives among close relatives, people with ALS and the health-system.