<p>Tidigare forskning har visat att mindfulness kan höja livskvaliteten inom en rad områden som till exempel välbefinnande, inre motivation och prestation. Dock saknas studier om dess inverkan på arbetslivet. Syftet med den här uppsatsen var att undersöka vilken roll mindfulness eventuellt kan spela för människan i arbetslivet, särskilt för arbetstillfredsställelse och arbetsmotivation.  Respondenter var 103 yrkesverksamma individer i olika åldrar och från olika yrkesgrupper, varav 78 kvinnor. En kvantitativ enkätstudie gjordes där respondenterna självskattade 81 påståenden bestående av de tre etablerade mätinstrumenten Five Facet Mindfulness Questionairre (FFMQ), Work Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Scale (WEIMS) och An Index of Job Satisfaction. Resultatet visade att mindfulness hade en liten betydelse för arbetsstillfredställelse och inre arbetsmotivation. Därav slutsatsen att mindfulness inverkan på arbetslivet förmodligen inte är lika stor som förväntat, men det bör göras fler studier av olika karaktär innan mindfulness kan borträknas som ett verktyg för arbetslivet, förslagsvis longitudinella experimentstudier innehållande mindfulnessträning.</p>

<p>This essay is about personal assistance for persons with considerable intellectual disabilities.</p><p>The purpose with the study is: to examine personal assistance for individuals, who can`t speak</p><p>for themselves, to examine how the individuals can determine and get influence into their</p><p>assistance and how they can get help with it, to examine the role of an representative in</p><p>relation to the serviceuser´s assistance and examine if there are factors of gender in the</p><p>interviews.</p><p>The chosen method is qualitative interviews.</p><p>The interviews has been analysed through earlier research about personal assistance and</p><p>theoretical perspectives like: influence, integration and citizenship and discussed through</p><p>perspectives of social psychology.</p><p>The main conclusions are: the influence the serviceusers can have is through persons who</p><p>know them very well, the role of the representatives are indistinct, the serviceusers can´t</p><p>determine their assistance themselves and need help with it from relatives, representatives,</p><p>personal assistants and managers, the persons who know the serviceuser intimately are best to</p><p>transform the needs to assistance. The factors of gender, are that there are more men as</p><p>personal assistants than in the care of elderly, and the representatives are mostly men. The</p><p>personal assistants appreciates the time they have for the serviceuser, the work can be lonely</p><p>and demanding.</p>

<p>This essay is about personal assistance for persons with considerable intellectual disabilities.</p><p>The purpose with the study is: to examine personal assistance for individuals, who can`t speak</p><p>for themselves, to examine how the individuals can determine and get influence into their</p><p>assistance and how they can get help with it, to examine the role of an representative in</p><p>relation to the serviceuser´s assistance and examine if there are factors of gender in the</p><p>interviews.</p><p>The chosen method is qualitative interviews.</p><p>The interviews has been analysed through earlier research about personal assistance and</p><p>theoretical perspectives like: influence, integration and citizenship and discussed through</p><p>perspectives of social psychology.</p><p>The main conclusions are: the influence the serviceusers can have is through persons who</p><p>know them very well, the role of the representatives are indistinct, the serviceusers can´t</p><p>determine their assistance themselves and need help with it from relatives, representatives,</p><p>personal assistants and managers, the persons who know the serviceuser intimately are best to</p><p>transform the needs to assistance. The factors of gender, are that there are more men as</p><p>personal assistants than in the care of elderly, and the representatives are mostly men. The</p><p>personal assistants appreciates the time they have for the serviceuser, the work can be lonely</p><p>and demanding.</p>

<p>Syftet med studien var att undersöka sambanden mellan människors motivation till motion, hur de psykologiska behoven kan tillfredsställas samt hur målsättningar och självbestämmande motivationsprofil påverkar motionsbeteenden. Undersökningsdeltagarna i studien var 1100 motionärer (m = 45 år) som var medlemmar i en viktminskningsorganisation. Insamlingen av data skedde i form av en webbaserad enkätundersökning med mätinstrumenten Godin Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire, The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2, The Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale och Goal Content for Exercise Questionnaire. Resultatet visade i stort att en inre reglerad motivationsprofil samt inre målsättningar har ett positivt samband med tillfredsställelse av både de psykologiska behoven och ansträngande träningssnivå. Vidare visade resultatet att inre målsättningar har ett positivt samband med en självbestämmande motivationsprofil. Uppbyggnad av en inre motivationsprofil med inre målsättningar kan leda till ökat motionsbeteende och välbefinnande. Kunskaper om detta kan leda till förbättrad hälsa på både individ- och gruppnivå och därmed påverka den globala folkhälsan.</p> / <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between motivation for exercise, satisfaction of psychological needs and how goal-setting plus a self-determinated motivation profile affect the exercise behavior. The participants were 1100 members (M = 45 years) of a weight-loss organization. Collection of the data was made through a web based questionnaire that included the instruments Godin Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire, The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2, The Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale and Goal Content for Exercise Questionnaire. The results showed that an identified and intrinsic regulated motivation profile along with internal goal-setting had a positive correlation with satisfaction of both the psychological needs and strenuous exercise behavior. Moreover the results showed that internal goals had a positive correlation with a self-determinated motivation profile. Development of an internal motivation profile with internal goal-setting can result in improved exercise behavior and well-being. Knowledge of these findings can improve the global health both on individual and group level.</p> / I samarbete med en viktminskningsorganisation

<p><p>Forskning har tydligt visat att elevers motivation att lära har stor betydelse för elevers engagemang, prestation och välmående. I denna studie görs därför ett försök att lyfta fram lärares kunskaper och erfarenheter kring motivationsarbete genom intervjuer med fyra gymnasielärare i ämnet samhällskunskap. <em>Syftet</em> med studien är att utifrån ett lärarperspektiv, undersöka hur samhällskunskapslärare kan utforma sin undervisning med målet att skapa motivation att lära hos elever.</p><p>Vid bearbetningen av intervjumaterialet, identifierades fyra motivationsstrategier, vilka samtliga lärare framhöll som särskilt betydelsefulla. Dessa var att skapa goda lärar-elevrelationer, skapa meningsfullhet, skapa sammanhang samt att finna beröringspunkter till elevernas egna liv. Genom applicering av motivationsteorin Self-determination Theory, blev det även möjligt att öka förståelsen för de bakomliggande processer som av olika anledningar kan göra att dessa strategier fungerar motiverande på eleverna. Utifrån det teoretiska ramverket har strategiernas funktion och värde främst att göra med hur dessa relaterar och tar hänsyn till människans grundläggande behov av autonomi (självstyrning), kompetens och tillhörighet.</p></p>

<p><strong>Purpose</strong> – The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, to identify and design a theoretical model of different factors that are important when evaluating fast changing industry environment. Second, to conduct interviews designed after the model and determine what factors are important within the company’s specific industry.</p><p><strong>Design/methodology/approach</strong> – A range of published research literature on Industry environment such as clusters, innovation and hyper competition has been used in this thesis. Our main approach has been to follow Porter’s Five Forces Model and applying it on the modern IT-industry.</p><p><strong>Findings</strong> – This research identified three additional forces for evaluating industry environment, namely Innovation, Complementary product & Cooperation and Customer Readiness.</p><p><strong>Limitations</strong> – The research was limited to northeastern Öresundsregionen, Sweden. The interview questions where limited to pre-designed factors. </p><p><strong>Originality/value</strong> – The findings of this research provide the companies and researchers with a context for understanding this specific type of industry environment. It will also provide companies with a set of tools and best practices to apply when evaluating their own environment.</p>

Although there is a vast body of literature on family resilience, very little represents research from an explicitly Indigenous paradigm. This research process included an Indigenous research path and a case study informed by Indigenous worldview. The data collected in both informed the findings presented here and contributed to the creation of the final model for building resilience in Indigenous families. The results demonstrate how self-determination in research, service delivery, organizational leadership, spiritual connection and individual, every-day practice can be a powerful expression of freedom, liberty and humanity. The case study maps how the self-determination of an Aboriginal organization, resulted in the creation of a program that assists violent Aboriginal men reconcile their traumatic histories, reconnect to an interconnected worldview and repatriate their responsibilities as men within a strong, healthy Aboriginal society.

Many sediments, including the fine-grained pelagic deposits, possess polymodal grain size distributions. Resolution of individual modes show them to be related either to compositional fractions or to depositional processes or both, and sometimes permits the tracing of dispersal patterns. The Cahn sedimentation balance provides a means of obtaining continuous cumulative size distribution curves of fine-grained sediments. The resultant cumulative curve is processed by computer to yield a size frequency curve which is often found to be polymodal. This frequency curve is resolved into its individual components by means of an analog computer. The method is discussed in detail and illustrated by means of a test study of pelagic sediments from the Northwest Pacific. Samples collected nearest land have the most components and the best sorted components. Fifteen modes were decanted from five samples and X-rayed. Similar components from different samples were found to have similar compositions when plotted on a feldspar-kaolinite-mica ternary diagram. Based on like composition and nearly identical mean size values, it is possible to trace the sedimentary components from sample to sample. / Graduation date: 1972

The remodeling of the central nervous system (CNS) during metamorphosis in Drosophila melanogaster is a prime model system in which to study the genetic control of the sexual dimorphisms in the abdominal ganglion of the CNS. I have been using a P[tau-lacZ] enhancer trap line, 4.078, to label a segmentally repeated subset of abdominal motorneurons in order to assess the function of the sex determination hierarchy in controlling sex-specific development of the adult nervous system. In both the male and female larva there are 8 sets of these labeled abdominal motorneurons but only six sets in males and five sets in females survive in the adult. When this P[tau-lacZ] reporter construct is placed into a doublesex (dsx) mutant background, all 8 sets of these labeled abdominal motorneurons survive in both male and female adults. These results strongly suggest that dsx plays a role in the sex-specific survival of larval neurons that have functions in the adult. During the construction of mutant strains containing the sex determining genes transformer (tra) and transformer-2 (tra2), a genetic interactor was discovered in the P[tau-lacZ] 4.078 line. Female flies heterozygous for either tra or tra-2 alleles and the P[tau-lacZ] 4.078 developed with masculinized external and internal sex-specific structures. The external sex-specific structures, such as the genitalia, and ventral muscles are dependent on dsx gene function and a dorsal sex-specific muscle is dependent on fruitless (fru) gene function. From standard genetic crosses, I have characterized and demonstrated that the genetic interaction is linked to the P-element insertion site, which maps to the 85-87 region on the right arm of the third chromosome. By genetic analysis, this new genetic interactor appears to interfere with the tra and tra2 regulated female specific functions of both dsx and fru, potentially by reducing the female-specific splicing of the primary transcripts of the genes dsx and fru. To test the possibility that this newly described genetic interactor was allelic to a known gene, B52, that maps to the same region of the chromosome and alters dsx splicing, complementation tests were conducted which showed that the P[tau-lacZ] is not allelic B52. Additional phenotypes were observed in the crosses that first detected the interaction, suggesting that this newly described locus may affect other gene functions as well. Among the phenotypes observed were XX intersexes, male-female gynandromorphs (XX//XO mosaics), and non-disjunction events evident as XO males and XXY females. This new locus may represent a new member of the family of genes that influence regulated splicing events. / Graduation date: 1999

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-186).