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There is political interest in Sweden’s proximity to Norway, which is reflected in the regional policy focusing on developing business needs. As such, proximity at the regional level is simply expected to generate economic growth. The authors propose a holistic approach to spatial planning in a Swedish–Norwegian border region in place of the simplistic economic perspective. The aim of the article is to highlight the importance of adopting a bottom-up cross-border planning perspective that is based on the perceptions of the border region residents by showing that the proximity of Norway is important to communities in Värmland Province, on the border with Norway, in a different way from how regional authorities and policymakers perceive it. The authors used a qualitative method in their study. They found that residents were more interested in the individual, social, and cultural opportunities of the border, while authorities stressed traditional growth strategies. In conclusion, the authors recommend that policymakers should implement a bottom-up cross-border planning strategy (CBPS) in Värmland that includes the residents’ perspective, as a reinforcement of place-based policy approaches. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Time, or rather lack of time, is currently an issue to many involved in social work, in Sweden and elsewhere. Stress at work is presently one of the most common reasons social workers state for lea...

The purpose of this article is to study emotion management by focusing on emotion labour in relation to organisational resistance in psychiatry. Drawing on focus group interviews and individual interviews with 11 therapists in psychiatry, and on theories of emotion management and harbouring work (i.e. managing emotion work and renewing energy in a team), we argue that individual workers in psychiatry have to create strategies on their own. The main findings show that emotions are harboured alone and resistance strategies created in solitude can be characterised as everyday resistance and organisational misbehaviour, performed in deep backstage spaces such as the bathroom.

Heat transfer coefficients around a model food shaped as a circular cylinder placed on a flat surface and impinged by a slot air jet has been determined using an inverse heat transfer method. The determination was based on time-temperature data measured with a thermocouple in the cylinder and in the air jet. The cylinder was rotated around its horizontal axis to determine the heat-transfer coefficients at different locations around the cylinder. A sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo simulations was also performed. The local heat-transfer coefficients determined, were compared to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using the k-ω SST and RSM models. The heat-transfer coefficients determined from temperature measurements was larger than predicted by the CFD simulations. The heat-transfer rates were in better agreement on the upper part of the cylinder, including the decrease along the cylinder due to flow separation, than on the lower part close to the wake recirculation area. The SST model pre...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the present conditions for officers who work on high-speed bridges, where manoeuvring and navigation are supported by highly sophisticated technical systems...

To investigate the role of Swedish dogs as potential reservoirs of thermophilic Campylobacter species, faecal samples were analysed from 91 dogs in 2001. The majority of dogs (n = 84) were healthy family dogs. Campylobacter spp. were isolated from 51 of the 91 dogs (56%). A significant difference in isolation rates was observed between younger and older dogs: 76% of the younger dogs (5-12 months) were positive, compared with 39% of dogsor = 13 months (p0.01). Two different selective media, Preston and CAT, were used for isolation of Campylobacter species. 104 Campylobacter isolates were identified to species level using polymerase chain reaction and restriction enzyme analysis techniques. Campylobacter upsaliensis predominated and was isolated from 39 dogs, C. jejuni from 10, C. coli from 2, C. helveticus from 2 and C. lari from 1 dog. Four dogs had mixed flora with 2 different Campylobacter species. These data clearly show that younger dogs in particular frequently shed thermophilic Campylobacter spp, which could be of impact for public health. To establish the zoonotic potential of canine Campylobacter isolates, both human and canine isolates have to be further characterized and compared.

Different professions adopt their own language such that the semantics involve elements very specific to their domain. System developers approaching users in a new domain often experience initial d ...

Bicrystals of ZnO with large interfacial areas and controlled misorientations have been prepared by the solid-phase intergrowth method. The structure of three [0001] tilt boundaries with misorientations of less than 1°, 17·8 ± 0·1° and 31·5 ± 0·1° have been studied by high-resolution electron microscopy. The low-angle boundary comprised well separated crystal dislocations and the atomic structure of the large-angle boundaries could be described in terms of sequences of [0001] tunnels coordinated fivefold, sixfold and sevenfold by atomic columns. The 17·8° asymmetric (8 17 9 0) boundary (Σ = 31) was planar, exhibiting a relatively long-period repeating structure and was occasionally interrupted by interfacial dislocations. The Burgers vector and step character of these defects were investigated using circuit mapping and found to be consistent with topological theory. The 31.5° interface was found to be extensively facetted into (2 7 5 0) and (1 3 4 0) symmetric tilt boundaries. Mirror symmetry in ...