Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Folsom culture'

The focus of this study was to manipulate factors to determine whether mental representation of logical problems differed by culture. The cultural differences hypothesis suggests that Anglo students would be more likely to have a linear representation (e.g., arranging objects that differ in a "line" mentally) whereas Hispanic students would have a nonlinear (pivot) representation. The results indicated that Hispanic children solved questions better if they appeared in a pivotal format, whereas Anglo children performed better if the stimuli were presented in a linear method. With grade level children improved upon the linear format. This suggests that there may be differences in mental representations of objects for Hispanic children that is influenced by acculturation.

In order to be successful in the fight against drugs we must understand how the drug problem continues to evolve in the 21st century. Today, with access to the deep Web portion of the Internet, drug users no longer need to have face-to-face communication with their dealers, and hard cash in their wallets in order to get their fix. Just like buying a book from Amazon, marijuana, cocaine, or heroin can now be delivered securely to your front door by the U.S. Postal Service. Over the last decade there have been no shortages of studies about the deep Web from the health, criminal justice, and computer science disciplines. Additionally, there have been many news stories about the public FBI arrest of the Dread Pirate Roberts and the follow-on U.S. government seizure of his popular deep Web drug market, the Silk Road. Though helpful for general public awareness and to their field of study, these reviews typically limit cultural aspects. This study addresses this issue by exploring how the deep Web drug subculture was affected during the immediate days following the U.S. government seizure of the Silk Road market. The findings express the personal side of what the members of this culture went through and provide critical insights into this emerging form of crime and the communication and trust that shapes the subculture.

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur de ansvariga för jämställdhetsarbetet på Folksam arbetar med jämställdhet. Syftet är även att undersöka vilka normer och kulturer som kan påverka deras jämställdhetsarbete. Detta undersöks genom fyra stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer med två stycken som arbetar internt, med att få just Folksam mer jämställt, och två stycken på Folksam som arbetar externt, med att få andra företag både i Sverige och utomlands att bli mer jämställda. Slutsatsen är att respondenterna på Folksam blir påverkade av normer från till exempel politiken, för att politiken kräver att de ska vara jämställda, men också för att deras kunder vill det. Det är även en lönsamhetsfråga samt en mänsklig rättighet och därför vill de ändra den rådande normen. Detta försöker de göra internt bland annat genom en kompetensbaserad rekrytering, en mångfaldsplan och genom att lita på att alla försöker arbeta med det inom sitt eget företag. Samt genom att försöka påverka andra företag med extern bolagsstyrning. Detta kan också vara svårt att göra enligt genus- och den institutionella teorin, då det finns rådande institutionella normer i samhället som verkar emot. Normerna kan även visa sig i den svenska kulturen som kan förklaras genom Hofstedes kulturdimensionsteori.
The purpose of this study is to examine how those responsible for gender equality at Folksam work with gender equality. It also aims to examine the norms and cultures that can affect their work on gender equality. This is examined by four semi structured interviews with two people who are working internally to get Folksam more equal and with two people that are working externally at Folksam to get other companies, both in Sweden and abroad, to become more equal. The conclusion is that norms from for example politics affect the respondents at Folksam, since the politics requires them to be equal, but also because their customers want it. It is also a profitability question as well as a human right and therefore they want to change the current norm. They are trying to do that internally through, for instance, a competency-based recruitment, a diversity plan and by trusting that everyone is trying to work with it within Folksam. And by trying to influence other corporations through external corporate governance. This may also be difficult to do according to gender- and the new institutionalism theory, because of the existing institutional norms in society that is working against it. Norms can also be shown in the Swedish culture, which can be explained with the Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory.

Den här uppsatsen har för avsikt att undersöka om de informanter som deltagit anser att Afghanistan är jämställt. Uppsatsen har också som syfte att se hur informanternas individuella trosuppfattning påverkar synen på jämställdhet och deras följande av pashtunwali. Samt om informanterna anser att islam eller pashtunwali förespråkar eller förhindrar jämställdhet. Informanterna befinner sig alla i Afghanistan och har svarat på frågor via Google forms i form av postala intervjuer. Metoden som använts i denna uppsats är kvalitativa analyser. För att analysera svaren har jag använt mig av Hirdmans genussystem och Connells teori om maskulinitet.   Resultaten visar tydliga svar på att informanterna inte betraktar Afghanistan som jämställt. Detta visar sig bland annat i att män värderas högre och män erhåller många fler valmöjligheter än kvinnor. Kvinnor begränsas ständigt av regler uppsatta av män. Informanterna anser att islam förespråkar jämställdhet men pashtunwali är ett starkt hinder på vägen mot ett jämställt samhälle.
This paper aims to investigate whether the informants who participated believe that Afghanistan is equal. This paper also intends to see how the informants' individual beliefs affect the view of gender equality and their following of pashtunwali. And if they believe that Islam or Pashtunwali promotes or is an obstacle against equality. The informants are all located in Afghanistan and have answered questions via Google forms in the form of postal interviews. The method used for this paper is qualitative analyzes. To analyze the answers, I have used Hirdman's gender system and Connell's theory of masculinity.       The results show clear reactions that the informants do not consider Afghanistan to be equal. This is shown for instance by the fact that men are valued higher and men are given many more choices than women. Women are constantly limited by rules set by men. The informants believe that Islam advocates for equality, but pashtunwali is a strong obstacle on the road to an equal society.

Although the incidence of breast cancer is almost the same for middle-aged African American and Caucasian women, the rate of patients' following breast cancer screening and following up recommendations differs. African American women are less likely to follow recommendations and have higher mortality rates when compared to Caucasian women. One factor thought to affect compliance with breast cancer screening and follow up is culturally sensitive communication. This purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if the culturally sensitive communication of a medical center influenced compliance with breast cancer screening and follow up and if compliance has an effect on the stage of breast cancer when diagnosed for African American women between the ages of 50 and 74. The research questions were aligned with the theoretical pathways of the Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Healthcare Model. This quantitative cross-sectional study was based on secondary data of African American women aged 50-74 from electronic systems for each Southern California location of a national health maintenance organization between the years 2012-2016. The results of the regression analysis from averages of the scores from the Member Appraisal of Physician/Provider Services questionnaire, determined associations between the cultural sensitivity scores of the African American woman's medical center and their compliance with recommendations for breast cancer screening and follow up after screening. However, no association between the stage of cancer and medical center's cultural sensitivity was found. Results can be used to develop cultural sensitivity interventions at medical centers aimed to enhance African American women's compliance with breast cancer screening and follow-up recommendations.

Child traumatic stress is a pervasive problem that affects the well-being and healthy development of children from all races, ethnicities, and cultures. Major factors known to affect trauma symptoms include type of trauma, level or severity of trauma exposure, and age and gender of children. Utilizing Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model, this study measured the additional influence of children’s race, ethnicity, and cultural factors on symptoms after trauma. A dataset of children in treatment after experiencing trauma (0-21 years, N = 10,115) from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), a federally funded initiative that collected longitudinal data across 56 research and treatment centers in the US, was examined, looking at clinical symptoms at baseline and at three month (or first recorded) follow-up. Predictors for symptoms included number of trauma types, age, gender, race, ethnicity (Latino/non-Latino), and three cultural markers, born outside the United States, English as the primary language not spoken at home, and refugee/immigrant status. Results (hierarchical regressions, logistic regressions) confirmed that age, gender, and number of trauma types predict the scores and clinical level of eight validated outcomes (e.g., CBCL externalizing, internalizing; PTSD measures) as well as the total numbers of functional problems and clinical problems. Results also demonstrated that race, ethnicity, and culture affect symptoms but to a very small extent (i.e., these accounted for little variance) and in varying directions. For example, Black/African American children had lower internalizing scores compared to White/Caucasian children, while being Latino was associated with lower externalizing and higher internalizing scores than non-Latinos. Children with differing cultures sometimes scored better, sometimes worse, than their counterparts. For example, children who spoke English at home and were born in the United States had more functional problems, though fewer clinical problems. At three month (or first recorded) follow up, results demonstrated all children’s scores improving. No differences at three month (or first recorded follow up) were found between our predictors in clinical rates except for children with more types of trauma who continued to show a greater likelihood of falling into the clinical range for externalizing and internalizing. Discussion focuses on the possible protective effects of cultural factors and the importance of an ecological model in understanding trauma symptoms in diverse populations.

Vad är hemligheterna bland världens bästa och mest framgångsrika verksamheter? Vad gör dessa högpresterande företag, organisationer och idrottslag för att skapa framgångsrika kulturer som efterlever den vision, mål och värderingar som utformats? I en förstudie som gjordes till detta examensarbete av studiens författare på det undersökta fallföretag Skanska Sverige AB år 2019, bedömde de intervjuade nyckelpersoner behovet av att ”nå ändå ut” med sina riktlinjer och få sina medarbetare att följa vision, mål och värderingar vara en högst central och betydelsefull kunskap. Denna problematik förekommer inte enbart i det undersökta fallföretaget Skanska, utan forskare såsom Schein (2004) och Wadström (2014) påpekar att det är bland de största utmaningarna och svårigheterna i dagens organisationer.  Syftet med denna studie är att öka kunskapen och förståelsen hur företag kan få sina medarbetare att efterleva företagets vision, mål och värderingar. Examensarbetet ingriper en omfattande litteraturstudie som undersöker vad tidigare forskning visar hur företag kan få sina medarbetare att efterleva företagets vision, mål och värderingar. Från litteraturstudien utvecklas en analysmodell vilket används som teoretisk referensram till den kvalitativa intervjustudie som görs på 18 stycken medarbetare på Skanska Väg och Anläggning Norr Umeå. Den kvalitativa intervjustudien görs semistrukturerad i syfte att fånga åsikter och erfarenheter från respondenternas eget perspektiv. Resultatet från intervjustudien jämförs sedan och analyseras med stöd av litteraturen från tidigare forskning.   Studiens resultat visar att både tidigare forskning och medarbetarnas perspektiv från intervjustudien åskådliggör att företag kan skapa gynnsammare förutsättningar för sina medarbetare att efterleva företagets vision, mål och värderingar genom att medarbetarna får uppleva ansvar och en delaktighet i sin arbetsroll. Även ledarnas fysiska och psykiska närvaro visar sig i tidigare forskning och i intervjurespondenternas perspektiv vara väsentligt i företags strävande att få sina medarbetare att efterleva företagets vision, mål och värderingar, detta eftersom ledarna är en förebild och symbol för de agerande och beteenden som gäller i företaget. Tidigare forskning och studiens intervjuresultat visar likaså att ett företag som verkligen har ambitionen att ens medarbetare ska leva efter sina löften måste bryta ned vision, mål och värderingar till något konkret, vad människor ska göra, det vill säga beteenden, och dessa måste kontinuerligt följas upp. En nyckel för att få sina medarbetare att efterleva företagets vision, mål och värderingar visar studiens litteratur vara i ökningen av antalet kvalitativa uppföljningsmöten, återkopplingsmöten och erfarenhetsåterföringsmöten gentemot planeringsmöten. Vid sidan om en väl genomarbetad strategi gäller det att titta på det faktiska resultatet, ta reda på vad som kan göras bättre och utifrån detta korrigera och ta fram ett idealläge som gör den påtagliga skillnaden. Följaktligen, hade det varit intressant att se framtida forskning studera hur implementering och effektivisering av uppföljning och erfarenhetsåterföring kan genomföras i en organisation.
What are the secrets among the world’s best and most successful businesses? What do these high-performing companies, organisations and sports teams do to create successful cultures that live up to the vision, goals and values ​​that have been designed? In a pilot study carried out for this thesis by the study’s author at the investigated case company Skanska Sverige AB in 2019, key interviewees assessed the need to “reach out” with their guidelines and get their employees to follow vision, goals and values to be a highly central and significant knowledge. This problem does not only occur in the researched case company Skanska, but researchers such as Schein (2004) and Wadström (2014) point out that it is among the biggest challenges and difficulties in today’s organisations.  The purpose of this study is to increase knowledge and understanding of how companies can make their employees live up to the company’s vision, goals and values. The Master thesis involves an extensive literature study that examines what previous research shows how companies can make their employees live up to the company’s vision, goals and values. From the literature study, an analysis model is developed, which is used as a theoretical frame of reference for the qualitative interview study conducted on 18 employees at Skanska Väg och Anläggning Norr Umeå. The qualitative interview study is semi-structured in order to capture opinions and experiences from the respondents’ own perspective. The results from the interview study are then compared and analysed with support of the literature from previous research.  The results of the study show that both previous research and the employees’ perspective from the interview study illustrates that companies can create more favourable conditions for their employees to live up to the company’s vision, goals and values by allowing employees to experience responsibility and participation in their work role. The leaders’ physical and mental presence also proves in previous research and in the interview respondents’ perspective to be essential in companies’ efforts to get their employees to live up to the company’s vision, goals and values, as the leaders are a role model and symbol for the actions and behaviours in the company. Previous research and the study’s interview results also show that a company that really has ambitions to live up to its promises must break down vision, goals and values ​​into something concrete, what people should do, namely behaviours, and these must be continuously followed up. A key to getting their employees to live up to the company’s vision, goals and values is shown by the literature study to be in the increase in the numbers of qualitative follow-up meetings, feedback meetings and experience feedback meetings in relation to planning meetings. In addition to a well-developed strategy, it is important to look at the actual result, find out what can be done better and based on this, correct and develop an ideal situation that makes the tangible difference. Consequently, it would have been interesting to see future research study how implementation and streamlining of follow-up and experience feedback can be carried out in an organisation.

Background and problems: ​In a market with increased competitiveness, it's important for companies to achieve superior performance. Thus by being quick at meeting new market conditions and customer needs. To achieve superiority, kaizen is a suitable tool to use. The kaizen-philosophy comprises to constantly make improvements in everyday work and require commitment from all parties in a company. Some improvements work advantageously occasionally while others give good and long lasting effects. It may be difficult for organizations to maintain the results of kaizen improvements and the effects may diminish some time after implementation. Generally for companies that work according to the philosophy is that some improvements are implemented without adequate guidance and resources. This results in frustration since the improvements do not remain successful. Whether a kaizen-improvement implementation is successful has many influencing factors. In order to investigate this problem, Scania has been studied in regard of the company's good experience in applying the kaizen-philosophy. Previous research and literature have been investigated in order to support and analyze the topic. Thus, this study's research question is "What factors affect success and survival in implementation of a kaizen-improvement?". 5 Purpose:​ The purpose with this case study is to create a profound understanding of underlying factors which are critical for implementing kaizen-improvements and its further survival. Thus to understand what characterizes an successful implementation of kaizen-improvements. By successful kaizen improvement is meant an improvement that is standardized and becomes a beneficial part of the company. Method: ​This thesis is based on a qualitative research strategy. The research design is a single case study with semi-structured interviews as a method for the empirical material that has been collected. Conclusion: ​In the implementation process ten successfactors were identified in three different areas where Scania experienced difficulties with kaizen. In the first area, difficulties were due to cheating in the preparation stage. Here, the following successfactors were identified: An accurate and favourable current situation analysis, communication of the current situation and a good competence assessment. The second area was due to difficulties in implementing new working methods. Here, the following successfactors were identified: Communication of goals, employee training and favourable follow-up. The last area was due to difficulties in motivation employees. Here, the following successfactors were identified: Commitment and participation, responsibility, avoiding guilt and good leadership.

A comercialização de produtos florestais não madeireiros (PFNMs) popularizou-se como atividade promotora do desenvolvimento socioeconômico de comunidades florestais com baixo impacto ambiental. Há evidências, contudo, de que a exploração possa produzir efeitos ecológicos e socioeconômicos negativos, sugerindo que é necessário monitorar tais iniciativas. A comercialização frequentemente ocorre em áreas remotas e em contextos de pobreza, como é o caso de muitas daquelas da Amazônia brasileira. Desta forma, é necessário que o monitoramento restrinja-se a avaliar os efeitos evidenciados como mais comuns em estudos anteriores. Este estudo revisa e sintetiza as evidências científicas dos efeitos da exploração de PFNMs sobre parâmetros ecológicos e socioeconômicos e, a partir daí, indica aqueles mais relevantes ao monitoramento. O estudo também levanta até que ponto o monitoramento é implementado no contexto da Amazônia brasileira e avalia quais os parâmetros importantes e viáveis de monitoramento neste caso específico. Para isso, foram realizadas revisões sistemáticas da literatura e a consulta a profissionais da área através do método Delphi. Os resultados indicam que efeitos ecológicos negativos são frequentes, principalmente quando se coletam folhas ou cascas. Alterações em órgãos ou processos fisiológicos e a taxa de sobrevivência dos espécimes explorados são parâmetros que devem ser monitorados, em particular quando se coletam frutos e partes vegetativas. Para todos os tipos de PFNMs, o tamanho e a estrutura populacional são parâmetros prioritários ao monitoramento. A riqueza de espécies da comunidade explorada merece atenção, principalmente quando se coletam frutos. Para os aspectos socioeconômicos, efeitos positivos foram mais frequentes que negativos. A contribuição da renda monetária obtida com o comércio na renda total, a regularidade de ingresso desta renda e o papel dos PFNMs como recursos de salvaguarda são parâmetros do capital financeiro prioritários ao monitoramento. Para o capital social, o empoderamento feminino, a coesão de grupo e o acesso aos benefícios gerados pela comercialização devem ser monitorados. Na Amazônia brasileira são poucas as iniciativas de implementação do monitoramento da comercialização de PFNMs. Embora este seja considerado importante, existem dificuldades que derivam principalmente da falta de apoio institucional, políticas de incentivo e de recursos financeiros. Os profissionais participantes do Delphi consideram que os parâmetros ecológicos mais importantes a monitorar neste contexto são o tamanho e a estrutura populacional do recurso explorado, o aumento da taxa de mortalidade, a quantidade total de recurso extraída e a técnica de coleta utilizada. Para os parâmetros econômicos, aspectos do mercado, como o preço pago ao coletor, a demanda e a qualidade do produto, bem como a renda monetária obtida pelos indivíduos são os parâmetros considerados mais importantes. Por fim, para os aspectos sociais, os efeitos na cultura, na qualidade de vida e na organização interna da comunidade foram priorizados. Os profissionais indicam que é viável estabelecer o monitoramento dos parâmetros levantados.
Amazon, non-timber forest products, ecological effects, socioeconomic effects, monitoring.

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嘉南藥理科技大學
環境工程與科學系暨研究所
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