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Experiential Learning of Chemistry Concepts Using Virtual Reality Technology
2016
Master's thesis Multimedia and Educational Technology MM500 - University of Agder 2016 Chemistry is a wide subject with many theoretical concepts. These theoretical concepts may be hard to grasp without experimental work. In a school class there are often students who are visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners who need appropriate tools for triggering engagement and active learning. This research discusses how adding student activities and experiments using a Virtual Reality (VR) based solution, can contribute to an enhanced learning experience for students during chemistry class. In order to produce a usable interactive VR based solution, this work followed the Human Centered Design pro…
Intern kommunikasjon i Glencore Nikkelverk
2016
Masteroppgave samfunnskommunikasjon- Universitetet i Agder, 2016 Denne masteroppgaven omhandler intern kommunikasjon i Glencore Nikkelverk i Kristiansand. Fokuset er rettet mot interne kommunikasjonsmedier og mediebruk i avdelingene Nikkelelektrolysen og Kontrollrommet. Undersøkelsen omfatter i tillegg ansattes erfaringer med interne kommunikasjonsmedier og ansattes meninger om informasjon som gjelder sikkerhet og forbedringsarbeid. Nikkelverket jobber kontinuerlig med forbedringer som øker produktiviteten, samtidig er sikkerhet det viktigste bedriften fokuserer på hver dag. Bedriften benytter rundt 10 ulike medier for å formidle denne informasjonen til sine ansatte. Disse mediene brukes i …
Employee Types and Endogenous Organizational Design
2008
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization' (2011). Volume 80, issue 3, pages 553-573. When managers are sufficiently guided by social preferences, incentive provision through an organizational mode based on informal implicit contracts may provide a cost-effective alternative to a more formal mode based on explicit contracts and monitoring. This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to test whether organizations make full effective use of the available preference types within their work force when drafting their organizational design. Our main finding is that they do not do so; although the importance of social …
PARTICULARITIES OF THE HUMAN RESOURCE MOTIVATION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
2010
The notion of public administration bears several acceptations, an activity one, of functional meaning and an organisational one. In both ways, public administration is indissolubly connected to the state. In default of the state, there is no public administration, as this is a state activity, performed by government bodies. This affirmation is confirmed by the stipulations of the Romanian Constitution, called public Authorities, chapter V, titled Public Administration. The first section intended for the specialised central public administration (ministry, other central bodies), and a second section is dedicated to the local public administration (county councils, local councils, mayors). T…
Kampen om kommunikasjonsprofesjonen : en analyse av den ’sørlandske’ kommunikasjonsbransjen, basert på et kartleggende studie og intervjuer med sentr…
2016
Masteroppgave samfunnskommunikasjon- Universitetet i Agder, 2016 Målsettingen ved denne oppgaven er å undersøke hvilke hovedlinjer preger utviklingen og profesjonaliseringen av kommunikasjonsbransjen på Sørlandet de siste ti årene? Med dette studiet ønsker jeg å tilføre kunnskap på et felt hvor det eksisterer lite norsk forskning. Teoretisk sett tar oppgaven utgangspunkt i tre vanlige profesjonskrav: felles teoretisk kunnskapsbase, felles yrkesetikk og sertifisering, men vektlegger førstnevnte spesielt. Diskusjonene dreier seg i stor grad om hvorvidt kommunikasjonsyrket kan defineres som en profesjon utfra disse kravene, samt bransjens vekst de senere årene. Metodisk er dette studiet gjenno…
DinosARs - Learning with the help of augmented reality
2019
Master's thesis Multimedia and Educational Technology MM500 - University of Agder 2019 A two-dimensional way of interacting with learning material has been the norm fora long time. We’ve read books, taken notes and been taught from a blackboard sinceyouth, and has for most of us worked out just fine, but we are all different. We havethose visual learners, those who learn through seeing things, auditory learners, thosewho learn best through hearing and kinesthetic learners, those who learn by doing.Augmented reality can provide many unique affordances that can deliver a learningexperience that can benefit all learning types. Augmented reality can utilize both vi-suals, sound, and interactivi…
Prevalence of Catatonia and Its Moderators in Clinical Samples: Results from a Meta-analysis and Meta-regression Analysis
2017
Catatonia is an independent syndrome that co-occurs with several mental and medical conditions. We performed a systematic literature review in PubMed/Scopus until February 2017 and meta-analyzed studies reporting catatonia prevalence. Across 74 studies (cross-sectional = 32, longitudinal = 26, retrospective = 16) providing data collected from 1935 to 2017 across all continents, mean catatonia prevalence was 9.0% (k = 80, n = 110 764; 95% CI = 6.9-11.7, I2 = 98%, publication bias P < .01), decreasing to 7.8% (k = 19, n = 7612, 95% CI = 7-8.7, I2 = 38.9%) in a subgroup with low heterogeneity. Catatonia prevalence was 23.9% (k = 8, n = 1168, 95% CI = 10-46.9, I2 = 96%) in patients undergoin…
Chapter 21 Modulation of acetylcholine release by nitric oxide
1996
Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the studies in which the effects of endogenous and exogenous nitric oxide (NO) on the release of acetylcholine were investigated. As tools for the involvement of endogenous NO, the effects of NO synthase inhibitors on release of acetylcholine were studied. The cholinergic neurons are tonically stimulated by endogenous NO. On the other hand, NO synthase inhibitors fail to change either basal or electrically evoked acetylcholine release from slices of rat hippocampus and striatum. Endogenous and exogenous NO increase basal acetylcholine release from central and peripheral cholinergic neurons. The effect is tetrodotoxin sensitive and calcium-dependent, th…
Functional relevance of presynaptic muscarinic autoreceptors.
1993
Pre- and postsynaptic muscarinic receptors have been characterized in the isolated trachea and ileal circular muscle of the guinea pig. The muscarinic autoreceptors mediating inhibition of acetylcholine release in the circular muscle belong to the M1 subtype, whereas those inhibiting acetylcholine release in the trachea are M2 or M4 receptors. In both tissues the postsynaptic muscarinic receptors are M3 receptors. Blockade of the autoreceptors by selective M1 and M2/M4 receptor antagonists leads to facilitation of cholinergic neurotransmission.
Acetylcholine mediates the release of IL-8 in human bronchial epithelial cells by a NFkB/ERK-dependent mechanism
2007
Acetylcholine may play a role in cell activation and airway inflammation. We evaluated the levels of both mRNA and protein of muscarinic M(1), M(2), M(3) receptors in human bronchial epithelial cell line (16HBE). 16HBE cells were also stimulated with acetylcholine and extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 (ERK1/2) and NFkB pathway activation as well as the IL-8 release was assessed in the presence or absence of the inhibitor of Protein-kinase (PKC) (GF109203X), of the inhibitor of mitogenic activated protein-kinase kinase (MAPKK) (PDO9805), of the inhibitor of kinaseB-alpha phosphorilation (pIkBalpha) (BAY11-7082), and of muscarinic receptor antagonists tiotropium bromide, 4-Diphenylacet…