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Modelling leaky photonic wires: a mode solver comparison
2006
We present results from a mode solver comparison held within the framework of the European COST P11 project. The structure modelled is a high-index contrast photonic wire in silicon-oninsulator subject to substrate leakage. The methods compared are both in-house developed and commercial, and range from effective index and perturbation methods, over finite-element and finite-difference codes, beam propagation methods, to film mode matching methods and plane wave expansion methods.
Accentuating the Positive, Eliminating the Negative? Relationship Maintenance as a Predictor of Two-Dimensional Relationship Quality
2012
In this study, relationship maintenance and its connections with positive and negative relationship quality were examined among Finnish parents (N = 177 women and 153 men; i.e., partners from 150 couples and 27 women and 3 men whose partner did not participate in the study). Relationship maintenance was measured using Stafford, Dainton, and Haas's (2000) version of the RMSM and two-dimensional relationship quality using Fincham and Linfield's (1997) PANQIMS. Structural equation modeling was utilized to analyze paired data. Women were found to report more relationship maintenance behaviors than their partners. The results showed further that relationship maintenance was connected with both p…
Platelet function testing in pigs using the Multiplate® Analyzer.
2019
PLOS ONE 14(8), e0222010 (2019). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222010
X-Ritz Solution for Nonlinear Free Vibrations of Plates with Embedded Cracks
2019
The analysis of large amplitude vibrations of cracked plates is considered in this study. The problem is addressed via a Ritz approach based on the first-order shear deformation theory and von Karman’s geometric nonlinearity assumptions. The trial functions are built as series of regular orthogonal polynomial products supplemented with special functions able to represent the crack behaviour (which motivates why the method is dubbed as eXtended Ritz); boundary functions are used to guarantee the fulfillment of the kinematic boundary conditions along the plate edges. Convergence and accuracy are assessed to validate the approach and show its efficiency and potential. Original results are then…
Exploring the Normative Foundation of Journalism Education : Nordic Journalism Educators’ Conceptions of Future Journalism and Professional Qualifica…
2022
This article deals with Nordic journalism educators’ conceptions of journalism by placing the concept of normativity at the center. The values, norms and ideas concerning journalism and journalistic practice have previously been studied by journalists and journalism students around the world and in the Nordics, while the Nordic journalism educators’ conceptions have remained more or less without attention. Nevertheless, journalism educators play a crucial role in defining what journalism is and what it is not, and thus largely affect future practitioners’ ideas of journalism. Using a questionnaire that has been employed in previous studies, journalism educators within the …
Ultrafast diffraction of tightly focused waves with spatiotemporal stabilization
2008
Experimental studies of ultrafast beam shaping have come about from the need to compensate diffraction-induced dispersive effects in femtosecond laser beams. From a theoretical point of view, chromatic matching of diffracted spherical waves in the vicinity of the geometrical focus is attained by applying conveniently dispersive boundary conditions in the far-field zone, a subject thoroughly analyzed in the paraxial regime. For applications demanding high spatial resolution, however, high-numerical-aperture microscope objectives may be employed instead and would lead to nonparaxiality of the focal wavefields. These circumstances have motivated our investigation. Concretely we report on prere…
When value co-creation turns to co-destruction: Users' experiences of augmented reality mobile games
2018
Service-dominant logic (SDL) provides a well-established lens for understanding services as value co-creation processes. However, also value co-destruction can occur in service processes, but the literature on value co-destruction remains scattered and more studies are called for. We address this research gap with a classification of users’ subjective reasoning for value co-destructive experiences while playing the augmented reality (AR) mobile game Pokémon GO. We conduct laddering interviews with Pokémon GO players to uncover their value co-destruction experiences. Employing clustering analysis, we investigate users’ reasoning for value co-destruction experiences, and argue that value co-d…
Understanding Augmented Reality Game Players : Value Co-destruction Process in Pokémon Go
2017
We conceptualize the mobile game Pokémon Go as a service provider aiming to offer customers value propositions over an augmented reality (AR) platform, where players engage in co-creating value, such as fun, social unity and health. However, playing Pokémon Go can also ensue to value co-destruction through critical service interactions involving e.g. increased mobile costs, trespassing, accidents or assaults. Such could ensue to negative value outcomes, such as frustration, humiliation or unsafety. In order to prevent critical service interactions, it is significant to gain an understanding of value codestruction, which currently remains an unclear concept with a call for empirical studies.…
An Interlude: Matters of Method
2021
The discussion of everyday discourse developed so far makes two entirely new problems inescapable. The first is that in everyday discourse there is no algebra, either Boolean or non-Boolean, of truth values. The second is that a new polarity (conceptually) correct–incorrect, distinct both from true–false, and from grammatical–ungrammatical, becomes indispensable.
Public Network Value for the Next Generation am Beispiel von funk
2018
Die Debatte um die Legitimation des offentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks hat im digitalen Zeitalter eine neue Dimension erreicht: Insbesondere das junge Publikum wendet sich nicht nur verstarkt den privat-kommerziellen Sendern zu, sondern konsumiert immer haufiger Bewegtbildinhalte im Netz, wo internationale Player wie YouTube oder Netflix an Bedeutung gewinnen. Die Sorge, das junge Publikum komplett zu verlieren, ist deshalb gros. Mit funk – dem „jungen Angebot“ von ARD und ZDF – sollen die 14- bis 29-Jahrigen mithilfe von zielgruppenspezifischen Inhalten nun wieder an die offentlich-rechtliche Marke gebunden werden. Der vorliegende Beitrag nimmt die Markteinfuhrung zum Anlass, die Ausgestaltu…