From Comparison to Collaboration: Experiments with a New Scholarly and Political Form

Society and the workplace are two factors that are important for the individual's health status. It is important that the individuals has the right skills to take care of their health. For organizations, it is important to strive for the welfare of their employees. This has proven to have a positive impact on work performance, reduced absenteeism and reduced costs for rehabilitation. In 2007, the local authorities in Umeå implemented a wellness offering for all employees working in the municipality administration. They later saw a need to assist employees who needed help getting started with new exercise habits. This study aims to examine how the participants in the "Get Started Programme", succeeded in creating lasting exercise habits , 3-4 years after completing the program. Research questions are: How have the participants increased their knowledge practically and theoretically after the programme has finished? How have the participants succeeded in creating the content of the programme in their daily lives? How do the participants assess their health compared to before they participated in the programme? Are there any beneficial factors highlighted by the participants as during the program? The study was conducted on the basis of semi-structured interviews with eight voluntary participants who previously participated in the Get Started Programme. The results show that six of the eight participants succeeded to get started with the goals for behavioral change, and still maintain a sufficient physical activity level today. Participants who do not consider themselves to have succeeded in reaching the goals they set up in the beginning of the program, point out that they have the tools needed to go on and continue the behavioral change they strive for

Number of Transition Frequencies of a System Containing an Arbitrary Number of Gas Bubbles

``Transition frequencies'' of a system containing an arbitrary number of bubbles levitated in a liquid are discussed. Using a linear coupled-oscillator model, it is shown theoretically that when the system contains $N$ bubbles of different sizes, each bubble has $2N - 1$ (or less) transition frequencies which make the phase difference between an external sound and a bubble's pulsation $\pi / 2$. Furthermore, we discuss a discrepancy appearing between the present result regarding the transition frequencies and existing ones for the resonance frequencies in a two-bubble case, and show that the transition frequency, defined as above, and the resonance frequency have a different physical meaning when $N \ge 2$, while they are consistent for $N = 1$.Comment: 5 pages, Revtex; "Eigenfrequency" replaced with "transition frequency", a numerical example added, and references remove

Rapid Formation of Saturn after Jupiter Completion

We have investigated Saturn's core formation at a radial pressure maximum in a protoplanetary disk, which is created by gap opening by Jupiter. A core formed via planetesimal accretion induces the fragmentation of surrounding planetesimals, which generally inhibits further growth of the core by removal of the resulting fragments due to radial drift caused by gas drag. However, the emergence of the pressure maximum halts the drift of the fragments, while their orbital eccentricities and inclinations are efficiently damped by gas drag. As a result, the core of Saturn rapidly grows via accretion of the fragments near the pressure maximum. We have found that in the minimum-mass solar nebula, kilometer sized planetesimals can produce a core exceeding 10 Earth masses within two million years. Since Jupiter may not have undergone significant type II inward migration, it is likely that Jupiter's formation was completed when the local disk mass has already decayed to a value comparable to or less than Jovian mass. The expected rapid growth of Saturn's core on a timescale comparable to or shorter than observationally inferred disk lifetime enables Saturn to acquire the current amount of envelope gas before the disk gas is completely depleted. The high heat energy release rate onto the core surface due to the rapid accretion of the fragments delays onset of runaway gas accretion until the core mass becomes somewhat larger than that of Jupiter, which is consistent with the estimate based on interior modeling. Therefore, the rapid formation of Saturn induced by gap opening of Jupiter can account for the formation of multiple gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) without significant inward migration and larger core mass of Saturn than that of Jupiter.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap

THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION APPROACH TOWARDSTHE MOTIVATORS’ SPEECHIN ORIFLAME SEMINAR

Language often serves to maintain the separate identity of speech communities within larger communities.Culture is set of learning core values, belief, standard, knowledge, moral, law, and behavior shared by individual and societies that determines how an individual acts, feels and views one and others. The society’s culture which is passed from generation to generation, and aspects such as language, religion, custom, moral and ethics will eventually manifest how an individual does business, negotiates a contract or deal with potential business relationship. The study analyzes business motivator’s speech acts and verbal creativities of communicative event in Oriflame Motivational Seminar through approaching ethnography of communication. This study also explains how the business motivators or the leaders can motivate Oriflame consultants to run the business well, although the consultants are from different age, social class, region, status, and occupation, they can communicate and do team-work well. The purpose of the study is to describe speech events of Oriflame Seminar. The purpose of the study are;1) This journal is considered comprehensive field with numerous theoretical approaches, the writer chooses to focus on the following approaches such as speech act of communication, and the elements of ethnography of communication

An effective approach to routing problems

The Clarke-Wright method is one of the commonly applied heuristic methods used for finding solutions of the vehicle routing problems. This paper describes differential modification of the original Clarke-Wright method

Horizontal Forms of Chern Type on Complex Finsler Bundles

The aim of this paper is to construct horizontal Chern forms of a holomorphic vector bundle using complex Finsler structures. Also, some properties of these forms are studied