The review presented by Bellomo et al. [1] addresses the modelling approaches employed to represent human behaviour in evacuation in a comprehensive manner. The authors discuss crowd evacuation modelling in light of crisis management, a relevant and current topic given the recent escalation of terrorist threats all over the world. The need for designing buildings for rapid evacuation using crowd e

En allt större del av Sveriges befolkning och företag finns i städer och storstadsområden där löner och produktivitet ofta är högre än på landsbygden. I den här rapporten undersöker vi Sveriges ekonomiska geografi och tillväxt i svenska kommuner. Vi diskuterar också ett urval av politiska åtgärder som används för att försöka skapa regional tillväxt: infrastruktursatsningar, utbildningssatsningar,

World electricity consumption is drastically increasing. One of the most common ways of producing electricity is to use the chemical energy of fossil fuels. This can be done in thermal power plants in which the chemical energy of fossil fuels such as natural gas is converted to mechanical energy and finally to electricity. Extracting the chemical energy of fuels is done through combustion of the f

This ethnographic study explores how Singaporean middle-class women who have opted out of the traditional labour market to support their children actively redefine their roles and responsibilities. How are investments of time, energy, emotional and economic resources in children’s education explained, and what bearing do they have on norms of motherhood? While involved or intensive parenting style

PalCom is a pervasive middleware that enables users to combine the services on devices into useful configurations. Interconnected PalCom devices can discover, and keep track of, the existence of each other by exchanging periodic heartbeats within local networks, and once-sent device appearance/disappearance notifications across interconnected networks. This approach has the advantage of eliminatin

AIM: Physical performance in chronic kidney disease affects morbidity and mortality. The aim was to find out which measures of physical performance are important in CKD and if there are associations with declining measured GFR.METHODS: Endurance was assessed by 6-minute walk test (6-MWT) and stair climbing, muscular endurance by 30-seconds sit to stand, heel rises and toe lifts, strength by quadri

This article draws attention to reported experiences of boredom in knowledge work. Drawing on extensive qualitative data gathered at two management consultancy firms, we analyze these experiences as a particular interaction with identity regulation and work experiences. We conceptualize the reports of the bored self as a combination of unfilled aspirations and the sense of stagnation, leading to a

In this article we extend the debate about critical performativity. We begin by outlining the basic tenets of critical performativity and how this has been applied in the study of management and organization. We then address recent critiques of critical performance. We note these arguments suffer from an undue focus on intra-academic debates; engage in author-itarian theoretical policing; feign re

This paper explores the interplay of sport, the professional body and the self in professional service firms. We draw on qualitative data collected at two large international management consulting firms to show how individuals use sport to construct and enact themselves as autonomous and ambitious professionals, as well as to escape from frustrations arising in their everyday work life. We develop

During 2015 the struggles of people who searched to enter and move across Europe became increasingly intense with unthinkable numbers of deaths on the sea and other dangerous parts of the various alternative routes to and across Europe. Initially Europe witnessed a popular mobilisation of solidarity and demands for a humane response articulated through government officials as well as in the media.