The aim of the thesis is a multidisciplinary approach to how traditional handicrafts interplay with social relations, such as gender, on several geographical scales. The study is an ethnographic fieldwork in Uttarakhand, India, at an organization working with weaving. The material is interviews, observations and field notes. The interviews were conducted with women working as weavers at the main c

Financial distress is costly for a company and affects many stakeholders. Although models of distress and default have been constructed and developed by researchers for a long time, a model adapted to the unique characteristics of the Swedish market is still missing. This study has two major purposes: (1) to construct a model of distress on the Swedish market, and (2) to use this model to investig

This study considers the nexus between trade, productivity and misallocation. Drawing on the influential model by Melitz (2003) in which firm heterogeneity is exploited to derive aggregate productivity gains from trade liberalizations, the intermediating role of dismissal regulation in producing these gains are examined. The source of the post-liberalization increase in aggregate productivity is a

The main purpose of this study is to assess the impact of environmental conditions on paper-based flexible laminates tendency to curl. Any deviation in flatness may indeed affect materials processability. Two different paper-based flexible laminates are considered: a widely processed heat-sealable yogurt lid (paper / metallized polyethylene terephthalate / heat-sealing lacquer) and a prototype lam

The freedom of establishment is an expression of the Internal Market. On the one hand, the EU tries to strengthen the Internal Market, but on the other hand, Member States have a fear to lose their national control, making them eager to restrict the free movements granted by the Internal Market doctrine. The contradiction becomes visible in regard to the cross-border movement of companies in the E

“Cannot cope anymore, don’t know where to turn” – A qualitative content analysis of how help-seeking is met on internet forums The purpose of this study was to explore what individuals were met by when seeking help and support for depression on internet forums. More precisely the aim of this study was to describe and analyze the response given to individuals who profess depression on internet for

This thesis examines if education as a channel for environmental awareness affects battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption in Sweden. It discusses how the pollution from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEV) lead to economic cost both to governments as well as citizens. It also analyzes different control variables that were aimed at capturing economic concerns, age and convenience in BEV adop

Silicon double crystal monochromators are standard in modern synchrotron hard X-ray beamlines. Their role is reducing a polychromatic photon beam to a small range of wavelengths, typically within a bandwidth of 0.01-0.1%. These monochromators work through the principle of Bragg diffraction where the crystal lattice spacing, photon energy and incident angle determines the reflectivity of the crystal.

School tendency is the key to a successful life in today's society. It increases your chances, not only for a career and future higher education, but also for a happier life. School is the most important place to learn how to cooperate, interact socially and get a healthy social network. This is a system thousands of Swedish children gets into every year because of the school duty law that all

Since the mid 90s, globalisation has been an unstoppable trend in the world. To cope with the fast-changing international operations, virtual teams (VT) have been widely used. This study takes place in the context of IKEA in Sweden and is built on semi-constructed interviews and on- site observations. We have adopted the qualitative and abductive approach to interpret the underlying dynamics of VT

The aim of this Bachelor thesis was to study the perceived discretion and room for manoeuvre that social workers working with treatment of families and individuals have. The aim was also to draw a comparison of said perceived discretion and room for manoeuvre between social workers currently employed in the public sector with social workers currently employed in the private sector. To research thi

The idea that increasing immigration will lead to a growing Muslim presence in Western Europe and that this in turn stands in contrast to the secularity of these states frames the context of this study. Therefore, this thesis explores the experiences of religious Muslims in the secular Swedish society. Potential problems between the religious Muslim minority and secular Swedish majority have been

“Many just wait for someone to dare to ask.” – A study about social workers reflections on addiction and sexuality [translated title] The purpose of this study was to examine if and how social workers with experience of treatment interventions reflect about the supposable correlation between addiction and sexuality. Five qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers wh

During this thesis I have used a methodology called MIFO ‘Metodik för Inventering av Förorenade Områden’ (english: Method of Surveying Contaminated Sites), to investigate the contamination situation on a property plot in the municipality of Eslöv, Sweden where a former trading garden was active during the late thirties to the early eighties. A contaminated site is a site where the levels of a cont

This thesis is an ethnographic study of Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm, and their critique of the industrial agriculture and food system that focuses on agricultural intensification when the real issue is about food availability and distribution. The main critique is that industrial agriculture is based on extraction and focuses on profit rather than the livelihood of farmers. That it is

This thesis project explores the relationship between social and spatial factors on many different levels: relation between two kinds of people living standards; buildings and the land; indoors and outdoors spaces; public and private. So coexistence, communication, and interaction are my keywords to translate all my ideas in a project. How to shape people’s daily life? How to encourage them to ope

Syftet med denna uppsats var att studera verbala kränkningar som en motsvarighet till vad som beskrivs som psykisk misshandel i Lag (1990:52) med särskilda bestämmelser om vård av unga (LVU). Mitt huvudsakliga undersökningsområde var hur verbala kränkningar i hemmet hanterats vid beslut om förberedande av vård av unga med stöd av 1 och 2 §§ LVU. Jag gjorde en tematisk analys på 8 rättsfall med syfMy aim with this thesis was to study verbal abuse as an equivalent to psychological abuse in The Care of Young Persons Act (LVU). The primary focus was on verbal abuse in the home as a reason to take a child into protective custody according to LVU. I made a thematic analysis on 8 court cases, with the purpose to find how the Social welfare board and County administrative board reasoned, when it c

The purpose of our study was to explore unit managers of nursing homes perspective of the different forms of accommodations for elderly couples and their discretion in the work with elderly couples’ requests. We used a qualitative method in this study and performed semi-structured interviews with six different unit managers of nursing homes that operate in three different townships in Skåne, Swede

Denna uppsats undersöker statliga och privata bolag i Europeiska Unionen utifrån tre faktorer – lönsamhet, belåningsgrad och arbetsintensitet under tidsperioden 2012–2016. En tidsperiod som präglas utav en återhämtningsprocess efter en finanskris. Först, används en ensidig variansanalys för att undersöka skillnaderna mellan de statliga och de privata bolagen för de tre faktorerna. Sedan används enThis paper examines state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in the European Union by three factors - profitability, leverage and labor-intensity during the time period 2012-2016. A time period characterized by a process of recovery after a financial crisis. Firstly, a one-sided ANOVA is used to examine the differences between state-owned and private enterprises for the three factors. Then,