The purpose of this qualitative study, with a constructivist approach, was to examine how professionals work with children as next of kin to chronically ill patients in somatic care. Through a content analysis, using local guidelines and policy documents for the work with children as next of kin, as well as semi-structured interviews focusing on how the professionals themselves describe their

The study examined social workers experiences in their work with adolescents in out-of-home care, focused on sexuality. The aim of the study was to understand their experiences with a constructionist perspective on sexuality and with a focus on the organizational context that the experiences were formed in. These perspectives were selected with the ambition to achieve an extensive view of the stud

This study aims at investigating the thematic patterns in media presentations of Swedish communal social services and the social service workers: how is the media discussion created and established? Which areas are paid the main attention? How is the field being portrayed in media? The study is based on a material found in Swedish newspapers published under a three-month period in the end of 2014.

This master thesis investigates material characterization by reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves in the 40-60 GHz band (millimeter-wave spectrum) for different materials. The free-space measurement method is a fast, efficient and non-destructive way of examining a material and is being researched by both academics and industries. The theory of how electromagnetic waves interact w

The study examines how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Khartoum, Sudan work to address gender-based violence (GBV) and how they relate to international human rights law (IHRL) in the process. Emphasis is placed on how the over-politicization of GBV is hindering NGOs from effectively using IHRL as a tool. The results are based on qualitative field research, with in-depth interviews conduct

This thesis presents a study of how a 24 GHz radar can be used to measure traffic. The focus is on the software of the radar, highlighting the algorithms used in the radar measurements. The Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) and Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) algorithms are studied, and the FSK algorithm is also implemented on a test setup with results which show that the radar can be used t

The Asian Dragon is challenging the economic hegemony of the United States but at the same time depends on energy imports to sustain its economic growth. Most of China's Oil comes from the Middle East and Africa, and the supply passes through the Indian Ocean and the Malacca Strait, a critical choke point. Western literature has extended the idea of String of Pearls -denied by China-, consisti

Despite its OECD membership and transformation from aid recipient into a major donor of official development assistance (ODA), Japan has long been criticized for pursuing commercial interests through its infrastructure-focused ODA, which has heavily relied on its own corporate private sector for implementation. Throughout the last two decades, institutional reforms have altered the structure and

The Japanese government managed to implement the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets (SDS) in late 2014, making it easier for government agencies to withhold information. The debate that was ignited by the SDS is central to this thesis. Existing research on the SDS can be characterized as a battle for truth, with a focus on the surface effects of the law. In contrast, this paper

This thesis evaluates the hazards occurring during extinguishing of a passenger car fire in order to obtain recommendations for the Swedish rescue services on how to extinguish a passenger car fire in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. The thesis evaluates both acute and long term toxicity of combustion products as well as extinguishing agents, regarding both human health and the environm

Power electronics is today used almost everywhere. The development of power electronics hardware is fast, pushing the performance limits. Still the conventional two level converter is the most commonly used converter on the market. The output voltage of the conventional two level converter is generated as pulses. The pulses are generated with semiconductor switches with short switching times to k

The aim of this study was to investigate the health and job satisfaction in Swedish elderly care. The data was collected by doing semi-structured interviews with employees at an elderly care facility in an average sized Swedish city. Participants were chosen randomly, but it was made sure that the balance between formally educated and non-formally educated personnel was nearly equal. The Human Res

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur ekonomistyrningen i ett franchisebolag ser ut samt belysa skillnader i styrningen mellan franchiseenheter samt egenägda enheter. Metoden som används är en fallstudie över Waynes Coffee där empirisk data insamlas med hjälp av kvalitativa, semi-strukturerade intervjuer med franchisetagare. Resultatet utmynnar i att det finns en mycket tydlig skillnad i st

Access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is a human right. Today water scarcity is a large problem and inequality in access to safe water is a striking truth. In Mozambique, the US foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corporation introduced the Rural Water Point Installation Program to increase access to safe water and sanitation – a step towards reducing poverty. 600 water points – in

The aim of this study was to examine nursing home staffs experiences of different health promoting activities that are implemented in their work and how they view their own health. The main questions of this study were: how did staff experience discussion and work with health on their workplace, how did staff discuss the continuity of health activities, how did staff discuss responsibility for the

The purpose of this study is to examine how young women construct their identity in biographies in relation to their own mental health state, their self harm behavior and the psychiatric institution. Self-harm behavior is a growing problem, primarily for young women. I’ve used a narrative text-analysis to investigate how women construct their identity and to examine the differences between the aut

Avrinningsområdet Mundaú har sitt ursprung i den Brasilianska delstaten Pernambuco och rinner i sydöstlig riktning mot Mundaúlagunen längs Atlantkusten tillhörande delstaten Alagoas. Området faller under nationell jurisdiktion, är relativt oreglerat och erfar både översvämningar och torrperioder. Modellering av avrinningsområdets hydrologi kan ge en fördjupad förståelse av dessa händelser och hur The relatively unregulated, union domain Mundaú river basin, upper reaches originating in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco and flowing southeast to the Mundaú Lagoon along the Alagoas state’s Atlantic coast, suffers from both flooding and drought. Modeling the basin’s hydrology can lead to a deeper understanding of these events, and how changes within the basin can affect its hydrology. This stud

I denna kandidatuppsats genomförs en kvalitativ fallstudie av Jodelhotet som ledde till nedstängningen av Lunds universitet måndagen den 12 oktober 2015. Min teoretiska utgångspunkt grundas i Beck (1998), Bauman (2001) och Giddens (1996, 1997) tankar om senmodernitetens tillstånd som i en tid där samhällets risker och hot förstärks samtidigt som individualiseringen gör det allt svårare att nå geme