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The increasing share of weather-dependent renewable energy in the European electricity system, as a consequence of the European Union’s climate ambitions, has led to increased spot price volatility, negatively affecting consumers due to unpredictability. This case study assesses how flexibility (including power-heat cross vector flexibility) in residential buildings can affect annual costs, emissi
Child marriage remains a persistent challenge in Tanzania despite legal reforms and international commitments. This study aimed to explore how social workers understood the causes of child marriage, how they worked with prevention in practice, what challenges they face, and what conditions they identified as necessary for long-term change. The study was based on qualitative semi-structured intervi
This paper highlights the importance of trust-based leadership and its essential role in human service organizations. Leadership shapes the direction of an organization and influences both its culture and outcomes. Its impact can determine whether a work environment is healthy or dysfunctional. Two key components of middle managers' leadership are trust and psychological safety. To delve deepe
This investigation analysis the depiction of jews, in swedish textbooks in primary schools, during the period 1900 to 1972, in order to determine if the depictions are antisemitic. The study uses a qualitative text analysis to analyse the source material and, based upon Helen Feins definition of antisemitism, the study determines if descriptions of jews are antisemitic. The study reveals that de
This study investigates whether incorporating news-based sentiment into the GARCH-MIDAS framework improves volatility forecasts for the OMXS30 in- dex. The sentiment measure is constructed from Swedish business news articles published in Dagens Industri (DI) between 1995 and 2024, using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to identify thematic topics and topic-representative articles. The resulting s
This study investigated how three verbalization protocols, Silent, Type 1 (think-aloud), and Type 3 (explanatory verbalization), influence problem-solving performance on insight and non-insight problems within both spatial and verbal domains. Twenty-eight participants completed twelve problems (three per category) under each condition. Informed by theories of insight, verbal overshadowing, and cog
Studien undersöker hur skolans roll och betydelse för ungdomars framtida möjligheter förstås och formuleras av lärare och skolsamordnare inom Statens institutionsstyrelses (SiS) särskilda ungdomshem. Skolan verkar i en institutionskontext präglad av spänningar mellan pedagogiska ambitioner, behandlingsuppdrag och säkerhetsmässiga krav, samtidigt som målgruppen ofta har erfarenheter av skolmisslyck
Partikelbundna reaktiva syreföreningar (ROS) spelar en central roll i mekanismer som kopplar luftföroreningspartiklar till negativa hälsoeffekter genom oxidativ stress. Förståelsen för hur människor exponeras för ROS är därför viktig och eftersom människor tillbringar större delen av sin tid inomhus är inomhusluftens kvalitet ett relevant forskningsområde. Denna examensuppsats undersöker partikelbParticle-bound reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a key role in mechanisms linking particulate air pollution to adverse health effects through oxidative stress. Understanding the ways in which humans are exposed to ROS is important, and since humans spend most of their time indoors, indoor air quality is a relevant field of research. This thesis investigates particle-bound ROS emitted from typical
This study has aimed to examine how group dynamics manifest themselves in institutional homes for girls. The other purpose has been to examine how these processes influence the treatment relationship and conditions for change. The study has been carried out using qualitative research methods based on interviews. Four people who either previously worked or currently work in institutional homes were
The Swedish elderly care system has undergone a significant transformation towards marketization and New Public Management (NPM). This study aims to analyze how municipal structural factors, specifically economic resources, demographic volume, and organizational form, co-vary with user satisfaction in Home Care (hemtjänst) and Residential Care. The study employs a quantitative cross-sectional desi
The study aimed to examine whether children’s school absenteeism affects parents in terms of their well-being, communication, and everyday life. The sample was collected using convenience sampling, and the studied population consisted of parents in Sweden with children under the age of 18 attending elementary or upper secondary school. The study was conducted through a quantitative method, and the
The old duality that eventually came to produce the mind/body-problem indicates the problem of transcendental subjectivity. The enduring significance of this problem shows itself in a provocation of any paradigm that has become too objectivistic, too naturalistic – even too idealistic in a certain sense – and too forgetful of its own departure from a perspective always presumed. Analytic philosoph
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become more important for companies in recent years, both as a marketing tool and a way to demonstrate as well as to maintain the organization's social, economical and environmental sustainability. While many organizations talk about sustainability, it is unclear how well this information reaches their frontline employees working in the stores. This th
Att förstå vad som får individer att dela personlig information i tidiga möten är centralt inom forskning kring interpersonell kommunikation och relationsutveckling. Denna studie undersökte hur olika typer av respons påverkar individers benägenhet att fortsätta självutlämna i samtal mellan personer som inte känner varandra. Med utgångspunkt i den interpersonella intimitetsmodellen (Reis & ShavUnderstanding what encourages individuals to share personal information in early interactions is central to research on interpersonal communication and relationship development. The present study examined how different response types influence individuals’ willingness to continue self-disclosing during conversations with unfamiliar others. Drawing on the Interpersonal Process Model of Intimacy (Re
Projektet undersöker hur ett samtida kulturhus kan utformas som en öppen och inkluderande plats för både kunskap och praktiskt skapande. Genom att kombinera bibliotek med verkstäder och ateljéer utforskas hur arkitektur kan möjliggöra möten mellan människor med olika bakgrund, intressen och behov, samtidigt som hantverkets och kreativitetens roll i staden stärks. Med utgångspunkt i Landskronas ur
This study aims to describe and analyse similarities and differences in substance-dependent individuals' experiences of encounters with various institutions within medical care, social services, and the legal system. The method for this study was qualitative, and we conducted semi-structured life world interviews with five people who had previous experiences with substance-dependent individual
This qualitative study explores the professional experiences of social workers in psychiatric care, focusing on the emotional challenges of working with individuals in difficult life situations. The aim was to examine how their emotional expressions, strategies for recovery, and organizational factors contribute to a supportive work environment. Using a qualitative approach, semi-structured interv
