Over the last 40 years, the concept of resilience has made a journey from the fields of ecology and psychology into the social sciences. By now, it has become a term commonly used in the international climate change adaptation and development spheres, describing the ability of an individual or a community to cope with or recover from harmful events. Critics have raised concerns about this spread,

Two Brief Implicit Association Tests (BIAT) were conducted in order to explore the relation between sexual orientation and gender attitudes. It was tested if gay men show a stronger positive implicit preference for males than females, compared to straight men. Concerning negative attitudes, it was hypothesized that gay men show – compared to straight men – a less negative implicit attitude toward

Dagens industrirobotar är helt omedvetna om sin omgivning och utför oftast enkla förprogrammerade uppgifter. Med flera moderna kameror som fångar tredimensionella bilder monterade på olika delar av roboten så får den ögon. Dessa kan sedan användas för att hålla koll och förstå vad som händer i dess närhet.Technological breakthroughs have in recent years heavily increased the availability of different types of sensors and the amount of computational power, allowing for much more advanced robotic applications. By mounting multiple depth sensors on the robot and designing a fast and robust system with state-of-the-art algorithms we have made the robot aware of its surroundings. First, the surrounding

The keyword for this study is autonomy, a concept most of us take for granted. But for individuals with disabilities this is a right they have had to fight for throughout history. During the 30-40 years this fight has been rewarded and they have gotten their rights incorporated in the law. Autonomy has been described in this study as a human right, which should be given to everyone, regardless of

Äldre i särskilt boende har multipla sjukdomar och många behöver palliativ vård. Syfte: Syftet var att studera sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av palliativ vård i särskilt boende. Metod: Elva sjuksköterskor deltog i intervjuer som analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Symtomlindring förbättras genom tidig bedömning inför palliativ vård och personcentrerat förhållningssätt. Tvärprofes

The global financial crisis of 2007 shook up the European economic landscape through many channels. However, deeper economic integration and the resulting industrial specialization patterns, can partly explain the different impacts across countries. Economic downturns are less likely to congest across borders if the industrial composition is less homogeneous. This essay analyzes the effects of the

The aim of the study was to examine how professionals in the Child and Youth Psychiatry work and relate to the diagnosis of ADD. ADD is included in the diagnosis of ADHD according to the diagnostic manual DSM 5 and is described as ADHD predominantly inattentive form. Research shows that ADD is less observed in relation to ADHD. The research questions in the study are: How do the professionals unde

Sammanfattning Denna uppsats kommer att behandla två regler i ABL vilka finns till i syfte att skydda de ägare i ett aktiebolag som utgör minoritet. Regelverket kring skydd för minoriteter i aktiebolagslagen är tämligen omfattande och jag har därför valt att begränsa mitt arbete till att endast fokusera på två av dessa; likhetsprincipen och generalklausulerna. Det är idag omstritt hur dessa två reAbstract This paper will address the two rules in the Companies Act (2005: 551), which are added in order to protect the owners of a corporation as a minority. The regulations concerning the protection of minorities in the Companies Act is quite extensive and I have therefore chosen to limit my work to only focus on two of these; the principle of equality and the general clauses. Today, it is deba

The legal framework in Kenya today is akin to a ‘right-angled triangle’ with the African Traditional Society as the hypotenuse, the Islamic law as the adjacent side and the English law as the opposite side. These ‘Pythagorean’ triples have informed both the Kenyan Family law history and practice. Kadhis’ Courts applying Islamic law of personal status have been in East Africa for over 200 years now

Purpose: With the intention to compare and analyse the differences between how state-owned and private-owned banks deploy MCS to foster their innovation, and why they use MCS in particular manner. Methodology: This master thesis is a multiple case studies which are done through collecting and analyzing archival data and telephone interviews with personnel in four Chinese banks. Empirical foundatio

In addition to market volatility, a stylized theoretical model and recent empirical findings suggests the existence of a premium for market volatility of volatility. By developing seven different measures of volatility of volatility and through the method of principal component analysis, we investigate if this aggregate uncertainty is priced in the Swedish equity market. We find no strong evidence

This thesis presents the results of an evaluation of the performance and determinants of fund flows for selected Impact Investing and Socially Responsible Investing portfolios of funds. The impact of current and past measures of monthly and annual financial return are considered from the perspective of potential investors. The results show that Impact Investing funds out-performed general market v

Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka förståelsen för kunskapsintensiv verksamhet. Särskilt fokus har lagts på de chefsroller som kan finnas i denna typ av miljö. Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ studie, där empirin insamlats genom semistrukturerade intervjuer och en dokumentstudie av tidningsartiklar. Forskningsansatsen är abduktiv och socialkonstruktionistisk, där respondenternas tolkningar och uppfattn

Människor som missbrukar alkohol är en stor grupp i samhället och i sjukvården. Alkoholmissbruket leder till negativa konsekvenser som sjukdomar, skador och för tidig död. Alkoholmissbruket orsakar även ett stort lidande utifrån psykologiska, sociala och existentiella aspekter för både den drabbade och dennes närstående. Patienter som lider av alkoholmissbruk får inte alltid ett gott bemötande när

Tidstrender i unga mäns exponering för bekämpningsmedel via analys av urinprov Dagligen exponeras befolkningen för en mängd olika ämnen som visats ha egenskaper som kan ge negativa hälsoeffekter och öka risken för bland annat Parkinson’s sjukdom. Bekämpningsmedel som används inom jordbruk står för en del av dessa ämnen. Vissa ämnen har förbjudits för användning på livsmedel i Sverige och EU till The increased use of synthetic chemicals in society poses possible harmful risks for the environment and human health. Evaluating these risks are difficult when it comes to predicting short-term and long-term effects, determine causalities between exposure and synergistic effects from different compounds. Biomonitoring is one way to assess these problems and to observe the level of exposure in the

Abstrakt Författare: Adam Ringstrand Titel: Nöden har ingen lag. En studie baserad på semistrukturerade intervjuer med en grupp studenter om ämnet offentlig urinering. Kandidatuppsats: SOCK04, 15 hp Handledare: Veronika Burcar Alm Sociologiska institutionen, vårterminen 2016 Denna uppsats handlar om offentlig urinering. Mitt intresse för ämnet uppstod då jag läste en artikel där det framgick

The current geopolitical events of globalization have intensified multiculturalism across continents making the study of the process of acculturation and its impact on adaptation more relevant than ever. 708 international migrants and sojourners from 69 nationalities living in 43 countries were investigated by means of a web-based cultural adaptation survey. The following questions were addressed:

Klimatet på Jorden står inför en förändring. I Sverige bedrivs rennäringen av samerna sedan urminnes tid och är direkt beroende av väder och klimat. Det är därför osäkert hur näringen kan påverkas i och med en klimatförändring, där både väder och årstider kan förändras. Syftet med studien var att ta reda på hur rennäringen fungerar och vilka väderförändringar som renskötarna upplever redan idag In Sweden, reindeer husbandry is one of the most important traditions of the Sami people and is protected by the Reindeer Husbandry Act. The reindeer are semi-domesticated and migrate to different grazing lands depending on seasons. Reindeer husbandry is dependent on weather conditions for forage availability throughout the year, and this study examines potential effects of the predicted climate c

This study analyses the fiscal impact of population aging in Sweden from 2015 to 2060. We consider the three main areas of public spending in the demographic context: education, health care and pension. A separate analysis is performed for each of the three alternative macroeconomic scenarios, which are the status quo, the pension reform and the health care reform. Our results indicate that the ol