Gaussian to top-hat beam shaping is widely used today in areas of cutting, welding, and laser patterning. Typically, single-mode solid state lasers are used whose Gaussian intensity distribution is transformed into a top-hat. In this thesis the transformation is applied in a single-mode fiber connector, where the aim is a uniform intensity distribution of the emerging light from the connector. Thi

En uppsats om att skriva en roman på författarskolan. Fokus är på författarens skrivprocess, skrivstil samt ambitioner inför sluttampen av utbildningen.

The aim of this study was to find out how girls with anorexia nervosa experienced response from their environment, including health professionals as well as family, friends and the society. The study focuses on the girls stories about the response, their experience from their illness; therefore we used a qualitative content analysis, based on five autobiographies. Our questions which we based our

Analys av skrivprocess, språk och stil.

Governmental employees in Sweden are bound by law to report to the Social Services if they suspect child maltreatment. Studies have found that pre-schoolteachers to a lesser extent report suspected child maltreatment than other agencies working with children. The aim of this study is to examine pre-schoolteachers’ view of the law governing teachers responsibility to report suspected child maltreat

Around the world there are people who are on the run, among these people there is a large number of unaccompanied refugee children who for various reasons have been displaced and separated from their parents. When an unaccompanied refugee child is arriving to Sweden, one of the first questions is where the child will live. In Sweden, these unaccompanied children first arrive to a municipality. In

The aim with the study was to examine how the communication and treatment of deaf inpatients are experienced in institutional care. The focus was to study how professionals in psychiatric care and persons with experience of the issue perceived the meeting between the professional and the inpatient, and what limitations and consequences may arise. The study was based on qualitative method with semi

Private actions for damages for competition law infringements has been a fiercely discussed topic in the European Union for more than a decade now. It was the famous Courage v. Crehan judgment from 2001, where the Court of Justice for the first time expressly stated that ‘any individual’ has the right to claim damages for a breach of EU competition law. Following the Green Paper in 2005, in 2008 t

Author(s): Måns Andersson and Emil Olsson Title: Middle management in the municipal healthcare system – concerning autonomy and leadership in a political influenced organization. [Translated title] Supervisor: Anders Olsson Assessor: Anett Schenk The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived autonomy and leadership of middle managers in the municipal healthcare sector in Sweden. A qualit

According to the national public survey “Health on equal terms” around 20 percent of all the children in Sweden (385 000) is growing up with a parent that is consuming alcohol in a risk full way (Statens folkhälsoinstitut 2008). These children often experience different strains in their life taking big responsibility in the family. The aim of this study was to investigate experiences in growing up

Title: Eating disorders, stigma, self-stigma and four blogs - a qualitative research. [Translated title] The aim of this research was to examine the reason of why people with eating disorders don’t seek professional help, by using Ervin Goffmans (2004) theory about stigma and Patrick Corrigans (2004) theory about self-stigma. I used a qualitative method and I based my study on four blogs from the

More and more consumers are demanding products that are considered fair and ethical. The Swedish market for these products is growing every year. The requirements of Fairtrade labeled goods often means a higher price in stores than the corresponding conventional products. The quest of this essay is to investigate the willingness-to-pay for goods that are considered ethical and fair, with Fairtrade

This study comprises a three month fieldwork and 25 interviews conducted in Jordan on community based rehabilitation of persons with intellectual disability. The analytic procedure was conducted in an explicit and systematic manner much inspired by Grounded Theory. Interviewing social workers engaged in introducing community based rehabilitation in Jordan the study came to unveil their struggle wi

Synthetic estrogens that originate mainly from oral contraceptive pills reach our waters through sewage effluent and potentially affect organisms in the natural environment. This study focused on the effects of the synthetic estrogen 17-alpha-ethinylestradiol (EE2) on the foraging and predator avoidance behaviors of the planktivorous fish roach (Rutilus rutilus), a common fish in Swedish lakes and

Essä som beskriver näst intill osannolika förändringar i samhället under de senaste hundra åren.

Uppsatsen undersöker och analyserar Jeanette Wintersons roman Written on the Body utifrån queerteori. Winterson ifrågasätter och analysar i denna roman begreppen genus, sexualitet och deras förhållande till identitet och denna uppsats undersöker detta närmre genom en analys av romanen. Uppsatsens syfte är att redogöra och analysera romanens berättare, vars könstillhörighet är okänd, utifrån queert

I studien studeras prästens och läkarens roll i lokalsamhället under en rödsotsepidemi år 1858. Rödsot har idag namnet dysenteri. Uppsatsen studerar även vilken utbredning epidemin hade och hur många som drabbades. Uppsatsen har en mikrohistorisk karaktär och endast en socken, småländska Madesjö, studeras. I studien används även diskursbegrepp.

Should a normally unmanned installation rely on helicopter shuttling to allow for the people working there to be accommodated at another platform during the resting periods with regards to the potential loss of life (PLL)? Would the risk the personnel are exposed to increase or decrease if the need for helicopter shuttling was eliminated due to a different design allowing for periodic manning of t