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The aim of the study was to examine verdicts from the Swedish Administrative court regarding the Care of Abusers (Special Provisions) Act, LVM. The aim was to examine how the client and the client’s need of treatment is constructed in the verdicts, by the authorities and by the client itself. Sixteen convictions were analysed through qualitative text analysis. The study found that authorities; the

By exploring a case study of a Swedish media company, this thesis examines the roles of the middle management in influencing the decision-making of the top management and employees in decentralized innovation departments. For the top management’s decision-making, it was found that the middle manager performs an informing role, an inspiring role and a championing role, which are manifest on either

This thesis closely examines Reborn-Art Festival, a new arts and culture festival inaugurated during the summer of 2017 in one of the regions hardest hit by the triple disaster that devastated the northeastern coastline of Japan in 2011. In the face of an unspeakable tragedy like the Great East Japan Earthquake art may not seem like a central concern, but this thesis focuses on that subject specif

Coastal ecosystems are some of the most productive, and most at risk, in the world. These ecosystems are at risk due to the high levels of pollution entering the system. Most of this pollution comes from either run off or atmospheric deposition. There are a few ways in which this pollution could be tackled without a complete overhaul of societal systems, the most common solutions being grey or gre

Under de senaste åren har Fake News kommit att bli en väldigt omdiskuterad pro-blematik i den politiska sfären. Etablerade mediehus, tidningar och politiker har i en ökande takt blivit attackerade, ifrågasatta och anklagade för att sprida falsk och vilseledande information till offentligheten. Denna studie ämnar till att ge en djupare förståelse gällande orsakerna till framväxten av Fake News i enFake News has over the last couple of years become a very discussed issue in the political sphere. Well established newspapers and politicians have in an increased rate been attacked, questioned and accused of spreading false and misleading in-formation to the public. This study aims to give a deeper understanding regarding the causes of the emergence of Fake News in the modern and digitized world

Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize an

Authors: Björn Silverbåge & Lovisa Andersson Title: Why do we not all think alike? – A quantitative study about attitudes and trust towards the Swedish welfare state among people with a foreign heritage. Supervisor: Anna Tegunimataka Assessor:Håkan Johansson The aim of this study was to investigate attitudes and trust towards the Swedish welfare state among people with a foreign heritage b

Public Affairs är en liten men inflytelserik bransch i Sverige och forskning visar att branschen har dåligt rykte, då den anses oetisk. Studien är baserad på kvalitativa intervjuer med Public Affairs-konsulter i Stockholm och syftet är att skapa större förståelse för hur en Public Affairs-konsult resonerar kring etik i sitt yrkesutövande. Detta innefattar hur de resonerar kring transparens, val avPublic Affairs is a small, yet influential industry in Sweden, however, research shows that the industry has developed a bad reputation for its lack of ethics. I have based my study on qualitative interviews with Stockholm based Public Affairs consultants with the purpose of creating a greater understanding of their approach to professional ethics. The essay includes how they reflect on transparen

The World Bank is a key actor within development, continuously funding projects on women’s empowerment in countries world-wide; Liberia being one of them. Women and girls have been particularly affected by previous conflicts in Liberia, strongly impinging on their participation in the labor market still today (UN Women 2014). Research shows that one of the foremost issues for women today is the fa

Mobile business intelligence (MBI) handlar som namnet antyder om en mobil variant av traditionell business intelligence (BI). Det senaste årtiondets explosionsartade framfart för smarta telefoner och surfplattor har givit nya förutsättningar för användandet av MBI. I övergången från skapandet av traditionella BI-lösningar till MBI-lösningar kan en del barriärer uppstå och det är dessa vi i denna u

Bridging the technological innovation gap in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a concern to governments and development partners. Investments in programmes that will facilitate the diffusion of technology into the public and private sectors have been pursued over the past two decades. Yet, SSA still lags behind in reaping the digital dividend of technology. This study looks at the role of Business Innov

Maurus Servius Honoratus var en grammatiker och lärare som levde på 300-talet och in i 400-talet, i övergångstiden mellan antiken och den kristna eran. Hans kommentarer, framför allt till Vergilius’ Aeneid, är mycket kända och detta är det enda manuskript med kommentarer som bevarats helt intakt från denna tid. De har både uppskattats och kritiserats genom århundraden, men ger en god bild av en unMaurus Servius Honoratus was a grammarian and teacher who lived in the 4th century, the author of a well-known Commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid as well as on his Eclogues and Georgica. This commentary is very well known and even today scholars of Virgil will have recourse to it when having trouble explaining difficult passages in Virgil’s works. Servius explains points of language, but also gives val

Optiskt stimulerad luminiscens, OSL, är en dateringsmetod som går att tillämpa på geologiska material med en ålder på ca 1 år-200 000 år. Dateringsmetoden grundar sig i att mineralkorn påverkas av naturlig, radioaktiv bakgrundsstrålning och därför ackumulerar energi inom sig, en process som endast sker under mörka/ svala förhållanden. Denna energi kan sedan frigöras genom att mineralkornet utsättsOptically stimulated luminescence, OSL, is a dating method applicable to geological material with an age of ca. 1 year-200 000 years. The dating method is based on the mineral grains reaction to natural, radioactive background radiation, and their ability to accumulate energy within themselves, a process that takes place continuously during dark/cool conditions. This energy may be released by subj

I samband med att teknologin har utvecklats, har också vår förmåga att observera mindre och mindre objekt utvecklats. Detta är för att partiklar kan accelereras till högre och högre fart och därmed till högre energier. Utforskningen av hadroner, med partikelacceleratorer som Large Hadron Collider (LHC), har givit forskare en djupare förståelse om hur kvantkromodynamik (QCD), en av lärorna om materIn this thesis, the information loss from the modified Mass-Drop tagging of a Z to qqbar jet is studied for a pp collision at LHC centre-of-mass energies in PYTHIA 8 using FastJet 3. The jet created by the Z has minimum transverse momentum of 200 GeV. This is then searched for subjets via two methods: a Cambridge/Aachen algorithm and a modified Mass-Drop Tagger with different z-cut values. The sub

The literature within Information Systems has approached Green IS from different perspectives and using different theoretical frameworks. The present paper analyzes the corre-lation between the existence of external pressures and Green IS adoption in the case of Swe-dish municipalities. A qualitative research was conducted, with the performance of in-depth interviews with representatives of a 4 Sw

The purpose of this research was to generate new insights of what causes consumers to recognise needs, how they search for information, and how they evaluate the alternatives during the pre-purchase phase of the customer journey. The selected topic is of relevance, as consumer behaviour has gone through significant changes in recent years as a result of developments in everyday technology. To fulf

Even though the prevalence of synaesthetic-like ‘Visually-Evoked Auditory Responses’ (V-EAR) in the general population is probably immense by all standards, it is hardly ever mentioned in the literature on general synaesthetic phenomena. We decided to try to reproduce earlier findings that about 1/5 experience motion-conjured sound percepts. We did so with a good margin (27% of our participants cl

The aim of this study was to examine what kind of support the relatives to persons with dementia experience they need. The study also aimed to examine what factors affect the relatives’ decision to receive support. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six relatives to persons with dementia. The empirical data collected from the interviews were analyzed through the concept of role theory