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The purpose was to explore how the staff at women’s shelters handle potential conflicts as part of their overall mandate as well as in their practical day to day work. This qualitative study was based on interviews carried out with staff members at women’s shelters. The people interviewed were chosen for geographical reasons -they were staff members working in shelters in Scania- and partly for re

In developing countries less than 50 percent of the population has access to formal financial services. Lack of financial access results in sustained income disparities and lower economic growth. Mobile banking is transforming the financial landscape by providing basic financial services through regular mobile phones. M-PESA and M-Shwari are mobile banking services in Kenya, supplied by the teleco

This thesis: Culture at any price? A study of how visitors and producers in Malmö think of free culture is about professional free culture in Malmö and how it affects other kinds of culture in the city. My main research questions are: How do people value culture? How much and what are they willing to pay for it? And does free culture change the way people think of other kinds of culture? How do di

In order to manage the image of a city in a highly medialized world it is important that the key features of the brand is correlating with the overall media image. This paper exams the impact of Malmö Stads vision-report in the media portrayal of the city between 1997-2012. The aim is to describe, explain and problematize the media image of Malmö in the biggest swedish publications and compare tha

I Skuremåla, Blekinge har litostratigrafiska studier utförts av en platåformad grus- och sandavlagring. Skuremåla-avlagringen har tidigare beskrivits som ett delta med en överyta på 55 m ö h. Syftet med arbetet är att tolka vad för sorts ”delta” Skuremåla-avlagringen utgör samt depositionsmiljön för sedimenten i fråga. I denna studie har området undersökts genom jordartskartering samt genom skruvbA lithostragraphic study has been performed of a plateau-shaped sand and gravel deposit at Skuremåla in Blekinge, SE Sweden. The Skuremåla deposit has earlier been described as a delta with an upper surface 55 m a.s.l. The purpose of this study is to re-evaluate this interpretation, i.e. is the Skuremåla deposits a delta or possibly another type of formation. Furthermore, the investigation aims at

The aim of this essay is to cast new light on citizenship education in the context of Swedish educational policy. The Swedish educational policy is based on a set of core values which should be stated by everyone that is active in the school. One purpose of education within this system is to develop the student’s capacity to critically reflect upon values and ideas presented to them. The analysis

This paper focuses on the cessation of the Angolan refugees in Zambia and South Africa. The paper aims to identify the problems concerning the cessation for a group of ref-ugees and will show that even thought the group as a whole might not have reason to fear for their life, there could be individuals within the group who have. Furthermore, the essay alerts how arbitrary the process to get an alt

Syftet med denna pilotstudie var att undersöka möjligheten att behandla patienter med social fobi inom psykiatrin med en guidad internetbaserad självhjälpsbehandling. Författarna undersökte även hur självhjälps- behandlingen upplevdes av patienterna. Fem deltagare rekryterades till studien där en så kallad case series-design tillämpades. För att utvärdera behandlingen och dess effektivitet användeThe purpose of this pilot study was to examine the possibility of treating patients within a psychiatric setting with an internet-based guided self-help treatment. The authors also looked into how the self-help treatment was evaluated by the patients. Five participants were recruited to the study and a so-called case series was employed as design. To evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment a m

I dagens Stockholm ägnar man mycket tid och energi åt att planera, finansiera och diskutera sitt boende. Den ständig överefterfrågan på hyresrätter leder till att det reellt sett bara finns en väg in på bostadsmarknaden: att köpa en bostadsrätt. I media pågår ständiga spekulationer om huruvida priserna kommer att rasa eller fortsätta gå upp, och mot bakgrund av detta undersöker vi huruvida det fin

The purpose of this study was to examine the work of counselors in child psychiatry. More specifically the focus was to investigate how they go about their work and how they themselves describe it. Six counselors working in child psychiatry in Malmö were interviewed about their work on basis of two fictive cases. The analysis was based on psychosocial theory. The main results showed that the couns

The mission aims to investigate the possibility to systematically document the knowledge and experience within the context of the daily work in order to safeguard the human capital for more efficient resource allocation, and to prepare recommendations on how the firm Networks Logistics can achieve a more rational knowledge processing. Methodology In the spirit of investigating Networks current kno

In a time of global unpredictability, the vision of security and assertiveness is highly appreciated by the citizens of our societies. The European Security Strategy from 2003 and NATO’s new strategic concept of 2010 are intended to promote the EU and NATO as reliable security actors in a global reality of uncertainty. In this thesis, I compare the two generic security strategies to assess how th

Title: The Business of Sustainability – A critical study of the concept of sustainability and its practical applications Seminar date: 2012-06-01 Course: Master thesis in Business Administration, 30 University Credit Points (30 ECTS). Authors: Adam Hjort & Klara Kingsvik Advisor: Jens Rennstam Five key words: Sustainable development, Sustainability in practice, Strategy, CSR, Discourse analysi

During a few days at the end of November 1926, the Möllevången neighborhood in Malmö was the scene of violent confrontations between thousands of demonstrators and a large part of the city police force. Behind these demonstrations lay an industrial conflict, begun early in July that year at A. W. Nilsson factory. The workers went on strike, and a week or so later the factory owner employed a local

The report evaluates in which manner a sprinkler system affects evacuation safety in hospitals. Primarily hospitals are categorised in two groups, one where patients are able to evacuate by themselves and one where patients need nurses to evacuate. Margins to untenable conditions during fire are simulated and compared individually depending on the presence of a sprinkler system. The evaluation sho