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The purpose of this study was to investigate if witnessed incivility (from manager and co-workers) and factors in the working life of today (job insecurity, lack of influence and lack of social support) are related to instigated incivility. An additional purpose was to investigate if there are differences in instigated workplace incivility between men and women and managers and non-managers. An in

Social considerations in public procurement concerns the using of public procurement as a tool in order to achieve political goals of a social nature, such as to reduce unemployment, to ensure a safe and healthy work environment or to combat discrimination. This is potentially a controversial issue since it might come into conflict with public procurement legislation. But the laws concerning this

Den här studien handlar om hur ungdomar upplever musikämnet i grundskolans år 8 och 9. Mitt eget intresse både för ungdomar och att musicera tillsammans i ensemble har lett mig till detta val av ämne. Studien bygger på kvalitativ metod, närmare bestämt gruppintervjuer med ungdomar. De viktigaste resultaten är att ungdomarna känner att undervisningen i musik är annorlunda än i t.ex. matematik och sTitle: Music education in primary school. A study of how primary school students experience music lessons and ensemble playing. This study is about how young people perceive the subject of music in the elementary school years 8 and 9. My own interest for both young people and playing music in ensembles led me to this choice of topic. The study is based on qualitative method, specifically group int

This report deals with flame extinguishment of liquid and solid fuels in an experiment construction widely known as Burner Cup. The fuels are heptan, methanol and PMMA. According to a theory called fire point theory developed by Rasbash also further developed by Beyler the extinguish concentration increasing when applied external flux increases. Experiments have earlier been done by Magee and Rei

Today’s dementia care has demonstrated a widespread use of locking devices in the escape routes of the care units. Most commonly code locks. The locking devices are used to prevent wanderers from wandering away from de dementia unit and risk hurting themselves, disappear or even die. On the contrary, the locks themselves may endanger a safe escape in the case of fire as well as it is may violate t

Metaphors is a vital and fundamental part of our intellectual abilities. We invent metaphors, but they construct our conceptual thinking in means that they decide in what way we think of phenomenas of which we have no clear knowledge about. To analyze the source domains from which the metaphors are taken is a most fruitful way of gaining information about a metaphor. In comparison to the target do

Idre Fjälls snow production has been analyzed in cooperation with Snowtech AB. A survey of the energy use and how to decrease the energy use was carried out. The first part is about snow and snowmaking. Natural snow consists of water molecules that form a hexagonal pattern in solid state. The reason to the hexagonal pattern is due to dendritic growth during the snow crystals journey through the cl

There is a heavy dependence on cars for people living in rural areas and small towns. The countryside has so far been left out of the transition to carbon-free transport, and public transport shares are low in rural areas. New information and communication technology (ICT) solutions and autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to improve the conditions for public transport in rural areas, as t

In 1735, professor Kilian Stobaeus donated his collections to Lund University laying the foundation for the university’s first museum. The ”Museum Stobaeanum” contained over 3000 natural history, historical and ethnographic objects typical of the cabinets of curiosity. This richly illustrated book is the first comprehensive history of these collections.Eighteen chapters, written by an interdiscip