Studiens syfte var att undersöka varför patienter valt att ensidigt avsluta sitt deltagande i KBT i grupp, vilka förväntningar de avhoppade patienterna hade haft på behandlingen, hur de upplevde behandlingen och om dessa upplevelser var relaterade till avhoppet. Semistrukturerade intervjuer utfördes med sju personer, vilka alla hade hoppat av från KBT-grupper innan behandlingen var slutförd. Reasons behind patients’ decisions to unilaterally terminate Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy (CBGT), and whether the experience of the therapy was related to the termination of the treatment were examined. In addition to this, the patients’ expectations on the treatment prior to commencement and patients’ experiences of the treatment were examined. Semi-structured interviews were conducted

In this study the efficiency of the Nordic stock markets are tested. The evaluation period is 16 years, between 1995 and 2010. Monthly data on stock returns, D/Y, P/C, P/E, PTBV and EV/EBITDA are used to create six different single sorted portfolios. The portfolio evaluation periods and holding periods are set to six months. Our findings indicate that all of our single sorted portfolios could gene

This study aims to examine the media influence on the general public view of the imprisonment. It also aims to examine if there are any other variables that influence how the law is communicated to the society. This study is about how imprisonment is communicated by the media, but not all imprisonments and not all types of media - it addresses the newspapers report of imprisonment for the crime of

During 2007, a legal reform in Sweden took place, this change led to complications in interpreting the needs of individuals and the application of the laws by the governing social authorities. The aim of the thesis is to explore the underlying norms that influence social workers interpretation of young offenders needs, aged 15 to 17 years, and if the interpretations are consistent. The aim was ach

The Swedish Social Services Act states that certain authorities and their staff have a duty to immediately report to the Social Services if, in the course of their work, they have reason to suspect a child is in need of the protection of the Social Services. The purpose of this study was to examine some of the professional norms within the municipal school when it comes to the duty to report. The

The best interest of the child is not a defined term but a concept that allows for cultural, political and social interpretations. The Swedish government is obliged to protect every child's interests and take the judicial decision-making into account in all aspects of a child's situation. Subsequent to an event in early autumn, 2011, when two children in the care of the LVU, were deported

This study estimates the effects of legal and institutional barriers to foreign bank establishment in China. Provincial corruption data is compiled from official Chinese procuratorial work reports and analyzed together with economic indicators and measures of legislative liberalization in a multiple regression analysis. The analysis uses panel data for 18 Chinese cities in 11 provinces over 8 year

Sammandrag Den som översätter bör vara välinsatt i både utgångsspråket och målspråket, men översättaren bör också vara hemmastadd i den miljö där berättelsens handling äger rum. Om dessa villkor inte är uppfyllda finns en risk för översättningsfel. Som översättningsfel kan man då betrakta ord vars översättning baseras på en felaktig språkanalys och sådana fria översättningar som förvränger berätt

This paper examines the persuasive role of ethos and persona in trickster discourse by studying the pilot episode of the Australian TV-series "John Safran's Race Relations". Using methods of Role- and Fantasy-theme criticism I conclude that the artefact uses a strategy of authority by experience and identification to create a strong bond of sympathy for the main character, who le

Uppsatsen är en studie med huvudsyfte att undersöka vilken betydelse domstolen fäster vid våld inom familjen vid bedömning av umgänge och vårdnad. Den försöker även finna svar på om och i så fall i vilken utsträckning det görs skillnad mellan fäder och mödrar som förövare. Gällande rätt och dess utveckling redovisas inom områdena vårdnad, umgänge samt riskbedömning. Dessutom presenteras relevanta The essay is a study with a main aim of investigating to what extent the court attaches importance to family violence in their assessment of right of access to children and custody. It also attempts to see to what extent male and female parents as perpetrators are treated differently. Current law and its development in the areas of custody, right of access to children and risk assessment are explo

Overfishing is a severe threat to all of the world’s fisheries. Uncontrolled effort levels and insufficient research about the state of the fish stocks has lead to a rapid decline in many fish stock populations. The most recent research reported that 32% of global marine resources are either overexploited or depleted and that 53% are fully exploited. Many countries put their hope to designing fish

Bakgrund: Kriminalitet och säkerhet är ett ständigt diskuterat ämne i Sydafrika. Säkerhet har i Europa blivit ett genomgående politiskt tema, från lokal brottsprevention till det globala kriget mot terrorismen. Inför världscupen i fotboll i Sydafrika 2010 har staten satsat över en biljon rand (vilket är ungefär lika mycket i kronor) på poliser, säkerhetspersonal och övervakning av innerstaden och

This essay examines the way in which the traditional form and concept of the muqaddima, as developed in the arabic tradition, is employed by lebanese marxist scholar Husayn Mroueh (1910-1987) in his work on the arabic-islamic heritage, al-naza̔āt al-mādiyya fī al-falsafa al-̔arabiyya al-islāmiyya. The theoretical framework for the study is provided by Peter Freimarks study Das Vorwort als literari

This work originated from that Gambro had a problem with their intensive care dialysis machine, Prismaflex™. The blood tube leading from the machine back to the patient had in some cases creased and stopped the blood flow. Gambro thought that a new or modified warmer holder would prevent this from happening and wanted me to develop this holder. The warmer device heats the blood to body temperature

Background and Purpose – In the last two decades, enterprise architecture (EA) has become a common approach for the management of information systems in organizations. However, the academic development of the field has not paralleled this turn of events. There is considerable divergence among researchers as to the very definition of EA. The present project seeks to clarify the concepts of EA, draw

Den aktuella studien undersökte hur barn omkring perioden för ordförrådsspurten uppmärksammar generell form samt signifikanta detaljer vid visuell objektigenkänning, både avseende nya bild-ordpar samt för redan etablerade bild-ordpar. Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) registrerades i syfte att analysera hur barn på en neural nivå reagerar på kongruenta och inkongruenta presentationer av bild-ordpar,The present study investigated how children around the time of the vocabulary spurt attend to overall shape and significant detail in visual object recognition, regarding both novel picture-word pairs as well as already established picture-word pairs. Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded in order to analyze how children on a neural level respond to congruent and incongruent presentations

In order to understand the effects of European integration on national politics this thesis examines Swedish bilateral development aid-politics; how it has changed character after membership in the European Union; and if political integration has led to an Europeanization of Swedish aid-politics. The theoretical framework is based on Neofunctional theory, which explains political integration. The

Denna studie har genomförts på uppdrag av Stadsbyggnadsförvaltningen i Helsingborg. Studien tog vid efter tidigare utvärderingar som gjordes till följd av en sammanslagning som skett mellan två förvaltningar år 2007. Det övergripande syftet var att undersöka och beskriva den nuvarande organisationskulturen på arbetsplatsen, utifrån frågeställningen om det finns en gemensam organisationskultur. Med

In this paper we fit non-linear models. We build Threshold Autoregressive (TAR) and Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) models and estimate the parameters associated to the models, e.g. the threshold for the TAR model. The TAR and the GARCH model concept are applied to simulated data and to three empirical datasets, two River flow time series and one Blowfly data set.