The paper at hand concerns itself with the vegetarian organisation known as Svenska Vegetariska Föreningen in the early twentieth-century Sweden. Excerpts are drawn from all issues of the organisations periodical Vegetarianen during 1903 and 1904 to highlight the organisations beliefs concerning meat-eating and personal health. The excerpts highlighting their beliefs are then closely examined and

Life at a music festival can be both a blessing and a curse. It creates a feeling of escaping reality into euphoric happiness and freedom that only music festivals can bring. But one thing can drastically change this mood and make the living at the festival quite miserable – the weather. Rain as well as too high or low temperatures contribute to this negative change of mood. The festival chosen fo

Due to the restrictions of the corona pandemic the counsellors at the Swedish Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services had to suddenly transition to online counselling. The purpose of this study was therefore to examine how social workers, i.e. psychiatry counsellors, describe and experience online counselling and the impact it has on the interaction. The method chosen in this study was qualitati

Denna studie syftar till att explorativt undersöka etiska implikationer av artificiell intelligens (AI) inom rekrytering, och studera medvetenheten av dessa relaterat till företags mognad för AI, samt dess företagskultur. Med detta kan en grund för framtida forskning läggas, och möjligtvis bidra med fynd som kan guida praktiker. Studien baseras på forskningsfrågan: Hur kan företags AI-mognad och oThis study aims to explore ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) within recruitment and study the awareness in relation to companies maturity within AI, and its organisational culture. This could serve as a basis for future research, and possibly guide practitioners to use AI in recruitment more ethically. The study is based on the research question: How can AI maturity and organisa

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur musiklärare arbetar kring demokratisk värdegrund, hur musiklärare uppfattar värdegrundsarbete och vilka möjligheter som ges till lärare och elever att utveckla förståelsen av vad demokratisk värdegrund är eller kan vara. Studiens data genererades genom en enkätstudie och en intervjustudie. Enkäten riktades mot elever och musiklärare från årskurs 7 till This study aims to explore how music teachers in Sweden work with democratic values. The data for this study was generated through a survey and four interviews. The survey was targeted at students and music teachers from high school, grades 7-9, to upper secondary school. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with four of the teachers who answered the questionnaire, two teachers from each

The food system accounts for a significant portion of environmental degradation, while it is at the same time to a large extent producing food that is deteriorating to human health. The private sector plays an essential role in contributing to the sustainability of the system. Based on a systematic literature review, we conceptualise the notion of sustainable nutrition (SN), which highlights the i

Bakgrund: Ett fåtal studier beskriver barnmorskans upplevelser av att assistera kvinnor med förlossningsrädsla under barnafödande. Ökad kunskap om barnmorskors erfarenheter av att ge stöd och assistera förlossningsrädda kvinnor kan bidra till att uppmärksamma barnmorskors arbete och på så sätt kunna vara ett bidrag till att utveckla vården för dessa kvinnor. Syfte: undersöka barnmorskors upplevels

Agriculture is today the human activity most vulnerable to Climate Change, and one of its leading causes. Regenerative Agriculture offers powerful tools to restore ecosystems, without sacrificing abundant food production; nevertheless, a systematic adoption of such practices is incompatible with the existing economic structures and calls for a radical societal change. This study aims at exploring

Five years into the present peacebuilding cycle in Colombia, violence is increasing again. In the Putumayo department, social-ecological conflicts between the state, armed groups and local communities persist. Social leaders, often representing local communities, are targets of violent actions and represent an extremely vulnerable group. In the Putumayo, at least 67 social leaders defending human

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om en likabehandlings workshop kunde minska deltagares fördomsfullhet samt öka deras perspektivtagande, psykologiska flexibilitet, medkänsla och värdegrundsförankring. Detta jämfört med en föreläsningskontroll som bestod av information om fördomar, diskriminering och mångfald. Studien ämnade även utröna om kopplingar mellan social dominansorientering (SDO)The purpose of present study was to examine if an equal treatment workshop would lessen prejudice and increase perspective taking, psychological flexibility, compassion, and connectedness to one’s values. The control group received a lecture with information regarding prejudice, discrimination, and diversity in the workplace. The study also examined whether there was a relation between Social Domi

Bakgrund: Studier har visat att partners som blev involverade i den perinatala vården hade mer positiv upplevelse av förlossningen. Barnmorskan har en betydelsefull uppgift med att inkludera och stödja partners i samband med förlossning. Covid- 19 pandemi har lett till att partners närvaro begränsats av besöksförbud. Syfte: Att belysa partners upplevelse i samband med graviditet och barnafödande

The purpose of this study is to to investigate how cultural control can be integrated into the onboarding process as well as how the onboarding process can lead to cynical and non-cynical employees. The empirical part of this study was conducted through an interpretive, abductive, and qualitative research method. The empirical data is collected through a case study of the Swedish Bank Notion and i

Title: The Impact of Busyness on Venture Capital Screening Seminar Date: 2021-06-02 Course: BUSN79 Authors: Antonio David Trevisany and Henrik Hultquist Supervisor: Håkan Jankensgård Keywords: Venture Capital, VC, Distraction, Industry Shock, Screening, Pre-Investment Screening, MOIC, Panel Data Purpose: The main purpose of the thesis is to understand whether venture capitalists are able to select

In the last decade, news reports about an overall doomed brick-and-mortar retail landscape have grown. The field of commerce has experienced a digital boom, causing an increased shift of businesses from traditional brick-and-mortar retail to the internet. This structural transformation is changing the commercial landscape, putting serious pressure on city centre retail and urban development. Store

As the Coronavirus started to spread around the world in 2020, governments had to respond. Lockdowns and other restrictions were implemented to minimize the virus spread and people falling ill from COVID-19. In the United Kingdom, a lockdown was enforced from March to June 2020 whereafter restrictions eased, even though social distancing and other measurement still remained. There have been great

Under the rapid urbanization of Bangkok, the water town on a floodplain, has changed into a jungle concrete of high-rise buildings and road structure that has adopted from the West but does not cope with the water-related traditional way of living of the Thai people. Consequently, Bangkok has been facing more frequent and more severe impact of urban flooding while people neglected and forgot their

Det har en tid cirkulerat rykten att preparatet MDMA (metylendioximetamfetamin) skulle ha terapeutiska egenskaper. Vissa forskare har spekulerat i att MDMA är ett preparat som skulle kunna underlätta psykoterapi, inte minst för människor som lider av trauma och/eller PTSD (posttraumatiskt stressyndrom). Sedan år 2008 har ett fåtal RCT-studier kring saken publicerats. Forskarna själva hävdade attdeThere are widespread rumors that the substance MDMA (metylendioximetamphetamine) has therapeutic properties. Some researchers are speculating that MDMA could be used as an aid in psychotherapy, especially for patients suffering from trauma and/or PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder). Since 2008, a few RCT (randomized controlled trials) studies on the matter have been published. The researchers the

Tidigare forskning har uppmärksammat en ökning av stressrelaterade symtom hos svenska skolungdomar. Ur ett folkhälsoperspektiv finns det vinster i riktade insatser till denna grupp, inte minst för gymnasieelever som står nära inträde till arbetsmarknaden. Ett begrepp som har uppmärksammats i relation till långvarig stress är utmattningssyndrom. Ett liknande symtomkluster som beskrivs i konstruktetStress-related symptoms are increasing amongst Swedish youth. Long-term stress can give rise to clusters of symptoms, as illustrated by the constructs exhaustion disorderand mental fatigue. This study explored these clusters with self-assessment forms Karolinska Exhaustion Disorder Scale (KEDS) and Mental Fatigue Scale (MFS) in a non-clinical high school population to find out whether the forms mi