Bakgrund: Arbetsterapi främjar människors delaktighet i meningsfulla aktiviteter. Mindfulness, medveten närvaro, är en mycket gammal buddhistisk lära som beforskats vetenskapligt sedan 70-talet men väldigt sparsamt inom arbetsterapin. Syfte: För att förbättra kunskapsläget kring mindfulness och arbetsterapi undersöktes upplevelser av mindfulness och dess betydelse i vardagen ur ett aktivitetspersp

Bakgrund: I flera länder är arbetsterapeuter anställda inom skolan. I USA är det dessutom ett av de vanligaste anställningsområdena för arbetsterapeuter. Syfte: Att beskriva tidigare forskning om arbetsterapi för elever i grundskolan. Metod: En litteraturstudie gjordes för att besvara syftet med studien. Sökningar gjordes i databaserna PubMed, Cinahl och ERIC. Efter en kvalitetsgranskning och en m

The present master thesis concerns the standard of protection of companies’ rights in Europe within the field of EU Competition Law. The main question asked is whether the EU competition law enforcement proceedings are in compliance with the standard of protection of companies’ rights set by the Strasbourg Court, or shall there be more safeguards provided for the companies in the EU in order to ma

I denna kvalitativa intervjuundersökning har jobbcoaching för arbetslösa studerats. Platsen för undersökningen är en kommunal verksamhet med det fiktiva namnet JobbForum. Organisationen har praktiserat arbetsmarknadscoaching som metod sedan 2011. Undersökningen äger alltså rum i en stabil organisatorisk kontext, till skillnad från övrig forskning på jobbcoaching i Sverige. Studien vill fånga hur d

This study aims to examine how the sensitivity for macroeconomic announcements surprises changes for the exchange rate in terms of a crisis. Previous research has been biased for U.S announcements and their relation towards emerging market, which has shown that U.S announcements affect more than the domestic. It also suggests that business cycle and uncertainty affect and increase the reaction for

The turbo code used in the 3GPP Long Term Evolution(LTE) standard have been chosen specifically to simplify parallel turbo decoding and thus achieving higher throughputs. The higher data rates however leads to an increased computational complexity and thus a higher power and energy consumption of the decoder. This report presents a turbo decoder for the LTE standard with a stopping crite- ria aime

One of the most pressing present day health concern is the constantly growing increase of diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. In fact the WHO estimates that as much as 300 million individuals could suffer from diabetes by 2025. While genetic factors do contribute to these issues the more common cause is modern day environmental factors like diets rich in fat or highly processed food, low levels oCan meal order influence blood glucose and insulin levels? When carbohydrates like white bread, rice etc. are consumed, glucose levels in the blood start to rise.Depending on how fast this rise in blood glucose levels occurs carbohydrates can be divided into high GI and low GI foods. High GI foods like bread, potatoes etc. cause a rapid spike in blood glucose levels while low GI foods like pasta c

This study has investigated the possibilities of coating additive manufactured titanium dental prosthesis structures. Different coating alternatives were evaluated with the regards of esthetics, function and implementation possibilities. The coatings were applied on test samples and the adhesion between the printed titanium structures and the coating as well as to resin veneering applied on top wa

I den här uppsatsen undersöks aktivisternas och volontärernas situation i deras arbete med flyktingarna under flyktingkrisen 2015 i Sverige. Genom att använda etnografiska metoder, i synnerhet kvalitativa intervjuer med individer engagerade i att hjälpa flyktingarna, argumenterar jag för att olika aktivistgrupper, trots att de har samma mål, uppvisar ett konkurrerande beteende. Genom en intersektiThis thesis investigates the situation of the activists and volunteers working with refugees in the context of the 2015 refugee crisis in Sweden. By employing ethnographic methods, especially qualitative interviews with the individuals engaged in helping the refugees, I argue that different activist groups having the same aim are exhibiting a competitive behavior. I illustrate that the role of ac

Optokinetic reflex in chickens Vision is the most important sense for many birds. Birds use their vision for many different tasks like finding food, spotting potential mates and predators. They also use this very important sense to navigate and move through the environment, and this is interpreted by the visual system as self-motion. The visual system divides properties of the environment into di

In rural Tanzania, customary laws and practices have for over 50 years been the major constraints of women’s land rights and livelihood. According to customs, a man has inherent powers to own and control land, and he is considered to be the rightful heir of such resource, and a woman is not. In most cases, women get to experience such disposition in matters of inheritance, succession, and division

Epilepsy is a disorder in the brain indicated by the occurrence of uncontrollable seizures. The current approaches in treatment of the disease are unsuccessful for 30% of the patients. People suffering from drug resistant epilepsy usually have to remove the part of the brain causing the seizures, which is often the temporal lobe, so novel treatments are urgently needed. Our approach aims at regene

A recent publication introduced a new way to define all k-step linear multistep methods of order k and k+1, in a parametric form that builds in variable step-size. In this framework it is possible to continuously change method and step-size, making it possible to create better behaving adaptive numerical solvers. In this thesis general numerical solvers based on this framework have been implemente

Small ARM Cortex CPU based system boards, called controllers, are used in building automation for regulation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. A controlling project can incorporate several thousands of these controllers. The controllers communicate with a SCADA system over the TCP/IP protocol. For the purpose of testing the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system when

Molnet är ett begrepp som används mer och mer och allt eftersom företagen bekantar sig med de relaterade begreppen och vad de innebär och de tjänster som erbjuds av leverantörerna mognar så vänder sig fler och fler företag till molntjänster för att tillgodose sina behov. I det här examensarbetet undersöks vilka problem man stöter på vid en migrering av en existerande serverlösning samt hur man bäsThe Cloud is becoming a more and more popular expression and as companies learn what it is and the cloud services offered by cloud providers mature, more companies are looking towards The Cloud to satisfy their needs. This master thesis examines issues that can arise when moving an existing server solution to The Cloud and how to utilise the possibilities offered by cloud services with a cost-effe

This paper examines long-term interest rates and fiscal liabilities within EMU in the context of the recent sovereign debt crisis; where Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain faced rising interest rates in contrast to the rest of the EMU. An assessment of the short and long-run properties of long rates, fiscal deficits and government debt are estimated for 11 EMU countries in the time span 19

In this thesis, we study the Jarrow and Yildirim framework for inflation modeling and provide a new specification based on spread modeling which allows to calibrate the model to Zero-Coupons and Year-on-Year options jointly with convexity adjustments. We use this model to provide closedform formulas for options volatilities, convexity adjustments and Year-on-Year swaptions prices. Calibration resu

This thesis focuses on creating a climate adaptive and resilient neighborhood in and area currently serving as an industrial zone. With growing sprawl in Kampala and limited vacant land within the city Limits, the project focuses on developing inefficiently used areas within the city center and developing them into sustainable mixed function urban communities. This provides densification without t

Using agenda setting theory, I have conducted a content analysis of British local newspaper articles to analyze reports regarding the Munich Agreement, which was signed September 30th, 1938. The theory is based on the assumption that media "controls" the reality which is shared with the readers. In a pre-digital society, local media outlets had far greater influence over the public agend

In November 2010 the largest outbreak in Sweden, and the second largest worldwide, of the parasite Cryptosporidium in public water supplies happened. The cause is still unknown, but the effects of the outbreak were that 27 000 inhabitants in the city of Östersund got infected. This study is a research of how other municipalities in Sweden are working with, preserving healthy drinking water, and ho