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The study aimed to investigate social workers in the department of children in foster care experiences of their discretion in relation to parents requesting that their children move back home from foster care, a request called “hemtagningsbegäran” in Swedish. The study also aimed to research the social workers views of “Lex Lilla hjärtat”. The study was based on seven semi-structured qualitative i

Protein- och mekanikanalys av menisken vid knäledsartros Artros drabbar var fjärde svensk över 45 år. Kunskap om hur och varför artros uppstår är fortfarande begränsad och det finns ingen bot mot sjukdomen. Vi har därför ägnat vårt examensarbete åt att forska på knäledsartros genom att undersöka hur menisker från artrosdrabbade knän skiljer sig från friska. Menisken är en broskskiva vars huvudfuOsteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and is expected to become even more prevalent worldwide with an increasingly older and more obese population. The degenerative joint disease, causing pain, swelling and stiffness in the joints, has a complex etiology and knowledge of the pathophysiological mechanisms is still limited. Recent studies have however reported that the meniscus plays a

As our lives ever increasingly move online, the influence of social media is constantly growing. It has however proven difficult for legislators to keep up with rapid development of online spaces. Therefore, legislative control has largely been left to the social media platforms. To see if this is a good solution, this paper aims to analyze Twitters terms of use, rules, guidelines, and policies, i

Being in their early 20s, Generation Z has left its childhood behind and has entered the job market. However, employers have yet to prepare for their arrival. As strategic communication practitioners lack knowledge about attracting this cohort as future employees to their brand, and theorists in employer branding have overlooked Generation Z largely, this thesis aims to explain factors that enhanc

Various renovations were applied to the existing post-war building stock of the so called “Swedish Million Program”, that were built during the 1965 and 1974 period. Only 20% of those buildings were renovated and still the rest of them remains in need of vast renovations, to mitigate the climatic impact of the existing building stock. Nowadays, the annual rate of large-scale renovation in EU count

Introduce the development of competition law in the EU and China, then turn to the enforcement part, and then compare existing issues to suggest what China can learn from the EU.

Everybody is a nation brand ambassador/citizen diplomat of his/her country of citizenship or residence or both. This phenomenon is receiving more presence in modern public diplomacy. Sweden is an epitomized example in this regard as a single state in the world that allowed its citizens to run the official Twitter account of the state. This thesis explores Sweden as a case study to illuminate the c

I analyse the effect of risk aversion on the share of wealth investment on risky tradable financial assets at individual level by exploiting the results of a laboratory experiment on a sample of over 700 Dutch respondents. The estimates of an econometric model show that for different wealth levels, risk aversion has heterogeneous effects on the share of wealth invested in risky tradable financial

År 2045 har Sverige som mål att ha netto-noll utsläpp av växthusgaser. Från och med år 2019 betyder det att utsläppen måste minska med 6–10 % per år. År 2018 stod bygg- och fastighetssektorn i Sverige för 21 % av landets utsläpp av växthusgaser, vilket motsvarade 11,8 miljoner ton koldioxidekvivalenter. Om de utsläpp på 5,8 miljoner ton koldioxidekvivalenter som genererades på grund av import av sIn 2018 the Swedish construction and real estate industry accounted for 21 % of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. In 2045, Sweden aims to reach net zero emissions of greenhouse gases. This study aimed to analyse the possibilities and the potential of reuse of construction products in new residences based on the aspects climate, cost and feasibility. Two products were selected, one due to bei

The aim of this study was to increase knowledge about the way social workers at women's shelters describe abused women's contact with financial aid services within the social welfare system. The study was based on four semi-structured qualitative interviews with social workers working at women's shelters, who in their professional role had contact with the financial aid services. The s

Åldrandet hos oss människor är individuellt och sker gradvis under en lång tid. Vissa funktioner i kroppen försämras och äldre människor har ofta av olika anledningar svårigheter att få i sig den mängd näring som de har ett behov utav, därför behöver de oftast dela upp sin kost i fler måltider fördelat under dagen. I denna uppsats jämförs kosten som serveras i ett ålderdomshem i en mindre kommun iThe aging of us humans is individual and occurs gradually over a long period of time. Some functions in the body deteriorate and older people often have difficulty for various reasons to get the amount of nutrition they need, so they usually need to divide their diet into more meals distributed during the day. In this essay, the diet served in a retirement home in a small municipality in northwest

This thesis explores the emerging strategy of nation sub-branding and critically argues for the domestic implications it has on national identities and the falsely promoted tradition of social justice. The study situates itself within the critical cultural stream of nation branding research, rejecting, however, prior scholarly presumption that a segmented nation brand could mean less marginalizati

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om och hur repetitivt negativt tänkande (RNT) påverkar nivån av upplevt obehag under återkallning av neutralt och negativt laddade bilder, samt hur blickbeteenden modulerar sådana effekter. Ett annat syfte var att studera huruvida RNT och bildinnehåll påverkar deltagarnas blickbeteende. Datan som analyserades i denna studie hade sedan tidigare blivit insamThe purpose of the present study was to investigate if and how repetitive negative thinking (RNT) influences the level of experienced distress during recall of images of neutral and negative content, and how such effects might be modulated by gaze behavior. Another aim was to study whether RNT and image content influences participants’ gaze behavior. The data that was analyzed in this thesis was p

Studien utförs ur en kommunikativ kontext och ämnar till att skapa en bredare förståelse för medias kommunikation om subkulturen incels samt en problematisering av digital medias gestaltning. Denna studie har som syfte att belysa och problematisera hur subkulturen incels gestaltas i digitala medier. Studien använder ett feministiskt perspektiv för att belysa den problematik som incels medför gällaThe study is carried out from a communicative context and aims to create a broader understanding of the media's communication about the subculture incels as well as a problematization of the framing digital media is portraying. This study aims to shed light on, and problematize, how the subculture incels are framed in digital media. The study uses a feminist perspective to shed light on the pr

The aim of this study was to explore women’s experiences as relatives to one or more individuals with substance abuse (codependency). The method chosen for this study was qualitative interviews with seven different women with experiences of being close to someone with substance abuse. Our empirical material was analysed using both Yvonne Hirdman’s gender theory as well as Arlie Russell Hochschild’

As society becomes more ecologically conscious there is a push toward the use of materials with a smaller environmental burden, one of these materials is glulam (GLT), which has gained a lot of traction in recent years not only for ecological reasons but for its ease in manufacture, transport, noise dampening, etc. The focus of this project was to evaluate the influence of different joint configu

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck Sweden elderly became particularly targeted by news media, as early studies indicated a higher risk of death among elderly. The aim of this study was to investigate existing and emerging discourses concerning elderly during the pandemic. The method used was a qualitative study of documents. The empirical data analyzed in this study were 48 articles published on-li

This paper examines the sufficiency of a trading method based on singular value decomposition (SVD) of past stock prices. The SVD method is frequently used as a tool to reduce data noise, compress big-data, and analyse data components. Hence, the method is well suited to form a ground for a predictive tool of price developments. From the predicted pattern, a strategy was formed by construction of

Contributing 3% of global annual carbon emissions, the shipping sector has to do its part to keep the global temperature under the maximum increase of 2°C. To fulfil this target, the Netherlands conceived the ‘Green Deal on Maritime and Inland Shipping and Ports’ in 2019. This thesis aims to make a preliminary assessment on the policy’s effectiveness by applying Weber et al.’s environmental pol

Globalisation has expanded investors’ financial reach and while most investments occur without much attention, some lead to disagreements and divergent responses from consumers. Therefore, this paper aims at providing a comprehensive picture of consumers’ responses following investments that become a matter of controversy. This research problem was addressed through the case of Oatly’s consumers’