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The EU has pushed for more Green Public Procurements (GPP) by its member states. Accordingly, Sweden has adopted a GPP policy of 60 % organic consumption in the public sector. The aim of this study is to investigate the barriers which Swedish municipalities are facing to increasing their purchase of organic food. Through a self-completed survey, municipality workers' perceptions of barriers wi
Leadership is essential in order to overcome the collective and transnational issue of climate change. Leadership can furthermore enable the contribution to the combatting of climate change, from emerging economies, such as South Africa. Based on the assumption that the EU is a climate leader, this thesis aims to understand the EU’s climate leadership regarding its relationship with South Africa s
The aim of this thesis is to understand how migrants perceive their opportunities to access health care, and how underlying factors result in barriers impacting their access to health care and ability to safeguard their health. It does so by answering the research question: How do Venezuelan migrants in Medellín perceive their access to health care? To fulfil the aim and answer the research questi
The aim of this study was to analyze how young criminals are described and portrayed in Swedish news reporting and to identify discourses. We chose to analyze 19 different articles from four different Swedish newspapers. These newspapers were two morning papers and two evening papers. The criterias for our range of articles were that they needed to contain a description of crime and that the perso
This thesis aims to analyse problem representations in the Government Offices of Sweden’s policies on men’s violence against women with the use of Carol Bacchi’s (1999) critical policy analysis approach “What’s the problem represented to be?” (WPR). The thesis's theoretical and methodological point of departure is closely connected to the WPR approach, but with the inclusion of definitions of
With the emergence of COVID-19, various industries felt under the pressure from limitations associated with the pandemic and transition to a work-from-home workstyle. Healthcare and Software Development is one of the industries that had to face increased demand for their products and services under severe circumstances. As an interconnection of these spheres,eHealth had to address challenges that
This thesis is about the patient and the professionals' experiences of participation and recovery in forensic psychiatric care. The purpose of the study was to investigate patients' and professionals' experiences of participation and what is considered to contribute to recovery from severe psychiatric illness. The study is based on a qualitative method and the empirical material consis
Plastic offsetting is a new market-based approach for corporations and individuals to reduce their ‘plastic footprint’. This study seeks to understand how plastic offsetting organisations are discursively representing plastic offsetting as an ethical consumption practice, to convince corporations and individuals to purchase plastic credits. The main research question of the study is: How are plast
This project aims to design a wearable phototherapy for neonatal jaundice medical care. Beginning with ergonomics research, the design also focus on mechanical structure and material to enhance medical efficiency, to achieve affordable cost, and to provide users with easy operation and safe characteristics. It will enable parents to give jaundice babies phototherapy at home and release tense hos
Syftet med denna studie är att jämföra olika metoder att kvantifiera den kemiska fettsammansättningen i benmärg med hjälp av magnetkamerateknik, att jämföra dessa metoder för två olika magnetfältsstyrkor samt att ta fram referensfantom och beräkningsalgoritmer för att uppskatta fettinnehållet. Magnetresonans, eller MR, är en vanlig diagnostisk teknik inom vården. Magnetkameran använder sig av ettPurpose: To optimize a method and develop an algorithm to quantify Fatty Acid Composition (FAC) in bone marrow adipose tissue. By using different reconstruction models, compare different MRI systems (3 T and 7 T) to find the optimal field strength and reconstruction model for FAC quantification. Also, to develop a reference phantom with bone marrow-like characteristics. Method: Multi-echo GRE (Gr
Denna studie syftade till att få en djupare förståelse kring hur gömda kvinnors livssituation ser ut och vilken roll som det svenska samhällets skydd och stöd har i kvinnornas livssituation och vardag, samt vilka eventuella konsekvenser kvinnorna får i sin vardag med bakgrunden av det stöd och skydd som samhället erbjuder. De material som använts inom studien bygger huvudsakligen på den skuggrap
Examensarbetets titel: Den hjälpande handen inom kreditgivningsprocessen Seminariedatum: 3 juni 2022. Ämne/kurs: FEKH69 Examensarbete i redovisning på kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng. Författare: Alex Dahlberg, Fabian Halvardsson och Felix Persson Handledare: Mattias Haraldsson Nyckelord: relationsinriktad kreditgivning, transaktionsinriktad kredigivning, kreditbedömning, affärsrelationer, banTitle: The Helping Hand within Lending Seminar date: 3 June 2022. Course: FEKH69 Bachelor's thesis in Accounting, 15 ECTS Authors: Alex Dahlberg, Fabian Halvardsson and Felix Persson Advisor: Mattias Haraldsson Key words: Relationship lending, transaction lending, credit assessment, business relations, banks, real estate companies. Research question: How does the lending process play out
The aim of this study is to analyze how relevant education members of the Swedish parliaments have in relation to the committee they are on. We want to investigate the degree to which they are governed by expertise. The Swedish parliament consists of 349 members, but since this study only focuses on the committees, the number reviewed are 254 members. In order to implement this study, we have used
This thesis investigates how urban experimentation is governed in the new development district in Sege park in Malmö. Together with with private developers and a local NGO the municipality test and experiment with solutions for how the sharing economy can contribute to reduce the future resident’s climate impact and living costs. By using the theoretical lens of governmentality this thesis focusse
The purpose of our study is to map the expectations, managerial preferences and motivation triggers of young nurses and nurse-assistants.The authors of this study compare the results to existing relevant literature in order to gain a deeper understanding of the managerial challenges faced in order to fit the demands of the recruitment, retainment and motivation of healthcare workers. A qualitative
Extern strålbehandling är en av den viktigaste typen av cancerbehandlingar och administreras till patienter genom användning av en strålbehandlingsapparat som kallas för linjäraccelerator. Linjäracceleratorn producerar bromsstrålning som används för att bota cancern. För att säkerställa att behandlingen levereras med hög noggrannhet planeras den innan start. Ett viktigt steg i planeringen är beräIntroduction:The XenX is a small animal irradiation system that acquires high-resolution cone-beam tomography (CBCT) images of small animals and treats small animals with higher precision than medical linear accelerators. MuriSlice is a software for CBCT image reconstruction. This thesis aims to optimise the CBCT image reconstruction protocol in MuriSlice to enable the segmentation of CBCT images
Barsebäcks kärnkraftverk driftsattes 1975 och den första reaktorn togs ur drift 1999 och den andra 2005. Nedmontering och rivning av kärnkraftverket har inletts och processen beräknas vara klar på 2030-talet. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att kartlägga eventuell radioaktiv kontamination i området runt Barsebäcksverket. Mitt mål är att ta fram en metod för att särskilja bakgrundsstrålning från Background and aim: The Barsebäck nuclear power plant (NPP) units ceased operations in 1999 and 2005. Now the NPP is in the phase of decommissioning, which is a complicated process that will take many years to complete. Radiological characterization of the surrounding area is a part of the decommissioning process. The aim of this thesis was to identify and quantify residual anthropogenic radioacti
The purpose of this study is to analyze how Afghan evacuees have been constructed as belonging in Korea and what impacts might their status as ‘special contributors’ have for the future resettlement and integration of refugees. ‘Special contributor’ is a term used for the Afghan personnel and their families that worked with Korean governmental agencies in Afghanistan, and were evacuated upon the T
Chinese preparatory education is a specialized higher education programme for students from ethnic minorities. Minorities in remote areas are eligible for a preferential education policy that permits entry into universities as "ethnic minority preparatory students " (少数民族预科学生). At school, these ethnic students encounter not only the challenge of their role as preparatory students but als
Den agrara revolutionen innebar flera stora förändringar, både inom jordbruket men även för samhället i sin helhet. Genom nya odlingstekniker, grödor och redskap kom jordbruks-strukturerna att förändras. Storgodsen gick från feodala jordbrukssystem till kapitalistiska med betald arbetskraft. Vilket i sin tur innebar en stor social förändring vid godsen och deras underliggande enheter. En stor del
