The current Japanese population of 124 million is expected to decrease to 104 million by year 2050 (Takahashi et al., 2003) with a rapid aging population and, thus increasing immigration is one of the responses to this demographic concern. Hereon onwards, it will be relevant to understand the social patterns of foreign residents living in Japan and finding out more about their livelihoods as non-n

BACKGROUND: Continuity of care is important for patients with chronic conditions. Assigning patients to a named GP may increase continuity.AIM: To examine if patients who were registered with a named GP at the onset of their first chronic disease had higher continuity at subsequent visits than patients who were only registered at a practice.DESIGN & SETTING: Registry-based observational study

Abstract Many infectious diseases interact with their immediate environments. Prevention strategies have to be executed on the individual level as well as within the risk environment. Risk factors refer to factors outside of the individual that influence the risk of transmission. However, this thesis focuses on macro level issues such as socioeconomic, political, demographic and technologic

Utgångspunkt för denna uppsats är Gabor Matés facklitterära bok In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction från 2008. Första delen av uppsatsen innehåller en källtextanalys av boken, där bland annat bokens kontext, innehåll och stil diskuteras. Andra delen av uppsatsen utgörs av en översättningsanalys, där hanteringen av några polysema ord analyseras. Före själva analysen prese

OBJECTIVE: This study utilized the evidence-gap map method and critically examined the scope, methodologies, and focus of the studies that investigated the influence of the built environment on inpatient healthcare settings over a decade (2010-2021).METHODS: We conducted a systematic review per the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses guidelines and surveyed 406 artic

Articulators accelerate and decelerate continuously during speech. Previous research reveals a structured pattern of deceleration peaks aligning with segment onset and acceleration peaks with segment offset. This study reports on previous EMA findings on 18 speakers while also sets out to explain why the deceleration peak lags behind at onset boundary, as previously reported. A qualitative analysi

Youth intimate partner violence (Youth IPV) has long been an overlooked field of research, but an increasing number of recent studies are showing the extent and severity of the problem. Health care plays an important role in identifying Youth IVP, but there are no official guidelines regarding which profession within health care should have the responsibility, knowledge, or competence to identify

Fåmansföretagsreglernas grundläggande syfte är att förhindra att fåmansägare omvandlar inkomster som bör beskattas i inkomstslaget tjänst, till kapitalinkomster för att på så vis minska sin skatt. Givet att fåmansägaren uppfyller de förutsättningar för att beskattas i enlighet med 57 kap. IL, så kommer dennes inkomster därför schablonbeskattas. Det finns undantag till nu nämnda regler. Ett undantaThe main purpose for the rules regulating closely held companies is to prevent the owners of such companies from converting income that would be taxed in the higher wage-related income category into the lower capital income in order to reduce their tax liability. If the owners of a closely held company satisfies the conditions for taxation in accordance with Sweden’s Chapter 57 Act on Income Taxat

Antalet cyberattacker har ökat markant sedan förändringar i det geopolitiska läget och som resultat under och efter Covid19 pandemin. För svenska SME kan en välfungerande cybersäkerhetskultur vara avgörande för företagens överlevnad. Därmed har en kvalitativ undersökning i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförts hos 5 svenska SME:er i Skåne. Intervjuernas primära syfte är att undersöka hurThe number of cyberattacks has increased significantly following changes in the geopolitical landscape and as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. For Swedish SMEs, a well-functioning cybersecurity culture can be crucial for the survival of the businesses. Consequently, a qualitative study was conducted in the form of semi-structured interviews with 5 Swedish SMEs in Skåne. The primary purpose of th

In the Milanković judgment, the First Section of the European Court of Human Rights was called upon to assess whether the applicant’s criminal convictions based on the doctrine of command responsibility violated the principle of legality laid down in art. 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court answered in the negative, finding itself in line with the jurisprudence of the ad hoc cr

Background Patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage who are receiving factor Xa inhibitors have a risk of hematoma expansion. The effect of andexanet alfa, an agent that reverses the effects of factor Xa inhibitors, on hematoma volume expansion has not been well studied. Methods We randomly assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients who had taken factor Xa inhibitors within 15 hours before having an a

I den här uppsatsen tar jag utgångspunkt i publiken som aktivt tolkande agenter. Istället för att försöka ändra på publiken, undersöker jag i uppsatsen hur man, som scenkonstskapare, kan arbeta med ett verk för att ge utrymme för varje publikdeltagare och deras respektive tolkningar, som de är. Frågan jag diskuterar är: hur kan man, i ett scenkonstverk, arbeta medvetet med utrymmet för publikens a

This thesis aims to explore the issue of trademark squatting and its solutions in the EU and China. Trademark squatting is a form of trademark infringement that occurs when individuals or entities register trademarks in territories where they do not have legitimate business operations, taking advantage of the "first-to-file" systems. If trademark squatting is permitted to persist, it has

Since August 2021 Swedish social services have had a special responsibility to work for perpetrators of violence to change their behavior, but little research has examined aspiring social workers’ interest in working with the target group. This quantitative study has aimed to understand social work students’ interests, knowledge about, and how comfortable they are in working with perpetrators of v

Den 9 december 1948 antogs konventionen om förebyggande och bestraffning av brottet folkmord. Begreppet “folkmord”, myntat av den framlidne professorn Raphael Lemkin, definieras som den systematiska förintelsen av gruppers grundläggande livsvillkor med syftet att förinta gruppen i sig. I artikel II av folkmordskonventionen definieras folkmord istället som handlingar som “förövas i avsikt att förinOn the 9th of December 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted. The term “genocide”, coined by the late American–Polish professor Raphael Lemkin, is defined as the systematic destruction of the essential foundations of life for groups – with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. Article II of the Convention instead states genocide is an a

The study aimed to investigate gender differences in court decisions about compulsory care according to LVM through a gender perspective. Normative notions about women and men exist and are reproduced throughout society. These normative notions can be found within the judiciary and social services, which affects the professional's assessment regarding addicted men and women in court orders con