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The aim of this study was to examine how women can experience getting an ADHD diagnosis in adult age and to examine their experience of growing up without a proper diagnosis. Data was collected from ten blogs written by Swedish women with ADHD. Antonovsky's Salutogenic theory, with the focus on KASAM, was used to analyse the findings. The results showed that women with undiagnosed ADHD, often

Sammanfattning Examensarbetets titel: Jag fick inget tack, jag fick sparken! En studie om fem ledares bibehållna arbetsprestation under en omlokalisering Seminariedatum: 17 januari 2013 Ämne/kurs: FEKH95, Examensarbete kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng Författare: Morana Dedic Sunana Singh Ramzy Francis El Khouri Handledare: Nadja Sörgärde Fem nyckelord: Ledarskap, identitet, HRM, organisations

När aktier tas upp till handel på en reglerad marknad eller vid emissioner av aktier riktade till allmänheten ska ett prospekt upprättas. I det fall prospektet har varit vilseledande och de emitterade aktierna inte har det värde som har utlovas är det naturligt att tecknare av aktierna vill utkräva ansvar. Ansvar för fel eller brister i ett prospekt åligger enligt svensk rättspraxis inte det emittA prospectus shall according to Swedish law be produced when a company undergoes an initial public offering (IPO) or when shares are issued to the public. It is only natural for subscribers of shares to want compensation if the prospectus has been misleading and the issued shares are not worth what was promised. An issuing company is not, however, inflicted with liability for errors or omissions i

Riskkapitalindustrin har utvecklats och vuxit enormt under de senaste decennierna. Framgångar inom branschen har lett till stora vinster för ägare och investerare. Ett vanligt upplägg är att de aktiva ägarna av en riskkapitalfond erhåller en fast förvaltaravgift tillsammans med en eventuell andel av vinsten, s.k. carried interest. Carried interest har traditionellt beskattats som kapitalinkomst iThe private equity industry has gone through a period of staggering growth and development during the last few decades. Successes from these funds have resulted in large profits for owners and investors. A common compensatory feature in the industry allows the active owners of the funds to acquire a fixed management fee along with the possibility of a share of profits; the latter is called a ”carr

Sammanfattning Studien behandlar polisens roll i straffprocessen genom att beskriva hur polisens faktiska inflytande i den dömande verksamheten har ökat i samband med målet på en effektivare lagföring. Utredningen visar att allt fler brottsanmälningar lämnas utan åtgärd i ett led att frigöra resurser, medan andra brott beivras utanför domstol genom strafförelägganden och ordningsböter. UtredningSummary The study deals with the role of the police in the criminal judicial process by describing how the police actual influence in the judicial system has increased in relation to the goal of a more effective prosecution process. The study shows that more and more reported crimes are left unattended in an effort to free up resources, while other crimes are dealt with out of court by why of pe

Abstract Author: Ermina Barudzija Title: “It’s all about understanding each others occupations and roles”– a qualitative study on the social services and the police’s local collaboration with regard to youth crime, in Landskrona Supervisor: Anders Östnäs Assessor: Helena Hansson The purpose of this thesis was to describe and analyze the social services and the police’s local collaboration with r

Since the 1970’s the image of parenting has changed. Mothers began to focus on their careers and fathers were accredited a softer and more involved role in parenting. The subject has also been covered in Sweden by parenting magazines since 1968, when ’Vi föräldrar’ was launched. Over the last ten years, a number of new parenting magazines have surfaced in the Swedish market. The magazine ‘Mama’, w

The aim of my thesis was to study the organization Convictus, which works with people who have a drug dependency. More specifically, the purpose of this study was to find out what help Convictus can offer their members and its significance for people with drug dependence. I used the theories of symbolic interaction, the organization and its member’s values, norms and culture that they share as wel

This report is a compilation of experiences within Swedish rescue services concerning alternative firefighting systems. The purpose is to investigate which systems are currently in use and how the rescue services experience their function and efficiency. The method used to achieve this were to study previously written work in the subject in an literature review, followed by a survey in which a que

Author: Hanna Fridhed Title: Fort McMurray; the gentrification of the Lower Town Site Supervisor: Roberto Scaramuzzino Assessor: Torbjörn Hjort This study was conducted with the aim to examine the past and current development and future redevelopment of the Lower Town Site of Fort McMurray, AB, Canada, and to analyze the possible consequences for the current residents. Using the theory of gentrif

In this essay, I investigate whether Solomonoff’s prior can be used to solve the problem of the priors for Bayesianism. In outline, the idea is to give higher prior probability to hypotheses that are "simpler", where simplicity is given a precise formal definition. I begin with a review of Bayesianism, including a survey of past proposed solutions of the problem of the priors. I then intr

Authors: Celie Claesson and Sara Löfvendahl Titel: We are AIK – a study of the organized football hooligansim Supervisor: Matts Mosesson Why does some individuals choose to become hooligans, and what is it that make them choose to be part of a group with this destructive behavior? Is it violence that is the primary cause, or may there be other underlying factors? What part does identity developm

Abstract Mean dive duration and probability of observing Minke whale surface feeding were estimated throughout three consecutive feeding seasons in Faxafloy bay, Iceland. Observations were done using manual theodolite and binoculars each season from June to August. Surfacings of the whale as well as behavioural notes were fixed into Pythagoras program. Mean dive duration was significantly longer i

THIS MASTER THESIS is about making diving more accessible. The experience of diving is today relying on a complex set of equipment and infrastructure, thus most people with a certificate seldom use it. My intention is to evolve diving equipment, which has looked the same since the sixties, and by doing that simplifying the experience of diving. The goal is to create a solution positioning itself

This report summarizes the conclutions of a Master Thesis at Lund University (LTH) in cooperation with Scania CV AB R & D during the fall of 2010 and winter 2011. The mission is to improve the eating and writing ability (EWA) in truck cabs. A EWA offers truck driver to eat and write inside the cab. A EWA can for example be a countertop, a full table or a simple cup holder. There is great pote

The purpose of this study was to illuminate the relation between control and volunta-riness in drug rehabilitation programs, as viewed from the perspective of therapists within two types of programs: The Twelve step program and the Milieu therapy pro-gram. Drug rehabilitation programs in Sweden are mostly based on voluntary partici-pation. However, the actual degree of voluntariness in these progr

The objective of this qualitative study was to explore how six South African HIV-diagnosed persons experience the social and emotional consequences of being infected and how the support structure provided by the non-governmental organization Keiskamma affect their everyday lives. The qualitative approach consisted of semi-structured interviews with six of Keiskamma’s patients and observations of

The description of the drug user and drug abuse varies and has changed over time. The aim of this study is to put a social constructionist approach to examine the social construction of drug abuse and drug users within selected parts of a specific Swedish public inquiry (SOU 2011:35). I have analyzed my material by dividing it into categories using a qualitative method for analyzing the content of

The aim of this study was to investigate how the new Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis method (NIPD) is represented within a public policy constituted by The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics, “SMER”. In order to do this, a post-structural method for policy-analysis called “What’s the problem represented to be”, founded by Carol Lee Bacchi (2009) have been used for the analysis. Through a d