Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuropsychiatric condition containing a large spectrum of developmental disorders. The diagnosed condition is increasing among people today. With this in mind, there is also a growing need for competence and experience with services and organizations providing care for this target group. The aim of this study was therefore to examine what competence and experien

Hänsyn till biologisk mångfald viktigt vid skogsbränsleuttag Situationen för den biologiska mångfalden i skogen är allvarlig och att plocka ut skogsbränsle kan bidra till ytterligare försämringar. Hänsyn till biologisk mångfald vid skogsbränsleuttag är därför mycket viktig och det går faktiskt att anpassa skogsbränsleuttaget så att den negativa påverkan blir så liten som möjligt. Skogsbränsle ärThis study aims to investigate how the biodiversity in forests in southern Sweden is affected by extraction of forest fuel and to identify what can be done to preserve the biodiversity while extracting forest fuel. The study is performed on behalf of the energy company Kraftringen, which buys large amounts of forest fuel every year. Firstly, a literature study on how biodiversity in forests is af

Syftet med studien är att se om nyproducerade skolor överstiger budgeten. Det har undersökts om det finns något mönster som ökar förståelsen till diskrepans mellan kalkylerad slutkostnad och det verkliga utfallet. Detta kan skapa möjlighet till erfarenhetsåterföring vad gäller nyproducerade skolor och på så sätt kan eventuell fördyrning minimeras i framtiden. Inledningsvis presenteras den valda foThe purpose with this study is to see if new production schools exceed the budget. It will be reviewed whether there is a pattern that can increase the understanding of the discrepancy between calculated final cost and the actual outcome. This could create an opportunity for knowledge management regarding new production schools and thereby minimize possible inflation in future projects. Initially,

Psykisk ohälsa ökar bland barn och ungdomar i alla grupper. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur barns och ungdomars begåvning och grad av internaliserade psykiska symtom utvecklas över tre år samt huruvida begåvning påverkar grad av internaliserade psykiska symtom. Vidare studerades den eventuella inverkan som åldersgrupp respektive kön har på dessa faktorer. Studien baseras på data insaPsychological distress is increasing among children in all groups. The aim of this study was to investigate the development of intelligence and internalized psychological symptoms over three years and whether these variables influence each other. The study further examined the impact of age group and gender on these factors. Schoolchildren aged 9 – 17 years (N = 50) were tested on two occasions us

The aims of this study were to (a) use two automated methods to measure immigration sentiment expressed on Twitter, (b) examine how sentiment changed during the period August 2015 - December 2015, and (c) use 1st person plural pronouns and 1st person singular pronouns as indicators of social and individualistic identity and examine how they moderated sentiment change. All Swedish tweets posted bet

In this thesis, we provide a synthesizable model for supporting design space exploration of application-specific instruction-set processors. The model is written in a high-level of abstraction hardware description language Bluespec System Verilog and is parametrized to support different configurations for use in the design space exploration. To test the model, different applications from the media

In order to secure a sustainable development it is important to switch our resource and energy production from finite sources to bio-based, renewable sources. Biomass is, although not the definitive solution to a sustainable society, a good stepping stone towards it. A lot of agricultural land in Sweden is unused and could be used for cultivation of energy forest. Salix is an energy wood that has

This paper investigates the use and function of metaphors in the Cuban journalistic discourse today through a comparative study between, on one hand, the official Cuban press and, on the other, the unofficial. With a theoretical framework based on cognitive linguistics’ principles of conceptual metaphors, influenced by critical metaphor analysis, the study aims to understand how metaphors are used

Dricksvatten i Sverige är generellt sett av god kvalitet. De senaste årens upptäckter av föroreningar i dricksvattentäkter har dock uppmärksammat brister i övervakningen av grundvatten. Faktum är att föroreningar i grundvatten behöver fastställas och kartläggas i mycket högre utsträckning, för att det även i framtiden ska kunna säkerhetsställas ett vatten av god kvalitet. Därför behöver kunskap om

This study investigates what effect oil has on democracy and if this effect changes when we interact oil with different regions and three different causal mechanisms. To examine this, we use a panel data model covering 156 countries between years of 1970-2014, and two different estimation techniques. The main findings of this thesis is that there is some evidence for that oil has a negative effe

Bedömning ur ett elevperspektiv har väckt förvånansvärt lite forskningsintresse. Samtidigt ser vi oroväckande statistik om ökad skolstress och psykisk ohälsa bland elever, framförallt tjejer. I och med den senaste skolreformen (gy11) är betygsättningen allt mer konstant och individualiserad. Syftet med denna studie är att, på en mer strukturell nivå, se hur den samhälleliga synen på kunskap och b

Over the last 40 years, the concept of resilience has made a journey from the fields of ecology and psychology into the social sciences. By now, it has become a term commonly used in the international climate change adaptation and development spheres, describing the ability of an individual or a community to cope with or recover from harmful events. Critics have raised concerns about this spread,

Two Brief Implicit Association Tests (BIAT) were conducted in order to explore the relation between sexual orientation and gender attitudes. It was tested if gay men show a stronger positive implicit preference for males than females, compared to straight men. Concerning negative attitudes, it was hypothesized that gay men show – compared to straight men – a less negative implicit attitude toward

Dagens industrirobotar är helt omedvetna om sin omgivning och utför oftast enkla förprogrammerade uppgifter. Med flera moderna kameror som fångar tredimensionella bilder monterade på olika delar av roboten så får den ögon. Dessa kan sedan användas för att hålla koll och förstå vad som händer i dess närhet.Technological breakthroughs have in recent years heavily increased the availability of different types of sensors and the amount of computational power, allowing for much more advanced robotic applications. By mounting multiple depth sensors on the robot and designing a fast and robust system with state-of-the-art algorithms we have made the robot aware of its surroundings. First, the surrounding

The keyword for this study is autonomy, a concept most of us take for granted. But for individuals with disabilities this is a right they have had to fight for throughout history. During the 30-40 years this fight has been rewarded and they have gotten their rights incorporated in the law. Autonomy has been described in this study as a human right, which should be given to everyone, regardless of

Äldre i särskilt boende har multipla sjukdomar och många behöver palliativ vård. Syfte: Syftet var att studera sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av palliativ vård i särskilt boende. Metod: Elva sjuksköterskor deltog i intervjuer som analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Symtomlindring förbättras genom tidig bedömning inför palliativ vård och personcentrerat förhållningssätt. Tvärprofes

The global financial crisis of 2007 shook up the European economic landscape through many channels. However, deeper economic integration and the resulting industrial specialization patterns, can partly explain the different impacts across countries. Economic downturns are less likely to congest across borders if the industrial composition is less homogeneous. This essay analyzes the effects of the

The aim of the study was to examine how professionals in the Child and Youth Psychiatry work and relate to the diagnosis of ADD. ADD is included in the diagnosis of ADHD according to the diagnostic manual DSM 5 and is described as ADHD predominantly inattentive form. Research shows that ADD is less observed in relation to ADHD. The research questions in the study are: How do the professionals unde