Old age is something that affects everyone, sooner or later and in different ways. The question on how to take care of older persons and support them when getting older might be more relevant now than ever, as the population over 60 years old is expected to grow with 40 percent in the coming 10 years. In an older human being, every age is preserved. In an 80-year-old mind there might live a little

Tidigare studier har rapporterat fördelarna av interaktionen med djur. Forskarna är eniga om att några av de positiva aspekterna inkluderar kognitiva förmågor, såsom förbättrad koncentration och uppmärksamhet. Tidigare studier har främst fokuserat på äldre, barn och personer med kognitiva nedsättningar vilket möjliggör ytterligare studier på andra grupper. Denna studie var avsedd att undersöka en Psychological studies report the benefits due to the interaction with animals. There is a consensus amongst researchers indicating the cognitive benefits such as enhanced concentration and attention span. Previous studies have focused on the elderly, children, and cognitively impaired individuals allowing further studies on other populations. This study was intended to analyze whether a cat, a dog

In a multicultural society, different cultures come in contact with each other which leads to many people need to relate to several cultures in their everyday lives. This study is aimed to highlight, analyze and discuss how young adult Malmö residents with a foreign background, reason about their identity creation in an environment where they are often reminded that they are different from the cro

This thesis examines a binary Gallo-Roman aristocratic identity by looking at the letter collections of Sidonius Apollinaris, Ruricius of Limoges, and Avitus of Vienne. More specifically, it will put emphasis on the construction of a Gallo-Roman identity which is highly relevant in regard to the context of the fall, or transformation, of the Western Roman Empire. Hence, the aim of this paper is to

Trade has for long been seen as the most efficient and important measure to increase the economy and welfare for a country. Therefore, several industrialized countries have agreed on different benefit trade agreements towards the LDC countries. One of these trade agreements is the ‘Everything But Arms’ agreement between the European Union and the LDC. However, these trade agreements have been crit

The purpose of this study was to, through critical discourse analysis, examine how ‘addiction’ was constructed by students and professionals in the trade magazine Socionomen, asking what discourses around the topic of addiction were visible, and how the discourses construct the addict as the subject. The empirical material consisted of 11 articles published during 2018. Via a Social Constructivist

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka vilka copingstrategier socialarbetare som arbetar klientnära använder sig av för att hantera den eventuella empatitrötthet och stress arbetet kan medföra, samt beakta hur begreppet resiliens har betydelse för deras välmående. För att undersöka detta har det utförts åtta stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialarbetare som arbetar på olika arbetsplatserThis study aims at investigating what coping strategies social workers who work close to clients use to deal with possible compassion fatigue and stress that the work may entail. Further, we want to observe how the concept of resilience is important for their well-being. To investigate this, eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers who work in different workplaces, who a

AST och ADHD är idag en av de vanligaste diagnoserna bland barn i skolåldern i Sverige och tidigare forskning visar att de har svårt med bland annat kommunikation, emotionsreglering och sociala samspel. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka några av dessa problem i förhållande till empati. Begreppet empati har brutits ner i mindre beståndsdelar som består av affektiv empati, kognitiv empati och vASD and ADHD are some of the most common diagnoses among children in Swedish elementary schools. Research has shown that these groups have, among other, difficulties with communication, emotional regulation and social interaction. This study examines some of these difficulties in relation to empathy. The concept of empathy has been broken down into the smaller element’s affective empathy, cognitiv

The purpose of this study is to look into how middle managers of Swedish LSS housing are balancing their responsibility to provide their clients with good living conditions and their responsibility to fulfill their employees’ right to a good working environment. We conducted one focus group with three middle managers from one municipality participating and then five semi-structured interviews with

Denna studie undersöker och jämför tre filmer från 1900-talet om Jeanne d'Arc ur ett historiekulturellt perspektiv. Filmerna ifråga är Carl Th. Deyers "La passion de Jeanne d'Arc" (1928), Victor Flemings "Joan of Arc" (1948) och Luc Bessons "The Messenger: the Story of Joan of Arc"(1999). Studien nyttjar Klas-Göran Karlssons teorier om historiekultur och histo

I den här kandidatuppsatsen utforskas peritexten på 19 humanvetenskapliga avhandlingar ur ett retoriskt perspektiv. Hur förmedlar bokomslaget genretillhörighet, information om verkets innehåll, om möjlig läsupplevelse och målgrupp? Analysen är hermeneutiskt grundad, och det teoretiska och metodologiska ramverket utgörs av prototypteori, stilistik, paratext enligt Gérard Genette, samt analys av vis

Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka betydelsen av vårdhundar för personer med demenssjukdom. Metod: En litteraturstudie med induktiv ansats som innefattar tio vetenskapliga artiklar av både kvantitativ och kvalitativ metod. Materialet har analyserats genom en integrerad analys. Resultat: Litteraturstudiens resultat visar att intervention med vårdhund kan bidra till ökad livskvalitet samt välbefinnan

On November 17th, 2017, Electronic Arts, an American gaming company, publishes one of the most anticipated games of the year: Star Wars Battlefront 2. It is a first- and third-person shooter video game based on the Star Wars universe, with both single and multiplayer aspects. Upon its release, the game, in its beta stage, was heavily criticized. The criticism was regarding the status of the game’s

In this degree project, automatic live comments of the events in a football game are generated in text format. The events are detected using machine learning, where CNNs are fit using audio recordings and player positions of games. Suitable features are extracted, where several models are fit to detect different types of events. The results indicate that the detections of sound powers and referee

The combination of item non response and cluster analysis is a field which has not been explored to its full extent. This study aims to investigate which consequences a data set with missing values has on the algorithm of cluster analysis and which model for imputation should be suggested in order to minimize standard error and the optimal number of clusters. Basing our research on principal compo

Due to anthropogenically created climate change, global cities are facing inundation by rising sea levels. This study aimed to fill knowledge gaps in understanding the exposure of urban infrastructure such as roads, railways, buildings and parks to sea-level rise (SLR) scenarios, and how this would affect local populations. Three economic hubs, namely London (United Kingdom), Bangkok (Thailand) an