The demand for security services has increased since the ending of the Cold War. Individuals and companies are dissatisfied with the police and their work methods, which has resulted in more and more people choosing other options. The privatization of the society has opened up opportunities for the citizens to have their security needs met by other operators. The purpose of this study is to highli

Mental illness is a growing social problem that has to be understood in order to counteract it. People with mental illness often need some kind of treatment to deal with their problems and finding this treatment is an important part of the rehabilitation process. This process is not always easy and sometime it leads to the person not getting help at all. In this analysis we discuss different ways

Denna uppsats är baserad på en översättning av två medicinska texter om anestesi respektive antibiotika som publicerades 2014 och 2015 på den brittiska webbsidan NHS Choices. I uppsatsen analyseras först källtexten enligt Hellspongs och Ledins analysmodell (1997), med fokus på hur stor roll klarspråksarbetet har för texten. I övervägningar för översättningen görs det klart att texten har översatts

Coronary heart diseases is one of the biggest health problems in the world today. By segmenting the coronary arteries in medical images and examining them, important information about abnormal narrowing and plaque, which are main causes to these diseases, can be found. Manual segmentation of the coronary arteries are time consuming and dependent on the observer, which makes the need of automatic s

Precis som en viss färg kan beskrivas som en specifik blandning av grundfärgerna, så kan också en elektron också beskrivas som en slags blandning. Den här blandningen kan påverkas av ljus så att "mängden" av de olika komponenterna förändras. Det här är intressant att undersöka, för om vi vet vilka förutsättningar som gör att elektronen hamnar i en viss blandning, så kan man återskapa de This project aims to study the process of electron excitation by a light pulse, a process at the core of many important contemporary and possible future devices. Data from an experiment where the electron dynamics is probed with attosecond laser pulses are analyzed in order to gain insight on the rapid population oscillations within the excited atomic system and simulations are constructed with th

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