Author: Anna Croneberg Title: ‘In the Best Interest of the Child’ – A Qualitative Study of the Social Worker’s Role in Assessing Prospective Adoptive Parents. [Translated title] Supervisor: Yvonne Johansson This thesis examines the social worker’s complex role through ought the delicate process of assessing prospective adoptive parents. Through a qualitative approach, based on semi-structured in

Den vanligaste metoden för att dimensionera vägar i Sverige tillåter inte att tjockleken av obundna lager i vägkonstruktionen underskrider 500 mm. Hade en vägs obundna lager kunnat minskas med bara ett fåtal centimeter hade material- och transportkostnader kunnat minska avsevärt. I examensarbetet Styvhetsanalys av vägkonstruktioner (Svensson, 2015) tas en metod fram för att kontrollera om konstrukIn order to measure the stiffness properties of a soil, a method called the plate loading test is used. Based on this test a modulus called Ev2 [Pa] is obtained among others. When building a road construction there are different requirements for this Ev2-modulus for different layers in the road. According to the Swedish Transport Administration regulatory document TRVK Väg and the dimensioning ca

Syftet med studien är att få en inblick i hur executive search-konsulter arbetar med att porträttera och legitimera sitt arbete och sin image. Detta med förhoppningen om att vidare kunna bidra till teori om kunskapsintensivt arbete och hur kunskapsintensiva organisationer legitimerar sig i en miljö som präglas av mångtydighet.

I och med den fria rörligheten i Europa så kommer utländska företag med största sannolikhet även framöver att utföra byggnadsarbeten i Sverige. Därför krävs fler studier om säkerhets- och arbetsmiljöarbetet på byggarbetsplatser med utländsk arbetskraft. Likaså behöver fler undersökningar göras om hur kommunikationen kan förbättras mellan svenska och utländska arbetstagare. God kommunikation är en Since the number of posted workers and companies on the Swedish labour market most likely won’t decrease in the foreseeable future, more studies on safety and working environment on construction sites with foreign workers will be needed. Likewise more studies on how the communication can improve between Swedish and foreign workers are required, since good communication is a determining factor when

Lean and creating value – A study of a lean initiative in the public sector The concept of lean has been spread all over the world - from first being spotted in the automotive industry of Toyota, back in the 50’s, to the service business area, hospitals and now also public sector organizations. In Sweden, lean is dominating the discussion of how to best improve the work of municipalities. A key l

Multivariat mönsteranalys (MVPA) är en maskininlärningsmetod som de senaste 15 åren använts inom hjärnavbildningsstudier för att avkoda och klassificera neurala representationer som uppstår vid kognitiv bearbetning hos försöksdeltagare då de utsätts för olika slags stimuli. Syftet med denna undersökning har varit att med hjälp av klassificerare avkoda den elektroencefalografiska hjärnaktivitet somMultivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) is a machine learning method that has, over the past 15 years, been used in brain imaging studies to decode and to classify neural representations that emerges when participants cognitively process the exposure of various stimuli. The purpose of this study was, with the use of classifiers, to decode the electroencephalographic brain activity that occurred when

Strängare lagstiftning (SFS 2001:512) har medfört att ett stort antal deponier kommer att avslutas och sluttäckas inom de närmaste åren. Till detta behövs stora mängder material, som lever upp till olika krav som täthet och långtidsbeständighet. Då det finns ett överskott av material som exempelvis avloppsslam, aska och andra restprodukter från industrier, skulle dessa kunna vara ett alternativ ti

This master thesis is an attempt to approach the issue of the lack of application of cause advocacy in modern social work practice. The research problem is framed in a way that historical roots of the commitment to social justice in the profession are presented with the further argumentation for the lack of this approach in contemporary social work. A qualitative study has been conducted to fulfil

On social media platforms, such as blogs, the boundaries between private life and working life can be blurred. When social media is used by people who can be seen as agents for human service organizations this can give rise to both ethical and relational issues. On the one hand socialworkers like everyone else should have the right to express opinions and act as private persons on the internet. On

The aim of this degree essay is to reach an understanding of how both non-governmental and governmental organizations construct a social problem. This is a socialconstructive study with an empirical method of interviews with vignette elements. I have focused this study on how the social service, Diakonicentralen Ugglan (a parish in the Swedish Church) and the non-governmental organization (NGO) Hj

This study assesses the projection of self and of the personal trademarks of three Swedish authors in three different areas of media. In this composition, the chosen authors are evaluated and examined on the basis of television interviews, the author’s websites and various selected book covers, all through two main perspectives: celebrity studies and branding studies.

In modeling unsteady compressible viscous flow problems with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, time adaptive implicit methods are needed to solve the initial value problems that arise when discretizing the equations in accordance with the method of lines. The methods most used in industrial code today are a family of multistep methods called BDF-methods. Because BDF-methods with higher ord

The purpose of this study was to look at two autobiographies through qualitative methods. The main purpose has been to highlight how individuals describe themselves, the consequences of social aspects (family and friends) in depression they have experienced and their turning points: the way out of the depression. To study this, I have used the following questions as starting points: How do the dep

The psychosocial work environment is a phenomenon that has become noticed in recent years. Previous research shows that working conditions for social workers working with children and young people in institutions is one of the professions where there is the highest risk of mental stress. With this in mind, the purpose of this study was to investigate how social workers in a youth institution in ea

Målet med detta arbete var att studera de termodynamiska och strukturella egenskaperna hos polyetylenglykol genom att tillämpa en kombination av experiment och datorsimuleringar. Den experimentella huvudtekniken var membran osmometri och datorsimuleringarna baserades på Monte Carlo metoden. Polyetylenglykol även förkortat PEG är en neutral linjär polymer med amfifilisk karaktär, vilket menas attThe aim of this thesis was to evaluate the accuracy of a one-parameter non-virial scaling equation of state (EOS) for polyethylene glycol in water by Cohen et al. through osmotic pressure measurements using membrane osmometry and Monte Carlo simulations. PEG20 was set as the reference system and the polymer chain length effect was investigated through simulations of PEG10 and PEG35. For PEG35 expe

Att översätta en trend – En studie av institutionaliseringsprocessen av content marketing Denna studie undersöker hur ett nytt begrepp inom kommunikationsbranschen sprids och börjar etableras. De få studier inom strategisk kommunikation som beskriver spridning av nya idéer handlar nästan uteslutande om hur de har anammats av efterfrågesidan. Denna studie studerar därför hur aktörerna på produktionTranslating a trend – A study of the intstitutionalization process of content marketing. This study explores how a new term in is diffused and established. The few studies on diffusion of ideas in Strategic communication that exists have mostly been focused on the adoption. This study is therefore an exploration over how actors act on the production field of communication ideas in an institutional

Magnetit är ett mineral med ferrimagnetiska egenskaper, vilket betyder att det har två magnetiska moment riktade mot varandra. Men ett av dessa moment är dock starkare än det andra vilket gör att ett netto-magnetiskt moment bildas. Detta gör att en bit magnetit kan fungera som en vanlig handmagnet. Dessa magnetiska egenskaper hos mineralet drog tidigt till sig uppmärksamhet i gamla tider och magneThe ambition of this project is to assist in the pursuance of understanding the metal to insulator transition found in magnetite at ~120 K. The transition is itself very complex and links together the charge order, orbital order and lattice distortion of magnetite with its magnetic properties. To be able to research these relationships on a more advanced level, synchrotron methods are necessary. F

Positive aspects of fathers’ involvement in parenting are broadly recognized, but challenges faced by fathers are often neglected and postpartum depression (PPD) is still mainly considered as a problem of mothers. Yet, new evidence suggests a similar prevalence of about 10 % in fathers and mothers. The present study investigated paternal PPD, its character and its links to attachment styles, paren

A software system composed of applications running on embedded devices could be hard to monitor and debug due to the limited possibilities to extract information about the complex process interactions. Logging and monitoring the systems behavior help in getting an insight of the system status. The information gathered can be used for improving the system and helping developers to understand what c