Yrkesrelaterad stress uppkommer när ansträngning av psykologiska eller fysiska egenskaper går utöver individens förmåga. I föreliggande studie beskrivs konsekvenser av yrkesrelaterad stress hos sjuksköterskor som arbetar på avdelning. Yrkesrelaterad stress hos sjuksköterskor är ett vanligt förekommande fenomen på sjukhusavdelningar. Syftet med studien var att identifiera konsekvenser av sjuksköter

Den engelska professorn och filosofen Roger Scruton har under ett långt akademiskt liv kritiserat samtiden på många olika sätt. Han är kritisk till det postmoderna samhället och filosofer som Focault, Derrida och Habermas. Han menar att den västerländska kulturen idag står under hot. Syftet med denna uppsats är därför att redogöra för och kritisk diskutera Scrutons analys och kritik av det västerlThe English professor and philosopher Roger Scruton has in a long academic life criticized contemporaries in many different ways. He is critical of the post-modern society and philosophers as Focault, Derrida and Habermas. He believes that Western culture today is under threat. The purpose of this bachelor's degree project is to describe and discuss critical Scrutons analysis and criticism of

Big Data is a disruptive technology that is reshaping the way we do business. By gaining more personalised insights into public interests; businesses are able to remodel their practices to become more efficient and offer a more personalised service generating additional value for the customer. It was found that there was a lack of literature looking into the potential of Big Data for PR agencies,

The purpose of this thesis is to examines the relationship between income inequality and level of indebtedness among the Swedish population. Using a relative consumption theory framework, the effect of income inequality on debt ratio and propensity to acquire debt above one’s ability is analyzed. Further, the sample is divided into two subgroupings to check if the effect is more profound in urban

Key words: Innovation, start-ups, exploration, exploitation, formal networks Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore the effects of formal network participation on exploration and exploitation activities in start-ups. Methodology: Following a cross-sectional design, an explorative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews. 18 interviews were performed with representatives fr

In this master thesis we investigate the predictive performance of several well-known Value at Risk (VaR) estimation methods, given a specific company setting. The thesis is conducted at a Swedish financial institution that wants to be able to measure foreign exchange (FX) risk induced by cross-currency transactions carried out by the company. The goal of the thesis is to provide empirical evidenc

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to contribute to logistics research arena in management practices using qualitative methods. Because previous research paradigm has been dominated by quantitative methods, where managerial work practices have been neglected or understated. Hence, by using the qualitative method the study can enrich the importance of manager work practice in logistics and br

Author: André Kimby Title: Insomnia in the social services Supervisor: Dolf Tops Assessor: Anett Schenk Insomnia is a major problem in today’s western society that has a variety of negative consequences for the people suffering from it. At the same time the social services in Sweden suffer from considerable organizational difficulties that have negative impacts for the users of the social service

Abstract: New ventures’ survival chances are becoming increasingly lower threatening economic growth and the innovation capability of each country. Research on business survival has focussed on many internal and structural drivers, however, there is a large gap regarding external influences, especially the influence of labour market institutions. This thesis fills the gap by extract-ing and analys

Studiens målsättning har varit att ur ett energibesparingsperspektiv samt ekonomiskt perspektiv utvärdera termostatiska cirkulationsventiler (termiska ventiler) som används i varmvattencirkulation (VVC). De frågeställningar som belystes i studien var hur värmeförluster från VVC med termiska respektive fasta ventiler varierar, om det är ekonomiskt lönsamt att installera termiska ventiler jämfört meThe study's objective was, from an energy-saving and economical perspective, evaluate thermostatic circulation valves (thermal valves) used in hot water circulation (HWC). The issues that have been highlighted in the study were how the heat losses from HWC with thermal valves varies from HWC with fixed valves, whether it is economically viable to install thermal valves compared to fixed valves

This study investigates the acoustic characteristics and cross-dialectal variation of the diphthongs /ai au oi ui/ in the Nuckö, Ormsö, and Rickul varieties of Estonian Swedish, which have previously only been described impressionistically (Lagman, 1979; Danell, 1905-34). Eight acoustic measures, reflecting the F1 and F2 frequency values at the first (InF1 and InF2) and second (FinF1 and FinF2) vo

För att samla stora mängder information om personer, platser och organisationer, behöver vi kunna analysera vanliga texter skrivna i naturligt språk. Detta arbete bidrar till det, genom att känna igen namn och länka dem till rätt Wikipedia-artikel.This thesis describes the process to build an entity recognizer and disambiguator, named HERD. The goal of the system is to find mentions of entities in text and link those mentions to a unique identifier. This system is designed to be multilingual and has versions in English, French and Swedish. I use Wikipedia as a knowledge source of both names and concepts, and Wikidata, a language agnostic,

Community radio as an alternative public sphere for minorities has emerged apart from mainstream media and formal public spheres. In particular, its ethos of understanding community participation as a key component of operating a station highlights its potential to empower community members as active social agents. This study examines the social consequences of an ethnic migrant community radio st

Key words: Management control, package, innovative company, cultural control, interface Purpose: This thesis will examine how the management control systems of innovation companies operate as a package and which linkages are there between the cultural and the other control practices. Methodology: The methodology is based on a qualitative approach carried out in the form of a multiple case study. T

Uppsatsen behandlar sociala och ekonomiska ojämlikheter som framkommer i svenska hiphoplåtar. Den valda metoden i uppsatsen utgår från Norman Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys då den lägger fokus på den textuella aspekten av en text. Genom att stu-dera diskurser i musiken så studeras presentationen av ojämlikheter. Faircloughs kri-tiska teori kompletteras med Iris Marion Youngs teori om kulturellThis essay discusses the social inequalities presented in Swedish hip hop songs. The elected method used in this essay is Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis as it focuses on the textual aspect of texts. The theoretical approach consists of Fair-clough’s CDA theory and supplemented by Iris Marion Young’s theory of cultural dom-inance which originates from her theory of justice. Young’s

This master’s thesis has been carried out in collaboration with the dynamic, acoustic and tribology simulation group in the engine development department at Scania CV in Södertälje, Sweden. When simulating tribological conjunctions, such as a journal bearing, it is often necessary to take the surface topography of the two bearing surfaces into account. The surface topography can influence the hydr

China has experienced an exceptional amount of privatization, market liberalization and reform in the last forty years. With these changes in China’s economy and the strategy of using labour as its comparative advantage, it is of paramount importance to the development field, to investigate how these changes in the market have affected management approaches and their subsequent labour conditions.