The term “public interest” is frequently used in discussions regarding media ethics in Sweden. It is also used in the ethical guidelines for journalists, created by the industry itself. But what the term actually means is difficult to grasp, and a comprehensive definition is difficult to find. Therefore, the purpose of this essay is to examine the views of publishers regarding the term “public int

A new setup for versatile ion time-of-flight coincidence spectroscopy was built using a pre-existing negative ion time-of-flight spectrometer aligned with a short extension that may be used to detect photons, Auger electrons or positive ions. The extension was designed to be short to improve detection of photons, as they do not have a preferred direction for their emission, and high-momentum parti

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used to classify directly on bone scan images in two medical tasks: classifying anterior / posterior pose, and classifying bone scan hotspots as metastatic / non-metastatic in patients with prostate cancer and suspected metastatic disease. The networks trained produce highly accurate results in both tasks and current methods are outperformed for all tested

I Sverige är järnvägen en viktig del av samhällets infrastruktur, både för persontransporter och för frakt (Trafikverket, 2011). Samtidigt är järnvägssystemet väldigt känsligt för störningar. Sårbarhetsanlys är ett lämpligt analysperspektiv för att analysera systemets känslighet. Två olika typer av sårbarhetsanalys diskuteras och jämförs i denna rapport. Johansson (2011) och Jenelius (2006) föreslThis report is a master thesis at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. The aim of this report is to develop a model with which the Swedish railway network can be simulated and to use this model to perform a vulnerability analysis of the railway system. Furthermore, this report discusses how this kind of vulnerability analysis fits in to the generic risk management process. Finally, a sho

The aim of this study is to highlight professional social workers’ perspectives on pregnant substance abusers in relation to the Swedish law regarding forced care of addicts. The law comprises forced care of addicts who, amongst other criteria, are considered a threat to themselves or people in close relation to them. This law does not include unborn children and do not protect them during pregnan

The aim of this study was to examine how social workers within the social services in Sweden worked with and defined the child rights principle “the Best Interests of the Child”, which derives from Article 3 of the UN Convention on the “Rights of the Child”. The study is limited to only examining social workers that have been working with children of parents with substance abuse issues. More speci

The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate how social workers, working with social welfare, understand the practice and the reasoning for decisions regarding social welfare. I conducted six semi-structured interviews with social workers working with social welfare. For my analysis, I have applied the theoretical perspective of accounts to my interviews. My findings show me that morals a

The purpose of this study is to explore how social workers experience of working with men with a violent behaviour towards their partners in heterosexual relationships. We also aim to gain a deeper understanding of the emotional factors that affect the professional meeting. We have interviewed six social workers, one of whom defines herself as a woman and the rest of whom define themselves as men.

Den svenska Natodebatten kommer och går och har gjort så under lång tid. Att debattörerna för och mot Nato har skilda åsikter i sakfrågan vet vi redan. Men på vilket sätt skiljer de sig vad gäller ordval när denna fråga debatteras? Hur yttrar sig den intertextuella kontexten? Och hur ser processerna, modaliteten och de textuella ramarna ut i debattörernas texter? Ett försök att besvara ovanståen

A big challenge faced by the digital communication world today is increasing the reliability of information which is being transmitted. During the transmission of information, there is a possibility that the information is corrupted or distorted. If this distortion is considerably high, it becomes dicult to decode and retrieve the original information. To help mitigate this eect, the information b

The aim of this study was to examine how participants were described in the final report of four different projects with the aim to help individuals go from financial aid to supporting themselves. These people received financial aid of some form, and this aid was dependent on their participation in the projects. The reports were processed and analyzed with the help of qualitative content analysis

Syftet med uppsatsen är att bidra till en reflektion och diskussion kring meningsbegreppet i dagens humaniora, och mera specifikt inom dess posthumanistiska rörelse. Min tes är att meningsbegreppet är teoretiskt underutvecklat inom posthumanismen i allmänhet, och att det i själva verket använder sig av en Deleuziansk förståelse av mening utan att göra det explicit eller reflektera närmare över d

On 1 April 2015, the EU milk quotas were abolished after 30 years in force. The purpose of this paper is to assess the Intra-Union trade effects of the reform, using the gravity model of trade. In particular, the aim is to find out whether competitive Member States have started to export more dairy products as compared to the non-competitive Member States following the reform. In order to perfor

This essay investigates the impact of a bank’s local economic environment that on its overall bank risk. Balance sheet data of Germany’s regionally-active savings banks (Sparkassen) and credit cooperatives (Kreditgenossenschaften) is matched with data from regional statistics to construct a dataset spanning the time period from 2000 until 2013. Bank risk is measured by time-varying Z-scores, an in

The aim of this study was to investigate how Palestinian refugee women in refugee camps perceive themselves as actors who affect and influence their lives and communities. Research shows it is a topic that is not often discussed or highlighted in today’s discourse about refugees. The material was conducted through semi-structured interviews with eight Palestinian women in a Palestinian refugee cam

Ny version av ISO 14001 skapar nya utmaningar med certifierade miljöledningssystem År 2015 så publicerades det en ny version av den internationellt största standarden för miljöledningssystem, ISO 14001. Redan certifierade företag och organisationer har nu fram tills år 2018 att ställa om så att deras ledningssystem möter de nya kraven. Den nya standarden innehåller ett flertal nya avsnitt och kraISO 14001 is a standard for environmental management systems and is the most commonly used one worldwide. The standard is used in all different industries to manage companies’ and organisations’ environmental impact. After a revision of the standard a new version was realised in 2015. Companies and organisations which are certified have until 2018 to adopt the new version to retain their certifica

Bakgrund: Idag lever ca 160000 personer med demens i Sverige. Demens är en obotlig sjukdom som med tiden leder till olika funktionsnedsättningar och svårigheter att tillgodose grundläggande behov. Livskvalitet är en parameter för att beskriva hur personen med demens upplever sin livssituation. Tidigare studier visar på att sjuksköterskans bemötande kan ha påverkan på personen med demens livskvalit

I Sverige representeras flera av de politiska församlingarna idag av en kvantitativ jämställdhet, som innebär att både män och kvinnor finns jämnt företrädda och ska kunna ges lika möjligheter att påverka och forma villkoren för beslutsfattandet. Denna studie syftade till att undersöka upplevelsen av hinder bland skånska politiker, och genom det ta reda på om förutsättningarna var lika för båda kö

I den här studien fördjupas förståelsen kring en grupp psykologers och kuratorers upplevelser om att vara i samtal med klienter, och om hur de påverkas av den sekundära psykiska påfrestningen som kan uppkomma då. Syftet med studien är att ta reda på vilka strategier de använder för att hantera svåra samtal, samt vilka strategier de använder för att bibehålla balansen mellan arbetsliv och privatlivThe results from this study deepens the understanding of how psychologists and welfare officers experiences therapeutical consultations with clients, and also how they are affected by the secondary mental stress that may occur. The objectives of the study are to examine which strategies the interviewees use to manage the impact difficult consultations may have on them selves, as well as which stra