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I denna rapport har brandsäkerheten på Galleria Boulevard utvärderats. Skyddsmålet i rapporten är att ingen av besökarna i köpcentret ska komma till skada i händelse av brand och fokus har därför legat på personsäkerheten. Vid behov har förslag på åtgärder presenterats. Gallerian är byggd 2014 och består av en galleriadel, garage samt en biosalong. I denna rapport har endast galleriadelen utvärder

The emergence of social media has changed the power relations and the practices of tourism destination marketing by enabling the co-existence of user generated content and destination marketing organisation’s content, as well as the content co-creation among these actors. Due to the visual nature of tourism the image-focused social media platforms are particularly interesting for the tourism field

The purpose of this thesis is two-fold: implement and evaluate a method, the Fast Correlation-Based Filter (FCBF) by Yu et al., for feature selection applied on a meteorological data set consisting of 19 weather variables from 606 locations in Scandinavia, and investigate whether geography can be exploited in the search for relevant features. Four areas are chosen as target areas where load predic

The aim of this study was to explore how Swedish care managers in elderly care experience the assistance assessment of late-in-life immigrants and their cultural needs. The informants of this study consisted of six care managers in a municipality in the county of Skåne. The municipality was chosen due to its high number of arriving migrants during the last couple of years. The care managers all wo

Studiens syfte var att undersöka 1) vad deltagarna i studien upplever underlättar respektive försvårar utövandet av självmedkänsla, samt hur de upplever att dessa faktorer påverkar utövandet, och 2) vilka effekter av utövandet av självmedkänsla som deltagarna i studien upplever att det ger, samt på vilket sätt de upplever att utövandet leder till dessa effekter. Urvalet bestod av sex kvinnor mellaThe purpose of this study was to examine 1) what the participants in the study experience as facilitating as well as obstructing regarding the practicing of self-compassion, and in which way they experience that these factors affect the practice, and 2) which effects the participants experience from practicing self-compassion as well as how they experience that the practice leads to these effects.

Bluegrass är en musikstil som har sitt ursprung i USA och är egentligen även där en ganska liten genre. Musiken existerar utanför USA men möjligheterna för en person att lära sig genren är ganska få. Min undersökning går ut på att försöka förstå hur man som född och uppvuxen utanför musikens naturliga geografiska område går till väga för att lära sig musiken. Jag ger en överblick över hur genren kBluegrass is a musical genre with origins in the USA although it’s a small genre even over there. The music exists outside the USA but the possibilities for a person to learn bluegrass outside of there are pretty slim. The goal for my research is to understand how a person born and raised outside the music’s natural geografic centre can learn about and master bluegrass. I outline its roots and how

Bakgrund: Långvarig smärta innebär ett lidande för individen och är ett vidsträckt folkhälsoproblem. Hjärtkirurgi är en av de kirurgiska interventionerna med störst risk för utveckling av långvarig smärta. Syfte: Att beskriva förekomsten av smärtrelaterad rädsla och ångest samt katastroftankar relaterat till smärta hos patienter som skulle genomgå thoraxkirurgi med sternotomi, och jämföra med uppk

Internet is a natural part of many people’s life, including children and youths. The aim of this thesis is to look into how school counselors reason regarding how children and youth uses the Internet and how they reason around their own work in relation to this. Through semi structured interviews, we spoke to eight school counselors working with different grades. To analyse our data we used the th

The aim of this study was to examine the experience of the relationship between municipally granted contact persons and their users (65+). The questions asked were how the users and their contact persons describe the relationship to each other, what the relationship with the contact person has meant and what it means to the user, and how the contact person describes the meaning of the relationship

This study estimates the causal effect of paid parental leave on gender equality. California and New Jersey are the two first states in the United States to implement a statewide program offering six weeks of compensated parental leave, when having a new-born or adopted child. To estimate the effects of these reforms, I use repeated cross-sectional micro-level Census and ACS data from 2001 and 201

The aim of this study is to give an understanding of employees’ interpretations of working in an organization undergoing changes

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur vårdpersonal inom psykiatrisk slutenvård talar om patientrelaterat hot och våld samt att studera hur de förhåller sig till begreppet ”offerskap” utifrån sin yrkesroll. Det empiriska materialet är baserat på tio kvalitativa intervjuer med vårdpersonal från en psykiatrisk slutenvårdsavdelning. Resultatet visar att personalen använder sig av en mängd olika

This thesis is concerned with understanding the restrictive shift in refugee policy that occurred in Sweden during the fall of 2015. Several European states decided to deny entry to refugees, which led to a vast immigration in Sweden. The high quantity of asylum seekers resulted in Sweden adopting restrictive measures in order to limit the immigration rate and regain order and stability in the cou

The aim of this study is to estimate the net economic cost of all suicides that occurred in Sweden in 2015. The purpose is to provide a more thorough assessment of this cost compared to previous research. Based on the theoretical and methodological framework of so called Cost of Illness (COI) studies, previous research, as well as original solutions, this study estimates direct costs, indirect cos

Intensivvård är en mycket komplex vårdnivå, patienter som vårdats inom intensivvården skattar sin hälsorelaterade livskvalitet lägre än normalpopulationen efter utskrivningen. Studiens syfte var att beskriva självskattad upplevelse av hälsorelaterad livskvalitet (HRQoL) hos vuxna patienter två och sex månader efter utskrivning från intensivvården. Metoden grundade sig i en kvantitativ ansats med r

Much has been written about why a woman stays in a relationship with a man who exposes her to violence, while less has been written about what causes the woman to one day pack a bag and actually leave the man. Interviews with six persons, who either has personal experience from intimate partner violence or possesses knowledge of the subject through their profession, has been conducted in order to

Since the Rwandan (1994) and Balkan (1990s) atrocities, the humanitarian dimension and in particular the protection of civilians (POC) mandate has become increasingly important in UN peacekeeping operations. It is often used as a visible indicator of a mission’s success. Yet scores of civilian deaths continue to plague missions baring the failures of UN peacekeeping to fulfil its mandate. The aim

During the Zika outbreak in Brazil, the incidences of Zika related congenital microcephaly seemed to be concentrated mainly among women from the lower socioeconomic classes. This study examines the relationship between the inequalities in Brazilian society and the effects they have had on the Zika outbreak. This is a qualitative case study using a comparative literature review of secondary sources

Andelen äldre i befolkningen ökar stadigt i Sverige och allt fler äldre bor ensamma. Ensamhet hos äldre har därför blivit ett allt angelägnare problem. Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att undersöka vad sjuksköterskan kan bidra med för att minska ensamhet hos äldre. Metod: Sökning efter relevant litteratur gjordes i databaserna PubMed och CINAHL där 10 artiklar valdes ut och analyserad

The purpose of the study was to examine how common exhaustion was among students of Lund’s University. An additional aim was to investigate to what extent the factors self-esteem, gender, social support, physical activity and being in nature could predict exhaustion in the sample. A cross-sectional web-survey consisting of Karolinska Exhaustion Disorder Scale (KEDS), Rosenberg’s Self-esteem Scale