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The main purpose of this master's thesis is to explore how public libraries in Sweden work to increase digital skills among older people. This is done by studying social practices in digital technology workshops at local meeting places for older people. Public librarians participated as instructors and the purpose of these workshops was to enhance the digital skills of older people. This stu

Under-five mortality in rural and urban areas in Tanzania is of critical national concern as is also the case in other developing countries. Within Tanzania, mortality rates vary greatly by region, with some regions having much higher mortality rates than others. The government of Tanzania has made substantial progress in reducing the under-five mortality rate. Despite the strategies introduced by

Bakgrund: Obehandlad smärta hos för tidigt födda barn kan leda till både omedelbara och långtgående negativa effekter. För att kunna ge barnen en adekvat smärtbehandling är det viktigt att regelbunden smärtskatta dem, men då de inte kan kommunicera verbalt är de beroende av att andra kan tolka deras smärtsignaler. Syfte: Att identifiera smärtskattningsskalor riktade mot för tidigt födda barn samt

For years the body of Tarlabası community has been squeezed into a container to protect the neo-liberal socio-economical representation of Istanbul. Today a subject of Turkish regeneration policies its deteriorating architectural heritage is sunken in piles of waste and entirely cut off from the municipal waste management system. Waste Field, Front Field proposes a rehabilitation of Tarlabası,pre

The issue of museum entrance fees is widely debated. Traditionally, it has been commonly agreed that museums should be free, however nowadays charged admission is the norm. Although economic analysis is a relevant tool in order to understand the impact of a given admission policy on museum demand the notion of congestion has been previously overlooked. In this essay, I analyze how museum visitatio

This thesis analyzes and illustrates the legal prerequisites for liability regarding self-driving vehicles, with the objective to contribute with new knowledge, an understanding of how technology impacts on the content of Swedish Criminal Law. By applying a perspective of sociology of law this study problematizes the legal constructions of responsibility and how its principles and concepts are aff

Does governance play a role in determining FDI growth at sub-national level? A large literature highlights the importance of good governance as a key in attracting FDI at national level. Whether good governance at sub-national level is as important, however, is still in question. This paper attempts to find the answer by examining the relationship between governance and FDI growth at sub-national

The aim of this study was to investigate how gender norms are represented in formal court decisions regarding the taking into compulsory care of young persons according to 3§ LVU (Care of Young Persons Special Provisions Act). The empirical material consisted of 30 court cases, whereof 15 cases concerned girls and 15 concerned boys. The method used was a qualitative content analysis. This method f

The queer experience has only become relatively recently a topic of study within migration scholarship. Despite it being seen as a ‘special interest’ field, a lot can be learned about processes of migration decision-making overall, by applying queer theory to it. Furthermore, the concept of place image, which is most often applied to research concerning tourist destinations and the ‘country of ori

Nowadays new tools became available for global actors for achieving their goals, which are not only traditional military means (hard power) and/or the means of seduction (soft power). Instead, the new tools, which are more sophisticated and effective in implementing the power by the actor, are currently being applied in order for an actor to effectively influence its counterparts (from individuals

För att ett land ska ha ett fullt fungerande civilt försvar måste alla aktörer utföra sina arbetsuppgifter på ett bra och effektivt sätt. Syftet med examensarbetet är att få en djupare inblick och förståelse om hur dagens civila försvar ser ut, främst med fokus på den kommunala räddningstjänsten. Målet med arbetet är att kartlägga hur den kommunala räddningstjänsten ser på den hotbild som finns ocFor a country to be able to have a fully functional civil defense must every involved actor perform their tasks in a good and efficient way. The purpose with this report is to get a deeper insight and understanding about the structure of today’s civil defense, with focus on the municipal rescue service. The aim of the report is to map how the municipal rescue service looks at the threat scenario a

Background: Today, plastic packages can be found from the nature all around the world, hence it is a topic which is widely discussed among consumers, the media and politics, to name a few. Furthermore, solutions to the waste issue are pondered upon these different groups. The packaging industry constitutes for a large share of the total plastic waste, which is why the study was narrowed down to th

This study aims to perform stress-testing of the Russian banking sector with a focus on credit risk measures derived by using contingent claims analysis, an extension of Black-Scholes and Merton option pricing theory. Risk exposure indicators are linked to a number of macroeconomic variables that describe global and domestic economic and financial development. To reduce the dimension of the datase

Governance of environmental resources plays a key role in enhancing or hindering progress towards peace in post-conflict societies. Two years after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government of Colombia, new dynamics on natural resource and land-use are leading to environmental harm in some regions. Highlands and páramo (high-ele

The thriving far-right has been transforming social and political space in Western Democracies for decades. Yet despite the contemporary ecological crisis and other environmental problems, there is a considerable lack of research on the far-right’s positions on nature. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to filling the research gap and to investigate the ideological relations between the far-r

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and shed light on the critical success factors for investors, management and academia for listed European football clubs. This paper is the first of its kind in that it analyses the Key Performance Indicators and their respective impact on the stock price for 23 listed European football clubs. The quantitative methodology approach utilised the FGLS regre

Alla celler i samma kropp har samma genetiska information lagrad i DNA. Olika delar av den genetiska informationen är lagrade i en otillgänglig form. Vilken del av cellens DNA som är tillgänglig avgör sedan vilken specialisering cellen har. Genom att kontrollera vilken information som används kan man omprogrammera celler, till exempel kan en hudcell bli en hjärncell. En metod för att åstadkomma deAstrocytes are one of the most common types of cells found in the central nervous system, and they play an important supportive role for neurons and other brain cells. In order to obtain astrocytes for medical or experimental purposes, some protocols enable the production of astrocytes from stem cells, but it is of interest to be able to produce astrocytes from fibroblasts, a cell type found in th

Skatteverket uppmärksammade i en promemoria 2008 att det i stor utsträckning förekom skatteplanering med ränteupplägg. Skatteflyktlagen var inte tillämplig i dessa fall enligt regeringsrätten och Sverige valde att införa ränteavdragsbegränsningsregler 2009. Reglerna utvidgades 2013 för att den svenska bolagsskattebasen inte skulle urholkas. Till följd av Sveriges internationella åtaganden ändradesSwedish tax authorities discovered in a memo in 2008 that tax planning with deduction of interest were used in significant extent. The swedish tax avoidance law “Skatteflyktlagen” wasn’t applicable to these cases according to the supreme administrative court and Sweden choose to introduce interest limitation rules in 2009. The interest limitation rules were expand in 2013 in purpose to protect the

Den brandtekniska riskvärdering som presenteras i detta arbete har genomförts i utbildningssyfte i kursen Brandteknisk riskvärdering på brandingenjörsprogrammet vid Lunds Tekniska Högskola. Fokus för riskvärderingen är personsäkerhet på köpcentret Skärholmen Centrum, ingen hänsyn har tagits till andra konsekvenser som en brand kan medföra. Skärholmen Centrum är ett stort köpcenter beläget i sydväsThis report is a part of the course Fire Safety Evaluation at LTH and written in educational purposes. The intent of the report is to evaluate the fire safety and assess the risks of Skärholmen Centrum, located at Skärholmen, Stockholm. The risk assessment focuses mainly on occupant safety and does not regard any other protection values connected to fire incidents. Skärholmen Centrum is a shopping

Bakgrund: 2018 publicerades nya riktlinjer för vård vid stroke i Sverige. Riktlinjerna har ökat prioriteringen av rehabiliteringsmetoden Tidig understödd utskrivning, även kallat Early Supported Discharge (ESD). ESD innebär att samma multidisciplinära team, där arbetsterapeuter utgör en väsentlig roll, både koordinerar utskrivning och utför hemrehabilitering. Tidigare studier har undersökt effekt Background: The rehabilitation method Early Supported Discharge (ESD) has gained in priority according to the new Swedish stroke-care guidelines that were published year 2018. ESD implies that the same multidisciplinary team, where occupational therapists constitutes an important role, both coordinates discharge and performs the home rehabilitation. Even though there are earlier studies examining