The story of Jonathan and David is a part of the deuteronomical view of Israels history from the occupation of the holy land all the way to the exile in Babylon. I am aware of that this is not true history, but it is nevertheless interesting to ask oneself: Why are those people a part of the deuteronomical history? What was the meaning in telling the story in this way? Exegetes and researchers ar

In 1998 a new regional development policy was introduced by the Swedish government. A central feature in the policy was the formation of partnerships at the regional level. The partnerships were meant to consist of local and regional stakeholders, representing a great variety of interests, who would collaborate in order to improve regional development. The new policy was promoted, besides being mo

Unlike previous research, this thesis considers the possibility of regarding the morning prayers in Swedish schools as preaching, rather than teaching. 28 morning prayers, delivered in the church of S:t Johannes in the city of Malmö during 1939-1954 by the religious teacher Astri Heimer (1889-1986), constitutes the material for analysis. The purpose of this thesis is to examine if Heimer's mor

Results from previous studies have shown that people with depression tend to have impaired executive functions, although it's not clear whether this is also true for mild depression in young people. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mild depressive symptoms and executive functions in young individuals. 60 participants, between 18-33 years of age, took p

The purpose with this essay is to look at how categories of "us" and "them" are created, reproduced and categorised. The areas of politics and media are in focus, though they are powerful and influential actors in generating discourses. The method is qualitative analyses of current research and analyses of discourses, contexts and resources from an intersectional perspective.

The intention of the present thesis is to describe Chinese outward direct investment on a macro level both as a global phenomenon and specifically in relation to Thailand. Thailand is considered a ?safe haven? for the Chinese in South East Asia. According to MOFCOM the country is the biggest recipient of Chinese FDI in the region.The motives and investment incentive factors of these investors are

IICap is an environment for analysing eye tracking data on the Windows platform. Interviews with personnel were conducted to identify problems in the current process of eye tracking data analysis at the University of Lund eye tracking lab. A review of previous research on visualisation of eye tracking data and important eye tracking statistics was conducted. An IICap design proposal with suggeste

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The relation between the perceived rational qualities of artefacts, its visual properties, and valence based preference responses was investigated in two experiments. Perceived rationality was approached as a complex of qualities, which could be assessed, in semantic rating scales. Experiment 1 showed that perceived rationality was largely independent of form and colour and participants tended to

Environmental performance of sea transport is of growing concern for the evolution of European transport policy as well as local air quality management of harbour cities. This study investigates the case of Trelleborg and highlights factors, which can hinder or facilitate the improvement of stakeholder cooperation for sustainable port development. The developed orientations suggest enhancement in

Abstract Information and information seeking have always been important parts of society. How behavioural patterns of information seeking manifest themselves are partly due to individual prerequisites and partly due to the practice where the seeking of information is conducted. The aim of this study is to investigate a group of newly examined physicians? experiences of information seeking behavi

The aim was to investigate three anti-racist groups of pupils, their thoughts about respectively their work against racism. The aim was divided into the following questions: - What is, according to the groups, racism and what does the situation look like at the schools? - What does the dynamics in the group look like? - What courses of action are the groups using and how can they improve their wor

The Chronicles of Prydain are a children´s fantasy written by Lloyd Alexander and published for the first time between 1964 and 1968. According to Alexander, "the Prydain books all together might be an attempt to express what it takes to become a human - all the things that you have to go through and give up and learn and so forth to become a real human being". The cultivation of the mi

Syfte: undersöka och jämföra eventuella skillnader i upplevelse av delaktighet och livskvalitet hos två grupper av människor med para- eller tetraplegi. En grupp har medverkat på rekryteringsgruppens läger och den andra gruppen har inte varit på något läger men antagits till nästa. Design: Statisk gruppjämförelse av två grupper där den ena har genomgått ett läger av rekryteringsgruppen. Metod: E

The purpose of this essay was to find out whether the students, which had moved from the school of Gustaf Adolf to the school of Elineberg, had been integrated into their new environment. We chose to analyze the degree of integration concerning their schoolwork, how they interacted with the students from the new school, the school of Elineberg, and their level of wellbeing in their new school. We

Regeringens ministrar är tillsatta för att förvalta på de mest skilda ansvarsområden. Den här uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka ministrar utifrån teoretiskt uppställda bakgrundsegenskaper. Vanligast är det att man blir minister först i 50 års ålder. Under sina liv har ministrarna hunnit skaffa sig gedigna yrkes- och livserfarenheter. Det finns de ministrar som väljer den politiska vägen till minis

Studiens syfte är att undersöka konstnärsyrkets legitimitet och avgränsning vid inkomstlöshet. Undersökningen bygger på en teoretisk distinktion mellan konstnärskap och konstnärsyrke, där vinstsyftet blir det centrala i konstnärsyrket. Vinstsyftet förstås som en vilja att försörja sig via inkomst från konstproduktion. Utifrån vinstsyftet undersöks hur konstnärsyrket avgränsas i kontakt med arbetsl

Denna empiriska undersökning är utförd för att finna svar på hur den teoretiska kunskapen påverkar det praktiska arbetet för undersköterskor anställda på ett specifikt korttidsboende. Målet var också att närmare undersöka undersköterskornas arbetstillfredsställelse och deras motivation för arbetet. Som metod användes halvstrukturerade intervjuer och 7 kvinnor deltog i studien. För att underbygga a

The aim of this essay was to investigate how social workers, within chosen Social services districts in the northwest of Skåne, work with children placed in foster care. Our purpose was to investigate the interaction between the child and the foster home from the perspective of the Ecology of Human Development. Our questions were: * How do the social worker prepare the child and the foster home b

Arbetets strävan är att ge en sammanhållen bild av den sociala snedrekryteringen som en process vilken tar sin början redan under grundskolans första år och vilken till del är språkligt betingad. Uppsatsen inleds med en beskrivning av den sociala snedrekryteringens process och omfattning, vilket följs av en överblick av språksociologiska förklaringsmodeller till fenomenet. Därpå presenteras och di