Syfte: Vårt syfte är att beskriva och kartlägga hur konsumtionen av vegetarisk mat har förändrats och identifiera vad som påverkat vårt förhållningssätt. Definition: När vi i denna uppsats använder begreppet vegetarisk mat avser vi mat som inte innehåller fläsk-, nötkött och fågel. Metod: Vi har, i enlighet med abduktiv ansats, kombinerat tidigare teoretiska studier med vårt empiriska material. Fö

SV: I januari 2003 fick homosexuella registrerade partners rätt att prövas som adoptivföräldrar i Sverige, i enlighet med en proposition från 2001. Beslutet kom först efter en lång debatt; redan 1986 lades en proposition fram som behandlade frågan och avslog den. Denna uppsats är en studie av de argument som förkommer i propositionerna. Syftet har varit dels att beskriva och analysera de argument

Repetition of Non- word (make- up word that has not some semantic content) has been proposed as a reliable index of phonological memory in children with language impairment (LI). The aim of this study was to find out the possible similarities and differences concerning phonotactic non-words and working memory in 18 bilingual Swedish-Arabic children with and without LI ages 4-6 years. The investiga

Syfte och frågeställning: Internet har vuxit och dess användningsfrekvens har ökat enormt under den sista delen av 1990-talet fram till idag. Detta har resulterat till att Internet har blivit en central kommunikationskanal för den västerländska befolkningen. För företag och organisationer har Internet även blivit en viktig marknadsföringskanal. Internetannonsering blir ett allt vanligare företeels

The main purpose of this thesis is to study the Internet governance regime. In order to achieve this, I have a theoretical and an empirical ambition. The first is to develop a process-oriented theoretical framework for studying the evolution of the Internet governance regime, which I argue is necessary in order to capture the dynamics of regime evolution. The framework is based on the structuratio

Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka samtalet om sexuella handlingar mellan män i muslimska traditioner och försöka se vad dessa handlingar betyder, socialt, religiöst och kulturellt, samt var de står i relation till allmänna normativa värderingar som grundar sig i familjeliv och andra sociala konstruktioner. Ambitionen är att jämföra kristen borgerlig kultur som ligger till grund för Foucaul

After nerve injuries, e.g. following a reimplantation of an accidentally cut hand, nerve fibres grows together again but will be misconnected. This implies an incorrectly mapping of the hand in somatosensory cortex. However, the brain is plastic and thus a natural question is if there is a way to stimulate the hand of such a patient so that the recovery will be optimal. To come up with suggestions

Dissatisfaction with the current market for scientific publishing, dominated by a few large publishers able to obtain high subscription fees, gave birth to the Open Access movement. One problem for the Open Access movement, which aims at making research results freely available, is that scientists are reluctant to publish in journals that are free on the Internet, so called Open Access journals. T

The overall purpose with this thesis has been to study the strategic development of the Swedish Green Party, Miljöpartiet de Gröna. From its first appearance in the Swedish parliament 1988 to its decision to cooperate with the Social Democrats and the Left Party in 1998, the Greens has gone from a radical antiparty to a pragmatic support party. The analysis has concentrated towards identifying the

According to our apprehension, work of integration is commonly considered managed in the main best through the labour market. Since this path is not available to everybody we wanted to find out how work of integration also can be practised in other areas. The purpose of this paper is to, with focus on children and youth, find out and analyze in what way the people working locally in residential ar

When the rural Aymara migrate to El Alto they experience a cultural alienation as their culture and identity is contested by the global influences and western values of the city. The migrants have to reconstruct their identity in a process of identity-formation, which can be located on a range between the opposing tendencies of assimilation and revalorization. Revalorization or to revalue, is to a

Since 1999, the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) encourage developing countries to prepare the so called poverty reduction strategies (PRSs), which are national integrated strategies formulated through a participatory process coordinated with donors. This research has aimed to contribute to the development of effective PRS, especially the Sustainable Development and Povert

Children who are exposed to crime are a delicate issue. The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze children's narratives in the juridical process. Our primary questions focused on how adults could help children to express their experiences and what kind of elements imposed the narrative. How is the narrative structured? How does the court evaluate children's testimonies? What in

The main aim of the thesis is, first, to present a theoretical and methodological perspective for the study of postmodern theory in historiography; second, to discuss and evaluate earlier research on the subject; and third, to show that historians must be more self-reflexive about their explicit as well as implicit theoretical and philosphical premises. My theoretical and methodological inspiratio

Since the early days of the transition process, the negative impact on the environment is very visible in Armenia. In this situation, there is an urgent need for coherent environmental policy, legislation, and institutional structure. It is particularly necessary for the municipal solid waste (MSW) management sector, which has been neglected for many years. In this context research has been carri

The importance of supply chains and the dissemination of EMS concept trigged this research to explore the environmental supply chain requirements, the way these requirements are controlled and to reveal the potential interface with EMS. The focus of this research has been in supply chains in Sweden and Poland. Interviews were conducted with companies of various sectors and members of the consultan

The current paper compares the relations between different measures of activity and some common neuropsychological tests. One-hundred and fifty five healthy elderly, aged 55 - 85, living in Sweden were included. Gender-specific patterns were found for both activities and correlations between activities and cognitive measures. The main findings suggest that activities are associated with cognitive

Title Systems, Stability and Power. The Discourse of Information in Organizing Knowledge. Abstract The aim of this Master's thesis is to inquire into the consequences of an unequal distribution of power between information discourses in the field of knowledge organisation. A deconstruction of Jennifer Rowley's and John Farrows introductory textbook Organizing Knowledge from 2000 is rela

Ett nätverk kan vara uppbyggt på många olika sätt där länkar binder samman noder och relationer uppstår genom kontaktskapande. Detta enkla men ändå komplexa fenomen gjorde oss nyfikna på och intresserade av att undersöka varför och hur individen nätverkar. Uppsatsens utgångspunkt är organiserade nätverk och fokus ligger på Marknadsföreningen i Helsingborg och dess medlemmar. Efter att ha lagt en g

Over the past decade there have been major changes within the Swedish healthcare sector, one of the more important ones being the privatization of public healthcare. This study focuses on healthcare for the elderly and analyses how employees have experienced the privatization and how they have adapted to new discourses. The discourse change from patient to costumer is of central importance to this