Microcredits have alternately been hailed as the future of developing economics and criticised for becoming a one size fits all-solution to complex issues. This paper is an attempt to add to a growing literature on the impact of microcredits on different stakeholders in the developing world. It investigates the role of microcredit in fostering financial inclusion through a minor field study carrie

Author(s): Linnea Östermark & Emma Sjölin Title: “Stress when reporting to social services” –A quantitative study on stress when reporting to social services in the profession school counselors. Supervisor: Dolf Tops Assessor: Lotti Ryberg Welander In Sweden, school counselors and other professions who works with children have an obligation to notify social services if they sense a concern for

Stadsutvecklingen i Storstockholm är avgörande för att staden ska kunna tillgodose alla människors behov såväl nu som på lång sikt. En viktig hållpunkt för att klara av en snabb och fungerande stadsutveckling är begreppet hållbar utveckling, som omfattas av ekologisk, social samt ekonomisk hållbarhet. Inom Svensk stadsbyggnad har hållbarhetsdebatten på senare tid gjort utrymme för ökat fokus på soSustainable development, based on the three dimensions; ecological, economic and social development, is an important concept towards a dedicated and effective development of urban areas. The urban sustainability debate within Sweden have given social problems a wider focus in recent times. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate how the ideas of social sustainability in a newly completed urban area

Author(s): Hanna Kartano & Linnea Johnsson Title: Age is not just a number – a qualitative study about the attitudes that social worker have towards the request from the Migrations office regarding age assasement of unaccompanied children seeking asylum. Supervisor: Roberto Scaramuzzino Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed This study explores the attitudes among social workers that are work

In this paper we develop a method for measuring transparency as a factor of document similarities between the executive and operational branches of the Swedish Riksbank. We do this by usage of NLTK within the Python-framework. We also propose a ray of different methods for textual analysis, such that they are able to capture the elements of communication that we are interested in.

Technology and information systems has been instrumental in supporting multiple industries for the past 3 decades. The rapid growth of information and communication technology has led to better understanding to utilize these techs in solving many existing environmental issues. One of these issues is the residential energy consumption which accounts for more than 30% of the total energy consumption

The aim of this study was to examine how contraceptive responsibility is constructed in the interaction between man and woman during casual sexual relations. The analysis was based on two theories; a theory about the world as a social construction and gender theory. The study is based on qualitative interviews with four young adults (two men and two women). The interviews were analysed with a them

This thesis aims to address the similarities and differences between journalism and native advertising. Is native advertising a business model for the media industry or is it simply a new way for journalists to write? The case study is based on a series of native advertising articles from the Swedish news site "Omni". The empirical data was collected both by a quantitative and qualitativ

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