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Digitalisation of household eating practices: A case study of meal-boxes

The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain how meal-box, as a digital device designed to assist households in carrying out eating practices, reconfigure household practices and enable specific behavioural activities, including sustainability. Taking a socio-material and practice theory approach and drawing on an ethnographic study of three meal-box providers – The Seasons, Hello Fresh and L

Frames, Discursive Practices, and Bilateral Relations: The Gui Minhai Case in Chinese and Swedish Media

As one of the most important sites in which and through which discourse is articulated and disseminated, newspapers play particularly extensive roles in furthering understandings of human rights cases involving citizens of dual nationality and foreign policy. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and the practice of journalistic framing, this study examined the effects of intertextuality on the d

Individual life of work, family relations in the eyes of the Post-90s generation in China

The modernization of China comes as one of the most interesting topics not only at this moment but also has been researched for a long time. The individualization theories come as a result of modernity. This thesis draws on ten in-depth interviews in order to analyze the individualization among the educated, middle-class young people who were born in the 1990s by testing Yan Yunxiang’s theories of

Social Adaptability under Climate Change: Case Study in a Pastoral Community of Inner Mongolia

Climate change, along with grassland degradation, have become major causes of livelihood difficulties for herdsmen in Inner Mongolia for the past few decades. The purpose of this study is to seek better understanding of the relationships between climate change and herders’ livelihoods in pastoral communities in Inner Mongolia, map out the major institutional changes on climate adaptation measures

Campus LU-Utveckling av en datorprototyp av en app för Lunds universitet campus

En app/prototyp gjord för studenter av studenter. Den har i syfte att vara deras bästa vän under studiens gång. Hjälpa till med allt från att boka datorsal till att fungera som ett digitalt LU-kort! Nyckeln till ett smidigare studentliv helt enkelt! En första version av prototypen gjordes i en såkallad “lofi-prototyp” som en enkel digitalt handritat prototoyp, som testas först på användarna i fo

The protection of fictional characters: A study on how fictional characters can be protected under copyright and trade mark law

As the entertainment industry continues to grow and fictional characters holding enormous value, this paper seeks to explain how the characters can be protected within the EU through copyright or the use of trade marks, and what the limitations to such protection might be. The paper is using a legal analytical method and looks at both the legislation and the case-law within the union, but also at

Decreasing organic nitrogen concentrations in European water bodies - links to organic carbon trends and land cover

European rivers experience increasing concentrations of total organic carbon (TOC) from terrestrial sources due to factors involving changes in land use, climate and soil acidity. However, low interest is given to the evolution of total organic nitrogen (TON) concentrations in surface waters, the links with TOC concentrations and the influence of the surrounding land cover on nutrient inputs. Inve

Effects of migration experience on conservative attitudes of immigrants: A study on Turkish immigrants living in Sweden

This study aims at examining changes in the conservative attitudes of immigrants. By examining the conservative attitudes of immigrants, the study intends to explore in what ways they change when immigrants start a new life in different social and cultural contexts. In order to provide an answer to this question, previous research on immigrants and conservatism in Turkey are analyzed and a group o

How to protect and assist Environmental Displaced Persons (EDPs)? A study about the gap in the UN refugee regime concerning EDPs and how to fill it

In today's world the protection gap in the 1951 Refugee Convention regarding the environmentally displaced persons (EDPs) has been discussed, claiming that EDPs international protection and assistance should be considered too. This thesis addresses the issue of displaced people due to environmental factors and the options that are suggested for their protection and assistance. With a starting

Södra stambanan Nässjö - Hässleholm - Europaanpassning av spåranläggningen och kontaktledningssystemen

Europeiska unionen har definierat ett gemensamt järnvägsnät kallat "Transeuropeiska nätverket för järnväg", där person- och godstrafik ska kunna transporteras över nationsgränserna. Nordiska triangeln är en del av detta nät och är ett av de 30 prioriterade projekten som ska påbörjas innan 2010, där Sverige inte har påbörjat än. Till detta järnvägsnät har det då uppkommit harmoniserade re

Kunskap – maskinstyrningens framgångsfaktor

Redan 1997 började Skanska Sverige AB att använda sig av maskinstyrning med GPS. Maskinstyrning är en teknik som bygger på att anläggningsmaskinerna har kontakt med satelliter, totalstation eller planlaser. Tillsammans med en digitaliserad anläggningsmodell som visualiseras på en datorskärm i maskinen kan maskinisten se maskinens exakta position och veta exakt hur han/hon skall gräva/schakta för a

Modebloggen- En studie kring unga kvinnors användning av modebloggar inför ett köpbeslut

Title: Fashion Blog- A study of how young women use fashion blogs in their buying decision. Seminar Date: 25th of August 2010 Course: SMTX07, Master dissertation, 15 University Credits Points Authors: Josephine Claesson, Ida Johnsson & Charlotte Wiebe Advisors: Katja Lindqvist & Pia Siljeklint Keywords: Fashion Blogs, young woman, buying process, buying decision Purpose: The purpose of the

Constructing Local Democracy In Bolivia: Decentralization and Rural Development

Decentralization has in recent decades become a common concept in public policy making especially in developing countries. The concept, defined here as the transfer of functions, responsibilities and financial resources to lower levels of government, is further expected to have a positive effect on a country´s development process by reducing the inefficiency associated with a centralized form of g

Prostitution som konstruktion - Socionomen i spänningsfältet mellan samhälle och individ

Prostitution as a construction - The social worker in the tension between society and the individual Discussions about prostitution seems to be of large interest for different feminist groups. The main discussions are about whether people sell sex as a result of free will, or if prostitution is a part of patriarchal structures, and that people selling sex, have been forced to do so in one way, or

Åldersdiskriminering eller tillåten särbehandling på grund av ålder? En studie av den svenska rättsutvecklingen i ljuset av EU-domstolens rättstillämpning

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur den svenska rättsutvecklingen, kring vad som anses vara tillåten särbehandling på grund av ålder, förhåller sig till den rättspraxis som har skapats av EU-domstolen med bakgrund av direktiv 2000/78/EU och den allmänna principen om förbud mot diskriminering på grund av ålder. Uppsatsen syftar även till att applicera Anna Christensens teori om normativa The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the development in Swedish law, as to what is considered to be a permissible difference in treatment on grounds of age, relates to the case law developed by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the view of Directive 2000/78/EU and the general principle of non-discrimination in respect of age. The secondary purpose of this thesis is to apply the

Family in the eyes of officials: Definition and implications of the concept of family

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the way the concept of family is defined in the legislation on family-related migration in Sweden and what implications this definition have for the applicants, for family-related migration and for the view on family in Sweden. The empirical material consisted of five individual, semi-structured interviews with officials working with cases concerning famil

HYRAN ÄR DEN VIKTIGASTE RÄKNINGEN - EN STUDIE AV SAMVERKAN MELLAN AKTÖRER I VRÄKNINGSPROCESSEN

The aim of this study was to explore the eviction process from a cooperation perspective and how a community in a welfare state works with households in risk of eviction, that not already were in the social system regarding to addiction- and medical problems. The eviction process with an outcome leading to households losing their homes is in its organization according to Swedish laws, a process t

Kvalificerade kontaktpersoner

The aim of this study was to, through qualitative interviews, look at the roles of qualified mentors of teenagers with social problems such as criminality and addiction. The idea of qualified mentorship is quite new and has only been practiced in Sweden for a few years, which is why we thought it would be interesting to see how the work of the mentors have been conducted in the social service orga

Kommunikationens betydelse för långtidsarbetslösa personer med ADHD

Author: Barbro Liljegren Title: Importance of communication for long-term unemployed people with ADHD Supervisor: Yoshiko Boregren - Matsui Assessor: Hans Swärd With a high unemployment a more selective labormarket follows and it always remains a group of long-term unemployed during such circumstances. The aim with this essay was to examine the importance of communication for them who are longterm

Infowar 2.0

I takt med att medierna blir alltmer styrande för vår omvärldsorientering liksom för opinionsbildning och beslutsfattande på olika samhällsnivåer, skapar förändringar inom medieteknik och mediestrukturerna förutsättningar för att påverka, manipulera eller skapa informationsinnehåll i syfte att styra opinion, känslor, beteenden och beslutsfattande. Denna studie fokuserar på användarskapade nyhetsme