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Background: Ageing-in-place policies have increasingly shifted elder care responsibilities onto family members. Among older cohabiting couples, one’s partner’s illness significantly impacts the other’s daily life and well-being.Aim: To explore the responsibilities and strategies of caregiving partners in older cohabiting couples from the perspectives of cohabiting caregivers.Methods: A qualitative
It has been a century since the birth of philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-95). At his friend’s expense, Michel Foucault once joked, saying that un jour ce siecle sera peut-etre deleuzien: “perhaps one day this century will be known as Deleuzian?” Is there truth to the notion that the present moment expresses something of a “Deleuzian aeon” for the humanities, and what are its ramifications for bib
Power required to fly for a bird generally follows a U-shaped function of airspeed, with higher cost at both low and high speeds. Because power required increases with body mass faster than power available from flight muscles, larger birds may experience restricted flight speed ranges and climbing capabilities. Previous studies found limited flight performance in cormorants. Adapted for both fligh
Solvers’ participation is essential for successful implementation of crowdsourcing contests for problem solving (CCPS). Many efforts have been made to investigate solvers’ various participation behaviours in CCPS. Whether or not a solver will conduct a behaviour is the result of decision making. However, to our knowledge, few studies concentrated on solvers’ participation from a decision process p
Background: Pain in children is undertreated. An assessment scale co-designed with children, parents, and health care professionals could lead to more effective pain assessments and treatment strategies aimed at reducing pain and pain-related symptoms. There are analogue scales validated for self-report of pain in children, but today, children regularly use digital technology, which healthcare sho
Introduction: Amyloid- and tau-positron emission tomography (PET) are promising modalities for detecting pathological changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD); however, their application is limited. Although the use of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers as alternatives to amyloid-PET and tau-PET has been explored, no in vitro diagnostic-approved or commercial CSF biomarker assays are cur
Currently, the European Union (EU) is the “green leader”, globally, in adopting policies to support longer product lifetimes. One reason for this state of affairs is that EU Member States are adopting progressive policies, which put pressure on the EU to set EU-wide laws to replace national ones. The main reason for this situation is that national rules may lead to distortions in trade in the EU S
Eftersom anskaffningskostnaderna för flygplan är så höga idag, finns det behov inom luftfarten av andra finansieringsformer än direkta köp. Exempel på sådana alternativa former är villkorade förvärv, leasing och inteckningar i luftfartyg. Dessa transaktioner är beroende av att borgenärerna ges en stabil säkerhet. Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka det sakrättsliga skyddet av rättigheter i luftfarty
I och med det ikraftträdande av en ny upphandlingslagstiftning i januari 2017 införs en reglering som i större utsträckning ämnar tillvarata skyddsvärda samhällsintressen. Uppsatsen behandlar frågan om möjligheten för upphandlande myndighet att beakta djurskydd och miljöhänsyn vid livsmedelsupphandling. Offentlig upphandling av livsmedel är synnerligen intressant att granska utifrån denna nya laThe new public procurement legislation that enter force in January 2017, will to a greater extent focus on protecting public interests. This essay addresses the possibility for contracting authorities to consider animal welfare and environmental considerations in public food procurement. Public procurement of food is particularly interesting to examine based on this new legislation. Food procure
Över tid har våldtäktsbrottet varit ett omdiskuterat ämne, inte minst bland politiker och jurister men även bland befolkningen som helhet. Protester, debatter, nyhetsartiklar och hashtags är inte ovanligt förekommande inom diskussionen. Syftet med förevarande uppsats har varit att ge en övergripande blick över gränserna för det juridiska begreppet våldtäkt och har ämnat att besvara vilka de ursprOver time the crime rape has been a discussed topic, non the least among politicians and jurists but also among the common people. Protests, debates, newsarticles and hashtags are not unusually occuring in the discussion. The object of this essay has been to give an overall look at the boundaries for the legal word rape and aims to anwser where the original boundaries were drawn and how the bound
Europeiska unionen (EU) är en internationell organisation bestående av 28 medlemsstater. Ett av EU:s främsta mål är att främja fri rörlighet för EU-medborgare. När personer väljer att flytta över medlemsstaternas gränser kan olika situationer uppstå. Personer kan exempelvis gifta sig och skaffa barn med någon från en annan medlemsstat. Den materiella familjerätten inom EU är emellertid inte harmonThe European Union (EU) is an international organisation with 28 Member States. One of the main goals of the EU is to facilitate the freedom of movement for EU citizens. Furthermore, when people decide to move across the Member States different situations can occur, such as people getting married or people having children with someone from another Member State. The substantive family law within th
This is a representation study of the antagonist character and monstrous female vampire Drusilla from the TV-show ”Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997). The purpose of this study is to find out how Drusilla as an antagonist is portrayed from a feministic perspective. The theories that are used focus on monstrous female, sex, motherhood and female objectification in TV, film and literature. Using these
Syfte: Att belysa barnmorskors upplevelser av att möta unga på ungdomsmottagningen som har blivit utsatta för sexuellt våld. Metod: Kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer med totalt 12 barnmorskor från olika ungdomsmottagningar. Materialet analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Analysen genererade tre kategorier; Att identifiera – Genom utforskande samtal identifierad
Länge ansågs en triad av symtom, bestående av blödning under den hårda hjärnhinnan, ögonbottenblödning och hjärnpåverkan, innebära att ett barn hade blivit skakat. Triaden uppfattades även av svenska domstolar som stark bevisning för att ett barn blivit skakat och det finns flera fall där den tilltalade dömts med enbart triaden som bevisning. Anledningen till detta är att de experter som hördes i For a long time, a triad of symptoms, namely subdural hematoma, retinal bleedings and brain impacts, were considered an indication that a child had been shaken (the shaken baby syndrome). The triad was perceived as strong evidence by Swedish courts, demonstrated by several cases where the defendants were convicted based exclusively on the existence of this triad. The reason for this was that exper
Investeringsrådgivning är när en personlig rekommendation avseende ett finansiellt instrument lämnas till en kunde. Det finns inga begränsningar i hur det ska gå till, utan det kan både genom ett fysiskt möte och via ett automatiskt verktyg. Vid investeringsrådgivning finns det omfattande krav som måste uppfyllas. Kraven handlar huvudsakligen om information som ska lämnas till kund, en bedömning aProviding investment advice is the act of giving a personalized investment advice to a client in relation to a financial instrument. There is no set form for how investment advice is provided, it can be done by a person in a meeting, as well as by an automated tool. The legislation that must be complied with while providing investment advice is extensive. The legislation mainly stipulates three re
