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Learning processes in a cultural context. – A music project with Swedish and Gambian secondary school students. This essay is about a cross-cultural music performance project between Swedish and Gambian youths. As a researcher, I am especially interested in learning processes among youth musicians. I have the focus on the young peoples learning processes. This interest perspective in this topic ha

Nästan en halv miljon människor i Sverige sjunger i någon slags kör. Den här studien syftar till att med hjälp av George Herbert Meads teori om ​symbolisk interaktionism​ skapa förståelse för vilka sociala motiv och processer som leder fram till att man vill sjunga i kör och hur körmedlemmar påverkas och förändras av att ingå i ett körsammanhang, utifrån de förväntningar de har på sig själva och f

Sweden has under a long time suffered from a large housing shortage that has led to severe problems in society. The shortage has led to a very limited mobility within the housing market. This is because a person who has acquired a home unwillingly wants to move, partly because of the high transaction costs, housing prices and lack of alternatives. This restricts business and industry from growing

The aim of this study has been to examine the way social workers view ADHD and the scope given neuropshycological disorders such as ADHD within the professional delimitation of the social services child and family unit. The study has taken a qualitative approach with six semistructured interviews being held with social workers currently working in the child and family unit. These social workers we

Förhöjda halter koldioxid! Hur dåligt är det egentligen? Inledning: Flera forskare har i egna studier kommit fram till att koldioxid har en negativ effekt på hälsa och prestation. Vår atmosfär är en av faktorerna som gör att vi kan leva här på jorden. Atmosfären består till stor del av kväve (78%) och syre (21%) och lite över en procent andra gaser. Bland dessa gaser förekommer koldioxid. KoldioThis study’s purpose was to try and study whether Carbon Dioxide in indoor environments (schools and offices) affect performance and health in students and office workers in terms of mental effects and Sick Building Syndrome. This study was executed as a literary study where eight different scientific articles were analysed and compared to see if their results are comparable with each other and sh

This bachelor thesis is based on two American legal cases concerning the issue of abortion. The first one is the case of Roe v. Wade, which grants the woman the constitutional right to terminate her pregnancy. The second one, Beal v. Doe gives the states the right to choose not to finance abortions. This is where I found my problem. Since Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Beal can be said to stand in opposit

This paper was written in an attempt to study a less researched area of Swedish development aid and its effort to help build institutions in developing countries. Our purpose is to examine to which extent the practice of “twinning” - exchange projects between equivalent or similar government agencies in different countries - can lead to institutional development. We have interviewed five Swedish a

In this essay I analyze the exhibition ”Peoples of the earth”. In order to do this I have asked questions that look into the intentions of the exhibition, the experience of the visitor and the future changes that the ethnographic department is working towards. The methodology used to study these questions are my own experiences from the exhibition, an interview with museum curator Mille Gabrie

Denna uppsats har utforskat praktiska angelägenheter för val och hantering av nyckeltal för verksamheten för att hantera miljöpåverkan från leverantörers tillverkningsprocesser för leverantörer uppströms i leverantörskedjan. Studien har genomförts genom intervjuer med fem framstående företag inom området. Forskningsresultaten visar att det främst är direkta leverantörers miljöproblem kring energiaThis thesis has explored practical concerns for selecting and managing environmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to manage environmental impacts of suppliers’ production processes upstream in the supply-chain. It has been accomplished by interviews with five front-runner companies. Findings show that companies primarily track environmental issues for 1st tier suppliers concerning energy use,

Human rights have become one of the most sensitive issues between EU and China, and it has brought a substantial impact on the bilateral relation. The EU’s persistent criticism on the Chinese human rights situation has not only provoked strong reaction from the Chinese government, but also led to a wide antipathy towards the EU’s external human rights policy among ordinary Chinese people. Adopting

This study is based on texts that concern experiences of sex in the grey zone between bad sex and rape. My aim is to elucidate how shame, age and the positions victim and perpetrator are used to tell stories about unpleasant sexual experiences. I also investigate how the authors renegotiate the conditions for how it is possible to talk about these experiences. The results show that the social con

This is a study of the Swedish governments control over pathologicalized bodies. I have carried out a genealogical analysis of Swedish government official reports concerning forced sterilizations. The purpose of the study was to find out in which ways the Swedish government controls and restricts “certain kinds” of bodies when it comes to reproduction. With theoretical influences from Judith Butle

This project has focused on improving the psychosocial working environment for hospital staff that uses electronic patient records in Region Skåne. Through making qualitative interviews with nurses, doctors and medical secretaries that use patient records on a daily basis I’ve gotten a view of some of the issues with the current system. The problems today seem to be that the documentation system

The actors in focus here are the citizens and the politicians. We are studying their opinions on two central issues of health-care policy during the period 1981-1991. The aims of the dissertation can be summarised as follows: - to study the compositions of citizens´attitudes to health-care provision and policy - to examine the value of using different methodical approaches when studying health-car

Popular Abstract in Swedish Informationsteknologin utvecklas i allt snabbare takt. Däremot tycks utvecklingen ske långsammare när det gäller de modeller, metaforer och metoder som används för att beskriva och förstå hur information sprids och hanteras i organisationer, i kommuner och i samhället i stort. Använder vi egentligen IT på ett effektivt sätt i det dagliga arbetet? I den här avhandlingen New information technology is developing faster than the models, metaphors and methods in use for conceptualizing the sharing and managing of information in organizations, in communities and in society in general. The way we utilize information technology today does not seem to succeed in supporting the everyday work practices through which organizations accomplish their work. In this Ph.D. disser

Popular Abstract in Swedish Till processindustrin räknar man bland annat fabriker som tillverkar papper, plast och livsmedel. I en enda fabrik kan det finnas tusentals PID-regulatorer som har till uppgift att styra storheter som tryck, flöden och temperaturer till önskade värden. PID-regulatorns roll i processindustrin har därför jämförts med den arbetsmyran har i myrstacken. Huruvida en enskild mA large process industry can have somewhere between five hundred and five thousand control loops, and PID controllers are used in 90–97% of the cases. It is well-known that only 20–30% of the controllers in the process industry are tuned satisfactorily, but with the methods available today it is considered too time-consuming to optimize each single controller. This thesis presents tools for analys

In 2000, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) ratified the decision from the International Working Group on the Cambrian–Ordovician Boundary (COBWG) to place the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Ordovician System in the Green Point section, Newfoundland, Canada, at a point coinciding with the first appearance of the conodont Iapetognathus flu

This study discusses the image of Sweden and Swedish society in Swedish-language instructional material used in the Swedish-language course for immigrants (S.F.I.). As such, the main source material for this study has been different textbooks used as instructional material in the S.F.I. course from 1967-2005. Theoretically, this study takes its inspiration from the branch of discourse analysis kno