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Syftet med denna studie är att jämföra kommunikationsstrategier i tre olika församlingar, som verkar i olika kontexter, för att få en startpunkt för att svara på frågan varför medlemmar lämnar Svenska kyrkan i en takt av 1,6% per år. Det är viktigt för församlingarna att bli sedda som en positiv och ansvarstagande organisation som bidrar till det lokala samhället och dess innevånare. Klarar inte fThe purpose of this thesis is to study and compare communication strategies in three different parishes located in three quite different contexts to get a starting point to answering questions concerning the rate of members leaving the Swedish church, 1.6% per year. It is of outmost importance for a parish to be regarded as a positive and responsible organisation contributing to the local communit

Fram till 1 januari 2015 hade länsstyrelsen möjlighet att besluta om ”113-förordnande” enligt 6 kap. 5 § PBL. 113-förordnandet innebar att kommunen kunde ta mark i anspråk utan ersättning om det ansågs skäligt med hänsyn till den nytta som exploatören förväntades få av planens genomförande och till omständigheterna i övrigt. Hur mark för allmän plats ska värderas och ersättas regleras i 4 kap. 3a Until 1st of January 2015, the county administrative board could decide on “113-regulation” according to Ch. 6 Art. 5 Planning and Building Act. The regulation meant that the municipality could claim land for public spaces without compensation if it was fair considering the benefit expected to be achieved by the planer's implementation and the circumstances in general. How public space is to b

Abstract: This study develops, presents and evidences a belief model of institutional change. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from institutional economics, the model states that institutions change when an environmental factor alters the beliefs of the population or the elites. Further, a society will only be internally stable when the beliefs of these two groups align, and will only

Migrationspolitik berör territoriella gränsdragningar mellan medborgare och icke-medborgare, men även politiska gränsdragningar inom nationen. Det ställer frågan om vem som tillåts att fullt ut tillhöra det svenska samhället. Med ett fokus på inkludering och exkludering ur en svensk samhällsgemenskap visar studien hur skapandet av den ideala migranten kan synliggöra hur ideala medborgare konstruerMigration policy concerns territorial demarcations between citizens and non-citizens, but also political borders within the nation. This asks the question of who is fully allowed to belong to Swedish society. With a focus on inclusion and exclusion from a Swedish societal community, the study shows how the creation of the ideal migrant can reveal how ideal citizens are constructed. The aim of th

Bröstcancer är idag en av de vanligaste cancerformerna hos svenska kvinnor; mer än 1400 avlider varje år till följd av sjukdomen. Ett sätt att reducera dödligheten är genom screeningprogram, där intent ionen är att detektera brösttumörer i ett tidigt stadie med hjälp av en röntgenundersökning som kallas mammografi. Alla kvinnor i åldra rna 40- 74 erb juds därför mammografi i förebyggande syfte, trAim: Virtual clinical trials (VCT) in medical imaging can be used to predict the outcome of clinical trials, by simulating anatomy, imaging methods and image interpretation. VCTs could reduce the cost and duration of clinical trials and their dependence on available patients. This thesis is motivated by the limitations in the field of breast cancer screening. The aim of the project is to expand a

Studien syftar till att undersöka vilka svårigheter och utmaningar altruister och icke-altruister har i musikskapande för att kunna fånga upp elever med olika personlighetsdrag och kunna handleda dem i sitt musikskapande i skolan. Studien baseras på tidigare forskning på området samt kvalitativa intervjuer med tio musiker med varierad ålder och könstillhörighet som skriver egen musik. Av dessa tioThe study aims to investigate what differences and challenges altruists and non altruists face when they write music, and to be able to catch students with different personality traits to help them with their songwriting in school. This study is previous studies in this area and qualitative interviews with ten musicians who all write their own music. Six of these ten are altruists and four are non

In this project I attempt to press custom electrodes from Sm and Co powder using two different pressing tools. I investigate if custom electrodes can generate nanoparticles with tailored properties using a spark discharge generator (SDG). Three different sources of the nanoparticle material will be considered, pressed Sm and Co powder, pure Sm and Co electrodes and alloyed SmCo made from demagneti

This paper is problematizing the gender constructions appearing in documents talking of drug treatment in Sweden. Through discourse analysis, the gender constructions done in documents focusing on addiction, and created by government agencies and rehab- and treatment-centers are studied. In previous research, two positions emerged: one expressing the necessity of showing and discussing women´s vul

There are benefits of weight optimized structures in many engineering fields. In civil engineering it can for instance be associated with cheaper structural parts and easier transportation. In this study a genetic optimization algorithm for weight minimization of steel trusses has been developed in MATLAB. Constraints regarding material strength and buckling stability are taken from “Eurocode 3: D

Background and the Situation at Company X To remain competitive, it is essential for companies to take advantage of new business opportunities. However, seizing new opportunities often imply changes within the organization, and projects associated with change are bound to encounter resistance. To efficiently manage change and thereby avoid resistance and engage in measures that generate support fo

Sammanfattning En stor del av västvärlden står inför en demografisk förändring bestående av en allt åldrande befolkning i kombination med ett lägre barnafödande. För att möta detta behov förenklades 2008 det juridiska ramverket i Sverige gällande arbetskraftsinvandring från tredje land. Det nya regelverket innebär att den tidigare arbetsmarknadsprövningen togs bort, istället blev det den enskildeSummary Many Western countries are on the verge of a demograhpic change. This change consists of an aging population in combination with a decreasing birth rate. To meet the need following the labour shortage, the Swedish migration framework was modified in 2008. In the new framework the former labour market examination was abolished. Instead the individual employer became the decision maker of w

The aim of this study was to highlight preschool teacher´s thoughts about their mandatory reporting duty, in relation to their own actions and the social service. Several studies show that there is a difference between how many children that is suspected maltreated and how many children are reported to social service. I conducted interviews with five preschool teachers who are employed at municipa

Unusually high CO2 concentrations were frequently observed during stable nights in late summer 2006 at the CarboEurope-Integrated Project (CEIP) forest site in Norunda, Sweden. Mean CO2 concentrations in the layer below the height of the eddy-covariance measurement system at 30 m reached up to 500 mu mol mol(-1) and large vertical and horizontal gradients occurred, leading to very large advective

Abstract in UndeterminedResearch on social capital routinely relies on survey measures of trust which can be collected in large and heterogeneous samples at low cost. We validate such survey measures in an incentivized public good experiment and show that they are importantly related to cooperation behavior in a large and heterogeneous sample. We provide evidence on the microfoundation of this rel

We report the first experiment carried out on an in situ setup, which allows for detection of CO(2) from catalytic CO oxidation close to a model catalyst under realistic reaction conditions by the means of planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) in the mid-infrared spectral range. The onset of the catalytic reaction as a function of temperature was followed by PLIF in a steady state flow reactor.

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are highly immunosuppressive myeloid cells, which increase in cancer patients. The molecular mechanism behind their generation and function is unclear. Whereas granulocytic-MDSCs correlate with poor overall survival in breast cancer, the presence and relevance of monocytic-MDSCs (Mo-MDSCs) is unknown. Here we report for the first time an enrichment of funct

An immunoaffinity extraction (IAE) column was prepared for extraction of adducts between human serum albumin (HSA) and hexahydrophthalic anhydride (HHPA). HHPA is a strong sensitizer inducing immunoglobulin E antibodies in vivo. Polyclonal antibodies from a rabbit immunized with keyhole limpet hemocyananin-HHPA conjugate were purified using a Protein A Sepharose gel. To obtain antibodies with opti

1. In a correlative study, we investigated the relative importance of fish predation, refuge availability and resource supply in determining the abundance and size distributions of the introduced and omnivorous signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) in lakes and streams. Moreover, the biomass and food selection of predatory fish was estimated in each habitat type and stable isotopes of carbon