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The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the news media can challenge a social construction when it covers an event related to a taboo. The main question guiding this thesis is how the news media discourses about the ‘tampon tax´ in France can challenge the menstrual taboo. Every society is constituted of taboos which aim at maintaining order and hierarchies. However, these taboos oppress the
This study investigated the short-term outcome of a three session exposure in vivo treatment – E-CBT – for eight primary health care patients with panic disorder, who used distraction techniques as their most common safety behavior. The primary question was if this abbreviated treatment that, besides initial psychoeducation, solely used exposure in vivo as therapeutic intervention, could show shor
Nämndemän har varit med och påverkat dömandet i våra domstolar i mer än 800 år. Deras inflytande har varierat en del under århundradena men aldrig har de haft så stor domsmakt som idag. I tingsrätten dömer vanligtvis fyra domare varav en är juridiskt utbildad (ordföranden) och tre är nämndemän. I röstningsförfarandet väger allas röst lika tungt. Det är kommunfullmäktige som väljer vilka som ska siLay judges have been able to influence the judgments in our courts for more than 800 years. Their influence has varied somewhat over the centuries but never have they had such great judicial power as today. In District Courts there are usually four judges, one of whom is legally trained and three who are lay judges. In the voting process every judge has the same power. The city council decides who
Fastighetsbildningslagen (FBL) antogs 1970 och ersatte ett tiotal lagar gällande fastighetsbildningsåtgärder. Bestämmelserna kom nu att samlas och bli mer översiktliga. Ett nytt fastighetsbildningsinstitut som instiftades var fastighetsreglering. Detta institut skulle ersätta ägoutbytena som fanns i den äldre lagstiftningen. Tanken med ägoutbyte var att kunna utföra ömsesidiga byten av relativt smThe Swedish real estate law was adopted in 1970 and replacing the many existing laws regarding real estate measures. This lead to a better overview. A new real estate institute was about to take shape, which was to replace the old institute of change of land areas. The new institute, property reformation institute, was to be similar to the old one with the aim of exchanging small areas of land bet
The CJEU recently enriched its case law concerning the concept of a single taxable person through its ruling in Skandia America. Established case law differentiate two concepts of single taxable person. According to FCE Bank, a head office and its branch are to be deemed as one single taxable person, with the result that no taxable supplies occur between these entities. In Ampliscientifica, the CJ
The development of clean technology (cleantech) is necessary in order to address many prominent environmental challenges. However, financing can be a hurdle for the development of cleantech companies. Venture capital (VC) plays an important role in cleantech development. While the four large Nordic countries are regarded as performing well in terms of cleantech innovation there are signs that VC i
Den här studien syftade till att undersöka om den evaluativa faktorn i personlighet kunde koppla samman en skillnad i preferens av olika intervjufrågor. Den evaluativa faktorn i aktuell studie definerades som: att tilltalas av värdeladdad information och att i sin självbeskrivning vilja framstå på ett socialt önskvärt sätt. 36 intervjufrågor konstruerades och delades in i kategorierna: relevant-spThe purpose of this study was to determine whether the evaluative factor in a person could be connected to a difference in the preferred choice of interview questions. The evaluative factor in this study was defined as a preference for evaluative information and a tendency to describe one self in a social desirable way. 36 interview questions were constructed and divided into three categories: rel
In this thesis, I investigate the relation between assessed speaking proficiency and measured complexity and accuracy in twenty test-takers’ performance in the oral part of the Swedish certificate test Swedex B2. Accuracy and complexity have been measured in seven different ways; both global and local measures from the CAF (Complexity–Accuracy–Fluency) triad have been used. Also, each test-taker’s
The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate of why Swedish social workers migrates from public employments to outsourced private employers in the same environment. We also looked into how the outsourced social workers perceives their new employment and how they plan their future carrier. Our findings shows us some main theme of social workers being pushed away from bad working environment
The watch officer on board of vessels of the Netherlands Royal Navy has to deal with a wide variety of interest during his/her duty. Despite the wide variety of interests the watch officer has to manage, the amount of incidents and accidents is few. Apparently, the watch officers of the Netherlands Royal Navy are well able to manage this wide variety of interests. The aim of this thesis research
Suicide among young people are a serious problem worlwide as well in Sweden. The main purpose with this study was to examine and understand how suicide can be explained- to identify possible causes to suicide behaviour among young people. Through a qualitative approach, I interviewed six people who are working with young people in different ways. The main- result from this study shows that suicid
Crime is one of the most harmful social problems throughout the world suggesting that the topic of crime is one of the most important research areas within the field of economics. This thesis attempts to shed some new light on the relationship between crime and gross domestic product (GDP) in Sweden. More specifically the aim of the paper is to look for the existence of a cointegration relationshi
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Geografiska Informationssystem (GIS) är ett system för att hantera geografisk data som jämfört med traditionella forskningsmetoder gör det lättare att sammanställa och analysera dessa data. GIS började utvecklas i Nordamerika på 1960-talet och har under de senaste två decennierna haft stor påverkan på hur hanteringen av rumslig data går till. Användningsområdena Geographical Information System (GIS) is a technique that has revolutionized the way we process spatial data. The possibilities for GIS are endless and it is today used in a wide range of subject areas such as social planning, environmental monitoring and marketing. However, the process of implementing GIS is a long and usually runs in to a lot of problems. The aim of this study is to compare and
The purpose of this study is to see how gender stereotypes are being mediated to children through books. The aim is to study how children are raised into their gender role. To do this, the content of two books has been analyzed by discourse analysis to be able to find underlying messages for the children reading the books. Main focus in this study is to study how the child’s emotions are being dea
Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogen, sometimes occurring in fresh cheese, such as Queso Fresco. Antimicrobials could be utilized to prevent the presence of L. monocytogenes in this type of cheese. In order to be able to screen and assess several novel antimicrobials simultaneously in the future, the validated miniaturized laboratory-scale model for Queso Fresco (MLQF) was further developed into a
The study conducted aimed to answer two different question statements: does the door-in-the-face technique influence willingness to accept a monetary offer in a ultimatum game scenario consisting of two steps, where participants were first presented with a lower bid followed by a higher bid and is there any personality trait within the five-factor model of personality related to a greater tendency
The aim of this study was to understand how the different parties in court judgments motivate the “best interest of the child” and how the power relations between the parties appear in conjunction with the LVU process. The method chosen for this study was qualitative discourse analysis of six different LVU cases from the administrative court and the administrative court of appeal in Sweden between
As the atmospheric carbon dioxide keeps increasing, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is getting increased attention as a measure to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide. It is especially interesting in Sweden where the extensive paper and pulp industry constitutes point sources of biogenic carbon dioxide. As carbon capture requires energy, it is important to investigate the oppo
I dagsläget är det få studier som undersökt skillnader mellan binära och icke-binära transpersoner. Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka huruvida det förelåg en skillnad i könsdysfori, könskongruens, i vilken utsträckning man lever i enlighet med sin könsidentitet, samt graden av socialt stöd mellan binära och icke-binära transpersoner inom den svenska transvården. För att begripliggöra könsTo date there are few studies investigating the difference between binary and non-binary transgender people. The aim of this study was to determine whether there are differences between binary and non-binary patients in swedish transgender care, with regards to the level of gender dysphoria, gender congruence, living in accordance with one’s gender identity and social support. To better understand
