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The title of this Master´s thesis is Multicultural librarian competence - a literature study and interwievs with librarians and managers in Malmö Public Library. Every fifth Swede is born abroad or has at least one parent who are. The migration flows of today reach out longer, there are more efficent ways of communication and travel. This has made previously ethnic homogeneous populations as the
The aim of this essay is, with reference to a close study on the negotiation delegations of the Tenant Association, to examine the principals of democracy in relation to distribution of power and participation, efficiency and professionalism. This is done with the intention to understand the Tenant Association's view on its own commission as negotiator, according to democracy. The investigatio
The rich Mayan weaving tradition in Guatemala has survived even though the indigenous population has been subject to centuries of hardship and oppression. After conducting a field study and scrutinising the commercialisation process of the traditional designs in five different producer cooperatives of which, for the purpose of this thesis, some are characterised as weaving cooperatives and others
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how the two Swedish reforms, child-care allowance and earned income tax credit (EITC) will affect the labour supply. The child-care allowance will be introduced in Sweden during 2008. The aim is to increase the freedom of choice for parents regarding their child-care. In order to be eligible to the allowance, the children need to be between the ages of one
Ovarian cancer is the eighth most common female cancer worldwide and the most lethal of the gynaecologic malignancies. Around 700 women are diagnosed in Sweden per year. Due to vague symptoms most of the patients are diagnosed with late-stage epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and prognosis is poor, with a five-year survival of 49%. However, for early-stage EOC the prognosis is excellent. Biomarkers
Being poor during childhood increases the likelihood of being poor as an adult, which points to an intergenerational transmission of poverty. We know much more about this transmission for contemporary contexts than for the past, as extant research primarily covers the post-1960 period, and thus provides limited insights into the changing influence of poverty as societies modernize and welfare stat
Objective. To compare the effect of intraarticular injections of hyaluronan and placebo (vehicle, saline) in patients with knee pain on exertion and with joint cartilage abnormalities. Methods. Fifty-two patients with arthroscopically verified deep cartilage fissures and villus-like flakes in the symptomatic knee were randomly assigned to receive intraarticular injections of 2.5 ml of either hyalu
Youth perspective on aftercare The purpose of this study was to enlighten the young people leaving cares thoughts and feelings towards aftercare. What are their experiences, what do they have to say about aftercare and how well do their opinions match updated research and the knowledge and experience that social workers possess? To be able to highlight young people's views, I have interviewed
This study examines the impact that homelessness may have on young homeless people and how it could be explained that the situation can lead to mental illness and future consequences for these individuals. This was achieved by using qualitative content analysis to explore five international studies and also applying Lazarus’ Coping theory and Antonovsky’s theory of Sense of Coherence. The studies
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the individual and gendered experiences among young girls and boys who have migrated independently to the city of Kumasi in Ghana in search of work and better life opportunities. The research questions relate to their experiences of opportunities and constraints at destination; self-protection strategies that they employ to minimize nega
Funktionell magnetresonanstomografi (fMRI) är en teknik som gör det möjligt att kartlägga aktivering inom olika delar av hjärnan. Genom att samla in bilddata då patienten är i vila, och sedan jämföra dessa med data insamlade medan patienten är aktiv (t.ex. utför fingerrörelser), kan en bild skapas som visar var i hjärnan aktivering har skett. Dessa bilder kan t.ex. användas för att bedöma om det äFunctional MRI (fMRI) is a technique for determining which parts of the brain are activated when a subject experiences some type of physical sensation or performs an activity. This technique has during the past several years become a very useful tool for understanding functions of the nervous system, and the development of clinical applications is rapidly progressing. However, fMRI is not straight
The aim of this master's thesis is to study what attitude public libraries in Sweden show towards video games. By using critical discourse analysis as both theory and method we analyse several texts emerging from a debate mainly discussed in blogs. Main topics in the debate are video games in the library, the purpose of the public library and Library 2.0. Our analysis focus on views expressed
Risk is a key topic in the communication between developers of infrastructure projects, permit-granting authorities, and civil society. The nature of risk communication is contested among academics, however. Whereas some scholars conceive of risk communication as a matter of effectively communicating expert knowledge on factual matters to the public, others emphasize the role of symbolic construct
Common genetic variants have been recently associated with fasting glucose and insulin levels in white populations. Whether these associations replicate in pre-diabetes is not known. We extended these findings to the Diabetes Prevention Program, a clinical trial in which participants at high risk for diabetes were randomized to placebo, lifestyle modification or metformin for diabetes prevention.
