The Swedish public sector has experienced an extensive change towards a more market-oriented structure since the latter part of the 20th century. This essay examines how ideas regarding welfare production in modern day Sweden can be linked to three different principles: a communitarian principle, an autonomous principle and an economic principle . By applying a theoretical framework in a descripti

In the Church of Sweden, priests do not have a specific vow concerning their personal prayer life, which some other church traditions in the world do have. Concerning this, the purpose of this paper is to give a picture of how newly ordained priests in the Church of Sweden, more specifically the diocese of Lund, describes their personal prayer and whether the priests feel that they have received t

The aim of this study was to explore social workers’ experiences with the assessment tool UngDOK at Maria clinics in Skane. The past 30 years has seen a rise in popularity of evidence based practices and increased requirements for scientific evidence of the effects of various treatments. Several manual based evaluation and assessment instruments have been implemented in the field of social work in

In contemporary tourism, technology enables travelers to make travel arrangements in various ways, for example they can reserve tickets directly from airlines company’s website or purchase products from online travel agencies. Considering that travelers have many alternatives but insist in making transactions with traditional travel agencies, there must be something that makes traditional travel a

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva personers upplevelse av att genomgå elektrokonvulsiv terapi i samband med djup depression. Metod: En litteraturstudie där relevanta artiklar inom området söktes i databaserna PsycInfo, PubMed samt CINAHL. Elva artiklar analyserades och lades till grund för litteraturstudiens resultatdel. Artiklarna analyserades med hjälp av integrerad analys och två huvud

Mother tongue tuition (MTT) has been part of the Swedish educational system since 1977, with now almost 30 per cent of elementary school students eligible for the subject. With an increasingly globalized world, as well as expectations from the EU of all their member states’ citizens learning at least three languages, MTT could work as a means to meet the goal of a more linguistically knowledgeable

Based on qualitative data, I explore notions of collective identities within Europe – in particular, whether and how the EU and Europe evoke a sense of belonging. The main data comprises 12 semi-structured interviews with Europeans living in two different border regions, Lampedusa and the Danish-German borderland, together with pro- and anti-European movements and communities. The interviews are c

The Danish cartoon crisis was triggered by the publication of twelve cartoons of the prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 and had a significant impact on world politics. This paper tries to understand this crisis using a post-positivist approach to social reality. It asserts that the crisis can be understood discursively by applying the theory of discourse of danger to

In this essay, our aim was to investigate the correlation between deaths due to a terrorist attack an the medial attention of the attack. We do this to test and further expand Virgil Hawkins’ theory about stealth conflicts, where he emphasizes that the most violent conflicts of the world are underreported and in some cases ignored in favor of so-called chosen conflicts, which are on the medial age

Den rådande rättspolitiska debatten avseende omedelbarhetsprincipen och dess behov av reform har lett till ett flertal offentliga utredningar och propositioner. Dessa förslag har under uppsatsskrivandets gång resulterat i lagändringar medförande att tidiga förhör får åberopas som bevis i domstol. Syftet med denna framställning är att med avstamp i förarbetena till 1948 års rättegångsbalk göra en jThe current legal policy debate regarding the principle of immediacy and its needs for reform has led to several Swedish Government Official Reports and government bills. During the writing of this essay, these proposals have resulted in amendment of an act; early non-public hearings may now be plead as evidence in court. The purpose of this thesis is to make a comparison between corresponding arg

År 2018 fastslog Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen att det är tillåtet för kommuner att utfärda lokala tiggeriförbud. Sedan dess har femton kommuner i Sverige utfärdat tiggeriförbud, med hänvisning till att tiggare stör den allmänna ordningen. Tiggeriförbuds vara eller icke-vara är dock omdiskuterad. I januari 2021 meddelade Europadomstolen en dom i vilken den konstaterade att det är en mänsklig rättigIn 2018, the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled that it is permitted for municipalities to issue local bans on begging. Since then, fifteen municipalities in Sweden have issued bans on begging, with reference to beggars disturbing the public order. The bans on begging have however been disputed. In January 2021, the ECHR issued a ruling in which it stated that it is a human right to beg ac

Sammanfattning Denna uppsats kommer främst att behandla i vilken mån upphovsmän skyddas efter att de genom avtal överlåtit sin upphovsrätt till någon annan. För att upphovsmän ska kunna dra nytta av sina verk måste de i flesta fallen överlåta sin upphovsrätt till verket till ett förvärvare, oftast ett företag som senare utnyttjar och exploaterar dessa. Upphovsmannen har ett starkt skydd för sina Summary This essay will go thorough and discuss what kind of protection authors in the digital single market are given when they by contract transfer their copyright to someone else. In most cases, an author must first transfer it to another user in order to make use of or gain from his or her copyright. More often than not this user is some form of company that exploits the copyright. In Swedish

Världen är i ständig miljö- och hälsofrämjande utveckling, där ny forskning och upptäckter hela tiden driver marknadskrav och bidrar till restriktioner. Plastindustrin har länge varit under luppen, till stor del för fossila råvaror och nedskräpning, men även då vissa plastmaterial innehåller ifrågasatta tillsatser. Flexibel Polyvinylklorid (PVC) är en typ av plast som används mycket i dagens samhFlexible Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a plastic material commonly used in today’s society and a fundamental material for a lot of sectors. It has advantages over other polymers such as energy-efficient production, flame retardancy, durability and cost-effective. The one important component in flexible PVC that gives it is flexible properties is the plasticizer. The most common plasticizers used are

This thesis investigates the possibility of computing interval estimates for metrics that pertain to traffic safety based on surrogate measures of safety. A probabilistic model of the (near) crash count is defined using the generalized Pareto distribution and three different methods for calculating confidence intervals for the corresponding intensity parameter are proposed. We consider the delta m

Artificiella Neuronnät är datorvärldens ekvivalens till det mänskliga nervsystemet. Precis som nervsystemet är ett nätverk av neuroner som är kopplade till andra neuroner med nerver så är det artificiella neuronnätet ett näverk av noder som är kopplade till andra noder med länkar. Det artificiella neuronnätet tar en inputsignal som skickas igenom nätverket och där noderna signalen stöter på på vägNeuroevolution is a field within machine learning that applies genetic algorithms to train artificial neural networks. Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) is a method that evolves both the topology of the network and trains the weights of the network at the same time, and has been found to successfully solve reinforcement learning problems efficiently and the XOR problem with a minimal

Generering av ultrakorta elektronpulser med hjälp av laseracceleration Hur snabb är den snabbaste processen som vi kan observera? Och hur litet är detminsta objektet? Kort sagt så kan vi inte se snabbare än vad ett slutarljus tillåter,eller objekt mindre än den minsta möjliga våglängden. Vad menar jag då med det? Jo, om vi vill ta stillbilder av en galopperande häst, utan att bilden blir suddig,The search for cheaper and more compact accelerators has led to the development of laser-driven plasma-based accelerators. In comparison to conventional particle accelerators, the plasma-based accelerator is inherently insensitive to the breakdown of the acceleration structure and therefore greater accelerating fields can be obtained. One such setup, which is used to accelerate electrons, is the l

Oavsett om du andas genom näsan eller munnen behöver luften färdas en lång väg genom luftstrupen ned till lungorna för att kunna försörja kroppen med syre. I luften finns inte bara det livsviktiga syret och andra gaser, utan även massor av partiklar. En stor del av dessa partiklar kommer att deponeras längs luftens väg mot slutmålet, men små partiklar kan ta sig hela vägen ned till lungan. Just deInhaled pharmaceuticals are commonly used in the treatment of respiratory disease. This method of administration has many advantages but also poses a problem with particles being lost before reaching the target site. Particle deposition in airways is mainly an effect of inertial impaction, gravitational settling and diffusion. What mechanism influences a particle the most depends on the particle a

En genomgående trend i alla företag och industrier är att deras förmåga att producera data växer fortare än deras förmåga att lagra den, och detta gäller även hos CellaVision som producerar mikroskopiska blodcellsbilder. Lösningen är att komprimera bilderna med konsekvensen att viss information förloras. Vi har använt oss av djupinlärnings-metoder för att rekonstruera den försvunna datan i bildernThis thesis investigates the use of convolutional neural networks as a reconstruction or JPEG- deblocking model for JPEG-compressed blood cell images, needed due to the well known block artifacts caused by JPEG-compression. CellaVision develops automated microscopy for blood analysis that detects and classifies blood cells from images. The automated analysis is carried out on high resolu- tion mic

Marginalized communities in Southern contexts are among those most vulnerable to the effects of our drastically changing climate and environmental systems. Therefore, pathways leading to the transformation of our unsustainable systems, structures, and behaviors affecting these communities must be explored. To achieve transformation, some researchers argue that social learning is one such pathway.

Sättet som världen presenterar sig för våra sinnesorgan är genom en kontinuerlig ström av information, men vår upplevelse av den är uppdelad i diskreta händelser. Enligt eventsegmenteringsteorin är den här segmenteringen en inbyggd och automatisk del av mänsklig kognition. Omfattande forskning ger inte bara stöd åt den här teorin utan tyder också på att sättet vi delar upp händelser påverkar vårt The world presents itself to our sense organs as a continuous stream of input, yet we appear to conceive experiences in terms of discrete events. According to event segmentation theory, this segmentation is an intrinsic and automatic component of human cognition. A considerable body of research provides evidence for this claim and suggests further that the way we segment events has consequences fo