A critical examination of a proposed Kantian defence of John Rawls' Fair Equality of Opportunity principle.

In forensic psychiatry the supervisory role is held by the nurse and he/she has the overall responsibility for the patient welfare and allocation of daily tasks between his/her colleagues. Risk analyzes of different patients’ behavior demand years of experience, a type of experience that a newly graduated or newly hired nurse within forensic psychiatry rarely has. The purpose with this study was t

Denna studie undersöker hur tidigare kriminella förklarar sina våldshandlingar samt vilka förklaringar de ger till sitt utvecklande av normbrytande beteende. Studien bygger på samtalsintervjuer med före detta kriminella män som är verksamma inom kamratföreningen Kriminellas Revansch i Samhället. Analysen utgår från Sykes och Matzas teori om neutraliseringstekniker, stämplingsteorin av Howard Becke

The purpose of this study was to explore how nursing home managers relate to sexual needs of the elderly in the nursing homes. The empirical data consists of a vignette study followed by interviews with three nursing home managers. The aim was to involve six managers in our study but due to a major loss of respondents, we chose to complete our data collection with a review of the values which the

INTRODUCTION RealQ-KML is a clinical decision support system combined with tools for quality assessment for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Thanks to the introduction of modern treatment CML is a chronic disease, which during its follow-up generates large quantities of data. The aim of this study was to evaluate how this program could be used at the Department of Hematology, at Skåne University Ho

Arbetsmarknadens strukturomvandling har under 1900-talet påverkat lagstiftningen på olika plan. Omvandlingen tog sin början under andra halvan av 1900-talet och markerar en övergång från traditionella långvariga anställningsformer till en ökning av icke traditionella anställningsformer i form av tidsbegränsade anställningar. De icke traditionella anställningarna utgör enligt en del fackförbund ett

The purpose of this bachelor ́s thesis is to make a comparison between the two measurements of credit risk ”Distance to default” with a modified Merton model and credit ratings from Standard & Poor ́s. The thesis investigates how well the measures agree with one another by using Spearman ́s rank correlation coefficient. By doing this the thesis is meant to provide the reader with an idea of wh

It is often stated that the Gospel is for all people, regardless of age. This essay addresses the issue of children in worshiping communities in Church of Sweden. I examine how children are worshiping, and how they can build understanding and develop through it. I wanted to see how the communities work for the children and how they give them tools and help to guide them into participation. Accordi

This research paper examines an impact of IT industry on economic situation of India since 1991. The major goal of this work is to study previous researches dedicated to this topic, collect and analyze the necessary data related to this subject and, finally, find out the extent of IT influence on overall modern Indian economic situation and its position among other developed and developing economi

Perifera venkatetrar (PVK) tillhör de mest använda medicinska produkterna i världen. De innebär dock en infart direkt till blodbanan, med ökad infektionsrisk. I Sverige har det fram till 2005 varit rutin att PVK’er ska bytas var 12-24 timme. Därefter har studier publicerats som visat att en PVK som sitter i upp till 72 timmar inte är förenat med mer komplikationer. Detta under förutsättning att de

Recycling station is hardly a space imbued with neutrality. Hannah Arendt observed: "public space is where a people's dominant ethos of self is decided, normalized and regulated."(1985). Normality and dominant ethos of the society are patently advocated and promoted in the recycling station, in other words, the recycling station implies within it a normative way of behavior which is

Utgångspunkt för denna kandidatuppsats i sociologi har varit att undersöka om det risktänkande som beskrivs av Ulrich Becks i hans teori om risksamhället kan urskiljas hos personer som har generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) översatt till svenska med generaliserat ångestsyndrom. Studien har utförts med en kvalitativ ansats i form av delvis strukturerade intervjuer som har genomförts med fyra män i

Reportaget skildrar hur den svenska invandringen till Minnesota har påverkat och fortfarande påverkar delar av samhället och hur det tar sig uttryck i olika situationer. Synen på Sverige och vad svenskhet är enligt svenskättlingar i Minnesota lyfts fram och belyses.

There has been a heavy decrease in biodiversity due to different kinds of exploitations in society, contributing to a more homogenous landscape. With this homogenization the variety of important biotopes in the plains has disappeared. This is not only a disadvantage to the species themselves, but to the farmers, land owners and the society due to a loss of ecosystem services. While many lesser bi

Arsenic is an element and has a natural part in the earth with a content of 1,5-2,0 mg/kg in the earth crust. Arsenic occurs naturally in the bedrock and the Swedish bedrock contains anything from 1,0-40 mg/kg. Arsenic is more poisonous in its inorganic form than in its organic. The two most common types of inorganic arsenic are arsenite and arsenate. Arsenite (AsIII) is the most acute poisonous

The concept of sustainability for music festivals is increasingly important. Music festivals are associated with both environmental and social aspects through its impact on people attending the festival as well as its surroundings and nature. Until recently there has not been much guidance offered to help manage the environmental and social aspects of festivals. The guidance offered today has it’s

The raising of fur animals is generally a polluting activity, today and historically. This study is focused on the breeding of minks. I concluded that this is an industry that has significantly polluting places it have been active on. The main and most interesting source of contamination is the use of pesticides, which always has been frequently used. The pesticides used often entail very high ris

The environmental impacts of pulp and paper industry are widespread and affect both air and water quality. The resulting large quantities of wastewater from the process are containing pollutants to aquatic organisms. To minimize the environmental impacts the wastewater is passed through an external biological treatment facility that reduces substances. In the process of bleaching sulphate pulp, c