Food insecurity is a reality faced by millions of people worldwide. Poor access and availability to food markets, poverty, and uncertain global system futures all exacerbate this issue. In seeking to combat food insecurity for South Carolina residents and improve the viability and resilience of local food markets around Greenville County, South Carolina, this assessment determines optimal potentia

In recent years several reports have indicated that social workers could be one of the more vulnerable professionals regarding emotional work related stress. At Barnahus in Sweden social workers together with other professionals listen to the story’s told by young victims of violence. In this study, we interviewed five social workers at Barnahus in order to highlight the impact listening to these

Sammanfattning Vad: Kandidatuppsats, Logistics Service Management, Lunds Universitet, VT 2014 Författare: Anton Berggren och Malin Windrup Titel: Vi litar på varandra… Eller? Handledare: Gustaf Kastberg Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att bidra med förståelse och generera kunskap om hur olika faktorer påverkar förtroendet i en VMI-relation. Vi gör detta genom att studera aktörernas förhållning

This thesis examines social change and the collective trauma for women in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union by investigating general subjective wellbeing at the intersection of gender, generation and ethnicity. It argues that women had a special position during and after the Soviet regime due to the existing familialistic discourses both in the Soviet Union and independent Ukraine, an

I Sverige råder sedan en tid tillbaka en debatt kring huruvida ett könsneutralt ord bör användas för att undvika benämning av kön i diverse sammanhang. Syftet med denna undersökning var att utvärdera hur ordet hen bedöms i rekryteringssammanhang, i jämförelse med den sökande. Studien genomfördes med en kvantitativ undersökning i form av en experimentell design. 160 deltagare fick läsa en av två joThere is currently an ongoing debate in Sweden whether a gender neutral pronoun should be used to avoid specific gender associations. The purpose of this thesis has been to evaluate if the gender neutral pronoun hen in comparison with the applicant in a recruitment process can be considered as more gender neutral. The study was conducted using an explorative quantitative method. 160 participants r

This examination paper will examine the reporting of the Husby riot during May of 2013 in four different Swedish national newspapers. I have taken a qualitative approach to analyse 40 newspaper articles that were written during the course of the riot. I chose to analyse articles that were written during the riot because I wanted to find out how the newspapers wrote about the riot and the people wh

The purpose of this thesis is to identify barriers to innovation faced by firms delivering healthcare services and to analyse their effects on healthcare service firms' innovation process. This thesis therefore aims to close a gap in literature. Insights gained can help policy-makers understand how their actions impede innovation in the healthcare industry and how they can remove or reduce spe

I detta arbete har paleontologiska och impaktrelaterade studier gjorts på ett sedimentprov taget från ett anomalt rött lerlager i Schweiz. Lerlagret hör till den övre sötvattensmolassen och är avsatt för ca 14Ma.Då man i andra närliggande och samtida avlagringar hittat chockad kvarts och s.k. slagkäglor finns möjligheten att även detta lerlager bildats vid ett nedslag av en himlakropp. Den SchweizIn this thesis, paleontological and impakt related studies have been made on a sediment sample taken from an anomalous red clay layer in Switzerland. The clay layer belongs to the Upper Freshwater Molasse and was deposited at approximately 14 Ma. In other nearby and contemporary deposits shocked quartz and shatter cones have been identified and therefore it is possibile that this clay layer also w

In the last decade Central and Eastern Europe faced surge in foreign capital inflows and economic growth. Foreign direct investment played significant role in forming government policies, development in the infrastructure and national income generation. While most research has been done on FDI impact on per capita real GDP growth, this paper takes alternative approach and examines the effects of t

What was the outcome of Sweden’s fiscal policy between 2009 and 2012 and why was it different from forecasts? Research by the OECD during the financial crisis, used by the Swedish Government to illustrate their fiscal policy, suggested that Sweden would have the biggest stimulus of all OECD countries. However, Sweden’s fiscal policy ended up rather modest. By examining the forecasted fiscal policy

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka kommunikationen inom operationsteamet utifrån operationssjuksköterskans perspektiv. Bakgrund: Flera studier visade att kommunikationsmisstag bidrar till att patientsäkerheten äventyrades och det var ett vanligt problem inom vården. Brister inom kommunikation kunde vara att informationen inte meddelades, fel information kommunicerades eller att ofu

Den här kandidatuppsatsen handlar om män som säljer sex till män. Syftet är att ur ett antropologiskt perspektiv undersöka hur män som säljer sex till män framställs i den svenska prostitutionsdiskursen och hur några av de manliga sexsäljarna uppfattar sig själva. Mina huvudfrågor är: Hur upplever manliga sexsäljare relationen mellan motiv, sex och arbete? Hur regleras manliga sexsäljares sexualit

Uppsatsen analyserar två nya svenska filmer: Återträffen (2013) och Nånting måste gå sönder (2014). Hur förhåller sig de kvinnliga huvudkaraktärerna i respektive film till de patriarkala konventioner, som Laura Mulvey beskrev för nästan 40 år sedan? Med utgångspunkt i Mulveys teorier och kompletterat av såväl amerikanska som svenska film- och genusforskare, diskuteras karaktärernas framställning, This essay analyzes two new Swedish movies: The Reunion (Återträffen, 2013) and Something Must Break (Nånting måste gå sönder, 2014). How do the female leading characters in these movies relate to the patriarchal conventions described by Laura Mulvey nearly 40 years ago? Based on Mulveys theories, and supplemented by american as well as swedish scholars, the depiction, hierarchy and object/subject

Titel: Allt för dig (och mig) - Varför delar vi reklamfilm? Författare: Kitty Jönsson & Kristin Magnusson Handledare: Asta Cepaite Nilsson Nyckelord: Viral Marknadsföring, Social Identitet, Word of Mouth, Sociala Relationer Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka och belysa varför konsumenter delar reklamfilm via digitala kanaler. Metod: Med utgångspunkt i ett tolkande perspektiv har det geTitle: Everything for you (and me) - Why do we share commercials? Authors: Kitty Jönsson & Kristin Magnusson Advisor: Asta Cepaite Nilsson Keywords: Viral Marketing, Social Identity, Word of Mouth, Social Relations Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate and illustrate why consumers share commercials through digital channels. Methodology: Based on an interpretive perspective, thir

Over the past 150 years, industrialization, globalization and population growth have altered the planet and its natural conditions at a rapid pace. In this new era, the Anthropocene, environmental degradation has come to a state where sustainable ecosystem management has developed into an urgent quest for humans to maintain their own life-support system. The ecosystem services (ES) concept, initia

Det huvudsakliga syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka och utreda innebörden av generalklausulerna i 7:47 och 8:41 1 st. ABL. För att underlätta denna analys har fokus riktats på att undersöka vad som utgör en otillbörlig fördel enligt generalklausulerna, att se huruvida en företagsekonomiskt riktig eller försvarlig åtgärd kan ses som otillbörlig, samt även huruvida generalklausulerna kThe main purpose of this thesis has been to examine the meaning of the general clauses in 7:47 and 8:41 1st sentence of the Swedish company act. To fulfil this purpose, focus has been aimed at investigating what constitutes an unfair advantage according to the general clauses, to see whether an economically correct or justifiable measure can be seen as unfair, as well as seeing whether the general

The aim of this study is to explore the system of maintenance treatment for opiate addiction from a patient’s perspective. Six semi structured interviews were performed with persons who are or have been engaged in maintenance treatment. The majority of them had experienced discharge from the program. Our results show that discharge may result in harsh consequences; relapse in heroin use or other i