The research investigates different aspects of pansexual self identifications within contemporary online communities. To explore such identifications, the research asks the subsequent question of whether pansexual identification constitutes an anti-identity position against conservative conceptualizations of identity, as well as new-homonormativities that mainstream LGBTQ movements of the West eng

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur mentaliseringsförmåga påverkar uppkomsten och upplevelsen av tidig terapeutisk allians, för både individen och den andre personen. Specifikt undersöks den tidiga allians som uppkommer under en intervjusituation. Tidigare forskning tyder på att en högre mentaliseringsförmåga hos patienten innebär större möjlighet att utveckla och upprätthålla en god terThe purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the mentalization ability on the development and experience of early therapeutic alliance, in this case the early alliance that occurs in an interview setting. Research indicates that higher mentalization capacity in the patient is correlated with stronger therapeutic alliance during therapy, but little is known about this relationship

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om TED-spread kan indikera drastiska förändringar i ekonomin på den svenska marknaden, i det här fallet en ekonomisk kris. Genom multipel regressionsanalys har uppsatsen undersökt huruvida det finns ett starkt samband mellan TED-spread och variablerna reporänta, aktiepriser, fastighetspriser, BNP, valutareserv, guldreserv, hushållens sparande, hushållens dispo

This paper is a case-study of river rafting in California. The purpose is to contribute with an anthropological approach to the subject of risktaking within the adventure sport. The significance of the risk factor to identity creation af the rafting guide is examined. Furthermore it is examined, in which way strong character, autority, the stautus as river god/godish and adventure indentity is bei

Our main purpose with this study is to examine and elucidate the recovery process that occurs when women choose to break up from destructive relationships. Our aim is also to clarify what, by the women themselves, is considered to be efficient help in relation to what in fact is offered in actuality. The idea of this selection was that we, in the study of the recovery process, would make a compili

The purpose of this study was to emphasize how Social Workers seen from a gender perspective reasoned about youth sexuality and about male and female prostitution. Our question at issue concerns how gender is constructed based on the Social Secretaries discussion about sexuality and prostitution. The used method was qualitative and the empirical evidence was collected through semi-structured inter

Villkorade aktieägartillskott har som syfte att stärka ett bolags finansiella ställning genom att aktieägare tillför bolaget kapital. Aktieägartillskott är en mycket vanlig kapitalanskaffningsform bland de svenska aktiebolagen men trots det har inte några lagar kring ämnet stadgats. Trots oklarheter i rättsläget har ämnet endast marginellt behandlats i rättspraxis. Behandlingen av aktieägartillsko

EU-domstolen har i sin praxis utvecklat principen om förfarandemissbruk. Principen innebär ett förbud mot missbruk av EU-rätten. För att principen ska bli tillämplig krävs att ordalydelsen i viss bestämmelse följts men att resultatet strider mot bestämmelsens syfte. Dessutom krävs att syftet med vidtagna åtgärder var att uppnå detta resultat. I Halifax-målet konstaterade EU-domstolen att principenThe EU court has in its rulings developed the principle of prohibiting abusive practices. The principle is existing to prohibit abuse of European Union law. In order to apply the principle requires that the wording of a certain provision have been followed but the outcome is contrary to the purpose of that provision. It is also required that the purpose of the action taken was to achieve this resu

This thesis is concerned with the possible existence of a motivated relation between sound and meaning (“sound symbolism”) in demonstrative pronouns. The goal was to search for evidence of such non-arbitrariness, and to gain a better understanding of the motivating factors behind it. Six motivations are considered. Two motivations were based on the senses of Touch and Vision. Two others - on the s

This thesis focus on how notions of equality and neo-liberal pursuits for growth are negotiated in policy, discussing the relationship between problem definition at top level and the implemented solution at policy level. The problem is defined in the European Union’s growth strategy Europe 2020 as Europe having to increase productivity, while the implemented solution I focus on is the emerging foc

Det språk vi använder är ett sätt att visa hur vi ser på verkligheten. Löpsedelsrubriker når oss varje dag, fyllda av information om människor, information som vi får via språket. Denna information speglar då verkligheten, men faktum är att informationen eller språket även präglar och reproducerar verkligheten. Det torde alltså var av största vikt hur man uttrycker sig, det är åtminstone min utgån

How rich is an experience of a visit at the museum Kulturen in Lund? According to the economists Joseph Pine and James Gilmore there are four realms of an experience; an educational, an entertaining, an esthetic and an escapist. The more of these realms that you feel in an experience, the richer the experience is. In this study I have through a hand out survey to 50 visitors at Kulturen in April 2

A qualitative study of family members and spouses experiences regarding the depression and the support One third of the Swedish population has at some point of their lives been afflicted with a depression, and although there are many interventions to be had, a majority of them focus solely on the individual with the depression. Shedding light on how family members and spouses experience the suppo

On the ground of a highly dynamic economic environment, the necessity for time-varying risk measures emerged. Inclusion of higher-order conditional moments in asset pricing models is a very common topic in recent research articles. The present essay was inspired by the seminal work of Harvey and Siddique (1999), who proposed estimation of time-varying skewness and pricing its explanatory power by

The supportive infrastructure is an important dimension in the discussion of regional innovation system. This study argues that the interactions between the supportive actors in the cluster of the Swedish side of Medicon Valley consist of a relatively mature supportive structure compared with the case in Taiwan. The development of the Medicon Valley cluster is a bottom-up process. After the cluste

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka medarbetarskapet hos personalen på en statlig myndighet i Skåne, både genom att undersöka om det fanns situationsrelaterade skillnader i gruppen som helhet, men även om det fanns skillnader gällande individrelaterade variabler som kön, anställningstid och utbildning. Material om personalens utveckling i medarbetarskapet, stilmönster, samt deras agerande i The aim of this study was to examine employeeship at a government agency in Skåne, both by examining if there were situational differences in the group as a whole, but also if there were differences regarding individually-related variables such as gender, seniority and education. Information about the development of the staff, employee style, and their actions in different situations, employee sty

The structural approach to credit risk modeling has gained a growing attention in both the academics and in the industry. In this dissertation, we outline the basic ideas and structures of the KMV (Merton) model and also explain some related issues before implementing this model. Referring to the KMV model, we use the KMV model to identify the credit risk of listed companies in China. We use real

Kinesiska skriftspråkets egenheter tillåter inte punktskriftstranslitteration i analogi med gängse metoder för latinska skrivtecken, varför det inom ramen för denna uppsats lagts fram en detaljerad kartläggning. I studien har translitterationsförfarande och historisk utveckling presenterats för de två vedertagna translitterationssystemen i Folkrepubliken Kina, Den gällande blindskriften och KinesiThe nature of the Chinese written language does not allow straightforward transliteration into Braille by the standard methods used for Latin characters. For this reason, a detailed study has been carried out. This essay has outlined the history and transliteration procedure for the two recognized Braille formats in use in the People’s Republic of China: namely Current Braille and Two-cell Chinese

I dagens Stockholm ägnar man mycket tid och energi åt att planera, finansiera och diskutera sitt boende. Den ständig överefterfrågan på hyresrätter leder till att det reellt sett bara finns en väg in på bostadsmarknaden: att köpa en bostadsrätt. I media pågår ständiga spekulationer om huruvida priserna kommer att rasa eller fortsätta gå upp, och mot bakgrund av detta undersöker vi huruvida det fin