I den här uppsatsen undersöks generella effektiviseringar i svenska kommuner. Med generella effektiviseringar avses när förvaltningar eller verksamheter åläggs generella sparkrav utan att kraven på verksamhetens kvalitet eller vad den ska utföra sänks. Frågeställningarna har varit: • Med vilka argument har generella effektiviseringar genomförts av kommuner? • Hur är de kommunalt genomförda genere

Påverkar probiotika tarmfloran hos barn med celiaki? Celiaki är en autoimmun sjukdom som beror av både arv och miljö. En faktor som kan påverka är tarmfloran. I det här arbetet undersöktes hur tarmfloran påverkades när barn med risk för celiaki behandlades med antingen probiotika eller placebo. För att bättre förstå varför en del barn drabbas av autoimmuna sjukdomar som diabetes och celiaki haCeliac disease is an autoimmune disease triggered by gluten intake. The disease has both a genetic component and an environmental component. Celiac disease is often associated with dysbiosis and lower diversity of the gut microbiota. In this study a group of 3-year-olds susceptible to celiac disease were enrolled in a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial using a combination of two prob

This paper exploits the adoption of Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) as a natural experiment to investigate the potency of wage policies in addressing the pay differentials between the public and private sector in Africa. The Government of Ghana in 2010, implemented the SSPP to tackle the long-standing wage gap between the public and private sector and consequently improve productivity in the public

Sökmotoroptimering (SEO) är ett sätt att arbeta på som förbättrar ens hemsidas ranking hos sökmotorer. Teorier om hur man ska jobba med det och varför man ska göra det har beskrivits i tidigare litteratur. Trots detta är det ett stort antal företag som väljer att inte arbeta med det. Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka varför små och medelstora företag inte arbetar med SEO. Detta görs i en kom

Upplevelsen av en värmebölja och förberedelser inför en varmare framtid Det allt varmare klimatet innebär att värmeböljor kommer att bli vanligare i Sverige. Väldigt varmt väder utgör ett direkt hot mot människors hälsa, men tas detta hot på tillräckligt stort allvar i samhället? Den globala uppvärmningen påverkar människors hälsa negativt. Värmeexponering under extremt varma perioder utgör en cAs global temperatures rise, adverse health effects due to heat exposure are an increasingly pressing issue, particularly threatening to the health of elderly people. Mitigating these threats requires a dynamic climate adaptation system embedding a variety of measures. Ideally, such a system incorporates the coping strategies and experiences of the vulnerable themselves in a well-developed strateg

The automation of work tasks has been of high interest for over a century, where different technologies have been developed to serve this purpose. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of these technologies, which automates the execution of monotonous and repetitive work tasks previously performed by humans. As a consequence, the employee whose job consists of these work tasks might perceive eff

Studiens syfte var att undersöka unga tjejers (16-17 år) upplevelser av sig själva och sin självkänsla. Detta undersöktes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta tjejer från en gymnasieskola. Materialet kodades och analyserades med Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) som metodologisk ansats, vilket gav upphov till fyra olika huvudteman som beskriver fenomenet: att se sig själv utifrThe purpose of this study was to investigate young girls (age 16-17) experiences of themselves and their self-esteem. This was done by semi-structured interviews with eight girls from an upper secondary school in Sweden. The collected material was coded and analysed with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as a methodological approach. This resulted in four main themes which describe th

Image quality metrics are used to evaluate the percieved quality of processed images. Differences in hardware between graphics processors contribute to noise during quality evaluation. In this masters thesis paper we train and evaluate neural networks as metrics to evaluate GPU rendering quality. The neural networks can successfully ignore the rendering noise that occurs when the test and referenc

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att ge en bild av hur lärare upplever att kunskapskraven i svenska på gymnasienivå fungerar som arbetsredskap i deras dagliga arbete. Med lärares dagliga arbete menas planering, bedömning och betygssättning utifrån kunskapskraven. Lärarnas uppfattningar om kunskapskraven jämförs med deras upplevelser av betygskriterierna under Lpf 94. Dessutom jämförs lärarnas uppfaThe purpose of this study is to highlight upper secondary school teachers’ experiences of working with the national knowledge requirements in the Swedish subject. Teachers use national knowledge requirements as a tool both when they plan lessons and when they assess and grade students. The teachers’ experiences of the national knowledge requirements are compared to their opinions of the previous k

The aim of this study was to explore how social service workers discuss digitization and its impact on their role as professionals. This was done to obtain a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities that a digitization might entail. We have taken a qualitative approach to our study by interviewing eight social service workers, in two organizationally different social service office

The ability to navigate from breeding sites and wintering grounds has fascinated numerous avian studies examining the bird orientation performances. The migratory avian navigational toolbox consist of route- and map-based orientation, non-compass, vector and compass orientation. The compass orientation consist of celestial and geomagnetic cues, which are divided into the three main compasses known

Traditional mean-variance optimization of portfolios has received much criticism due to its inability to account for higher order moments and non-quadratic utility. In this thesis, the topic of portfolio optimization is studied using the Atkinson index with CRRA utility. We construct Atkinson-efficient portfolios using computer-generated data in Monte Carlo simulations, as well as using financial

The increasing concern on the present and future impact of climate change has raised the attention on the relationship between technology and the environment. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of green innovation on carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide (CO2) and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions per capita are used as a proxy for environmental quality. Technological innovation is measure

The latest global financial crisis ignited the debate on whether the role of monetary policy's main objective, price stability, is enough to achieve financial stability. It also sparked an interest of new policy measures that directly targets the financial system, such as macroprudential policies. In this study, we empirically investigate how monetary and macroprudential policies interact to a

In recent years, the field of mass spectrometry (MS) has grown significantly, allowing for shotgun proteomic experiments to be used increasingly in biomarker discovery experiments. However, using standard methods of MS not all peptides present in a sample may be identified. To combat this, a procedure termed alignment, or match-between-runs, is used to propagate identifications from one run to ano

Denna rapport behandlar en brandteknisk riskvärdering av Göteborgs Stadsteatern, som ligger vid Götaplatsen i Göteborg. Rapporten skrivs som en del av kursen Brandteknisk Riskvärdering som ges det tredje året på Brandingenjörsprogrammet på Lunds Tekniska Högskola. Stadsteatern består av två delar, där Del 2 är en tillbyggnad till den gamla byggnaden som benämns som Del 1. Hela bygganden består av

Empathy is a phenomenon known by many definitions in the positive sense. The concept is mentioned as one of the three most important components within social work. At the same time, the concept of empathy is elusive and oftentimes difficult to pinpoint in the everyday social work practice. The aim of this study is to explore how social workers who work directly with vulnerable groups define and re

Mounting cameras on motorized objects has become possible in greater extent due to the emerging camera technology during the past few decades. This application could prove useful in several areas such as search and rescue operations, surveillance or even news monitoring. One hardship that this brings is the difficulty of keeping the camera unit stable while its setting is not. In the situations me

The link between income inequality and economic growth has been a popular topic in the empirical research literature in the past decades. Despite that, a consensus is yet to emerge. This paper analyzes the effect of income inequality on economic growth and the role of institutions in mitigating potentially negative effects using a panel of 48 countries in the time-period 1977-2009, including a mix