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The aim of this study was to explore social work students’ opinions on the work with financial assistance and what causes them to form this image. My hypothesis was that there was a negative image of the work among the students and I have been running this thesis to explore their views. The study was conducted by a qualitative method in the form of semi-structured interviews. The study involved te

Författare är förlagsbranschens ansikte utåt och har en nyckelroll i dess marknadsföringsinsatser. Syftet med denna uppsats är att utforska olika kommunikationsstrategier som omger författare i branschen, med ett särskilt fokus på den växande trenden av att se författare som varumärken. Kritisk realism används för att visa och undersöka de mekanismer som genererar strategierna. Tre teorier användsAuthors are the public face of the publishing industry and a key aspect of its mar-keting efforts. This thesis aims to explore different communication strategies surrounding authors within the industry, with a special focus on the growing trend of branding authors. Critical realism is used to reveal and analyze the mechanisms that generate the strategies. Three theories are used to understand the

I denna uppsats undersöks hur medicinska termer hanteras i undertexter i de två tv-serierna House och Scrubs. Syftet med uppsatsen är att ta reda på vilka strategier som används i översättningen av medicinska termer. Utifrån en indelning i tre varianter av det medicinska fackspråket undersöks även om termerna i undertexten behåller samma språkvariant som de engelska termerna eller om språkvariante

Title: Expressions of grief - a social psychological study Authors: Christel Hagdahl, Linn Bengtsson Supervisor: Anders Östnäs The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze human grief via social media from a social psychological perspective. We found it interesting to study blogs to illustrate the diversity in expressions of grief and to analyze which social norms that influence the proce

Titel: Vi och nördarna – Individer i ett postmodernt samhälle och dess vilja att identifiera sig med karaktärer i serier Ämne: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, vid institutionen för kommunikation och medier, Lunds universitet. Nyckelord: Identitetsskapande, image, den postmoderna identiteten, The Big Bang Theory (TV-serie), jaget och beundrarskap. Den teknik som idag finns har medfört att

This is a qualitative, semi-structured bachelor thesis, within the social work, Bachelor of Science program. The purpose of this thesis is to identify whether seven of the Swedish social work educations perspective on service users as guest speakers mainly follows The National Board of Health and Welfare’s (Socialstyrelsen) emphasis on the positive effects, or rather follow our selected resea

This paper evaluates the practicality and efficiency of different solutions to the house allocation problem faced by the company providing housing for students at Lund University. Both static and dynamic mechanisms are considered. A series of simulations show that the problem could be solved more efficiently by altering the booking period length of the currently used mechanism, and even more effic

My study has its data from the Swedish journal “Ögonblick” witch is published by the organization “Autism och aspergerförbundet”. The study is a text analysis. They organization work with issues regarding children, teens, adults and elderly with autism spectrum disorders. The purpose of this study was to examine if there have been a development in the coverage of the school situation for students

The purpose of the essay was to study and create an understanding for welfare officers´ work with focus on their preventive work. The study was based on strategic choice of five school welfare officers' experiences with preventive work in the schools and the method used was semi-structured interviews. The study was further more an investigation on how the welfare officers´ experience their wor

Reflecting on the theoretical as well as the practical learning outcomes of the Masters Program in Entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation, the following paper aims to examine the concepts of liabilities of newness and legitimacy and their bearing on emerging entrepreneurs as well as experienced entrepreneur crossing over to new fields of business. The paper will discuss some of the findings in ent

“Porn is not for girls” – a qualitative study concerning how pornography affect young women in shaping their identities The aim of this study is to enrich the understanding of how pornography affects young women. What does it mean to be female? How do young women relate and communicate about pornography? What kind of influence does pornography have on young women’s identity development? Is pornog

I uppsatsen analyseras valutaspekulationsstrategin carry trading och huruvida den kan generera positiv avkastning och överavkastning. Perioden som studeras är 1990 till och med första kvartalet 2012. Vidare undersöks om skillnader förekommer i överavkastningar från carry trades innan och under den nuvarande finanskrisen som startade kring 2008. Teorierna kurssäkrad- och icke kurssäkrad ränteparite

The objective of this paper is to find out whether economic circumstances can have an impact on the level of risk aversion using a sample of data from the Netherlands. The testing strategy is based on the DNB Household Survey, which is issued by CentERdata. Launched in 1993, this database contains panel data up until the year 2011. Using such data allows for the study of psychological as well as e

This thesis looks into the spatial concentration of Swedish manufacturing industries between 1920 and 1950, particularly focusing on whether the tendency to do so was more prominent among innovative industries then their less innovative counterparts. The spatial concentration of the most, the average and the least innovative industries in Sweden at the time is presented and the findings are compar

AKKA (Akademiska kollegors ansvar) är en ledarskapsutbildning som har genomförts på Lunds Universitet fyra gånger mellan 2005 och 2011. AKKA syftar till att lära ut ett genusintegrerat ledarskap. Vi har genomfört en tvådelad studie som syftar till att utvärdera de lärprocesser som deltagarna i utbildningen har genomgått samt om de utövar ett genusintegrerat ledarskap i sitt nuvarande arbete. Ytter

Trafficking in human beings is a topic that has received a lot of attention the last ten years. It has been referred to as a modern form of slavery and a crime against humanity. There is a flood of actors working to fight trafficking and save its victims, occupied with different forms of victim assistance. At the same time the EU is augmenting restrictions on visas and asylum legislation, border c

De perspektiv av blankningslagstiftningen som kommer att lyftas fram i uppsatsen är inte enbart de nationella utan även de europeiska. Den europeiska harmoniseringen har inte uppnått så stora resultat på det skatterättsliga området, vilket beror på den starka suveräniteten som funnits historiskt när det gäller ländernas egna skattesystem. Fokus kommer i huvudsak att ligga på de skatterättsliga effThe perspectives of short-selling rules that will be highlighted in the paper are not only national but also European. The European harmonization has not achieved such great results in the tax area, which is due to the strong sovereignty that existed historically in terms of countries own tax system. The focus will mainly be on the fiscal impact of the phenomenon of short selling, but also the civ

Many studies have over the years utilized gravity models derived from trade theories to investigate how various factors affect trade in agricultural goods. Although technological improvements could be considered in such models, few studies have considered this topic in depth, leaving a void to fill. To partly fill this void, this study has chosen the silk sector to analyze the impact of technologi

Carbon emissions have recently been put under the spotlight since it is widely accepted that global warming is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, of which carbon dioxide is the main component. One of the fastest rising sources of emissions from carbon emissions is the transport sector, with emissions often rising faster than the GDP growth rates of developing countries. The estimated shar