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This study aims to analyze how social workers experience that working from home during a prevailing pandemic has affected their health and work environment. The method of this study was made with qualitative interviews where seven social workers from different municipalities in Sweden were interviewed. The results show both negative and positive effects of working from home. The risk that emerge f
A majority of the grown up population in Sweden spend a large amount of time working, however we rarely discuss or reflect upon the role of work in our lives. Drawing on qualitative data collected through interviews, this study examines how professional workers ascribe meaning to their work. This is done by using a two-dimensional model of four different pathways to a meaningful work and a theoret
The project is about making a utensil collection for restaurant kitchens, with the purpose to aid chefs during their cooking. Making a tool collection to improve the experience while in use, focusing on the techniques and motions which they use while working. Looking at what kind of material that works with the environment the chefs are working in. Interviewing the chefs, getting their opinio
Den offentliga sektorn är en stor aktör på många olika marknader. Offentliga inköp görs varje år för betydande summor i Sverige. Det offentliga upphandlingsförfarandet styr dessa inköp och regleras framförallt i LOU. Ett upphandlingsförfarande bygger på tanken att låta leverantörer konkurrera om offentliga kontrakt på ett öppet, likvärdigt och konkurrensneutralt sätt. De svenska upphandlingsbestämThe public sector is a major operator on numerous different markets. In Sweden public purchases are made for great amounts every year. The public procurement procedure is governing these purchases and is mainly regulated in LOU. A procurement procedure is based on the idea to let contractors compete for public contracts in an open, equal and competitively neutral way. The Swedish public procuremen
The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of how the image of crime victims and offenders are described, and also how support persons are presented by Victim Support Sweden. The empirical base of the study consisted of Victim Support Sweden’s educational material, which is used in Victim Support Sweden’s initial training for all active members of the organization. I used a quali
The study aimed to examine how counselors perceive and work with existential questions in cancer patients. The intention was to explore what experiences and perceptions the counselors had of existential questions in their work and how they worked with these in the patient meeting. Semi-structured interviews were made with ten hospital counselors working with cancer patients in the south of Sweden.
Sjukhus har börjat värdera att spåra tillgångar så som medicinsk utrustning, och användningen av sådana tjänster ökar. Sony Corporation är det företag som ansvarar för Sony Groups elektronikprodukter och lösningar. Sony Corporation har utvecklat ett system, Visilion Care, för positionering och analys av utrustning i realtid för sjukvården, för att hjälpa personal och ledning att spara tid, öka pro
Begging has been one of the oldest coping mechanisms for the poor people in Bangladesh. However, social attitudes towards begging changed along the notion of modernization, with the changes in modes of production in which the productive potential of individuals was emphasized and begging became a direct threat to the prominent values such as work initiatives, stable social relations, and beauty an
Syftet med denna studie är att jämföra klassisk sång och jazzsång, vad som karaktäriserar de båda sångsätten och vilka möjligheter som ges i ett parallellt musicerande inom båda genrerna. Kvalitativa intervjuer har genomförts med fyra sångpedagoger som alla har kunskaper om undervisning inom både jazzsång och klassisk sång samt erfarenheter av eget musicerande. Resultatet av intervjustudien visar Title: The classical jazz vocalist- A study of classical singing, jazz vocals and the combina-tion of these two. The purpose of this study is to compare classical singing and jazz vocals. What character-ize them and what possibilities there are in singing and developing them both parallel? Interviews have been done with four singing teachers who all have experiences in both classical singing and j
Epiphanies constitute an essential aspect of Woolf's fiction, as well as her ideas about fiction. In "To the Lighthouse" they are part of the structure, but also part of the experience of life, how the flux of existence is perceived. This essay focuses not only on the ?little daily miracles? which replace a great revelation, but also on the nature of the chaos, the passing and flowin
Author: Una Hauksdóttir Title: Implementera MultifunC Tutor: Olle Frödin MultifunC is a treatment method for teenagers with serious behavior problems. The teenagers are in the ages 14 to 18 years old and are treated in an institution. MultifunC is located in different places in Norway and Sweden. The method is in an implementation process at one of the institutions in Sweden. The aim of my stud
Talented employees are important for companies, and graduate programs are designed to internal educate talented students to make them a strong resource for the company. A problem is that trainees tend to leave the company after the program. This master thesis investigates how trainees become motivated, during and after the program, to retain within the company and where the perceived expectation g
A large amount of scientific work has been carried out to enhance the methods used for design and control of technical systems. For many of these systems, the main objective is to utilize the limited resources in an optimal way. Different simulation techniques have, in many cases, been successfully applied to the analysis. When working with technical systems, it is important to have a common notat
PURPOSE: Three major glaucoma trials, all using the same Humphrey visual field tests, specified different criteria to define visual field progression. This article compares the performance of these criteria with a reference standard of unanimous classifications by 3 independent glaucoma experts. DESIGN: Longitudinal, comparative study of diagnostic criteria. PARTICIPANTS AND CONTROLS: Two hundred
The main purpose of this article is to examine how elite athletes perceive their own responsibilities and possibilities to be compliant with the anti-doping regulations, and to draw conclusions about what these perceptions mean in relation to the legitimacy of the anti-doping system. A qualitative research design, with interviews conducted with athletes globally, was employed to capture elite spor
The specific aim of this study is to investigate how a group of migrant rights activists in Sweden are positioned in news discourse. The more general aim of this study is to understand the conditions under which activists participate within news discourse. Through a critical discourse analytical (CDA) framework, with specific focus on the use of epistemic and dynamic modalities in the presentation
Background: The long-term effect of distal radial fracture malunion on activity limitations is unknown. Between 2001 and 2002, we conducted a prospective cohort study of all patients with distal radial fracture treated with casting or percutaneous fixation in northeast Scania in Sweden. In that original study, the patients completed the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnai
Companies often update their privacy policies, but it is unclear whether these updates strengthen or weaken user privacy. Using a principal-agent theoretical lens, we analyze over 200 changes to privacy policies of five prominent Internet companies over a period of fifteen years. We find that over time, privacy policy updates are more likely to weaken, rather than strengthen, user privacy on the I
Assessing status of natural resources and ecosystem components is pivotal for management, where indicators or indices often are used as proxies of ecological state. Many indicators, however, lack reference points and are associated with sampling errors and environmental noise, limiting their usefulness in management. Here we present a method for assessing state changes in ecological indicator from
