This study aims to examine the effects of information and communications technology (ICT) on international trade in African countries. Panel data is used for 54 African countries from 2001 to 2010. The African countries are divided into three groups: North Africa & South Africa (NS), Sub-Saharan coast (SSK) and Sub- Saharan landlocked (SSI). The Gravity model is employed to form a theoretical

Bakgrund: Vid varje påbörjat vårdtillfälle ska beslut om HLR-behandling tas. Att avstå HLR är en läkarordination men beslutet bör konsulteras med övrig vårdpersonal. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa sjuksköterskans erfarenheter av beslut om HLR-behandling av vuxna. Metod: Studien utfördes som en litteraturstudie med en integrerad analys. Totalt inkluderades nio artiklar, sju kvalitativa oc

This study examines how media perceptions of violence in demonstrations uphold status quo, and perceive conceptions about antifascist demonstrants, as well as the police. The methodological approach consisted of a case study along with Norman Faircloughs three dimensional model for performing a critical discourse analysis. The material used in the thesis dwells on seventeen articles from four diff

Empathy is a widely discussed subject in social work research, considered to be an important professional ability in interaction with clients. In contrast to its pervasiveness in practice, confusion surrounds the notion as different definitions of the phenomenon stands in conflict with each other. The ‘simulation theory’ was found to be a salient conceptualization of empathy in social work where e

In gas turbine blade modeling a stable but yet flexible method of describing the blade shape is crucial. Polynomials and B ́ezier curves have previously been used and in this paper B-splines are employed instead. This method removes the need for many of the interior derivative conditions on the curve but special care must be taken when selecting the parameter values and appropriate derivative cond

The purpose of this study was to examine if the employees view on leadership differs in different kinds of organizations. The purpose was also to examine if the employees prefers transformational leadership rather than a transactional leadership. The survey addressed approximately 400 people, half of them work in a municipality and half of them work in a digital entertainment company. The results

Bakgrund: Fetma är idag ett av världens snabbast växande hälsoproblem. Stigmatisering av och negativa attityder till personer med fetma är bland de mest socialt accepterade fenomenen i vår tid. Personer med fetma betraktas bland annat som lata, obegåvade och besvärliga. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att utifrån begreppet stigma belysa vad det innebär att vara patient med fetma. Metod: Litteraturst

Studiens syfte var att undersöka hur två faktorer, work locus of control (WLOC) och perceived organizational support (POS), är relaterade till arbetsrelaterad stress samt att även undersöka en eventuell interaktionseffekt mellan WLOC och POS på stress. Dessa variabler mättes i en survey som delades ut via mail och Facebook (n=100). Resultaten bekräftade att det finns ett samband mellan både WLOC o

Bakgrund: I Sverige avled drygt 90000 personer år 2010 och Socialstyrelsen bedömde att cirka 80% av dem var i behov av palliativ vård. Av de patienter som vårdas palliativt är majoriteten drabbade av någon form av cancersjukdom. Sjuksköterskan har en viktig roll i den palliativa vården och bär på ett stort ansvar där han/hon arbetar för att förbättra livskvalitet och lindra lidande hos patienten.

The aim of this study was to examine how treaters of gambling problems apprehend and work with gambling problems, as well as examine what kind of meaning the gender differences in gambling problems has for the treaters. The study was based on phone interviews with five treaters who all were spread out over Sweden. Some worked in the private sector and some worked in the public sector. The results

Den här studien syftade till att undersöka om den evaluativa faktorn i personlighet kunde koppla samman en skillnad i preferens av olika intervjufrågor. Den evaluativa faktorn i aktuell studie definerades som: att tilltalas av värdeladdad information och att i sin självbeskrivning vilja framstå på ett socialt önskvärt sätt. 36 intervjufrågor konstruerades och delades in i kategorierna: relevant-spThe purpose of this study was to determine whether the evaluative factor in a person could be connected to a difference in the preferred choice of interview questions. The evaluative factor in this study was defined as a preference for evaluative information and a tendency to describe one self in a social desirable way. 36 interview questions were constructed and divided into three categories: rel

Abstract Author: Dilan Demircioglu Title: The best interst of the child comes first Supervisor: Anders Lundberg The intention of this essay was to investigate and gain understanding on how social-workers work with unaccompanied children, with the aim of what is considered in the best interest of the child. What is considered being the best inters of the child child has many different contexts, an

Samhällsutvecklingen är en ständigt pågående process som påverkar och formar allt i vår omvärld, inklusive oss själva. Organisationer påverkas av den ökade konkurrensen genom nedskärningar och krav på ökad effektivitet. Det ges större frihet och större ansvar. Den andra sidan av myntet är ökade krav på kompetens och förmåga att dra gränser kring sin roll och prestation. Antalet personer, främst un

In his teens Gary Lee Boas (b. 1951) began photographing famous persons with a Brownie camera. He spent the following decades in pursuit of celebrities and by the end of the 1980’s he had accumulated over 60 000 snapshots. He was a self-professed fan of fame without any artistic interest or intent. However, approaching the new millennium his amateur archive was discovered by editors and curators w

The aim of this study was to analyze how people with disabilities describe their life with personal assistance. My theoretical approach in this study has been power in a relational context and also social capital. The material in this study came from two internet based forums, where I´ve used sixteen posts published between 2010 and 2013. In order to analyze these posts, I have chosen to use a net

Humans have for a long time contemplated the link between diet and disease. As early as 400 BC, Hippocrates, commonly referred to as the father of western medicine, stated, “let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food”. Today, a poor diet is still considered one of the major risk factors for common complex diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD refers to a class of diseases

Studiens syfte var att undersöka vilka utmaningar som upplevs av föräldrar till barn med kongenital binjurebarkshyperplasi (CAH). Vidare undersökte studien hur föräldrarna hanterade dessa utmaningar, samt vad de upplevt som stöttande och hjälpsamt från andra, så som exempelvis vårdpersonal. Studien utgick från en explorativ ansats där semistrukturerade intervjuer med tolv föräldrar till barn med CThe aim of this study was to investigate the challenges experienced by parents with children who had congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). It also investigated how the parents dealt with these challenges, as well as what they experienced as supportive and helpful from others, for example healthcare professionals. The study was based on an exploratory approach where the data was obtained through se

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