Emotions are influential in determining individuals to donate to charitable causes. However, emotions could interfere with the later decision to whom to allocate the donation resources by making people more likely to donate to a few individual victims instead of many statistical ones. Nevertheless, rationality could direct the allocation decision on the right way (i.e., by donating to statistical

Samhällets utveckling har bidragit till ett förändrat medielandskap vilket medfört ett engagemang som antagit nya former. Detta har skapat nya möjligheter för individer att uttrycka sitt samhällsengagemang, möjligheter som dock har börjat ifrågasättas. De senaste årens forskning inom engagemang på sociala medier visar en tvetydig bild av engagemanget där åsikterna går isär. Syftet med denna studieA click for a better world The media landscape has changed along with developments in society. This has resulted in new forms of engagement which has created new opportunities for individuals to express their civic engagement. However, these opportunities are now starting to be questioned. The last years research in social media engagement show an inconsistent picture of the engagement with compe

Bakgrund: Mellan 1994-2004 skedde en dubblering av antalet nya fall av prostatacancer. Idag görs en majoritet av prostatektomierna laparoskopiskt med robotassistans. På Urologiska kliniken SUS, Malmö siktas vårdtiden efter en okomplicerad prostatektomi, vara ca 1,25 dagar. För att uppnå detta mål krävs en jämn nivå med hög kvalitet på vården. Syfte: Beskriva det intra- och postoperativa förloppe

This report is a result of a Master Thesis project made by Anna Håkansson and Lisa Carlson, two students from Mechanical Engineering with the specialization Product Development. The project was made at Axis Communications AB at the Department of Mechanics in interaction with the Division Machine Design at the Department of Design Science, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University. Axis Commun

Author: Marcelle Björkendal Title: How hospital welfare officers experience social work in the hospital organization Supervisor: Goran Basic The main purpose of this study was to examine how hospital welfare officers experience their work within multiprofessional team in the hospital organization. The study was based on semi structured interviews with seven different hospital welfare officers.

settled in Sweden during 1960s cope with aging and how they see their future. Data for this study was obtained from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with six retired people that had emigrated from former Yugoslavia in their young age and spent their working life in Sweden. Data was analyzed by using following theories and perspectives on coping: psychoanalytic perspective, cognitive/transactio

Abstract Author: Lisa Avenius Title: Suspicion that a child is being maltreated - a study of preschool teachers views on mandatory reporting The aim of this study was to get preschool-teachers views and experiences on previously researched areas surrounding the notification tendency regarding mandatory reporting. The mandatory report contains an obligation to immediately report suspected child mal

Abstract This paper aims to highlight the ideas and experiences of male and female leadership within the context of social work. The overall purpose of this study is, through literature and other studies to find the answer to the question of how gender affects leadership and what influences men and women has to attain managerial positions within the municipal courts. To illustrate this, we have cr

The aim of this study was to investigate the Swedish food industry’s compliance with microbiological criteria necessary to meet targets set to achieve the objectives of national law for maintaining safe food. For this study a total of 88 food samples were collected from 13 grocery stores and 18 restaurants and analyzed for the total number of aerobic bacteria, Enterobacteriaceae, Escherichia coli,

Driven by technological advances, the vision of a Connected Car finally becomes reality. As one of the Connected Car innovations, Car Infotainment Systems now get an internet connection. Following the example of the mobile industry, app ecosystems are about to emerge in cars. In-Vehicle technology has already become the new differentiation battleground in the automotive industry. Being technologic

In this project I have studied the effect of gas expulsion on the evolution of stellar clusters. What effect the rate of gas removal and the quantity of gas removed has on the evolution on the cluster will be studied through computer simulations with the NBody6 code and compared to analytical predictions. The rate at which gas is removed has a very significant impact on how the cluster evolves

ABSTRACT Author: Moa Stinggård Kristensson Title: Rehabilitation and Social Capital. A Study of the Patient's Access to and Choice of Rehabilitation in the Context of Cancer Disease. Supervisor: Marianne Larsson Lindahl Assessor: Max Koch, Anna Meeuwisse The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which patients were informed about the possibility of rehabilitation. Further, to investig

Abstract There are numerous definitions for what well-being means to elderly people. Societal laws and guidelines also create a norm for how wellbeing can be achieved within the care of the elderly. Along with research describing and detailing different perspectives on the well-being of the elderly, we have also interviewed a selection of persons currently receiving elderly care and asked them how

Denna studie undersöker tillståndsprocessen för stora landbaserade vindkraftverk i Sverige. För att bygga en gruppstation med fler än sju vindkraftverk som är högre än 120 meter eller enstaka verk högre än 150 meter krävs tillstånd från Länsstyrelsen. Tillståndsansökningar till Länsstyrelsen kräver att den kommun där vindkraftverken ska placeras ger sin tillstyrkan enligt 16 kap. 4 § i Miljöbalken

Abstract Author: Ella-Kari Meyrell Title: Strategy for welfare - a discourse analytical study of culture in health, social care and school organizations Supervisor: Håkan Jönson Assessor: Torbjörn Hjort The aim of this study was to examine how culture (as “the arts”) is constructed as a strategy in welfare work. The empirical material was based upon 160 articles from Swedish printed and web base

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) has been investigated recently in false memories and specifically in the DRM paradigm. EMDR has been shown to decrease emotionality of the problematic memories in PTSD, but also to decrease false memories. No studies have to date shown how emotion and memory is effected by EMDR in the DRM paradigm when non-emotional wordlists are coupled with a nega

The goal of this investigation is to study the performance of two different aspects of neural network ensembles: one ensemble contains over-trained networks and the other very many members. The over-training of the networks within the first ensemble is achieved with a larger number of hidden neurons than the approximation task in question would require. The result of the investigation is that over

This thesis analyses the impact of social networks on technology adoption among smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. The effects of four types of social networks on adoption of fertilizer and soil conservation practices were estimated using a sample of households from the Ethiopian Rural Household Surveys (ERHS). Trusted kinship links were found to have a small but positive effect on fertilizer adopti