Conditional cash transfer programs have been proven effective when aiming to decrease poverty and increase school enrollment among poor. The Brazilian conditional cash transfer program Bolsa Família is the largest program in the developing world and affect 13 million families in their everyday life. One of the long-term aims of Bolsa Família is to increase school enrollment in Brazil, which also i

This essay discuss how menstruation can be understood as a social phenomenon and how expectations about a particular menstrual behaviour are made. In order to demonstrate how medical texts and an ad for sanitary pads contribute to sustain and reproduce this discourse, Laclau and Mouffe's discouse theory is used. By analyzing terms of body control, expected emotional reactions to menstruation a

Uppsatsen bygger på en egenkonstruerad enkätundersökning som har utförts på studenter från tre olika universitetsutbildningar. Med hjälp av den insamlade datan från enkätsvaren försöker uppsatsen besvara frågeställningarna om hur medvetna studenterna i undersökningen anser sig var om vem som har producerat nyheterna de vardagligen konsumerar och i vilken utsträckning detta påverkar studenternas eg

Landsbygden och lokalproducerad mat har ökat markant i popularitet det senaste decenniet. Dock drar aktörerna inte nytta av varandras kompetenser genom samarbete som i sin tur kan leda till ytterligare attraktivitet för landsbygden. Kullahalvön är en landsbygdsdestination i nordvästra Skåne kännetecknad av dess breda utbud av aktörer som inriktar sig mot lokalproducerad mat varför denna kandidatup

The aim of this study was to highlight how women’s shelters work with the child perspectives and examine whether there is any difference in how the two national associations Riksorganisationen för kvinnojourer och tjejjourer i Sverige (Roks) and Sveriges kvinno- och tjejjourers riksförbund (SKR) applies the child perspectives. To examine this, we conducted interviews with six employees and one vol

När man talar om dödsbesked är det ofta de anhöriga man först tänker på, eftersom de påverkas mest av dödsfallet. Denna deskriptiva, tolkande studie fokuserar istället på budbärarna och den komplexa process som de möter genom dödsbeskedet. Studien ämnar till att explorativt belysa dödsbeskedet ur ett kommunikativt perspektiv för att skapa en ökad förståelse för budbäraren men även bidra med praktiWhen one speaks about a death notification, the first thing that comes to mind is the impact on relatives, who might suffer the most. Apart from other studies, this study focus on the notifier and the complex process they encounter during a death notification. This study intends to enlighten the death notification out of a communicative perspective to create a broader understanding of the notifier

Lateralization is the functional specialization to use one brain hemisphere to carry out certain cognitive tasks. Lateralization is widespread across numerous taxa and gives the organism the possibility to increase neural capacity without increasing brain size. The degree and direction of lateralization varies within populations, suggesting that there also are disadvantages to being lateralized. H

Inverters synthesizing output voltages consisting of two levels, commonly known as two-level inverters, have dominated the global market for a long time. Today, further emphasis is being put on inverter efficiency and power quality. One way of improving these aspects is to use an inverter synthesizing a staircase voltage waveform consisting of three or more levels. Such inverters are known as mult

The main purpose of this paper is to describe the pragmatic and morphological attributes of sumimasen, sumanai and suman used as routine formulae. By way of introduction, previous research, pragmatic theory and key informants of Japanese descent have been consulted in order to provide a detailed interpretation of sumimasen and its properties. By conducting interviews with aforementioned informants