Benin, an impoverished nation in West Africa, has been consistently ranked as one of Africa’s best democracies. While countries in the region have seen major democratic backlashes, this study seeks to explain how it is that Benin’s democracy has survived since 1991. This thesis operationalises a theoretical framework of democratic consoli- dation based on three approaches — structures, attitudes

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur erfarna psykodynamiskt inriktade psykoterapeuter upplever och förändras av känslomässigt nära möten med klienter. Negativa aspekter av det psykoterapeutiska arbetet är mer belysta i psykoterapiforskningen, varför studien fokuserade på hur psykoterapeuter upplever övervägande positiva och meningsfulla förändringar inom sig själva. Tre psykodynamiskt inriktadThe aim of the study was to investigate how experienced psychodynamic psychotherapists experience close encounters with their clients and how they can change as a result of it. Since negative aspects of the psychotherapeutic work are more highlighted in psychotherapy research, this study focused on how psychotherapists experience positive and meaningful changes. Three experienced psychodynamic the

This thesis was carried out at CellaVision, a company within digital blood analysis, with the aim of investigating the possibility of autovalidation of blood cells using neural networks. The thesis started with preparing a dataset for training and validation, including cell features and binary labels indicating if the cell is easy or difficult to classify. This dataset consisted of 122 227 cell im

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between alexithymia, exhaustion syndrome and well-being. The examination was designed as a crosssectional study in which the measures TAS-20, KEDS and BBQ was administered by a survey online. A total of 557 participants were recruited. The results showed that higher degree of alexithymia was connected to more severe symptoms of exhaustion s

Psychological health among adolescents has declined over the past decades. A big portion of adolescence is spent in the school environment where, with time, demands increase. The aims of this study were to explore 1) pupils’ experience of student health services, family, friends, and the learning situation, 2) whether there is a difference in self-perception, well-being, perceived stress, learning

This thesis builds on a case study of the car sharing company Volvo Car Mobility within the city of Stockholm, with the main purpose to answer how car sharing business models operate to enable socio-technical transitions in relation to transportation. The thesis stems from three sub-questions related to how the company captures value, how the city of Stockholm encourage mobility services and what

This paper examines how planning can increase the ridership on public transit by using measures that influence behaviour. This is done by examining the planning process of the new bus network that is to be implemented in the city of Enköping which aims to increase the ridership on city buses. Mobility management is a tool in planning which entails the use of measures to influence peoples’ behaviou

Due to climate change, sea levels are rising exponentially on a global scale. It is threatening tocause a number of consequences, such as floodings and erosion, in coastal zones all over theworld. The coast of the swedish province of Skåne is especially threatened in comparison toother coastal zones in Sweden, and it is predicted that by the year 2100 the sea level will haveincreased with 1 meter

Race, space and inequality are three terms deeply interlaced into social systems. South Africa provides with a good case to study the relationship between the three, due to its unique and chronologically durable employment of those terms in all enclaves of public life. Colonialism and apartheid combined, led to the extensive abuse of space and race, undermining thus the overall social welfare unde

The aim of this study is to investigate what driving forces that affect the localisation of business establishments in cultural and creative industries in rural areas. This was done through a qualitative case study in the village of Skåne Tranås, placed in the eastern rural parts of Scania. The data gathering was done through five interviews, four with entrepreneurs in the village and one with a l

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the wider understanding and implementation potentials of Sense of Place (SOP) through a case study in Hamburg, Germany. This was done by examining how socioeconomic and geographical factors influence people in Hamburg’s perception of the newly developed neighborhood HafenCity. The analytical framework consists of humanistic geography theories, a section o

This research is an attempt to critically examine the impact that China’s aid program has had upon IMF conditionality. By building upon the work of Diego Hernandez (2017) who found that with every 1% increase in Chinese aid, the World Bank typically lessens its conditions for market liberalisation and economic transparency by 15%, this paper looks at the background surrounding China’s rise to beco

Allmännyttans roll har genomgått stora förändringar. Orsaken till att undersöka allmännyttans roll i denna uppsats är den förändrade strukturen hos bostadsföretagen. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka ett kommunalt bostadsföretags förändrade roll som allmännyttigt, vilket görs genom att undersöka ett kommunalt bostadsföretag i Hässleholm (Hässlehem AB). Uppsatsen söker svar på följande fråg

Culture and creativity are two urban development key words that have been increasingly applied as urban policies in most of the western world. Two decades after these strategies started to become widely applied we are now facing the long-term effects. Social inequality and deepened segregation are two undesirable impacts stemming from cultural and creative policies. Using Malmö as an example I exp

This thesis is a qualitative case study of a development intervention aimed at women’s empowerment. The case is the ‘Danfe’ program, led by a non-governmental organization in Nepal. The research explores how the Danfe program impacted on the empowerment of the participants. The thesis follows the initial, feminist understanding of empowerment as a process involving personal development and changes

The existing literature suggests that organizations have difficulties managing and controlling their software assets. A number of IT risks are often associated with the poor management of these assets. At the same time, firms around the world claim that Software Asset Management (SAM) can be utilized to mitigate the IT risks, but there is no precise study based on the correlation between the two.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the tourism development in Abisko, Kiruna, highlighting the conflicting strategies and land-use conflicts. Abisko is used as an example of how tourism development is not only about attracting more visitors to the destination, it’s also about developing the services that the visitors, local population and companies need and, in that way, create opportunities

In the peak of the 2015 refugee crisis, Sweden stipulated a new law in order to give the system respite while recovering from the pressure that followed from the 162 877 asylum applications Sweden received that year. The Act (2016:752) on temporary limitations of the opportunity to be granted residence permit in Sweden entered to force on 19 July 2016 to apply for three years. The law constitution

Over the years, humankind have made us dependent on fossil fuels. Not the least in terms of how we transport ourselves and goods. This dependence has a downside. The consumption of fossil fuels is contributing to global warming and climate change. An issue so urgent that we need to take action, and we need to do it now. With global agreements such as The Paris Agreement and The Sustainable Develop

Municipalities in OECD-countries have since deregulations in the infrastructure sector during the 1980s increasingly been drawn into novel ways of funding transport infrastructure. Implications amongst different countries in the OECD vary as economic systems and national policy constitute the backdrop for the penetration of private capital in transport infrastructure .This study aims to explain th