“Dao sheng yi, yi sheng er, er sheng san, san sheng wanwu道生一，一生二，二生三，三生万物[Vägen frambringar en, en frambringar två, två frambringar tre, tre frambringar myriad av varelser]”. Detta citat från Daodejing [Classic of the Way and Virtue] av Laozi kan ses som en bra beskrivning av det kinesiska språket. Enstaviga ord är ”yi一[en] ”, tvåstaviga ord är ”er二[två]” och trestaviga ord är ”san三[tre]”. Alla or

The purpose of this study was to examine how young women with a self mutilation behaviour uses the chat room Zebraforum on the internet and how that can be apart of constructing an identity. The study is based on the women's autobiographical stories. There were over 350 different auto- biographical stories to choose from and of those 36 were chosen for analysis. Theory of youth culture has bee

The aim of this essay was to examine how school principals view their own and school’s responsibility when a child is suffering and in what way the principals believe that school can promote a favorable development for a child who is suffering. By thematically open interviews of four school principals at various schools in a southern swedish municipality I examined their view on their own and scho

The main objective of this paper was to examine the factors which determine the internal migration to Dhaka city, Bangladesh and to find out their impact on migrant’s livelihood aspect. The sample comprised 448 individuals from the rural and urban areas towards Dhaka city. In this study I enhanced to analyze and interpret the determinants of socio-economic, economic and environmental factors assoc

Denna uppsats har syftat till att analysera huruvida konventionell svensk slakt är förenlig med de regler och kriterier om slakt som återfinns i fyra sunnimuslimska rättsmanualer. Författaren har valt att arbeta med fyra olika manualer, en från vardera lagskola. De delar av manualernas originaltexter som har varit relevanta för uppsatsens syfte och frågeställningar har inkluderats i uppsatsen och

Author: Mikaela Bryland Title: To see the invisible children – about children with parents suffering from mental illness and the consequences of the search for normality and the avoidance of stigmatisation [translated title] Supervisor: Gunilla Fredin Assessor: Sune Sunesson The purpose of this study was to examine the children with parents suffering from mental illness and their situation when t

ABSTRACT Author: Rowena E. Nystrand Title: “It’s a case of fitting into the picture, otherwise you’ve failed …” A qualitative study of men's experience of becoming an involuntary father (translated title) Supervisor: Anders Östnäs Assessor: Håkan Jönson The background to this paper lies in a media interest in the problems of unwilling fathers but with very little research having been done i

In mid 90’s, productivity growth rate started to accelerate in the USA. The sources of this resurgence were the IT-producing industry and the IT-using market services. Meanwhile, Europe was still suffering from the low level of productivity growth rates. This fact leads to pessimistic assessments about the economic future of Europe. However, this paper uncovers that productivity growth rate starte

Denna uppsats bygger på en fråga som innebär om det finns svårigheter med att skapa och underhålla dokumentation i utvecklingsföretag. Syftet var att se om det existerade en diskrepans mellan den dokumentation systemförvaltare önskar och den dokumentation de faktiskt får av interaktionsdesigners. Uppsatsen begränsades genom att författarna valde att bortse från användarmanualer samt dokumentation

The aim of this study was to look into the discretion that the probation officer executes in cooperating with lay supervisors. In Sweden about fifty percent of the offenders sentenced to probation or on parole have lay supervisors and these supervisors are appointed by the probation officers. I asked the officers what they were looking for in a lay supervisor, certain qualifications or personaliti

Abstract This essay is a study of in which extension children are participating in child inquiries performed by the social services when using BBIC compared to when the social services weren’t. To get a good overview of this I made interviews with three social workers. I also analysed social acts of child inquiries of a total amount of six. Three of them were written by the social services before

The purpose of this master thesis is a study in strategies for digital preservation over time, from the standpoint of different institutions. The institutions we are investigating are Kulturen Museum in Lund, Skånes Regionarkiv and Malmö Stadsarkiv. We have studied the institutions from two perspectives: digital preservation and cultural heritage. The study has been carried out through qualitative

This study is about swedish social workers assessments of young offenders in their need of treatment and their suitability for youth community service. We have interviewed seven social workers in various cities in Sweden. They have been describing how they make their assessments when they submit a statement to prosecutors regarding young offenders need of treatment and the young offenders suitabil

Anställningsbarhet är ett odefinierat, men värdeladdat begrepp, som bär upp vår arbetsmarknad. Men vad betyder det egentligen att vara anställningsbar? För att utreda utbildningens roll för att vara anställningsbar inom de generella akademiska yrkena, redogörs det i denna uppsats för begreppets uppkomst och utveckling fram till idag, olika perspektiv för begreppet samt hur dagens arbetsmarknad ser

Syfte Syftet med undersökningen är att försöka lokalisera, analysera och belysa de svagheter som finns i förvärvslåneförbudets reglering av aktieförvärv som finansieras av bolagets egna medel. Frågeställning Är det nuvarande förvärvslåneförbudet i aktiebolagslagen ett tillräckligt starkt hinder mot att aktieförvärv finansieras med bolagets egna medel? Metod Undersökningen är baserad på traditPurpose The purpose of this paper is to try to locate, analyze and highlight the weaknesses that exist in the Swedish ban on loans for corporate acquisitions financed with the acquired company’s own capital. Question at issue Is the current ban on loans for corporate acquisitions financed with the acquired company’s own capital strong enough to prevent these types of acquisitions form taking pla

Hög personalomsättning har varit och är fortfarande ett stort problem inom ett flertal branscher. Tidigare forskning har visat på negativa konsekvenser såsom ekonomiska kostnader och ojämn kvalité i arbetet som utförts. Intressant var därför att undersöka ett företag inom en av branscherna med hög personalomsättning för att se vad konsekvensen innebar för företaget, samt vilka faktorer som påverka

This study investigates how the debt levels of firms belonging to the Nordic market change over time and what determines these changes. We find that contemporaneous changes in leverage are mainly determined by profitability, market timing, leverage deficits (deviations from target leverage) and changes in targets. We find two factors whose effects persist for at least ten years, namely profitabili

The aim of this study was to investigate understandings and interpretations of the concept intersectionality through a discourse analysis of six interviewes with teachers at The School of Social Work in Lund. The main conclusion was that through the exclusion of significant superior positions in the discourse and by making only certain groups possessors of intersectionality, the perspective is mai

Med denna uppsats har jag som syfte att skriva om processutbildning som utbildningsform. Jag vill också hjälpa Coop förbättra processutbildningen Bra Chefer, genom mina observationer i kombination med teoretisk kunskap. Jag har ur ett explorativt perspektiv med ett kritiskt hermeneutiskt tillvägagångssätt genomfört en kvalitativ fältstudie med abduktiv ansats. De data jag har samlat in har jag fåt

Nowadays Statistical process control charts (SPCC) has become powerful tools to monitor process variability of products in manufacturing environments. The artificial neural network (ANN) technique is also nowadays popular to use for monitoring process variability of products as an alternative to SPCC due to its superior performance. This research focus on the ANN technique for monitoring the proce