The aim for this study was to investigate how the service-user identity is constructed and how it interacts with neoliberalism. Service-user emphasizes a person that is independent and autonomy’s in the welfare system. The word started to be used around 1980s and some say it was a result of neoliberalism that spread across the world at the same time. Four interviews have been done with profession

Author: Ditte Edström Title: ADHD a social construction - A discourse analysis on how ADHD is described and communicated in professional school journals [translated title] Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Five percent of all students in Swedish schools have got an ADHD diagnosis (The National Board of Health and Welfare 2014), which is about two children in each class. In ten years, the diagnosed cas

The aim of this paper is to present the kinds of error that implicit bias can cause when we are to judge and rank which available candidate is the most suited for e. g. a job vacancy, and to investigate whether we can de-bias ranking lists in recruiting processes given that we suspect that implicit bias has influenced the ranking. I will argue that the available methods for this (positive discrimi

The North Sea stands out as one of the most rapidly warming regions of the globe and various types of geographic distribution responses have already been reported, from latitudinal changes to vertical changes. Using catch data from an international bottom trawling monitoring survey, this study investigated how the range size of the North Sea fish assemblage has changed during the last three decade

As the development of human civilizations, the classic definition of crowdedness index or population density is not able to describe population dynamic conciliations properly. Furthermore, the detailed population information is normally only stay on urban or country levels. Methods to compute crowdedness index of a small scale-area are lacked. Demographers need some new methods to compute human cr

Kullabergs tumlare styrs av dygns- och månfas I havet runt Kullaberg i Skåne lever Sveriges enda val – tumlaren (Phocoena phocoena). Tumlaren är en liten tandval som mestadels lever ensam och som använder ett slags inbyggt ekolod, kallad biosonar, för att navigera, kommunicera och hitta fisk att äta. Utanför Kullaberg utgör tumlare en vanlig syn, men generellt hotas arten av mänsklig påverkan ochThe harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is the only cetacean regularly found in Swedish waters. Little is known about its movements and behaviour. Around the peninsula of Kullaberg, harbour porpoises are regularly found in relatively large numbers and they are considered to use the area for both feeding and reproduction. Along the northern coast of Kullaberg six passive acoustic data loggers; Cet

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad som får elever att börja spela brassinstrument och vilka faktorer som motiverar dem till att fortsätta på Musik- och Kulturskolan. Bakgrunden till studien är att antalet elever på brassinstrumenten i Musik- och Kulturskolorna har minskat i Sverige under lång tid. Data består av gruppintervjuer med 11 elever i tre åldersbaserade grupper. Resultatet viThe purpose of this study is to investigate what motivates students to begin playing a brass instrument and the factors that motivate them to continue in the Community School of Music and Arts. The background for this study is that the number of students on brass instruments in the Community Schools of Music and Arts in Sweden has been decreasing for many years. Data collection was performed thro

Det proportionella valsättet bygger på tanken om en samförståndsmodell där olika intressen representeras efter sin storlek, att besluten växer fram efter förhandlingar och att man överbryggar klyftan mellan majoritet och minoritet. Det proportionella valsättet är således ett minoritetsskydd som tillförsäkrar även de mindre politiska partierna rätt till förtroendeposter och därmed makt och insyn.

Virusinfektioner och Diabetes? Diabetes kännetecknas av konstant förhöjt blodsocker. Sjukdomen ökar i lavinartade former och beskrivs som en av det moderna samhällets stora epidemier. Diabetes förekommer vanligtvis i två huvudsakliga former, typ1 och typ 2. I typ I-diabetes (T1D), som framförallt drabbar barn och ungdomar, har de insulinproducerande beta-cellerna förstörts av kroppens immunförsvType 1 Diabetes (T1D) is an immune-mediated disease where the pancreatic beta cells are selectively destroyed by autoreactive CD8+ T cells. However, the triggering events that eventually leads to autoreactive CD8 T cells infiltrating the pancreatic islets and, subsequently, destroying them still needs to be unveiled. Genetic and epidemiological evidence points to a substantial influence of environ

Map design research has strongly come into the agenda with the extensive use of GIS and maps in geoportals. Geoportals are used to find, access and display geographic data via the Internet. Novel opportunities and techniques for displaying geographic data in viewing services also introduce new challenges and issues in cartographic design. Specifically, thematic polygon layers (foreground) will obs

Prissattning av swing optioner inom elmarknaden Allmant om swing optioner inom elmarknaden I ett kontrakt for kop utav elektricitet ar det specicerat hur mycket som kommer att levereras och nar, och det gar oftast inte att andra pa. Om innehavaren av ett sadant kontrakt skulle vilja oka eller minska leveransen av elektricitet under perioden for kontraktet, behover den kopa eller salja elektricitetThe thesis deals with how to price swing options in the electricity market by using a least squares Monte Carlo method. This is a simulation method which uses a backwards moving algorithm where the optimal decision is calculated at every time step. Regression is used for the optimal decision and in this thesis both a polynomial regression and a cubic smoothing spline are used. They are both shown

I undersökningen ”Fokus på förskolläraruppdraget” har jag undersökt hur förskollärarna uppfatar sitt uppdrag samt hur de omsätter uppdraget i praktiken. Jag har även undersökt vilken påverkan kommunikationen har för förskollärare i deras uppdrag. Jag har avgränsat mig till att samtala med förskollärarna eftersom de har det yttersta pedagogiska an-svaret för verksamheten. Undersökningen är en kvali

This thesis considers quantitative tools for assessing concentration risks in credit portfolios that may underlie decision making in an active portfolio management setting. The study incorporates a literature review, which considers analytical and simulation based credit risk models in a Merton-type framework as well as aspects of credit portfolio management. The literature review is followed by a

Bushfire problem is a long-lasting problem which is a big threat and environmental problem in Australia. Planning to control bushfire is very important for Australian Environment. One of the most effective methods to fight bushfire disasters is planning for controlled burns in order to reduce the risk of unwanted bushfire events. Controlled burns management and planning has been always considered

The use of Islamic symbols in metal music has, until now, been a rare phenomenon. A few years ago, some black metal-bands in Istanbul started using Islamic symbols in both their artwork and lyrics, often in an anti-Islamic fashion. Although research on metal music is well established, little has been done on the relationship between black metal and Islam. This thesis explores the relationship betw

This paper investigates how the adaptation of the new regulations of Base III will affect the banking industry and how the theoretical framework around charter value hypothesis can explain these changes. The empirical study has been based on performance analysis of four major European banks with the purpose of identifying the impact of the new regulations on their finances. The data used for this

Enzymatic pretreatment of algae – by means of cellulose degrading enzyme – was evaluated through lab-scale and pilot-scale experiments. The degradation efficiency of the enzyme depended on the initial physical quality of the algae. Lab-scale batch anaerobic digestion experiments showed comparatively low methane potential for the pretreated algae at both mesophilic and thermophilic temperatures. Ho

Nowadays, urbanization is expanding over natural habitats, imposing changes on animal communities. Cities provide abundant supplementary food, but its nutritional are different from what birds can find in nature, for instance in the content of fatty acids (FAs). FAs fulfil important physiological functions, being essential in a multitude of processes throughout the life of animals. However, FAs ar

It is well-known that long memory and regime switching in the first moment of a stochastic process are easily confused. But the relation between long memory in the second moment and regime switching in the second moment is less well understood. We perform a simulation study in which we assess the possibility to distinguish the two properties in the case that data with long memory in the second mom

This master’s thesis project report deals with the design of multiplier for the reference signal to the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) used in WLAN application. The reference multiplier designed is based on a newly proposed architecture of dual loop feedback Delay Locked Loop (DLL) in which multiplication is performed within the loops. To lock the DLL, input signal is required to be delayed only for threKamal Kumar Gupta DLL Based Reference Multiplier for the use in a PLL for WLAN applications In modern wireless communication system, a frequency synthesizer/multiplier is one of the main building blocks of the system. For on-chip application, a frequency synthesizer is used as local oscillator (LO) to generate precise frequency from a single base frequency source, usually a crystal oscillator. Th