Decisions made by child welfare workers continue throughout the life of a case. Information is constantly being gathered and coming in from a variety of sources which can complicate the decision-making process. Child welfare agencies can benefit from understanding how child welfare workers make decisions and if certain interventions like the concepts from safety science can help increase the infor

The concepts of ‘Old School’ and ‘New School’, peculiar to hip-hop's lexicon, have long been framed by theories of subculture heavily drawing on a binary scale of authenticity and inauthenticity. This dichotomy is widely used to characterize a discursive conflict between the authentic aspects of hip-hop music and its excessively commercialized versions undermining hip-hop’s counter-hegemonic p

Detta examensarbete handlar om Building Information Modelling, även förkortat BIM, i järnvägsbranschen. BIM är ett relativt nytt arbetssätt som börjar implementeras allt mer men samtidigt används traditionell projektering. Med bakgrund av detta ämnar detta examensarbete undersöka i vilka uppdrag som det är mest lönsamt att implementera BIM. Frågeställningarna som togs fram var: ● Vilken ekonomisk This thesis deals with the subject Building Information Modelling (BIM), in the railway industry. BIM is a relatively new way of working that is beginning to be implemented more and more at the same time as traditional design is used. This study aims to investigate in which projects it is most profitable to implement BIM. The aim of this thesis to study is the following questions: ● What are the f

Syftet med examensarbetet var att undersöka huruvida RFID-tekniken och streckkodsläsning i Androidtelefoner gick att tillämpa i en biblioteksmiljö. Fem bibliotekarier intervjuades för att utreda vilka funktioner som hade varit av värde i det vardagliga arbetet. Utvecklingen skedde i Android Studio med Java där verktyg som Gradle och J-Unit användes. CI/CD tillämpades i utvecklingsprocessen. En weThe purpose of this study was to examine the possibility of implementing RFID and barcode scanning in mobile Android phones for usage in a library setting. In order to investigate the functions that would be useful to librarians in their daily work, five interviews were conducted with said target group. Development was made with Java in Android Studio with tools such as Gradle and J-Unit. CI/CD w

The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of social workers' notions about good parenthood and how they reason about the effect of different sources of knowledge in assessments. This study applied a qualitative method by using semi-structured digital interviews with six social workers working with child protection or family law in five different municipalities in Sweden. In the analys

Unequal access to education still remains a major problem especially in developing countries such as Nepal. The caste system in Nepal creates a hierarchy of social groups which has resulted in unequal power distribution and unequal access to resources. The Dalit group is one of the lowest caste groups in the hierarchy because of which people belonging to Dalit community struggle to gain equal acce

This thesis aims to provide a deeper look into the current status of Banking-as-a-Service through digital ecosystems, digital platforms and API economy. Research was conducted as qualitative research, which had a purpose of examining the lightly researched concept of Banking-as-a-Service, and shed light on what is the current status of Banking-as-a-Service by pondering its benefits and disadvantag

Gestures are used in a pragmatic way in interactive contexts such as conversation. Agreement between interlocutors is an ordinary aspect of talk-in-interaction, which is expressed through various types of utterances and gestures. The interlocutors’ status, such as gender and familiarity, may affect both their verbal and non-verbal behavior as previous research has shown. This study investigates th

The aim of this study was to research social secretaries' views on and experiences working with social and economic violence in honor-based context. The method chosen for this study was qualitative semi-structured interviews with seven different social secretaries, all active in various units and with different experiences. The study concludes how economic and social violence can take form in

The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of resources/employees concerning gambling addiction and the work within the support organizations targeting gambling addiction during the outbreak of the Covid-19-pandemic. To examine the phenomenon, we conducted seven qualitative semistructured digital interviews with individuals active in Swedish support organizations for gambling addiction w

Musslor bidrar till en god havsmiljö genom att äta havsplankton och på så sätt minska algblomningen. Idag konsumeras finare musslor av människor i olika rätter, däremot går andrasorteringen ofta till djurfoder eller till gödning. Genom att hitta fler tillämpningar för de proteinrika musslorna skapas en högre efterfrågan på musslor som i sin tur gör att mer musslor odlas och på så sätt ger oss frisMussels contribute to a good marine environment by eating sea plankton and thus reducing the eutrophication. Today, high quality mussels are consumed by humans in different dishes, however, the second quality is often used as animal feed or as fertilizers in agriculture. By finding more applications for the protein rich mussels, a higher demand for mussels is created which in turn means that more

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has created a novel and unique situation forcing start-up teams to mandatory-work-from-home (MWFH). With everyday life coming to a halt, start-up teams suddenly adjust their ways of working and transform to virtual means of teamwork performed from home environments. Given the novelty and uniqueness of the situation, MWFH has yet to be academically explored within the

Geografisk lokalisering av Alfa Lavals produkter med hjälp av maskininlärning. Datakvalitet är en nödvändighet för att ett företag ska kunna bli datadrivna. Detta arbete använder maskinintelligens för att förbättra Alfa Lavals datakvalitet, genom att prediktera den geografiska positionen av deras sålda produkter. Majoriteten av världens företag har data som, på ett eller annat sätt, kan användas fA lot of companies have data that can be used to develop a more successful business. To become more data-driven, it is important to extract valuable information from the raw data. One of the largest challenges for companies, while trying to make this transition, is to ensure a data quality at a high level. In this thesis, we worked with Alfa Laval’s database of previously sold products. The main i

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of working from home within family friendly work policies (FFWPs) and its relationship to firm performance, and whether this is affected by the choice of management practices within an organization. Methodology: A cross-sectional dataset from 2004, including data from 732 firms and four countries, accessed through World Management Sur

Vittnesmålen i Polska källinstitutet i Lund utgör idag en unik intervjuskatt som saknar motstycke! Föreliggande komparativa fallstudie analyserar hur förintelseöverlevande behandlades i koncentrationslägren och hur detta skildras i de polska vittnesutsagorna om Förintelsen från 1945 – 1946. I undersökningen tillämpas flera olika metoder bl.a. kvalitativ textanalys i kombination med en kvantitativ The witness testimonies at the Polish Research Institute archive in Lund constitute today a unique and unparalleled interview gem! The subsequent comparative case study analyses how Holocaust survivors were treated in the concentration camps and how this is described in the Polish witness testimonies about the Holocaust from 1945 - 1946. Several different methods are applied in the study including

Gendered violence against woman and children has been in existence and predominant in various societies for a long period of time with its intensity varying from one factor to the other. Many nations around the world including Ghana in West Africa have measures and directives to mitigate of the persistent social menace and possibly eradicate it towards sustainable welfare and development for indiv

The purpose of this study is to explore the entrepreneurial barriers and entrepreneurial coping strategies that highly academically skilled ethnic minority entrepreneurs [EMEs] experience in operating a start-up in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 10 participants to support the inductive nature of this study and to better understand the entrepreneurial experiences of this p

This essay addresses the medical diagnosis known as “ADHD” from a sociological perspective. The primary aim has been to address how the participants of two well-established Swedish internet forums perceive and approach ADHD. A brief reflection regarding prior research regarding ontology, a perspective on nurture versus nature, as well as a prior study regarding the discourse of ADHD is then provid

Restrictions in the distribution of interventions by the public elderly care have resulted in an increase in care for relatives. Those who have increased their relative care are primarily women, especially women from the working class and women who provide care to a relative who was born outside the Nordic countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate young female second-generation Swede