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A species phenology is central to its ecology. Phenology is linked to development time and in extension size. Phenological differences can be found in both inter- and intraspecific comparisons. Sexual dimorphisms in phenology (protandry and protogyny) has been linked to sexual size dimorphism (SSD). In this study I use odonates, popular model organisms for studies of development and sexual dimorph
In this essay I have tried to study and examine how users of illegal narcotic substances reach out for help and support on Drogakuten, a sub forum on the message board Flashback forum instead of turning to the health care system. I have tried to look at the interaction between the members to see if there is a harm reduction philosophy present on the board. I have also tried to analyze Drogakuten a
Children’s participation could seem to be an obvious ingredient in social services child protection investigations. Children’s rights to make their voice and opinion heard and to affect the decisions that involve them is stated in law, conventions and other regulations. Despite this, a lot of previous studies show that children’s rights often are forgotten or non-prioritized in social services. Th
The aim of this study was to get insight into what stereotypes and prejudice students at Lund University in Sweden might have towards people receiving welfare. The study used focus groups and a survey to collect material. The results from the focus groups were mainly used for the operationalization of the terms stereotypes and prejudice for the survey. Previous studies within the field of prejudic
Uppsatsen kretsar kring diskussionen om dementa personers rättsliga ställning i deras kontakt med vård och omsorg. Det allmänna har en skyldighet att skydda utsatta individer och ge dem möjlighet att leva ett värdigt liv. Samtidigt är ett centralt värde att vård och omsorg ska bedrivas med respekt för människors självbestämmande och integritet. Den enskildes delaktighet vid utformandet och genomfö
This paper examins attitudes towards harm reduction within focus on supervised injection site measures in Sweden. Through investigating the senitments of current social work students at Lund University, the paper concludes that despite the countries overall effort to combat substance abuse, the coming generation of social workes is largely positive to public supervised injection centers. The stud
The purpose of the study is to examine how probation officers reason about the execution of community service. The material used in this study consist of interviews conducted with highly experienced probation officers. The material was analyzed with a qualitative analysis method. The account theory in combination with the concept of discretion are the theories used. The result indicate that the re
The aim of this study was to examine how the social workers working process looks like in Financial assistance with focus on the child’s perspective. I was interested to explore how social worker who works in financial assistance takes to account the child’s perspective. In order to gather the data I used a qualitative method. Five social workers were interviewed on a unit for financial assistance
The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the social work that took place with unaccompanied children autumn 2015. I have taken a qualitative approach to answer the questions in this study. The study is based on five interviews with social workers and staff, working in homes with unaccompanied minors. Two main themes are discussed and these themes are: The effects of migration of unaccompa
The aim of this study was to analyze how preschool principals talk about their obligation to report child maltreatment to social services. Five principals, from five different local areas, were interviewed in the study. Two of the preschools were situated in underprivileged areas, and the others in economically and socially fairly well situated areas. Discourse analysis was applied in the examinat
This study investigates how children’s books in Sweden deal with the topic of death and how it relates to research and established theories on children’s development and their grieving process. Based on a qualitative text analysis of 20 books five themes were identified: “clarity and euphemisms of death”, “the afterlife”, “boys and girls different expressions of grief”, “funeral as an instruction
The aim of the thesis is to investigate constructions of mental illness in course literature used in a Bachelor’s programme in social work. The empirical material consists of books and reports about mental illness used within a programme. The material has been analyzed through a qualitative method called perspective analysis, drawing upon discourse analysis. Our analysis shows that there are eleme
Titel: Urlakning av betong med elektrisk migration och frysning under tvång Författare: Kristoffer Karlsson Handledare: Katja Fridh, Avdelningen för Byggnadsmaterial, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Lund Extern handledare: Per Mårtensson, Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB, Stockholm Examinator: Lars Wadsö, Avdelningen för Byggnadsmaterial, Lunds Tekniska Högskola Problembeskrivning: Den dagen då Slutförvar
It has been shown that it can be difficult to study decision making in a risk management context when traditional methods are used. An alternative to traditional methods is to use micro worlds. A certain type of decision making in the risk management context is about investments in capability which has been studied in this thesis. The aim of the project is divided into two parts, where the first p
Abstract Author: Joakim Hammarstrand Title: “I need to meet them where they are” - a qualitative interview study about Swedish school counselors work with young transgender people. Supervisor: Malinda Andersson Assessor: Anders Östnäs The aim of this study was to examine how school counselors in Sweden work with gender variance. The study also aims to examine and understand the school counselor’
This study aims to examine the participants of the project “Jämställda platser Malmö” and their definition of what gender equality is, the aim is further to examine, according to the participants, what the definition of an equal place is. The participants of the project were a group of youth from three different areas in Malmö where the equal places were intended to be built on. The group of youth
The aim of this study was to examine what kind of experience social workers in the voluntary sector has of the health amongst asylum seekers in the asylum process. The aim has also been to construe the social workers statement due to a sense of coherence. The analysis was based on the theories of the salutogenesis and the sense of coherence by Antonovsky. The interviews were based on qualitative i
The aim of this qualitative field study was to investigate and analyse Samburu men’s perspective on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Samburu, Kenya. The chosen subjects to examine were the men’s perspective of the practice of FGM/C itself, the process of change of mind and their involvement in ending FGM/C. To achieve this aim, in-depth interviews were made with 10 men in the surroundi
In Swedish youth- and adolescent residential care and juvenile care, there are today people held for either being a threat to themselves, their surroundings or have committed a crime yet are too young to be held in prison. There are also youth and adolescents being placed in these facilities when their surroundings too have become a threat to their own wellbeing. The aim for this study was to find
A methodology as well as a suggested solution to the problem of unsupervised anomaly detection for contextual anomalies is presented. Using a combination of statistical and clustering approaches, an ensemble of algorithms provide automatic anomaly detection in an Application-to-person networking environment which can be scaled to different domains using hierarchical time series data. The aim of
