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Abstract Equine assisted therapy - a qualitative study of therapeutic riding Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed Equine assisted therapy is not a new treatment. During the 1500's riding was recommended for maintaining health or improving it, then riding was considered to have positive impact on both physical and mental health. In the 1600's horse-like machines were manufactured to

This master thesis studied mitigation and preparedness measures for forest fires made by local fire brigades and county administrative boards. Both actions taken today and related to a future scenario characterised by climate change were considered. The aim was firstly to get a picture of the work conducted and secondly to compare and review the present actions and discuss the measures taken for t

The classification of toxic comments is a well-researched area with many techniques available. However, effectively managing multi-label categorization still requires a considerable amount of work. In this thesis, we performed a classification experiment on over 200 thousand comments from the Jigsaw toxic comment competition data available on Kaggle. We aimed to optimize a model to identify six di

Killer acquisition is a type of acquisition that allows the acquiring undertaking to curb market competition by preemptively removing a potentially competitive undertaking that would directly compete with the acquiring undertaking. Such an acquisition allows the acquiring undertaking to continue being the dominant provider, while consumers experience a decrease in consumer welfare. This type

Extant literature has not explored the establishment of green trust through website design elements which communicate sustainability, within the context of international online fashion firms. This study contributes to this topic by exploring how green trust is generated through sustainability-communicating website design elements. To accomplish this, it examines literature that is previously cross

This study investigates preschool staff's experiences assessing the need for a report of concern, their knowledge of legislation and signs of child maltreatment, and their collaboration with social services. By examining these aspects, the study aims to identify obstacles and opportunities for improving collaboration between preschools and social services. Qualitative, semi-structured intervie

Distribution as a concept means that a task (for example, data storage or code execution) is parallelized on multiple computers. It goes hand in hand with the concept of big data – extreme amounts of data that can’t be processed by a single computer. Because of this, the most established tools for distributed parallelization is tools that are designed to handle big data. This thesis explores wheth

Biometric recognition systems are widely used to recognize an individual. Fingerprints is a biometric identifier and are today widely used in smartphones for biometric recognition. The fingerprint software used in smartphones are great and fast, and usually implemented for one person usage. A fingerprint software used for smartphones often conducts a one-to-one comparison between the sample and th

Elections to the European Parliament have since they were introduced in 1979 been, as scholars define it, a “second-order” election. They are typically as such characterized through the losses for national government parties, surge of smaller parties, low interest from the public in general and most of all low levels of voter participation. Expectations were therefore for once higher that the Euro

This paper examines factors that triggered widespread currency and banking crises in Latin America during 1990-2010 by looking at specific macroeconomic and financial variables. The paper aim to contribute to the vast literature of financial crises by distinguishing itself in three ways. First, the paper implements a dynamic binary choice panel data model with fixed effects. The binary choice mode

The purpose of this study is to analyze how the child’s perspective is used in social services today and how the usage of the child’s perspective is expected to change due to the incorporation of the convention on the rights of the child. We collected data through qualitative interviewing with six participants from the same social service office. In our study we have established that the concepts

Mindfulness is an increasingly popular social work intervention. The aim of this study was to examine how the social problems addressed by mindfulness are framed and how the nature and goals of social work are constructed in the latest mindfulness research from 2017 onwards. 25 peer-reviewed articles were examined with the help of Håkan Jönson’s perspective analysis, which asks questions about the

The purpose of this study was to investigate the supervision of non-smoking school yards in Sweden. Smoking costs Swedish society an estimated 30 billion SEK annually in cost for healthcare, production losses and sick leave. Smoking among adolescents has declined in recent years, but it is still 24 % in high school's grade 2, which categorized as smokers. The supervision of the schoolyard is t

Many people today possess a private digital photo collection. Such collections are often just chronologically sorted. One way to make photo browsing more interesting would be to suggest semantically related photos to a currently viewed photo, and if, in addition, such a relationship could be justified in words, that would create extra value for the user. To find a solution to this problem, the ap

Utifrån handböcker för hållbar dagvattenhantering har information om geometrisk utformning och uppbyggnad av några hållbara dagvatten- anläggningar tagits fram. Tillsammans med bland annat information om effektiv porositet har den totala volymen som dessa anläggningar kan magasinera beräknats med hänsyn till hur ytkrävande de är, kubikmeter dagvatten per kvadratmeter yta. Dessa värden har sedan anBased on manuals for sustainable stormwater management, information about the geometric design and structure of a couple of sustainable storm water facilities was collected. Together with information about the effective porosity and the total volume that these facilities can store it was possible to calculate how space consuming each facility was, cubic meters of rainwater per square meter of surf

A case study on the phenomenological obstacles for adjusting lifestyle to ecological awareness. The data is obtained mainly through deep interview, backed by preparatory research including chiefly participant observation, informal and semi structured interviews. The findings have been connected to relevant concepts and theories in a process of grounded theory. The fatigue, fears and doubts felt by