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Empathy is a multifaceted competency that underlies socioemotional functioning, improves prosocial behavior, and prevents mental health risks, which makes its development central during childhood with long-lasting impacts on individuals’ lives. In this systematic review we investigate which aspects of caregiver-child conversations that are critical in fostering children’s empathy. The study and se

This master’s thesis, through the use of linguistic landscape analysis, examines three neighbourhoods in the city of Malmö, Sweden (Västra Hamnen, Möllevången and Rosengård), in order to investigate how multilingualism, specifically as a consequence of globalization, is negotiated within public space. Physical text in public space works both to reflect and reinforce wider social processes and prov

This thesis discusses the surprising evolvement of public health onto the EU agenda. The overall research aim is to investigate and develop potential explanations for the process of public health policy making in the European Union. By using Multilevel- Governance, Agenda-setting theory and Policy Networks, this thesis develops a theoretical framework for the research in question. Case study desig

The Russian Federation decided in late 2012 to ban adoptions to the United States. The adoption ban has been criticized from several directions for being motivated politically and that it did not take into account the children who were waiting for an adoption to the United States. Children who go through an adoption are often found in an unusually vulnerable position. Not only have they lost their

Recreational hunting evokes emotions and could be described as a contested space. The paper presents a study of recreational hunting in Sweden, focusing on accounts and narratives from ethnographic interviews with hunting tourism operators. It discusses how the notion of sustainability permeates and frames moral accounts of hunting practices, game meat, wildlife management, business ethics, animalRecreational hunting evokes emotions and could be described as a contested space. The paper presents a study of recreational hunting in Sweden, focusing on accounts and narratives from ethnographic interviews with hunting tourism operators. It discusses how the notion of sustainability permeates and frames moral accounts of hunting practices, game meat, wildlife management, business ethics, animal

The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate and illustrate today’s line of thought regarding subutex and substitute treatment . The main issues that have been covered are: 1. How is subutex exposed in the media? 2. What are the attitudes towards subutex within different professional groups and organizations? 3. Where does Socialstyrelsen stand in relation to subutex? In order to answer the

In October 2008, the Swedish government made a resolution about a testing period for advanced classes in some of the Swedish high schools. After about a year the Swedish minister of education, Jan Björklund, made a statement that he wished that the try with the so called elite classes be extended to the primary schools. The purpose of my paper it to analyse the Swedish debate about elite classes i

In recent decades, many marine populations have experienced major declines in abundance, but we still know little about where management interventions may help protect the highest levels of marine biodiversity. We used modeled spatial distribution data for nearly 12,500 species to quantify global patterns of species richness and two measures of endemism. By combining these data with spatial inform

Socialtjänstlagen (SoL) utgår från hushållsgemenskap vid prövning av rätten till bistånd. En individ blir beviljad bistånd om denne inte kan försörja sig själv på annat sätt. Ett sådant sätt är bland annat hjälp från anhöriga. Makar och sambor förväntas bidra till varandras försörjning. SoL behandlar ett hushåll som en ekonomisk enhet med gemensamma inkomster. Inkomstskattelagen (IL) utgår från etWhen the right to financial aid is tried, The Social Services Act uses a household perspective. An individual is granted financial aid if he is unable to provide for himself in any other way. One possible way is, amongst others, by receiving help from relatives. Spouses and cohabiting unmarried couples are expected to contribute to each other’s living. The Social Services Act treats a household as

Den ökade användningen av läkemedel och otillräcklig teknik i reningsverken har lett till allt större halter av läkemedel och andra organiska mikroföroreningar (OMF) i naturliga vatten. Detta har i sin tur konstaterats påverka exempelvis fiskars beteende och fortplantningsförmåga. OMF har även detekterats i det svenska dricksvattnet. På grund av detta har en satsning skett de senaste åren inom forThe increased use of pharmaceuticals in combination with inadequate techniques and procedures in the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have resulted in higher concentrations of pharmaceuticals and other organic micro pollutants (OMPs) in the aquatic environment. It has been established that these pollutants have caused changes in the behaviour and reproduction of fishes. Furthermore, these OMPs

Helsingborg, a coastal city in southern Sweden, initiated a long-term redevelopment project called H+ in 2009, aiming to convert industrial harbor space in the city's south into a new, livable urban neighborhood and city center. The project aims to create an open and ‘tolerant city’ in Helsingborg over the next twenty years. In 2010-2011, H+ used an open-source planning method as a strategy to inc

Rätten att få använda straffprocessuella tvångsmedel är viktig och nödvändig för de brottsutredande myndigheterna för att uppnå så effektiv brottsbekämpning som möjligt. Exempel på typiska straffprocessuella tvångsmedel är häktning, anhållande samt husrannsakan, alla innebär en integritetskränkning för den som utsätts för de. När det gäller hemliga tvångsmedel är de att anse som mer integritetskräThe right to use pre-trial coercive measures is important and necessary for the investigating authorities in the objective of achieving the most effective law enforcement possible. Examples of typical criminal coercive measures are detention, arrest and raids, all of which violate the privacy of the victim. Examples of secret coercive measures are secret telemonitoring and secret telephone tapping

The aim of this study was to examine former foster childrens’ personal portraits about their upbringing in foster care. Focus have been on relational and emotional aspects of the foster care placement and how the examined people of this study cope with their surroundings. I have used a qualitative content analysis on four different autobiographies in order to answer the questions of this study. T

Navigation is the ability of animals to move through their environment in a planned manner. Different from directed but reflex-driven movements, it involves the comparison of the animal’s current heading with its intended heading (i.e., the goal direction). When the two angles don’t match, a compensatory steering movement must be initiated. This basic scenario can be described as an elementary nav

Indoor localisation is a currently a key issue, from robotics to the Internet of Things. With hardware advancements making Ultra-Wideband devices more accurate and low powered (potentially even passive), this unlocks the potential of having such devices in common place around factories and homes, enabling an alternative method of navigation. Therefore, anchor calibration indoors becomes a key prob

Purpose: This article problematizes the dominant functionalistic and organization‑centric view of employees’ communication engagement on social media and challenges the assumption that such engagement merely reflects managerial success or failure. Adopting an employee‑centred, relational approach, the study advances the understanding of employees’ communication engagement by foregrounding the tensPurpose: This article problematizes the dominant functionalistic and organization‑centric view of employees’ communication engagement on social media and challenges the assumption that such engagement merely reflects managerial success or failure. Adopting an employee‑centred, relational approach, the study advances the understanding of employees’ communication engagement by foregrounding the tens

Existing research on urban Ghana mainly focuses on processes occurring within the country’s major cities, thereby reproducing a trend within the social sciences to overlook the role of intermediate and secondary cities. This paper aims to address this shortcoming by exploring spatial and social transformations in Sekondi–Takoradi, one of Ghana’s secondary cities and the metropolitan area serving t

Jönköping stad har stora framtidsambitioner och hoppas på att staden kan växa i samband med att den nya höghastighetsjärnvägen byggs. För att klara av nya invånare och uppnå de kommunala och transportpolitiska målen behöver kollektivtrafiken byggas ut. Den nuvarande busslinje 1 som är den mest trafikerade linjen i Jönköping idag behöver dras om vid vissa delar för att inkludera den nya höghastigheJönköping city has big ambitions for its future, and they hope that the city can grow with the new highspeed railway. To manage all the new citizens and make up for the communal and transport political goals they need to expand their community rides. Today’s bus line 1, which is the most trafficked line in Jönköping, need a reroute to include the new station for the highspeed trains which will be