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Authors: Jessica Bjurberg & Anna Engblom Title: Social Worker – the helping hand A qualitative study how active social workers experience their professional identity. Supervisor: Mikael Sandgren Assesor: Janicke Andersson The purpose of our study was to investigate how active social workers experience their professional identity. The method used for this investigation was semi-structured
Domain decomposition methods can be used to numerically solve partial differential equations for certain problems, for example in cases where the domain has an irregular shape, or if there are differences in material constants. By splitting the domain into subdomains, these problems can be solved using domain decomposition methods. In this thesis, the topic is solving the steady-state heat equatio
The present study aims to contribute to the research-practice gap debate by addressing the understudied managers’ perspective. Based on a theoretical framework, it incorporates the managers’ stance on four dimensions previously debated by scholars, namely perceived relevance of the research-practice gap, stakeholder relationships, reasons for the gap and research utilization. The small-scale explo
The purpose of this study was to investigate three aspects of asexuality. This was achieved through conducting six interviews with self identified asexuals, an observation on a meeting for asexuals, an analysis of what functions the two organisations for asexuals, Nätverket Asexuell and AVEN have, and a content analysis concerning how people talk about a lack of sexual lust on the internet. The co
Bioassays are methods employed to estimate the effect of a given substance in living matter, and therefore they are frequently used in the pharmaceutical industry. The experimental design of bioassays has to take into account the intrinsic variability in the biological test units and other factors as operators, day variation, batch variation, etc. Thus, statistical models employed to analyse bioa
This paper takes its starting point with the enormous public attention that blogs got in 2008 regarding the “FRA” debate. In the media there is a consensus that the blogs influenced the parliamentary debate concerning the new law proposal. This essay intends to investigate the bearing of this consensus by comparing the debate in the blog sphere and the debate in the parliament and searching for si
In this thesis four economic incentives to reduce exhaust emissions of carbon dioxide are studied. The incentives are: the carbon dioxide tax, carbon dioxide differentiated vehicle tax, green car cash bonus and old car scrapping bonus. They are analysed and discussed in deeper theory. Where figures and numbers are available these are studied. Economically they are all more or less efficient. The e
The international guest worker programmes as well as labour migration have had substantial impact on the economic development of many parts of the world including Europe, the United States, Canada, the Gulf States, Japan, as well as increasingly many other parts of the world. The severe shortages of labour due to low fertility and population ageing in the developed world have in the recent decades
Although cuprate high-temperature superconductors were discovered already in 1986 the origin of the pairing mechanism remains elusive. While the doped compounds are superconducting with high transition temperatures Tc, the undoped compounds are insulating due to the strong effective Coulomb interaction between the Cu 3d holes. We investigate the dependence of the maximum superconducting transition
The development of microwave photon detectors is paving the way for a wide range of quantum technologies and fundamental discoveries involving single photons. Here, we investigate the photon emission from a microwave cavity and find that distribution of photon waiting times contains information about few-photon processes, which cannot easily be extracted from standard correlation measurements. The
This paper considers a formation shape control problem for point agents in a two-dimensional ambient space, where the control is distributed, is based on achieving desired distances between nominated agent pairs, and avoids the possibility of reflection ambiguities. This has potential applications for large-scale multi-agent systems having simple information exchange structure. One solution to thi
As researchers we need to be relevant, not only to our peers, but also to external stakeholders. We need to make a societal impact. In this study we explore the extent and characteristics of the implications for external stakeholders identified in articles on Business Angels published in Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance between 1999 and 2017. We identified 75 ar
Forecasts of ecological dynamics in changing environments are increasingly important, and are available for a plethora of variables, such as species abundance and distribution, community structure and ecosystem processes. There is, however, a general absence of knowledge about how far into the future, or other dimensions (space, temperature, phylogenetic distance), useful ecological forecasts can
