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Background: The role of physical therapists are affected by several aspects including the therapeutic relationship, inter-professional relations, workloads, autonomy and their relations to everyday tasks. In particular, the latter of these is a topic of interest in regards to Japanese physical therapists since healthcare in Japan has shown tendencies toward the adoption of new technology. This, th
Familias en Acción, during more than a decade, has encouraged investments in human capital and children’s health in poor households in Colombia. The program has been able to benefit a wide range of population to such a great extent, that now the program has become a national public policy. While the positive effects on health and education have been widely studied, there are some other important i
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Problem discussion: There are still today many problems related to health in developing countries. When reasoning on how to deal with these problems, it is important to study the determinants of health in each country. Each country has got its own characteristics. The development process never ends, and each health care system needs to be adaptable for the ongoing changes, in order to meet local n
Offending images are representations that hurt people’s feelings deeply. My thesis deals with the way in which people read and interpret these offending images. It becomes important to understand what makes some viewers vulnerable to a certain image thereby provoking strong reactions against it. The aim is to put myself at the receiving end, in the place of those who are offended and look at the i
This essay investigates the extent to which the four emerging Central Eastern European stock markets of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine have become integrated with the developed market of the European Union over the sample period from 1997 to 2010. Rolling-window correlation and a more advanced, dynamic conditional correlation approach with GARCH and EGARCH specifications are utili
Purpose - This study is about the triadic relationship with a Triple Helix approach between the state, industry and university in Japan. The intention is to see if an increase in collaboration between the three actors generates an increase in patents, start-up companies and new organisations. I will use the Triple Helix model as a hypothesis and see if the increase in collaboration leads to an inc
The aim of this paper is to investigate the following three main research questions. A) How do Pakistani men define masculinities? B) How do they reflect on the role of religion, socio/cultural practices in the construction of masculinities in Pakistani context? C) How do Pakistani men define themselves in two different contexts (Pakistan and Sweden)? To answer these research questions, I have emp
In Sweden there has recently been a change in the code from the former BFS2010:2 BKR 13 to Eurocode 5. This shift has led to changes when calculating the design capacity for all materials including wood. One of the parameters that were changed was the strength of wood perpendicular to the grain. The characteristic value required was decreased from 8 MPa to 2.7 MPa which have a relativity large imp
In this paper, several methods such as VAR and EGARCH are employed to examine the relationship between trading volume, stock index returns and volatility in Nordic countries for the period 1999 to 2009. Our results confirm a positive relationship between trading volume and absolute stock returns. More specifically, there are bidirectional causality in Demark and Finland while Sweden and Norway are
Since the beginning of the new millennium the Rights-Based Approach (RBA) to development has come to influence the international development agenda, challenging the traditional charity model and the Basic Needs Approach (BNA). A large theoretical literature can be found on RBA, as well as training material and handbooks for development practitioners. Little is to be found, however, on the implicat
The growing focus on customer relationship forces enterprises to tailor their processes in a more customer oriented way. The concept of customer relations is a topic of marketing studies, but it has strong implications on organization studies because of its role in the formation of employee understanding. “Customer orientation” is said to be at the very heart of the IKEA way, especially in Returns
The Purpose of this study was to determine what affects, if any exist, crude oil and natural gas supply and demand has on the international relations of Northeast Asia. This was done by answering the research question: does the need to for energy security override the desire to maintain the status quo regarding national policy toward controversial issues facing Northeast Asia. The study uses the t
LGBTs (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) in Lebanon have for a long time been a target of oppression were legal, economic and social factors have contributed to their historical marginalization. While the Lebanese Penal code in article 534, is criminalizing homosexuality the law is rarely applied and is primarily used to violate the privacy of gay and lesbians by denying them basic human rig
