The discussion about weather one should pay expensive management fees to let professionals manage your money or if one should simply invest in an almost costless index fund has been going on for decades. This study’s objective is to investigate if the most popular actively managed mutual funds in Sweden can outperform the most popular Swedish passive broad market index fund. The study analyzes 62

The aim of this study is to investigate how technocratic water management is affecting the possibilities of the public to participate in decision-making and care for their local waters. This was investigated during the consultation process regarding the draft River Basin Management Plan and Program of Measures for the years 2021-2027 in the Bothnian Sea Water District in Sweden. The analytical fra

This thesis examines how the Riksbank’s monetary policy has affected the Swedish CPI inflation rate from 2000 to 2019. This thesis aims to determine if monetary policy is effective at controlling inflation. There is an emphasis on exploring the differences between conventional and unconventional monetary policy. A multiple linear regression model is used to test the relationship between inflation

Bakgrund: Barnmorskan ansvarar i Sverige självständig för att förskriva preventivmedel med indikation antikonception, samt arbetar för att främja sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa. Det är således i barnmorskans intresse att även för kvinnor med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning identifiera behov, främja sexuell hälsa och anpassa information utifrån intellektuella och adaptiva variationer, särskilt då

In this research study, which has focused on Swedish lifestyle migrants in Lisbon (Portugal), the attitude towards the phenomenon of lifestyle migration has been investigated more deeply. Lifestyle migration is an academic concept that describes the people who are relatively privileged and who move to a cheaper country to improve their quality of life. The phenomenon has grown significantly since

The purpose of this paper has been to create a theoretical framework by which one can understand communicative transference within, as well as between, systems. The paper has aimed to make use of how ‘the self’ in relation to neurocognitive impairments is conceptualized, communicated, and understood within the fields of Law, Psychology, and Neurology, in order to provide evidentiary support for su

Engdahl, E. 2023. The church at the end of Värend: A study of Åseda church’s medieval history. Within the forests of Swedish Småland, on the edge of Kronobergs county, lies the village of Åseda. This location has been sparsely studied by various scholars. The parish church in Åseda was subjected to a restoration during 1936-37, led by architect Paul Boberg. This restoration resulted in a lot of ar

The topic of this thesis is to study which women are represented in hair-adds, -advice and -articles. Also, to study in what way representation has changes from 1970s to 21st century. The study is based on eighty-seven volumes from the magazine Veckorevyn from the period 1970-2000. The results shown that representation is mainly white woman, and this reflecting how society views women of other nat

The aim of this study was to analyze how medical professionals, working in multidisciplinary teams, viewed the counselor's role, status, and collaboration in psychiatry settings. The method for the study was qualitative semi-structured interviews with seven medical professionals from two psychiatry clinics in southern Skåne. The interview material was coded and thematized using content analysi

This study has examined how women's codependency on their male partner with alcohol or drug problems is expressed and how codependency can be understood in relation to their upbringing. A qualitative content analysis of 7 podcast episodes where women talked about their upbringing and codependency was made. For a deeper understanding, we used Johan Asplund's theory of social responsiveness,

The purpose of this study is to examine how social service handles incorrect information about them that is spreading on social media. This study is based on a qualitative method. In order to achieve the purpose of this work, the focus has been on the unit of child protection services and seven social workers have been interviewed. The study shows that social workers only handle incorrect informat

This study seeks to explore the identity and cultural belonging of second-generation immigrants. The purpose is to examine the view that second-generation immigrants have on these two aspects and the impact it has on creating their identity. The study is conducted through qualitative semi-structured interviews held with six individuals who qualify as second-generation immigrants. The individuals c

Uppmärksamhetsbias har föreslagits vara involverat i både utveckling och vidmakthållande av tvångs- och ångestsyndrom. Befintlig forskning har emellertid genererat motsägelsefulla resultat och forskning avseende barn och ungdomar är begränsad, särskilt relaterat till tvångssyndrom. Vidare finns det ingen studie där uppmärksamhetsbias har undersökts i relation till Core Dimension Modellen (SummerfeBiased attentional processes have been implicated in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders (ADs) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, existing research has yielded inconsistent results and there is limited research with samples of children and adolescents, especially in relation to OCD. Further, there is no study examining attentional bias connected to the Core Dimensio

“What is most tangible is that you have never been asked if you are exposed to violence, you are primarily just seen as an addiction problem” - A qualitative study on social workers' reasoning about working with women who have been subjected to intimate partner violence where there is also a substance abuse problem. The aim of this study was to investigate how social workers in women's she

Denna uppsats ämnar sig åt att specificera de aspekter som påverkar prissättningen kring padelsporten. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av en regressionsanalys och 84 observationer. Resultatet visade att konsumenters medelinkomst och närområdets befolkningsmängd hade signifikant effekt på priset, likaså hade även kvalité, uthämtad från padelhallarnas Google reviews, samt vilken padeltid i veckan s

The Altman Z-Score model is one of the most famous models för predicting bankruptcy and measuring financial distress for companies. It uses multivariate discriminant analysis to classify companies in three different groups based on their calculated Z-Score. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how well the Altman Z-Score model for emerging markets performs, to then attempt to create a new bina

Ekonomisk brottslighet (ekobrott) i aktiebolag är ett stort samhällsproblem i Sverige där revisorn fyller en viktig funktion vid misstanke om brott för ett fungerande näringsliv. Regeringen har sedan 1999 verkat för att effektivisera revisorernas brottsbekämpning för att förebygga och upptäcka ekobrott. Revisorn blev skyldig att anmäla misstanke om brott som kan upptäckas inom revisionsverksaEconomic crime (white-collar crime) in limited companies is a major social problem in Sweden, and the auditor plays an important role in cases of suspected crime for a functioning business community. Since 1999, the government has been working to make the auditors' fight against crime more effective in order to prevent and detect financial crime. The auditor became obliged to report suspici

Previous studies of Thomas Pynchon’s works have made progress in defining numerous aspects of what could be construed as the Pynchonian worldview. However, they have mainly identified them in general, visual terms, separated from the level of the direct experience of his characters. The process of perception is important in philosophical inquiry, but its role in the worldview of Pynchon’s works ha

Utgångspunkten för denna uppsats är att undersöka huruvida samvetsfrihet finns i svensk rätt och i så fall hur den påverkar arbetsgivarens arbetsledningsrätt, arbetstagarnas arbetsskyldighet och patientens intresse av att få god vård om den åberopas av hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal. Frågeställningarna behandlar hur de rättsliga möjligheterna till samvetsfrihet ser ut för vårdpersonal idag och hur dThe aim of this essay is to examine whether freedom of conscience exists in Swedish law and, if so, how it affects the employer’s work management rights, the employee's duty to work and the patient's interest for safe healthcare if it is invoked by healthcare workers. The research questions address the legal possibilities to freedom of conscience for healthcare workers today and how they c