The purpose of this thesis was to study and find a solution for the safety problem of workers, pedestrians and bicyclists who take shortcuts through civil work construction sites. It focuses on the situation at one specific project, but the conclusions are general for all construction work sites. The thesis includes literature studies, interviews, a questionnaire survey and observation studies. Th

In times of climate change, companies face extreme pressure from external stakeholders to engage in environmental sustainability activities. Especially companies of industries that significantly contribute to the global carbon emissions are expected to change their behaviour. There, the road freight transportation business is known for its particularly heavy impact. Being forced to adapt to change

The emergence of born global firms in the last decades has led to a growing interest in the internationalization processes of such companies. Despite the existence of traditional internationalization frameworks, we seek to understand how internationalization process of IT born global firms deviate from traditional theory and what key factors play a role in their internationalization process. To de

En analys om vin och vindrickande i Ars Amatoria och Tristia, två verk av P. Ovidius Naso. Utgångspunkt är ett antal utvalda ord av relevans för ämnet, nämligen vin, merum, bibere, Bacchus (guden personifierad och som metonomi för vin), convivium, vitis och uva. Båda verken har genomlästs och handlingen redovisas i en synopsis och de relevanta orden har i kronologisk ordning placerats in i sina sa

Nice girls use snuff? (Fina flickor snusar?) is an inductive study about how young feminists in the academy are negotiating and constructing their identity through the use of snuff. The thematic content analysis proceeds from nine semi-structured life world interviews. This study is based on a poststructuralist understanding of meaning as constructed in the language, as theorized by Scott, Derrida

Rektorer har idag en stor ansvarsroll. Det finns ett regelverk med diverse skollagar, direktiv och läroplaner. Dock finns det ett brett spektrum av handlingsutrymme och handlingsmöjligheter att handla inom ramen av lagar. Problemhantering av vardagsvåld och vidtagande av disciplinära åtgärder är ett återkommande inslag i en rektors dagliga arbete. ”Rektorers handlingsutrymme: Antingen hittar vi en

The thesis proceeds from Sweden’s first gender equality sub-goal; Equal Division of Power and Influence, in order to investigate how the political power is divided between the sexes within local committees in Skåne and in Lund. Political commitments at local level should be carried out alongside labour or other occupation; and thus the overall aim of the thesis is to investigate if labour market m

This thesis presents the prototype of a search for new phenomena that decay in two jets, in presence of an associated jet (three-jet or trijet final state). Mass combination studies are carried out to reconstruct dijet resonances in different mass regions. The two models of interest are the composite quark, which contains a composite quark resonance Q, and the simplified dark matter mediator mod

År 2014 drabbades Västmanland län i Sverige av en allvarlig skogsbrand som växte till att täcka drygt 13 000 ha. På grund av vädersituationen klarade räddningstjänsten inte av att hantera branden, vilken resulterade i att bli den största branden i Sverige sedan mitten av 1900-talet. Året efter branden rapporterade Myndigheten för Sam- hällskydd och Beredskap ett behov av ökad beredskap för allvarlIn 2014, the Västmanland County in Sweden suffered from a severe forest fire that grew to a size of roughly 13000ha. Recent and prevailing weather conditions made the fire overpower the extinguishing ability of the Swedish emergency services, and it ran out of control to become the largest forest fire in Sweden since the middle of the 20th century. The year after the fire, a need to increase the e

Den här studien undersöker etiska uppfattningar hos behandlingsassistenter på HVB för ensamkommande flyktingbarn. Det görs med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra respondenter på två olika boenden. Materialet kategoriseras utifrån de tre normativa etiska teorierna dygdetik, omsorgsetik och dialogetik samt placeras inom en yrkesetisk kontext. Studien ger en inblick i yrkesgruppens villkor och

Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur personer som arbetar som vikarier i medie¬branschens bemanningsföretag påverkas av och anpassar sig till en arbetssituation som i stor utsträckning präglas av osäkerhet och kringskurna möjligheter till kontroll av såväl arbete som fritid. Undersökningen består av sex semistrukturerade djupintervjuer med personer som arbetar eller har arbetat som vikarier på en sve

The aim of this study was to see how different welfare operators understands their own, and others, responsibility regarding unaccompanied minors seeking asylum from a welfare pluralistic point of view. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with different professionals representing their welfare operator. In order to examine views of responsibility we conducted nine interviews that cent

This Bachelor’s thesis examines the individual motivations behind shaping an ethnic identity in order to become interesting to oneself and others. Through understanding how people shape an ethnic identity, what values lie beneath, and placing it into the context of postmodern demands on the identity, this study argues that an ethnic identity may serve a purpose of generating cultural capital and s