SV: I januari 2003 fick homosexuella registrerade partners rätt att prövas som adoptivföräldrar i Sverige, i enlighet med en proposition från 2001. Beslutet kom först efter en lång debatt; redan 1986 lades en proposition fram som behandlade frågan och avslog den. Denna uppsats är en studie av de argument som förkommer i propositionerna. Syftet har varit dels att beskriva och analysera de argument

The main purpose of this study was to establish to what extent undergraduate students use reference services, what knowledge they have about those services and what their views of them are. The survey took place at Lund University Library, UB1, the main library responsible for collections in social sciences, humanities, theology and law. A total of 476 undergraduate students were asked to fill in

Denna studie undersöker och beskriver den psykiska hälsan hos en grupp barn och ungdomar placerade i familjehem i en större stad i södra Sverige. 42 barn och ungdomar i åldrarna 11 till 20 år valdes ut från en kohort bestående av 52 som vid något tillfälle under 2005 befann sig placerade i familjehem. Till barnen administrerades Youth Self Report (YSR), till en av familjehemsföräldrarna Child Beha

Does morality need justification? And if yes, what kind of justification will do the proper job? Peter Danielson distinguishes between fundamental and non-fundamental justification. A fundamental justification is a justification of a realm that does not appeal to any of the concepts of that realm. In the case of morality this means a justification formulated in amoral or non-moral terms. A non-fun

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation is an issue of great public concern, one which involves acute stratification, and is a question at the heart of theoretical and social characetarizations of the contemporary capitalist system. Yet is is an issue around which there exists no empirical, and to a lesser degree, no theoretical consensus. The field has for a long time been dominated by economi

This study examines EU integration with a focus on the security of energy supply. It postulates that since the Union's inception, the security of energy supply has played a prime role. The study examines the foundation of the Union, showing that the first two communities were ECSC and Euratom?both heavily concerned with energy, then it explores the first oil crisis, the following transatlantic

The basin of the Poopó Lake, situated on the Bolivian high plateau, is severely contaminated by the mineral extraction and processing activities within the area. Many rivers in the area contain high concentrations of arsenic, lead and cadmium both in the water and the sediment phase. Moreover, huge amounts of mineral waste are situated in the area. In this study the environmental conditions of thr

This report is intended to outline the domestic airline industry in terms of capacity and forecasts, and to analyse the financial condition and prospects of its operators. The outcome of the study has been severely impaired by the insufficiency of information supplied by airlines, which has rendered the report more indicative than was initially my intention. The domestic airline industry, aft

Inom flygbranschen arbetar man kontinuerligt med säkerhet och förbättringar för att öka säkerheten ombord på flygplanen. Tidigare såg man oftast till ett enskilt misstag som ensamt fick vara enda förklaring till att en olycka inträffade På senare år har man börjat se till helheten och försöka finna de faktorer i organisationerna som kan vara bakomliggande orsaker till att dessa misstag begås. Mång

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur kompetens kan tillvaratas på bästa sätt i samband pensionsavgångar och nyanställningar. Kompetens har i uppsatsen betraktats ur ett tolkande perspektiv, vilket i korthet innebär att en persons kompetens ses som beroende av dennes förståelse inför sitt arbete. Vidare vilar denna uppsats på följande grundantaganden; verkligheten utgörs av subjektiv föres

Anorexia nervosa is a psychosomatic eating disorder that involves self starvation and fear of gaining weight. Our purpose was to study the methods of treatment available and the function of them. Another part of the purpose was to find out what kind of goals the treatment has and if an anorectic person can be cured. To understand the methods of treatment we also wanted to find out what the causes

The purpose of the study was to examine what possibilities and obstacles, according to the personnel and patients in a methadone treatment, exist in the patient's social rehabilitation. How does the methadone treatment encourage the patient's social rehabilitation, what possibilities/obstacles are there according to personnel and patients? What does the patient see as important aspects of

Europaparlamentet antog i december 2002 ett direktiv om byggnaders energiprestanda. Direktivet kräver att byggnader skall energideklareras, alltså undersökas och dokumenteras ur ett energiprestandaperspektiv. Direktivet har hittills resulterat i två svenska delbetänkanden samt ett slutbetänkande. Dessa tre skrifter kommer att ligga till grund för den svenska lagen om energideklarationer. Enlig

I think almost everyone has heard of Narnia, the magical world accessible through a wardrobe. As a child I saw it as a beautiful story about how good defeats evil and never put more thought into it. Not until I read the book as an adult did I see the symbolism of Christian beliefs in the story. The story also contains a lot of mythical creatures and my personal interest in mythology made me want t

The purpose of this essay was to investigate the view of what kind of role the personal assistant has in disabled people´s life and sexlife and how conceptions of a "normal" life and "to live like others" can be identified related to this. My research questions was: What does the expression "to live like others" mean to the organisations? What is the view in the organ

The purpose of this study was to examine and illustrate how young adults look at themselves and their lifesituation in relation to the late modern society. More specifically its aim was to find out if the respondents have been affected by the ideals and norms of the late modern society in their lifechoises and their view of happiness. This study was based on interviews with eight young adults in t

In the faster growing pace of changes and competition in the global economy, factors promoting group effectiveness are of interest. How do components of leadershipstyle, especially transformational, team climate and selfefficacy correlate? To answer this question 3 questionnaires regarding leadershipstyle (MLQ), team climate (TCI-Short) and selfefficacy (self developed) were distributed to employe

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to facilitate increased understanding of immigrant's experience of the meaning of work with focus on how that meaning can change as a part of the acculturation process. Participants (n=13) from eight countries answered an open question. The responses were analysed using Meaning Construction Analysis (MCA)-Minerva and the individual's life-worl

Mer och mer fokuserar media och politiker på hårdare tag mot kriminalitet, i debatten förekommer ofta en bild av att det är bättre att kontrollera eller bestraffa en individ som begått en kriminell handling än att fokusera på omständigheterna kring eller varför handlingen begicks. Brottsprevention har inte fått samma massmediala utrymme. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att titta närmare på hur oli

Repetition of Non- word (make- up word that has not some semantic content) has been proposed as a reliable index of phonological memory in children with language impairment (LI). The aim of this study was to find out the possible similarities and differences concerning phonotactic non-words and working memory in 18 bilingual Swedish-Arabic children with and without LI ages 4-6 years. The investiga