Strängare lagstiftning (SFS 2001:512) har medfört att ett stort antal deponier kommer att avslutas och sluttäckas inom de närmaste åren. Till detta behövs stora mängder material, som lever upp till olika krav som täthet och långtidsbeständighet. Då det finns ett överskott av material som exempelvis avloppsslam, aska och andra restprodukter från industrier, skulle dessa kunna vara ett alternativ ti

This master thesis is an attempt to approach the issue of the lack of application of cause advocacy in modern social work practice. The research problem is framed in a way that historical roots of the commitment to social justice in the profession are presented with the further argumentation for the lack of this approach in contemporary social work. A qualitative study has been conducted to fulfil

On social media platforms, such as blogs, the boundaries between private life and working life can be blurred. When social media is used by people who can be seen as agents for human service organizations this can give rise to both ethical and relational issues. On the one hand socialworkers like everyone else should have the right to express opinions and act as private persons on the internet. On

The aim of this degree essay is to reach an understanding of how both non-governmental and governmental organizations construct a social problem. This is a socialconstructive study with an empirical method of interviews with vignette elements. I have focused this study on how the social service, Diakonicentralen Ugglan (a parish in the Swedish Church) and the non-governmental organization (NGO) Hj

This study assesses the projection of self and of the personal trademarks of three Swedish authors in three different areas of media. In this composition, the chosen authors are evaluated and examined on the basis of television interviews, the author’s websites and various selected book covers, all through two main perspectives: celebrity studies and branding studies.

In modeling unsteady compressible viscous flow problems with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, time adaptive implicit methods are needed to solve the initial value problems that arise when discretizing the equations in accordance with the method of lines. The methods most used in industrial code today are a family of multistep methods called BDF-methods. Because BDF-methods with higher ord

The purpose of this study was to look at two autobiographies through qualitative methods. The main purpose has been to highlight how individuals describe themselves, the consequences of social aspects (family and friends) in depression they have experienced and their turning points: the way out of the depression. To study this, I have used the following questions as starting points: How do the dep

The psychosocial work environment is a phenomenon that has become noticed in recent years. Previous research shows that working conditions for social workers working with children and young people in institutions is one of the professions where there is the highest risk of mental stress. With this in mind, the purpose of this study was to investigate how social workers in a youth institution in ea

Målet med detta arbete var att studera de termodynamiska och strukturella egenskaperna hos polyetylenglykol genom att tillämpa en kombination av experiment och datorsimuleringar. Den experimentella huvudtekniken var membran osmometri och datorsimuleringarna baserades på Monte Carlo metoden. Polyetylenglykol även förkortat PEG är en neutral linjär polymer med amfifilisk karaktär, vilket menas attThe aim of this thesis was to evaluate the accuracy of a one-parameter non-virial scaling equation of state (EOS) for polyethylene glycol in water by Cohen et al. through osmotic pressure measurements using membrane osmometry and Monte Carlo simulations. PEG20 was set as the reference system and the polymer chain length effect was investigated through simulations of PEG10 and PEG35. For PEG35 expe

Att översätta en trend – En studie av institutionaliseringsprocessen av content marketing Denna studie undersöker hur ett nytt begrepp inom kommunikationsbranschen sprids och börjar etableras. De få studier inom strategisk kommunikation som beskriver spridning av nya idéer handlar nästan uteslutande om hur de har anammats av efterfrågesidan. Denna studie studerar därför hur aktörerna på produktionTranslating a trend – A study of the intstitutionalization process of content marketing. This study explores how a new term in is diffused and established. The few studies on diffusion of ideas in Strategic communication that exists have mostly been focused on the adoption. This study is therefore an exploration over how actors act on the production field of communication ideas in an institutional

Magnetit är ett mineral med ferrimagnetiska egenskaper, vilket betyder att det har två magnetiska moment riktade mot varandra. Men ett av dessa moment är dock starkare än det andra vilket gör att ett netto-magnetiskt moment bildas. Detta gör att en bit magnetit kan fungera som en vanlig handmagnet. Dessa magnetiska egenskaper hos mineralet drog tidigt till sig uppmärksamhet i gamla tider och magneThe ambition of this project is to assist in the pursuance of understanding the metal to insulator transition found in magnetite at ~120 K. The transition is itself very complex and links together the charge order, orbital order and lattice distortion of magnetite with its magnetic properties. To be able to research these relationships on a more advanced level, synchrotron methods are necessary. F

Positive aspects of fathers’ involvement in parenting are broadly recognized, but challenges faced by fathers are often neglected and postpartum depression (PPD) is still mainly considered as a problem of mothers. Yet, new evidence suggests a similar prevalence of about 10 % in fathers and mothers. The present study investigated paternal PPD, its character and its links to attachment styles, paren

A software system composed of applications running on embedded devices could be hard to monitor and debug due to the limited possibilities to extract information about the complex process interactions. Logging and monitoring the systems behavior help in getting an insight of the system status. The information gathered can be used for improving the system and helping developers to understand what c

In this report we take a new approach to product recommendation. We investigate the the possibility of using a hybrid recommender consisting of contentbased clustering and connections between clusters using collaborative filtering to make good product recommendations. The algorithm is tested on real product and purchase data from two different companies - a big online book store and a smaller onli

Höje å har de senaste 200 åren blivit 50 procent kortare och förlorat 90 procent av avrinningsområdets våtmarker. För att kunna klara av framtida behov gällande matproduktion och utbyggnad av städer krävs effektiv avvattning av landskapet. Traditionella diken är bra på att avvattna mark, men medför många nackdelar för biologisk mångfald och näringstransport från jordbruksmark till havet. Tvåstegsd

Amid the many food safety scandals and rapid urbanization, China’s peri-urban areas have recently witnessed the emergence of alternative food systems (AFSs). Situated in a context different from that of the West, their impact has remained poorly understood and under researched. This paper explores how Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) can enhance food security in China’s cities. Based on Polan

Nämndemän har varit med och påverkat dömandet i våra domstolar i mer än 800 år. Deras inflytande har varierat en del under århundradena men aldrig har de haft så stor domsmakt som idag. I tingsrätten dömer vanligtvis fyra domare varav en är juridiskt utbildad (ordföranden) och tre är nämndemän. I röstningsförfarandet väger allas röst lika tungt. Det är kommunfullmäktige som väljer vilka som ska siLay judges have been able to influence the judgments in our courts for more than 800 years. Their influence has varied somewhat over the centuries but never have they had such great judicial power as today. In District Courts there are usually four judges, one of whom is legally trained and three who are lay judges. In the voting process every judge has the same power. The city council decides who

By using panel data for 21 counties in Sweden from 2003 to 2013, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between tourism development and economic growth in this country, within the neoclassical growth framework. To address the objective of this study, the appropriate panel data methods are used, namely both static and dynamic panel approaches. The results show that tourism is a po

This thesis investigates and problematizes how the English-language mass media constructs the discourse on Japanese corporate governance. The purpose is to analyse and problematize the discourse on mass media with regard to orientalism. By looking at a number of examples from the discourse, this thesis questions the fundamental assumption that the mass media is an impartial conveyor of information

This thesis examines how innovation affects firm performance in the United States during the financial crisis in 2008. A difference-in-difference estimation combined with Coarsened Exact Matching is applied on a panel data set of 4,928 U.S. firms between 2004 and 2011. Two opposing theoretical frameworks concerning the outcome are used to state hypotheses regarding if innovative firms perform bett