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This chapter looks at the way collective practices of comics creation and publicationcan form feminist attachments, with a focus on the comics anthologyDrawing the Line, Indian Women Fight Back! (Kuriyan, Bertonasco, Bartscht, &Burton 2015). Drawing the Line consists of fourteen short comics drawn by agroup of professional and amateur Indian women who reflect upon their experiencesof gendered

Background: Ambient particulate matter is a leading risk factor for disease globally. Particulate matter 10 (PM10) and particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) are derived from different sources, including operating motor vehicles as well as from industrial activities. In this study we investigate the association between increased concentrations of PM and total daily visits to the psychiatric emergency unit

The PResymptomatic EValuation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older adults with a family history of sporadic AD. Participants are deeply phenotyped and have now been followed annually for more than 12 years (median follow-up 8.0 years, SD 3.1). Multimodal magnetic reson

Inconspicuous consumption, the habitual use of resources in daily routines, poses a challenge to sustainable consumption. For example, laundry is often the most environmentally demanding stage of clothing’s life cycle, consuming significant quantities of water, energy and chemicals. Laundry thus provides a prime example of inconspicuous consumption, from which to consider sustainability transition

Abstract This dissertation examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in Cicero’s text. Many languages are being investigated today by scholars who use this theory, and differen

CFEWP49 CFE Working paper series No. 49 Satirical Depictions of the European Union A Semiotic Analysis of Political Cartoons on the 2004 Enlargement and 2009-2012 Eurozone Debt Crisis Tra Thanh Pham CFE Working papers are available at the website of the Centre for European Studies www.cfe.lu.se 2 Tra Thanh Pham holds a MA in European Studies from Lund University and this paper is her graduate thes

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/sites/cfe.lu.se.en/files/2020-12/cfewp49.pdf - 2026-06-22

We need places in the city where we can just be, slow down and have experiences that are sensual and bodily. When communal baths were built in the cities of Sweden, it was largely for hygienic reasons, a place where people washed weekly. Now you could say that bathing is a kind of ritual, something that we do for the sake of the experience. I designed the bathhouse on an infill plot in Gamla Väste

With the advent of autonomous vehicles (AV) comes a plethora of new parameters to take into consideration in automotive design. Over the years, traffic signals and rules have developed in symbiosis, and are clear and easy to understand when the communication is between drivers. It is less clear between driver and pedestrian, especially when a pedestrian intends to cross the street. A non-verbal ag

In Sweden, a number of companies have started viewing risk management from a holistic perspective rather than a silo-based one. This holistic approach is referred to as Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Research on ERM has mainly focused on the implementation process and whether it can be value adding for shareholders. This study is designed to look at why companies decide to implement ERM and wha

The professionals in a psychiatric outpatient reception who meet the parents and sometimes their children get a chance to gain an insight into the family´s life situation. This study contains interviewes with seven social workers, working as counselors in five psychiatric outpatient receptions in three cities in the south of Sweden. The aim of this study was to examine counselor’s consideration of

This study aimed to shed light on the conseption empowerment and paternalism, to show some of the inherent tension that lies within the conceptions. I wanted to see if empowerment and paternalism really could be seen as it´s contrary, as it often is described in litterature. I looked into the conceptions different parts to see if, and which parts, where shared or contradict each other. This is an

The Swedish welfare organisation is built on the fact that the legislation gives the municipalities and social workers guidance and direction how to assess cases. Through out this the clients have right to be assessed both equally and individually. How is this done? The purpose of this paper was to examine the effect of the organisation referred to the social workers ability to discretion and the

The purpose of this paper was to discuss stigma and stigmatisation in relation to social policy and social work. By discussing welfare systems in social policy I wanted to see if there could be any connection between social policy and stigma. I used case studies of hearing impaired adults to give examples of how the stigma processes work. By connecting the stigma and the social policy theories wit

The aim of this thesis is to study how Denmark and the Danish people has been represented in the Swedish press and which images of them that appears. For this purpose I make use of discourse analysis and discourse theory. By analysing three cases were the debate about the Danish migration policy has been scrutinized in Swedish newspapers I seek to discover different ways of looking at the world. T

The purpose of this essay was to look into whether any attention is paid to the biological children in foster families when the investigation about foster home is made. I did some qualitative interviews with six foster home-investigators, working in five different municipalities. Some of the main questions have been: Do the investigator meet the biological children during an investigation? Are the

The purpose of my study was to examine adoptive parents' experiences of adopting children older than three years of age. I wanted to look into what kind of information, help and support every adoptive parent had received. I also wanted to examine if the adoptive parents worried about anything concerning the children's emotional needs and in what way the adoptive parents prepared themselves

Syftet med denna studie är att utforska huruvida före detta patienter upplever att DBT-behandling inom barn- och ungdomspsykiatrin har bidragit i skapandet av ett liv värt att leva. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med åtta kvinnor i åldern 17-22 år som genomgått DBT-behandling för mellan ett till tre och ett halvt år sedan. Intervjumaterialet analyserades med hjälp av Interpretative PhenoThe study aims to investigate whether former patients experience that DBT-treatment in a child and adolescent psychiatric clinic has helped them in building a life worth living. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight women aged 17-22 years who had undergone DBT treatment one to three and a half years ago. The data were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), wh