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The general goal of this thesis is to elucidate children’s early understandings of pictorial meanings, and how one can know anything about them. My central aim is to explore how picture comprehension develops during children’s first 3 years of life, through semiotic-theory-derived analyses of meaning relations. In so doing, I hope to contribute to the study of both semiotic theory’s psychological

In today's world, so much knowledge is developed through a steady stream of short research projects that longer ones are becoming more unusual. That is why we decided to pause and look back over the seven-year-long joint endeavor between The Pictorium and Certec. This was also seen as a short-term project from the beginning. What has sustained it over the years? The answer surprised even us: its s

Solving problems that are perceptually dissimilar but require similar solutions is a key skill in everyday life. In adults, this ability, termed analogical transfer, draws on memories of relevant past experiences that partially overlap with the present task at hand. Thanks to this support from long-term memory, analogical transfer allows remarkable behavioral flexibility beyond immediate situation

To promote human flourishing throughout society, opportunities for arts participation must encompass all citizens. A primary means to promote this is arts education and activities for schoolchildren. Equal opportunities for participation are currently not enjoyed by students with disabilities. In a population-based and cross-sectional study carried out on a 2016 public-health survey including 27,3

Background: Intermittent androgen deprivation therapy (IAD) is commonly used in prostate cancer because of the benefits of the off-treatment period (OTP). The off-treatment time for patients depends on cancer progression, often measured as a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Objective: To evaluate if certain factors can predict OTP duration following 7-mo degarelix therapy. Design, setting,

Using about 1,730 probate inventories, this paper studies the wealth of peasant farmers in Sweden for the years 1750, 1800, 1850 and 1900. The Gini coefficient for the farmers’ wealth grew from 0.46 in 1750 to 0.73 in 1900. Average wealth grew rapidly, tripling over the nineteenth century. Looking in greater depth at four local areas (Kullings, Sjuhundra, Lagunda, and Bara hundreds), we show that

Environmental issues are continuously getting more attention in the media. A great part of the media content about environmental issues is produced by environmental journalists working both in public service and commercial media organizations. In order to identify the potential and pitfalls of environmental journalism, this study focuses on exploring the journalistic values of environmental journa

Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka upplevelsen hos deltagare med spindelrädsla som deltagit i Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) för spindelrädsla. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer genomfördes vid uppföljning en vecka efter behandling med nio deltagare. Det samlade materialet analyserades med tematisk analys vilket ledde till tre huvudteman och fem underteman. De tre huvudtemana var RThe aim of this study was to explore the experiences of participants with fear of spiders who underwent Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) for fear of spiders. Semi-structured interviews were conducted one week after VRET with nine participants. The collected material was analyzed using thematic analysis which led to the identification of three main themes and five subthemes. The themes were:

The purpose of this study was to examine how different Swedish municipalities proceeded to transform the sanction youth service to practice in the context of the laws, the preparatory works and the guidelines which concern the sanction. Semi-structured interviews were used to acquire the material along with a so-called interview guide, which consisted of a list of fairly specific themes that were

This Thesis is based on online ethnography done in multiple virtuel groups of individuels following the latest fad diet in Denmark. The diet is called the paleo diet and enjoyed great popularity in leading individuals who follow the concept back towards the prehistorical way of healthy in a holistic manner and far away from the modern socity of obesity, illness and unhappiness. It is argued that t

Sammanfattning Barn och ungdomar kan av staten, på olika grunder, bli placerade på hem för vård eller boende; HVB-hem som drivs i privat regi. Detta kan bli aktuellt om den unge skadar sig själv eller har allvarliga problem i hemmiljön enligt Lagen om vård av unga (LVU) 2-3§§. Målet är att de placerade individerna ska återanpassas till samhället. För att de ska bli återanpassade behöver de vård påSummary Children and adolescents can due to various reasons be placed in rehabilitation- or juvenile foster care, so called HVB-hem, by the state. These institutions are many times managed by private corporations. Rehabilitation- or juvenile foster care can become a reality for a child or adolescent if it is harming itself intentionally or is exposed to severe problems in their domestic environmen

The purpose of this study is to bring forward the issue of public opinion making as a tool for online collective action (literally knows as human-flesh search)to implement social controlin Taiwan.According to several months’multiple data collection from the internet, this study isdesigned to answer the questionof howhuman-flesh search can implement social control. The paper adoptqualitative resea

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the end of 2010, there were 43.7 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide, and 15.4 million of these were refugees, including many from Myanmar. Currently, Thailand hosts around 100,000 refugees from Myanmar who have been registered by UNHCR and the Thai government, and another 53,000 unregistered refugees. The protract

In Sweden, the child perspective in social services has become greater and more acknowledged over the years. Today, social services have a child perspective in which the children's best always should be the main issue in an investigation. However, this also means that the social service workers must adapt to the working conditions in which they can feel compassion, anger, and sadness, all whil

Attacks of mass-harm perpetrated by lone actor terrorists, also known as lone wolves which they are called in this study, have been increasing in the last few decades and has become one of the main national security threats in Sweden. With the increase in attacks, so has the research on this type of terrorism, looking at ideological reasons, target selection and the radicalisation process as well

Förtalsbrottet syftar till att skydda den enskilde från ärekränkningar och utgör således en tillåten inskränkning i den grundlagsstadgade tryck-och yttrandefriheten. I bestämmelsen har lagstiftaren uppställt en ansvarsfri-hetsregel som tar sikte på huruvida uppgiftslämnandet varit försvarligt eller ej. Som redogörelsen visar, saknas försvarlighetsbedömningar i ett flertal avgöranden där samtliga bThe crime of defamation (in the fifth chapter of the Swedish Penal Code) aims to protect an individual against violations that target the said individ-ual's honour, thus provides a restriction on the constitutional freedom of press and freedom of speech. In the regulation, one can be exempt from liability depending on whether the disclosure of information was justifiable or not. As this paper

Gläntans camp vid Fiskeboda i Sörmland välkomnar unga vuxna på autismspektrumet att koppla av, ha roligt och träffa nya vänner under skolledigheterna. För vissa är det första gången de är borta hemifrån, för andra är det en efterlängtat höjdpunkt på året. Oavsett om du kommer som deltagare eller som en del av personalgruppen. Under några veckor varje år är det ett hem bortom hemmet. Många minnen Gläntans camp at Fiskeboda in Sörmland welcomes young adults on the autism spectrum to relax, have fun, and meet new friends during school breaks. For some people it’s their first time away from home, for others, it’s a much anticipated highlight of the year. No matter if you come as a participant or as part of the staff. For a few weeks every year it’s home away from home. Lots of memories are m

A-traces and semantic interpretation Adolfo Ausn, University of Connecticut Linguistics Department, 341 Mansfield Rd., U-1145, Storrs CT 06269-1145, USA, ada96002@sp.uconn.edu Lasnik (1999) makes the controversial proposal that A-movement does not leave a trace. His proposal is based on the assumption that there are no A-movement reconstruction effects (Chomsky (1995)). This assumption has been ch

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