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The aim of this study was to examine social workers perceptions of medication assisted treatment. We have made a qualitative interview study in which we interviewed seven municipal social workers that have knowledge and experience of working with people who have substance abuse problems and medication assisted treatment. We found that the social workers are describing both advantages and disadvant

EU:s regelverk om offentlig upphandling uppdaterades 2014 och snart kommer uppdateringen i den svenska lagtexten. Det blir nu ännu tydligare att det är tillåtet att ställa miljökrav vid offentlig upphandling. Det är en vanlig uppfattning att det inte går att upphandla varor, tjänster och byggnadsverk med bättre miljöprestanda eftersom att de traditionellt sett inte kan konkurrera med kriteriet ”This is a master’s thesis about green public procurement (GPP) in the construction sector, based on a legal dogmathic study and a case study. The legal dogmathic part focused on both EU-legislation and on Swedish legislation. The case study was performed on the municipal of Lund to understand how a small authority works with GPP. The study of EU-legislation shows that the possibility to request b

The RADASS (Remote Access Dual Automatic Switch Spray) system is thought to be the future solution for frozen rail switches. Frozen switches are a yearly reoccurring issue and cause long delays in rail traffic, which require a vast amount of personnel and resources to fix. Spraying chemicals manually by railway workers is the most common method to deal with the issue; the system intends to automat

Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att analysera och förstå service recovery-processen i ett serviceföretag med en komplex verksamhet genom att fokusera på klagomål som framförts i sociala medier. Metod: Undersökningen bygger på en kvalitativ fallstudie av ett företag i kryssningsbranschen. Inledningsvis genomfördes en mindre observationsstudie som åtföljdes av ett antal semistrukturerade intervjuer. DesTitle: Service recovery 2.0 - social media complaints in complex service businesses Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the service recovery process in a complex service business while focussing on complaints delivered via social media channels. Approach: After an initial literature review and a small observational study, a qualitative study was conducted based on semi structured i

Statligt stöd är ett område för konkurrenslagstiftning. Statsstödsåtgärder används för att avhjälpa marknadsmisslyckanden och hjälpa företag när de står inför svårigheter. Statsstödskontroll syftar till att skapa lika villkor för stödda och icke-stödda företag. Under finanskrisen 2007–2009 har flera banker stött på svårigheter, och medlemsstaterna har tvingats hjälpa dem på olika sätt. Europeiska State aid is an area of competition law. State aid measures are used to remedy market failures and to help undertakings when they are facing difficulties. State aid control aims at ensuring a level playing field between aided and non-aided firms. During the 2007-2009 financial crisis, several banks have encountered difficulties, and Member States have been forced to help them out through diverse m

The underlying reason for this essay was the current chal-lenges of acquiring and keeping competent personnel within the Swedish health care. The purpose statement was to ana-lyze how managers at a Swedish hospital work with talent management, with the focus being on the terms participat-ion, motivation and communication. This was carried out through a qualitative interview study, based on social

The present thesis examines how the museum visitor’s experience is being transformed by various developments and particularly by the advent of virtual reality technology. The research focused on identifying the problems of communicating the archaeological information to the museum audiences while highlighting best practices and proposing solutions. The immersive function of virtual reality was exa

Introduction: Knowing diffusion coefficients in supercritical carbon dioxide is important from an efficient process in chromatography and extraction. Background: Several papers have estimated diffusion coefficients in pure supercritical carbon dioxide, but rather few have investigated the effect of adding a cosolvent. Aim(s): Building and validating a system for estimating diffusion coefficients

Studien syftar till att lära mer om hur familjeterapeuter arbetar med barns inkludering i familjeterapi och hur det påverkar familjeterapeuten känslomässigt. Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod inspirerad av fenomenologiskt synsätt med fokusgrupper som teknik. Analys av data har gjorts utifrån innehåll, vilket resulterade i två teman; Hur terapeuten inkluderar barn och hur det påverkar terapeThe study aims to learn more about how family psychoterapists, working with family therapy with participation of children and how this affects the family therapists emotionally. A qualitative method inspired from a phenomenological approach with focus groups as the technique. Data was analysed content analysis which resulted in two themes; How therapists include children and how it affects the the

Central to the field of agrarian political economy, is rural development and capitalism’s advancement in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry, ‘the agrarian question’. With the present case study, I examine the interplay between social relations of production and agrarian change in eastern Bolivia. Using the case study of Ramada, a small indigenous community, this dissertation in

Predictive archaeological modelling is a complex analytical process that requires the understanding of how complex environmental and anthropogenic spatial phenomena relate to the selection of archaeological site location and knowledge of the requirements and potential biases inherent in the method of modelling and the raw data itself. This paper aims to demonstrate the utility of the weights of ev

This Master thesis was conducted at ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB (TKMS AB), formerly known as Kockums AB. TKMS AB is based in Malmö, Sweden and is a manufacturer of conventionally powered submarines. The next generation of submarines, type A26, is currently under development and introduces many new features compared to prior submarine designs. Following increased fire and sound reduction demands

Svensk sammanfattning I och med inträdandet av en avkriminalisering beträffande homosexualiteten i juli 1944 kom homosexuella handlingar att inte längre ses som något brottsligt. Kampen mot jämställdhet slutade inte där, det skulle dröja fram till 1979 innan homosexualiteten ströks ur Socialstyrelsens listor över sjukdomsbegrepp. Idag har homosexuella bland annat rätt att ingå äktenskap och adoptEngelsk sammanfattning Due to the entry into force for a decriminalization regarding homosexuality in July 1944, homosexual activities were not considered as something criminal anymore. The struggle towards a more equal society did not end there. It took until 1979 before homosexuality was removed from the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsens) register of illnesses. Today, homos

Det nu gällande EU-rättsliga regelverket som reglerar skyddet för personuppgifter är dataskyddsdirektivet. En ny dataskyddsförordning som kommer träda i kraft i maj 2018 har emellertid antagits. En särskild fråga som också utgör huvudföremålet för denna uppsats är frågan om dataskyddsreglernas extraterritoriella tillämpningsområde. Uppsatsen syftar således till att utreda dataskyddsreglernas extThe EU data protection law aims at protecting personal data as they are subject to data processing by various actors. The current EU law governing data processing is the Data Protection Directive (DPD). During the past few years the EU data protection law has undergone a reform that ultimately led to the adaption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR will come into force as of

As the process of business model innovation has not been highly researched on and as start-ups face the threat of failure due to a lack of a suitable business model, the purpose of this master thesis was to describe and visualise the process of business model innovation of start-ups as well as to discover the patterns within their processes. Thereby, we aim to provide a better understanding of the

Syftet med det här arbetet är att utreda hur kontorsmarknaden i Malmö har utvecklats under 2000-talet. I Malmö har det efter Öresundsbrons invigning år 2000 byggts omkring en halv miljon kvadratmeter kontor. Det mesta av byggandet har skett i Västra Hamnen, Hyllie och andra stationsnära lägen så som Universitetsholmen och Nyhamnen. Dessa områden är fortsatt de mest attraktiva eftersom kommunikatioAbstract The purpose of this study is to examine how the office market in Malmö has developed during the 2000s. After the opening of the Öresund Bridge in 2000, approximately half a million square meters of office space has been built in Malmö. Most of the construction has taken place in Västra Hamnen, Hyllie and other locations close to train stations, such as Universitetsholmen and Nyhamnen. The

The rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is one of the most pressing matters right now. Before the industrial revolution, the atmosphere had a concentration of 0,02% which has increased to 0,04% due to human progress. This increase results in melting glaciers, ruined farmland, and more unpleasant consequences. Counter measures of today involve moving away from fossil fuels and relyin

The emergence of artificial intelligence, especially machine-learning methods, challenges the set of legal guarantees put in place in Europe to combat discrimination and ensure equal treatment. This paper will focus on cases of algorithmic discrimination in the context of recruitment as a business practice. Particular in the field of recruitment of workers, which has always been a field where EU n

Although reports of pharmaceutical bioconcentration in aquatic organisms are increasing, less is known about trophic transfer in aquatic food webs. The bioaccumulation and trophodynamics of sertraline and fluoxetine, 2 selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) frequently detected in aquatic environments, were tested by exposing constructed aquatic food chains to SSRIs under controlled labora