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The large number of orphanages in Jinja, Uganda has promoted the widespread institutionalisation of children from poor families. Parents are left disempowered and have very few options but to sign over the rights of their children because NGOs in the region have largely prioritised orphanage care over other services. This paper critically analyses the failure of non-state actors in addressing the
Forskning har visat att sexuell aktivitet gynnar individens fysik, psyke och relationer (Cox, 2009). Det saknas bred forskning kring kvinnans sexualitet, sexuell aktivitet och sexuell tillfredställelse samt subjektivt sexuellt välbefinnande i Sverige. Det var 31 kvinnor, 18-35 år, från Malmö och Lund i Sverige som rekryterades. Utgångspunkten var att utreda om det fanns en samvariation mellan sexu
Människan har försökt att förklara beteenden genom att kategorisera personligheter i olika kombinationer för att få så mycket kontroll på vardagen som möjligt. På senare år har arbetsplatser börjat använda olika formaliserade metoder för att kunna kategorisera människor vid rekrytering, med syfte att matcha person till yrke och för att hitta rätt person till rätt position. Studiens syfte är att bSince the existence of human civilization, we have endeavored to understand and accept people's differences. One such way in which we have tried to explain human behavior is through classifying personalities into different categories. This has now evolved to become part of the recruitment processes as a tool to find the right person for the right position, with both positive and negative effec
This article argues that the body of foreign direct investment (FDI) literature in general and the ownership, location, and internalization (OLI) paradigm in particular would be enriched if finance-specific factors are explicitly incorporated as drivers of FDI. We suggest that financial strategies involving factors such as debt/equity swaps or equity listings in foreign equity markets affect the f
This article focuses on expressions of bereavement and religious coping in medieval miracle stories from Sweden. The stories come from the collections of St. Birgitta (Bridget) of Sweden, the Blessed Bishop Nicolaus Hermanni (Sw. Nils Hermansson) of Linköping and the Blessed Katarina of Vadstena, and were recorded in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Catherine M. Sanders’s modern five stages
This article focuses on the perception of creativity found in copyright law, which conflicts with the ways in which creativity seems to develop in daily practice; the idea of a “solitary genius” is, thus, contrasted to that of a contextually and culturally dependent creator. Copyright is arguably too focused on the former image and fails to acknowledge or embrace the latter. In addition, the digit
The flexibility of implantable neural probes has increased during the last 10 years, starting with stiff materials such as silicone to more flexible materials like polyimide. We have developed a novel polymer based on Off-Stoichiometry Thiol-Enes + Epoxy (OSTE+, consisting of a thiol, two allyls, an epoxy resin and two initiators), which is up to 100 times more flexible than polyimide. Since a fle
Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)-based Kalman predictive coders have been shown to perform better than baseline GMM Recursive Coders in predictive coding of Line Spectral Frequencies (LSFs) for both clean and packet loss conditions However, these stationary GMM Kalman predictive coders were not specifically designed for operation in packet loss conditions. In this paper, we demonstrate an approach to
The CSF is often regarded as merely a mechanical support for the brain, as well as an unspecific sink for waste products from the CNS. New methodology in receptor autoradiography, immunohistochemistry and molecular biology has revealed the presence of many different neuroendocrine substances or their corresponding receptors in the main CSF-forming structure, the choroid plexus. Both older research
Since May 1998 Scandinavian group researchers and social psychologists have met bi-annually for what has to be called the GRASP conference. GRASP originally stood for ”Group as Paradox”. The first five conferences were held in Linköping, Lund, Stockholm and Skövde and, again, Linköping. The sixth conference was organized at Lund University May 15-16, 2008 under the auspices of the network Organi
Title: The communicative role of the co-worker during strategic change – A case study of Skåne University Hospital, from a sensemaking perspective. Many organizations of today go through major changes in order to adapt to a fast changing environment. These organizational changes have mainly been studied from a management perspective. In a new approach this empirical and qualitative case study sets
In the municipality of Linköping there are eleven geographical committees where politicians from the city council sit. This phenomenon is unique of its kind in Sweden. Through a series of interviews with politicians the thesis examines four of the geographical committees in more detail, in order to investigate the importance these may have for civic dialogue and a developed local democracy. The e
The electrochemical behavior and the electrocatalytic activity for the NADH oxidation at glassy carbon paste electrodes (GCPEs) modified with Meldola Blue (MB) adsorbed onto acidic cc-zirconium phosphate (ZP*) have been investigated. Cyclic voltammetry and rotating disc electrode measurements, performed in Tris buffer solution (pH 7) in absence and in presence of different NADH concentrations, sho
MRI provides unsurpassed soft tissue contrast, but the inherent low sensitivity of this modality has limited the clinical use to imaging of water protons. With hyperpolarization techniques, the signal from a given number of nuclear spins can be raised more than 100 000 times. The strong signal enhancement enables imaging of nuclei other than protons, e.g. C-13 and N-15, and their molecular distrib
Psychological research on personal worldviews has relied almost exclusively on a quantitative approach that is ill-equipped to fully capture human subjectivity. Using Q-methodology, this study revealed the multiplicity of meanings and internal structures of the worldviews of eighty Swedish adults across the domains of metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, morality, and values. Four coherent wor
Tack vare ett näst intill oändligt antal variationer så har proteiner blivit naturens standardlösning för diverse uppgifter och problem. I våra egna kroppar har vi en uppsjö av olika varianter där några är allmänt välkända, t.ex. hemoglobin i våra röda blodkroppar som transporterar runt syre och insulin vilket sänker vår blodsockernivå. Andra proteiner är mer okända men trots det lika viktiga, exeThe behavior of concentrated protein solutions is of general high interest due to implications in, for example, biological systems and medical applications. It is necessary to investigate the rheological properties of such systems to understand how parameters, such as stability, are affected by the high concentrations. Unfortunately, studies are often hindered by the lack of sufficient quantities
