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Uganda depends on agriculture to feed its growing population. Deviations and shocks to food supply and production can have severe consequences on the nutritional status of children. In this paper it will be analyzed if the effects of those deviations are observable in the nutritional indicators of birth weight and height-for-age in Uganda. An association was found with height-for-age in children b

Denna studie, som bygger på den kvalitativa metoden, avser att skapa förståelse för hur pedagoger arbetar med undervisning i ämnet svenskundervisning för invandrare genom användandet av sång och musik i språkinlärning. Mitt intresse för ämnet förstärktes när jag blev kontaktperson till en tjej som hade invandrat till Sverige från Chile. Studien är menad att ge läsaren inte bara en bild av hur man Swedish through singing: a shortcut to language learning? This study, based on the qualitative method, is meant to give an understanding of how pedagogues perform their teaching of the subject “Svenska för invandrare” (eng. “Swedish for immigrants”) by using singing in language training. My own interest in the subject was enhanced when I was appointed contact for a girl who had immigrated to Swede

Since the 1970’s the image of parenting has changed. Mothers began to focus on their careers and fathers were accredited a softer and more involved role in parenting. The subject has also been covered in Sweden by parenting magazines since 1968, when ’Vi föräldrar’ was launched. Over the last ten years, a number of new parenting magazines have surfaced in the Swedish market. The magazine ‘Mama’, w

In this thesis a Direct Current Control (DCC) is implemented for controlling a PMSM. The controller should be implemented in an already existing program. This program is used for testing electrical machines. The new testing method is called Dynamic braking, more information about this method can be read in the report "Performance and efficiency evaluation of FPGA controlled IPMSM under dynami

The world market changed quite dramatically when China joined the WTO in 2001 and fully entered the world market. It had implications for both importing and exporting countries, as China’s entrance on the world market increased the supply of cheap manufactured goods. This is thought to have caused US consumers to replace Mexican products with Chinese, and to have slowed down or decreased Mexican e

Research needs: Glass has been used for a long time, mostly in the window and packaging industry, but lately architects and design engineers have become more and more interested in glass as a load-bearing (building) material. It has become a challenge to use less other materials in the glass-structures or at least not to let it show too much. One area of big interest is bolt fixings. Design engine

Study objectives: The aim was to investigate which religious theological notions forms the background of action by the christian staff within a multireligious workcollective. Method: The sample was drawn from a focusgroup colloquium and one individual interview. The focusgroup consisted of seven people that are members of different protestant churches such as Evangeliska frikyrkan, Svenska kyrkan,

Sustainable development is now a part of environmental, social, and economic agendas all over the world. Sustainability projects are cropping up in urban areas, including projects in the housing sector aimed at sustainable regeneration. Simultaneously, it is now recognized that public participation is an essential character of implementing change. And within sustainability participation, it is con

The flow of information must be more effective to optimize and improve the supply chain process. For the two case studies, there is a portal that manages the information. The contractor provides documents that the provider needs to submit quotation for a project purchase. All the handling of documents is made in the portal but the quote is sent by e-mail back to the contractor. For a purchase by c

Recent research indicates that several neurological diseases that affect motor functions could be diagnosed using analysis of detailed arm and hand motion. This analysis has earlier been carried out manually by looking for certain mo- tion patterns in patients and animals performing a skilled reaching task. In this thesis we investigate the possibility of performing these tests in a more auto- mat

Background: We used a computational method to quantitatively investigate the relationship between personality and written narratives of life events. Agentic (i.e., self- directedness), communal (i.e., cooperativeness), and spiritual (self-transcendence) traits were of special interest because they represent individual differences in intentional val- ues and goals, in contrast to temperament traits

This thesis presents a new method for design of PI and PID controllers with the level of control signal activity taken into consideration. The main reason why the D-part is often disabled in industrial control loops is because it leads to control signal sensitivity of measurement noise. A frequently varying control signal with too high amplitude will very likely lead to actuator wear and tear. For

Bakgrund. Dysfagi är en vanlig komplikation efter stroke och andra neurologiska sjukdomar. För att minska konsekvenserna av dysfagi får patienter sväljråd av logoped. När sväljråd inte följs kan det leda till negativa konsekvenser för patienten. Syfte. Den föreliggande uppsatsen önskade undersöka följsamheten på en neurologi- och strokeavdelning. Frågeställningar. Följer patienter med sväljningsIntroduction. Dysphagia is a common complication after stroke and other neurological disorders. To lessen the consequences of dysphagia, patients are given compensatory swallowing strategies and bolus consistency modification from a speech language pathologist. If swallowing recommendations are not followed, it can have negative consequences for the patient. Purpose. The present study aimed to ex

Syfte: Syftet med vår studie var att undersöka hur personer med afasi upplever sin kommunikation och livskvalitet och om upplevelsen har ett samband med svårighetsgrad av stroke, svårighetsgrad av afasi samt kognitiv förmåga. Metod: I studien ingick 30 deltagare som fått afasi till följd av en ischemisk stroke. Tre månader efter insjuknandet genomförde deltagarna Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT).Purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate how people with aphasia experience their communication and quality of life and whether the experience is related to degree of stroke, degree of aphasia and cognitive ability. Method: The study included 30 participants who acquired aphasia as a result of an ischemic stroke. Three months post stroke, participants completed the Comprehensive Ap

Vad har motiverat kvinnliga medlemmar inom Studentlund att ta sig an en ledarposition inom en studentorganisation och vad upplever deltagarna motiverar dem att leda? Fram till nyligen har forskning om ledarskap mestadels kopplats till maskulina egenskaper snarare än feminina egenskaper. Med detta i åtanke ville vi utforska vad som motiverar kvinnor att söka sig till ledarpositioner. Vi valde att uYoung female leaders are the future, but what motivates them to take on a leadership role? And what motivates them to lead? Until recently leadership research has been mostly connected to masculine traits rather than feminine traits. With this in mind we wanted to explore what motivates females to pursue a leadership role. We chose to specifically look at female leaders within student organization

In this essay, I will examine what Origen of Alexandria believed about the resurrection of the body. Origen was condemned as a heretic at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, one of the main reasons for this was that he was said to deny the physical resurrection of the body. Due to the condemnation of Origen, the work of copying his works was also stopped, with the result that many of Orig

The project aimed to analyse by liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-MS/HRMS) the extracellular proteins synthesized by Rhodothermus marinus strains DSM 4252T and DSM 16675 growing in medium containing different carbon sources. That is critical to find valuable enzymes for industrial uses in biomass conversion into value-added chemicals. Cells were grown in medium

This thesis aims to explore whether an artistic creative type model can be applicable in an entrepreneurial setting. Meta Wagner’s model was selected as the artistic creative type model in this study. Conducting qualitative research through a case study approach on startup founders, who share a common background in entrepreneurial education, allows us to deepen our understanding of the founder

Sweden has a high number of bomb shelters per capita when compared to other nations. After the end of the cold war, Sweden began to construct bomb shelters and continued to increase their number until 2002. However, because Sweden has not experienced a crisis or war since then, these bomb shelters have aged and some are even past their due date. Formerly, it was determined that other countries co

Idag är många av staters bärande samhällsfunktioner digitaliserade. En fientlig aktör kan således genom cybermedel orsaka skador för en stat i en grad som förr endast var möjlig genom fysiska medel. Krigsföring har således fått en ny arena, men det är ännu oklart under vilka förutsättningar en utsatt stat får bruka våld i självförsvar mot en cyberattack. I internationell rätt finns ett allmänt vMany of society’s bearing functions are today digitalized. A hostile actor can therefore through cyber-attacks cause damage to a state in a degree previously possible only through physical attacks. Therefore, warfare has entered a new arena, but it is still unclear under which circumstances a state under attack is allowed to use force in self-defence against cyber-attacks. International law stat