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Abstract Authors: Olov Eriksson and Martin Olofsson Title: When your only friend is a gnome - A study of how social services think of computer game addiction as a social problem and how they treat it [translated title] Supervisor: Gunilla Lindén Assessor: Kristina Göransson The purpose of this essay is to find out if the social services think of computer game addiction as a social problem throug
This purpose of this essay is to discuss Roman drainage and sewage systems and to discuss why certain solutions were chosen at certain places. The focus will be Romanised systems and the material therefore discusses primarily finds from the central areas of the empire between 44 B.C and 235 A.D. Provincial hybrid systems will not be included. The aim is to reach conclusions concerning the efficien
The focus of this thesis is the presence of octagonal churches during medieval time. It discusses the meaning of the architectural outline of the building, the numerological symbolism behind the number eight, and the reason why these churches were built and by whom. To further the study, two Scandinavian churches have been used as examples: the church in Store Heddinge on Zealand, Denmark and the
The aim for this master thesis is to give an overall view of Göinge during the Iron Age 500 BC-1050 AD. Göinge is an area in the Northeast of Scania. Göinge was before a hundred but consists today of two hundreds. The area is not well-investigated compared with South Scania. There are more than 9000 ancient monuments from all time periods within Göinge. Some research has been done earlier but the
A visit to an archaeological museum often has more in common with a visit to an art collection than with a visit to a learning faculty. The objects on display in the archaeological museum are chosen for their beauty and the aspects of their time period which they can enlighten are often neglected. Hence many museums present their material as mere objects of art instead of as time pieces. When the
The Scania-HBV model has been used for modeling hydropower generation of California, USA. California is a state with considerable meteorological and hydrological diversity, meanwhile with a total capacity of 14116 MW of 386 hydroelectricity generation units with capacity larger than 0.1 MW, California is the USA’s second largest state on hydropower. For such a giant hydropower state, prediction of
Syftet med denna uppsats är att söka efter orsaker till varför Ryssland inte är mer demokratiserat. Slutsatserna är att Ryssland är idag ett icke fritt land som endast på ytan är en demokrati med få likheter med demokratistater i Europa. Vi finner att aktörer har spelat avgörande roll i demokratiseringen. Vidare anser vi att den starka presidentmakten i det semipresidentiella systemet har en negat
In this changing world it is very useful for organizations as well as for governments to be able to adapt and anticipate future events. Scenario planning is a method which can be used for organizations and governments to better manage this rapid and complex environment, since scenario planning creates plausible and possible future scenarios. The process of this method has been studied in this thes
Product integrity depends on the way the package is handled and transported; therefore packaging has a big impact on logistics, costs and efficiency along the entire distribution chain. Damaged or leaking packages are the result of an inconvenient distribution, and lead to product waste and a negative image of the brands involved. Even though Tetra Pak gives guidelines and recommendations concerni
Efficient and effective environmental information processing is a key element for the improvement of an organization’s environmental performance. Business Information Systems (BIS) are recognized as a tool for the facilitation of collecting, storing, processing and communicating any kind of information. However, there are other benefits that BIS can provide for a company. These benefits are relate
Ostia was a very important city and was characterized by commerce and traid. Because of this a lot of people went through and sometimes stayed in Ostia for some time. These people required somewhere to live, and this has led to several houses in Ostia being interpreted as hotels and inns. The aim of this essay is to examine these houses and the different criteria suggested bu scholars. The houses
The aim of this essay is to discuss the possibilities for a large scale investigation of the fauces mosaics that are preserved in Pompeii, and to examine what symbol value they had and how they communicated social order in a Roman society. The essay is structured as a synopsis that aims to investigate suitable ways to approach this field of study and lay the ground for a large scale empirical stud
This essay deals with Swedish socialworkers in child protective services and their work with children and young people. The study focuses on three subjects, namely a) professional specialisation, b) power and discretion and c) how social workers approach and relate to clients in their work. These three subjects constitute the organisational conditions that are the subjected to analysis. Six interv
The illustrations of the Mesolithic people that have been done over the years have influenced our picture of our ancestors. The men have been the only persons providing, through fishing and hunting and protecting the family. The women are moving in the domestic sphere, cooking and taking care of the children. Children and old people are not commonly seen in exhibitions. Whay is it like this? We ch
?Genom sitt agerande har den förre guvernören Chen Yis administration fjärmat folket från centralregeringen. Många av den inhemska befolkningen kände att situationen under det japanska autokratiska styret var att föredra. Centralregeringen missade ett tillfälle att visa det kinesiska folket och resten av världen att även de skulle kunna erbjuda en ärlig och effektiv administration.De kan inte sky
Syftet med uppsatsen är att utveckla kunskapen om produktljud i relation till konsument- och varumärkesidentitet. Övergripande metod är kvalitativ och hermeneutisk. Studien har utförts med hjälp av en fallstudie med en djupintervju och några semistrukturerade intervjuer. Det teoretiska ramverket utgår från rådande varumärkesteori: varumärkesprismat, kommunikationsmodellen, operativa ljud, semiot
Although Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is considered to be one of the best known homoerotic novels ever written, the novel does not contain any explicit statements of homoeroticism which leaves the novel to be more of a suggestive work of such a theme. The aim of this essay is to examine some of the different codes used by Wilde to show a homoerotic theme in The Picture of Do
Med utgångspunkt i en tolkning av den representerade kroppen i den indiska konstnären Sonia Khuranas videoverk Bird, diskuteras i uppsatsen feministiska teorier kring begreppet ?det sublima?. I mycket av den konstkritik som behandlar Khuranas verk Bird har den representerade kroppens uttryck beskrivits som sublimt och utmanande av gränser. Detta är viktigt och intressant då mycket av den västerlän
