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"Can't seem to live without it somehow" : An interview with Eddy Harris
No full textIn his books about Paris and Harlem and his travelogues about journeys in Africa and the American South, African-American author Eddy L. Harris explores what it means to be Black in the present moment in history. In this interview, he talks to Nicklas Hållén about his need to travel, the craft of travel writing and his plans for a movie project about a journey down the Mississippi River. The conversation revolves particularly around his travelogue Native Stranger: A Blackamerican's Journey into the Heart of Africa (1992) and the way in which identity conditions (and does not condition) travel and travel writing, and the functions that travel writing may have for the author as well as reader. The interview was conducted in the summer of 2013 at a café in the village of Pranzac in the Charente department of France, where Harris currently lives and works.</p
Ångest i organisationen : sambandsstudie om psykosociala arbetsmiljöfaktorer
No full textAbstract Title: Anxiety within the organization - correlation study regarding psychosocial work environment factors. Author: Nicklas Blomqvist The purpose of this study was to examine if there are any correlations between anxiety and psychosocial work environment factors according to Curt Andersson’s theory (2007). The last two decades there has been a significant increase in numbers of employees going on sick leave. According to studies the main explanation for the increase was the psychosocial work environment. One important factor observed in the group of long time sick list was that people working in the public service sector was over represented. By using a survey, the author of this paper has tried to find correlations between different work environmental factors that could contribute to experienced stress in the workplace. The author has also tried to find correlations between experienced stress (e.g. anxiety) and organizational questions. In this study stress represents the measure of the variable anxiety. The survey was conducted in three different pre-school units in a small community in the south of Sweden. More than 70 % of the respondents stated that they had felt stressed recently. A correlation analysis between stress and organizational factors showed a (r.39) correlation that was significant at the 0.01 level (1-tailed). However, the main factor to have an impact on stress (i.e. anxiety) according to the author’s findings was the factor designated job demand. Keywords: Curt Andersson, anxiety, stress, organization, psychosocial workplace environment
Ångest i organisationen : sambandsstudie om psykosociala arbetsmiljöfaktorer
No full textAbstract Title: Anxiety within the organization - correlation study regarding psychosocial work environment factors. Author: Nicklas Blomqvist The purpose of this study was to examine if there are any correlations between anxiety and psychosocial work environment factors according to Curt Andersson’s theory (2007). The last two decades there has been a significant increase in numbers of employees going on sick leave. According to studies the main explanation for the increase was the psychosocial work environment. One important factor observed in the group of long time sick list was that people working in the public service sector was over represented. By using a survey, the author of this paper has tried to find correlations between different work environmental factors that could contribute to experienced stress in the workplace. The author has also tried to find correlations between experienced stress (e.g. anxiety) and organizational questions. In this study stress represents the measure of the variable anxiety. The survey was conducted in three different pre-school units in a small community in the south of Sweden. More than 70 % of the respondents stated that they had felt stressed recently. A correlation analysis between stress and organizational factors showed a (r.39) correlation that was significant at the 0.01 level (1-tailed). However, the main factor to have an impact on stress (i.e. anxiety) according to the author’s findings was the factor designated job demand. Keywords: Curt Andersson, anxiety, stress, organization, psychosocial workplace environment
Supplementary materials for ART and TRT in German
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Hug, Marion, Jarosch, Julian, Eichenauer, Christiane, Pennella, Selina, Kretzschmar, Franziska & Nicklas, Pascal (2024): Some students are more equal: Performance in Author Recognition Test and Title Recognition Test modulated by print exposure and academic background. Behavior Research Methods.
The supplimentary materials include the raw data for each test (ART, TRT, descriptives), an example questionnaire as handed to the participants and a list with the correct ART/TRT answers
Supplementary materials for ART and TRT in German
No full textSupplementary materials for:
Hug, Marion, Jarosch, Julian, Eichenauer, Christiane, Pennella, Selina, Kretzschmar, Franziska & Nicklas, Pascal (2024): Some students are more equal: Performance in Author Recognition Test and Title Recognition Test modulated by print exposure and academic background. Behavior Research Methods.
The supplimentary materials include the raw data for each test (ART, TRT, descriptives), an example questionnaire as handed to the participants and a list with the correct ART/TRT answers
Perfusion imaging combined with coronary calcium scoring. A step further towards individualized medicine?
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"Man har inte tid att sitta och fundera på om Janne Josefsson skulle dyka upp." - En studie om socialsekreterares upplevelser av medias granskning
Get PDFAuthor: Nicklas Bengtsson & Oskar Jerre Andersson Title: One doesn´t have the time to wonder whether Janne Josefsson will come knocking. (Translated title) Supervisor: Anders Östnäs Assessor: Hans-Edvard Roos The aim of this study was to examine how child welfare workers in social services experience the effects of the media coverage of child welfare workers. Qualitative interviews were performed with six child welfare workers, from three different social services in Skane, Sweden. Theories that were used to analyse the result from the interviews, where stigma and identity from a social constructivist perspective. Findings showed that the interviewed social workers perceived that child welfare workers in social services where portrayed negative in the media coverage. However, the social workers stated that this did not effect them negatively. Furthermore, this study concluded that the interviewed did not consider the media portrayal of their field as different from the media depiction of other fields of social work. The study found that work experience was an important attribute to the construction of the work-identity as a child welfare worker. This study also found that the social workers believed media coverage had a negative effect on the public attitude towards child welfare workers and social services. However, the interviewed social workers stated that there also where advantages to the negative portrayal of their occupation. Although the public got a negative view of child welfare, the media coverage of social work deficiencies led to organisational improvements that in the end resulted in better conditions for the clients
De professionellas syn på bruk av cannabis
No full textABSTRACT Author: Nicklas Bogren Title: Professionals view on cannabis use Supervisor: Eva-Malin Antoniusson During my practice in 2008 I heard a discussion about all the risks and all the consequences of cannabis use from both old and young employees. They did all have the same education as me, and referred to the gateway theory. I thought this was strange, because I have read both research and literatures that are very sceptical to the gateway theory and wrote that it was something you believed in the 1970: s and that in recent time was used to scare people from using cannabis. This combined with the latest investigation SOU 2011:35 that claims that the Swedish care for drug abuse don´t follow the latest research, forced me to meet people who works with cannabis users and se how they look at this drug and at the gateway theory. Where do their thoughts come from? Then I wanted to compare their answers with the research on this subject. I have used qualitative methods and have interviewed five professionals who work with drug related problems, both use of cannabis and use of heavier substances. I have interviewed two social workers, one owner of a treatment house, one alcohol & drug therapist and one professional who is both a social worker and alcohol & drug therapist. I have searched for cannabis related information on the internet and in literatures and found like some of my interviewed persons showed, a negative attitude towards cannabis use, and they were referring to the gateway theory. But I also found research that followed the line that some of my interviewed persons said; that there are a lot of people who starts with heavier drugs from the beginning and that there are people who starts with cannabis use, and never tries any other drugs. I also found different theories that claim that there is a lot of social and moral aspects who are considered to be more important when you analyse drug use than the gateway theory, when you look on cannabis use. This made me think that the complaints from SOU 2011:35, that the professions do not follow the latest research may be correct. Keywords: cannabis, gateway theory, outsiders, professionals, knowledg
Hållbarhetsprestationer och bolagsskatt: Komplement eller substitut? : En kvantitativ studie om publika europeiska bolag
No full textSAMMANFATTNING Titel: Hållbarhetsprestationer och bolagsskatt: Komplement eller substitut? - En kvantitativ studie om publika europeiska bolag Nivå: C-uppsats i ämnet företagsekonomi Författare: Nicklas Johansson Handledare: Jan Svanberg Datum: 2017 - Januari Syfte: Företagens sociala ansvar (CSR) är en viktig fråga för många av företagets intressenter, inte minst samhället. Hur företag betraktar bolagsskatt som en del av detta ansvar är därmed en betydelsefull fråga då statens skatteintäkter bidrar till välfärden i samhället. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka sambandet mellan CSR och europeiska bolags effektiva skattesats, dels utifrån total CSR-prestation samt utifrån dimensioner av CSR. Metod: Studien utgår från en positivistisk forskningsfilosofi och en deduktiv ansats. Studien har vidare en kvantitativ strategi och en longitudinell design för att samla in sekundärdata från Thomson Reuters databas Datastream för åren 2011-2016. Urvalet består av 465 publika europeiska företag för vilka data analyserats med multipla regressionsanalyser i statistikprogrammet IBM SPSS. Resultat & slutsats: Studiens resultat indikerar ett negativt samband mellan total CSR-prestation och bolagsskatt, men att detta samband drivs av att CSR-aktiviteter inom miljödimensionen har en starkare negativ inverkan än den positiva inverkan som CSR-aktiviteter inom den sociala dimensionen bidrar med. Slutsatsen därav är att CSR och bolagsskatt både kan utgöra substitut och komplement till varandra. CSR-aktiviteter inom miljödimensionen används som substitut till bolagsskatt medan bolagsskatt betraktas som ett komplement till CSR inom den sociala dimensionen. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Då sambanden visat sig skilja sig åt mellan olika dimensioner bör framtida forskning inte utgå från ett samlat mått på CSR utan gå in mer i detalj på de kategorier och indikatorer som bygger upp dimensionerna. Det kan också finnas skillnader mellan industrier och land, varför det vore intressant med studier som undersöker sambandet inom respektive industritillhörighet och land i Europa. Uppsatsens bidrag: Studien bidrar till att fylla forskningsgapet som existerat för europeiska bolag om sambandet mellan CSR och bolagsskatt samt till att undersöka sambandet på dimensionsnivå av CSR. Studien bidrar också till teorin om CSR och bolagsskatt som substitut, komplement eller oberoende aktiviteter. Slutligen kan studien öka förståelsen för hur bolags CSR- och skattebeteende hänger ihop hos myndigheter och organisationer som arbetar med lagstiftning och upprättandet av riktlinjer för hållbarhetsredovisning. Nyckelord: CSR, ETR, ESG, socialt ansvar, hållbarhetsarbete, bolagsskatt, skattebetalningar, miljödimension, social dimension och företagsstyrningsdimension.ABSTRACT Title: Sustainability performance and corporate tax: Complement or substitute? - A quantitative study of public European companies Level: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business Administration Author: Nicklas Johansson Supervisor: Jan Svanberg Date: 2017 - January Aim: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important issue for many of the company's stakeholders, not least society. How companies regard corporate tax as part of this responsibility is therefore an important issue as the state's tax revenues contribute to the welfare of society. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between CSR and European companies' effective tax rate, partly based on total CSR performance as well as dimensions of CSR. Method: The study is based on a positivistic research philosophy and a deductive approach. The study also has a quantitative strategy and a longitudinal design for collecting secondary data from the Thomson Reuters database Datastream for the years 2011-2016. The sample consists of 465 public European companies for which data were analyzed by multiple regression analyzes in the IBM SPSS statistics program. Result & conclusions: The study's results indicate a negative relationship between total CSR performance and corporate tax, but this connection is driven by the stronger impact of CSR activities in the environmental dimension relative to the positive impact of CSR activities in the social dimension. The conclusion is that CSR and corporate tax can both be substitutes and complementary to each other. CSR activities within the environmental dimension are used as substitutes for corporate tax while corporate tax is considered as a complement to CSR in the social dimension. Suggestions for future research: When the relationships were found to differ between different dimensions, future research should not be based on a single measure of CSR, but go into more detail on the categories and indicators that build the dimensions. There may also be differences between industries and countries, so it would be interesting with studies that examine the relationship within each industry and country in Europe. Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes to filling the gap of research that exists for European companies on the relationship between CSR and corporate taxation and to investigate the relationship at the dimensional level of CSR. The study also contributes to the theory of CSR and corporate taxation as substitutes, complements or independent activities. Finally, the study can increase understanding of how companies' CSR and tax behavior relate to government agencies and organizations involved in legislation and the establishment of guidelines for sustainability reporting. Keywords: ETR, Corporate Tax, Tax Payments, CSR, ESG, Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Environmental Dimension, Social Dimension and Corporate Governance Dimension
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