This research focuses on how Young Adult (YA) novelists adapt Shakespeare’s plays to address the concerns of a contemporary teenage audience. Through the qualitative method of content analysis, I examined adaptations of the three most commonly read texts in the high school curriculum: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet. The research looked for various patterns in the adaptations and analyzed the choices made by the authors in aligning their texts to or deviating from the original plays. A final chapter addresses practical classroom application in using adaptations to teach the plays to high school students. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

We have studied how three morning papers and three evening papers from Sweden’s three major cities (Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo) frame so called exposed areas as opposed to wealthy areas. The result shows that the level of crime reporting is higher in exposed areas and that it’s mostly men with Swedish names that takes part in the reporting. The number of police officers and lawyers that gets to speak on behalf of the exposed areas is also high and quite few persons that actually live in exposed areas gets to speak in the reporting. There is a wider variety in the reporting from the rich areas, with crime reporting being present but not to the same prominent level as in exposed areas. There is also more of a gender equality in the reporting from rich areas.

A literatura aponta o crescente interesse acerca da dor e da religião. Concernente com o conceito de dor total e com o referencial da psicofísica, o presente estudo teve como objetivo elaborar o Instrumento de Avaliação de Conteúdos Religiosos (IACOR). Participaram do estudo 240 sujeitos, divididos em seis grupos de acordo com a denominação religiosa (católicos, evangélicos e espíritas) e de acordo com a prática que exercem (afiliados e líderes). A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de entrevista semiestruturada que abarcou os aspectos sociodemográficos e percepções gerais acerca das específicas religiões e por meio de instrumento elaborado com base nas escalas disponíveis da literatura e na nossa experiência. Nas entrevistas foram levantados aspectos referentes à idade, ao sexo, à profissão, à religião anterior e à escolaridade. Foram levantadas as categorias de análise: Tempo de afiliação, Início da prática religiosa e mudanças de afiliação, Responsabilidade pelos atos e relação com a morte, Descrição de Deus, Consciência da existência de experiências profundas, Possibilidade de recompensa, Aumento da fé na proximidade com a morte, Religião como tentativa de explicar as limitações humanas, Relação entre religião e ciência e A religião do passado e do presente em relação à ciência. Em relação à escala do IACOR, os cinco itens de maior atribuição entre todos os grupos foram: \"Eu acredito que a natureza deveria ser respeitada\" (9,94±0,28), \"Eu acredito que todos os seres vivos merecem respeito\" (9,81± 0,64), \"Minha vida é um processo de transformação\" (9,59±1,11), \"Fazer a vida valer a pena\" (9,51±1,21) e \"Eu sinto que a minha vida tem propósito e significado\" (9,47±1,22). Os itens se referem às dimensões: relação com o meio - criação, no primeiro e no segundo itens e ideias gerais sobre a vida, no terceiro, no quarto e no quinto itens. Os cinco itens de menor atribuição foram: \"Não existe vida após a morte\" (0,82±2,41), \"Tentei lidar com a situação do meu jeito, sem a ajuda de Deus\" (1,75±2,68), \"Uma pessoa pode ser completa sem buscar uma vida espiritual ativa\" (2,06±3,25), \"Eu não sei como começar a resolver meus problemas e entendo a morte como um desses problemas\" (2,09±2,74) e \"Não consigo compreender o propósito da morte\" (2,12±3,29). Tais itens se referem às dimensões respectivamente: pós-morte sem continuidade, relação negativa com Deus, ausência de prática espiritual e relação negativa com a morte nos dois últimos itens. Decorrente da análise da entrevista e da escala do IACOR, foi possível perceber as associações existentes entre a opinião dos participantes e os constructos religiosos da denominação da qual fazem parte e evidencia a necessidade de se conhecer e abordar o fenômeno religioso como parte integrante do ser humano, bem como um potencial recurso do manejo e da modulação da dor do existir, expresso pela dor do mesmo diante das questões associadas à morte, à finitude e à desesperança / The literature indicates the growing interest about pain and religion. Concerning the concept of total pain and the framework of psychophysics, the present study aimed to develop the Assessment Instrument of Religious Items (IACOR). The study included 240 subjects divided into six groups according to religious denomination (catholic, evangelical and spiritualists) and according to the practice performing (members and leaders). Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interview that encompassed sociodemographic characteristics and general perceptions about specific religions and by an instrument drawn up on the basis of scales available in the literature and our experience. In interviews aspects regarding age, gender, profession, the former religion and education were raised. Categories of analysis were raised: time affiliation, initiation of religious practice and changes in affiliation, liability for the acts and relationship with death, description of God, awareness of the existence of profound experiences, chance of reward, increased faith in proximity to death, religion in an attempt to explain human limitations, relationship between religion and science and the religion of the past and present in relation to science. Regarding IACOR scale, the five items with higher scores among all groups were : \" I believe that nature should be respected \" ( 9.94 ± 0.28 ), \" I believe that all living beings deserve respect \" ( 9.81 ± 0.64 ) , \" My life is a process of transformation \" ( 9.59 ± 1.11 ), \" Making a life worth living \" ( 9.51 ± 1.21 ) and \" I feel that my life has purpose and meaning \" ( 9.47 ± 1.22). The items refer to the dimensions: relationship with the environment - creation, in the first and second items and general ideas about life, in the third, fourth and fifth items. The five items were lower attribution : \"There is no life after death \" ( 0.82 ± 2.41), \" I tried to handle it on my own without the help of God \" ( 1.75 ± 2.68 ), \" A person can be complete without seeking an active spiritual life \" ( 2.06 ± 3.25 ), \" I do not know how to begin to solve my problems and understand death as one of those problems \" ( 2.09 ± 2 74 ) and \" I cannot understand the purpose of death \" ( 2.12 ± 3.29). These items refer to dimensions respectively: postmortem without continuity, negative relationship with God, no spiritual practice and negative relationship with death in the last two items. From the analysis of the interview and scale of IACOR, we could perceive the existing associations between participants\' perceptions and constructs of religious denomination of which are part and highlights the need to understand and address the religious phenomenon as an integral part of being human as well as a potential resource management and the modulation of pain exists, expressed by pain in the face of issues related to death, finitude and hopelessness

As a significant distribution of ambient music and the emergence of companies offering the environmental-musicalization service could be noted, this thesis aimed at investigating the roles of music in service environments. Herein, it was presented the evolution and application of music in marketing and services marketing researches in order to contextualize the state of art of the literature, such that the functionalities of music could afterwards be identified and categorized into roles. Moreover, the study discussed the market practices related to the utilization of music in service places and had these practices compared to the literature. It is important to mention that in this thesis, the service environments were found to be the restaurants and clothing stores, once the participants of the study brought cases and examples related to these contexts. Also, it is relevant to say that the thesis was conducted from the qualitative methodological approach and its design was based on the content analysis analytical approach. By this, a systematic review of the literature was conducted in the way the selection of music-in-marketing scholars followed some criteria and the thesis\' analytical goal of operationalizing the functionalities of music in service places could be justified. The field phase of the thesis\' content analysis was characterized by the in-depth interviews with marketing specialists that had been being dealing with the environmental music in service places and the operational observations in some musicalization providers and clients. Hence, three main roles could be identified to categorize the functionalities of music brought by the interviews and observations: the role of being a commodity, the role of being a sound, and the role of being inspirational. As a theoretical implication, it can be highlighted the influence of music on the service environment\' employees and vice-versa. As a practical implication, it was suggested to the musicalization providers and clients to target the consumer outcomes other than the stay duration. / Como pode ser notado um significativo valor financeiro relacionado à distribuição de música ambiente além do surgimento de empresas oferecendo musicalização ambiental, esta dissertação objetivou investigar os papéis da música em ambientes de serviços. Assim, foram apresentadas a evolução e as aplicações da música nas pesquisas de marketing e de marketing de serviços a fim de contextualizar o estado da arte da literatura, de maneira que as funcionalidades da música pudessem ser posteriormente categorizadas em papéis. Além disso, o estudo discute as funcionalidades da música praticadas no mercado e as compara com as apontadas pela teoria. Vale notar que, para esta dissertação, os ambientes de serviços foram operacionalizados como sendo restaurantes e lojas de roupas, haja vista que os participantes deste estudo trouxeram casos e exemplos relacionados a esses contextos. Também se faz necessário mencionar que esta dissertação trata-se de um estudo qualitativo sob o design da abordagem analítica de análise de conteúdo. Por meio dessas abordagens, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática a fim de selecionar autores e estudos relevantes para a dissertação, e, consequentemente, justificar o objetivo analítico de operacionalizar as funcionalidades da música nos ambientes de serviços. A fase de campo da análise de conteúdo desta dissertação foi caracterizada por meio das entrevistas em profundidade realizadas com especialistas de marketing que vinham lidando com a musicalização de ambientes de serviços, e por meio das observações operacionais conduzidas com algumas provedoras de ambientação musical bem como com alguns de seus espaços clientes. Logo, três papéis puderam ser identificados na categorização das funcionalidades musicais apontadas pelas pesquisas de campo: o papel de ser uma commodity, o papel de ser um som, e o papel inspirador. Portanto, a influência da música nos funcionários de um ambiente de serviço e vice-versa é apontada como uma implicação teórica. Nas implicações práticas, é sugerido de os provedores e clientes de musicalização ambiental focarem em reações de consumidores além do tempo de permanência nos ambientes de serviços.

Bakgrund: Anhöriga är personer inom familjen eller en nära släkting som stödjer eller vårdar en närstående, som i detta sammanhang syftar till patienten. Tidigare forskning beskriver att sjuksköterskan upplever att de ger olika sorters stöd till anhöriga och patienten under ett cancerförlopp vilket kan vara utmanande. Patienten upplever delvis ett bristande stöd från sjuksköterskan men stödet från anhöriga upplevs betydelsefullt. Syfte: Att beskriva anhörigas upplevelser av att stödja en närstående under förloppet av en cancersjukdom. Metod: En kvalitativ, manifest innehållsanalys av bloggar med induktiv ansats. Resultat: Tre kategorier presenteras: Finna livsglädje, Återkommande behov och Känslomässiga utmaningar. Anhöriga upplever att det är av vikt att bibehålla livsglädje och ta vara på tiden med den närstående. De beskriver också att det finns en längtan efter att något skulle förändras, läggas till eller tas bort för att kunna utstå situationen. Trots detta präglades vardagen av utmaningar. De anhöriga upplevde en inre stress och en otillräcklighet. Slutsats: För att bibehålla en positiv livshållning var det viktigt att anhörigas behov tillfredsställdes. Om dessa behov inte tillfredsställdes uppstod ett lidande som kunde göra det svårt att orka vara ett stöd för den närstående. Kunskapen kan vara ett utvecklingsbidrag för sjuksköterskans arbete. / Background: A family member is a person within the family or a relative who supports or care for a close relative, which in this context refers to the patient. Previous research describes that by the nurse experiences they provide various support to family members and patients during the course of a cancer disease, but it was expressed as challenging. The patient experiences a partially lack of support from the nurse, but support from family members is felt to be significant. Aim: To describe family members’ experience of supporting a close relative during the course of a cancer disease. Method: A qualitative, manifest content analysis of blogs with an inductive approach. Findings: Three categories are presented: Find life joy, Recurrent needs and Emotional challenges. It is important to maintain a positive lifestyle and seize the time. There is a longing for change, to add or remove something to cope with the situation. Regardless, everyday life is characterized by suffering. They experience an internal stress and an inadequacy. Conclusion: It was important that the needs of the family members were satisfied. If they were not, suffering made it difficult remain the energy to be a support for the close relative. This knowledge can be developmental for the nurses’ work.

As a significant distribution of ambient music and the emergence of companies offering the environmental-musicalization service could be noted, this thesis aimed at investigating the roles of music in service environments. Herein, it was presented the evolution and application of music in marketing and services marketing researches in order to contextualize the state of art of the literature, such that the functionalities of music could afterwards be identified and categorized into roles. Moreover, the study discussed the market practices related to the utilization of music in service places and had these practices compared to the literature. It is important to mention that in this thesis, the service environments were found to be the restaurants and clothing stores, once the participants of the study brought cases and examples related to these contexts. Also, it is relevant to say that the thesis was conducted from the qualitative methodological approach and its design was based on the content analysis analytical approach. By this, a systematic review of the literature was conducted in the way the selection of music-in-marketing scholars followed some criteria and the thesis\' analytical goal of operationalizing the functionalities of music in service places could be justified. The field phase of the thesis\' content analysis was characterized by the in-depth interviews with marketing specialists that had been being dealing with the environmental music in service places and the operational observations in some musicalization providers and clients. Hence, three main roles could be identified to categorize the functionalities of music brought by the interviews and observations: the role of being a commodity, the role of being a sound, and the role of being inspirational. As a theoretical implication, it can be highlighted the influence of music on the service environment\' employees and vice-versa. As a practical implication, it was suggested to the musicalization providers and clients to target the consumer outcomes other than the stay duration. / Como pode ser notado um significativo valor financeiro relacionado à distribuição de música ambiente além do surgimento de empresas oferecendo musicalização ambiental, esta dissertação objetivou investigar os papéis da música em ambientes de serviços. Assim, foram apresentadas a evolução e as aplicações da música nas pesquisas de marketing e de marketing de serviços a fim de contextualizar o estado da arte da literatura, de maneira que as funcionalidades da música pudessem ser posteriormente categorizadas em papéis. Além disso, o estudo discute as funcionalidades da música praticadas no mercado e as compara com as apontadas pela teoria. Vale notar que, para esta dissertação, os ambientes de serviços foram operacionalizados como sendo restaurantes e lojas de roupas, haja vista que os participantes deste estudo trouxeram casos e exemplos relacionados a esses contextos. Também se faz necessário mencionar que esta dissertação trata-se de um estudo qualitativo sob o design da abordagem analítica de análise de conteúdo. Por meio dessas abordagens, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática a fim de selecionar autores e estudos relevantes para a dissertação, e, consequentemente, justificar o objetivo analítico de operacionalizar as funcionalidades da música nos ambientes de serviços. A fase de campo da análise de conteúdo desta dissertação foi caracterizada por meio das entrevistas em profundidade realizadas com especialistas de marketing que vinham lidando com a musicalização de ambientes de serviços, e por meio das observações operacionais conduzidas com algumas provedoras de ambientação musical bem como com alguns de seus espaços clientes. Logo, três papéis puderam ser identificados na categorização das funcionalidades musicais apontadas pelas pesquisas de campo: o papel de ser uma commodity, o papel de ser um som, e o papel inspirador. Portanto, a influência da música nos funcionários de um ambiente de serviço e vice-versa é apontada como uma implicação teórica. Nas implicações práticas, é sugerido de os provedores e clientes de musicalização ambiental focarem em reações de consumidores além do tempo de permanência nos ambientes de serviços.

The aim of this thesis is to achieve a deeper understanding of how media portrays politicians and examine whether media is gender-biased. This is done by carrying out a case study within the Swedish context, which compares print media’s portrayal of the Moderate party’s former leader Anna Kinberg Batra with their current leader Ulf Kristersson. A quantitative content analysis is applied on 330 articles from four Swedish newspapers. By examining previous literature, a theoretical framework is constructed using theories on framing, the gender system as well as media’s treatment of female and male politicians which is later operationalized. In brief, the results of the study show there are differences in certain parts of media’s portrayal of Kinberg Batra and Kristersson, however they were not always as substantial and obvious as previous literature had indicated.

My ambition with this study is to seek clearance in how the media shape male and female floorball players in Sweden. I´ve used a quantitative content analysis for that purpose. One of my main questions was with which attributes female or male players gets ascribed. I studied over 300 articles in Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen. 194 articles were mainly about male players, and 112 articles were about female players. Eighteen articles couldn´t be defined, and fall under that variable. A total of 323 articles were found. I found that female players are more discriminated in terms of speaking directly in the article. The male players were more represented in the articles, with own quotes. One interesting thing found was that objectification is a rare thing on these platforms. If anything is to be said regarding that, it´s the fact that male players are more subject to objectification. But the results were so few, that it would be unwise to make a big deal out of it. Also interesting is that male players more often are mentioned as “athletes” and female players are more often mentioned as “people” or just “persons”. They are described with their name. But, female players are at the same time also more often than the male players, described with qualities as players and with achievements that follows with those skills. Another result was that male players all together, gets more space in the media, than the female players. Due to the fact that the male players gets a lot more articles, and also more pictures, if you look at the code-scheme.

Vi har undersökt hur Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) årsredovisningar kanstuderas utifrån ord respektive siffror och vilket av de två som ger bäst informationför en extern intressent. Vidare har vi studerat hur väl redovisningen överrensstämmermed företagets situation. I studien har nyckeltal och analysmetoden Content analysisanvänts för att studera siffror i årsredovisningen, medans stycket ”VD har ordet” stårtill grund för analysen av text. Vårt syfte med uppsatsen är att bidra med kunskap omhur årsredovisningar kan användas av externa intressenter, det vill säga hurårsredovisningar kan belysa ett företags situation utifrån olika perspektiv.Studien bygger på både en kvalitativ och en kvantitativ metod på grund av uppsatsensuppdelning mellan att studera siffror samt tolka text. Vidare har en abduktiv processanvänts, det vill säga att teori och empiri har skapats i växelverkan. Endastsekundärdata har använts då vi har studerat SAS årsredovisningar mellan år 1992 tillår 2008.Vi har i studien kommit fram till att det bästa sättet för en extern intressent att förståett företags situation är att utföra en analys som kombinerar flera olika metoder, därnyckeltal och nyckelord fungerar som indikatorer medans tolkning av text ger endjupare förståelse för företaget. Vi har även funnit att redovisningen inte alltidstämmer överrens med företagets situation. Detta beror på att siffror endast gerindikationer på problem men inte visar orsakerna till dessa. Ytterligare är en text oftasubjektiv och beror även på läsarens tolkningsförmåga av den, vilket gör det svårareatt få en korrekt bild av företagets situation.

Kommunikation är ett viktigt redskap för att förmedla information och få kontakt med andra människor. Ett sätt att lösa de problem som uppstår i samtal med patienter som inte talar samma språk är att använda tolk. Tolken har två uppdrag eftersom han eller hon företräder både patient och vårdpersonal. Tolkens uppgift är att möjliggöra kommunikation mellan personer som inte talar samma språk, hans eller hennes roll är att vara neutral i det som sägs mellan patient och vårdpersonal. För att uppnå en nära relation till patienten behöver vårdpersonal och tolk vara engagerade och tillgängliga i kommunikationen med varandra och patienten. Kommunikation mellan tre parter innebär stora utmaningar för alla inblandade. Syftet är att beskriva faktorer som inverkar på samtalet mellan vårdpersonal och patient som översätts av tolk. Vi valde att göra en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med induktiv ansats där fjorton kvalitativa artiklar som motsvarade vårt syfte analyserades. Litteratursökningen har skett genom en systematisk sökning i databaserna Cinahl, Blackwell Synergy och Samsök. I analysen framkom sju kategorier vilka beskrivs vidare i resultatet. Kategorierna är Brist på tid, Tolk och vårdpersonal har makt över tiden, Brist på tolk, Dyrt att använda tolk, Okunskap om tolkverksamheten, Oprofessionella tolkar samt Fördel att använda samma tolk. Resultatet i vår studie visar att det finns stora brister i samarbetsformerna mellan vårdpersonal och tolkar och att vårdsektorn och tolkservice måste utveckla nya samarbetsformer så att flexibiliteten i samtalet och vårdandet ökar. / <p>Program: Specialistsjuksköterskeutbildning med inriktning mot distriktssköterska</p><p>Uppsatsnivå: D</p>