Exit is an inevitable part of any business relationship. However, despite its importance, exit in buyer–supplier relationships is still a poorly understood phenomenon. Building on previous studies, this thesis addressed these concerns by empirically: a) identifying the economic and social antecedents that influence the exit decision; and b) validating how the antecedents of exit are related with the choice of exit strategies. To achieve these objectives, first, a systematic literature review was conducted to identify 82 studies that documented existing research on exit in buyer–supplier relationships. Second, informed by Transaction Cost Economics and Social Exchange Theory, a set of 88 testable hypotheses was developed and a survey captured data from 505 recently terminated relationships involving UK based firms. Finally, for data analysis, statistical techniques were employed including: a) analysis of variance; b) independent sample t–tests; c) multiple logistic regression; and d) multi–nomial logistic regression. The empirical findings of this thesis validated that: a) there are 8 economic and 14 social antecedents that influence the exit decision; b) lending support to extant research on exit, 57 hypotheses were accepted; c) 12 multiple logit models confirmed the relationship between a set of antecedents and exit strategies; and d) 6 multinomial logit models validated the relationship between a set of antecedents and a choice of one exit strategy over another. The results suggest that the influence of antecedents on the choice of exit strategies was subject to how the antecedents were analysed. The contributions of this research to Supply Chain Management literature are that we know now: a) which economic and social antecedents influence the exit decision; b) how individual antecedents affect exit strategies; c) how antecedents combine to affect exit strategies; and d) how antecedents combine to affect the choice of one exit strategy over another. This work provides an exit management tool box comprising a combination of data collection instrument, empirically derived framework and models that enables the managers to timely review the strength and weaknesses of their business relationships and their management processes.

As of today, 1.1 billion people in the world lack access to electricity, while 2.9 billion rely on polluting fuels such as firewood, charcoal and kerosene for cooking. This is most prominent in Sub-Saharan Africa where two thirds of the population do not have access to electricity and modern cooking fuels. As electricity serves a prominent part of modern society, electrification is often referred to as a key enabler for socio-economic development. The United Nations have agreed on 17 Sustainable development Goals with the aim to stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for ending poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. According to the World Bank, energy is interconnected with 125 out of the total 169 sub-targets that are included in the Sustainable Development Goals. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the relation between access to electricity and relevant development indicators. By assessing previous research within the field of electrification and development, a number of key indicators have been selected for further analysis. A statistical analysis on the development of these indicators in the case study of Rwanda was performed and demonstrated that access to electricity services does have considerable impact on socio-economic development.

In primary school classrooms, teacher-student relations, student’s school engagement, achievement, and the frequency of teachers’ academic interactions are related to higher levels of student engagement. Since different strategies teachers use to initiate classroom interactions have different impacts on students’ engagement, the aim of this thesis is to explore how teacher-student classroom interactions in primary school influence their classroom engagement. A systematic literature review was conducted by using three databases. Eight studies that fit inclusion criteria were exerted and identified. The results show that teachers’ positive strategies (eg. emotional support, help, give instruction) in classroom interaction can significantly increase students’ behavior engagement, improve students’ social engagement and some of the strategies can also hinder students’ emotional engagement in classroom This thesis identifies actions teachers use to conduct classroom interaction and shows how these actions influence students’ behavioral, social, and emotional engagement in primary schools, which gives teachers an overview of the positive consequences of these interaction strategies in primary school classrooms. The suggestions for future research are, further studies can also include studies that perceived classroom interaction from teachers’ perspective and measured the influence of teachers’ negative interaction strategies (eg. criticism, punishment).

Bakgrund: Transpersoner är personer som har en könsidentitet som skiljer sig från det medfödda könet. De har hög sjukdomsprevalens inom flera områden och utsätts för stigma, diskriminering och våld inom och utanför vården. Stigma, diskriminering och våld är kopplade till en ökad risk för ohälsa och ett behov finns att ta del av transpersoners upplevelser, för att förbättra deras vård, hälsa och livskvalitet. Syfte: Att beskriva transpersoners erfarenheter och upplevelser inom olika vårdsammanhang. Metod: En litteraturstudie omfattande tretton artiklar. Sju teman har identifierats: undervisa vårdpersonal, erkännande av könsidentitet, nekad vård, grindvaktning, specifika vårdbehov relaterat till medfött kön, diskriminering och positiva erfarenheter. Resultat: Många negativa upplevelser har identifierats. Det var vanligt att transpersoner behövde undervisa personal och upplevelsen av diskriminering varierade mellan 23,6% - 66,8% i studierna. Resultaten visade på bristande respekt av transpersonernas namn och pronomen. Slutsats: Transpersoner har många negativa erfarenheter och har upplevt negativt bemötande från personal, vilka kan påverka deras hälsa negativt. / Background: Transgender people have a gender identity that differs from their innate sex. They have a high prevalence of disease in several areas and are subjected to stigma, discrimination and violence within and outside of health care. Stigma, discrimination and violence are linked to increased risks of illness. A need to take part in their experiences in order to improve health care and quality of life for transgender people therefore exists. Aim : To describe transgender people´s experiences of encounters with health care staff within various health care settings. Method: A litterature review based on thirteen studies were conducted. Seven themes were identified: educating health care staff, acknowledgement of gender identity, denial of care, gatekeeping, difficulties accessing care related to innate sex, discrimination and positive experiences. Results: A range of negative experiences are reported. The need to educate staff was frequent and experiences of discrimination ranged between 23,6% - 66,8% in the articles. A lack of respect regarding transgender people’s names and pronouns was found. Conclusion: Transgender people are subjected to a range of negative experiences within health care settings that may result in risks of illness.

The thesis presents a conceptual literature review of the subject of open access as it is reflected in literature relevant to digital library research. An approach to the grounded theory method specifically created for the purpose of performing a literature review is applied to 70 articles and conference proceedings found in the databases LISA and LISTA. Through the coding of the literature five categories that conceptually order the subject of open access emerged; Open Access, Authors, Scholarly Communication, Libraries and Librarians, and Developing and Transitional Countries. The conceptual relations of the categories are discussed in the presentation of the categories. The emerged theory is then validated through a review of earlier literature, which focused on literature reviews on open access. A model of the emerged theory with explanatory narratives are then presented in the concluding chapter.

Bakgrund: Inom palliativ omvårdnad förutsätts att patienten får behålla sin livskvalitet så långt det är möjligt. Sjuksköterskan har ett stort ansvar att ge en god personcentrerad palliativ omvårdnad. Syfte: Att belysa de faktorer som bidrar till en god palliativ omvårdnad utifrån sjuksköterskans perspektiv. Metod: En litteraturöversikt som grundas på 16 vetenskapliga artiklar med både kvalitativ och kvantitativ ansats. Resultat: De faktorer som bidrar till sjuksköterskans upplevelse av en god palliativ omvårdnad identifierades vara relationer, kommunikation, definition av den palliativa fasen samt teamarbete. Slutsats: Grunden för en god palliativ omvårdnad är ett gott samarbete mellan sjuksköterska, patient och anhöriga. Det är viktigt med ett fungerande teamarbete mellan olika professioner inom sjukvården samt att sjuksköterskor stöttar varandra i arbetet och att tid ges till reflektion. / Background: Within palliative care it is expected that the patient can keep the quality of life for as long as possible. It is the nurses´responsibility to give good person-centered palliative care. Aim: To illuminate the factors that contribute to good palliative care in the nurses´perspective. Method: A literature review was conducted of 16 scientific articles with both a qualitative and quantitative approach. Results: Factors that affect the nurses´ perspective of good palliative care are relationships, communication, how to define the palliative phase, and teamwork. Conclusion: The foundation of good palliative care is a cooperation between nurse, patient, and their family. A well-functioning teamwork between different professions is important within the healthcare and that nurses support each other in their work and that time is needed for reflection.

Challenges like adversity and traumatic experiences can be especially stressful for children since they may not have fully developed certain skills and are often dependent on the support and guidance of adults. The medium of play is a powerful tool and can be used to enhance children to meet challenges better. It is mostly their preferred medium of interaction and allows them to process experiences playfully.The aim of this systematic literature review was to examine existing play therapy interventions that promote intrinsic characteristics of resilience in children. A search for scholarly articles has been carried out in 7 databases, resulting in ten articles included in the analysis. Play therapy interventions explicitly targeting resilience could not be found, as well as play therapy interventions targeting problem-solving abilities and adaptability of children. Interventions that targeted intrinsic characteristics of resilience were Child-Centered-Play-Therapy, Sandplay therapy, and Theraplay. The play therapy interventions were mostly effective but varied in their effect sizes. Results indicate that children with disabilities need a more directed form of play therapy. The field of play therapy interventions supporting explicitly intrinsic characteristics of resilience is a multi-factorial, dynamic, and complex construct that stands in its beginnings of research. Limitations of the study and further research are discussed.

Background: Building software systems is an iterative and collaborative project, requiring developers not only to write code, but to maintain, expand, fix and enhance code already written. In order to do so, reading code is a central activity, and therefore it is important that code is written in a manner that makes it readable. Objectives: To map the state-of-the-art of software source code readability and find the definitions and methods to measure it, and provide an overview of the kinds of factors considered to impact software source code readability, and to compare this to practitioners' experiences of software source code readability. Methods: A systematic literature review of 76 studies in 72 papers from the last 40 years, explicitly concerning software source code readability, is compared with the results of five interviews with practitioners, of which three are case studies of commits explicitly targeting readability. Results: While individual factors' contribution towards readability is studied with some success, more general modelling studies often suffer from methodological problems, making them difficult to apply in practice or in studies of the correlation between software source code readability and other metrics. Conclusions: Key elements of the state-of-the-art have been implemented in practice, however, readability models are not used by the practitioners in this study. Several factors mentioned by practitioners are not considered by the studies included, and further qualitative study of software development practitioners may be needed.

Bakgrund: En stomi är en konstgjord öppning som skapas på buken för att eliminera avföring när inte mag-tarmkanalen fungerar som den ska.  Att få en stomi kan innebära stora förändringar i livssituationen och påverka livskvaliteten. Genom ökad kunskap och förståelse för personers upplevelser kan sjuksköterskan bidra med god omvårdnad och främja hälsa.   Syfte: Att beskriva män och kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med stomi. Metod: Studien har genomförts som en litteraturöversikt där 15 vetenskapliga artiklar har använts i resultatet.  Resultat: Fyra huvudteman framkom i denna litteraturöversikt som har betydelse för män och kvinnors upplevelse av att leva med stomi. Förändrad kroppsbild, Relationer, Sex och intimitet och acceptans.   Slutsats: Litteraturöversiktens resultat visade att alla män och kvinnor är unika och att ett liv med stomi innebar stora omställningar fysiskt, psykiskt och socialt. Familj och närstående hade en betydande roll där emotionellt stöd bidrog till att personerna lättare accepterade sin stomi och anpassade sig till den förändrade livssituationen. Sjuksköterskan blev ett viktigt stöd där de bidrog med information, rådgivning och förståelse inför patientens upplevelse. Individens egen inställning till stomin och tillräckligt med stöd kunde bidra till en bättre livskvalitet. / Background: An ostomy, also called stoma is an opening created in the abdomen to eliminate defecation when the gastrointestinal tract does not function properly. Obtaining a stoma means major changes in one´s life situation and thus affecting the quality of life. Through increased knowledge and understanding people's experiences, the nurse can help with good care and promote health.   Aim: To describe men and women's experiences of living with an ostomy  Method: The study has been conducted as a literature review were 15 scientific articles have been used in the results  Results: Four main themes emerged in this literature review. These were significance for men and women's experience of living with an ostomy; Altered body image, Relationships, Sex and intimacy and acceptance.  Conclusion: The literature review results showed that all men and women are unique and that a life with a stoma meant major adjustments physically, mentally and socially. Family and close relatives had a significant role in terms of emotional support that helped people to accept their stoma and adapt to the changed life situation. Support from the nurse became crucial for providing information, advice and understanding patients experience. The individual's own attitude towards the stoma and sufficient support could contribute to a better quality of life.

Bakgrund: Begreppet personcentrerad vård har både nationellt och internationellt vuxit fram och skapat en beskrivning av god omvårdnad för varje enskild patient. Om sjukvården är organiserad med ett fokus på patienten som en individ blir den mer effektiv och ökar patienternas delaktighet och engagemang. Patienters möjlighet att ta del i beslut som handlar om deras vård förbättras och deras återhämtningsförmåga stärks när sjuksköterskor tillämpar personcentrerad vård. Totalt 13 av 21 regioner i Sverige har beslut om att skapa förutsättningar för personcentrerad vård, dock beskriver flertalet regioner olika utmaningar för att kunna implementera personcentrerad vård. Några av dessa är att sjuksköterskor önskar att de fick mer stöd från sjukvårdsledningen samt att det finns andra omständigheter som kan försvåra arbetet med personcentrerad vård såsom kommunikationsbrist mellan patient och sjuksköterska. Det är därför viktigt att belysa patienters syn på personcentrerad vård.  Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva patienters erfarenheter av personcentrerad vård inom somatisk vård. Metod: En litteraturöversikt, vars resultat baserades på 18 vetenskapliga artiklar från databaserna CINAHL, PsycINFO och PubMed. Resultat: Två huvudkategorier identifierades i resultatet. Dessa var patienters erfarenheter av relationen mellan patient och sjuksköterska och patienters erfarenheter av att bli sedd och behandlad som en unik individ. Slutsats: Relationen mellan patient och sjuksköterska var en central aspekt som hade stor betydelse för patienternas välbefinnande och vård. Att bli sedd och behandlad som en unik individ visade sig genom att få berätta sin historia, få stöd att hantera sin sjukdom och genom att få möjlighet till delaktighet och självbestämmande. Personcentrerad vård kan bidra till att patienter får ett gott bemötande, blir sedda och respekterade. / Background: The concept of person-centered care has grown nationally and internationally and created a description of good care for every individual. If the healthcare system is organized with a focus on the patient as an individual the care becomes more efficient and it also increases the patients participation and engagement. When nurses practice person-centered care it enhances the resilience for the patients and improves the possibility of being involved in decisions aboout their own care. In total 13 of 21 regions in Sweden has decisions about creating requisite for person-centered care, although a majority of the regions describes different challenges that comes with implementing person-centered care. Some of these challenges are that nurses wish that they got more support from the management, and there are other circumstances that can obstruct the work with person-centered care, such as insufficient communication between patient and nurse. It is therefore important to highlight the patients view on person-centered care. Aim: The aim of this literature review was to describe patients experiences of person-centered care in somatic care. Method: A literature review, based on 18 scientific articles from the three databases CINAHL, PsycINFO and PubMed.  Results: Two main categories were identified in the results. These main categories were experiences of the relationship between patient and nurse and experiences of being seen and treated as a unique individual. Conclusion: The relationship between patient and nurse was a central aspect that had great meaning for the patients well being and care. To be seen as a unique individual was shown through being able to tell their story, get support to handle the disease and through having possibilities to autonomy and participation. Personcentered care can contribute to patients getting a good treatment, being respected and being seen.