Bakgrund: Amyotrofisk lateralskleros (ALS) är en obotlig sjukdom som drabbar 220–250 personer i Sverige varje år. Sjukdomen kännetecknas av fortskridande förlamning i extremiteterna, tal-och sväljproblematik, muskelsvaghet samt förtvining. Behandlingen inriktas på symtomlindring och palliativ vård tillsammans med ett multidisciplinärt team. Allmänsjuksköterskans roll är att vårda med livsvärlden som grund och sammanställa ett multidisciplinärt team utifrån personens unika behov.                                              Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva personers upplevelser av att leva med ALS.    Metod: Kvalitativ litteraturstudie med induktiv ansats. Studien utgick från fem självbiografier som analyserades genom manifest innehållsanalys.                               Resultat: I studiens resultat identifierades fyra kategorier och femton underkategorier. De fyra kategorierna var svårigheter att förhålla sig till sjukdomen, självförsjunkenhet, rädsla och oro samt livskvalité.                                                                                    Slutsats: De centrala upplevelserna var förlorad autonomi, den psykiska påfrestningen samt acceptans till sjukdomen. Allmänsjuksköterskans målsättning vid omvårdnadsarbetet är att bevara personens autonomi samt stödja den psykiska påfrestningen under sjukdomsförloppet för att öka välbefinnandet och livskvalitén.

Befolkningen i världen blir allt äldre och fler personer över 60 år drabbas av akuta sjukdomar och riskerar att utveckla skörhet. Den äldre har ofta mer komplexa och större omvårdnadsbehov vilket leder till fler vårdbesök med längre vänte- och vistelsetid. Därutöver har den äldre ofta minskade fysiologiska funktioner, reservkapaciteter samt högre risk att drabbas av komplikationer, varför omhändertagandet av denna patientgrupp kräver ökad kunskap. Då tidigare forskning främst har fokuserat på den äldre personens patientupplevelse inom slutenvården behövs mer kunskap inom akutvården. Syftet med detta arbete var att undersöka den äldre personens upplevelse av vården på akutmottagningen. Studien hade en induktiv ansats med en allmän litteraturöversikt som design. Sökningarna utfördes i PubMed och Cinahl med hjälp av MeSH-termer och CINAHL Subject Headings samt fritextsökningar. Inklusionskriterierna var kvalitativa artiklar samt personer över 60 år som hade besökt akutmottagningen. Exklusionskriterierna var artiklar som saknade etiska överväganden, översiktsartiklar och artiklar som berörde andra perspektiv. Resultatet presenterades med tre kategorier och sex underkategorier. Kategorierna var; Att vara på akutmottagningen, Att vårdas på akutmottagningen och Att bli utskriven från akutmottagningen. I de 15 artiklar som inkluderades i studien framkom bland annat att den äldre personen kände sig sårbar och bortglömd på akutmottagningen. Hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal som lät den äldre personen vara delaktig i det akuta omhändertagandet kunde generera en positiv upplevelse. Kommunikation och information ansågs vara nyckelkomponenter för att mötet skulle bli så bra som möjligt. En hektisk vårdmiljö med långa väntetider upplevdes negativt samtidigt som upplevelsen blev mer positiv ju mer den äldre blev delaktig i utskrivningsprocessen. Studien identifierade faktorer som kunde påverka den äldres upplevelse av akutmottagningen. Detta innefattade hälso- och sjukvårdspersonalens bemötande, kommunikation och information, delaktighet och en anpassad vårdmiljö. Dessa faktorer bör tas i beaktande vid omvårdnaden och omhändertagandet av den äldre personen på akutmottagningen. / The global population is getting older, with an increasing number of individuals over 60 years are facing acute illnesses and the risk of developing frailty. Elderly individuals often exhibit more complex care needs, leading to extended healthcare visits and longer waiting time. Due to diminished physiological functions and higher complication risks, providing care for this demographic demands enhanced knowledge. While prior research primarily focused on inpatient experiences, there's a crucial need for more insights into emergency care. The aim of this study was to investigate the older person's experience of care in the emergency department. This study has an inductive approach with a literature review design. The searches were performed in PubMed and Cinahl utilized MeSH terms and CINAHL Subject Headings, alongside free-text searches. Inclusion criteria involved individuals over 60 who visited emergency departments and qualitative articles. Exclusion criteria encompassed articles lacking ethical considerations, review articles and other perspectives than the older person. Results were categorized into three categories and six subcategories: The categories are; To be in the emergency department, To be treated in the emergency department and To be discharged from the emergency department. Among the 15 articles included, findings revealed that older people often felt vulnerable and overlooked in emergency departments. Positive experiences were generated when healthcare professionals involved them in acute care decisions. Effective communication and information sharing were deemed critical components for a positive encounter. A bustling care environment with prolonged waiting times was perceived negatively, whereas increased involvement in the discharge process improved the overall experience. The study identified key factors influencing the older people’s experience in emergency departments, emphasizing the significance of healthcare professionals' approach, communication, involvement, and an adapted care environment. These factors should be considered in providing optimal care for older individuals in emergency settings.

During her theoretical training as an educational psychologist, the researcher was intrigued and fascinated by the expositions on the functioning of the self. With this study she pursued her goal to gain a clearer understanding of the formation and development of the self in a child, with the focus on the child in middle childhood (6 -12 years). In this study, she mainly focused on understanding the connection between the three crucial components of the self, self-concept and self-esteem. Her passion for art inspired her to be inventive and apply artistic creative methods of drawing, painting and clay human modelling as projective means to access the child’s unconscious mind, revealing pivotal experiences and emotions, revealing how the child relates to his or her self. According to this qualitative arts-based research study, the DAP (Draw a Person) and variations of PAP (Paint a Person) and CAP (Create a Person) with the use of appropriate DAP, PAP and CAP questionnaires, seem relevant therapeutic projective measures to assist in educational psychology in exploring the child’s self. / Further Teacher Education / M. Ed. (Guidance and Counselling)

During her theoretical training as an educational psychologist, the researcher was intrigued and fascinated by the expositions on the functioning of the self. With this study she pursued her goal to gain a clearer understanding of the formation and development of the self in a child, with the focus on the child in middle childhood (6 -12 years). In this study, she mainly focused on understanding the connection between the three crucial components of the self, self-concept and self-esteem. Her passion for art inspired her to be inventive and apply artistic creative methods of drawing, painting and clay human modelling as projective means to access the child’s unconscious mind, revealing pivotal experiences and emotions, revealing how the child relates to his or her self. According to this qualitative arts-based research study, the DAP (Draw a Person) and variations of PAP (Paint a Person) and CAP (Create a Person) with the use of appropriate DAP, PAP and CAP questionnaires, seem relevant therapeutic projective measures to assist in educational psychology in exploring the child’s self. / Further Teacher Education / M. Ed. (Guidance and Counselling)

This paper examines the importance of communication for people with visual impairments. Communication is a basic human needs and information is its tool, whose shortage may occur when eyesight is damaged or lost. The beginning of the paper introduces the basic concepts associated with visual impairment and it also presents a historical overview of the issue. The importance of communication intertwines through the following chapters, based on a general description of communication but also its division into non-verbal and verbal communication that is divided into spoken, written and computer-aided communication, with a focus on speech input and output, and other forms of communication. The paper also describes the functions of communication and communication in various fields such as in teaching and working processes, in health care, but also in communication with a social worker. The theoretical part is concluded with a brief mention of communication of people with hearing and speech impediments. The objective of the practical part is to map the views of visually impaired people on the importance of communication in their lives, while finding the most common ways of mediated communication not only in people with visual impairments but also in those without visual impairment. For this purpose, a research, which is further evaluated and discussed in the following chapters, was created. Seven case studies of people with visual impairments, focusing on the history of their visual impairment and on communication, were also elaborated in detail. This paper can be used in TyphloCentres and this paper may also serve to a wide professional public who encounter visual-impaired people during their work.

[EN] The presence of surveillance systems in our lives has drastically increased during the last years. Camera networks can be seen in almost every crowded public and private place, which generate huge amount of data with valuable information. The automatic analysis of data plays an important role to extract relevant information from the scene. In particular, the problem of person re-identification is a prominent topic that has become of great interest, specially for the fields of security or marketing. However, there are some factors, such as changes in the illumination conditions, variations in the person pose, occlusions or the presence of outliers that make this topic really challenging. Fortunately, the recent introduction of new technologies such as depth cameras opens new paradigms in the image processing field and brings new possibilities. This Thesis proposes a new complete framework to tackle the problem of person re-identification using commercial rgb-depth cameras. This work includes the analysis and evaluation of new approaches for the modules of segmentation, tracking, description and matching. To evaluate our contributions, a public dataset for person re-identification using rgb-depth cameras has been created. Rgb-depth cameras provide accurate 3D point clouds with color information. Based on the analysis of the depth information, an novel algorithm for person segmentation is proposed and evaluated. This method accurately segments any person in the scene, and naturally copes with occlusions and connected people. The segmentation mask of a person generates a 3D person cloud, which can be easily tracked over time based on proximity. The accumulation of all the person point clouds over time generates a set of high dimensional color features, named raw features, that provides useful information about the person appearance. In this Thesis, we propose a family of methods to extract relevant information from the raw features in different ways. The first approach compacts the raw features into a single color vector, named Bodyprint, that provides a good generalisation of the person appearance over time. Second, we introduce the concept of 3D Bodyprint, which is an extension of the Bodyprint descriptor that includes the angular distribution of the color features. Third, we characterise the person appearance as a bag of color features that are independently generated over time. This descriptor receives the name of Bag of Appearances because its similarity with the concept of Bag of Words. Finally, we use different probabilistic latent variable models to reduce the feature vectors from a statistical perspective. The evaluation of the methods demonstrates that our proposals outperform the state of the art. / [ES] La presencia de sistemas de vigilancia se ha incrementado notablemente en los últimos anños. Las redes de videovigilancia pueden verse en casi cualquier espacio público y privado concurrido, lo cual genera una gran cantidad de datos de gran valor. El análisis automático de la información juega un papel importante a la hora de extraer información relevante de la escena. En concreto, la re-identificación de personas es un campo que ha alcanzado gran interés durante los últimos años, especialmente en seguridad y marketing. Sin embargo, existen ciertos factores, como variaciones en las condiciones de iluminación, variaciones en la pose de la persona, oclusiones o la presencia de artefactos que hacen de este campo un reto. Afortunadamente, la introducción de nuevas tecnologías como las cámaras de profundidad plantea nuevos paradigmas en la visión artificial y abre nuevas posibilidades. En esta Tesis se propone un marco completo para abordar el problema de re-identificación utilizando cámaras rgb-profundidad. Este trabajo incluye el análisis y evaluación de nuevos métodos de segmentación, seguimiento, descripción y emparejado de personas. Con el fin de evaluar las contribuciones, se ha creado una base de datos pública para re-identificación de personas usando estas cámaras. Las cámaras rgb-profundidad proporcionan nubes de puntos 3D con información de color. A partir de la información de profundidad, se propone y evalúa un nuevo algoritmo de segmentación de personas. Este método segmenta de forma precisa cualquier persona en la escena y resuelve de forma natural problemas de oclusiones y personas conectadas. La máscara de segmentación de una persona genera una nube de puntos 3D que puede ser fácilmente seguida a lo largo del tiempo. La acumulación de todas las nubes de puntos de una persona a lo largo del tiempo genera un conjunto de características de color de grandes dimensiones, denominadas características base, que proporcionan información útil de la apariencia de la persona. En esta Tesis se propone una familia de métodos para extraer información relevante de las características base. La primera propuesta compacta las características base en un vector único de color, denominado Bodyprint, que proporciona una buena generalización de la apariencia de la persona a lo largo del tiempo. En segundo lugar, se introducen los Bodyprints 3D, definidos como una extensión de los Bodyprints que incluyen información angular de las características de color. En tercer lugar, la apariencia de la persona se caracteriza mediante grupos de características de color que se generan independientemente a lo largo del tiempo. Este descriptor recibe el nombre de Grupos de Apariencias debido a su similitud con el concepto de Grupos de Palabras. Finalmente, se proponen diferentes modelos probabilísticos de variables latentes para reducir los vectores de características desde un punto de vista estadístico. La evaluación de los métodos demuestra que nuestras propuestas superan los métodos del estado del arte. / [CAT] La presència de sistemes de vigilància s'ha incrementat notòriament en els últims anys. Les xarxes de videovigilància poden veure's en quasi qualsevol espai públic i privat concorregut, la qual cosa genera una gran quantitat de dades de gran valor. L'anàlisi automàtic de la informació pren un paper important a l'hora d'extraure informació rellevant de l'escena. En particular, la re-identificaciò de persones és un camp que ha aconseguit gran interès durant els últims anys, especialment en seguretat i màrqueting. No obstant, hi ha certs factors, com variacions en les condicions d'il.luminació, variacions en la postura de la persona, oclusions o la presència d'artefactes que fan d'aquest camp un repte. Afortunadament, la introducció de noves tecnologies com les càmeres de profunditat, planteja nous paradigmes en la visió artificial i obri noves possibilitats. En aquesta Tesi es proposa un marc complet per abordar el problema de la re-identificació mitjançant càmeres rgb-profunditat. Aquest treball inclou l'anàlisi i avaluació de nous mètodes de segmentació, seguiment, descripció i emparellat de persones. Per tal d'avaluar les contribucions, s'ha creat una base de dades pública per re-identificació de persones emprant aquestes càmeres. Les càmeres rgb-profunditat proporcionen núvols de punts 3D amb informació de color. A partir de la informació de profunditat, es defineix i s'avalua un nou algorisme de segmentació de persones. Aquest mètode segmenta de forma precisa qualsevol persona en l'escena i resol de forma natural problemes d'oclusions i persones connectades. La màscara de segmentació d'una persona genera un núvol de punts 3D que pot ser fàcilment seguida al llarg del temps. L'acumulació de tots els núvols de punts d'una persona al llarg del temps genera un conjunt de característiques de color de grans dimensions, anomenades característiques base, que hi proporcionen informació útil de l'aparença de la persona. En aquesta Tesi es proposen una família de mètodes per extraure informació rellevant de les característiques base. La primera proposta compacta les característiques base en un vector únic de color, anomenat Bodyprint, que proporciona una bona generalització de l'aparença de la persona al llarg del temps. En segon lloc, s'introdueixen els Bodyprints 3D, definits com una extensió dels Bodyprints que inclouen informació angular de les característiques de color. En tercer lloc, l'aparença de la persona es caracteritza amb grups de característiques de color que es generen independentment a llarg del temps. Aquest descriptor reb el nom de Grups d'Aparences a causa de la seua similitud amb el concepte de Grups de Paraules. Finalment, es proposen diferents models probabilístics de variables latents per reduir els vectors de característiques des d'un punt de vista estadístic. L'avaluació dels mètodes demostra que les propostes presentades superen als mètodes de l'estat de l'art. / Oliver Moll, J. (2015). PERSON RE-IDENTIFICATION USING RGB-DEPTH CAMERAS [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/59227 / TESIS

Legal regulation of natural persons in the General Civil Code and in the current Civil Code Abstract This dissertation thesis compares the legal regulation of natural persons in the Civil Code of Austria (ABGB) which was enacted in 1811 and the Czech Civil Code from 2012, especially the regulation of the so-called passive status of a person in the legal sense (i.e. legal personality). The authors of the new Civil Code designate as the ideological source of the recodification the draft of the Czechoslovak Civil Code from 1937, which was de facto modern revision of the ABGB, so it is important to take into account the relevant ABGB provisions when interpreting the new Civil Code. It is also important to take into account historical origins of these provisions, while also examining how their interpretation has evolved over time. Austrian legal scientists benefit from the stability of their code when applying private law and can also rely on more than two centuries of doctrinal development and extensive case law. The Czech legal community does not have this advantage, therefore the importance of historical and comparative interpretation of legal norms is increased when they apply specific provisions of the Civil Code. It is therefore necessary to perceive this dissertation thesis as a contribution to the...

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Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die term deiksis is afgelei van die Griekse woord deiktikos wat 'wys na' betaken, en verwys na daardie uitdrukkings wat in 'n taal gebruik word om die belangrikste orientasiepunte in 'n gespreksituasie te verwoord. Aile deiktiese interpretasies kan net relatief tot 'n spesifieke verwysingspunt (deiktiese sentrum) gemaak word. Vyf deiktiese kategoriee word onderskei. Persoonsdeiksis hou verband met die deiktiese persona, m.a.w. die spreker en aangesprokeneen moontlik 'n derde persoon indian hy/sy/dit in die gespreksituasie teenwoordig is. Persoonsdeiksis word hoofsaaklik in Noord-Sotho se kongruensie-en pronominale sisteem gereflekteer. Sosiale deiksis verwys na daardie uitdrukkings wat die spreker se houding teenoor die aangesprokene of die derde persoon weergee. In Noord-Sotho word leksikale items met 'n sosiaal--deiktiese funksie aangetrefwat die spreker se bewondering, afkeer of respek teenoor die aangesprokene reflekteer, asook verwantskapstenne en aanspreekvonne. Alhoewel Noord-Sotho se pro nominate stelsel neutraal is ten opsigte van geslag, is daar ander maniere om taalkundig 'n onderskeid tussen die geslagte te maak. Plekdeiktiese uitdrukkings word gebruik om die Jigging van 'n objek relatief tot die deiktiese sentrum te beskryf. Die posisie van die gespreksgenote of hulle fisiese gestaltes kan hierdie deiktiese sentrum uitmaak. In Noord-Sothoword demonstratiewe, demonstratief-kopulatiewe, lokatiewe kopulatiewe,lokatiewe bywoorde en sekere werkwoorde vir hierdie doe I aangewend. Tyddeiksis word in Noord-Sotho hoofsaaklik deur middel van temporale bywoorde geleksikaliseer en deur middel van tydsvonne in die werkwoord gegrammatikaliseer. Die interpretasie van hierdie uitdrukkings is van die deiktiese sentrum (tyd wanneer die uiting gemaak is) afhanklik. Temporale bywoorde sowel as die tydsvonn van die werkwoord beskryf die tyd wanneer die handeling plaasvind. Hierdie vonne sal aandui of die handeling v66r koderingstyd plaasgevind het (verlede tyd), of dit na koderingstyd sal plaasvind (toe~omende tyd), en of die handeling met koderingstyd saamval (teenwoordige tyd). Diskoersdeiksis verwys na daardie uitdrukkings wat gebruik word om na dele van die diskoers, of na naamwoordelike antesedente waarvoor daar nie 'n referent in die buitetaalse werklikheid bestaan nie, te verwys. In Noord-Sothoword demonstratiewe, pronomina van die derde persoon, demonstratief-kopulatiewe, sekere bywoorde, identifiserende kopulatiewe, sekere kwalifikatiewe en sekere voegwoorde vir hierdie doel aangewend. / The term deixis is derived from a Greek word deiktikos which means 'point at' and it is used in grammar to refer to those expressions which describe the essential points of orientation in a speech situation. The interpretation of deictic expressions can only be made in relation to a specific reference point (the deictic centre). Five deictic categories are distinguished. Person deixis concerns the deictic persons, that is the speaker, the addressee and possibly a third person if he/she/it is present in the speech situation. Person deixis is mainly reflected in the concordia! and the pronominal system of Northern Sotho. Social deixis refers to those expressions which reflect the speaker's attitude towards the addressee or the third person. Such expressions include lexical items which reflect the speaker's admiration, dislike or respect towards the addressee, as well as kinship terms and vocatives. Although the pronominal system of Northern Sotho is neutral with regard to sex, there are other linguistic ways in which gender distinctions can be drawn. Place deictic expressions are used to identify the location of an object relative to the deictic centre. The location of the speech participants or their bodies may constitute this deictic centre. Demonstratives, demonstrative-copulatives, locational copulatives, locative adverbs and certain verbs are used for this purpose in Northern Sotho. Time deixis is mainly lexicalised by means of temporal adverbs and grammaticalised by means of tense morphemes in the Northern Sotho verb. The interpretation of these expressions depends on the deictic centre (time when the utterance is made). Time adverbs as well as the tenses describe the time of an event. These structures will indicate whether the action took place before coding time (past tense), whether it will take place after coding time (future tense), or whether it coincides with coding time (present tense). Discourse deixis pertains to those expressions which are used to refer to parts of the discourse, or to nominal antecedents of which the referent is not present in the extra-linguistic context of the utterance. Demonstratives, demonstrative copulatives, third person pronouns, certain adverbs, identifying copulatives, certain qualificatives and certain conjunctions are used for this purpose in Northern Sotho. / African Languages / D Litt. et Phil. (Afrikatale)

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