<p>Inom socialt arbete med barn och familj är föräldraskap och hur barn och föräldrar</p><p>ser på just detta en viktig faktor. Därför är det väsentligt att medvetenheten om</p><p>vad som innefattas i ett bra, fungerande föräldraskap fördjupas. Barns uppfattning</p><p>om sin egen tillvaro efterfrågas sällan. Vid en översikt av den forskning som</p><p>bedrivits om barn och deras livssituation kunde vi konstatera att empirin i dessa</p><p>avhandlingar i väldigt liten utsträckning kom från barnen själva.</p><p>Uppsatsens syfte var att fördjupa kunskaperna om vad bra föräldraskap är sett ur</p><p>barns perspektiv. Våra frågeställningar var: Hur ser barns bild av ett gott föräldraskap</p><p>ut? Finns det några skillnader mellan hur en bra mamma och en bra pappa</p><p>ska vara? För att besvara dessa frågeställningar lät vi en grupp 6: e-klassare skriva</p><p>uppsatser utifrån de underliggande frågeställningar som bland annat handlar om</p><p>bra egenskaper hos en förälder, vad som är viktigt att kunna prata med en förälder</p><p>om och vikten av gränssättning. Studien utgår dels från Bowlbys anknytningsteori,</p><p>där bindning och en trygg bas är centrala begrepp. Vi anlade ett systemperspektiv</p><p>i vår kvalitativa analys och tittade på föräldraskap både utifrån familjen</p><p>som ett socialt system och familjen sett i ett samhällssystem. Analysen indelades i</p><p>olika teman som både bygger på de frågeställningar barnen hade vid uppsatsskrivandet</p><p>och de mönster vi kunde se i deras uppsatser.</p><p>Resultatet av empirin visade att ett gott föräldraskap handlar om att ge sina barn</p><p>omsorg, skydd och trygghet. Vi kunde även se en viss skillnad i hur den undersökta</p><p>gruppen barn beskriver en bra mamma respektive en bra pappa.</p> / <p>In social work with children and families parenting is an important matter. Children’s</p><p>and parent’s point of view in this matter are of great importance. What</p><p>might be included in good parenting therefore needs to be examined. Children’s</p><p>opinion about their daily life is seldom asked for. When overlooking the scientific</p><p>research that has been made about children and their situation, it became clear that</p><p>the empirical material in a very small amount comes from children themselves.</p><p>The purpose of this study was to obtain deeper knowledge about what good parenting</p><p>is from children’s perspective. Our questions were: What are children’s</p><p>beliefs about good parenting? Are there any differences between a good mother</p><p>and a good father? In order to answer these questions we gave a group of children</p><p>in 6-th class the task to write an essay about good qualities in parents, what’s important</p><p>to be able to talk to ones parents about and the importance of boundaries.</p><p>The study emanates from Bowlby’s attachment theory which holds attachment</p><p>and a secure base as central concepts. In our qualitative analysis we applied a</p><p>systems perspective and looked at parenting as a social system from a family perspective</p><p>as well as from a society perspective. The analysis was classified in</p><p>themes that emanated from the questions the children used when writing their</p><p>essays.</p><p>The results showed that good parenting is about giving the children care, protection</p><p>and security. We were also able to see certain differences in how this group</p><p>of children described a good mother and a good father.</p>

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A representation of visual motion convenient for recognition shouldsmake prominent the qualitative differences among simple motions. Wesargue that the first stage in such a motion representation is to makesexplicit boundaries that we define as starts, stops, and forcesdiscontinuities. When one of these boundaries occurs in motion, humansobservers have the subjective impression that some fleeting,ssignificant event has occurred. We go farther and hypothesize that onesof the subjective motion boundaries is seen if and only if one of oursdefined boundaries occurs. We enumerate all possible motion boundariessand provide evidence that they are psychologically real.

<p>Sandstone and shale samples were selected within the systems tracts for laboratory analyses. The sidewall and core samples were subjected to petrographic thin section analysis, mineralogical analyses which include x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and stable carbon and oxygen isotopes geochemistry to determine the diagenetic alteration at deposition and post deposition in the basin. The shale samples were subjected to Rock-Eval pyrolysis and accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) prior to gas chromatographic (GC) and gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric (GC-MS) analyses of the rock extracts, in order to determine the provenance, type and thermal maturity of organic matter present in sediments of the Orange Basin. The results revealed a complex diagenetic history of sandstones in this basin, which includes compaction, cementation/micritization, dissolution, silicification/overgrowth of quartz, and fracturing. The Eh-pH shows that the cements in the area of the basin under investigation were precipitated under weak acidic and slightly alkaline conditions. The &delta / 18O isotope values range from -1.648 to 10.054 %, -1.574 to 13.134 %, and -2.644 to 16.180 % in the LST, TST, and HST, respectively. While &delta / 13C isotope values range from -25.667 to -12.44 %, -27.862 to -6.954% and -27.407 to -19.935 % in the LST, TST, and HST, respectively. The plot of &delta / 18O versus &delta / 13C shows that the sediments were deposited in shallow marine temperate conditions.</p>

Inom socialt arbete med barn och familj är föräldraskap och hur barn och föräldrar ser på just detta en viktig faktor. Därför är det väsentligt att medvetenheten om vad som innefattas i ett bra, fungerande föräldraskap fördjupas. Barns uppfattning om sin egen tillvaro efterfrågas sällan. Vid en översikt av den forskning som bedrivits om barn och deras livssituation kunde vi konstatera att empirin i dessa avhandlingar i väldigt liten utsträckning kom från barnen själva. Uppsatsens syfte var att fördjupa kunskaperna om vad bra föräldraskap är sett ur barns perspektiv. Våra frågeställningar var: Hur ser barns bild av ett gott föräldraskap ut? Finns det några skillnader mellan hur en bra mamma och en bra pappa ska vara? För att besvara dessa frågeställningar lät vi en grupp 6: e-klassare skriva uppsatser utifrån de underliggande frågeställningar som bland annat handlar om bra egenskaper hos en förälder, vad som är viktigt att kunna prata med en förälder om och vikten av gränssättning. Studien utgår dels från Bowlbys anknytningsteori, där bindning och en trygg bas är centrala begrepp. Vi anlade ett systemperspektiv i vår kvalitativa analys och tittade på föräldraskap både utifrån familjen som ett socialt system och familjen sett i ett samhällssystem. Analysen indelades i olika teman som både bygger på de frågeställningar barnen hade vid uppsatsskrivandet och de mönster vi kunde se i deras uppsatser. Resultatet av empirin visade att ett gott föräldraskap handlar om att ge sina barn omsorg, skydd och trygghet. Vi kunde även se en viss skillnad i hur den undersökta gruppen barn beskriver en bra mamma respektive en bra pappa. / In social work with children and families parenting is an important matter. Children’s and parent’s point of view in this matter are of great importance. What might be included in good parenting therefore needs to be examined. Children’s opinion about their daily life is seldom asked for. When overlooking the scientific research that has been made about children and their situation, it became clear that the empirical material in a very small amount comes from children themselves. The purpose of this study was to obtain deeper knowledge about what good parenting is from children’s perspective. Our questions were: What are children’s beliefs about good parenting? Are there any differences between a good mother and a good father? In order to answer these questions we gave a group of children in 6-th class the task to write an essay about good qualities in parents, what’s important to be able to talk to ones parents about and the importance of boundaries. The study emanates from Bowlby’s attachment theory which holds attachment and a secure base as central concepts. In our qualitative analysis we applied a systems perspective and looked at parenting as a social system from a family perspective as well as from a society perspective. The analysis was classified in themes that emanated from the questions the children used when writing their essays. The results showed that good parenting is about giving the children care, protection and security. We were also able to see certain differences in how this group of children described a good mother and a good father.

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Though often overlooked, unilateralism as a foreign policy approach deserves to be studied, even in the case of Canada, a country that has developed a reputation as a staunch defender of its opposite, multilateralism. This thesis studies does precisely that, and is prompted, by a proposition recently put forward by Allan Gotlieb, the former Canadian Ambassador to the United States, that, when other methods have proven ineffective, unilateralism has been a very real option for Canada. The thesis explores the validity of Gotliebs claim by examining three cases cited by Gotlieb as examples of a unilateral approach taken by Canada: the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act in 1970, its declaration of straight baselines around the Arctic Archipelago in 1985, and the so-called Turbot War launched by enforcement of amendments to the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act in 1995. Were these in fact cases of determined unilateralism, prompted as Gotlieb argues, by a basic need to defend the most basic of Canadas core interests, its territorial sovereignty? <p>Further investigation of the cases cited by Gotlieb reveals that he is correct in one sense but not in another. In all of the cases Canada undeniably acted unilaterally. But Gotliebs analysis misses the larger reality that the three initiatives were pursued within a framework of multilateralism. Canada acted unilaterally not simply for the purpose of protecting Canadas territorial integrity, but in the hopes of reinvigorating a multilateral process.

The earth was shown in the last century to have a surface layer composed of large plates. Plate tectonics is the study of the movement and stresses in the individual plates that make up the complete surface of the world's sphere. Two types of earthquakes are observed in the surface plates, interplate and intraplate earthquakes, which are classified, based on the location of the origin of an earthquake either between two plates or within the plate respectively. Limited work has been completed on the definition of the boundary region between the plates from which interplate earthquakes originate, other than the recent work on the Mid Atlantic Ridge, defined at two degrees and the subsequent work to look at the applicability of this degree based definition. Others suggested an alternative view of a constant width for the interplate region in recent work at Texas A&M University. The objective of the paper is to determine whether the assumption of a linear width of the region along the tectonic plate boundaries to classify earthquakes as interplate and intraplate earthquakes using accepted statistical criteria provides a better fit to the data than the constant degree definition. There are three types of interplate boundaries defined by the relative movement of the two plates to each other, which further complicates this study. The study used a nonrandom analysis of regions of the different types of boundary to compare the rate and decay of the intraplate earthquakes from a notional centerline for the known boundaries. The study used GIS software and EXCEL for the statistical analysis component of the research work. The results show that a constant width definition provides a number of advantages in determining the relative definition of interplate and intraplate earthquakes when compared to the constant degree definition developed for work on the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Further research is suggested on a randomly selected set of study sites to improve the reliability and quality of the statistical work for each type of the boundary of the tectonic plates.

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Pregnancy, a human phenomenon experienced throughout the world and throughout history, has been largely ignored by the philosophical community. A preference for the abnormal and the extraordinary has left this common yet challenging process on the sidelines of philosophical discussion. Pregnancy stands as a significant challenge to many of our intuitions about the self, particularly those concerning the boundaries, plurality and diachronic identity of the self. Because of this, pregnancy necessitates a theory of the self which does not merely uphold our usual assumptions about the self. Daniel Dennett presents a theory of the self which meets this criterion. He argues that the self is a centre of narrative gravity: an abstract, theoretical entity which is useful for the explanation and prediction of an individual’s behaviour. Dennett’s theory, though provocative, lacks a basis in typical human experience. He relies primarily on thought experiments and extraordinary conditions to support his theory. To demonstrate the applicability and generality of this theory, it must be tested against a common, natural human occurrence like pregnancy. In this paper we explore the application of Daniel Dennett’s theory of the narrative self to the experience of pregnancy. This application yields a double result. Dennett’s theory is bolstered by a demonstration of its generality and applicability, and the experience of pregnancy is placed into a context in which it can be validated and understood.