This thesis has been carried out as there has been a need to expand research in men's violence against women in close relationships. This by a historical comparison to discover causal explanation and conceptions with a focus on change and continuity over time. Men's violence against women needs more research, although new interventions such as laws have been put into place, the problem still remains in society. The thesis will focus on finding change and continuity over time. Analyzing the area through a historical perspective can further contribute to a greater insight into the problem today, to reduce the risk of repetition of the past, regarding conceptions on gender and violence and not make the problem invisible. The material that has been used in the thesis is based on news articles from Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, based on four selected time periods during the 1900–2020s. The analysis focus on the public's perceptions and causal explanations of men's violence against women in close relationships. The result of the analysis concluded, among other things, that research and news articles do not always correspond and that society's perceptions and causal explanations have both altered and continued. A finding  in the thesis is that jealousy and men's feelings are two relatively unexplored areas.

The University Forest Enterprise (UFE) is a special-purpose facility at the Technical University in Zvolen (TUZVO). The UFE is aimed at the practical education of students, scientific research associated with all forestry activities, demonstration objects, and management of the forest fund. lt is thus possible to demonstrate several aspects of forestry such as forest management, management of forest reproductive material, silviculture, logging operations, forestry constructions and ameliorations, landscape management, game management, fishery, and beekeeping. To follow these goals, 67 permanent research plots, 18 temporary plots, and 103 demonstration objects are currently maintained at the territory of the enterprise, all connected to the network of excursion and demonstration paths. The UFE manages the forest land fund (9,729 ha) according to the needs of the Technical University, and with respect to the purpose of the enterprise, 80% of the forest area managed by the enterprise is classified into the category of specialpurpose forests. The forest land fund is composed of state-owned forest land as well as forest properties of other owners. Forest plant communities ofthe UFE belang to five altitudinal vegetation zones (298-1035 m above sea level). Broadleaved tree species evidently predominate. Due to the special focus of management, the UFE uses as much as possible the concepts of the close-to-nature silviculture. Due to varied natural conditions, it is possible to apply several silvicultural systems. The application of shelterwood and selection systems with maximum utilisation of the natural potential of indigenous tree species is strongly preferred.

Parking planning for new residential constructions is intensively discussed between develops, architects, and municipalities. In a big city, the land value is higher and it is more profitable to build apartments instead of parking places, but parking space can increase the value of the apartment. The purpose of this work was to analyse how the planning of a parking space in a big city compared to a smaller town differs today versus 10 years ago. Results of interviews were that the parameters such as municipal parking regulations and access to public transport govern the parking planning. All the municipalities, contractors and architects agreed that in the future more municipalities will work with flexible parking standards. The conclusion is that it is the municipality’s parking norm and access to public transport that affects parking planning. The largest change and development in the last 10 years is an increased investment into mobility solutions in form of charging stations and carpools.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the planning tool LIS, countryside development in areas close to shores has been applied in Norrbotten County. And what problems the municipalities experience in the planning process. Today's regulations for rural development in coastal locations have been criticized in investigations and by politicians for lacking geographical flexibility and that the planning tool isn’t adapted for sparsely populated areas. The study is a case study where the empirical evidence is mainly based on documents and investigations linked to rural development in coastal locations. The analysis has been carried out using broad thematic concepts. To get a greater understanding of how the planning tool is used in Norrbotten, interviews have been conducted with three municipalities with large rural areas. All those interviewed work with or have experience of the planning tool. The study shows that rural development in coastal locations has several problems with the enforcement and interpretation of the regulations. And that the planning tool itself does not contribute to rural development but that it can be seen as part of a larger context. However, two of the municipalities express that LIS is important to their municipalities to be able to offer attractive beach plots. A new report presented in December 2020, which aims to improve current regulations, has been received with some positive caution. The municipalities believe that the presented improvements are a step in the right direction towards a more geographically flexible regulatory framework. But that there are still major shortcomings in the enforcement of the regulations and that the municipalities need to have a greater influence in decisions regarding establishment in rural areas.

Bakgrund: Kroniskt obstruktiv lungsjukdom (KOL) orsakar inflammerade celler i luftrör och lungvävnad. Personer med KOL upplever att kroppen inte orkar och känner sig begränsade i vardagen. Syfte: Belysa anhörigas upplevelser att vårda en närstående med kroniskt obstruktiv lungsjukdom. Metod: Kvalitativa literaturstudier baserade på intervjuer av anhöriga till personer med kroniskt obstruktiv lungsjukdom. Resultat: Tolv artiklar användes, 183 personer deltog, 25 till 90 år. Artiklar från Sverige, Kanada, Portugal, Danmark, USA, Norge, Island, Nordirland England. Anhöriga till personer med KOL upplever stress, hopplöshet, oro och trötthet. Oron är kopplad till den närstående med KOL och deras försämring av sjukdom. Både anhöriga och närstående upplever brist på utbildning och kunskap från sjukvården. Slutsats: Att vårda en närstående tar mycket energi, för att hushållssysslor och omvårdnadsysslor tar långt tid och tar mycket kraft i vardagen. Vid försämring av den närståendes tillstånd upplever anhöriga en kraftig oro vilket ger en nedsatt omvårdnad till den närstående. Bristen av kontakt till sjukvården gör att anhöriga inte kan få tips och råd om den närståendes sjukdomsutveckling. Det framkommer även att anhöriga behöver stöd från sjukvården för att bibehålla en positiv roll som informell vårdare. / Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes inflamed cells in the trachea and lung tissue. People with COPD experience less body strength and feel limited in everyday life. Purpose: To shed light on relatives’ experiences of caring for related parties with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Method: Quantitative interview-based literature study of relatives experiences. Results: Includes twelve articles, 183 participants in age 25-90. Articles originate from Sweden, Canada, Portugal, Denmark, USA, Norway, Iceland, and Northern Ireland England. Relatives caring for related parties with COPD experience stress, hopelessness, anxiety, and fatigue. Anxiety is linked to worsening of the related parties COPD condition. Both parties experience lack of education from healthcare services. Conclusion: Caring for a close relative takes a lot of energy, because household chores and nursing chores take a long time. Furthermore, it takes a lot of energy in everyday life. In the event that the close relative condition deteriorates, experience the related caretaker severe anxiety, which results in reduced care of the close relative. Lack of healthcare contact can limit advice of the close relatives' illness development. It also emerged that relatives’ need support from healthcare services to maintain a positive role as an informal caretaker.

This paper puts the issue of Czech-Polish relationships into a context of the intercultural communication. The culturological approach used for the analysis of the communication between cultures brings a new holistic view. Factors of close cultures, the impact of a conflict as well as the importance of intercultural competences are analysed. Based on the Czech-Polish case, barriers to the intercultural communication are specified and discussed. These barriers rise from language, stereotypes, information, religion and history. A question of comicality and prestige of a language not to say entire culture is articulated. The new Network Theory of Barriers is suggested which introduces a closely related networked set of above mentioned obstacles. New platforms for the intercultural dialogue are outlined that can bring a possibility to step out of the circle of misunderstanding. These platforms consist of improving language skills, international institutions and the Internet.

This essay analyzes the depictions of urban nature in Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018). The theoretical framework consists primarily of Astrid Bracke’s thoughts on “urban ecology”, Christophe Den Tant’s descriptions of “the urban sublime” and William Cronon’s thoughts on the concept of “Wilderness”, all of which work in the ecocritical field. My Year of Rest and Relaxation explores the concepts of naturalness and artificiality through language and various themes. It takes place in an urban environment where the main character chooses to isolate herself in her city apartment, hence the existence of nature in the traditional sense is absent, yet the text works consistently with elements of urban nature in varying situations. The way in which this urban nature is presented relates to other themes such as the exploration of borders and dichotomies such as nature and culture, organic and artificial as well as animate and inanimate.

The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate correctional officers’ perception of themeaning of manliness for inmates in a swedish high security prison, and how gender plays arole when working close to inmates. The study also explores how the officer’s own genderplays a role in their interactions with the inmates. Data from seven interviews withcorrectional officers has been analyzed using three concepts from different gender theories -the ‘hegemonic masculinity’ and ‘subordinated masculinity’ concepts by Connell(1995/2008), as well as the concept of ‘hypermasculinity’ by Toch (1998). The researchshows that correctional officers believe that a hypemasculine ideal is important amonginmates. The perception was that hegemonic qualities result in a higher status and position inthe prison’s hierarchical structure, while subordinated characteristics result in a lower rank.However, the meaning of manliness greatly varied depending on the situation and socialsettings. Officers adapted different strategies when dealing with the inmates’ expressions ofmanliness and the study demonstrates that an interaction between an inmate and acorrectional officer is influenced by the officer’s gender.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of opened and closed loop cueing intervention on Parkinson disease patients gait function focusing on the temporal and spatial parameters of gait and to define the most effective cueing approach for different gait parameters and finally to examine the closed loop feedback system for regular usage in regular physiotherapy clinics or patients own homes. A 37 clinical trial including 1014 patients were investigated to reach an answer for this review questions. Results reveled that both open and closed cueing intervention has a positive effect on gait spatial, temporal gait parameters and capable to reduce the number of freezes in Parkinson diseases patients. Auditory cueing strategies had a superior effect on patient speed of gait with higher rhythm of cues and better overall gait function during dual tasking. Visual cues showed better effect on stride length and stride frequency. The close loop feedback system of cues still built on complex machinery segments which make it difficult to be used as regular intervention in physiotherapy clinics and patients own homes. As an overall cueing intervention found to be significantly effective as locomotive therapeutic approach on gait functionality, but each intervention procedure and methodology...

This diploma thesis describes the design and implementation of appropriate procedure photogrammetry processing of technical documentation of selected historical artifacts gauges. This thesis deals with finding the most suitable evaluation of the calibration of the camera used for metric artifacts documentation, processing documentation and model visualization.