The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, from a life course perspective I´m going to study thetiming of a number of life course events in sparsely populated areas and urban areas in acohort of people born 1968-1971. The second part of the aim is to analyze how the timing ofthe life course events in a later stage of life affects the residential choice, with special focuson owning the dwelling, in the above mentioned geographical areas.The life course events in focus are; leaving the parental home, the first cohabitation or thefirst marriage, the first childbearing and the first separation or divorce.The results state that there are significant differences between sparsely populated and urbanareas in the cohort, in timing for at least three out of the four life events. The difference inaverage age between sparsely populated and urban areas is biggest for leaving the parentalhome and for the first cohabitation or marriage with the rural individuals being the youngest.The same pattern is also visible for the first child but the difference in timing between the twogeographical areas are less distinct for that event. For separations and divorces there are noclear differences in timing.Linear regressions show that educational level is of crucial importance for the timing ofthe life events. An increasing level of education leads to a later life event. Different economicvariables such as income support, unemployment allowance and disposable income also havean influence on the timing of the events. But the significance of the effect of these variableson the average age is stronger in the urban areas than in the sparsely populated districts. Itseems that in sparsely populated areas there are other variables that play an essential rolewhen it comes to the timing of the events in the life course. One possible aspect, but not investigatedhere, could be the impact of the wider family context.Finally, a control for how the different timing of the life events in the two geographicalcontexts affects the residential choice at least ten years after the events has been done. Itshows that the general pattern concerning the residential choice of the cohort is that 90 percentin sparsely populated areas and 70 percent in the urban areas defined as suburbs lives inowned villas. It seems that, in this cohort, house owning is an overrepresented way of residenceregardless the individuals geographical identity.The results also shows that people in the cohort, regardless if and when the four life eventshas taken place in the younger ages, to a large extent in the later life still lives in the sametype of municipality (sparsely populated or urban). In other words, it is not possible to findany strong correlations between the timing of the life events and residential choice in a laterstage of life.

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SAMMANFATTNING   Sveriges befolkning blir allt äldre och antalet personer över 80 år ökar. Många vill bo kvar hemma men äldre med stora hjälpbehov flyttar till äldreboende. Syftet med studien var att belysa äldres uppfattningar om att vara äldre och deras syn på äldreboende. Vidare hur de ser på att själva bo på ett äldreboende och deras syn på att diskutera en framtida flytt till äldreboende med anhöriga eller vårdpersonal. Studien genomfördes med en kvalitativ ansats och intervjuer gjordes. Analysen av intervjumaterialet skedde med en kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Resultatet visade att de äldre inte såg sig själva som äldre trots de förändringar åldrandet medfört. De äldre hade både en positiv och negativ syn på äldreboende som de grundade på erfarenheter från två äldreboenden. De ville bo kvar hemma och en flytt till äldreboende var ännu ingen aktuell fråga. Men en anledning till att i framtiden flytta till äldreboende skulle vara att inte längre kunna sköta sin hygien. De flesta informanterna hade inte diskuterat en framtida flytt till äldreboende med någon, men upplevde ändå att deras anhöriga kände till deras vilja. Flera såg det som positivt att bli kontaktade av vården och få information om äldreboende och hemtjänst. Resultatet antyder att det kan vara av vikt att veta hur äldre ser på äldreboende och hur de vill ha det den dagen deras hjälpbehov ökar.

<p>SAMMANFATTNING</p><p> </p><p>Sveriges befolkning blir allt äldre och antalet personer över 80 år ökar. Många vill bo kvar hemma men äldre med stora hjälpbehov flyttar till äldreboende. Syftet med studien var att belysa äldres uppfattningar om att vara äldre och deras syn på äldreboende. Vidare hur de ser på att själva bo på ett äldreboende och deras syn på att diskutera en framtida flytt till äldreboende med anhöriga eller vårdpersonal. Studien genomfördes med en kvalitativ ansats och intervjuer gjordes. Analysen av intervjumaterialet skedde med en kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Resultatet visade att de äldre inte såg sig själva som äldre trots de förändringar åldrandet medfört. De äldre hade både en positiv och negativ syn på äldreboende som de grundade på erfarenheter från två äldreboenden. De ville bo kvar hemma och en flytt till äldreboende var ännu ingen aktuell fråga. Men en anledning till att i framtiden flytta till äldreboende skulle vara att inte längre kunna sköta sin hygien. De flesta informanterna hade inte diskuterat en framtida flytt till äldreboende med någon, men upplevde ändå att deras anhöriga kände till deras vilja. Flera såg det som positivt att bli kontaktade av vården och få information om äldreboende och hemtjänst. Resultatet antyder att det kan vara av vikt att veta hur äldre ser på äldreboende och hur de vill ha det den dagen deras hjälpbehov ökar. <em></em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

Past research has shown that there are many factors that affect the elderly when moving from their own home to an elderly home. The main aim of this study was therefore to (i) describe the reasons and feelings of the elders associated before transiting into the elderly home (ii) experience and support during the transition and adapting to the life in the elderly home for the first few months after the transition and (iii) whether there lies any difference in sex amongst the elderly men and women in adjusting to the elderly home. Due to ethical issues, the study was conducted through interviewing the professionals who worked with elderly around the clock. Therefore, questions have been answered by the professionals in regard to their view on the subject. A total of six (6) semi structured interviews were conducted by two social work students who interviewed 9 professionals i.e. five (5) individual interviews and one group interview with four (4) professional participants. Of these nine (9) interview participants, eight (8) professionals were either working as domestic workers (hemtjänst) or as professional caregivers at the elderly home or as both and one (1) participant was the chief of department in the elderly home. The results showed that functional impairment or disability was the first and foremost reason as to why elderly must move from their own home to elderly home. However, for many elders this decision feels like a “force” upon them and their experience following is vastly differed. While other elders may feel a loss of identity in the elderly home, lonely and disappointed, many feel a sense of security to be around people who can look after them 24/7 and be able to create a meaningful relationship with both, other residents and the professional staff. It was as well noted that factors like activities and personality played a major role in the adjustment of the elderly in the elderly home. Lastly, the study did not show any differences between the sexes i.e. there was no difference between elderly men and elderly women when adjusting in the elderly home. However elderly women were shown as a sex who were more lenient to adapt to the changes.

The goal of this project was to evaluate the viability of a mass-spring-damper based model for modeling of biological tissue. A method for automatically generating such a model from data taken from 3D medical imaging equipment including both the generation of point masses and an algorithm for generating the spring-damper links between these points is presented. Furthermore, an implementation of a simulation of this model running in real-time by utilizing the parallel computational power of modern GPU hardware through OpenCL is described. This implementation uses the fourth order Runge-Kutta method to improve stability over similar implementations. The difficulty of maintaining stability while still providing rigidness to the simulated tissue is thoroughly discussed. Several observations on the influence of the structure of the model on the consistency of the simulated tissue are also presented. This implementation also includes two manipulation tools, a move tool and a cut tool for interaction with the simulation. From the results, it is clear that the mass-springdamper model is a viable model that is possible to simulate in real-time on modern but commoditized hardware. With further development, this can be of great benefit to areas such as medical visualization and surgical simulation. / Målet med detta projekt var att utvärdera huruvida en modell baserad på massa-fjäderdämpare är meningsfull för att modellera biologisk vävnad. En metod för att automatiskt generera en sådan modell utifrån data tagen från medicinsk 3D-skanningsutrustning presenteras. Denna metod inkluderar både generering av punktmassor samt en algoritm för generering av länkar mellan dessa. Vidare beskrivs en implementation av en simulering av denna modell som körs i realtid genom att utnyttja den parallella beräkningskraften hos modern GPU-hårdvara via OpenCL. Denna implementation använder sig av fjärde ordningens Runge-Kutta-metod för förbättrad stabilitet jämfört med liknande implementationer. Svårigheten att bibehålla stabiliteten samtidigt som den simulerade vävnaden ges tillräcklig styvhet diskuteras genomgående. Flera observationer om modellstrukturens inverkan på den simulerade vävnadens konsistens presenteras också. Denna implementation inkluderar två manipuleringsverktyg, ett flytta-verktyg och ett skärverktyg för att interagera med simuleringen. Resultaten visar tydligt att en modell baserad på massa-fjäder-dämpare är en rimlig modell som är möjlig att simulera i realtid på modern men lättillgänglig hårdvara. Med vidareutveckling kan detta bli betydelsefullt för områden så som medicinsk bildvetenskap och kirurgisk simulering.

ABSTRAKT  I mitt examensarbete vill jag utforska och skapa smarta lösningar som hjälper oss att leva och bo på ett mer aktivitetsbaserat sätt i framtiden. Ett boende där jag vill uppmuntra och förenkla för oss alla att bo på mindre yta och med fler flexibla platser och funktioner, både för miljöns skull men även för en mer solidarisk fördelning av den yta vi förfogar över idag.  Mindre boendeyta betyder även att allt vi fyller våra hem med behöver vara väl genomtänkta och funktionella. Så vad krävs då egentligen för att vi ska vilja släppa ifrån oss av vår yta? Och kan jag genom min design skapa en öppen och varm känsla på mindre yta utan att försaka estetik och bekvämlighet? Eller hur kan smarta lösningar få oss att välja att bo kvar i ett mindre boende även när vi blir fler i familjen, något som inte enbart gynnar miljön utan även den egna plånboken? De blir några av mina utgångspunkter i mitt utforskande. De metoder jag använder i min research är enkäter, intervjuer och egna observationer av min hemmiljö tillsammans med internetsökningar och texter om kompakta boenden, fällbara lösningar och minimalism.  Mina designbeslut tar jag med input från de svar jag får in och min målsättning är att ha minst en produktionsklar modell att visa upp vid Konstfacks vårutställning i maj 2021.

With teleworking becoming an increasingly normalized work arrangement after the Covid-19 pandemic, it opens up possibilities for workers to be located elsewhere than their workplace. This indicates that work-related relocation may not be a necessity anymore for parts of the workforce, because they can choose to work remotely instead of relocating. The overall purpose of the thesis has been to investigate whether the normalization of telework as a part of the employee value proposition’s benefits will make people in the workforce less likely to relocate for work. The employee value proposition theory was used to understand the current role telework has as a part of the benefit component, and how telework may affect the employees' likelihood to relocate for work. Two research questions were used to answer the overall purpose:  Has telework resulted in the benefit component having a greater influence than other components for the workforce? Has telework offered as a benefit made people in the workforce less likely to relocate for work? The research purpose for the study was exploratory and the research approach was a deductive, qualitative study approach. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data and the sampling were selected by both the purposive and snowball sampling method. The sample for the interviews were employees who have a job where it is possible to do teleworking and were between 25-35 years old. After the interviews were conducted, the data was analyzed by using thematic analysis. The finding of the study indicates that the influence of the benefit component did not change compared to previous research and still had a mid-level of importance. It is not likely that telework has made the benefit component to have an overall greater influence compared to other components, but there were components such as affiliation that were very influential when making relocation decisions. It was also found that family members, especially partners and children, were a big influence on relocation decisions. The participants were more likely to consider teleworking instead of relocating when they had partners and children. Several of them could not see themselves only doing teleworking long-term though, because the connection with the colleagues and team at their workplace were also important. The findings of the study indicate that human connection and relationships have become increasingly important for the employees, and this affects both their teleworking and relocation decisions.