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The aim of the study was to examine the association between different life areas and youth’s engagement in gambling. The life areas focused in the study were relationships with parents, school, friends and mental health. The study used cross-sectional data from the Stockholm Survey collected in 2020 among students in the ninth grade in elementary school and in the second grade of upper secondary school in Stockholm (n=4495). The results were analyzed using Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory. The results showed that youth whose parents had more insight into their child’s life were less likely to have engaged in gambling during the past 12 months. Parental permission to gamble showed positive correlations to youth having gambled within the last 12 months. Having a more negative school environment and more experiences of psychosomatic symptoms also showed positive correlations to youth gambling within the last 12 months. The study concludes that (1) increased parental presence and restrictions regarding parent’s acceptance of gambling can reduce the risk of youth gambling, (2) creating a positive school environment could reduce youth gambling, (3) adults, such as parents and teachers, could have a key role in detecting youth gambling since gambling may manifest as psychosomatic symptoms.

In recent years, the pervasive issue of bullying, particularly in academic institutions, has witnessed a surge in attention. This report centers around the utilization of the Friends Dataset and Graph Machine Learning to detect possible instances of bullying in an educational setting. The importance of this research lies in the potential it has to enhance early detection and prevention mechanisms, thereby creating safer environments for students. Leveraging graph theory, Neo4j, Graph Data Science Library, and similarity algorithms, among other tools and methods, we devised an approach for processing and analyzing the dataset. Our method involves data preprocessing, application of similarity and community detection algorithms, and result validation with domain experts. The findings of our research indicate that Graph Machine Learning can be effectively utilized to identify potential bullying scenarios, with a particular focus on discerning community structures and their influence on bullying. Our results, albeit preliminary, represent a promising step towards leveraging technology for bullying detection and prevention.

The purpose of this integrated review of the literature was to explore the effects of social support on diabetes-related stress, conflict, and metabolic control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Social support was examined in four subgroups: adolescents with T1DM, family caregivers, peers, and teachers. Relevant findings in the literature revealed a significant deficiency of research devoted to adolescent males with diabetes as well as fathers as primary and secondary caregivers. Studies highlighted the importance of fostering autonomy and positive self-image in adolescents with T1DM and described effective interventions to improve diabetes-related stress, reduce disease-related conflict, and improve metabolic control. Findings suggested that nurses caring for adolescents with T1DM and their families should foster positive, open communication, while identifying barriers to problem solving, coping, stress, and optimal glycemic control. Interventions that educate caregivers and peers on how to better communicate and provide support are critical in fostering positive psychological and physiological outcomes in the adolescent with T1DM. The findings of this study may provide guidance in the way that nurses assess, identify, and counsel adolescents with TIDM regarding their disease management and access to support systems.

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My thesis studies Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth to redress the unjust neglect of Hartley’s work, and to reach a more positive understanding of Dorothy’s conflicted literary relationship with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I provide a complete reassessment of the often narrowly read prose and poetry of these two critically marginalized figures, and also investigate the relationships that affected their lives, literary self-constructions, and reception; in this way, I restore a more accurate account of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers, and also highlight both the inhibiting and cathartic affects of writing from within a familial literary context. My analysis of the writings of Hartley and Dorothy and the dialogues in which they engage with the works of STC and William, argues that both Hartley and Dorothy developed a strong relational poetics in their endeavour to demarcate their independent subjectivities. Furthermore, through a survey of the significance of the sibling bond – literal and figurative – in the texts and lives of all these writers, I demonstrate a theory of influence which recognizes lateral, rather than paternal, kinship as the most influential relationship. I thus conclude that authorial identity is not fundamentally predetermined by, and dependent on, gender or literary inheritance, but is more significantly governed by domestic environment, familial readership, and immediate kinship. My thesis challenges the long-standing misconceptions that Hartley was unable to achieve a strong poetic identity in STC’s shadow, and that Dorothy’s independent authorial endeavour was primarily thwarted by gender. To replace these misreadings, I foreground the successful literary independence of both writers: my approach reinstates Hartley Coleridge’s literary standing as a major poet who bridged Romanticism and Victorian literature, and promotes Dorothy Wordsworth as one of the finest descriptive writers of nature and relationship.

Västerländska och ryska perspektivär oförenliga. Detsamma gäller för uppfattningenom mjuk makt. När möjliga framtida scenarion av rysk utrikes-och säkerhetspolitik analyserasär ettav det mest framträdande skapandet av nya och kreativa metoder för att försvaga motståndare utan att tillgripa militära medel. Aktiva åtgärder är en uppsättning av sådana instrument. Ur ett akademiskt perspektiv är det förbryllande att en av de främsta experterna på rysk mjuk makt, holländaren Marcel H. van Herpen, förbisåg aktiva åtgärder som metod för att främja rysk mjuk makt i sin teori som beskrivs i Putin’s Propaganda Machine. Studien har en teoritestande ansats och undersöker samma instanser av mjuk makt som Herpen i den tidigare nämnda boken men adderar ytterligare en dimension till forskningen, nämligen aktiva åtgärder. Dessa analyseras med stöd av ett modifierat metodologiskt ramverk av Jonas J. Driedger. Slutsatsen av denna studie är främst att Herpens teori är tekniskt korrekt men de facto saknar relevanta dimensioner. Således kan teorin enbart demonstrera fall av rysk mjuk makt, men inte förklara eller operationalisera. Genom att addera perspektivet aktiva åtgärder för att analysera fallen i källor, metoder och konsekvenser, stärks den vetenskapliga förståelsen för mjuka maktmedel i den ryska arsenalen. Studien resulterar även i utvecklingen av en metod för att upptäcka ryska mjuka maktmedel med hjälp av identifiering av aktiva åtgärder. Vidare påvisas även att flertalet mjuka maktförstärkande strategier används för att genomföra Kremls aktiva åtgärder samt ryska utrikespolitiska mål i allmänhet, vilket framgår av de kvalitativa fallstudier som presenteras. Slutligen ifrågasätter resultaten av studien och efterföljande analys den västerländska uppfattningen om mjuk makt som en global företeelse. / Западная и российская точки зрения несовместимы. То же самое относится и к понятию мягкой силы. При анализе возможных будущих сценариев внешней политики и политики безопасности России одним из наиболее примечательных является создание новых и креативных методов ослабления противников без применения военных средств. Активные меры представляют собой набор таких инструментов. С академической точки зрения вызывает недоумение тот факт, что один из ведущих экспертов по российской мягкой силе, голландец Марсель ван Херпен, упустил это из виду в своей теории, описанной вкниге «Путинская пропагандистская машина».  Настоящее, исследование основано на проверке теории и, таким образом, рассматривает те же примеры мягкой силы, что и Херпен в ранее упомянутой книге, но добавляет к исследованию  ещё одно параметр, а именно активные мероприятия. Они проанализированы при поддержке модифицированной методологической базы Джонаса Дж. Дредджера. Вывод исследования в основном состоит в том, что теория Херпена технически верна, но в теории фактически не хватает некоторых важных аспектов. Таким образом, теория может только продемонстрировать случаи российской мягкой силы, но не объяснить или операционализировать их. Другим результатом исследования является разработка метода выявления российских мягких средств силы посредством выявления активных мероприятий. Кроме этого, нами показано, что большинство стратегий усиления мягкой силы используется для реализации активных мероприятий Кремля, а также целей внешней политики России в целом, что видно из представленных в работе качественных тематических исследований. Результаты исследования и последующего анализа ставят под сомнение западное представление о мягкой силе как о глобальном явлении.

This study is a cultural and political analysis of the emergence and deterioration of the relationship between George Washington and Thomas Paine. It is informed by modern studies in Atlantic history and culture. It presents the falling out of the two Founding Fathers as a reflection of two competing political cultures, as well as a function of the class aspirations of Washington and Paine. It chronologically examines the two men's interaction with one another from the early days of the American Revolution to the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. Along the way this study highlights the dynamics that characterized the Washington-Paine relationship and shows how the two men worked together to further their own agendas. This study also points to Thomas Paine's involvement with a web of Democratic Societies in America and to Washington's increasing wariness and suspicion of these Societies as agents of insurrection.