Search for dissertations about: "Children"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 2939 swedish dissertations containing the word Children.

  2. 1. Children helping children? : Values and concerns in corporate charity

    Author : Yelyzaveta Hrechaniuk; Anna Sparrman; David Moats; Nick Lee; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Competitions for children; Children s drawings; Creativity; Soft toys; Child design; Play; Child perspective; Children s perspective; Consumption; Money; Tävlingar för barn; Barnteckningar; Kreativitet; Mjukdjur; Design; Lek; Barnperspektiv; Barns perspektiv; Konsumtion; Pengar;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore corporate children's charity in practice. This is achieved by examining empirically a campaign organized by the company IKEA in collaboration with the non-profit organization Save the Children. READ MORE

  4. 2. TV FOR CHILDREN : How the Swedish Public Service Television Imagines a Child Audience

    Author : Åsa Pettersson; Anna Sparrman; Bengt Sandin; Cynthia Carter; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Children; television; public service; child audience; TV programming; Barn; TV; public service; barnpublik; TV program;

    Abstract : The study explores how the Swedish public service TV institution imagines a child audience in a societal context where the broadcasting landscape hastransformed greatly over the past thirty years and where TV is seen to  constitute both risks and benefits for children. The concept of TV for children is established to broaden the scope for studying what has been broadcast for a child audience on public service TV. READ MORE

  5. 3. Children with cancer : focusing on their fear and on how their fear is handled

    Author : Agneta Anderzén-Carlsson; Venke Sörlie; Mona Kihlgren; Olof Rydén; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Children; cancer; fear; handling; Medicine; Medicin; Medicin; Medicine;

    Abstract : Various fears in children with cancer have previously been identified as a result of studying e.g. symptom experiences, distress and uncertainty within this population. Studies of the meaning the children give to their fear, as well as the handling of their fear seem to be sparse, however. READ MORE

  6. 4. Children Lost and Found : A bioarchaeological study of Middle Helladic children in Asine with a comparison to Lerna

    Author : Anne Ingvarsson-Sundström; Robert Arnott; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; children; archaeology; osteology; Asine; Lerna; Middle Helladic; skeletons; age; subadults; graves; growth; health; weaning; mortality; fetuses; infants; mortuary ritual; Bronze Age.; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : This study focusses on children’s living conditions during the Middle Helladic period in Greece. The primary material comprises disarticulated skeletal remains found in a stratigraphic context during the Swedish excavations of Asine in 1926: 4,583 fragments/complete bones. READ MORE

  7. 5. Chosen Children? : An empirical study and a philosophical analysis of moral aspects of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and germ-line gene therapy

    Author : Kristin Zeiler; Lennart Nordenfelt; Gunilla Tegern; Karin Sporre; Åge Wifstaad; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Empirical ethics; pre-implantation genetic diagnosis; germ-line gene therapy; qualitative research; philosophical analysis; medical progress; genetic disease; choice; auautonomous; ambivalence; trust; genetic identity; Genterapi; biologisk etik; medicinsk etik; preimplanatorisk genetisk diagnostik; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Abstract : With pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), genetic testing and selective transfer of embryos is possible. In the future, germ-line gene therapy (GLGT) applied to embryos before implantation, in order to introduce missing genes or replace mutant ones, may be possible. READ MORE