September 3, 2014, 2:07 am
Maria Vestergaard Aabye, Line Sophia Jensen
Social Work, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master Thesis
- Maria Vestergaard Aabye
- Line Sophia Jensen
4. term,
Social Work, Master (Master Programme)
In the spring of 2013 a new asylum agreement was implemented in the Danish Aliens Act. The agreement contains the possibility for asylum seekers in Denmark to live outside the asylum centres after a period of six month. With this amendment the conditions for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers changed. Before, unaccompanied minor asylum seekers with family living in the country could stay with their family as soon as arriving to Denmark. This was an opportunity if it was in the best interest of the child. Now they have to live in an asylum centre for six month while their application is being processed before they can live with their family. This new situation demands that unaccompanied minor asylum seekers have the competences to handle these circumstances.
The first part of this thesis address the rights of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Denmark compared to other children in Denmark. We point out examples concerning the academic level in the asylum schools and how it is generally much lower than in Danish elementary schools. These differences hold the unaccompanied minor asylum seekers from having access to higher education in the same extent as Danish children. In addition we find that the Danish Alien Act is concerned about the fact that asylum seekers should stay in asylum centres. This dominates the idea that children should grow up in a family environment. This is in spite of the fact, that this particular right normally characterize the Danish Act on Social Services and the UNCRC.
The second, and primary, part of the thesis is based on qualitative analyses of interviews with four unaccompanied minor asylum seekers. They all have family in Denmark, but due to the amendment in the Aliens Act, they are held from staying with the family in a period of up to six month. We are interested in how these children experience and handle their situation. In this matter we include the theoretical perspectives of Suniya S. Luthar, Aaron Antonovsky and Hilchen Sommerschild, and their theories of coping and resilience.
We find that the minors activates and use different coping strategies in their attempt to withstand some of the adverse factors that life in an asylum centre offers. We find that these coping strategies depend on their sense of coherence.
Especially a tough and violent environment where drugs and alcohol sometimes dominates the atmosphere at the centre seems to be hard to handle. This life is far from the life they had expected with their family in Denmark. We also find that their experiences of being put aside in their own life are another dominating vulnerability factor.
Despite these vulnerable factors, we find that our informants are handling their life situation okay. They seem to be able to use different internal and external resources, which helps them to activate and use their coping strategies. Especially the fact that they have family living in the country, who offers them comfort and mentally support, seem to be a protective factor for the unaccompanied minors. For example the family reminds them of their cultural background. But the lack of this protective factor in the every day life is on the other hand very hard to accept and deal with. The fact that the family live close to them, and at the same time are unavailable due to the amendment is hard to understand and deal with. In extension to this, we find that the longing for the family may become so dominant that it can hinder their coping skills.
To cope with the absence of the family, we find that the minors use the adults affiliated with the center. These employees give them somewhat care and adult presence in their everyday life. In addition we find that competences like social skills, sports and activities are important and works as pastime and as a break from the serious and severe situation that dominates their life as unaccompanied minor asylum seeker.
Overall, we find that these minor asylum seekers have a life that requires great coping skills in a life already characterized by uncertainty, anxiety and traumatic experiences. Hereby we find it hard to explain the logical reasons why these children should be exposed to further adversities in an asylum centre. Based on our study, it seems that the logic of the Aliens Act are more based on considerations of border control, than to the interest of the child. These considerations lead us to the conclusion that the new circumstances for accommodations for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers with family living in the country should be reviewed. Concerns for the child and interests of the child should be the same for children seeking asylum and Danish children.
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | 3 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 113 |
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| Publishing institution | Aalborg Universitet |
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September 7, 2014, 12:13 pm
Jan Sørensen, Jens Nikolaj Rahbek
Master of Information Technology, Software Development (Continuing education), (Continuing Education Programme (Master)) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Continuing Education (Master): Final Project
- Jan Sørensen
- Jens Nikolaj Rahbek
4. term,
Master of Information Technology, Software Development (Continuing education) (Continuing Education Programme (Master))
In this thesis we are analyzing the possibility to use TDD as a design paradigm for small embedded systems. To demonstrate the workflow we implement a controller for a remote controlled quadrocopter. The controller is implemented in C++ for an AVR ATmega32 using Eclipse and google test frame. We end up with a fully functional quadrotorcopter implemented sorely via TDD. We compare TDD for embedded and traditional PC development, and we show how software development can be started even before any hardware exists. Furthermore, we also look briefly on simulation of the embedded code and automated schedulability analysis. We conclude that TDD is as effective for embedded development, as is for traditional PC applications.
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | 7 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 60 |
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September 5, 2014, 2:11 am
Josefine Andrea Stokholm Jørgensen
Sociology, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master Thesis
- Josefine Andrea Stokholm Jørgensen
4. term,
Sociology, Master (Master Programme)
The socio-cultural element in integration processes has been identified as one of the main issues that may help explain the failure of many mergers and acquisitions. In spite of the fact that cultural and individual elements are highlighted as the key to successful integration, they most often appear as neglected and deprioritized aspects that receive little attention in practice.
In the context of an acquisition between two companies the initial phase of the integration of 87 consultants is analyzed through the concept of organizational identity. Focusing on the socio-cultural and individual aspects, organizational identity appears as the theoretical perspective in which it is possible to identify the main components that are (in)effective in terms of achieving a successful socio-cultural integration. This study attempts to examine the role played by the construction of a common organizational identity, through a realistic evaluation approach as a framework for enhancing the success of the integration. The realistic evaluation model offers a way of designing and evaluating inter-organizational changes by including context, mechanisms, and processes and generating knowledge about what works for whom, under what circumstances, and how. Combining local contextual factors such as three dimensions of management communication and the employees’ readiness for change as mechanisms, this study takes on a retrospective examination of the potentials and barriers of the integration process in terms of the development of a common organizational identity. The empirical foundation of the evaluation is a mixed method study, consisting of: 1) a questionnaire for all employees where the contextual factors and mechanisms were measured by validated scales using a healthy change process index (HCPI), 2) three focus group interviews utilized as a means to discover the employee experiences concerning the integration process and how this process creates either opportunities or constraints in the development of a common new organizational identity.
Overall, the realistic evaluation shows that the integration process has not led to the development of a common organizational identity. The empirical analysis shows that the crucial barrier, which has limited the formation of a common organizational identity, is in fact the employees’ lack of physical contact and professional affiliation to other employees because of organizational isolation. Additional barriers appear in the sense of employee dissatisfaction with management communication, which, as a consequence of lack of visible leadership, lack of information and lack of involvement has resulted in increased job insecurity.
In spite of this, the empirical evidence shows that these factors have not triggered the resistance to integration which was expected according to theory and in fact the employees continue to express great interest and hope to become an integrated part of the new company. This surprising result can be explained based on the employee characteristic of high readiness for change, which has been enhanced throughout the integration process and has been even further strengthened by contextual factors such as the prior poor working conditions at the former company. This evaluation thus substantiates the need for evaluations of organizational change to include process and contextual relations and not be limited by the fact that expected results would appear or not.
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | 7 Aug 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 142 |
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Martin Kibsgaard Jørgensen
Medialogy, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master Thesis
- Martin Kibsgaard Jørgensen
4. term,
Medialogy, Master (Master Programme)
I try to improve communication during training with the da Vinci robotic surgery system, by allowing a trainer to visually communicate with a trainee by augmenting the stereoscopic video stream.
I have investigated the video hardware of the da Vinci systems and implemented a system that is able to input, output and overlay video streams compatible with all the systems.
Additionally, I added support for multiple 3D user input devices.
As an initial test and an example of how to use the developed system, virtual instruments have been added to the system. In the test, the virtual instruments were overlaid the stereoscopic video stream of the da Vinci S system in real-time.
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 26 Aug 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 52 |
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September 10, 2014, 2:20 am
Lyubomir Stoyanov Dimov
Software Development, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master Thesis
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September 10, 2014, 2:24 am
Petr Jasek
Software Development, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master Thesis
4. term,
Software Development, Master (Master Programme)
The topic of the thesis is research of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and how it has changed in last 15 years. It was done using descriptive and later exploratory research. The thesis aims to explain TDD with all its benefits and shortcomings. It focuses on detail facts that are sometimes misunderstood and it lists some of the most widely spread myths and misconceptions and tries to explain or disprove them. The thesis also examines the idea of "TDD is dead". Which was created by David Heinemeier Hansson and stirred up somehow quiet discussion about TDD. In conclusion, the thesis lists the valid critiques of TDD and proposes some ways how could TDD address the criticized problems.
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 10 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 59 |
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September 3, 2014, 12:50 am
Mette Dehn
Social Work, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Social Work, Master (Master Programme)
Abstract
The present thesis examines the challenges that health visitors face in their work to ensure that children of mothers diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are given adequate growth and development conditions. It also looks into what knowledge health visitors have about this disorder and how they contribute to safeguarding children through relevant health initiatives.
Based upon a number of studies it is shown that there is reason for close attention to children of mothers with borderline personality disorder as this disorder in a mother may imply overbearing behaviour towards the child, reduced ability to regulate the child, hostility towards the child, poor expression of emotions vis-à-vis the child, and poorly regulated communication between mother and child.
It is argued that the study is relevant in the context of social work and in relation to the impact of a given borderline condition on the relation between mother and child. The Child Health Care system is described in a brief historical outline leading to an explanation of the health visitor profession as well as the framework guiding them in their work.
The thesis also describes the borderline personality disorder, the diagnostic systems used, the aetiology of diagnosis and gives a short presentation of the diagnostic debate that has prevailed over time.
The study is qualitative and uses interviews with health visitors as empirical data. The Canadian-American sociologist and social psychologist Erving Goffman provides the theoretical foundation for the analysis of the health visitors’ stories, and draws on Goffman’s deviation sociological theory as well as his everyday-life sociological theory of the importance of roles in interactions.
The first part of the analysis shows that health visitors largely focus on the link between mother and child and thus weigh the observation of mother-child interaction without necessarily focusing on the potential impact on the child of a borderline diagnosis. Applying Goffman's everyday-life sociological theory, the analysis shows that, when backstage, health visitors reflect on their own practice, conscious that when acting frontstage, their social interactions in the interaction with mothers / families are important. On the deviation sociological theory the analysis shows that health visitors contribute to enhancing the competence of mothers and thus are fundamentally sympathetic towards possibly diagnosed mothers.
The second part of the analysis shows that health visitors experience that interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration is subject to difficulties in the form of lengthy procedures and the lack of communication. They experience their own profession as primarily preventive and guiding with a unique knowledge of the early relationship between mother and child. In a multidisciplinary and intersectoral context they have the experience that this unique knowledge is not to a sufficient extent taken into account in the cooperation concerning families.
The study concludes that health visitors have varying degrees of knowledge about borderline personality disorder and that their knowledge depends on prior experience and / or personal interest in psychiatry. It is concluded that health visitors use their professional knowledge to maintain a professional façade. They have a feeling that via external partners they could be better equipped to handle the meeting with diagnosed mothers. It is also concluded that health visitors make use of the options that are embedded in their own professional guidelines but that they also have an impression of having limited options. When it comes to ensuring children of mothers with a borderline diagnosis adequate growth and development conditions, health visitors see limitations of their own options as well as limitations that are outside their field of competence.
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 101 |
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September 9, 2014, 11:47 pm
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Fernando Vidal Puche
Structural and Civil Engineering, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Structural and Civil Engineering, Master (Master Programme)
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 88 |
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| External collaborator | Rambøll Offshore Wind - Esbjerg Mr Christof Wehmeyer cfw@ramboll.com Place of Internship |
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September 10, 2014, 1:11 am
Bjarke Bendiksen
Structural and Civil Engineering, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Structural and Civil Engineering, Master (Master Programme)
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 10 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 77 |
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| External collaborator | Rambøll Oil&Gas Esbjerg Ulf Tyge Tygesen utt@ramboll.com Other |
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September 12, 2014, 1:44 am
Jonas Daugaard Hulstrøm
Nanotechnology, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Nanotechnology, Master (Master Programme)
The aim of the project was to construct and test a setup for producing size selected
copper clusters using a magnetron sputtering source. The cluster deposition apparatus
has been constructed and a series of experiments were performed to determine the
deposition parameters for maximum cluster beam intensity. Different substrate materials
were studied which was best suited for further deposition. At the end the cluster
size selection was tested at different electrostatic quadropole mass spectrometer (QMS)
voltages. Atomic force microscopy revealed that the cluster size increases with the QMS
voltage, which is in agreement with the theoretical prediction.
| Specialisation | Nanophysics and -materials |
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| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 12 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 53 |
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September 17, 2014, 10:33 pm
Brian Albinus Graugaard
Surveying, Planning and Land Management (cand.geom.), Master, (Master Programme) 4. semester, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. semester,
Surveying, Planning and Land Management (cand.geom.), Master (Master Programme)
There are a need for a new kind of planning for the rural areas, which integrates use, protection and
production. Landscape Futures (Fremtidens landskaber) are developing a new type of planning, and try to
conceptualize a new way of planning for the rural areas, called lokale områdeplaner.
The scope of this project is to investigate whether land consolidation will work as a tool to help realize this
type of planning, and furthermore give advice on how land consolidation can be a part of the planning
process. The project uses a case from Nordmors, where there have been conducted a survey amongst the
larger agricultural holdings in the area, so that their attitude towards the area, the planning and land
consolidation could be clarified.
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | 18 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 74 |
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September 9, 2014, 2:01 am
Jesper Agerbo
Geography, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Geography, Master (Master Programme)
Formålet med denne opgave er at bidrage til den uddannelsesgeografiske forskning i Danmark ved hjælp af en argumentation for det konstruktive i at anvende et mere nuanceret stedsbegreb. I den hidtidige danske uddannelsesgeografiske forsknings beskæftigelse med at forsøge at forstå og forklare væsentlige problemstillinger i forhold til geografiske uligheder i unges uddannelsesadfærd og muligheder, ses der en tendens til at tilgangen til geografien og komplekse rumlige problemstillinger reduceres til overforsimplede abstraktioner på baggrund af en utilstrækkelig forståelse for sted. På baggrund af en teoretisk udfoldelse af forskellige geografiske traditioners tilgang til stedsbegrebet skabes der et metodisk grundlag for at vurdere og diskutere tre eksempler på aktuel dansk uddannelsesgeografisk forskning tilgang og udbytte af deres rumlige begrebsforståelse. Samlet set finder opgaven at uddannelsesgeografiske problemstillinger er så komplekse, og har så omfattende en sammenhæng til overordnede samfundsforhold at en kritisk og nuanceret stedsforståelse, der tager højde for problemstillingen i dens specifikke situering og omfattende og sammenhængende kontekst af interne og eksterne relationer, kunne bidrage til den videre uddannelsesgeografiske forskning.
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | 9 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 97 |
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September 18, 2014, 11:51 pm
Heidi Schrøder Hindsgavl
Social Work, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Social Work, Master (Master Programme)
In this master thesis I will examine how three different agents interpret a youth club in Northwest of Copenhagen, Ydre Nørrebro, as meaningful social facility. The three agents are the highest level of municipal decision making, the street-level employees and the ethnic minority youth for whom the facility is made. I will show how the agents operate on three diverse levels in the munici-pality (on makro, meso and micro-level). I will show how these agents interpret the youth club as meaningful in different ways. The interest for this theme was gained through previous work experience. In my work as a social worker in the municipality I repeatedly observed, how different staff members interpret the purpose of the social work in significantly different ways. From this empirical background it was my experience and assumption that there would be discrep-ancies in the way the different agents interpret and understand the social work.
The thesis is contextualized through an analysis of current legislation and statistics about the user group. Existing research shows there is limited available research about youth clubs as particular arenas for ethnic youth and thus em-pasize the importance of studies like this.
The Master’s Thesis builds on an ethnographic fieldwork which I conducted over a period of three weeks in a Danish youth club. The aim of the fieldwork was to gain knowledge about how the staff and the ethnic minority youth inter-pret and behave the club as a meaningful social space. Data gathered from the fieldwork consisted of observations and interviews, through which I sought to qualify subjective observations of agents with explanations and narratives. As it proved difficult to participants for interviews, only one semi-structured inter-view was conducted, which will be supplemented by narratives from conversa-tions with youth and staff during participant observation in the club.
The theoretical framework of the thesis is a synthesis of concepts from dif-ferent paradigms. Organisational analysis builds on the works of Jacobsen and Thorsvik. Lipsky’s concepts are used to analyse staff’s interpretation of the club as meaningful. Lastly the findings about youth arenas are discussed in relation to other empirical studies of different youth arenas by Rasmussen, Røgilds, Johansen and Illeris et al. In this discussion the sparetime arena (fritidslivsarena) appeared especially significant for the analysis.
By applying these different theoretical contributions analysis shows that the three agents interpret the meaning of the youth club differently. The analysis shows, that the youth club is functions as a drop-in centre for the ethnic minor-ities which they perceive as meaningful. In contrast, the highest level of munci-pal decision making does not perceive it as meaningful when the ethnic youth use the youth clubs as drop in centres but instead aim for youth clubs which can help young people with their problems such as delinquency.
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | 19 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 134 |
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| Publishing institution | Aalborg Universitet |
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September 19, 2014, 12:40 am
Anja Henriksen
Psychology, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Psychology, Master (Master Programme)
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | 19 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 64 |
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September 19, 2014, 1:31 am
Milda Uzdavinyte Olsen
Psychology, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
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September 30, 2014, 1:01 am
Camilla Stolt Nielsen
Social Work, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Social Work, Master (Master Programme)
Managing emotions in professional social work characterized by modern management thinking
| Language | Danish |
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| Publication date | 30 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 109 |
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Edith Chenga Chamwi, Edith Chenga Chamwi
Social Work, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
- Edith Chenga Chamwi
- Edith Chenga Chamwi
4. term,
Social Work, Master (Master Programme)
This research aims to investigate the lived experiences of the street children in Moshi- Tanzania, although street children can be found in all over Tanzania, and the perspectives may vary regionally. The main purpose of the study was to describe and get the diversified responses of the street children’s experiences directly from the point of view of the street children themselves, in order to come up with a social work intervention that the children think might support them.
In most cases the beneficial agencies, such as government institutions and non-government institutions are to define the phenomenon- street children. But this study wanted to get directly involved to the lives of the street children.
The study took place in Moshi- Tanzania. I spent seven weeks on the street with children. The theoretical methodology of the study is guided by a constructivism research paradigm, and hermeneutic phenomenology approach. This approach was appropriate as it is descriptive, and it attempts to take hold of things as they appear, and interpretive. Children were my basic focus for the knowledge and data acquisition during the entire research process through which they contributed to the data collection stage, with the aim being to achieve insight into their experience and perspectives as well as their everyday lives on the street. The primary instrument for the collection of data was a semi-structured interview, and observation documentation.
In all, eight (8) children were interviewed, and 3 adults officials from the department of social welfare in Moshi region, a number of social educators, and an official from non-governmental.
The research results were shown that poverty, Rural-Urban disparity, cultural practices as well as the effects of Structural Adjustment programs (SAPs), contributed directly or indirectly to the phenomenon of street children. But these research results are common to many other studies, that have been conducted in the rest of African continent. However what surprised me was the unique name, that keeps on reoccurring during the fieldwork. “Masoro.” Masoro is being used by the majority of the street children in Moshi. It is the name “Masoro”, which the children identify with. This could be understood as “street children” have accepted that they are masoro and live like masoro.
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 2 Oct 2014 |
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September 13, 2014, 3:47 pm
Afonso Fernandes Lopes Marques Eduardo
Wireless Communication Systems, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
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October 1, 2014, 11:25 pm
Louise Gade
Psychology, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
4. term,
Psychology, Master (Master Programme)
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 2 Oct 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 61 |
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| External collaborator | Unit for Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Jesper Mogensen jesper.mogensen@psy.ku.dk Place of Internship |
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September 24, 2014, 3:28 am
Joann Mari Glorioso Rexen Busk
Urban Design, Master, (Master Programme) 4. term, 2014
Student thesis: Master thesis
- Joann Mari Glorioso Rexen Busk
4. term,
Urban Design, Master (Master Programme)
The project takes its point of departure in the neighbourhood renewal of Vesterbro, - an initiative supported by the municipality of Copenhagen. The overall subject of the project is how to create living urban spaces in a Vesterbro, which can accommodate a wide range of users. The report confer the socio cultural challenges faced in Vesterbro and how can you approach designing for a diverse and broad range of users through a set of altered urban interventions.
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 24 Sep 2014 |
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| Number of pages | 88 |
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