Syftet med projektet är att undersöka vad användandet av EPS - cellplast som isolering i platta på mark kan ha för risker och konsekvenser ur byggnadsfysikaliska - och konstruktions aspekter i ett långtidsperspektiv. Arbetet har fokuserat på minskad isoleringsförmåga av fukt, och sättningsskador som beror på krypning av isoleringsmaterialet. Detta undersöks för att kunna uppskatta EPS - cellplaste

Abstract Authors: Linnea Lasson och Zandra Stifanic. Titel: Boys and girls, different or alike? – a gender perspective on children acting out or acting in [Translated title]. Supervisor: Johan Cronehed. Expectations of children in today's society has increased and children who, in some way, express any antisocial behavior that in any way could arouse negative feelings in their surroundings co

A granny job with soft issues, feelings and stuff - A qualitative study of men in a female-dominated profession The purpose of this study was to examine how professional social workers and students in social work education relates to and understands the idea that social work is considered feminine. Another aspect considered in this study is how the widespread predominance of women in social work

Since the beginning of movie-making there has been depictions of ambivalent relationships between young girls and adult males. In the middle of last century the stir caused by Nabokovs novel Lolita (1955), one of the last centurys most famous, and infamous, novels about an adult man obsessed with a not yet pubescent girl, shed light upon this practice. These nymphic girls and their lovers, when ap

Ruts bok får inte särskilt ofta uppmärksamhet och hamnar lätt i periferin. Trots detta har det kring berättelsen om moabitiskan Rut, som söker skydd hos israeliten Boas, skapats en variation av tolkningar. Dessa tolkningar kan dels vara att berättelsen talar om hur en främling ansluter sig till JHWH:s utvalda folk eller till kyrkan, dels kan berättelsen tala om kärleken mellan två kvinnor. Dessuto

The thesis aims at supplementing a critique of the existing international instruments, regional responses and national legislation of the Arctic related to marine environmental protection. With this aim in view, the thesis satisfies its objective by proposing a Bipartite “Arctic Council” acting as a conglomeration of the Arctic States and the Flag States with a hybrid “Arctic treaty”, which is an

Purpose: The goal is to see what an innovation process can make for a package and learn to ron a development project with multiple stakeholders. Theory: The theory chapter strives to provide a picture of how the package works. What factoTs are important and what more a package can offer than just protection for the product? Describe how an innovation process can help a development process and exp

The debate on the relationship between trade and growth is ongoing and the question is if the GATT/WTO contributes to higher trade flows. In this paper, the modern literature relating to trade and growth will be reviewed, as well as the modern literature on the GATT/WTO and trade. Then, I examine how growth has been affected by the GATT/WTO by looking at growth for member countries for a few years

Over the past few decades, digital methods of documentation and exhibition have been becoming ever more popular in museums. As technologies advance, so too do the implications for museum digitization. This thesis provides a glimpse into the current atmosphere of museum digitization, proposes new applications for digital documentation and propagates these themes through the development of a case st

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how psychotherapists describe and understand their own frame breaks in their psychotherapeutic work. Six psychotherapists were interviewed using an explorative and narrative method. The psychotherapists were asked to give an example of a frame break. The data collected as stories were analyzed using a phenomenological and hermeneutical approach,

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur svenska riksdagspartier använder sig av interaktivitet på sina webbsidor under våren 2012. Genom deltagande observationer och kvalitativa intervjuer utforskar jag besökarnas möjlighet till deltagande och förhållandet mellan partiernas interaktivitet och besökarnas deltagande. Först utförs en övergripande redogörelse för webbsidornas upplägg, därefter e

This thesis addresses the correlation between creditor protection and thecross-border seat transfer of companies in the light of the case law of the European Court of Justice concerning the freedom of establishment of undertakings. After the restrictive outcome of Daily Mail, the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Centros took the legal community by surprise. The following cases of Übers

With the new information society and knowledge economy evolve different and more complex requirements to innovation and competitiveness. Scholars and policy makers have emphasized the importance of adapting to ICT and exploit its numerous possibilities, although the exact methods for doing so remain unclear. The integration of ICT in educational institutions and their curricula have been stressed

In 2001 European Union (EU) implemented the Transparency Regulation1 (the „Regulation‟ or the „Transparency Regulation‟) which sets out the principle of open public access to documents. The purpose of the Regulation is to give fullest possible effect to the right of public access to documents and to lay down general principles and limits on such access in accordance with the provisions of the Trea

Popular science Routing or path finding is one of the most popular internet-based systems, which is widely used by citizens and tourists, around the world. These systems provide users with the capability of introducing a start and an end point and then to observe the optimum (e.g. shortest) path between these two points. However, these systems are generally based on internet GIS and can only perfo

This essay seeks to investigate the role of demands for quantifiable and measurable results in Human Rights capacity building projects in development countries. The nature of the work is slow processes, yet the financers need to see results for their investments, to make sure that it goes through the right channels. The Swedish minister of Aid has made statements that show a wish to focus Sweden’s

This thesis is based on an eight week long field-study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with the aim of examining the challenges and opportunities for women’s empowerment through taking a micro-credit loan within a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) named Village Community Bank (VICOBA). This is done because of the posed objective that micro-credit lending to women is a tool for empowering them, there