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This study will try to determine the volatility of the stock returns of various financial institutions in Germany during the time period 1998-2007. The reasoning behind targeting Germany is that it is commonly known as one of the most stable and reliable economies in Europe, where Germany has been chosen as a representative case. The study employs a multifactor model, which incorporates interest r
This Report presents an evaluation method for fire and rescue service management. It focuses on success criteria and lays the groundwork for answering the question What is good management? In this report fire and rescue service management is defined as complex and the fire and rescue service as a complex system. This complicates evaluation, which now has to include complexity. A major part of this
ABSTRACT The paper will describe the comparative study of the GST bill 2010 of Pakistan and the EU VAT. The Bill is drafted for the purpose to introduce the modern VAT in Pakistan. The comparative study has been made to analyze the basic concept and difference of both these legal instruments. The difference between both these legislations makes the GST Bill vulnerable to the tax abuse or tax evasi
Det här examensarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av ett utdrag ur en amerikansk kriminalbok som är grundligt baserad på en verklig händelse. Uppsatsen består av två delar – först en analys av källtexten som framför allt utgår från Hellspong och Ledins (1997) textanalysmetod, och sedan följer en kommentar på översättningen där jag diskuterar mina tillvägagångssätt med sådant som varit problema
This essay analyses to what extent the Latin American countries of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, within the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), fulfil the criteria for an optimum currency area (OCA). It does so by applying the theory of optimum currency areas (Mundell 1961), and by examining the different factors of asymmetric s
The objective of this comparative study has been to investigate how and if cannabis use constitutes a social problem in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The purpose was to gain an understanding of how different political, institutional and legal environments might affect the understanding of cannabis use and the constitution of social problems. The empirical material consists of 21 interviews with cannab
According to the World Bank Group, social capital is an important factor in the process of fighting poverty in developing countries, and some researchers mean that cooperative organizations are the ultimate business model to create social capital (Majee & Hoyt, 2011). The aim of this study is to investigate whether or not social capital is emerging in a Philippine water cooperative, funded by
The pourpose of this thesis was to investigate how counselors working at the youth clinic views the clinic's function and how they address teenagers' sexuality. Four different counselors in Skåne, Sweden were interviewed, using a qualitity approach. The result shows that the counselors considered the youth clinic as a free zone for young people and a meeting place where they can be compreh
Author: Anette Olsson Title: Have a drink – be a sport? Study of a reader debate concerning the drinking habits of parents on Aftonbladet.se. Supervisor: Håkan Jönson The aim of this study is to through a readers debate, sparked by an article in the media, look at as to whether the drinking habits of a parent could be considered as being problematic or not. I chose to view the debate from a social
Med uppsatsen har vi bidragit till att skapa en större förståelse för de faktorer som påverkat spridningen av modulhus inom bostadsmarknaden för studentbostäder. Vår huvudsakliga slutsats är att den svenska marknaden för bostadsbyggande i allmänhet och för studentbostäder i synnerhet gör kommunen till avgörande för spridningen av modulhus. Kommunernas perceptioner av modulhusens relativa fördelar
Focus in this examination project is put on researching basic techniques for structuring decision-making and pathfinding for the artificial intelligence in computer games. Already implemented examples of these structures are summarized and compared to each other to choose fitting solutions to use together with the game engine Unity for the development of a specific game called Unkown. For decision
Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa förståelse för närvaron och skapandet av ett systematiskt säkerhetsarbete och en säkerhetskultur inom en sjukhusorganisation. Uppsatsen kommer att fokusera på två organisatoriska nivåer, administration och professionella utövare, inom ett sjukhus i södra Sverige och studera deras förhållningssätt och arbete kring systematiskt säkerhetsarbete och säkerhe
Sammanfattning Titel: Från ensam till en i mängden – en studie om val, krav och förväntningar på den omreglerade apoteksmarknaden. Universitet/ Institution: Institutionen för Service Management vid Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg. Kurs: SMKK01 Nivå: Kandidatuppsats, 15 hp Författare: Jon Ekelund Nilsson, Josefin Lidberg, Wiktoria Pawyza Handledare: Birgitta Olsson & Eva Åström Problemdis
The purpose of my study was to examine care staff and unit heads perceptions and experiences in cultural meetings, both within the staff groups and within the recipients of care in the home service. I wanted to investigate what these cultural meetings means in the work with the elderly, how it is noticed and affects their work. The study is based on a qualitative research method with interviews of
The aim of this study was to highlight preschool teacher´s thoughts about their mandatory reporting duty, in relation to their own actions and the social service. Several studies show that there is a difference between how many children that is suspected maltreated and how many children are reported to social service. I conducted interviews with five preschool teachers who are employed at municipa
Children with mentally ill parents have been invisible for a long period of time. The aim of the study was to give a better insight in how the childhood of these children can be. I’ve done a qualitative text analysis of five self-biographic books. I’ve studied these books with help of development ecology and attachment theory. I’ve also been looking at the resilience and factors that have an influ
The purpose of this paper was to examine if there was an experience of alienation in a student association and what the meaning of the usage of symbols and having a commitment within a group meant to maintain the group identity. Using a quantitative method the research analyzed answers from students in the student association at the university of technology in Lund. The theory in this paper was co
By now I’ve probably filled an ocean - crisis management and how to move on after losing someone The purpose of this study was to examine how people manage crisis after someone’s death and if there are different phases while in grief. Cullberg’s theory of crisis is used as an analytical tool. The method I employed was document analysis of eight blogs and ten posts on different open Internet commu
Under konferensen TED-Global 2009 uppträdde författarinnan Chimamanda Adichie med The Danger of a single story som vill varna för det ensidiga berättandets stigmatiserande konsekvenser. Då talet är uppbyggt av berättelser förenas det litterära och det retoriska. Med analysmetoden Narrative Criticism ville jag undersöka hur några narrativa strategier rörande berättelsens karaktärer, dess sceniska p
