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In the context of English marine insurance law, a warranty is a contractual obligation of the assured to perform a certain duty or to ascertain or to negate a certain state of facts. The Marine Insurance Act of 1906 (MIA) further establishes that a warranty must be exactly complied with and does not need to be material to the risk. Where the assured fails to fulfil the warranty, the insurer will b

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka effekten av attraktivitet för bedömningar av värmeegenskaper, kompetensegenskaper samt anställningslämplighet och om dessa bedömningar varierar beroende på om bedömaren fått en varning eller inte om att fysisk attraktivitet kan påverka bedömningen. En enkät skapades med 16 ansökningar till en arbetsannons som programmerare. För hälften av ansökningarna varThe purpose of this study was to examine the effect that attractiveness have on judgment of individuals concerning qualities of warmth, competence and suitability for hiring. Also if these judgments vary depending on the judger received a warning or not, that physical attractiveness can affect judgment. A survey containing 16 applicants for a job as a programmer was created. Half of the applicants

Thesis purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to increase the understanding regarding the influence of brand personality on the consumers’ willingness to pay a price premium. Thereby it is of central interest to find out which brand personality traits make consumers pay a price premium. Additionally, it is investigated whether it is the same traits that induce consumers to pay more compared to tho

Recent studies have shown that increased liquidity is perhaps not always strictly beneficial and that high trading volumes can produce trading noise causing increased volatility above that based on fundamentals. This study investigates whether this applies to the Swedish stock market by analyzing dual-class stocks that have the same cash flow rights but different control rights and different tradi

The aim of this thesis is to investigate indirect advisory services directed at adult readers of fiction in Swedish public libraries. Our interest in the subject is born out of a joint feeling of the importance of indirect advisory services and a concern that it is not being discussed to any great extent in public libraries today. Still it is something that almost every librarian come into contact

It was intended with this research to estimate in-sample and out-of-sample Value-at-Risk(VaR) on forwards’ data in Nordic electricity market by using different parametric and nonparametric approaches and investigate which of them give the most accurate results after implementation of back-testing. There were two confidence levels of 95% and 99% used in this research. After implementation of data

The purpose of my study was to illustrate the concept of dandelion children by using an adult's description of her childhood. I wanted my study to focus on detailed descriptions of situations, events and feelings; therefore I used a qualitative approach and based my study on the autobiographies of three dandelion children. The questions on which I based my study are: - Are there common themes

Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan fysisk självkänsla och självskattad fysisk aktivitet hos svenska barn i fjärde och femte klass, samt att undersöka eventuella könsskillnader i den fysiska självkänslan. Intresse fanns även att undersöka om faktorer som idrottslig förmåga, kroppsattraktivitet, fysisk styrka och fysisk kondition har en påverkan på den fysiska sjä

Thesis Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to highlight, the concept of employer branding, how it is interpreted and what implications the concept might have on an organization. Methodology: The thesis uses an interpretative, abductive and qualitative research method. Theoretical Perspective: The concept of employer branding in relation to the adjacent theoretical foundation of image and iden

This thesis for the Master’s degree takes its starting point in eight library manifestos produced by International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA). The focus is on the role and missions of public libraries expressed through these manifestos. The great authority of IFLA contributes to the values of the organization and tends to become the norm for the activities of librari

This thesis attempts to reflect on the current disaster risk reduction policy from a gender perspective, with the example of Hyogo Framework for Action which is the current international framework basis for the disaster risk reduction work. By linking it with the upstream, theoretical discussions in academia, and the downstream, the reports from the member states in terms of implementation, the an

Författare: Björn Bengtsson Handledare: Radhlinah Aulin, Byggproduktion LTH Examinator: Stefan Olander, Byggproduktion LTH Syfte: Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur aktörer i arbetskedjan hanterar konflikter mellan varandra i byggproduktionsskedet. Syftet är även att identifiera de mest förekommande faktorerna som ger upphov till konflikter mellan de olika aktörsgrupperna och föreslå åtgärder

The aim of this research paper is to evaluate the extent to which the definition of slavery, exemplified through the 1926 Slavery Convention, offers a viable alternative to the definition of human trafficking under the 2000 Trafficking Protocol. The focus of the comparison centres on the role of consent on behalf of trafficked or enslaved persons, embedded in the respective definitions, and the fu

Bakgrund: Att skapa och säkra fria luftvägar är primärt inom anestesiologin. Anestesisjuksköterskan skall genom framförhållning och god förberedelse reducera riskerna inför en operation och genom att arbeta förebyggande försöka förhindra vårdrelaterade skador. Vid sövning är maskventilation grundläggande och den teknik som räddar luftvägen vid komplikationer, när masken inte kan hållas tätt på gru

In this paper I have investigated what factors that may affect the recruitment, such as whether the applicant is a recent graduate, parent of young children, have been trained abroad or approaching retirement. I also want to investigate how the choice of candidates is affected if there is surplus, balance or a shortage of labor as it is for cultural secretaries, for the physical education teachers

Authors: Cecilia Boweden and Louise Jannesson Title: A Phenomenon in a borderland -The school's responsibility in case of cyber bullying [translated title] Supervisor: Lars B Ohlsson Assessor: Ulrika Levander Schools of today are facing more and more it-technology in teaching. Young people are using the technology both within school and at home because both parents and school staff give t

Rättvisa är ett otroligt centralt begrepp i straffrätten, i alla tider och i alla länder har vi har diskuterat vad rättvisa innebär och hur den skall uppnås. Ett svar på dessa frågor är teorin Restorative Justice, som utvecklades under senare delen av 1900-talet som ett alternativ till den rent retributiva rättvisan. Restorative Justice kännetecknas av fokus på det lidande och de skyldigheter som The concept of justice, what it implies and how it shall be fulfilled, is something we have debated throughout history in every part of the world. The theory of Restorative Justice aims to give an answer to these questions. Developed towards the end of the twentieth century, as an alternative to the retributive justice, Restorative Justice focuses on the harm and the obligations that a crime creat

Denna uppsats rör skillnader i hur individer använder sig av sin privata och offentliga identitet i sociala medier. Den diskuterar de möjliga skeenden av hur individer baserar sitt interpersonella och masskommunikativa brukande i det internetintegrerade vardagslivet. Författarna hävdar att den interpersonella och masskommunikationen blir en integrerad kommunikation genom möjligheterna av sociala mThis report considers the differences in how individuals use their private and public identities in social media. It discuss the possible circumstances of how individuals of the internet integrated everyday life, base their interpersonal and mass communicational employments. The authors argue that the interpersonal- and mass communication becomes one integrated communication through the possibilit

Utgångspunkten i svensk socialvård är att insatser ska ske på frivillig väg. I vissa fall måste dock samhället ha möjlighet att använda tvång mot den enskilde. Ett sådant tillfälle är när barn och unga far illa, antingen på grund av missförhållanden i hemmet, eller på grund av eget beteende, och samtycke till vård saknas. Samhället kan då ingripa med stöd av lag (1990:52) med särskilda bestämmelseThe basic idea for social welfare in Sweden is that the needed interventions are to be initiated on a voluntary basis. However in some particular situations a forced intervention against the individual must be an available way of action for society. One such particular situation is when children and juveniles are put in harms way, either from an abusive domestic situation or from their own behavio