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The current account within the EU has been balanced on an aggregate level; nevertheless divergences among the members have increased since the introduction of the common currency. This thesis aims to explain the intra-EU current account imbalances (in the period 1993-2013) through the convergence and competitiveness hypothesis. We distinguish between balances towards the EU and the rest of the wor

This is a study thesis about the current cultural life in the town of Lund, Sweden. The people living in Lund are often described as a highly cultural active people. Meanwhile, in 2009 Lund filed to become the European Capital of Culture in 2014, lost the desirable title against Umeå. Afterwards there has been criticism on the investments in the project. Lund as the European Capital of Culture s

The overall purpose of this thesis is to study what the general understanding of human trafficking for sexual purposes is, and at the same time increase the awareness regarding the subject. It is important to highlight this subject matter, since Sweden is striving for equality within its society (Bucken-Knapp, Karlsson & Persson-Strömbäck, 2010: 182) and the thesis becomes of interest when stu

The aim of this study was to examine what factors that affect social workers, at the social services in Sweden, assessments regarding support for clients having problems with drug abuse. More specifically the aim was to find out how the social workers own perceptions regarding clients who use narcotics affect their assessments in relation to their depth of discretion and the clients motivation for

This master‘s thesis deals with pre-purchase information seeking practices of online shoppers. Previous research regarding pre-purchase behavior mostly focuses on cognitive and social aspects and is limited to the picture of a rational and socially influenced consumer. The aim of this study is to get a deeper understanding of online shoppers and their pre-purchase behavior and to get a more holist

Rancorous debates about the rape legislation occur periodically in Swedish media. The purpose of this study is to highlight laws argumentation about the women’s statement in rape verdicts from a gender perspective. Furthermore, the study examines how laws argumentation is divided about the women’s story in guilty and exculpatory verdicts, and why she is less trustworthy than the man in the exculpa

Researchers argue that micromanaging behaviour has now become a common trait of management and been perceived as negative. Furthermore, there is little research on the technical perspective of micromanagement and why and how it occurs in an engineering environment. While each research covers only a few segments of the origin, symptoms and reasons of micromanagement, our thesis tries to consolidate

Syftet med studien var att utvärdera en metod för golfspelare att hjälpa sig själva till bättre prestationer under tävling. Undersökningen gjordes på 76 tävlingsspelare i golf i åldrarna 17-19 år. Hypotesen var att interventionen, skapad med övningen Three Blessings Exercise som inspiration, skulle leda till ett positivt tankemönster, vilket i sin tur skulle förbättra spelarnas tillstånd och/eller

Vid mikroskopi så tar man en bild av ljus som har passerat igenom ett prov. Ljusets styrka påverkas av provet och fångas på en kamera. Ett problem som uppstår är när man ska ta bilder av genomskinliga material, dessa påverkar ju inte ljusets styrka. Det finns flera lösningar på detta problem, en av dessa kommer beskrivas här och har undersökts närmare i exjobbet.} Ljus färdas olika snabbt igenom This thesis contains an examination of a method for quantitative phase imaging using lateral shearing interferometry. The focus is on how the degree of spatial coherence in the light source effect the image. The method is examined by first creating a simulation of the system, then looking at some analytical solutions for the interaction between some parameters, and finally conducting an experime

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur ungdomar i åldern 15-17 år mentaliserade kring sina kontakter på sociala medier och hur de rörde sig mellan den verkliga och den internetbaserade världen. Tolv ungdomar intervjuades med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer vilka analyserades med tematisk analys. Elva teman urskildes vilka fångade viktiga aspekter i deltagarnas liv. Resultatet visade att deThe objective of this study was to investigate how todays youth, i.e. youngsters between the ages of 15 - 17, mentalised about their contacts on social media and how they navigated between their physical and internet based societies, based on aspects they themselves considered important. Twelve youngsters were interviewed with the help of semi-structured interviews, which were then analysed with t

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze whether internationalization affects firm performance in Japanese firms. Internationalization is examined through the degree of foreign ownership and the inclusion of one or more outsider foreign directors. The Methodology that was applied is based around two fixed effects panel data regressions where firm performance, measured in Tobin’s Q and ROA, is th

Insurance fraud is estimated to cost the Swedish insurance agencies three to five billion Swedish kronor each year. The insurance idea is simple, share the risk, but if policyholders take advantage of the system, the concept fails. Previous research states that norms or attitudes towards insurance companies are the main reason behind insurance fraud. This study aims to measure and evaluate social

Financial crises are recurring phenomena and studying how economic parameters affect outcome and recovery processes will most likely remain an area of intense research also in the years to come. The scope of this paper circulates around the causes and effects of two crises in the period 1985-2013 and their separate effects on the economies of Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Moreover, the main variabl

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vad som bidrar till positiv förändring i terapi. Forskningsstöd finns för att psykoterapi är en effektiv behandlingsform, men vad det är som är verksamt, vet vi mindre om. Patient respektive terapeut intervjuades efter två framgångsrika terapiprocesser med dialektisk beteendeterapi (DBT). En kvalitativ ansats med halvstrukturerad intervju användes med fråg

Den här uppsatsen handlar om de förändringar på bästa tillgängliga teknik, d.v.s. BAT, som implementeringen av industriutsläppsdirektivet (IED) har inneburit. Syftet är att diskutera hur och på vilket sätt BAT har utvecklats i Sverige till följd av IED. BAT tillhör de allmänna hänsynsreglerna vilket gör den central vid all form av yrkesmässig verksamhet. I sammanhanget är principen om BAT tillämpThis thesis regards the changes to Best Available Techniques, BAT, which the implementation of the Industrial Emissions Directive, IED, has brought on. The purpose is to discuss how and in which ways BAT has developed in Sweden as a result of IED. BAT belongs to the general rules of consideration which makes it central in all forms of professional operation. In context the principal of BAT is app

It is a big challenge for social work to catch up on all the victims of honor-related violence and oppression. A group that isn´t usually mentioned in the media are boys. The aim of this study is to understand how the Swedish newspapers construct honor related violence, and oppression, against boys from a genus perspective, in the case of Abbas Rezai during the period 2006-2014. The study is based

Den svenska Kriminalvården och kriminalpolitiken har genom åren genomgått övergripande förändringar som efterhand inneburit hårdare straff och större fokus på säkerheten. Samtidigt som Kriminalvården har ansvar för verkställande av straff genom frihetsberövande har man även ett ansvar för behandling under och återanpassning efter frihetsberövandet. Kriminalvårdens verksamhet regleras av en lång raThe Swedish Prison and criminal policy over the years has undergone comprehensive changes that eventually led to tougher penalties and greater focus on safety. While the correctional authority is responsible for the execution of punishment by deprivation of liberty, it has also a responsibility for treatment during and reintegration after custody. The activity of the correctional authority is gove

Recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) is a way of constructing roads with less climate impact. However, the RAP often contain moisture which is known to be disadvantageous for the final product and will at the same time increase the production cost. A manufacturing method that also aims have less impact on the environment is NCC Green Asphalt. The method allows a lower manufacturing temperature than a c