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Går det att sätta ner foten mot barnäktenskap? - Om Sveriges möjligheter att på juridisk väg stoppa en oönskad företeelse som är legal utomlands

Barnäktenskap är ett fenomen som är vanligt förekommande i stora delar av världen. År 2004 infördes lagbestämmelser om att utländska barnäktenskap inte ska erkännas i Sverige om minst en av parterna haft anknytning till Sverige. För att stärka skyddet mot barnäktenskap skärptes lagen ytterligare år 2014. Under år 2018 lade regeringen fram ett förslag till ny lag om att förbjuda erkännandet av utläChild marriage is a phenomenon existing in many parts of the world. In 2004 a new law came into force stating that Sweden does not recognize foreign child marriages if at least one of the parts has ties to Sweden. In order to achieve an increased protection against child marriage the legislation was further strengthened in 2014. In 2018 the Swedish government presented a proposition to a new law f

Släckteknisk skillnad mellan mörkt och ljust släckpulver

The purpose of the work was to investigate whether an extinguishing powder with a darker color other than white has an increased extinguishing effect when extinguishing a fire in an enclosure. In the experiments conducted, a conventional extinguishing powder was tested against a carbon black-dyed extinguishing powder with nitrogen or air as a propellant. All other variables were kept the same. To

För djurens bästa? - kunskaps- och utbildningskravet för djurägaren i den nya djurskyddslagen

Den 1 april 2019 kommer en ny djurskyddslag träda i kraft. En av de stora och viktiga ändringar för djurskyddet är att ett kunskapskrav ska införas i lagen. Ambitionen var att även ett utbildningskrav skulle införas i lagen men det visade sig vara oproportionerligt och alldeles för betungande för de enskilda. Ett problem som brukar förekomma vid ikraftträdande av en ny lag är att de nya bestämmeOn April 1, 2019, a new law will replace the current Swedish animal welfare law (1988: 534). One of the major and important changes for animal welfare is that the knowledge requirement is to now be introduced into the law. Worth to mention is that there also was an ambition to introduce the education requirement into the law. However, this proved to be disproportionate and too demanding. A probl

The Right to Have Rights in the Mekong - How Hannah Arendt and the Khmer Krom Illustrate the Failures of the International Rights Regime

The Khmer Krom are an indigenous people living in the Mekong delta with a complex historical relation to the majority population. Vietnamese legal climate and treatment of minorities has been shaped by this complex history. Contemporary Vietnam has ratified several significant human rights treaties and voted in favour of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This thes

Reception av europeisk straffrätt i Japan - En rättshistorisk och komparativ studie av den japanska och europeiska straffrättsutvecklingen från 1700-talet till tidigt 1900-tal

Japans rättssystem före 1880 baserades på ett rättssystem av kinesiskt ursprung. Efter att Tokugawa-shogunatet föll 1867, genomförde den japanska regeringen en modernisering av rättssystemet genom reception av europeisk rätt. Inom straffrätten utfärdades 1880 och 1907 års Penal Code efter europeisk modell. Syftet med uppsatsen är att jämföra straffrättsutvecklingen i Europa och Japan från 1700-talThe Japanese legal system before 1880 was based on a legal system of Chinese origin. After the Tokugawa-shogunate fell in 1867, the Japanese government carried out a modernization of the legal system through reception of European law. In the penal law area, the Penal Codes of 1880 and 1907 were issued based on the European model. The purpose of this essay is to compare penal law development in Eur

Slakt i Guds namn - En kritisk granskning av djurskyddslagens förenlighet med artikel 9 EKMR

Religiös slakt påbjuds inom både islam och judendom. Gemensamt för dessa metoder är att djuret ofta slaktas utan föregående bedövning. Denna slakt är i Sverige förbjuden enligt 14 § djurskyddslagen (1988:534). Samtidigt stadgas i artikel 9 EKMR rätt till religionsfrihet. Uppsatsens syfte är att utreda huruvida 14 § djurskyddslagen (1988:534) kan anses vara förenlig med rätten till religionsfrihet Both Judaism and Islam dictate religious slaughter, whereby livestock often is slaughtered without prior stunning. In Sweden, this method of slaughter is prohibited pursuant to section 14 of the Animal Welfare Act (1988:534). However, Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights stipulates freedom of religion. The present paper aims to examine whether the Swedish legislation is compatible

En (s)könsmässig bedömning? - En analys av rekvisitet något annat socialt nedbrytande beteende i 3 § LVU i förhållande till kön

De senaste åren har antalet barn som tvångsomhändertas med stöd av lagen (1990:52) med särskilda bestämmelser om vård av unga, LVU, ökat kraftigt, och det finns ingen tydlig förklaring till varför denna ökning har skett. Tvångsomhändertaganden med stöd av LVU kan bl.a. bli aktuellt när en person under 20 år har något annat socialt nedbrytande beteende. Rekvisitet är tänkt att täcka in barn som på The last years the number of children subjected to compulsory care under the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU) increased substantially with no clear explanation. A person under 20 years can be subjected to compulsory care under the Care of Young Persons Act if he or she has a socially destructive behavior. The purpose of the prerequisite is to make sure that children who in other ways than through s

How can urban gardening address social sustainability? Nature-based solution case studies in Lille, Brussels and Paris

Nowadays, European cities contain more than 70% of the population of the continent and are still growing. This growth tends to put pressure on the challenges that urban areas are already facing. The range of these challenges is wide, such challenges being social, environmental and economical. Air pollution, health issues, increasing heat, integration, social exclusion, loneliness or mobility probl

Sexual selection and neo-sex chromosome evolution in the superfamily Sylvioidea

Competition over reproduction – how does it affect the DNA? Competition over what is often a scarce resource -reproduction, is a phenomenon widely studied in science. It is the ultimate endeavor for life, ensuring that an individual’s DNA is carried on to the next generation, preserving its footprint in the shape of a child. This is a very selfish enterprise for many organisms which becomes appar

Firm dynamics and productivity growth

The process of firms entering and exiting the market has since Schumpeter’s introduction of the concept of creative destruction been a subject of interest for economists aiming to determine what drives economic growth. However, limited availability of data has long been a hindrance to such ambitions and it is not until recent decades that empirical studies on the role of firm dynamics for economic

Volatility Spillovers between Stock and Bond Returns: Evidence from Nordic Countries

This paper uses a bivariate BEKK model to estimate volatility spillover effects between stock and bond markets for the Nordic countries Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway. Daily log returns between the years 2001 and 2018 are analyzed. No spillover effect from the bond to the stock market is found in any of the countries which is a result that is unusual compared to a large part of the preexistin

Förändringar av miljöförhållanden i två naturområden i Helsingborg

Förändringar av miljöförhållanden i två naturområden i Helsingborg Landskap förändras hela tiden och det sker många stora förändringar genom att vi brukar marken på olika sätt, som till exempel när vi odlar mat. Under det senaste århundradet har det skett många stora förändringar i jordbrukslandskapet, bland annat på grund av att man börjat använda konstgödsel, bekämpningsmedel och har utvecklat Since the 1800’s the agriculture has changed and intensified significantly, going from small scale farming to large homogenous arable landscapes with fewer grazing animals, more fertilizers and pesticides. In Sweden, this pattern of intensification has been very distinct, especially in Scania, which today is dominated by plains. This has left substantial changes in the surrounding ecosystems, affe

Phylogenetic analysis of neo-sex chromosome genes in Sylvioidea passerine birds

Sex matters! It is natural to ask questions about where the species of this planet come from and how they become what they are. As a matter of fact, development of new species is in process all the time. Somebody named this process speciation. Like language which enables us to guess where the people might come from, some traits make it possible to recognize the individuals from the same populatio

Response of Daphnia magna from Natural Populations to Ultraviolet Radiation

Diel vertical migration (DVM) is performed by various zooplankton taxa. The general movement pattern of DVM has been well studied while the possible clonal differences of this movement largely remain unknown. My master thesis focus on investigating the effects of environmental stressors on Daphnia magna strains isolated from natural populations. Here I maintained 11 strains of Daphnia magna origin

Sanction Evasion: The case of Russia’s counter-sanctions

Sanction evasion can hamper the effect of international sanctions. This paper aims to establish whether the Russian sent counter-sanctions were evaded by the Western countries by using non-sanctioned countries as transit routes for the sanctioned products. This question is analysed by estimating a gravity equation of trade by applying Pseudo-Poisson Maximum Likelihood and Ordinary Least Squares es

Identifying Cell Reprogramming Roadblocks by Modelling Induced Pluripotency with Boolean Networks and Dynamical Systems

Människokroppen är uppbyggd av olika typer av celler som exempelvis hudceller, nervceller och fettceller. Generellt sett är dessa celler utformade för en väldigt specifik uppgift såsom att utföra arbete (exempelvis muskelceller) eller att förse kroppen med struktur (exempelvis benceller). Det finns en väldigt spektakulär typ av cell -- så kallade stamceller -- vars specifika syfte är att omvandlasThe generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from differentiated cells is a process of great scientific interest due to the medical potential of such cells. This process (called 'reprogramming' of cells) is however notoriously inefficient and still not very well understood. Therefore studies that can help us understand the interactions and mechanisms governing the reprogramming p

China’s Transboundary River Governance: The Case of the Lancang-Mekong River

The purpose of this study was to analyze how does China pursue its national interest in the governance of the Lancang- Mekong River in domestic and international terms. The analysis was done through the lens of the classical realism theoretical school. Drawing from this framework and adopting the concept of national interest, the study gave a deeper understanding of China‟s motives behind the Lanc

Raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Sweden - A risk assessment for the establishment of the raccoon as an invasive alien species

Invasive alien species are organisms that have been introduced to an area outside their natural distribution range and threatens animals, habitats or humans in the new area. The raccoon (Procyon lotor) is a mesopredator originating from North and Central America that has been introduced in Europe and Asia. Since the first European introductions of raccoons in Germany, natural dispersal and pet tra

Tamoxifen Represses Breast Cancer Cell Growth by Interacting with SKI-interacting Protein (SKIP)

Tamoxifen is the most common choice of anti-cancer drug for breast cancer in pre-menopausal women. Tamoxifen antagonizes the estrogen proliferative effect by interacting with estrogen receptor. Despite the fact that this treatment has showed a tremendous effect on the survival of patients, resistance to the treatment frequently occurs. Several mechanisms of tamoxifen resistance have been already d

Bridge Museum

I got to know the city of Dujiangyan during my semester in Sustainable Urban Dynamics. I was fascinated by it because it stood out from the image of China I had in my head. Dujiangyan is one of the greenest cities in China, pollution level is much lower than the average, people are living longer and they are known to be laid-back and relaxed. During my site visit I found Dujiangyan to be a city