This Master thesis analyzes the causes to the Lebanese civil war and if Lebanon can be regarded as a deviant case in comparison to existing civil war theories that explain the outbreak of civil wars. The author has composed his own civil war theory, consisting of the most commonly used explanatory factors behind the causes of civil wars and this theory is applied on the Lebanese civil war to be ab

Current pallet configurations, specifically pallet heights, are hindering the packaging solutions provider, Boxon Pak AB, from making an optimum use of transport resources. Differences in pallet heights in combination with the vertical space limitation of the transportation units sometimes preclude double stacking the pallets, which delivers as a consequence the shipment of unfilled trucks and und

The paper investigates the mean and volatility spillover effects from U.S and EU stock markets as well as oil price market into national stock markets of eight European countries. The study finds strong indication of volatility spillover effects from global US, regional EU, and world factor oil towards individual stock markets. While both mean and volatility spillover transmissions from the U.S ar

The paper presents the theories of Peter Singer and Tom Regan concerning the moral status of animals and why both deem animals to have a moral standing similar to humans. The two theories differ in their approaches to justifying the moral standing of animals and humans but have very similar conclusions. The paper then goes on to show how both theories have potential problems in justifying that the

Denna uppsats behandlar tvåsamhet, sexualitet samt genuskonstruktioner i Allers veckotidningsnoveller från åren 1925 till 1975. Undersökningen görs ur ett queer- och genusperspektiv.

Sociala mediers framväxt har fört med sig nya former av medborgardeltagande. Detta är en fallstudie av Greenpeaces kampanj Give the Orang-Utan a Break från 2010 som rikta-des mot Nestlé för dess användning av palmolja. Syftet med fallstudien är att analysera diskursen i bloggar under Greenpeacekampanjen och relationen mellan olika typer av tex-ter som publicerats online. Studien använder sig av enThe rise of social media has brought with it new forms of civic engagement. This is a case study of the Greenpeace 2010 campaign Give the Orang-Utan a Break directed at Nestlé for its use of palm oil. The purpose of this case study is to analyse the discourse used in blogs during the Greenpeace campaign as well as to analyse the relationship be-tween different types of online content. The study ap

In model-based development, floating-point arithmetic is typically used for computations in algorithms and models. However, on many target platforms, there is no support for floating-point computations due to constraints on, e.g., price, size, power consumption, and execution speed. A solution is to use fixed-point arithmetic instead. Manually transforming floating-point code to fixedpoint code is

Uppsatsen är ett försök att visa hur, i Walter Ljungquits svit om sitt alter ego Jerk Dandelin, litteratur fungerar som en social handling och blir till ett slags samhällskritik. För det första, genom att lyfta fram luffaren som en centralgestalt, undersöker uppsatsen vilket samhälle inom böckerna som kritiserar. För det andra, genom att studera Walter Ljungquists litterära teknik, redgör studien

Rising cost awareness within the process industry has emphasized the need for better scheduling and modelling of manufacturing sites. In collaboration with the Process Industrial Centre at Lund University and Perstorp AB, this study aims to model utility disturbances in manufacturing sites. Utilities are services or equipment necessary for the production in one or several of the areas that a site

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how trainees in a big Swedish telecommunications company are being socialized into becoming the future leaders of the company Theoretical framework: In our theoretical framework we have focused upon existing research that theorizes the relation between leadership, culture and socialization, with particular focus on the way this relation has been es

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur låttexter om kärlek/förälskelse representerar genus, sexualitet och relationer. Utifrån en queerteoretisk utgångspunkt utför jag en kritisk lingvistisk analys av texter till populärmusik och hämtar inspiration från den kritiska diskursanalysen. Det resultat jag kommer fram till är att jag finner mönster i låttexterna där ett ouppnåeligt ideal gällande The purpose of this essay is to investigate how lyrics of love songs represent gender and sexuality. My method for examining the lyrics of popular music is a critical linguistic analysis with influences from critical discourse analysis. Throughout my analysis I found patterns which shows that love songs often represents an ideal of a relationship to be monogamous, heterosexual and everlasting wher

Authors: Shpresa Gucati and Pajtesa Panxhaj Title: One nationality- many devious gazes. A qualitative study about kosovoalbanian adolescents in Landskrona [Translated title] Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Assessor: Katarina Hollertz The aim of this study was to examine how kosovo albanian adolescents looked upon the general public’s negative picture of Landskrona and how they have handled their repo

This paper investigates the possible gains from implementing an alternative student assignment mechanism in Malmö stad. The analysis is based on the school choice literature and data from Malmö stad. The overall result tells us that the current system for assigning students in Malmö stad is associated with problems. A Gale-Shapley Student Optimal Mechanism customized for Malmö stad would be the ap

The intention of this thesis is to explore how four self-defined BDSM practitioners describe and understand their practices. Furthermore, I want to explore if their point of view can help us to understand BDSM in other terms than violence and battery. The interviews are semi structured and were done through instant messaging. By using grounded theory method it turned up that the informants describ