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This thesis studies the ways in which the concept of honor is presented in the novels The Time of the Hero (1962) by Mario Vargas Llosa and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) by Gabriel García Márquez. After defining what honor is, an investigation of how this concept is presented in the novels and the role it plays in these two literary works will take place. Also, the portrayal of honor in the

With a novel path index design, called the Shortcut Index, we partially solve the problem of executing traversal queries on dense neighborhoods in a graph database. We implement our design on top of the graph database Neo4j but it could be used for any graph database that uses the labeled property graph model. By using a B+ tree, the Shortcut Index can achieve what we call neighborhood locality a

This study is concerned with the subject of the resource curse. When countries discover significant natural resource reserves they counterintuitively exhibit dropping growth rates despite its high world market price. Several researchers have studied this phenomenon and labelled it the “resource curse”. They have tracked it to a number of causes, including how massive mineral windfalls affect the p

The main goal of this master thesis project was to take a manually controlled consumer quality quadrocopter and build the foundations which allows it to be autonomously controlled. This was achieved by introducing a exterior frame of reference through the use of a webcam coupled with image analysis algorithms. The position and rotation of the quadrocopter was identified, and several control struct

Since the Washington consensus in the 1980s, economic liberalization has been seen as a panacea for increasing the economic development and the welfare of a developing country. By reducing trade tariffs and barriers, moving from a socialistic economic system and removing state monopoly on major exports, it is believed that a developing country will increase its income and economic growth while ben

Uppsatsens titel: Ekonomiska resursers påverkan på elevers prestationer - En jämförande studie av de svenska och finska skolsystemens resursallokering. Datum: 11 januari 2016 Kurs: FEKH69, Examensarbete i redovisning, 15 HP Författare: Emil Blomberg, David Malmgren och Martin Rudolfsson Handledare: Peter W Jönsson Nyckelord: Resursallokering, kostnadseffektivitet, grundskolan, utbildning, jämförelTitle: The impact of economic resources on pupil performance - A comparative study of the Swedish and Finnish education systems’ resource allocation. Date: January 11th, 2016 Course: FEKH69, Bachelor thesis in Business Administration Authors: Emil Blomberg, David Malmgren och Martin Rudolfsson Advisor: Peter W Jönsson Key words: Resource allocation, cost-effectiveness, compulsory school, education

The goal of condition-based maintenance (CBM) is to base the decisions whether or not to perform maintenance on information collected from the machine or component of interest. A condition-based maintenance tool should be able to diagnose if the component of interest is in a state of failure but the ultimate goal of a CBM tool is to be able to estimate time until failure, either in terms of remain

Denna uppsats undersöker hur vårt förhållande till krukväxter utifrån ett klassperspektiv kan spegla olika subjektspositioner. Syftet är att genom intervjuer med krukväxtägare visa på krukväxtens funktion i deras subjektspositionering. Materialet består av transkriberade intervjuer med sex olika informanter i deras hem. Till min hjälp att tolka materialet har jag använt mig av den franske kultursoThis paper examines how our relationship with potted plants from a class perspective can reflect different subject positions. The aim is that through interviews with houseplant owners show the function of the plant in the owners´ subject positioning. The material consists of transcribed interviews with six informants in their home. To my help to interpret the material I have been using the French

The concept of having friends has been around for centuries. It is a natural part of one’s life and yet, it is not until recently that scientist’s has acknowledged it as a scientific topic. This study aims to investigate what it entails to be a friend today and which types of friendships exists, in contrast to the historical definitions and theoretical discussions addressed in Ray Pahl’s book On F

The aim of this study is to investigate whether simple hand calculation methods are useful complements to CFD-simulations while calculating the temperature and height of the hot gas layer for transient fires. The analysis is based on evaluations of results from experiments, CFD-simulations and hand calculation methods. The room used corresponds to a 1/4th scale ISO 9705 room. The results show that

Det huvudsakliga syftet med aktuell studie var att undersöka vilka enskilda faktorer som bidragit mest till upplevd ilska under pågående vårdtid för LVM-klienter på två LVM-institutioner. Samband mellan ilska och aggression samt könsskillnader i fråga om upplevd ilska och självskattade aggressiva karaktärsdrag har även undersökts. Sextio LVM-klienter med jämn könsfördelning undersöktes med ett helThe main purpose of the current study was to examine the individual factors that contributed most to perceived anger during a hospital stay for LVM clients in two LVM institutions. Associations between anger and aggression, and gender differences in perceived anger and self-rated aggressive traits have also been studied. Sixty LVM clients with equal distribution by genders were examined using a st

What mechanism should be designed to allocate PhD applicants to universities in Sweden? We introduce the Swedish PhD admissions problem, and it is influenced by the college admissions problem (Gale and Shapley 1962) and the student placement problem (Balinski and Sönmez 1999). In order to “solve” this problem, we design a novel mechanism, namely the compromise algorithm. We propose three theorems

FIFA World Cup 2022 is being played in Qatar, which puts tremendous pressure on infrastructure development. To cope, Qatar has brought in more than a million foreign workers, mostly from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Serious concern for their well being has been expressed and Qatar has been accused of having slave-like working conditions. This paper investigates this situation by using the dis

Upphandlingslagstiftningen är endast tillämplig på upphandlingsprocessen fram till och med att ett upphandlingskontrakt ingåtts mellan en upphandlande myndighet och en leverantör. Parterna har i praktiken dock inte möjlighet att helt fritt råda över sitt pågående upphandlingskontrakt. Upphandlingslagstiftningen kan ändå i vissa fall komma att tillämpas på ett pågående kontrakt om det sker ändringaThe public procurement rules are only applicable to the procurement process until the contracting authority and the contractor has entered into a public contract. Nevertheless the contracting parties are not able to determine their own ongoing contract. The public procurement rules may in some cases still be applied on an ongoing contract if changes are made to it. A change of contractor is a modi

In recent years, several companies have emerged on the Swedish market offering insulation in the form of sprayed polyurethane foams. In order to determine their suitability under Swedish conditions there is the need for a thorough evaluation of these products. To help contractors assess the suitability of these materials, the declared product characteristics have been examined in relation to the S

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka om det fanns något samband mellan introduktion, person-organization fit (P-O fit) och arbetstillfredsställelse. Om ett samband fanns var också syftet att undersöka vilken av dimensionerna introduktion respektive person-organization fit som bäst förutbestämde arbetstillfredsställelse. För att undersöka hur dimensionerna förhåller sig till varandra gjordes The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was any correlation between the three variables organizational socialization, person-organization fit and job satisfaction. If a correlation was to be found the aim of the study was to examine which of the independent variables organizational socialization and person-organization fit that is the best predictor to the dependent variable job

The feminist theological perspective reveal and criticize a patriarchal language in the Christian church – all the feminist theologian agrees on this. However, there are different ways of approaching the issue to create an adequate god-language to use in the liturgical prayer and on a daily basis in the Christian faith. One is to have a gender-neutral language and the other is to introduce feminin

Through a case study of H&Ms equestrian sponsorship this study aims to investigate the communicative aspects of sports sponsorships targeting a young audience, as well as its impact on the core values of children’s and youth sports in the Swedish society. Furthermore, this study intends to investigate and create further knowledge on how elite athletes are used by commercial businesses in order

Av antalet kända graviditeter leder ungefär hälften till missfall. Missfall är för kvinnan en livsomvälvande händelse med såväl fysiska som psykiska inslag. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att belysa kvinnors upplevelser och omvårdnadsbehov efter spontana missfall vid önskad graviditet. Resultatet visade att kvinnor uttryckte att omvårdnaden var bristfällig i samband med missfall. Det fanns ett g