Den svenska tredelade statsapparatens traditionella utformning befinner sig i en förändringsprocess. Staten delegerar alltmer ansvar åt de regionala och kommunala nivåerna, samtidigt som landsting slås samman till självstyrande enheter kallade ”regioner”. Denna regionaliserings-trend påbörjades i samtid med en idéströmning som förespråkande den privata sektorns inflytande på den offentliga förvalt

The purpose of this work is to give an insight into how vocal students describe their desire to sing and practice singing, and to find out what the students get feedback from their surroundings in voice and in practice and how feedback affects them. The study would thus create an understanding of what motivates students to sing and practice singing. The study is based on qualitative interviews wit

I kritiken av den uruguayanske författaren Juan Carlos Onetti förknippas ofta hans verk med pessimism, ångest, ensamhet och misslyckande. Den här uppsatsen utgår från observationen att kritiken av Onetti har tenderat att stagnera kring dessa koncept och att andra möjliga tolkningar följaktligen hamnar i skymundan. Novellen ”Esbjerg, en la costa” (1946) kan läsas med utgångspunkt i de nämnda koncep

Uppsatsen behandlar planeringen inför the Great Exhibition 1851 utifrån ett rumsligt perspektiv, fram för allt utifrån teoretikerna David Harvey och Henry Lefebvre.

Guinaw Rails South is situated in the Dakar region in Senegal and is constantly exposed to dangers such as floods, insecurity and diseases. This study shows that people live in this high-risk informal settlement because of four main reasons. Those are family, economic situation, own house and work or education. The study was conducted with a Grounded theory approach and based on interviews with pe

The existing studies have shown that the algorithmic trading has been playing an ever-increasing important role in both the U.S. and E.U. capital market. Many papers pay great attention on the high frequency trading, a special class of algorithmic trading, focusing on the impact that high-frequency activities have on the market quality. Investors engage in high frequency trading and interact with

The city of Lund updates the handling plan of garden waste with the desire to use it for biogas production. Garden waste works best as biogas substrate when it is separated in two fractions. Today, however, there are no sorting of the residents’ garden waste. The aim of the thesis is to explore how private households can sort out a fraction of garden waste that can be used to produce biogas. First

Scientific summary Satellite imagery has been used to produce highly accurate land cover maps, even effectively discriminating between vegetation types. While land cover classification based on differences in pixel values in one or more spectral bands is an effective way of mapping large areas, the coarse resolution of freely available satellite images is not suitable for mapping urban environment

As China rises and the former glory of the U.S. hegemony slowly fades, the rest of the world is watching closely. Opinions and analyses on whether it will have a peaceful outcome or not are many and various. This study investigated contemporary Chinese foreign policy in an attempt to argue that economic objectives are too important for the Chinese Central Leadership to consider military aggression

Den högre utbildningens mål uttrycker vilka kunskaper, färdigheter och attityder som den studerande skall ha förvärvat efter genomförd utbildning. I både dagens högskolelag samt i 1977 års finns ett mål om att den studerande ska utveckla en förmåga att tänka kritiskt. Varför och under vilka omständigheter tillkom detta mål? Uppsatsen tar sin utgångspunkt i det omfattande reformarbete som präglade

This essay attempts to distinguish differences in politeness in Japanese and English press releases, with a specific focus on TEPCO and BP in the aftermath of their respective environmental disasters. Through the use of discourse analysis, PR theory and the Brown and Levinson politeness model I find that the Japanese press releases favour negative politeness, whereas the English favour positive po

En studie av P.O. Enquists "Ett annat liv" med fokus på de självbiografiska aspekterna. Utifrån olika horisonter granskas Enquists bok och frågor som uppstått kring bokens genredefinition granskas i ljuset av hur "självbiografins ramar" sett ut genom historien.

This thesis investigates the possibility of modelling the covered bond risk, quantied by the yield spread over government bond, by using a multi factor model with explanatory factors. The thesis focuses on covered bond issued in Sweden, in Swedish krona, by Swedish issuers. The most signicant result is that there is a relationship between issuer risk, quantied by the CDS spread, and the covered bo

The purpose of this study has been to explore how different actors in a nursing home (i.e. Head of Unit, staff and residents) argue about elder residents’ care, autonomy and possibilities to influence and how this correlate with the increasing tendencies to view elder people as independent individuals. The study was based on eight qualitative interviews with two Heads of Unit, two staff members an

Universities, the main providers of “local knowledge conduits, state-of-the-art science and technology”, and the Science Park, the main entity that stands behind the commercialization of knowledge and technology, are seen as central players that should be highly interconnected in order to determine the targeted economic growth of a region. Developing links between university and industry is seen a

I införandet av ett Enterprise Resource Planning-system (ERP-system) krävs förändringar även i verksamheten och dess processer för att man ska kunna utnyttja systemets fulla kapacitet. Genom att integrera alla dessa delar i implementeringen är sannolikheten att även förvaltningen av systemet kommer fortlöpa på ett bra vis. Efter att ERP-systemet är på plats och används är det även viktigt att stän

William Wallace was what was generally considered to be a hero. With deceptive military tactics, enormous bravery and a national feeling beyond the normal, he is truly the concept of a true hero. One interesting aspect is that you often hear people say that their mother is their true hero. Furthermore, they may tell you that their mother is also their idol. What has happened to the original usage

The purpose of this study was to explore how social workers drug preventive work among youths is formed and how professionals talk about and what conceptions they have about drug using youths. Our focus has been on drug preventive work on youths between the ages of 12-25. We have chosen this age limit since the professionals daily work is with youths between this age span. To answer our studies qu

Secondary clients: a discourse analysis of affinity and kinship In recent years, a trend has developed in care-giving systems. It was previously thought that care for our elderly, physically disabled or chronically ill relatives and loved ones, was to be provided by and cared for in institutions. As of now, we see a retrograding trend where a lot of the treatment and/or care is to be provided in

How do museums relate to working in a culturally diverse society? The notion of increasing diversity as a result of social change and Sweden as a multicultural society is central to public discussions and cultural initiatives. The goal for museums is to reflect demografics of society in their visitor numbers, and a shift to increase awareness of needs and views of the museum audience. This increas