The aim of this study is to highlight and attempt to understand the role of archaeology and cultural heritage in different domains. Lima and Stockholm represent the urban population in Peru och Sweden. It is an attempt to discuss the general public’s relation to, and view of, national archaeology through a comparative study. It also discusses what the differences and similarities may be caused by.

The study provided statistical evidence that size, profitability, industry, country, and audit firms have explanatory power regarding predicting and explaining corporate disclosure in Sweden and China. Moreover, ownership structure and foreign listing have shown limited explanatory power. It is further noticed that theories that are suitable for a phenomenon in Sweden might not necessary be so in

EU-kommissionen har hösten 2011 antagit ett direktivförslag med innebörden att finansiella transaktioner kopplade till unionens territorium ska beskattas. Den föreslagna beskattningen är en del i ett större reformpaket vilket syftar till att stabilisera den finansiella sektorn för att motverka framtida finansiella kriser samt tillförsäkra att den finansiella sektorn återbetalar en rättvis och betyThe European Commission has, during the fall of 2011, adopted a proposal for a Directive to the effect that financial transactions with a connection to the territory of the union shall be taxed. The proposed taxation is part of a larger reform programme which aims to stabilize the financial sector in order to prevent a new financial crisis and to ensure that the financial sector bear a fair and su

Uppsatsen behandlar den öppna polisens användning av den okonventionella spaningsmetoden infiltration och även informatörsverksamheten i den mån denna tangerar förstnämnda metod. Infiltrationsåtgärder har företagits i utevaro av ett uttryckligt lagstöd vilket givit utrymme för skönsmässiga bedömningar, med avkall på rättssäkerheten som följd. Ovanstående blev upprinnelse till en anstormning av kri

Vi, Sarah Andersson och Sofia Larsson vid Institutionen för kommunikation och medier valde att analysera den svenska reality-serien Svenska Hollywoodfruar som fått mycket uppmärksamhet i media och orsakat en hel del diskussioner i olika sammanhang. Fast att tv-serien delvis är redigerad åskådliggör den trots det en bild av samhället och hjälper till att upprätthålla vissa normer och värderingar so

Title: The important role of the consultant Problematization: In today’s competitive markets it is important to maintain a competitive advantage. One opportunity to do this is by implementing an ERP system to the organization. Many organisations have implemented an ERP system, but a lot have been unsuccessful. Studies have been done to identify the main success factors connected with the impleme

Taking environmental procedural justice as a standard of assessment, this thesis sought to examine to what extent participation of all affected communities was achieved in the context of collaborative watershed management (CWM) in the upper-most part of the Mea Cheam watershed, Northern Thailand. Based on political ecology theory and discourse analysis method, the thesis first examines what charac

Media får allt en större roll i hur vi ser på oss själva och andra i vår sociala miljö (Gripsrud 2002:16). Därför har vi valt att utföra en studie på bloggar och hur dess skribenter porträtterar sina identiteter genom konsumtion, stil och smak. Då detta är ett väldigt brett ämne har vi valt att begränsa oss till bloggar som publicerat inlägg kring Marnis Kollektion för Hennes & Mauritz vilket

Today’s presence of sport in the everyday lives of the majority of the world population has recently led development actors to promote sport as a potential vehicle for social change. At the forefront of this new discourse is the notion of sport as a universal language that unites people across the globe. Whereas sport organizations in the Global South apply participation in sports as a tool for in

Livförsäkringar kan enligt den skatterättsliga definitionen delas in i pensionsförsäkringar och kapitalförsäkringar. Utmärkande för de olika typerna av försäkringarna är att de beskattas enligt två helt olika system. För pensionsförsäkringar är premier avdragsgilla samt avkastningen och utfallande belopp skatteskattepliktiga. I de fall försäkringen är att betrakta som en kapitalförsäkring är premiA life insurance can, according to the Swedish definition, be classified as either a pension insurance or as a capital insurance for taxation purposes. These two types of life insurances are taxed in two completely different systems. The premiums are deductible for a pension insurance as the earnings during the investment period and the disbursed benefits are taxed. Furthermore, the premiums are n

This paper analyzes the impact of variables suggested by the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory, on publicly listed Swedish firms in a sample period of 8 years, ranging from 2003-2010. Also the relationship between leverage and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is studied for the same set of firms and time periods. The model used is based on panel regression with fixed and random

Samtidigt som fler och fler går över till vegetarisk- och vegankost, verkar fler och fler också börja använda sig av nischade dieter som LCHF, som står för Low Carb High Fat. LCHF går ut på att äta så lite kolhydrater som möjligt, max 20g/dag, och istället äta mer mättat fett och protein. Detta innebär att matkorgen med gott samvete kan fyllas med till exempel bacon, jordnötssmör och grönsaker med

This thesis is a feminist analysis of documentary and biographic images and stories of old age, focusing on axes of social differences, normalization and the consequences of inhabiting the position of deviation. Through a theoretical framework consisting of intersectional feminist theory and theories on normalization and a methodological framework consisting of discourse theory and semiotics of im

Frågor om Familjemedlemmar (FoF) är en självskattningsskala bestående av 30 item fördelat på de fyra delskalorna perceived criticism (PC), perceived emotional involvement (PEI), critical remarks (CR) och emotional overinvolvement (EOI). Formuläret är skapat för att mäta interaktionen i dyader. Syftet med denna studie är att göra en psykometrisk analys för att undersöka om instrumentet mäter det av

Seminar date: 30th May 2012 Course: BUSN68Degree Project - Accounting and Management Control Authors: Kateryna Mumrenko& Alexandra Zăinescu Supervisors: Per Magnus Andersson& Johan Dergård Five key words: Process of innovation, Management control, project management, R&D, formal and informal control tools. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze how the process o

Management control in professional service organizations is fundamentally different from the control in classical industrial and producing corporations. This is mainly due to the special context a professional service firm has to face, as the value creation is knowledge intensive, demands a high level of education, and the professional employees have different expectations concerning their work. H

After four years of independence, Kosovo continues to face severe social, political and economic challenges that pose several threats to the development and legitimacy of the new state. A field study was carried out in Kosovo in January–March 2012 with the purpose of creating a deeper understanding of the state-building process and test Alan Whaites’s theory of responsive and unresponsive state-

Natural hazards and disasters are serious contemporary threats as climate change is causing an increase in the frequency of extreme weather conditions worldwide. The Caribbean is geographically located in the North Atlantic Ocean at the junction of the Caribbean Plate and the North American Plate. The region is in a high-risk zone for natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes. In the sp

Since the end of the Cold War, EU migration policy has been subjected to securitization, and migrants have been viewed as potential threats to European security and homogeneity. However, in recent years the migration-development nexus has experienced a renaissance. The benefits of migration have increasingly come to influence the policy agenda. In this setting, the Global Approach to Migration de