Current Swedish aid policies were dictated in the document “Policy for Global Development” (PGD), which was endorsed by parliament in 2003. PGD was created in response to a recognised need to apply a holistic view with regards to international development efforts. PGD contains an innovative and internationally renowned agenda for action and has respected both the conclusions of the Paris declarati

This study aims to evaluate whisky as an investment through two research questions: “What affects the value of whisky?” and “Should whisky be included in the optimal portfolio?”. The value of whisky is examined by constructing a hedonic regression using five hedonic attributes. Also, the convenience yield associated with whisky is examined. Secondly, the performance of whisky is evaluated by using

Background: About one in ten adults are living with diabetes worldwide. Intake of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-rich foods are often identified as modifiable risk factors for incident type 2 diabetes. However, strong correlation between food variables can make it difficult to identify true associations. The purpose of this study was to identify clusters of carbohydrate-rich foods and analyse thei

Hydrodynamic cavitation is useful in many processing applications, for example, in chemical reactors, water treatment and biochemical engineering. An important type of hydrodynamic cavitation that occurs in a Venturi tube is vortex cavitation known to cause luminescence whose intensity is closely related to the size and number of cavitation events. However, the mechanistic origins of bubbles const

Public-domain availability for bioinformatics software resources is a key requirement that ensures long-term permanence and methodological reproducibility for research and development across the life sciences. These issues are particularly critical for widely used, efficient, and well-proven methods, especially those developed in research settings that often face funding discontinuities. We re-lau

Adjuvant bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) instillations represent a cornerstone in the treatment of non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Instillation schedule and dose modifications have been evaluated in efforts to reduce the incidence of adverse events (AEs), but none so far has the same treatment efficacy as the full-dose recommended schedule. It has been shown that prophylactic quinolone use in c

Diffraction-based tomographic strain tensor reconstruction problems in which a strain tensor field is determined from measurements made in different crystallographic directions are considered in the context of sparse matrix algebra. Previous work has shown that the estimation of the crystal elastic strain field can be cast as a linear regression problem featuring a computationally involved assembl

I denna uppsats ämnar jag studera reglerna för beskattning av elektrisk kraft utifrån den pågående rättsutvecklingen och politiska målsättningar. Svaren söks i relevant lagstiftning, förarbeten, praxis, doktrin m.m. Även den aktuella rättsutvecklingen inom EU ges visst utrymme för diskussion utifrån dess betydelse för svensk lagstiftning. Utgångspunkterna är att rättstillämpningen ska vara effektiThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the rules for the taxation of electric power based on the ongoing legal development and political objectives. Answers are sought in relevant legislation, preparatory works, case law, doctrine, etc. The current legal development within the EU is also given some room for discussion based on its significance for the Swedish legislation. An important premise is

Analyser av geografiska inkomstskillnader baseras ofta på jämförelser avgenomsnittsinkomster i olika delar av Sverige. Vi utgår i stället från ett longitudinellt perspektiv där disponibla inkomster för individer uppväxta i glesbygdrespektive storstad följs över tiden. De geografiska inkomstskillnaderna blir dåmindre och ökar inte entydigt över tid. Samtidigt syns stora skillnader mellanstannare oc

Den nyliberala ideologin sätter marknaden högst och vill begränsa folkvalda politikers inflytande. Victor Pressfeldt frågar om det är dags att granska den demokratiska trovärdigheten hos Assar Lindbeck och andra förgrundsfigurer bakom de senaste decenniernas utveckling.

This study aims to explore the conditions and challenges faced by centralized HR departments in the public sector in establishing trust among employees within their organizations. Employing a qualitative methodology, the research takes the form of a case study utilizing a semi-structured interview approach. The study adopts an abductive approach with a hermeneutic perspective. Five employees from

In this article, we investigate the rhetorical uses and media frames associated with the term polarisation in Swedish print media from 2010 to 2021. We first produce a qualitative and detailed assessment of a sample of 240 articles and then proceed to a computational (word2vec) analysis of all major Swedish newspaper articles including the term (N = 32,805). We find that the term has changed its r

Very high spin states (I=50-60ℏ) have been observed in the transitional nuclei 161Er and 162Er using the Euroball γ-ray spectrometer. In 161Er, three bands are observed well above spin 50ℏ. In the positive parity, positive signature (+, + 1/2) band a discontinuity in the regular rotational behavior occurs at 109/2+ and a splitting into two branches occurs at 97/2- in the negative parity, positive