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

Sammanfattning: Ett informationssystem är i grund och botten ett sätt att lagra och bearbeta information. Alla sådana system bygger på en informationsmodell, det vill säga en modell för hur data organiseras för att de ska gå att bearbeta och omvandla till information. Idag existerar avancerade informationssystem för att göra spatiala analyser (GIS) och för att hantera byggnader (BLM-system). För nSummary: An information system is basically a way to store and process information. All such systems are built from an information model, in essence a model for how to organize data in order to make it possible to process, thus turning it into information. Today there exist advanced information systems for performing spatial analysis (GIS) and to model buildings (BLM-systems). At present the devel

I Sverige och i många andra länder har utrikes födda en lägre andel förvärvsarbetande jämfört med inrikes födda. En låg sysselsättningsgrad bland utrikes födda kan orsaka stora konsekvenser för den framtida försörjningsbördan. För att kunna fördela de arbetsmarknadspolitiska resurserna på ett framgångsrikt sätt är det viktigt att veta vilka och på vilket sätt olika bakgrundsvariabler påverkar att

Before developing a new product, the future market of the identified opportunity needs to be estimated. There is a need to evaluate the probable future product in terms of profitability, which requires prediction of sales price, costs and future volumes. A forecasted volume is not only basis in profitability calculations but it also serves as an input for planning of future capacity in terms of e.

This thesis is devoted to the analysis of the I-V properties of axial InP pn-junction nanowires made for solar cell application. A novel method has been used to measure the I-V characteristics very accurately and reproducibly, using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The STM is used to first image the nanowires from top and then form a low resistive point contact between the STM tip and an indiv

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka sambandet mellan förmågan att diversifiera på ett lands aktiemarknad och ekonomisk tillväxten. Genom att göra en multipel regression med paneldata för två urval av länder (fattiga och rika länder) kan sambandet mellan antalet börsnoterade företag och BNP-tillväxt undersökas vid olika stadier avekonomisk utveckling. Ett statistiskt signifikant negativt samb