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This investigation is about Establishment reform that was launched by the Swedish government in December 2010, which is looked at from the discourse perspective. In order to reveal the contents of dominating and alternative discourses around the reform, as well as show the existing value conflict, Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis is applied to the documents about the reform, parliament deb
Background: This study aimed to explore how the physical and social environment of a neighbourhood influenced the physical activity of children from the perspective of children and caregivers. It used a low-income neighbourhood in Beijing as the setting and focused on children in middle childhood. Methods: Guided by the Urban Ecological Model for Environment and Health Behaviour, semi-structured i
Den 28:e november 2010 publicerade mediaorganisationen Wikileaks en dokumentläcka som bestod av 251 287 dokument från det amerikanska utrikesdepartementet. Denna läcka kom att skapa en het debatt runt om i världen. Ett av de länder som nämns bland dokumenten är Sverige och även här blossade en diskussion upp. Denna uppsats använder detta fall för att problematisera hur den svenska dagspressen rapp
This research presents a case study assessing community social capital and potential leadership amongst farmers in the village Blat, South Lebanon and it was conducted in November 2010. The social capital was approached from the network aspect with the use of social network analysis (SNA) and it was assessed with the network closure and the structural holes concepts, conflict resolution mechanisms
Uppsatsen handlar om det litterära talspråket, närmare bestämt om hur ungdomars talspråk gestaltas i ungdomsromanen Shoo len, av Douglas Foley. Jag utgår från befintlig forskningslitteratur om verklighetens ungdomsspråk och med speciellt fokus på multietniskt ungdomsspråk. Med en kvalitativ undersökning av romankaraktärernas talspråk beskriver jag hur Foley skapar ”sitt” ungdomliga litterära talsp
Canada’s total fertility rate declined steadily from its peak of 3.92 children per woman in 1958 to a low of 1.49 in 2000. Since 2001 however, Canada’s TFR has increased every year, resting at 1.66 in 2007. This increase has taken place in nearly every province, and coincides with a period when real estate prices increased for 37 consecutive fiscal quarters. Although numerous studies have focused
In this thesis a model for valuing an arbitrary collateralized loan obligation (CLO) is implemented. A CLO is a structured credit product whose performance relies on a pool of corporate loans. Valuation in the context of this thesis is the price on a CLO security and the distribution for the price. The major driver behind the performance of the loan pool is the default distribution among obligors.
Uppsatsen behandlar ansvaret för uppgifter i avtalsförhandlingar. Frågan gäller ansvaret i kommersiella förhållanden mellan två näringsidkare. Det händer ibland att en part ingår ett avtal under en förutsättning som senare visar sig vara felaktig. En uppgift som först presenterats kan senare visa sig vara felaktig. Tvisten kan sedan komma att gå till en domstol för ett avgörande. Tolkningsprincipe
Den rådande ekonomiska krisen har medfört att ett stort antal människor i Sverige har blivit av med sina arbeten. Konkurrensen på arbetsmarknaden är hård och den kräver ambitiösa insatser av de arbetslösa. Tillståndet på arbetsmarknaden har gjort att de arbetslösas situation har blivit en viktig samhällsangelägenhet. Uppsatsens syfte var att ta reda på hur arbetslösa upplever mötet med Arbetsförme
The aim of this study is to 1) describe the structure and types of associational and organizational networks within immigrant women’s community in southern Sweden Malmö, Lund and Eslöv, 2) examine how such networks facilitate Thai women’s well-being and integration by providing social supports and services, and 3) present how Thai women perceive the role of social and organizational networks in re
The aims of the thesis are to investigate the estimation power and the normality of standardized residuals for Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models (GARCH). We facilitate the analysis by only dealing with GARCH(1, 1) models. We take use of MATLAB as the statistical programming tool for the simulation of the data and the estimation. We define the meaning of estimation
Title: Resistance and uncertainty in change processes. How can dialogue and participation be used to ensure a successful implementation of a change initiative? Author: Cathrine Westlie Eidal Advisor: Charlotte Simonsson Problem: Resistance and uncertainty towards change are the main problems why change initiatives fail. There is also a lack in the literature when it comes to how the employees perc
Hållbarhetsutveckling kan definieras som ”En samhällsutveckling som tillgodoser dagens behov utan att äventyra kommande generationers möjlighet att tillgodose sina behov.” Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa vilka möjligheter ett aktiebolag har att verka för en hållbar utveckling, utan att det går mot verksamhetens syfte att gå med vinst och minoritetsskyddsreglerna i ABL; det vill säga genera
Abstract Equine assisted therapy - a qualitative study of therapeutic riding Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed Equine assisted therapy is not a new treatment. During the 1500's riding was recommended for maintaining health or improving it, then riding was considered to have positive impact on both physical and mental health. In the 1600's horse-like machines were manufactured to
Migration of highly skilled individuals or brain drain is an integral part of the globalization. Education is a crucial determinant of human capital accumulation in the country and therefore, a source of economic growth. The aim of this paper is to assess migration tendency as a function of educational level for the Eastern European region. While most previous studies have focused on the rural mig
This essay is about two of the most important surveys concerning cultural politics in Sweden. The first is the survey Boken – Litteraturutredningens huvudbetänkande/1968 års litteraturutredning from 1974, which was a part of the groundwork for the politics concerning literature in Sweden. The other one is Betänkande av Kulturutredningen 2009, which is an attempt to make great structural changes to
This thesis disaggregates the ‘Swedish paradox’ with respect to Swedish manufacturing from 1987 to 2007. This is done by analyzing the impact of R&D expenditure in industry on industry growth of the manufacturing industry in Sweden from 1987 to 2007. A quantitative approach using panel-data from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and OECD is used to investigate the effect of R&D expenditure on econom
This essay is an event study of the share price of a number of companies listed at the Stockholm Exchange Market which prior to the dates studied only had men in their board. The purpose of the essay is to study whether the announcement of a new female board member affects the share price. The number of companies used in the study is 25. The essay builds its reasoning on theories on efficient mark
Sammanfattning De senaste årtiondena har sjukvården i stora delar av Västeuropa präglats av strukturella förändringar. Kostnaderna för sjukvård ökar dramatiskt medan intäkterna är svåra att påverka. Med anledning av de ökande kostnaderna har sjukvården även fått en allt större roll på den politiska agendan, vilket har lett till att sjukvården har blivit föremål för många olika strategier. En synl
From the recent mortality trends in Central and Eastern Europe, it is clear that in the former socialist countries the economic transition had a different effect on male and female mortality: premature death became much more frequent among males, and the gender mortality gap increased as a result. The psycho-social stress hypothesis (Cornia and Paniccia, 2001) explains the Eastern European experie
