The housing market in Sweden today has submitted to the rules of commercial markets. The de-mand is rising while the supply is decreasing; pushing rents to go up. The interest in building apartment blocks is low due to high costs and low revenue. Prior to 1991 private actors was encouraged to enter the housing market through tax revenues and loan subventions and through Public-Private Partnerships

As globalization advances, so does international trading. This Bachelor’s thesis’ purpose is to analyze in what way corporations conform to human rights by using suppliers in a globalized environment and what impact globalization has on corporation’s actions in accordance with human rights. By qualitatively analyzing documents and by conducting an argumentation analysis, the methodological foundat

The purpose of this study is to question the neutrality in the reports from Al Jazeera and BBC about the Israeli military operation “Pillar of Defense” that took place in November 2012. The study is conducted through different linguistic and structural analyses that aim to find ideological patterns in the way the agencies report about the events. Since both agencies claim to be neutral and not pol

The study aims to examine the impact of Expressive Suppression (ES), on Working Memory (WM) performance when exposed to mild pain reaction causing physiological activation. Performance measures are obtained to discriminate between three groups having their hands in warm water, cold water, and cold water and implementing ES. As a measure of WM performance, this study used a WM 2-back task intersper

The main aim of this thesis is to explain the differences in the resources used for electricity generation in the Czech Republic and Austria from two different perspectives: geographical and institutional. First, geographical conditions and available domestic resources are compared, followed by an analysis of energy policy in both countries. The institutional perspective concentrates on the concep

The cost-sharing exemption provided by Art. 132(1)(f) EVD is a provision with a specific objective. The legal function of the provision is to enable economic operators which carry on exempt activities to emancipate certain internal sources which are directly necessary to carry on the exempt activity to be outsourced, and thus supplied exempt. Under the framework of a cost-sharing arrangement, the

In today's market trademarks are extremely valuable. The proprietors need to be creative in order to prevent infringements of their trademarks. However, the CJEU have ruled that proprietors are not allowed to take measures that limit the competition of the Union without any positive effects for the benefit of consumers. The Commission has proposed amendments to the trademark legislations of th

Myanmar is the scene of one of the longest on going conflicts in the world. Due to recent efforts at reforms and democratisation, Myanmar has come under the light of the media and the ethnic clashes have attracted more attention than they ever have in the past. This dissertation aims to examine the potential for conflict transformation to provide a solution to this intractable violence. Using a co

In this study we examine how Swedish members of Parliament view social groups and their role in changing oppressive norms in a political context. We focus on LGBT issues and the intersection between sexuality and gender/sex. Therefore, we have interviewed nine MP:s who either identify themselves as LGBT and/or work with LGBT issues. All informants’ emphasis the importance of viewing social groups

Barn har ett grundläggande behov av en förälder, en anknytningsperson, som är tillgänglig för barnet och ser till barnets behov (Bowlby, 1994). När föräldern placeras i anstalt kommer relationen mellan barn och föräldrar att ta plats inom en ram av regelverk och lagar utformade av samhället. Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka hur barns relation/anknytning till sin förälder påverkas av atChildren have a basic need of a parent, attachment figure, who is accessible to the child and ensure the child's needs (Bowlby, 1994). When a parent is incarcerated, the relationship between children and parents takes place within a framework of rules and laws designed by society. The aim of this study was to examine how children's relationship/attachment to the parent is affected by the f

Rätten till att bestämma över sin egen kropp ses som en mänsklig rättighet över hela världen. Trots det är frågan om aborträtt väldigt polariserad i EU och fri abort ses inte som en självklarhet inom alla medlemsstater. Denna uppsatts har för syfte att undersöka vad det finns för samband mellan liberala abortlagar och ekonomisk tillväxt i rika länder. Den modell som föreslås bygger på paneldata oc

En ekokritisk analys av Eva-Stina Byggmästars triologi om kärlek.

Efterfrågan på sockerrör har de senaste åren ökat i takt med att fler länder strävar efter att minska sitt beroende av fossila bränslen. Som en följd har antalet sockerrörsodlingar kraftigt ökat i Brasilien vilket medfört en oro inför vilka effekter denna omvandling av ursprunglig mark till sockerrörsodling har på lokala hydrologin och klimatet. I det här arbetet har påverkan av sockerrörs expanThe demand for sugarcane has increased in recent years as more countries desire to reduce its dependence of fossil fuels. Therefore, the number of sugarcane plantations has rapidly increased in Brazil which raises concerns for what effect these conversion of original land to sugarcane plantations have on local hydrology and climate. In this thesis, the effects of sugarcane expansion on surface ru

Moatize district located in Tete province in the center of Mozambique has one of the largest unexploited coal deposits of the world with a capacity of 2.5 billions of tones. Recently many multinational coal mine companies started exploitation of coal in Moatize. Coal exploitation has economical, social and environmental impacts. The main environmental impact is generation of acid mine drainage (AM

Uppsatsen har undersökt hur EU:s fredsfrämjande arbete på västra Balkan har bidragit till att den fientliga bilden av Kroatien som skapades under kriget i början av 90-talet omvandlats till en mer positivt laddad bild; och hur denna representeras i det lokala medieflödet i Bosnien och Hercegovina. Teorin som använts som grund för studien, och som skildrar EU:s fredsfrämjande arbete i regionen är ”

Skrynkelstrukturer, en typ av mikrobiellt inducerade sedimentstrukturer (MISS) har återfunnits i jurassiska tidalt avsatta heteroliter i skånska Kulla Gunnarstorp. Skrynkelstrukturer kännetecknas av små, ofta avlånga veck på överytan av finkorniga sandstenar. Dessa strukturer, liksom MISS i allmänhet, bildas i siliciklastiska sediment under inverkan av bakteriellt utsöndrad extracellulär polymerisWrinkle structures, a type of microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) were found in Jurassic tidally deposited heterolites of Kulla Gunnarstorp, southern Sweden. Wrinkle structures are characterizeded by minute, commonly elongate crinkles on the upper bedding planes of fine grained arenites. These structures, as well as MISS in general, form in siliciclastic sediments due to bacterial se

The aim of this study is to investigate how Rooke and Booth/Alsanea have translated culture specific words in Alsanea’s novel Banat ar-Riyad. The study focuses on three chapters from the Arabic novel and the same chapters in its Swedish and English translations. The study analyses if the translators, when translating the Arabic culture specific words found in the three chapters, have used two spec

This thesis deals with the problems connected to national identification in Silesia, a region situated in the south-western parts of Poland by the German border, characterized by a number of border redrawals throughout the history. Through analysis applied to earlier investigations and through examinations of official documents and material produced by movements for autonomy and Silesian nationali

Informations- och kommunikationsteknologin har expanderat och många organisationer har hakat på trenden med att anamma nya teknologiska innovationer. Det har resulterat i att den digitala världen blivit alltmer viktig, men samtidigt problematisk för organisationers kommunikation. Vi har valt att rikta studien mot resultatet av fusionen mellan sociala medier och traditionella intranät, det vill sägIn the past years, Information- and Communication Technologies have expanded, and many organizations are following the growing trend of embracing new technological innovations. This has resulted in the digital world becoming increasingly important, yet problematic for organizations' communications. We have chosen to focus the study on the outcome of the fusion of social media and the tradition