The debate about the link between economic growth and foreign trade is still open amongst scholars. There exist four main hypotheses regarding the relation between imports, exports and economic growth. The first one states that growth can come only through increasing the volume of exports of the country, i.e. export – led – growth hypothesis. The second one (growth – led – exports hypothesis)

This paper describes the development of software for calculating third party risk in the vicinity of Swedish airports. The paper describes the development and functionality of the software in text format. Further development is discussed by the possible implementation of the lasso method for investigating aircraft specific risk factors. This paper investigates these risk factors to identify airpor

The European Union has a special place in the popular culture when talking about democracy. The mass media represent “the watch dog of democracy”, therefore it is hard to imagine a real democracy without free mass media. Even though this freedom is guaranteed by the EU legislation, it is sometimes constrained in supposed democratic countries. The study aims to find if is possible to constrain the

Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs) have been adopted in developed countries since 1970s to help stimulate public participation, facilitate environmental regulation and promote industrial transformation, but have not been widely established in developing countries. In China, environmental pollution is increasing rapidly and has reached severe levels as a result of economic development

The response of concrete structures subjected to blast load can be studied numerically using commercial finite element programs. The complexity of reinforced concrete makes modeling and simulation of large structures time and computer power consuming. Consequently, The Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, has an interest in finding a fast and numerically efficient model to study this response to

A train accident at high speeds can result in serious consequences, and in worst case the loss of human life. Hence, there are stringent requirements related to traffic safety on the railway system. These requirements are valid for both the infrastructure and the rolling stock. The overall purpose of this work is to increase the understanding of the management of safety critical faults within the

Syftet med uppsatsen är att utreda gränsdragningen av ett samtyckes ansvarsbefriande verkan vid misshandelsfall av normalgraden i sexuella sammanhang. Dessa fall rör sig i gränslandet mellan det straffbara och det straffria. Uppsatsen utreder gränslandet genom att se till hur ett ansvarsbefriande samtycke är uppbyggt. Det konstateras att det krävs ett giltigt samtycke och att själva gärningen inteThe purpose of this bachelor thesis is to investigate the boundary of a consent exonerating effect on assaults of the normal degree made in a sexual context. Such cases are located at the boundary between the criminal and impunity. The paper investigates the boundary area by looking at how an exonerating consent is constructed. It is noted that there is a need for a valid consent and that the act

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka förändringen av den psykiska hälsan hos en grupp manliga flyktingar. Skattningarna är utförda före och efter stabiliserande/inledande gruppbehandling utförd vid Röda Korsets behandlingscenter för krigsskadade och torterade i Malmö. Validerade och välkända självskattningsverktyg avseende posttraumatiskt stressyndrom (PTSD), depression och ångest har använts. SThis study aims to investigate changes in mental health of a group of male refugees. The estimates are done before and after initial stabilization treatment, performed at the Red Cross treatment center for war wounded and tortured in Malmö. Validated and well-known self-assessment tool for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety have been used. The estimates are made on three

Sexualbrotten är de brott som har genomgått störst förändringar genom historien och våldtäktsmål debatteras ofta i olika medier. Definitionen av våldtäkt har utvidgats flera gånger men trots att det är ett allvarligt brott och trots att andra grova brott i Brottsbalken har en oaktsamhetsreglering så kan en gärningsman dömas för våldtäkt endast ifall han haft uppsåt till handlingen. Frågan om att iSex crimes are those crimes that have undergone the greatest changes in history and rape cases are often debated in various media. The definition of rape has been extended several times but even though it is a serious crime and despite other serious crimes in the Penal Code has a negligence regulation a perpetrator can be sentenced for rape only if he had an intent to act. To introduce some kind o

Studies on accentual tonal alignment of intonational languages suggest a segmental anchoring of tonal targets, more specifically that L in rising (LH) pre-nuclear accents anchors with a specific point in the segment, while the timing of H varies. This study tests if lexical accents, too, exhibit a constant alignment by testing the South Swedish word Accent II using speech rate as an experimental t

The Potential of Esters as Renewable Fuels: Determination of Laminar Burning Velocities Biodiesel fuel is widely used as a clean fuel in car engines. Ester fuels are a one kind of a biodiesel fuel which includes many chemical compounds. Due to their chemical and physical properties these esters are difficult to investigate in a laboratory. The heat flux method was used in this study to determine

Syftet med denna studie är att ta fram en arbetsmetod för att samla in, lagra och visualisera geografisk data på ett enkelt och billigt sätt, samt att man når en stor målgrupp med denna geografiska data. Studien riktar sig främst till arbete som pågår i utvecklingsländer och i miljöer där man jobbar med begränsade resurser. Många organisationer som jobbar under dessa förutsättningar har inte råd aThe purpose of this study is to develop a method on how to collect, store and visualize geographic data in an easy and inexpensive way, and to enable a wide audience to reach the information. The focus of this study is mainly on projects that are taking place in developing countries and in environments where one usually works with limited resources. Many of the organizations that are working in th

Forskning visar på att man inom olika kulturer har olika vägar för att lära barn prata och kommunicera – så kallad språklig socialisation (Salameh, 2010). Detta gör att det man ser som riktigt och rätt i en kultur inte alltid stämmer överrens med vad man anser i en annan. I Sverige använder vi oss ofta av TAKK – tecken som alternativ och kompletterande kommunikation vid kommunikationssvårigheter.

Corporate social responsibility is a management concept originating from the Anglo-Saxon background and associated with the tradition of arm’s length relations between business and institutions in society. However, different institutional systems handle organizational innovations in dissimilar ways, and in the age of globalization, national institutions often interact with global ones. This study

This research will focus on the economic geographic patterns of the diffusion of grid photovoltaic (PV) cells. The analysis is specified to the EU 15 and the time period 1990-2010. The causal and correlational relationships will be derived from energy transitions that occurred in history and recent research directed towards renewable energy and solar energy in particular. This results in five inde

Remarkable success of Japanese economy after WWII has been an intriguing topic for many researchers. In relation to the theory and previous research this study proposes a different explanatory model of Japanese growth after WWII. The model proposed here relies upon a contribution of two key features of the Japanese economy- subcontracting as a type of organizational form of conglomerates and indus

The tendential fall in the rate of profit lies in the center of a long-lasting debate among Marxist scholarship on its centrality and empirical relevance in the investigation of structural crises. Without neglecting the financial aspect of the current crisis, which is covered in the vast majority of academic accounts, we try to discover its underlying roots in the entire spectrum of capitalist pro

Uppsatsen presenterar en värdeanalys av det fria skolvalet utifrån John Rawls teori om rättvisa och vilket syfte som skolan borde formas kring. Hur påverkas de demokratiska värdena av att skolan förändrats från att vara en sammanhållen statligt styrd enhet till att innefatta ett stort antal skilda aktörer med olika intressen och agendor? Argumentationen görs genom en diskussion om det fria skolval