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The biotechnology industry is an evolving sector of this century having potential to significantly influence our lives. It has unidentified potentials to contribute to sustainable development, but is also feared by society for its possible known and unknown impacts. Amplified transparency brought about by media, new concerns and expectations of society towards business as well as social criteria a

This thesis evaluates the user board of the elememtary school in Veberöd, Sweden. In this process an evaluation model is developed. The model itself gets evaluated in a meta-evaluation to improve the model for future use. The starting point of the evaluation is the deliberative democracy theory. Although Sweden is a representative democracy an official desire exists to have a democracy with delib

The aim of this essay is to examine which help a group of women with eating disorders had from thier treatment in daycare in 2004. The aim is to examine how the women have experienced this treatment and how they live today. The central questions are: what was their life situation like before the treatment, what was their experience of the treatment, how could the treatment have been better and how

Corporate sustainability research and practice are beginning to move beyond eco-efficiency. In our search to conceptualise sustainable development in terms that make sense to business, a growing range of frameworks, tools and management systems have emerged to support efforts to improve the social and environmental performance of companies. One of the challenges for business is to sort through the

The aim of this essay was to describe and analyse the use of snuff as a social activity. By accomplishing eight qualitative interviews with snuff-users I wanted to get a glimpse into their relationship to the snuff and find out in which situations and frames of mind the snuff-use alter. I also wanted to find out if age, class or gender has any affect in snuff-using. The interviews were analysed in

This study uses eye-tracking equipment to search for effects of linguistic relativity. The study tries to escape the traditional battle between anti-relativistic modularism and pro-relativistic connectionism by testing effects of “distributed” linguistic relativity. It finds that Talmy’s manner element has a perception-attracting quality which guides attention in unequal amounts due the different

The phonological status and behaviour of schwa ('e-caduc') constitues one of the most widely investigated topics in the synchronic study of French phonology. A considerable amount of research is directed towards the attempt to account for the phonetic level alternatin of schwa with zero in certain environments. Proposed explanations vary considerably depending on the theoretical approach t

Denna uppsats undersöker den svenska populärhistoriska utgivningen åren 2003-2007. Totalt 830 titlar - utgivna vid förlagen Historiska Media, Signum, Atlantis, Albert Bonniers Förlag, Natur & Kultur, Nordstedts Förlag, Prisma, samt Wahlström & Widstrand - bearbetas statistiskt och analyseras utifrån variablerna tema, rum, epok, förlag och format. Undersökningen visar på en påtaglig konfor

I samarbete med Veidekke Skåne har vi gjort en studie om företagets internkommunikation. Veidekke Skåne har sitt huvudkontor i Lund och ingår i den norska byggkoncernen Veidekke ASA. Företaget har funnits i Skåne i fem år och växer hela tiden. Vår intention har varit att kartlägga intern- kommunikationen och ta reda på hur den fungerar. Vi har också velat belysa på vilket sätt villkoren ändras för

The purpose of this study was to analyse the concept of empowerment and its meaning in the political document "En Förnyad Folkhälsopolitik" from the present Swedish government, containing guidelines and politics in the area of public health. The underlying question was if it could be considered as representative for some kind of general "empowerment approach" since the concept

Title: Defending one's origin ? a musical journey to Transylvania. A journey to the Transylvanian part of Romania was pursued with the intent to investigate the cultural aspects of the historically and politically rooted set of relations between the Hungarian peaking minority and the majority of the population, the Romanian speaking group. Music pedagogical ambitions within the two cultures w

I vårt moderna samhälle är sättet vi organiserar intima relationer på föremål för offentlig diskussion och statt i förändring. Detta skriver Anthony Giddens om i boken Intimitetens omvandling (1992). På senare tid har en relationsform som kallas för relationsanarki (RA) vuxit fram. Mitt syfte är efter en kritisk läsning av Giddens undersöka relationen mellan hans teori och RA som praktik och erfar

Title: Access to cultural education in a multi-ethnical context. The right to dance and play an instrument, to paint and work with film is taken for granted by many children in Malmoe today. The agenda explicitely phrases the intent of the publicly financed schools of art for children to reflect the multi-ethnic demographics of the city. Public community music schools of today, incorporate classe

In this thesis various Value-at-Risk models are compared and evaluated towards finding the optimal model for the bank's trading book. The focus is on linear instruments (stocks, indicies and currency) and real market data, both domestic and foreign, is used for the calculations. I find that the GARCH(1,1) based model outperforms other models in volatility estimation and should thus be a wise c

Syftet i denna uppsats är att få djupare förståelse för studenters visioner angående det goda campusrummet och om hur appropriationen, produktionen och reproduktionen av campusrummet ser ut. En strävan är också att få en djupare förståelse för hur makt påverkar rummets konstruktion och hur makten gör sig gällande i det redan byggda rummet. Det empiriska materialet är insamlat genom intervjupromena

Denna analys behandlar frågeställningar om diasporakultur, identitet och representation i relation till dess inverkan på tolkningen av Gegen die Wand och dess filmspråk (2004, Fatih Akin). Finns det ett specifikt diasporafilmspråk som kännetecknar Gegen die Wand?

With constant upgrades in 3d-modeling software, even previously functional and validated animated facial expressions can be updated. The present work seeks to provide such an additional upgraded set of tools for researchers to use interested in e.g. emotional facial expressions, and contains two experiments. One where static facial expressions are tested in three different ways and a second experi

Imagine not being able to choose who you are going to be in an intimate relationship with. It used to be like that but the situation has changed - these days we have a lot of different options available to choose for ourselves how to live our lives. We have a lot of different ways to influence how we want to live our lives and with whom we want to share them with. The aim of this study was to exa

Den ungdomliga hiphopkulturen finns idag överallt och används för att sälja allt från produkter till politiska budskap. Hiphopkulturen har sin utgångspunkt i USA och afroamerikanernas verklighet, men den finns som ett konstnärligt och politiskt uttryck i hela världen, inklusive Sverige. Trots att hiphopkulturen är en väldigt praktiskt orienterad rörelse bestående av olika uttryck (musiken, dansen