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This paper is a study of Vitruvius and the lifting devices he describes in his work De Architecura. The aim of this paper is to figure out how truthful Vitruvius' statement about the rarity of cranes is. I also explore what sort of education Vitruvius expected an architect to have; thereby stating that a certain level of competence was expected of the people who constructed and handled such li

The year 1645, the Danish county 'Halland' became a province under the Swedish state. In this essay i study which cultural impact this change in nationality meant for the local population in Halland. I also look at other cultural patterns expressed by people in the 17th century. The studied material consists of so called 'suppliker', a kind of petitions which people could use to as

This paper takes a critical look at current methodologies used by business for assessing impacts on indigenous communities dependent upon natural resources for the maintenance of their traditional way of life. It argues that new human-centered, holistic and bottom-up approaches can contribute to a greater understanding of direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of resource development on indigenou

This study is an attempt to determine to what extent the friezes on the columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius depict actual military practices with respect to the equipment worn by legionaries and soldiers of the regular auxilia. Both columns display a very strict separation between citizen soldiers and auxiliary troops in terms of armor and weaponry, but the specific components that comprise the

2006 genomfördes en reform av den svenska asylprocessen. Det tidigare systemet hade utsatts för stark kritik, och särskilt överklagandeinstansen, Utlänningsnämnden, hade blivit en symbol för en godtycklig, och samtidigt restriktiv asylpolitik. I och med reformen ersattes Utlänningsnämnden av tre Migrationsdomstolar och en Migrationsöverdomstol. Det uttryckliga målet var att öka öppenheten och rättIn 2006 a reform of the Swedish asylum process took place. The former system had been the object of strong criticism, and especially the appellate body, the Aliens Appeals Board, had become a symbol of an arbitrary, and at the same time restrictive asylum policy. In the reform the Aliens Appeals Board was replaced with three Migration Courts and one Migration Court of Appeal. The outspoken aim was

This essay examine how the citizen is represented and (re)produced in the framing of the pupil expressed in the mandatory school system’s policy documents. The purpose is to examine the potential meaning of a citizen and how the citizen is given shape in the framework of the pupil in the material. The policy documents consists of essential school laws and national curriculum. The essay is based on

Drawing upon Transition and Technological Innovation Systems' theory, the author analyzed the process by which the Nicaraguan electricity sub-sector transitions towards renewable energy generation, the actors and networks of actors that play central parts in this process, the regulatory infrastructure that frames actors' actions and the factors and mechanisms that drive and block technolog

Det här arbetet handlar om att belysa den kommunistiska regimen på Kuba efter Kalla kriget och varför den överlevde. Uppsatsen kretsar kring centrala statsvetenskapliga begrepp, som legitimitet och regim. Arbetet är metodlogiskt upplagt som en teorikonsumerande fallstudie, då vi använder oss av teorier för att belysa vilka faktorer som är de mest relevanta för att beskriva den kubanska regimens öv

This study explores how community members in Nairobi slums perceive the health benefits of improvements of the physical environment with focus on water and sanitation, how it can be obtained, further sustained and how the community members can be involved. Location and socioeconomic status variations were also explored. A comparative, qualitative case study was done inspired by the theories of soc

The aim with this thesis was to analyse and discuss the language used in the handbook ”Amning – en håndbog for sundhedspersonale” with a critical discourse analysis approach in the field of democratic and feminist theory. With a critical approach to the natural as always being the best, I found, that Sundhedsstyrelsen are very selective in their scientific research, and that some times, we are onl

Den här uppsatsen handlar om förhållandet mellan senmedeltida och tidigmodernt fursteideal. Studien är en komparativ idéanalys mellan den svenska "Konungastyrelsen" och Machiavellis "Fursten". Genom att anlägga politisk kultur som analytiskt redskap visar jag att det finns en idéhistorisk kontinuitet, med vissa brott och förändringar, i det västeuropeiska fursteidealet.This paper examines the relationship between late medieval and early modern princely ideals. The study is a comparative analysis of ideas between the Swedish "Konungastyrelsen" and Machiavelli's "Prince". By using political culture as an analytical tool, I show that there is a historical continuity in ideas, with some changes, in the Western European principality ideal.

In 1994, Rwanda was a country ravaged by ethnic violence of an incomprehensible scale as 800,000 people were killed within 100 days. Whilst the abhorrent events of Rwanda’s genocide lack justification, the genocide marked a turning point for women’s position in this traditionally patriarchal society. In this post-conflict context, this study investigates adults’ perceptions of the gendered divisio

In a country as „connected‟ as Sweden, it is hard to imagine a setting in which the Internet does not play a significant role in people‟s everyday lives. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the use and/or awareness of online health information and services among female immigrants in Malmö, Sweden. The data collected is based on semi-structured interviews with 11 female immigrants of 7 differe

The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) constitutes a new way of governing through so-called ”soft law”. The method has in recent literature been censured as illegitimate, ineffective and not quite as open as the name suggests. Thus the aim of this thesis is to fundamentally audit the democratic status of the OMC. Another object is to put the method into a context of general European governance with

Arbetet berör kopplingen mellan neopatrimonialism och demokratiseringsprocessen i Nigeria. Metoden som används är en teoriutvecklande fallstudie. Efter en genomgång av redan befintlig teori inom neopatrimonialism identifieras tre indikatorer som kännetecknar ett sådant system. Dessa är personlig presidentialism, klientelism och missbruk av statsresurser. Indikatorerna appliceras på Nigeria för att

Samarbete mellan offentliga och privata aktörer blir allt vanligare och det innebär bland annat att den offentliga verksamheten organiseras annorlunda än tidigare. Förvaltningen bedriver sin verksamhet genom horisontella relationer och detta benämns governance. En form av governance är privatoffentliga partnerskap som innebär att offentliga och privata aktörer går samman för att lösa problem. Ett

Denna uppsats ämnar undersöka det medborgerliga deltagandet i planprocessen till Bo01, Västra hamnen. Fallstudien är uppbyggd som en least likely crucial case study då uppsatsen utgår från att projektets snabba tillkomst fick negativa implikationer för det medborgerliga deltagandet. Genom att utgå från delar av Kristian Sjöviks demokratiska processvärden, deltagande, ansvar och öppenhet samt två d

The relationship between the programs of the Swedish Left party and communist ideology is a vexed question, since the party has tried to transform itself from a communist party to a broad left party. This study describes the development of the ideology of the Left party as expressed in their party programs from the 1970’s until today. This development is examined with a content analysis. To comple

Det är ovanligt i en demokrati att ledaren, trots misstankar om flertalet brott, blir omvald gång på gång. I Italien är detta dock verklighet då Silvio Berlusconi (nuvarande premiärminister) blivit vald och sedan omvald vid ytterligare två tillfällen. Vi kommer i denna uppsats fram till vad vi tror en huvudsaklig anledning till detta är. Vi har även sett att landet är ett av två länder i Västeurop

"In the shadow of global rivalry and maritime trade. Swedish sailors in Moroccan captivity, 1754-1763". In the attempt by the Swedish government to expand its commercial trade in the Mediterranean in the 18th century several of its trading vessels were captured by Moroccan corsairs. By initially employing maritime diplomacy and sending naval expeditions to the area they sought to protect