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Patents on traditional knowledge and the issue of biopiracy has been a debated issue since the Uruguay Round in the early 1990s. In order to handle this problem, the United Nations established the Convention on Biological Diversity and a subsidiary working group on Access and Benefit Sharing. This is supposed to help traditional knowledge holders claim their rights to benefit sharing when commerci

I vår samtid möter vi ibland påståendet att den kristna förkunnelsen har blivit urvattnad och ytlig för att passa så många som möjligt, och att det i sin tur leder till en tro utan substans. Denna uppsats har som syfte att bemöta om det finns ett underlag för påståendet genom att göra en nutida teologisk och religionsfilosofisk analys av begreppen tro och religion. Analysen av ovan begrepp visar p

Länders kreditbetyg är ständigt i fokus i dagens europeiska skuldkris. I denna uppsats undersöks därför vilka riskpremier som kan förväntas till följd av ändringar i kreditbetyg eller utsikter från något av de tre största kreditvärderingsinstituten; Moody´s, Standard and Poor´s och Fitch. Ett antal ekonometriska modeller konstrueras utifrån ett datamaterial som omfattar 11 EMU-länder under tidsper

Sweden is a member state to the Convention on the rights of the child. Therefore it has to have the child’s best as its primary interest while forming regulations regarding children. In this essay I wanted to explore what implications this requirement had on how the Swedish state should form the statute of limitation on sexual abuse against children and other types of child abuse. I’ve looked at

Child pornography appears to be a criminal offence universally condemned. Nonetheless, a discussion of the artistic value and freedom of speech in contrast to the responsibility to protect our children from commercial sexual exposition has developed in recent years. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to examine the underlying theories and arguments concerning the artistic freedoms and ethics

The Swedish law and policys concerning non-citizens are creating an impossible situation for undocumented migrants to gain access to basic human rights. The national law which is both contradictive and unclear concerning this group also creates difficulties for the individuals and organisations who are trying to supply access to basic rights. The study is built on interviews of six people who in

In January 2014 a new system for archival description will take effect in all Swedish government agencies, as prescribed by the Swedish National archives. This system is based upon the notion of processes as a way to describe organizations; processes containing activities and transactions that renders traces of information. It is a system that is fundamentally different from the preceding one. The

Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983) is considered by many as one of the twentieth century's most significant theologians. His main contribution to theological research, or at least the one most talked about, is his argument about liturgy in relation to theology and the church. Schmemann said that the task of liturgical theology is to clarify the theological meaning of the church's worship. Thi

Anti-corruption measures have since 2007 been formally incorporated in the World Bank Group’s poverty reduction mandate. The understanding of corruption is a matter of great disagreement, there is a lack of consensus regarding the causes and effects of the phenomenon. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how the World Bank’s understanding of corruption is demonstrated in its strategies

Women who come through attachment relationships to Sweden must stay in the country for two years in order to get their permanent visa. Consequently, these women risk to be exposed to physical, mental and sexual violence and live in a violent relationship as some of them might not be able to return to their home countries. The issue is complex and current law plays a critical role for the realisati

The humanitarian crisis in Syria is worse than ever. The late efforts by the UN Security Council have not improved the situation on the ground. The Syrian regime continues to violently supress its people and the opposition responds in a similar manner. Effects of the brutality can be seen in Turkey where thousands of Syrian citizens seek refuge and the Security Council has determined that the cris

Is the language and terminology used in the Church of Sweden understandable to young people? Many scientists have investigated the religiosity of youth and the liturgical language, but there is no completed study on the relationship between the language that young people use in discussions about existential issues and the language of the representatives of the Church of Sweden. This study examine

In the year of 1999, Sweden became the first country in the world to criminalize the act of buying sexual services. However, selling sexual services for compensation still remains legal even up to this day. Arguments about gender equality, the protection of prostitutes and the connection of prostitution to trafficking were used to support the Swedish legislation. Opponents to this argue that this

Human beings have a universal human dignity. To realize it, they have to use the human rights that come with it. After the acknowledgement of their own dignity, they can respect human beings as bearers of the universal dignity. To respect the dignity is both to treat every human being as a subject, a goal itself, trough collaboration, and to create and maintain the conditions that need to exist fo

Inom hälso- och sjukvården är forskning rörande teamarbete en relativt ny företeelse. Flera studier påvisar motsättningar mellan professionerna inom operationsteamet i stora delar av världen. Nationella studier inom området saknas. Syftet med studien var att undersöka det perioperativa samarbetet inom operationsteamet. Metoden genomfördes med kvantitativ ansats genom strukturerade icke-deltagande

Sammanfattning Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur EU-rätten påverkar den svenska arbetsrättsliga modellen, särskilt arbetsgivarens generella informationsplikt och om Sverige har levt upp till de krav som EU-rätten ställer vid införlivandet av direktiv 2002/14/EG om införlivande av allmän ram för information till och samråd med i Europeiska gemenskapen, gällande nationella förhållanden. The purpose of this paper is to examine how EU law influences the Swedish labour law model, particularly the general obligation of employers to provide information and concerning, whether Sweden has lived up to the requirements imposed under EU law regarding the implementation of the directive 2002/14/EC establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Commun

Theoretical studies assessing innovation capabilities often tend to be general. This literature might not be completely applicable in practice when it discussing utilities, which are heavily affected by their external environment. Exploring which factors that drive innovation in a utility would therefore cover a gap currently existing in innovation management literature. A theoretical contribution

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: AB Klippans Läderfabrik var under sina verksamma år en av de största arbetsgivarna i området. Ett flertal giftiga ämnen användes i verksamheten, främst krom men även formalin och under en kort period arsenik. Fabrikstomten kom med tiden att förorenas. Stora delar av fabriken brann ned år 1917 och röken från branden sträckte sig in över ett intilliggande villaomrDuring environmental investigations at the polluted Klippan Leather Factory, elevated levels of arsenic were detected in the adjacent residential area. The arsenic is believed to have originated from a fire in the leather factory in 1917, when a plume of smoke covered the residential area and deposited arsenic as fallout. Investigations showed that the pollution was located in the topsoil, and dur

Last few years, services such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and Voice over Internet Protocol (ValP) have been in focus. Network operators see a huge potential in streaming real-time media over IP-networks and this lays the ground for so called paid services such as Video on Demand (VOD) as well as free services like YouThbe and SVT Play. IPTV delivers content over a closed infrastructure