This is a work on how financial crises affect political legitimacy. Assuming that legitimacy exists as part of an ongoing process that depends on the evaluations of the citizens, 12 different crises and following executive elections from 6 countries are studied to understand, how legitimacy/legitimation could be affected by a financial crisis. The research is conducted in two parts: Firstly, a the

There is an international agreement that Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, HACCP, is an established management system for food safety. The HACCP system supplies the food safety with confidence so that it can be effectively managed. It works as a tool to control and prevent hazards rather than to rely on end-product inspection and testing. EU hygiene regulations require that this system

The National Board of Health and Welfare together with the Public Health Agency of Sweden suggests that a reduction in income inequality could decrease suicide rates. The thesis aims at testing if this statement is accurate and if the influence of income inequality on suicides is different across age groups. The estimations are done using a panel dataset consisting of all Swedish counties for the

Denna kandidatuppsats i handelsrätt behandlar försäkringsavtalslagen efter de nya ändringarna som trädde i kraft den 1 januari 2006. Lagen ersatte den gamla försäkringsavtalslagen och konsumentförsäkringslagen, som numera utgörs av en gemensam försäkringsavtalslag. Uppsatsen behandlar i första hand försäkringsavtalets rättsliga reglering och har syftet att fungera handlingsdirigerande för försäkri

Author: Sigrid Fagerberg Title: The balancing act of particular attention. Hospital social workers work with children as dependents. Supervisor: Anders Olsson The aim of this study was to illustrate how hospital social workers can work with children as dependents where a parent or other adult with whom the child lives permanently has a serious physical illness or injury. More specifically its aim

In this study we investigate the impact of the lowering of the payroll taxes in Sweden, in 2007 and 2009. A fixed effect OLS model is used to evaluate the effects. The model estimates the effects of the payroll tax cut in five different regions between 2001 – 2011. The general results from the estimations show that the payroll tax cut did create jobs however the effect was small and the reform was

Problem: Handel har länge fyllt en viktig funktion och fungerat som en drivkraft för svenska stadskärnor. Under senare år har däremot allt fler vakanta butikslokaler identifierats i skånska stadskärnor. Anledningar till detta anses vara flera men fastighetsbolags handlingar och agerande är återkommande förklaringar i media. Bristande forskning inom fastighetsbolags orsaker till handlingar och dess

Detta är en fallstudie som beskriver hur handläggarna på kommunen och arbetsförmedlingen i Åmål arbetar tillsammans och samverkar, utifrån etableringslagen för att snabbare ge stöd för nyanlända att komma in i samhället och få en egen försörjning. Arbetsförmedlingen övertog samordningsansvaret 2010-12-01 med att ordna praktik under de två första åren för nyanlända som har uppehållstillstånd. Kommu

Performance modeling is an important topic in capacity planning and overload control for web servers. We present an M/G/1/K*PS queueing model of a web server. The arrival process of HTTP requests is assumed to be Poissonian and the service discipline is processor sharing. The total number of requests that can be processed at one time is limited to K. We obtain closed form expressions for web serve

We present a study of a novel variant of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) called the Associative Self-Organizing Map (A-SOM). The A-SOM is similar to the SOM and thus develops a representation of its input space, but in addition it also learns to associate its activity with the activity of one or several external SOMs. The A-SOM has relevance in e.g. the modelling of expectations in one modality due

A consortium of interested parties has conducted an experimental characterization of two Tau parallel kinematic machines which were built as a part of the EU-funded project, SMErobot1. Characteristics such as machine stiffness, work envelope, repeatability and accuracy were considered. This paper will present a brief history of the Tau parallel machine, the results of this testing and some comment

Organizations need to make sure that their level of safety is acceptable. Therefore it is important to know which factors contribute to the level of safety and how to monitor and improve these factors. One method used today to evaluate the level of safety in organizations is safety culture measurements. In different contexts, different models of safety culture are used. Safety culture is often con