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Colonial institutions, a Miracle or a Mirage? Using an exogenous variation in institutions among countries colonized by Europeans, this thesis investigates 1) the effectiveness of colonial institutions after Independence in two distinct British colonies; the Gold Coast Colony and the Kenya Colony, and 2) whether the persistence of these institutions contributed to the current day health disparitie

In this study carry trade activity in AUD, CAD, EUR and YEN vis the USD between 2014 – 2019 was analysed. The first approach employs a VECM, analyse evidence of carry trade recorded in the exchange rate pairs Futures, Forwards and Spot. Results show evidence of carry with the USD being the target currency, while the others being the funding currency. However, the AUD shows specific traits of carry

This report focuses on the topic of economic growth and education. The aim is to investigate the potential relationship between education and economic growth amongst the OECD member states. Together with theoretical perspectives and earlier research I conduct an empirical study aiming to identify if a higher degree of education has a positive impact on economic growth. Education is measured in tot

In this project I attempt to press custom electrodes from Sm and Co powder using two different pressing tools. I investigate if custom electrodes can generate nanoparticles with tailored properties using a spark discharge generator (SDG). Three different sources of the nanoparticle material will be considered, pressed Sm and Co powder, pure Sm and Co electrodes and alloyed SmCo made from demagneti

According to the statistics from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), a continuously declining trend is showed in Swedish kids' mathematical performance during recent years. In comparison with other OECD countries, the mathematical literacy of 15-year-old students in Sweden is almost below average. So m

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the mental illness of the elderly was constructed in the newspapers Göteborgs-Posten and Sydsvenskan during the years 2016 to 2018. The study also examined the causes that are described as being behind the mental illness of the elderly and if mental illness of the elderly is described as a societal problem. The study has its roots in social construc

Many children are being investigated every year within the Swedish social services and criticism has been directed at the investigations' lack of quality and legal certainty in recent years. The criticism is also about how different Swedish municipalities assess and investigate. How can these differences be explained? What are the grounds for the assessments? This is the background to this qua

Organ segmentation on magnetic resonance (MR) images for dose planning on cancer patients is a time consuming process that can be automatized by using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). MR images vary greatly in characteristics across acquisition sites, which affects CNN segmentation performance. In this master thesis, augmentation methods were tested and implemented to increase the robustness

This master thesis aims to explore the reception of refugee focused CSR communication in the form of audiovisual rhetoric on YouTube as well as analyze audience comments in a pursuit of identifying types of commenting behaviour that arise with the emergence of a commenting persona. Even though audiences play a major role in rhetoric, and has at times been explored theoretically in rhetoric litera

More than 50 percent of Jamaican households are remittances receiving. Remittances generally form a source of supplemental household income by helping households cover expenses such as utilities,healthcare, education etc. Studies have focused on its reaction to economic shocks, structural changes, its use as insurance or safety net or generally just observing trends. This study employs propensity

This thesis investigates the political-economic context that underlies the Korean Emissions Trading Scheme (KETS). The idea of trading carbon as a commodity in the carbon market has been embraced by many regions to reduce carbon emissions and to mitigate climate change. The government of South Korea has started to implement the emissions trading mechanism since 2015 to curtail the national greenho

The starting point for the modern pornography that exists today was after the first Playboy magazine was released. The rapid spread showed that there was a market for this. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the debate on pornography in Sweden. The survey is done through a content analysis that will analyze eighteen different articles. The theories that are used are Andrea Dworkins theory o

This thesis examines how sustainability is prioritised politically and integrated in the Danish municipal primary and lower secondary education. It consults representatives from the Ministry of Education, the unicipality of Copenhagen and ten lower secondary education teachers about their perceptions of sustainability and education and their experiences with integration of sustainability education

Digital literacy has become increasingly important. It's often linked to concepts like the information society, which we use to understand the complex changes in ways we socially and economically organize and run society today. The public library is faced with the task of ensuring that the professional skills of their workforce are in line with what is expected – and also interpreting what is

Det ställs höga krav på finansiella instituts kundkännedomsprocesser för att motverka penningtvätt och finansiering av terrorism. Många av dessa processer kräver mycket manuellt arbete hos både organisation och för kund, som måste upprepa processen hos varje bank de önskar att bli kund. Blockchain kan beskrivas som en decentraliserad databas utan behovet av någon central del som styr nätverket. Is

Abstract Author: Michaela Jonsson Title: Meeting through the lens: A study addressing the experiences of therapists who practice their work through video-conference tools. Supervisor: Martin Bergström Assessor: Eva Palmblad In the last two decades, the social work field has expanded its venues to reach digital platforms. Although digitalization isn’t a new concept, there is still a concern amon

Introduction: Obesity and health complications surrounding it have been on rise for a long time due to various factors where lifestyle is one of the most certain causes. Individuals following poor diet, specifically the western pattern diet or anything that comprises an excess of sugars and fats are prone to cardiometabolic diseases. Thus, modifications in the diet have the potential to prevent th

One of the essential human functions that enables us to make inferences about relationships between persons, events, or objects; to solve problems; to be creative; and crucially, to learn effectively is the phenomenon episodic memory integration. This study investigated effects of cross-episodic context shifts during encoding of picture-word pairs in an associative memory paradigm that tested indi