The Karlshamn-granite is a greyish red to reddish grey mediumgrained rock with considerable amounts of potash feldspar megacrysts. It covers large areas of Blekinge and northeastern Scania. The granite appears as post-orogenic intrusive granitoid plutonics of very varying size and is considered to belong to the youngest granitoids in this area. The matrix mineralogy has been studied and the main m

ABSTRACT Author: Kristina Gräns, Maria Taylor. Title: Jag berusar mig på kärlek - en kvalitativ studie om vuxna barn till missbrukare Supervisor: Arne Kristiansen Assessor: Staffan Blomberg The aim of this study was to from a salutogenic perspective bring forward and present possible reasons why certain children survive against the odds, even though they have grown up in a riskfilled enviroment,

Föroreningar på en fastighet berör fastighetsägaren på olika sätt. En direkt effekt av föroreningarna kan vara att fastighetsägarens möjligheter att använda marken begränsas och att värdet på fastigheten påverkas. Det kan också få till följd att fastigheten blir svår att avyttra. Framförallt kan en förorening på fastigheten innebära att fastighetsägaren riskerar miljörättsliga krav på att vidta avPollution of real estate affects the owner in different ways. As a direct effect, the possibilities of using the land may be limited, and the value of the real estate can be influenced. The real estate may also be difficult to sell. Above all, pollution of real estate may involve environmental legal demands on the owner to repair the damage. The main rule of the Swedish environmental code is that

Min uppsats handlar om hur svenska protestanter med teologisk utbildning beskrev 800-tals missionären Ansgar mellan 1830 och 1930. Jag har i min undersökning fokuserat på hur man framställer Ansgar som missionär och munk samt vilken roll han tillskrivs för Svenska kyrkan. Mitt huvudsakliga resultat är att Ansgar hyllas och initialt tillskrivs en stor betydelse, men att det samtidigt växer fram en

The aim of the current study was to gain an overview of factors that can effect social secretaries motivation, both positively and negatively, in their work with social assistance. This study has focused on what the employee does rather than what he or she earns as a factor that leads to increased work motivation. To have motivated employees are important in every organization and above all in Hum

Objective The main objective is to investigate in what way O&M of offshore wind farms can be modelled in Systecon’s simulation tool, SIMLOX. The interim objective is to understand how maintenance of offshore wind farms is carried out and how this is related to costs and revenues. Theory Theory mainly covers the areas of O&M, offshore wind power, life cycle profit and maintenance strategies

Background When projects and programmes are becoming ever more present in many of today’s organizations, these are also playing an increasingly important role in implementing the corporate strategy. This thesis is focusing on internal change initiatives, named BT initiatives, which aims at implementing substantial changes to the current organization. Due to the size of the initiatives and their im

Authors: Elin Copcutt and Jessica Holst Title: Stress eller kontroll? – En kvalitativ studie om socialsekreterarens syn på sin yrkesroll. Supervisor: Carina Tigervall This paper examines how six social workers from four local authority social services departments in the south of Sweden find their work situation. The idea for the subject matter came from the media where social workers often are

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between the violent riots in the Parisian suburb Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005 and the ability of the French society to assimilate ethnic minorities. The problem in Clichy-sous-Bois was the ignorance displayed by police officers whose discriminatory attitudes where deeply rooted. This ignorance is all too often expressed through violence against

This paper investigates if there is hysteresis in unemployment rates for 8 OECD countries. Univariate unit root tests (ADF and KPSS tests) are performed as an initial analysis of the unemployment rates. These tests suggest that the hysteresis hypothesis is true. Since traditional unit root test have low power against fractionally integrated alternatives, the Sowell’s (1992) exact maximum likeliho

A Human Right perspective is continuously present in international discourse of global development and conducts on how we could improve the social and economical conditions of people living below the poverty line. There are two different points of view in the argument about freedom and rights that I found interesting. The first is the standpoint on liberty being a right in terms of protection agai

This essay analyses important actors of the essential problem with child labour on the cocoa plantations in Côte d'Ivoire. The purpose of this study is an examination of the various perspectives and factors which contribute to the continuation of the problem. Despite the pressure of responsibility the chocolate company Nestlé got in 2001, it seems like little has changed. They signed a protoco

Denna uppsats inriktar sig på att undersöka hur pass viktiga sociala medier var under demonstrationerna efter valet I Iran 2009 och under demonstrationerna i den så kallade arabiska våren 2011. Hur stor roll spelade dessa nya verktyg i kampen för demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter. Detta görs med hjälp av den pågående forskningen i ämnet då jag sammanställer den för att sedan dra egna slutsatser

In the thesis I begin with trying to clarify how we have understood our working time until today and how we ended up like we did, by looking back at the history of working hours and how people have evaluated and looked upon their time use historically. In the next chapter I try to answer whether or not we could shorten our working hours with a maintained, or even increased, quality of life, turnin

There is no doubt that the United States of America has used death penalty as a method of punishment in their legal system since the 17th Century. This essay is going to seek to explain why the United States of America has not yet abolished the death penalty; furthermore, it will discuss why they decided to resume the temporary suspension of the death penalty throughout the years 1966-1976. There