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This paper studies how unaccompanied children and minors are framed on editorial pages in four national Swedish newspapers. The purpose is to analyze how the editorial pages are forming and contributing to a frame of unaccompanied children and minors in the wake of the so-called ’refugee crisis’ in Europe during the fall of 2015. This paper finds that unaccompanied children and minors are, durin

We present an analytical algorithm for deriving the shapes of the deformable mirrors to be used for multiconjugate adaptive correction on a large telescope. The algorithm is optimal in the limit where the overlap of the wave-front contributions from relevant atmospheric layers probed by the guide stars is close to the size of the pupil. The fundamental principle for correction is based on a minimi

The essay discusses underlying racism in the Swedish community and has, as a specific purpose, to illustrate and analyze how images of immigrants are constructed in a local setting. The questions at issue are: What established conceptions about racism exist and how are immigrants described by the youth in Sweden? Which racist manifestations are evident? To answer these questions, twelve interviews

Bosnia, a country torn by war in the 1990s, has yet not experienced reconciliation. Fifteen years after the war, fears are mounting, that Bosnia is again teetering toward crisis. This paper explores an under-studied factor in reconciliation – the meaning of the city. The analysis is carried out and inspired by Scott. A. Bollens theoretical framework, arguing that cities are physically, socially, p

Title: China’s increased export influence: An empirical analysis of the impact on Sweden’s and the United States’ industrial production between 1994 and 2008. Topic/course: NEKM01 Master thesis Author: Anna Persdotter Supervisor: Fredrik NG Andersson Keywords: Export, Comparative advantage, China, Sweden, the United States, Engle Granger, ECM Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examin

The advent of the epoch known as the Anthropocene has been treated as a paradigm shift throughout the natural as well as parts of the social sciences. This shift entails mankind’s becoming of a geological force alongside others. Political theory and International Relations in particular have, however, been slow to pick this up. This thesis is an attempt to fill this gap. In this thesis I examine t

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att med hjälp av en argumentationsanalytisk metod undersöka hur fenomenet Self-delimiting peoples påverkar, och påverkas av, filosofen Martha Nussbaums kapacitetsteori. Self-delimiting peoples är grupper av människor som inte har någon relation med den stat vars territorium de befinner sig på. Genom att redogöra för en sådan grupps historik samt nuvarande förutsättn

The purpose of this paper is to perform a new study to add support for one of the three explanations of the Great Moderation; the explanation based on a change in monetary policy. The study focuses on the U.S., the U.K., and Australia during the period 1970 Q1-2013 Q3. The study is performed by exploring whether the Moderation (persistent decline in output volatility) was caused by volatility beha

The inability of the Security Council to consistently apply The Responsibility to Protect has drawn criticism towards the council, accusing it of a western bias. If true, this could prove a serious dent in the UN’s ambition to maintain international peace and security according to the seventh chapter of the UN charter. The aim of this study is to compare and analyze different conflicts in order to

The Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) presented a new political report in 2015 with the purpose of renewing the wage policy of solidarity. The aim with a renewed wage policy is to create full employment instead of the present mass unemployment, to decrease the wage gap and to eliminate wagedrifts. The renewal may seem a bit strange, when the original policy (also called the Rehn-Meidner m

This essay examines the concept of authenticity in relation to William Blake in general and specifically in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790). The Romantic period idealised authenticity but focussed studies into Blake’s relationship with authenticity are relatively few. Previous research contextualizing Blake explores themes such as education, politics and religion, but recent research propos

Får allemansrätten utnyttjas kommersiellt? Bör allemansrätten få utnyttjas kommersiellt? Det är huvudfrågorna i denna uppsats. Efter en inledande introduktion till allemansrätten, med en redogörelse för dess historiska bakgrund och nuvarande ställning i svensk rätt, presenteras vilka problem som är förknippade med kommersiell verksamhet i relation till allemansrätten. Uttrycket ”vinstproblemet” anIs commercial use of the right of public access permitted? Should it be permitted? These are the main questions in this thesis. The piece starts with an introduction to the right of public access, with an overview of its history and current legal status, and continues with a presentation of some problems associated with commercial activities in relation to the right of public access. The question

Denna uppsats bidrar med att bygga vidare på forskningen kring att investera efter direktavkastning (utdelning/aktiepris) på den svenska aktiemarknaden. Syftet med uppsatsen är att testa om man kan slå mitt valda index OMXS30 med tre varianter av Dogs of the dow strategin, men också om man kan påvisa några signifikanta skillnader mellan dessa tre likartade portföljsvalsstrategier,som skiljer sig i

The aim of this thesis is to investigate if, and in what ways, the historical Jesus was considered by his contemporaries to be following a Solomonic typology in his way of performing exorcisms.

The treaty of Lisbon introduced several significant institutional changes to the EU. The main research question of this thesis is therefore the following: How has the institutional changes in the treaty of Lisbon affected how the EU debates norms and what norms the EU refers to? In order to approach the research problem this thesis uses a comparative case study design which looks at how the EU deb

BACKGROUND: Particle-stabilised emulsions, so-called Pickering emulsions, are known to possess many beneficial properties, including being extremely stable. Starch granules isolated from quinoa have been used as emulsion stabilising particles. The granules were intact, 1-3 µm in diameter and modified with octenyl succinic anhydride to increase their hydrophobicity. Starch granules, as opposed to m

Excitation-contraction coupling is the physiological process of converting an electrical stimulus into a mechanical response. In muscle, the electrical stimulus is an action potential and the mechanical response is active contraction. The classical Hill model characterizes muscle contraction though one contractile element, activated by electrical excitation, and two non-linear springs, one in seri

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