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This article tests for existence of cointegration between health expenditure and GDP using data from 25 OECD countries for the period 1960-1997. The empirical modelling is based on a heterogeneous bivariate vector error correction panel model that allows for trending data as well as intercepts and trends in the cointegrating relations. Univariate country-by-country and panel unit root tests genera
We compared hypnotizability between two samples from different Universities in Sweden. One test was administered in Swedish (University of Skövde) using a translated Swedish version of the HGSHS:A (Bergman, Trenter, & Kallio, 2003). At Lund University, the original English version of the HGSHS:A (Shor & Orne 1962) was used and participants also completed the Inventory Scale of Hypnotic Dep
Consider a risk Y-1 (x) depending on an observable covariate x which is the outcome of a random variable A with a known distribution, and consider a premium p(x) of the form p(x) = EY1 (x) + etap(1) (x). The corresponding adjustment coefficient gamma is the solution of E exp{gamma[Y-1(A) - p(A)]} = 1, and we characterize the rule for the loading premium p(1)((.)) which maximizes gamma subject to t
This study attempts to develop Michel Foucault’s analysis of political power in terms of power in ordinary and non-typical political fields, with main focus on the field of food: such as the constructed normalisation of meat in Sweden. The main reason with the analysis is to broaden classical concepts of power within the field of political science in general. Analysis centre around the potential p
The purpose of this essay is to investigate the effects of the 2015 migration crisis on Sweden’s economic growth and GDP per capita levels, along with the general effects of migration on economic growth in Sweden and the world. Further the possible effects of an employment rate of the migrant labor force equal to that of the native labor force is investigated, and the effect this would have on eco
Anthropocentrism as an ideology places humanity above nature and has long served as an excuse for its exploitation and destruction. Only by redefining nature and wilderness as intrinsic parts of ourselves and seeing other species as our extended family can we start to develop sustainable relationships with the more-than-human world. During my fieldwork in the intentional community of Auroville, I
Natural selection and genetic drift are relentlessly removing variation in natural populations. Yet, many species show polymorphism, with multiple phenotypes coexisting in the same populations, and these species serve as important model systems for studies aimed at understanding what evolutionary forces that maintain variation in natural populations. For example, different morphs can be favored in
Frågan om anonyma vittnen har länge varit föremål för debatt i den juridiska världen. Är det en rättssäker åtgärd att införa ett system med anonyma vittnen? Hur skulle ett sådant system, om det infördes, överensstämma med de rättssäkerhetsgarantier som tillstår den tilltalade i rättsprocessen? Tidigare forskning kring anonyma vittnen har fokuserat på rättssäkerheten och försökt nå en slutsats krinThe issue on anonymous witnesses has in Sweden been frequently discus-sed in the legal debate over the years. Is it according to the rule of law to impose such a system? How does a system of anonymous witnesses con-form with the principles of the rule of law given to the accused during a hearing? Past research has centered the discussion around the rule of law and the effects an imposition of a sy
This essay investigates the communicative elements video games in the RPG genre utilise in order to convey emotion through narrative, and the difference between older and newer games. The essay focuses on the execution and interplay of verbal and non-verbal communication of the linguistic and semiotic examined in four video games chosen from the Final Fantasy series. It quantitatively compares emp
This thesis examines the theory of headwinds by Robert J Gordon related to Sweden’s economic growth since the 1970s. The specific questions asked are how the two headwinds of income inequality and educational attainment in the USA can be related to a Swedish context. Gordon’s theory is part of a debate on secular stagnation. This thesis aims to broaden that debate by applying one theory of secular
Klimatet på jorden ändras hela tiden och temat klimatförändringar är mer aktuellt än någonsin. För att förstå vilka konsekvenser klimatförändringarna har är det viktigt att förstå hur klimatet påverkades förr av uppvärmning eller avkylning. För att utröna detta används olika proxymetoder. Under senare år har man insett att Mg/Ca kvoten i skalen hos bentiska foraminiferer är en användbar proxymetod
Experimental single qubit gate fidelities in the rare-earth quantum computing (REQC) scheme was found to be lower than predicted by simulation of the optical Bloch equations for the system. The cause was believed to be excitation-induced frequency shifts (EFS), so this BSc thesis investigates a model for EFS in Eu:YSO where stochastic frequency shifts are imposed on the ions. This was implemented
To be the president of the Council of Ministers in the European Union is a giant political challenge. The country at the helm is in the centre of EU´s decision making process and in the media´s spotlight. What consequences does this situation have for the country that holds the presidency? In this bachelor thesis I examine if the people’s attitudes towards the European Union changes when their ow
Förtal har, mot bakgrund av #metoo-rörelsens framväxt, fått ökad samhällelig uppmärksamhet. Främst kvinnor har blivit dömda för förtal i samband med offentliga uttalanden om upplevelser av sexuella övergrepp, där dem pekat ut en viss man som deras förövare. Offentliga uttalanden om en annans brotts-lighet eller förkastlighet, trots dess sanning, är kriminaliserat i Sverige. San-ningsbevisning tillDefamation has, in the context of the #metoo movement, received increased social attention. Mainly women, have been convicted of defamation in relation to public statements about experiences of sexual assault, in which they have identified a certain man as their perpetrator. Public statements about another´s criminality or reprehensibility, despite its truth, are criminalized in Sweden. Truth evid
This article explores the lived contradictions entailed in being a young member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) today. The focus is on how political and existential issues intersect. It explores partymembership as a strategy for personal mobility among Beijing elite university students by providing an ethnographic account of the quandaries of two young CCP members. Even though one student is
The fact is that high integration between different capital markets leads to reduced international diversification opportunities for investors as well as to a greater transmission of market volatility. This study discusses the behavior of the three Baltic stock markets on the international financial arena and examines how these markets react on different inflows of information and economical shock
