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In recent years the debate on local democracy and its gradual weakening has become increasingly lively. Citizens’ lack of commitment and engagement has been recognized as one factor of explanation to this decrease. The principle of a representative democracy is being jeopardized. This thesis is a case study of Skånedialogen in Skåne Regional Council. Deliberative polls were developed by James S.

The U.S.-China relationship is undeniably one of the most important economic and security relationships of the 21st century. Since Barack Obama took office in 2009, increasing emphasis has been put on ending the two wars in the Middle East and to redirect focus towards the increasingly important Asia Pacific region. The U.S. relationship with China has proven difficult to manage, and major differi

The aim of this study was to elucidate and analyse the debate on surrogate motherhood that has been held in Sweden for the last ten years (2003-2013) and furthermore to see how and to what extent the arguments that were used in the debate, also were found on a national policy level. The method that was used for this was discourse analysis. The empirical data were based on debate articles and edito

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att bidra med kunskap om hur det konsumentbaserade varumärkeskapitalet kan påverkas av CSR-kommunikation i flygbranschen. Metod: Primärt användes en kvantitativ enkätundersökning som syftade till att undersöka mottagarperspektivet. En semistrukturerad intervju och en innehållsanalys utfördes även för att analysera avsändarperspektivet SAS. Slutsats: Att flygbolagPurpose: This thesis seeks to contribute with knowledge of how the consumer-based brand equity can be affected by CSR communication in the business of aviation. Method: In order to reach the purpose of this essay we used mixed methods; carried out a quantative survey, a qualitative interview with SAS head of CSR and conducted a content analysis of SAS CSR communications Conclusion: If an airline

In 1993 the 73rd Amendment to the Indian Constitution came into force, affecting the Indian rural governing bodies, the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). The Amendment, at focal point for this thesis, provides a 33% reservation for women as members and as chairperson in the PRI's three-tier system. The reservation has led to a tremendous mobilization of women in the countryside, resulting in

The aim of this paper is to spread some light over contract treatment from the perspective of the District Courts, Social Services and Probation Services, and understand the reason for local variation of the number of people sentenced to contractual treatment. Essential questions asked in this paper are; What advantages and disadvantages are known by the cooperating parties regarding contract tre

If hedonism is taken to be the view that all and only pleasures are the bearers of intrinsic value whilst also saying that complex things, such as states of affairs, can be ascribed intrinsic value, the hedonic thesis seems to be contradictory. Furthermore it has been argued that the hedonic thesis is inconsistent in its treatment of the notion of intrinsic value in another sense, namely that if t

The Croatian transition from socialist to market economy is the focus of this essay. The purpose is to evaluate the macroeconomic impact of the reform program with special attention to the design and to the constraints that may have limited the reformability of the Croatian economy. This is done by briefly considering the initial conditions of the Croatian transition, where the war (1991-1995) is

Cameras are an ever growing part of all humans’ everyday life, from smartphones to surveillance cameras. One thing they all have in common is the need for a stable and focused image, even in conditions with camera movement as a result of external factors. To counteract the issue of blurry images from vibration disturbances, a technique called Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) is commonly used. In

X-ray ptychography provides the highest resolution non-destructive imaging at synchrotron radiation facilities, and the efficiency of this method is crucial for coping with limited experimental time. Recent advancements in multi-beam ptychography have enabled larger fields of view, but spatial resolution for large 3D samples remains constrained by their thickness, requiring consideration of multip

This article is concerned with the tenure track (TT) model, which has become increasingly used to extend the period of early career academics’ probation from one to five years across the EU. This article focuses on the TT in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the oldest and most prestigious university in Ireland, one where gender equality has been embedded more consistently and where the pace of change

Emerging evidence and clinical practice guidelines have highlighted that obesity, defined as a chronic disease characterised by excess or dysfunctional adipose tissue, may not be accurately measured or understood by solely relying on body mass index (BMI) which is a measure of size not functionality. An alternative to BMI, as proposed in the Canadian Adult Obesity Management Guideline, is the use

Abstract Authors: Nina Niemelä and Christian Persson Title: About the art of being a relative – a qualitative research about being the relative of a person who is abusing drugs Supervisor: Lars Harrysson This study is written as an attempt to shed light on the relatives to people who are abusing drugs or alcohol. We have aimed to explain and research how the relatives are effected by and handle t

Which sources most influence the language spoken in Israel? Is it the same language as the Hebrew of its ancestral heritage? Which periods in history brought about the changes of contemporary lexicon? These are the questions addressed in the current essay, which presents the inspection of nouns appearing in a recent newspaper, and their categorization according to the different periods in the his