This essay explores the foreign policy rhetoric of China through its official press agency Xinhua’s English web-based version in the case of China’s territorial dispute with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu//Diaoyutai (S/D) islands. The dispute was brought to life in September 2012 and the essay covers Xinhua’s rhetoric between then and September 2014 through a rhetorical analysis of articles publish

When dealing with a process aiming for peace it is common to focus on the conflict issues themselves, and leave other issues to deal with later. But what if these other issues are obstacles to the peace process itself? The purpose of this thesis is to widen the perspective of peacebuilding studies, and shed some light on the issue of sex trafficking and its relation to peace processes. To investig

The concept of citizenchip and its role in how we organize our societies is subject to a great discussion within social and political science. In this essay I aim to problematize and lighten the complexity of citizenship. I also aim to lighten new ways of understanding and use citizenchip. I do this by apply parts of the ongoing discussion about citizenship on an actual situation. The situation f

The aim of this study has been to investigate whether there has been a discursive change in the European Parliament concerning the migration politics of the EU. The discourse analysis applied is based on a combination of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory – focusing on identity building and discursive struggle – and Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, regarding its f

In 2013 the conservative ruling party of Spain, Partido Popular, launched a draft to a new Citizen Security Law that after a year of critical debate was rammed by the congress. The opponents claim that the laws are undermining democratic rights such as freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. Partido Popular defends the laws with reference to security and safety while opponents claim that the un

This essay examines female representation in political leader positions. The study is contucted via a two case study of two autobiographies written by women - Gro Harlem Brundtland and Margaret Thatcher - who have served as chiefs of government. This case study is analysed through a theory which tries to explain the reasons behind the low representation of female political leadership. In this way

The purpose of this thesis has been to examine how Fox News Channel, the leading American cable news channel, portray terrorism, using the Charlie Hebdo attack as case study, to see whether they are clear in their descriptions of the extremist interpretations of Islam as unrepresentative of the religion as a whole. By using Norman Faircloug’s model for a Critical Discourse Analysis, and Orientalis

Why has FRONTEX evolved without introducing a mechanism for accountability? This case study answers this question by examining relevant treaties and regulations concerning FRONTEX's mandate, as well as previous scholarship in the area – and applying a top down approach to explain the evolution of FRONTEX's development. The study goes beyond focusing on FRONTEX's role as an intelligence

The goal of this thesis is to investigate whether it is possible to construct an advanced measurement approach (AMA) model for operational risk when the number of internal data points are very scarce. An AMA model should combine internal data, external data, scenario data, and business environment and internal control factors to give a one year VaR estimate with 99.9 % confidence of operational ri

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka demokratiska aspekter inom El Sistema med fokus på gruppundervisning. Studien har gjorts på två El Sistema skolor, en i Mexiko och en i Sverige. Data har samlats in genom observationer och intervjuer enligt kvalitativ forskningsmetod. Resultatet presenteras i två olika delar, en för Mexiko och en för Malmö. Dessa två delar är uppdelade i fyra kategorier varThe purpose of this study is to investigate democratic aspects within El Sistema with a focus on group instruction. The study has taken place at two different El Sistema schools, one in Mexico and one in Sweden. The material for the survey has been acquired through interviews and observation using qualitative methods. The result is presented in two parts, one for Mexico and one for Malmö. These tw

Nowadays the technology is progressing continuously. The designers are developing products with new features and always giving to the user an innovative technological solution for the society problems. The standard methods to design new devices are becoming slower for the demand of the products. Due to this growing complexity, some possible substitutes of the traditional Register Transfer Level (R

Video conferencing is a very bandwidth sensitive application, if the available bandwidth is to low to handle the send rate of the media, packages will be lost in the network and thus the conference will be disrupted. Axis Communications would like to know which techniques are used today to ensure optimized bandwidth usage and as good quality as possible during a video conference even if the networ

The presence of endocrine disrupting compounds, so-called EDC’s, in aquatic environments has become an emerging issue for environmental health. Since the 1990’s these compounds have been displaying estrogenic effects on aquatic organisms downstream from sewage treatment plants (STPs). The cause of the problem is mainly the inability of conventional STP’s to remove these unwanted substances from ou

Studiens syfte var att undersöka om expressivt skrivande, som i tidigare studier visat sig ha effekt på fysisk och psykisk hälsa, kunde förbättra vård- och omsorgspersonals välbefinnande i form av lägre stress, mindre negativ affekt, mer positiv affekt samt färre somatiska symtom. I studien undersöktes om graden av självmedkänsla påverkades av interventionen. Det förutsågs att experimentgruppens d

Object detection technologies, represented by face detection system which has been studied for a long time, have developed recently because of the development of technologies of high performance computing and pattern recognition technique. Especially, pedestrian detection system has gathered attention recently, and it will be applied to an automobile safety system and monitoring camera system. Whi

This report explains my degree project at Lund University School of Industrial Design. The project started out by exploring the materials Wood and Textile, although after researching the two areas further it seemed more valuable to look into the way we consume these materials today. We do not have unlimited natural resources, and yet we keep using them as if we do. I chose to reduce the project in

Uppsatsen diskuterar hur civil olydnad som motiv för brottsbeskrivningsenlig gärning påverkar straffet för gärningen i det svenska rättssamhället. Efter att ha definierat begrepp och gått igenom den juridiska litteraturen kring civil olydnad ges en genomgång av tre domar vari Högsta Domstolen behandlar civil olydnad. Sammanfattningsvis nås slutsatsen att civil olydnad inte används i skärpande This essay discusses how civil disobedience as a motive for an illegal act influences the punishment for said act in the context of the Swedish criminal justice system. A definition of terms and an overview of civil disobedience in legal doctrine is followed by a study of three judgements wherein the Swedish Supreme Court treats the subject of the essay. The essay concludes in finding that the S

Denna uppsats består av två delar. Den första delen behandlar vad som sker då en likabehandlingsplan på en offentlig myndighet, i detta fall Region Skåne, utökar rättigheter för persongrupper som inte är skyddade enligt lag. Den gör en utblick över internationell rätt och EU-rätt för att söka ytterligare ledning till hur rätten ser ut i ett vidare perspektiv. Då det inte är självklart vad som gäThis essay is divided into two parts. The issue discussed in the first part is what happens when a public authority, in this case Region Skåne, expands their equal treatment plan to cover grounds of discrimination not included in the Swedish Discrimination Act. It also provides an overview of international and EU laws regarding discrimination. The theories of jurist Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld are use

Inlandsvatten är globalt sett nettoutsläppare av koldioxid (CO2) till atmosfären. En stor del av den CO2 som produceras i akvatiska ekosystem kommer från baketrieplanktons mineralisering av löst organiskt kol via respiration (BR), där de tar upp syre (O2) från omgivningen och producerar CO2. Teknikerna för att mäta O2 konsumtionen är bättre utvecklade än de för att mäta CO2 produktionen. För att rDissolved organic carbon (DOC) enters inland waters from the surrounding terrestrial ecosystems, and is assimilated by bacterioplankton, mineralizing it to carbon dioxide (CO2). This bacterial respiration (BR) is an important part of carbon processing in freshwater, but it is also a process of global significance; in oceans and inland waters combined, BR is probably the largest single sink of orga