Undersökning och hantering av arsenikförorenade brunnar i Nicaragua Arsenik förorenar dricksvatten i Nicaragua och framkallar cancer. Lösningen är enkel: sand, tegelstenar och järnspikar. Varje år dör hundratusentals människor till följd av arsenikförorenat dricksvatten. Världshälsoorganisationen WHO listar arsenik på topp-tio-listan över de kemikalier i världen som hotar människors hälsa mest. The awareness of problems concerning arsenic contaminated drinking water sources has during recent years increased. WHO (World Health Organization) decided in 1993 to lower the recommended limit of arsenic in drinking water from 50 μg/l to 10 μg/l, mainly due to observations of its carcinogenicity. New places where the WHO limit for arsenic is exceeded are constantly discovered all over the world.

The City of Stockholm can be characterized as evolving and changing while simultaneously, the region is being affected by climate change in accordance to RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5. According to climate scenarios one of the effects of a changing climate in the region of Stockholm is an increase in precipitation and changes in precipitation patterns. This has prompted an interest in acquiring an in-depth

The research explores the protections provided for migrant domestic workers who are highly undervalued and often exposed to trafficking, despite comprising an integral part of the labour force worldwide. Saudi Arabia is a focus destination country for the study, as it emerged from among the top destination countries absorbing 61 percent of recorded Ethiopian migrant domestic workers. Despite such

There has been an increasing interest in wastewater treatment in last decades to reduce human footprint. Primarily, anaerobic technology focused on treatment and stabilization of sludge, but now the tendency is to give it a major role in low cost treatment of high/low strength wastewaters, since anaerobic digestion offers energy generation through gas production. Anaerobic membrane bioreactors (A

Over the past two decades, immigrant-receiving countries have been confronted with honour crimes. In a number of Western European countries, there have been cases of police failure to intervene in cases of honour crimes occurring in migrant communities. The authorities responses to honour crimes have consistently been inadequate, as they do not take victims of honour crimes seriously and fail to p

Title: Explaining the performance of Swedish mergers & acquisitions - Follow the money or the stock market? Seminar date: 2015-06-04 Course: FEKH89, Degree Project in Corporate Finance, Undergraduate Level, 15 ECTS-Credits Authors: Eleonor Andræ, Leonard Bergström, Ebba Friberg, Gustav Krieger Advisor: Rikard Larsson Key words: CAR, Pretax operating cash flow, Mergers, Sweden, Regression analy

This thesis examines ideas and representations on the Danish West Indies as they have been performed in a Danish context between 1905 and 2003, and looks into a series of questions regarding this: What is being represented in the empirical material and how does it relate to the historical and social context it was produced within? How are Danes and Afro-Caribbeans respectively represented in the m

This work investigated the differences in the usage of pronouns between Danish and Swedish. A pronominal definition was formulated and pronominal lexemes were reviewed. Out of this, the most important pronominal differences were analysed, supplemented with historical connections when necessary. Results from searches in corpuses were used to confirm statements. Some of the reviewed pronouns are use

Begreppet social hållbarhet saknar entydig definition. Hos entreprenör och beställare inom byggsektorn finns både engagemang och visioner kring social hållbarhet men dessa skiljer sig mellan aktörerna. Denna studie ska identifiera likheter och skillnader i aktörernas synsätt. Studiens syfte är att finna en samsyn hos entreprenör och beställare för att skapa goda förutsättningar till ett socialt an

Dividend is a much-debated subject and has been compared to a puzzle with no sole solution to explain why firms pay dividend. Many academics have tried to determine what company variables determines a firm’s dividend policy. These studies have provided different explanatory variables to explain why firms pay dividends. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to fill in a piece of the dividen

In this thesis the problem of estimating terrain elevation using two-dimensional radar data from the multirole ghter aircraft JAS 39 Gripen is considered. Radar data contains information about range from the aircraft to the reflecting terrain, as well as horizontal angle. In general, radar data has high resolution in range and low resolution in angle, giving rise to interesting problems. A new rad

In my line of duty I meet a lot of people that are victims or witnesses to crimes. Recently I have noticed that a lot of people seem afraid to testify or participate in crime investigations. My purpose with the essay is to acquire increased knowledge about how police officers within the district of Halland experiences problems regarding undue impact and abuse of judicial procedure when victims and

This paper examines technological sophistication on a longitudinal scale for Coastal China and South Korea. It uses historical trade and development data from 9 countries to construct a weighted average in which development of economic performance for both countries are evaluated and compared against. China’s trade data consists 91% from export in its “coastal area”, in order to give a more accura

Syftet med uppsatsen är att visa vilka effekter som bostadspolitik har på flyttkedjan och där med också på bostadsmarknaden. Vidare är syftet att applicera kunskapen på den svenska bostadsmarknaden för att kunna analysera hur den svenska bostadspolitiken påverkar den inhemska marknaden. Uppsatsen bygger på teorier kring effekterna av bostadspolitiken i form av hyresreglering samt transaktionskostn

This thesis is about understanding weapon graves and the symbols in the grave goods. To try and see what lies hidden behind the Viking Age warrior identity and understand the theatrical side of Viking Age graves. By analyzing the weapon and equestrian graves the author hopes to see the mentality of the peoples during the Viking Age. The grave goods are the key to understand people’s beliefs and vi

The question of choice is a fundamental issue in the discussion of human mobilities. In the context of natural disaster and resettlement programs, the affected population is reduced to victims devoid of agency, and their movements concluded as passive reactions. However, the post-tsunami mobility behaviour of the families in the Maldives after the devastating 2004 tsunami paints a very different p

När en slutanvändare är nöjd med systemet kan utvecklaren känna sig nöjd. Det finns många faktorer som kan leda till nöjda användare, användbarhet och estetik är två viktiga delar. Men hur går systemutvecklare tillväga när de vill främja användarnöjdhet, och vilka metoder, aktiviteter och riktlinjer använder de sig utav? Inom teorin finns det många olika typer av utvecklingsmetoder, användarcentre

Skattebefrielsen för biogas och andra drivmedel utgör statsstöd enligt fördraget om EU:s funktionssätt. För att undvika att behöva ansöka om statsstödgodkännande hos EU-kommissionen för styrmedelsutformningen kan styrmedlen utformas på andra sätt. Genom en utblick i Europa har styrmedlen för att uppnå EU:s mål om 10 % förnybar energi i transportsektorn år 2020 studerats. De länder som studerats vi

Rapid urbanization has dramatically increased housing demand in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. To alleviate housing shortage, the city of Hanoi has developed a housing program of which the major part is housing development through new urban area projects. New urban area, or new town, projects are large-scale developments designed mainly for residential purposes, with integrated infrastructure

I denna uppsats undersöks hur revisorer ställer sig till införandet av key audit matters (KAM) i den rena revisionsberättelsen med fokus på ett antal problemområden. Key audit matters är en förändring som innebär ett nytt avsnitt i revisionsberättelsen där revisorn beskriver områden som varit viktigast under revisionen. Detta görs genom att den internationella standardsättaren IAASB släpper en ny