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Access to fresh water is essential for the lives of organisms and for human activities. However, with a growing population that strives after a higher standard of living, the pressure on already limited resources will rise. Lake Chad is one out of many diminishing lakes in the world where the call for action is urgent to prevent ecosystem degradation, famine, and outbreak of war. The lake has shru
I simulate the collision of satellite galaxies with the Milky Way and observe the effects that this has on the orbits of the globular cluster populations within both the Milky Way and the satellite galaxies. This is done in order to investigate whether some of the Milky Way's globular clusters could have been donated from satellite galaxies which have been tidally stripped, since it is believe
Barn med mild till svår hörselnedsättning och cochleaimplantat (CI) eller hörapparat (HA) uppvisar ofta nedsatt eller försenad utveckling inom språkliga områden. För korrekt och effektiv intervention är det viktigt att kartlägga vilka språkliga förmågor som är nedsatta samt vilka samband som finns mellan dessa. I föreliggande studie granskas taltydlighet, meningsförståelse (testad med Test for Rec
De mänskliga rättigheterna yrkar på universella rättigheter för alla världens människor. Dessa rättigheter bör överordna kulturella variationer som i sin tur bör ignoreras till förmån för de mänskliga rättigheterna. Således är appliceringen av de mänskliga rättigheterna inte så enkel som det till synes verkar då verkligheten skiljer sig från teoretiska antagande. Finns det universella handlingar s
Denna uppsats är en redaktionskritisk analys av den relation mellan Jesus och Johannes döparen som Matteus skapar i sin framställning av Jesu dop. Som en redaktionskritisk analys bygger den vidare på tidigare forskning av Günther Bornkamm, John P. Meier och Walter Wink. Den redaktionskritiska ger vid handen att denna relation inte är ett lokalt fenomen begränsat till Matt 3:13-17, utan att relatio
Popular science The carbon balance of the forest ecosystems is determined by the uptake and release of carbon. Forests take up carbon dioxide (CO2) by photosynthesis and release by respiration. One part of the assimilated carbon is respired back to the atmosphere by vegetation. The other part is respired by soil microbes which decompose organic material in soil. The microbial respiration is contro
Uppsatsen diskuterar utifrån feministisk och postkolonial teori hur det rasifierade moderskapet gestaltas i de två diktsviterna Brytningen och Vistvit.
The stimulus for this essay was given by the fact that life expectancy in certain countries started to increase long before the development of modern medicine. Having as a principal axis the so called „urban penalty‟, the analysis was limited in two port cities; Glasgow and Malmö. Data on crude, age-specific and disease-specific mortality were used over the period 1800-1914 in order to identify th
This thesis studies the subject on how disabilities are written about in Swedish politics, the programs of the seven parties in the parliament are studied. The thesis is divided into two parts; where the first part is a content analysis to see how often disability are mention in each programme. It differs between one (the Left Party) and 33 times (the Christian Democrates). This first part also wo
The thesis analyzes the making of Nordic identity after the cold war which brought an end to Nordic exclusiveness of emphasizing ?soft power?. A need for a revitalization combined with an effort to enter History as an active subject, created constructivist project of a narrative style. My study relies on contemporary literature, focusing mainly on the construction of Nordic identity and regional
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights is probably the world's most known and internationally most respected document. The purpose of this study is to examine if the UDHR reflects universal values and norms and to assess its moral and juridical relevance today, 60 years after the adoption. The literature used in this literature-based critical study is mainly written by the academic
The way society categorize different people into groups is problematic in the sense that the categorization can seem stigmatizing and have social consequences for those being categorized. Immigrants are one of those problematic categories. The following essay studies this categorization of ?immigrants? based on a governmental investigation of structural discrimination that took place in 2002-2008
The terrorist attack that shocked the world the 11th of September 2001, when two hijacked aircrafts flew into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York, came to change the world view for many people especially Americans that felt that the world around them where about to collapse. A new time had begun, a more frighten one. A new kind of terrorism where seen in the dawn, a kind that neve
In a world of ?formal organizations?, which is constantly exposed for institutionalized super standards and ideas of a what a modern orgnization should be like, the pressure for changes are strong. This is the environment in which Lund University finds itself. Ideas in the beginning of the 21-century is concerning a stronger emfasis on steering, centralisation, re-hieriarchyzation, standardised pr
Capella and Jamiesons research of how the media describes politics has shown that it is very often case of one of two scenarios: game frames; or issue frames. The central idea of this framing theory is that when politicians are described within game frames the disdain towards politicians is believed to increase. Capella and Jamieson have shown that, at least in the US, the use of game framing has
What kind of international actor is the European Union and how shall we define it? These are questions that many have tried to answer often by addressing the apparent uniqueness of the EU itself. One of these theories is Normative power Europe. A theory whose main argument is that the EU is best perceived as a changer of norms. My aim with this thesis is to test this claim and to see if the Union
The failure of Structural Adjustment Programs and its neoliberal policies to effectively reduce poverty have led to the creation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) by The World Bank and International Monetary Fund. PRSP, connected to both the Comprehensive Development Strategy and the HIPC initiative, are built on the notion of national ownership and stakeholder participation and thereby e
The purpose of this essay was to analyze the collapse of democracy in the Weimar Republic. This was done by analyzing some of the most turbulent crises in its history like the communists attempt to take power in 1919, the kapp-putsch of 1920, hyperinflation 1923 and the economic depression 1929-1933. The method that I used in this essay is called methodological individualism. It was an analytical
The aim of this thesis is to explain what actions Sweden and the international communities have been taking in terms of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in order to realize the Programme of Action from the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo 1994. In a theoretical perspective, donor countries and multilateral organizations are seen as interacting actors
