Social medias have changed the way we obtain information about current events in the world. Regular people have the opportunity now more than ever to voice their opinions and tell their stories over the net. Direct democracy proponents are calling for a paradigm change using the Internet to spread direct democracy. The recent revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa have been called Twitter

Olika personer har olika acceptans för bakgrundsbrus vid samtidig lyssning till tal. Akustiska parametrar och sensoriska aspekter har hittills inte kunnat förklara variationen. Högre funktioner som t.ex. arbetsminne tros vara en av de bakomliggande mekanismerna men orsakerna är inte väl utredda. Testet Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) mäter acceptans för bakgrundsbrus men spridningen av resultat på AN

The Logical Framework Approach is applied in development projects all over the world. The Swedish aid agency Sida also encourages all aid organizations who receives funds from them or their umbrella organization Forum Syd to use the LFA for the improvement of development programs. However, the LFAs applicability in development interventions has been seriously criticized by researchers and by NGOs

The thesis presents the challenges involved in attempting to mainstream international labour rights standards into commercial financing relationships. In order to do so, it draws upon the financing relationships provided by the three most prolific banks in the coal-mining industry: BNP Paribas (France and England), Citi (United States of America) and Royal Bank of Scotland (Scotland). It underta

Sammanfattning Titel: Investera i vin som alternativ tillgång? - En avkastningsanalys av franska investeringsviner Seminariedatum: 2012-08-28 Kurs: NEKH01 – Kandidatuppsats Författare: Kristoffer Blomqvist and Robert Svensson Handledare: Erik Norrman Nyckelord: Alternativa investeringar, diversifiering, överavkastningar, Jensens alfa, Sharpekvot. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att analysera e

Fehmarnbeltförbindelsen är en tunnel mellan Rødby och Puttgarden, som ska stå klar 2020. Förbindelsen kommer att bli en direkt transportförbindelse mellan Skandinavien och kontinenten. Den kommer att bli ungefär 19 kilometer lång och bestå av en bilväg med två körfält i vardera färdriktning, samt en elektrifierad och dubbelspårig järnväg. I dagsläget förbinds Rødby och Puttgarden av en färjeförbin

This study examines the visual representations of the European Union (EU) in political cartoons on the 2004 enlargement and the 2009-2012 Eurozone debt crisis, and the interactions between these depictions and Europe’s socio-political order. Carried out on fourteen political cartoons (out of a 300-cartoon corpus), the visual analysis is based on the theories of traditional semiotics, social semiot

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the social structure that sanctions the act of war rape. This by answering the research question; what normative structure is reflected in the meanings attached to the act of war rape? The research design is that of a qualitative case study, with empirical focus on the war rapes committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the war in 1992-1995. The analysis is p

Intersectionality is becoming an increasingly important concept within gender research, emphasizing that social inequalities should be seen in the light of other identities than gender alone. The theoretical perspective, suggesting that identities interact and shape people’s experiences and power positions, has also gained ground within the international community and development sphere. However,

The presence of federalism in the EC’s discourse has changed between 2001 and 2007. The discourse analysis of three documents that the EC published in respectively 2001, 2005 and 2007 points out that federalism in the discourse has been very present in the EC’s discourse in 2001 and 2007, but has faded to the background in 2005. The application of historical institutionalism leads to the conclusio

Sammanfattning: Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera och analysera normbild-ningsprocessen i Sverige inom redovisning för att undersöka K3:s möjligheter till implementering. Metod: Uppsatsen präglas av ett kvalitativt angreppsätt och en deduktiv ansats. Teoretiska perspektiv: Teoriavsnittet behandlar harmonisering, sambandet mellan redo-visning och beskattning, centrala principer inom r

In this study the relationship between spa visiting and health aspects was investigated. An Internet survey was developed and out of 152 participants a group of 54 non-spa visitors who had never been to a spa before were compared to a group of 38 spa visitors who frequently had attended a spa. The results showed that spa visitors had significantly higher levels of well-being and nature connectedne

Tourism can be a difficult form of travel to define. In order to make working with tourism easier, the tourism industry often uses criteria and definitions that can limit understandings of tourism. An example is an often-common view in the tourism industry of visiting friends and relative (VFR) as unimportant. The purpose of this thesis is to offer research showing why VFR can be important to the

As engineering systems become more and more advanced, the need for collaboration and communication between dierent system areas increases. Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is a graphical modeling language developed to provide a modeling capability independent of the system area. In this thesis, a SysML model will be developed for a reverse osmosis water purication plant. The purpose of the model

Regler om budplikt infördes i NBK:s rekommendationer 1999. Efter en komplettering av takeover-direktivet blev det lag i LUA 2005. Företeelsen med budplikt på den svenska aktiemarknaden är således relativ ny, varför dess tillämpning och effekt är intressant att utreda. Budpliktsreglerna härstammar från Takeover Code i Storbritannien som uppstod efter att aktiemarknaden, under 1960-1970-talet, blev Mandatory bid rules were introduced in NBK´s recommendation in 1999, and then statutory in LUA in 2005, after an implementation of the takeoverdirective. The phenomenon with mandatory bid rules is therefore relatively new on the Swedish stock market why its application and impact is interesting to evaluate. Mandatory bid rules derives from the Takeover Code, from the UK, that emerged when the stoc

Internal displacement is a relatively new issue in the international agenda, in general, and in research, in particular. However, due to the steady increase in the number of displaced persons globally, this problem becomes more and more visible. This study sees internally displaced persons as marginalized and subaltern group, which is, however, potentially able to start struggle for recognition, w

A large number of studies have been done on the Black-Litterman method of portfolio optimization and several extensions have been introduced. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether EGARCH-M derived forecasts as proxies for the investor views in the Black-Litterman model produce superior portfolio returns in a global setting. The results show that even during a very volatile period in th

This essay focuses the function of Isa. 11:6-9 and its consequences for the possibility for textual ethical relevance. Along with the formcritic analysis the quest for definitions become urgent due to the different perspectives concerning the concept of eschatology. Establishing the structural and thematical connections between Isa. 11:6-9 and Gen. 1-3 the author claims correlating protological an