The importance of reading : a Master’s Thesis about literacy and librarians’ motivational reading strategies towards children and teenagers. The public literacy debate has exploded all over Swedish media since PISA published their report at the end of 2013 with the result that politicians, teachers and parents suddenly have shown a lot more interest in what and how young people read. The report h

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine disruptor which is very present in our surrounding environment. As a component mainly used in plastics and in the inner linings in cans, BPA can also be found in our bodies due to migration into food. Once the substance is reaching the components of the body it is biotransformed into a more water soluble molecule called monoglucoronide. Whether to measure the unco

This thesis gives an introduction to the basic formalism of one-dimensional supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The factorization of a Hamiltonian is used to create a supersymmetric partner Hamiltonian. The connections between the energy spectra and wave functions of these partner Hamiltonians are deduced and examined for the case of broken and unbroken supersymmetry. An extension to hierarchies of

Over the past few years, there has been considerable academic interest in studying the relationship between China and Africa. This study aims to describe what effect Chinese outbound foreign direct (OFDI) investments and private companies have had on employment opportunities and industrialization in Ethiopia. The research question reads: What effect has Chinese outbound foreign direct investments

I Sverige råder sedan en tid tillbaka en debatt kring huruvida ett könsneutralt ord bör användas för att undvika benämning av kön i diverse sammanhang. Syftet med denna undersökning var att utvärdera hur ordet hen bedöms i rekryteringssammanhang, i jämförelse med den sökande. Studien genomfördes med en kvantitativ undersökning i form av en experimentell design. 160 deltagare fick läsa en av två joThere is currently an ongoing debate in Sweden whether a gender neutral pronoun should be used to avoid specific gender associations. The purpose of this thesis has been to evaluate if the gender neutral pronoun hen in comparison with the applicant in a recruitment process can be considered as more gender neutral. The study was conducted using an explorative quantitative method. 160 participants r

Vertical agreements cover a wide range of supply and distribution agreements such as exclusive and selective distribution, franchising and agency agreements. Business practice is filled with vertical agreements, and sooner or later any practicing lawyer with a client doing business in or with the EU is likely to be asked to advise on the admissibility of certain restrictions of competition which a

Problemformulering: Det finns mycket belägg för hur viktig frontpersonalen är för ett företag men få företag verkar inse vikten av att investera i personalen och öka deras förutsättningar för att uppnå arbetstillfredsställelse. Då de arbetsuppgifter som yrkesrollen medför ofta kräver att frontpersonalen åsidosätter sig själva till förmån för kundens suveränitet och företagets framgång utsätts de f

This examination paper will examine the reporting of the Husby riot during May of 2013 in four different Swedish national newspapers. I have taken a qualitative approach to analyse 40 newspaper articles that were written during the course of the riot. I chose to analyse articles that were written during the riot because I wanted to find out how the newspapers wrote about the riot and the people wh

Denna studie undersökte samband mellan personlighet och arbetsprestation för ingenjörer i specialistroller på ett medelstort företag inom den tillverkande industrin i Sverige. 31 personer besvarade personlighetsformuläret OPQ och bedömning av deras arbetsprestation gjordes av HR-ansvarig inom företaget. Hypotesen att strukturdimensionerna inom OPQ32 skulle korrelera positivt med arbetsprestation fThis study investigated correlations between personality and work performance for engineers in specialist roles in a medium large company within the manufacturing industry in Sweden. 31 engineers filled in the occupational preference questionnaire OPQ32 and ratings of their work performance was carried out by an HR supervisor at the company. The hypothesis that the structural dimensions of OPQ32 w

Denna uppsats grundar sig på en översättning av ett urval ur romanen El padre de Blancanieves (2007), skriven av den spanska författaren Belén Gopegui. Uppsatsen undersöker vilka förutsättningarna är för att översätta olika drag som gör att källtexten kan klassas som poetisk prosa. Först i uppsatsen görs en analys av källtexten följt av en del där strategier inför översättningen diskuteras. Detta

The Swedish educational system has during the last few decades gone through a process of liberalization and privatization. The political reforms and processes shaping the state of the Swedish school today have to a large extent changed the shape of the Swedish welfare state in general and the overall view on education in particular. This paper attempts to locate and dissect ambitions of equality a

The purpose of this thesis is to identify barriers to innovation faced by firms delivering healthcare services and to analyse their effects on healthcare service firms' innovation process. This thesis therefore aims to close a gap in literature. Insights gained can help policy-makers understand how their actions impede innovation in the healthcare industry and how they can remove or reduce spe

This thesis is a thematic analysis of two major themes in the poetry of Sylvia Plath: Death and rebirth. The idea is to look at selected poems by Plath without taking into account biographical data. The thesis investigates death as perfection, the act of dying and the performative aspect of rebirth. It also takes a closer look at the meaning of the color red and the movement upwards (the ascent) a

Studiens syfte var att undersöka hur upplevd stress, självkänsla och livstillfredsställelse samvarierar, om könsskillnad förekommer bland dessa variabler samt undersöka huruvida upplevd stress kan prediceras utifrån självkänsla och livstillfredsställelse vid kontroll av kön och ålder. Studien baserades på en enkätundersökning med 144 studenter från Lunds Universitet. Enkäten inkluderade RosenbergsThe aim of the study was to examine how perceived stress, self-esteem and life satisfaction covariate, if gender differences exists in these variables and to examine whether perceived stress can be predicted from self-esteem and life satisfaction when controlling for gender and age. The study was based on a survey with 144 students from Lund’s University. The survey included Rosenberg’s Self-Estee

I detta arbete presenteras en del av den ryggradsdjursfauna som fanns i södra Sverige under krittidens senare del, dvs. för mellan 100 och 66 miljoner år sedan. Vidare avhandlas ett mystiskt, fossilt skelettfynd från Kristianstadbassängen i nordöstra Skåne. Syftet med studien är att identifiera fossilet och att försöka bestämma till vilken djurgrupp det kan ha hört. Benet hittades i grundmarina sThis work presents a part of the vertebrate fauna that existed in the southern of Sweden during the latest Cretaceous period, between 100 and 66 Ma ago. Further, data on a mysterious skeletal finding from the Kristianstad Basin will be presented. The purpose of the study is to identify the fossil and to determine to which group of animals it might have belonged. The fossil was found in shallow, m

I Sverige får i dag hälften av befolkningen dricksvatten från vattentäkter som helt saknar eller har ett föråldrat skydd mot föroreningar. För att få bukt med problemet har Naturvårdsverket tagit fram anvisningar i form av tjugo punkter, samt tre tilläggspunkter, för upprättandet av ett vattenskyddsområde runt vattentäkten. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie har vart att jämföra sexton vattenskyddsIn Sweden today, half of the population gets their drinking water from water extraction areas without- or with out-dated protection against contamination. To resolve this problem the swedish government institution, Naturvårdsverket, has written a list, in the form of twenty directives, to help in the establishment of a water protection area around the water collection point. The purpose of this li

Huspriserna har i Sverige och flera andra länder gått upp kraftigt sedan 90-talet. Det debatteras om de höga priserna är hållbara eller om det existerar bostadsprisbubblor som om de spricker kan påverka den övriga ekonomin negativt. Flera länder där bostadspriserna gått upp upplevde fall i dessa och minskad ekonomisk tillväxt vid finanskrisen 2008. Sverige upplevde inte något drastiskt bostadspris

Abstract Author: Amanda Rask & Mariaserena Baretta Title: Prussiluskan - en diskursanalys om socionomstudenters syn på socionomyrket Supervisor: Mikael Sandgren Assessor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson The aim of this study was to examine how social work students speak of social work, and what knowledge they consider necessary for a social worker. Our main question to analyze was however how the stu

The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine which competencies and qualifications Swedish government agencies require when hiring records managers today. Recently, the archival sector has encountered several challenges regarding technical solutions for electronic archiving. This thesis also attempts to address whether these changes affect the need for specific qualifications in records managers.

This thesis has its focus on the interaction between competition law and the public procurement regime. Since the two systems have the same objective of the creation of an internal market it is vital that the two systems reach coherence. Despite this there is now express provision on the importance to fight anti competitive behaviour in the Public Sector Directive 2004/18/EC. On March 28th 2014 th