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Ship recycling activities are mainly taking place in South Asian countries and China. A number of dangerous old ships scrapped in these countries are being sent from developed countries, including Europe. International regulations by the Basel Convention, the ILO and the IMO have been controlling the issues for several years and the EU recently presented a “Proposal on Ship Recycling” and is waiti
Abstract Author: Leah Dahlgren Title: A Need for Supportive Structures for Next-of-kin Caregivers SIMV07, Master's Thesis (Two Years) in Social Studies of Gender Supervisor: Bodil Rasmunsson Lund University Department of Social Work Spring Term 2012 Botswana is one of the countries struggling with the control of HIV/AIDS pandemic. Due to the increase in numbers of sick people weighing financia
The aim of this thesis was to develop a model for flame propagation, to implement in a zero-dimensional engine simulation tool (DARS 0d-SRM) which previously only used fitted Wiebe-functions to describe the flame propagation. The idea was to create a model which could replace or complement the Wiebe function, but with predictive capabilities, avoiding the need to perform curve-fitting when certain
Tandhälsobeteende styrs till viss del av attityder. Därför undersöktes attityder genom en enkätundersökning med 218 medverkande (studenter n=159, seniorer n 58) med ett bekvämlighetsurval. Svarsfrekvens 76,6%. Arbetet kartlägger existerande attityder till tandsjukdomar och tandhälsa, samt behandlar hur viktig tandhälsa uppfattas, jämfört med hur viktig allmänhälsa. Tandhälsa och allmänhälsa ansågs
The main aim of this study was to investigate whether Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) methods could be used to change implicit attitudes towards bullying. The role of gender was looked at exploratively. 54 Primary school children (30 boys and 24 girls) completed a questionnaire (explicit bullying attitude measure), an IAT on bullying (Implicit Association Test which measures implicit bullying at
Background: With todays’ requirement of shorter product life cycles and faster time-to-market, producing companies experience an increased demand for faster transports in the supply chain. This puts pressure on freight forwarders to offer their customers a timely and reliable transport service at a reasonable price. Another challenge for the freight forwarders in Sweden is to provide such services
Product development in the automotive industry is characterized by a high demand on short lead times and efficient use of resources. This is no different for Volvo Bus Corporation, the second largest manufacturer of buses and bus chassis in the world, whose global product development organization is under pressure to find new ways to meet an increased amount of projects along with requirements on
The aim of this explorative study is to gain knowledge about the question of identities formations in different socio-cultural contexts. This is done by looking at the specific case of the Oromo people living in a larger community (Minneapolis, USA) as compared to living in a smaller group (Stockholm, Sweden). The case of the Oromo people is investigated in light of past historical, political, soc
This paper first measures the energy efficiency of 28 provinces from 2001-2009 with DEA model. Different from previous studies that include labor, capital and energy consumption as input indicators, GDP as the only desirable output, this paper also models the undesirable output by introducing environmental pollution index. The result shows that eastern area has highest energy efficiency while the
Using a sample of all German CDAX stocks between 1995 and 2011, this article compares returns of a momentum strategy based on Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) with a strategy that is based on a stock’s closeness to its 52 week high. The paper finds an outperformance of the 52 week high strategy in favor of the momentum strategy on the level of raw and risk adjusted returns. As in some cases abnormal re
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Vi lever idag i ett informationssamhälle och delar av denna information är geografisk. Denna geografiska information kan användas för att skapa kartor efter egna önskemål och för specifika användningsområden. Genom att ansluta till en webbsida som tillhandahåller visningstjänster av kartor kan en användare välja vilken information som ska vara med i en karta och We live in an information intensive society and geographic data are part of this information. These geographic data are used by private persons to plan holiday trips or to find the way to business meetings. Companies utilize geographic data in fields such as forestry, construction work, and tourism. Local municipalities require geographic data for planning purposes, and in the academic world much
I den här uppsatsen analyseras hur översättaren av Patti Smiths bok Just kids har översatt bildspråket i textens tre mest framträdande bildspråksdomäner som har en stark koppling till textens tematik. Bildspråksdomänerna är: krig, natur och religion. I uppsatsen undersöks även om kompensation har använts för att undvika att eventuella bildspråksförluster försvinner helt i översättningen. I uppsats
This thesis offers a study on how well the standard GARCH(1,1) model, the GJR-GARCH(1,1) model and the QGARCH(1,1) model, were able to model (in-sample) and forecast (out-of-sample) the volatility of copper spot price returns in four equally large subsamples within the period July 21, 1993 to 22 Mars, 2012. The results shows that the GARCH models' ability to model the conditional variance (in-
The aim of this study was to examine how a budget-led practice affects middle managers with budget responsibility in the Swedish public social services to do their jobs. Based on five interviews, using middle managers in five different social fields, the main results show that the financial aspect in the public social services becomes an issue in the middle mangers work-tasks. Three main tasks wer
Analyzing Baltic trade pattern confirms that the economic transition, following the fall of the Soviet Union, largely involves a regional integration process with western Europe. This thesis examines the trade patterns of the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) focusing on the regional integration process with the EU. The objective is to investigate the trade relations with the EU mem
The aim of this study was to examine different factors that influenced former drug addicts to quit abusing drugs and make a role change. We chose a qualitative method and our study was based on semi-structured interviews with seven individuals about their turning point in their life as an active drug abuser. We did that by setting up meetings with our selected adults from two different organizatio
The aim of this study is to examine which attributes supervisors find most attractive when employing a new colleague. The dissertation was carried out through interviewing seven supervisors within social work, all of whom were searching for a new team member. The word employability has, in this study become central and relates to something that can make a person more or less employable. It also in
Social Work Education today places great importance to convey values such as respect in the relation between social worker and client, and to embrace a user perspective in the professional practice. Yet, many clients find themselves mistreated and ignored and experience social service work as arbitrary and inaccessible. The purpose of this study is to examine what takes place in the encounter betw
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Spektroskopi handlar om teoretiska modeller och experiment där man observerar ljus som har växelverkat med materia. Spektroskopiska metoder används inom många olika ämnesområden som exempelvis kemi, fysik och biologi. Ett jordnära exempel på tillämpad spektroskopi är människans öga. Reflekterat ljus från olika föremål samlas in av linsen i ögat, avbildas på näthiIn this thesis a novel spectroscopic method consisting of a combination of frequency domain photon migration (FPDM) and gas in scattering media absorption spectroscopy (GASMAS) is developed, for assessment of the mean optical path length and gas absorption in porous media. The system stability is experimentally investigated and measurements are performed on balsa and pine wood to evaluate the rela
