The recycling sector and the solid waste management systems (SWMS) in developing countries greatly rely on scavengers, a vulnerable and marginal urban population that recover items or materials to be reused or recycled. As a new mindset towards waste emerges, considering it a resource instead of something useless and undesirable; governments, NGOs, private companies and other stakeholders slowly r

Author: Annika Lund Lagerberg, Ylva Blom Title: Conflict and conflict managment in elderly care settings - From a unit managers point of view [Translated title] Supervisor: Anders Östnäs Assessor: Susanna Johansson The aim of this study was to determine the factors that contributes to conflict and how the unit managers manage and prevent these conflicts. We have chosen to examine conflicts from t

The emergence of the academic field explicitly concerned with sustainability has seen the establishment of many university degree programmes in sustainability. This study examines what the curricula of 54 of these programmes, 27 master's programmes and 27 bachelor's programmes. entailed in terms of mandatory and optional courses and detailed topical content. It then looks, more specificall

Denna uppsats undersöker hur personer från olika klasser och samhällsgrupper under tidigt 1900-tal förhöll sig till manligt klädbruk. Syftet är att ta reda på hur kläder fungerade som en arena för gemenskap och identitetsskapande, men också som en arena för åtskillnad mellan människor. Detta görs genom att diskutera klassmotsättningar i termer av normer och ideal. Materialet består av uppteckning

The water footprint assessment framework aims to illustrate the full impact of water consumption in the whole life cycle of a product, from direct water extraction to water pollution. The framework provides a comprehensive indicator for water resources which, if used with care, can provide detailed information about the different impacts of water consumption in order to aid with water stewardship

Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom ddiskursanalys och kvantitativ analys visa på klassdiskurser i mode- och textilannonser från 1911 och 1931 i tidningen Arbetet och Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten. Syftet är även att påvisa hur annonsernas utförande visar på en skillnad mellan två tidningar med olika politisk färg. Syftet är också se mode- och textilannonsernas utförande i ett förändringspers

Resurs Bank is a niche bank based in Helsingborg, with focus on financial services for corporate and private markets. They have a department that deals with programming and maintaining applications that their customers use. Currently they have no employed testers. The developers are testing the code themselves in combination with automated tests. Resurs Bank wants to acquire testers that can test

Syftet med projektet är att undersöka vad användandet av EPS - cellplast som isolering i platta på mark kan ha för risker och konsekvenser ur byggnadsfysikaliska - och konstruktions aspekter i ett långtidsperspektiv. Arbetet har fokuserat på minskad isoleringsförmåga av fukt, och sättningsskador som beror på krypning av isoleringsmaterialet. Detta undersöks för att kunna uppskatta EPS - cellplaste

The Court decision in Daily Mail has come as a result of the resolution of the Member States to endorse a plurality of national legal solutions in the field of tax and corporate laws. The free movement provisions must be understood against this background and keeping in mind that no matter which “interface program” is to be used the system as a whole, i.e. the internal market, must be effective an

Temporary migration to advanced countries from developing ones and its effects on host countries are important issues in contemporary demographic studies. Economic performance of return migrants from the U.S. in Mexico has been studied from the viewpoint of financial gains from working abroad. This paper looks into an impact of human capital accumulated through working in the U.S. on economic outc

Ecuador has a large potential for electricity generation from renewable energy sources. Regardless of such potential, mainly thermal (non-renewable) and large-scale hydroelectricity has been widely exploited. In order to tap the potential of other renewables, a feed-in tariff scheme has been implemented since 2000 in Ecuador and it has experienced several revisions throughout the last decade. The

Idag används sociala medier av människor över stora delar av världen och nu mer i en rad olika syfte, det handlar inte längre endast om att kommunicera med vänner eller skriva blogginlägg. Den stora mängd information som genom sociala medier sprids över internet kan således utnyttjas på olika sätt, av olika aktörer vid olika tillfällen, så som vid rekrytering. I denna uppsats vill vi undersöka hur

This study analyzes the relationship between structural change and income distribution and poverty in ASEAN-4 countries –Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines, over the last three decades. In particular, the study seeks to find out extent to which and how structural change would affect income distribution and poverty in ASEAN-4 countries. Accordingly, two methodological approaches are ado

During the last decades, Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) has emerged as a powerful theory within marketing communications research. The main purpose of IMC is to integrate all the communications efforts of an organization into one single and unified voice. However, little research has been undertaken to examine which role tone of voice has in connection to IMC. This study seeks to invest

Abstract Through qualitative method, this essay intends to study which expectations exist for school counselors in the school organization, accordning to the new school law (2010:800), which puts demands on all schools to have access to a counselor. The study consists of 24 survey answers from educators, as well as interviews with a special education teacher and a principal. Half of the survey res

Abstract Authors: Emelie Nilsson & Mairi Winbladh Title: Changing fathering roles with the internet as a venue (translated title) Supervisor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson The aim of our study was to collect material from male Swedish bloggers that themed their blog about fatherhood. We wanted to distinguish if there were any factors visible through a blog that could create, uphold or change the

This paper investigates whether the German Stock is efficient or not, i.e. whether there is a way to systematically beat the market. Within this framework momentum strategies with formation and holding periods over 3- to 12-month horizons are applied on the CDAX. The results do not show clear signs of market inefficiencies. While momentum strategies were successful in 67% of the cases, the winner

Abstract Authors: Linnea Lasson och Zandra Stifanic. Titel: Boys and girls, different or alike? – a gender perspective on children acting out or acting in [Translated title]. Supervisor: Johan Cronehed. Expectations of children in today's society has increased and children who, in some way, express any antisocial behavior that in any way could arouse negative feelings in their surroundings co

Vi har utifrån att tjänster på Internet samlar in stora mängder information om sina användare formulerat en problemställning där vi ser till användarnas behov integritet i samband med att nästan allt de gör på Internet lagras. Syftet med studien är att genom att intervjua användare av denna typ av tjänster, identifiera de upplevda integritetsproblem som uppkommer samt att undersöka hur dessa påver