When the international monetary system was on the gold standard, China was the only country adhered to the silver standard. Silver functioned as currency in China but acted as commodity in international markets. Its price experienced downturn trend from 57 cents per ounce in January 1929 to 23.38 ounces per ounce in January 1933. Then it increased to 75 cents per ounce in May 1935. Dramatic fluctu

Bakgrund. Den äldre befolkningen i Sverige förväntas öka framöver vilket innebär mer arbete för hemtjänsten. Detta tillsammans med ökade kostnader har ställt ett oerhört tryck på hemtjänsten. Med be- gränsade resurser och höga prestationskrav ställs hemtjänsten inför en stor utmaning för att kunna ta hand om landets åldrande befolkning. Datorisering kan få en avgörande roll för att verksamheten sk

Collaboration Software is widely used in internal communication in the companies today. Software itself enables the companies to use variety of media with different properties and capabilities to mediate the communication on different corporate tasks. The way companies use the communication media implies the overall company performance. This study empirically examines the general propositions of M

This thesis investigates the TRIPS-agreement signed by all members of the World Trade Organization and how it has affected the price and availability on medicines, and in extension its overall effect on health. This was investigated by conducting four case studies of India, Thailand, South Africa and Brazil. It was found that prices had been affected by TRIPS due to the extension of patent term in

We live in a digitalized society. All the abundant data we produce, today called “Big Data” it changing our lives, and will soon disrupt it. Different studies and analysis argue about the advantages that Big Data comes in, not only as a competitive advantages for the data holders, but also in health, government, for the citizens and society as a whole. Nevertheless, Big Data comes with significant

This study is a knitted attempt of academic border crossing. The methods used for this analysis are discourse theory and autoethnography. In using autoethnography the aim is to include other experiences than those who are usually theorized. The material used for the study is five knitting books published in 2013. Concepts are discussed as processes trying to stabilize meaning in the discourse. The

Stormwater from urban areas contain a number of pollutants, among which nitrogen and phosphorous have been of lesser focus. In this study I aim to investigate if biochar has the potential to fill the role as water filter in urban areas, and to pin point what should be experimentally investigated in order to evaluate biochar in comparison to two contemporary filter systems: bioreactors and chalk fi

Business Intelligence (BI) users have started to demand more flexible products, which has forced the BI field to move towards self-service. Flexible products do however imply new challenges for designers, in order to facilitate such design. Thus, BI designers must be capable of understanding organizations better and what decision makers need, and thereafter frame appropriate solutions for them. Th

A level of entrepreneurial activities is widely considered as one of the key characteristics of economy in the context of economic development. However, empirical evidence and theoretical models failed to achieve a consensus with regard to the mechanism underlying existence of a certain level of entrepreneurial activities. This thesis, based on the extensive matching theory literature, considers

Uppsatsen berör relationen mellan kravhantering och mjukvaruarkitektur. Att hantera krav inom mjukvara innebär att lösa problem. Kravhantering är komplext då krav kan komma från olika människor från olika nivåer i en organisation samt från den miljö där mjukvaran kommer att verka. Syftet med denna studie är att identifiera vilka konsekvenser kravhantering medför när mjukvaruarkitektoniska designbe

Business rules approach is often defined as a way of managing and automating business rules where a business rule is a statement influencing business behavior. The literature is mainly focusing on the development and implementation of business rules and only partially discusses the strategic management of them. The academic research acknowledges the importance of rule management and handling strat

This essay contains a critical discourse analysis of the UN document Handbook for legislation on violence against women from 2010. The critical discourse analysis is conducted from a critical feminist perspective and the focus has been on the identified subject positions. The four main subject positions identified are the criminal legal subject, the subject of criminal responsibility, children and

Titel: Behöver du något? Ja, HR. - En studie av HR-specialisters arbete mot en effektiv rekrytering Vad: Kandidatuppsats, Service Management, Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg, VT 2014 Författare: Erika Eriksson och Mitra Javadzadeh Handledare: Ulrika Westrup Syfte: Syftet med undersökningen är att öka kunskapen om centrala strategier som HR kan använda sig av för att möjliggöra en effektiTitle: Are you in need of something? Yes, HR. - A study of HR-specialists work towards an effective recruitment What: Degree of Bachelor of Science thesis, Service Management, Lund University, Campus Helsingborg, first semester 2014 Authors: Erika Eriksson and Mitra Javadzadeh Advisor: Ulrika Westrup Purpose: The aim of this study is to increase knowledge of key strategies that can enable an

Sammanfattning Syftet med studien var att undersöka sambandet mellan medarbetarskap och arbetstillfredsställelse. Forskning har visat att arbetstillfredsställelse har gynnsamma effekter för både organisation och individ samt att det finns ett samband mellan arbetstillfredsställelse och olika faktorer som ingår i medarbetarskap. Till författarnas kännedom har inte någon tidigare studie undersökt saAbstract The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between employeeship and job satisfaction. Research has shown that job satisfaction has favorable effects for both the organization and the individual. It has also shown that job satisfaction and variables seen as part of employeeship correlate. However, to the knowledge of the authors no previous study has been performed to examin

El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) have a great impact on global climate, often with disas-trous effects in many parts of the world. The carbonate skeleton of corals record El Niño activity by tracing sea surface temperature and salinity in the oceans where they grow. As El Niño’s core region is the equatorial Pacific Ocean, this is where the most direct consequences of ENSO are seen, com

This thesis analyses dominant discourses in five reports about methods used in Swedish youth unemployment programs financed mainly by the European union. The purpose is to examine and deconstruct creation of meaning in institutional knowledge production about employability. With a poststructuralist approach the thesis draws on Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory. The feminist concept of inte

Health Information has a great potential to support decisions in the Health System. Making a decision in Health System (HS) can no longer be seen as a problem owing to technical advancements in computing and telecommunications. This is due to the harnessing of the effective decision-making process in order to leverage information flow. However, how the information flow in Malawi supports decision-

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att utveckla en anpassad rekommendation med förändringsåtgärder för idrottsföreningar vars ekonomiska situation är ohållbar. Med ledning ur redan befintliga dokumenterade teorier kommer rekommendationen att utformas som en samling insatser som kan göras för att åstadkomma förändring i organisationen och balansera föreningens ekonomi. Genom rekommendationen vill vi er

Traveller of the Century (2009) by Andrés Neuman is a passionate love story that reflects 19th Century Europe and furthermore it constitutes a reinterpretation of the period by the author, in which he combines the classical novel with modern literary techniques. This essay analyzes the presence of translation in the story, interpreting it as a metaphor for love, and investigates its significance f