Some companies have chosen to differentiate their products by labeling them environmentally friendly, or “green”. Green products sends the message to the market that a particular company is caring for the environment, however the processes involved in making the product can be the reasons for a product being labeled green. The production processes of the final stage company in a supply chain may n

A considerable number of studies on historical and some third world populations have reached a magnificent consensus that both mortality and fertility do respond to economic changes in a surprisingly shared pattern. Such response, however, remains a great deal of controversy, obscure and inconsistency in the secular industrialized countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the association betw

Denna uppsats syftar till att synliggöra bakomliggande föreställningar kring begreppen ”kultur”, ”patriarkala strukturer” och ”heder” i dagens mångkulturella Sverige. Utifrån material som diskuterar hedersproblematik görs med ett diskursanalytiskt tillvägagångssätt en analys som fokuserar på vilka uppfattningar och synsätt som ligger till grund för bakomliggande föreställningar kring begreppen ”ku

The phenomenon murder, in the name of honor, you can describe in several different ways. The purpose with our work was trying to describe honor related crimes from the investigators perspective. From the valid discourses we were looking for answers about how a social worker understand girls crying for help and what aspects are determine in the judge for a propitiate measure. During our work with t

Existing studies concerning private labels are unclear as to whether private label manufacturers carry out product development themselves. Furthermore, there is a lack of studies comparing product development processes in private label companies and national brand manufacturers. This study highlights a set of critical product development factors and assesses their prevalence in four different comp

To lose a child in suicide - A study about how gender norms in society affect the relatives of a deceased and their grieving process Background: Suicide is a comprehensive problem which majorly affects the relatives of the person who commit suicide. The grieving process is individual. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the parents of the deceased handle the grief, and if gender norm

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Klimatväxlingarna under sista istiden har alltid varit en debattfråga. Denna istids kallaste period inträffade för cirka 20.000 år sedan och benämns "istidsmaximum". Då var havsytan hundratjugo meter lägre än idag och det mesta vattnet var bundet i inlandsisarna. Klimatväxlingar försöker dagens kvartärgeologer att fastställa med en så bra tidsutlösning

Kleva koppar-nickel -sulfidmineralisering i Jönköpings län associeras med en elongerad mafisk pluton. I denna studie presenteras de opaka faserna för disseminerad malm från platsen. De relativt rika resp. fattiga proverna skiljer sig åt texturellt och mineralogiskt. Prover med nätverkstexturer rymmer magnetkis medan de med enbart aggregat domineras av pyrit. Kobalt saknas i pentlandit från de fatt

The following report contains a study over what happens with the proposals for action that is presented in fire investigations. Literature, 105 fire investigations and interviews were used to gather information. The literature shows that proposals for action are a natural conclusion in almost all investigation methods but little over half of the fire investigations present them and only a few had

This study investigated how ostracism and social exclusion may lead to individuals being more willing to participate in and recommend extreme action against a political cause and/or against an opposing group that is hindering their aims. In addition, it assessed if rejection sensitivity and right-wing authoritarianism moderated this effect. The participants were asked to read an article describing

BACKGROUND: During the last decades, there has been concern that exposure to endocrine disruptors, such as persistent organochlorine pollutants (POPs), may contribute to sex ratio changes in offspring of exposed populations. METHODS: To investigate whether exposure to 2,2'4,4'5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl (CB-153) and dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene (p,p'-DDE) affect Y:X chromosome proportion, semen of

Detecting and estimating long-range dependence are important in the analysis of many environmental time series. This article proposes a periodogram roughness (PR) estimator and describes its uses for testing and estimating the dependence structure. Asymptotic critical values are generated for performing the test, and special attention is given to investigating the properties of the PR regarding si