The United States (US) and European Union (EU) both have preferential trade agreements with least developed countries with the aim of increasing trade volumes in order to catalyse development. The US implemented their system, the “African Growth and Opportunity Act” (AGOA) in 2000 and the EU followed with “Everything But Arms” (EBA) in 2001. Since these preference systems have the goal of increasi

Ett företag som varit svenskt under en längre tid och profilerat sig som svenskt kan komma att möta motstånd när företaget inte längre ägs av svenskar. Denna studie ämnar analysera hur företag uppfattas av sin givna svenska målgrupp efter ett utländskt uppköp. Hur reagerar målgruppen på de nya ägarna, förändras uppfattningen om varumärket och hur påverkar det konsumenternas syn på ett köp från för

As the Arctic will become more available to shipping traffic in the future, given the current trend of diminishing ice sheets continues, the emission of particles and gases originating from ships will increase in the Arctic. The emission of particles and gases can affect the sensitive Arctic environment in many ways, e.g. change albedo by deposition, affect air traffic, harm livestock and humans e

When developing software today, we still use old tools and ideas. Maybe it is time to start from scratch and try tools and languages that are more in line with how we actually want to develop software. The Go Programming Language was created at Google by a rather famous trio: Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer. Before introducing Go, the company suffered from their development process no

Food security is an important factor contributing to the socio-economic stabilization and development of Bangladesh. Though, the country has made a steady progress in the expansion of food production, but food insecurity is still a major problem mainly because of poverty. Various development strategies aimed at eliminating poverty are now combining the microcredit as one of the key sectors in thei

This essay is about families with an adolecent with self-injuried behaviour and what kind of support they can get. This essay is based on several therapist's view. These therapists works with the method dialectical behavior therapy. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a method that has gained good results with patients that have self-injury behavior. This essay is based on a qualitative stud

The aim of this study was to examine how professional adoption counselors perceives and works with the problems that may occur in adoptive families. With a qualitative method of semi-structured interviews five adoption counselors were interviewed to answer the questions: What difficulties do professionals experience in the adoptive family when they seek help? What causes do the professionals see t

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur studenters kreativitet påverkas av användandet av Instant messenger och elektronisk media. Hypoteserna var att studenter som använder instant messenger kommer prestera sämre på kreativitetstest och att det finns en negativa relation mellan hög medieanvändning och prestation på kreativitetstest. Studien utfördes som ett experiment på totalt 50 studenterThe purpose of this study was to examine how students' creativity is affected by the use of Instant Messenger and electronic media. The hypotheses were that students who use Instant Messenger will underperform on creativity tests, and that there is a negative relationship between high media usage and performance on creativity tests. The study was conducted as an experiment on a total of 50 stu

Abstract Today large amounts of macadam are being delivered for the production of asphalt. One of the requirements of the material that´s being used is the adhesion. The adhesion is essential for the performance of the coating. It minimizes the risk of stone chips and makes the construction of the pavement stronger etc. Several studies have been made using the Roller bottle method. The results sho

The purpose of this project was to study the interaction which takes place between school counselors and undocumented children in the Swedish school system. Qualitative interviews with seven school counselors have been conducted to highlight their experiences of working with children who find themselves inside the society's geographical boundaries, yet with limited civil rights. The theoretica

Den östra delen av Kaapvaalkratonen i södra Afrika är rikt på flera generationer av mafiska gångar med olika riktningar. Där finns tre gångsvärmar som tidigare undersökts och som tillsammans bildar ett radierande mönster med ett gemensamt fokus i Bushveld-komplexets östra del. De nordostliga och ostliga grenarna av denna svärm består av diabasgångar som blivit daterade till ca 2660, 2685 och 2700 Numerous mafic dykes of different generations and trends intrude the eastern part of the Kaapvaal Cra-ton. On eastern Kaapvaal, there are three previously investigated dyke swarms that appear to radiate out from the eastern lobe of the Bushveld Complex. The NE- and E trending branches comprise dykes dated at ca. 2660 Ma, 2685 Ma and 2700 Ma (Olsson et al. 2011). Further south, a NE-trending swarm,

Genom kritisk ledarskapsforskning har vi genomfört en narrativ studie kring hur ledare konstrueras utifrån sociala konstruktioner. I enlighet med samhällets konstruktion av det normativa gentemot det avvikande reproduceras dagligen omedvetna föreställningar som skapas genom strukturer där interpersonella relationer, akademisk forskning och framförallt media har stor inverkan. Vi har problematisera

The aim of this thesis is to map the Swedish literary criticism of 2013 with regard to gender equality, and to discuss how equality issues affect the canonization of literature. The study includes a statistical overview of gender representation in literary reviews and a qualitative analysis of the literary debate in Sweden. This thesis also uses Michel Foucault’s discourse analysis and Yvonne Hird

The purpose of this study was to psychometrically test a Swedish translation of The Shame Inventory, originally developed by Rizvi (2010). Another purpose was to investigate the link between shame and psychopathology and specifically to borderline personality disorder. The psychometric properties of the Swedish version of The Shame Inventory were investigated, as well as the ability of the instrum

Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to eliminate the gap between theory and practice about corporate governance in selected countries in Eastern and Central Europe, which have transitioned from a socialist to a market economy. Method: We collect the necessary data for 28 European Countries from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Countries are then grouped into 4 r

Syftet med denna rapport är att, utifrån miljö och kostnader, hitta det mest lämpliga värmeproduktionssystemet för bostadsområdet Västra Eriksberg i Göteborg samt att studera skillnader mellan två hustyper. Uppdragsgivare är Norra Älvstranden Utveckling AB.Hustyperna skiljer sig åt när det gäller material- och energibehov. Den ena hustypen är mer välisolerad samt har ett mer avancerat ventilations

Inom EU-kommissionen pågår en utredning om huruvida hållbarhetskriterier skall införas för fasta biobränslen och biogas som används för produktion av el, värme och kyla. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka hur ett eventuellt införande av hållbarhetskriterier för fasta biobränslen kan komma att påverka den svenska marknaden för fasta biobränslen och därigenom i sin tur påverka energibra

Contrails are the visible line-shaped clouds that can be seen to form behind aircrafts if the air is saturated with respect to liquid. Furthermore, if the air is supersaturated with respect to ice, the contrails can develop into contrail-cirrus that affect the radiative forcing, locally up to an annual average of 1000 mWm-2 over Europe. Central Europe is especially exposed to contrails due to the

The aim of this study was to examine the views of middle managers in public elderly care regarding their role in their organizations. The study used semi-structured interviews and five middle managers from the same municipality were interviewed. The interviews showed trends in how the managers felt about the area they had to operate within and the slack they had to take personal decisions pointing