Bakgrund: Befolkningen lever allt längre och 80 åringar är idag den snabbast växande gruppen i samhället. Forskning visar att det är viktigt att fortsätta utföra de aktiviteter som utövats hela livet för att uppleva god hälsa och välbefinnande. Det finns dock få kvalitativa studier kring hur äldre-äldre män upplever fysiska aktiviteter och intressen. Syfte: Att undersöka och beskriva äldre-äldre m

This paper investigates if liquidity (or illiquidity) is a factor influencing returns on the Swedish stock market during the period of January 2001 to December of 2010. The time-series effects of illiquidity as well as differences in the effects of illiquidity across stocks with different characteristics are investigated. In addition, the paper addresses the question of whether sensitivity of stoc

The thesis studies on the inequalities in health as an issue of the subject Health Economics. Inequalities in health is also known as a consequence of the inequalities in socioeconomic status and factors such as income, age, gender, education, employment status, place of residence, and etc. Due to the limitation on time and data, the thesis focuses on the urban individual statistics of China in th

Kronan har mellan åren 2009 och 2013 stärkts mot euron, dollarn och det brittiska pundet. Detta har i sin tur lett till en debatt kring en potentiell övervärdering av kronan och dess effekter på exporten. Tidigare studier som behandlar kronans värdering har främst fokuserat på perioder före 2001. Den senaste utvecklingen av växelkursen motiverar därför ny analys av kronan. Studien tar sin början e

Author: Karin Andréasson and Elin Björk Title: The meaning of recognition. –Romani women’s experiences of education as a way to inclusion. Supervisor: Hanna Wittrock Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed The aim of this study was to examine the situation of Romani women in Sweden. More specifically, to investigate Romani women’s experiences of and view on education as a way to increase the inclu

Föreliggande studie undersöker vilken syn på kunskap och lärande vuxna andrapråksinlärare har. Studien bygger på hypotesen att kunskapssynen får konsekvenser för studieresultaten. Perspektivet är det sociokulturella med pedagogiska förtecken. 78 vuxna andraspråksinlärare från 26 olika länder i åldern 19-54 år, som studerade någon av kurserna SVA 1, SVA 2 eller SVA 3 vid komvux höstterminen 2012, s

Thanks to amendments of the regulations governing safety of ships on international voyages, ship-builders are given the possibility to design large merchant ships in novel light-weight materials such as Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite. As a part of a collaborative risk assessment, this report investigates the implications of using this new material for the personal risks of firefighting c

The construction industry has been criticized several times for failing to achieve the same productivity as other industries. BIM (Building Information Model/Modeling) is a revolutionary technology, and with a modern work method BIM has the ability to change the construction industry. The traditional paper-based information is changing into a virtual environment. A BIM- model does not automaticall

Arbetsintroduktionen är en osäker tid för många nyanställda då de ska lära känna verksamheten och komma in i arbetsuppgifterna. För företag kan det vara av betydelse att identifiera vilka delar av introduktionstiden som de nyanställda upplever påverkar arbetsmotivationen. Studiens syfte var att undersöka vad tjänstemän inom bygg och fastighetsbranschen upplever påverkar arbetsmotivationen under i

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 signified a new era in European history. Most of the former socialist countries started a process of transition from centrally planned to the market economy already in 1990. Many studies have been undertaken with the aim of analyzing the effects of privatization and transition in former Soviet countries, but there is significantly less literature about privatiza

I svenska kommuner används för tillfället ofta papperskartor som geografiskt hjälpmedel vid fältarbete. En mobil GIS (geografiskt informationssystem)applikation skulle kunna vara ett användbart hjälpmedel vid sådant fältarbete och speciellt för att genomföra fältinventering. I detta examensarbete har en sådan applikation utvecklas. Applikationen har utvecklats för Örebro kommun och kallas iSurvey.Currently, Swedish municipalities generally use paper maps to conduct field work. A Mobile GIS (geographical information system) application could be a useful tool when conducting field work and field inventory work. In this master thesis, such an application has been developed. The application was developed for the municipality in Örebro and is called iSurvey. When developing a mobile application

The purpose of the present thesis is to analyze the effects of FDI on wages in the manufacturing sector from 2002-2008 in 33 different countries. The introductory chapter will review existing literature, distinguishing between neoclassical, political economy and sociology approaches. A second part will estimate the effects of FDI on wages using the panel ordinary least squares (OLS) fixed effects

In January 2011 a film called Sex på kartan was shown on the Swedish public service network SvT. The purposes of making the film was to be a part in a project for sex education to young people, and also be used as a school supplie for sex education in Swedish secondary schools.The film was a coproduction by UR, that is the Swedish publicservice TV channel for education, and RFSU,which is an indepe

In my essay I investigate the most commonly used concepts of freedom in political theory. I then argue that freedom as non-dominance and freedom as autonomy, used as political concepts, seem to describe the same relationship.

Using data cross-sectional data from the UNDP/PACT Myanmar’s “Outcome/Impact Assessment fro Microfinance Project 2011”, the purpose of this study is to see if women who are members of a microfinance program are more empowered than non-members. The study also attempts to find what factors that are important for women’s empowerment. To create a measurement of empowerment, and index-based approach is

Since there are no laws that controls how a societal risk analysis is to be made, or what acceptance criteria that should be used, people have different opinions regarding this. This contributes to non-homogenous risk management which in turn leads to a situation where the society’s safety isn’t the same in all of the country which the law says it should be. To get in terms with this problem there