The purpose of this B.A. thesis was to analyse and compare skeletal material from two medieval grave sites in Skåne, Sweden, in terms of cranial trauma. 100 adult skulls, 75 from Löddeköpinge and 25 from S:t Jörgen in Åhus, were analysed macro visually resulting in a total of eight finds of trauma. The thesis partly discusses how cranial trauma can be used as a base for assessing violence in ancie

Nyligen omreglerades apoteksmarknaden med följden att det statliga monopolet genom Apoteket AB som funnits i ca 40 år gick i graven. Apoteket AB förblev dock ett statligt bolag med betydande marknadsandel med skillnaden att det skall konkurrera på lika villkor med privata aktörer. Denna uppsats på B-nivå handlar om vad som hände med Apoteket AB:s samhällsansvar och hur det förhåller sig till målet

Kalla krigets slut medförde en våg av globala separatiströrelser, vilket utmanade de etablerade normerna för internationellt erkännande av nybildade stater. Utifrån en mest olika- och lika utfalls-design har Georgien, Eritrea, Östtimor och Montenegro valts ut till en jämförande studie om vilka faktorer som bidragit till internationellt erkännande av dessa stater. Faktorerna har i sin tur utformats

Bland korruptionsforskare finns uppfattningen att de senare decenniernas många organisationsförändringar och förvaltningsreformer skapat en incitamentsstruktur inom de offentliga institutionerna som ökat riskerna för korruption (Erlingsson, 2006; Andersson & Erlingsson, 2010). Denna uppfattning, med sitt institutionella perspektiv på korruption, utgör en grundläggande teoretisk utgångspunkt fö

The purpose of this dissertation is to compare the Master Nationality principle in four different countries, to establish how the principle is handled in these countries, and to find out the actual effect for the individuals with dual nationality in that country. For this purpose I will also aim to determine current international customary law and find out how it relates to the Hague Convention on

The goal of the project is to identify and analyze different solution methods and to see how they should be applied to an industrial problem. The problem that will be examined is assembly of screws in a disc. The solution uses a Pacdrive system which is used to control and synchronize the servo motor. The operation of the motors will be done with an electronic cam that is completely virtual. In th

Syftet med uppsatsen är att, ur ett rättshistoriskt perspektiv, granska hur erkännandet som bevismedel hanterats och värderats i den historiska rättsprocessen med fokus på processen I brottmål. I centrum för analysen står erkännandets innebörd och bevisvärde i förhållande till de bevisrättsliga principerna legal bevisteori respektive fri bevisvärdering. Ingående utreds också hur övriga historiska The purpose of this paper is to critically review the confession as evidence in a legal and historical perspective by looking at how it has been handled and valued historically in the lawsuit, focusing on the criminal process. The core of the analysis comprises the meaning of the confession and its value as evidence in relation to the procedural principles; the legal proof theory and the principle

Denna uppsats belyser den väsentliga utvecklingen av lagrummet 16 kap. 8 § BrB, hets mot folkgrupp, fram till 1987 ur ett kritiskt diskursanalytiskt perspektiv. Bestämmelsen sorterar under brott mot den allmänna ordningen. Lagrummet innebär ett betydande ingrepp i yttrandefriheten och uppsatsen lyfter fram de argument för och emot som föranlett dessa inskränkningar. Diskussionen om kriminaliserinThis essay discusses the essential development of the section of 16 ch. 8 § in the Swedish Criminal Law, incitement of hatred against ethnic groups, until 1987 from a critical discourse analysis point of view. The article is classified as a crime against public order. The section entails a considerable restriction of freedom of speech and the essay highlights arguments for and against these change

Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att jämföra tredjelandsmedborgares, icke-europeiska medborgares, möjlighet till familjeåterförening i Sverige och i Danmark. Uppsatsen redogör därför för ländernas regleringar, hur länderna uppfyller sina internationella åtaganden och hur reglerna tillämpas i praktiken. Uppsatsen är avgränsad till kärnfamiljens möjlighet till familjeåterförening, vilket avser makar, The purpose of this essay has been to compare third-country nationals´, non-EU nationals´, possibility of family reunion in Sweden and in Denmark. The essay therefore describes regulations in the respective countries, how the countries fulfil their international commitments and how the rules apply. The essay is limited to the nuclear families right to family reunion, meaning married and unmarried

Denna uppsats berör på ett grundläggande plan de problem som finns angående det som i lagtexten betecknas brottets art. Brottets art finns med i 30 kap. 4§ BrB andra stycket, och ska användas av domstolen då den beslutar om en frihetsberövande påföljd istället för en icke frihetsberövande påföljd. Brottets art, eller artbrottet som det också kallas, ska användas främst vid kortare fängelsestraff pThis paper touches the subject of crimes with a presumtion for imprisonment (will be referred to with the Swedish term artbrott) and the problems relating to it. The artbrott regulation is found in BrB 30th chapter 4§ and is used by the court when deciding upon a custodial sentence. Artbrott is used mainly when the law regulates a penal value under 12 months, and the perpetrators actions motivate

Popular science summary The effect of glucose and incretin proteins on insulin secretion and OPN production Insulin secretion is a sensitive cellular process with ramifications in diabetes mellitus development. Diabetes mellitus is characterized by hyperglycemia, a chronic condition defined by high levels of circulating glucose. Insulin hormone is the primary regulator of glucose absorption from

Sustainable waste management system which focuses on prevention, reuse and recycle instead of burn and bury is difficult to agree upon, design and implement. I look at why after 8 years of development the city of Sofia chose to burn and bury most of its municipal waste despite a better though more difficult to implement alternative based on the Zero Waste concept was presented. I focused on the dy

This thesis studies the relationship between the magnitude of the dowry and the bride’s education and income. Dowry is defined the gifts transferred along with the bride from the bride’s natal family to the groom’s household at the time of marriage. Gifts are traditionally also given from the groom household to the bride, the bride who will belong to the groom household after marriage. India has a

In this thesis a political economy perspective on institutional change comprising the public choice theory and the interest group theory is adopted to identify forces that have been driving the process of institutional change in China. Representing the public choice perspective are state strength and state incentive variables whereas one domestic and one foreign interest group, managers of state o

This thesis has been written as input for a publicly funded research project on the economic evaluation of the implications of renewable energy expansion in the German electricity and heating sector. So far, the project has only qualitatively assessed the impact of renewable energy deployment on energy security. This thesis presents the first approach of its kind to quantitatively assess the influ

This paper is about e-democracy and its tools. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the most common tools from a democratic perspective. To evaluate the tools of e-democracy the paper have used a two-step rocket. First, the paper studies the idea of democracy from a normative perspective to determine its definition and its premises. Secondly, the paper evaluates the tools with help form ideological

Denna uppsats är en beskrivande idéanalys av UNICEF:s rättighetsperspektiv så som det uttrycks i deras strategiska plan för åren 2014-2017. Syftet är att undersöka hur en rättighetsförståelse visas hos UNICEF i jämförelse med det rättighetsbaserade tillvägagångssätt organisationen har åtagit sig att följa. Detta rättighetsbaserade tillvägagångssätt utgör min teori i den första delen av min analys.This essay is a descriptive idea analysis of the rights perspective shown by UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, in their Strategic Plan for the time period of 2014-2017. The purpose is to examine how an understanding of rights is shown by UNICEF, in accordance with the principles set forth in the human rights-based approach to development that the organization is committed to follow. This

Författare: Anders Wiklander Titel: Självbildens resa genom kriminalvården Kandidatuppsats: SOCK01, 15 hp Internet Handledare: Åke Nilsén Sociologiska institutionen, Vårterminen 2013 Problem/Bakgrund: När en blivande kriminalvårdsklient för första gången kommer till en kriminalvårdsanstalt, ställs han inför något som på många sätt kan betecknas som en annan värld. Mycket av den sociala bas som ska

Since the middle of the last century, excavated clay tobacco pipes have been used for dating post-medieval sites with the aid of extensive typologies and dating techniques. Until recently, social aspects of smoking represented by clay tobacco pipes have been relatively unexplored. In Sweden little attention has been paid to social implications of pipes and smoking in the 17th and 18th centuries, a