The objective of this paper is to determine the existence of temporal persistence in the homicide rates in the Colombian regions, or in other words, to determine the existence of a relationship between the past and present homicide rates. In order to achieve this objective, in this study was analyzed longitudinal data with annual observations for all the municipalities of the country. The results

Optical aberrations are the main cause for reduced focusability and low peak intensity in laser beams. All the applications that rely on high peak power and/or small focus spot size, loose efficiency when optical aberrations are present. They can be reduced by using specially shaped optical elements, but all aberrations cannot be avoided completely. In this thesis we used a new approach for reduc

Enhanced vision system attached to any industrial robot undoubtedly increases its accuracy and precision. Today, vision in industrial robots is facilitated almost exclusively via external or fixed cameras which may cause rather inconvenience due to obstacles in the line of sight. In this master thesis project, an Embedded Vision System is designed and developed to stream live video of a robot'

Using textual analysis based on a constructivist perspective, this thesis attempted to analyze how development cooperation policy builds the emerging donor identity. It did so by looking at foreign policy in the case studies of two small Asian donors, Thailand and Malaysia. In particular, it looked at the notion of heterogeneity which exists in the emerging donor identity, and Thailand and Malaysi

The Nuremberg Charter introduced the crime of aggression into international law. The American Chief Prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson gave a famous promise that offenders who commit acts of aggression shall be prosecuted and international criminal law would be applied against them. However, only at the first Review Conference of the ICC Statute in Kampala 2010, agreement on a universally accepted

There has been much debate about the Japanese management system and its changes as well as continuity. There is a consensus that the Japanese human resource management rests on three core pillars which are lifetime employment, seniority based salaries/promotions and unions. The purpose of this study was to investigate if these three core pillars have transformed after the 1990's when the eco

Molntjänster är en teknik som gör det möjligt för konsumenter att hyra och bruka IT-resurser via internet. I dagsläget ökar intresset för ämnet och molntjänster vinner mark från traditionell mjukvaruförsäljning, även bland Sveriges kommuner sägs intresset vara stort. I denna rapport ämnar vi utreda kommunernas intresse genom att försöka besvara frågan om vilka föreställningar kommunerna har av mol

Idag är de traditionella och agila utvecklingsmetoderna de mest använda metoderna inom mjukvaruutveckling. I grunderna för de olika metoderna läggs det olika stor vikt på dokumentation. Inom traditionella metoder uppmuntras omfattande dokumentation, något som skiljer sig från de agila metoderna där fungerande mjukvara prioriteras före omfattande dokumentation. I denna studie kommer vi främst fokus

Public relations has existed approximately for a century, still, the researchers are looking for a definite definition of the discipline. This has led to a diffuse prospect of the boundary between public relations and other disciplines. Today marketing is the most common discipline PR is associated with, and we find a tendency in the PR industry to react when this occurs. In this study we look dee

This present study is a qualitative examination of government policy regarding Danish, unemployed and uneducated youths. The empirical basis for the study consists of fieldwork, in the form of participant observation and qualitative interviews. The physical field of study consisted of the municipality of Uddannelsesby. Within the study informants, such as the aforementioned youths, but also munici

Prehistorical musical instruments have been explored in archaeology more systematically since the 1970s when music archaeology was established as a field of study. The new awareness initially led to studies centred on retrieving musical instruments that had been missed and were now lost in archives. New discoveries, too, are very object-oriented. This master’s thesis ties together individual finds

Archaeology has always centred on material studies and has a long tradition of establishing methods for addressing the vast source material at hand. Typology is one of the most prominent of these methods, where the material is categorised into types according to morphology and geometry. There is an ongoing debate regarding the subjectivity of the typological approach and the problems that follow t

In today's business environment, organizations rely on information systems to store and process the information constantly gathered. These systems are used to support the everyday needs of the organization. It is apparent that many of these systems has limited or no analytical capabilities, can the introduction of a decision support system could enable practitioners to benefit from this can th

In this essay the systemic risk contributions of financial institutions in the European Monetary Union are analyzed. For this purpose the CoVaR measure, first introduced by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2011), is applied. The definition of CoVaR is changed in the way that 1) the definition of financial distress is changed from an institution being exactly at its VaR-level to being at most at its Va

Current research and media tend to write about how mental illness among young people increases. Therefore it is easy to get the impression that there are many young people who suffer from mental illness nowadays. Counselors at schools and at youth clinics are in daily contact with young people who feel bad in some way. The main aim of this bachelor thesis was to present and analyze mental illness

We review the factorization theorem for the production of a heavy color-neutral final state with a transverse momentum much smaller than its invariant mass in the framework of soft collinear effective field theory (SCET). This phase space region is plagued by large logarithms of widely separated scales, including large logarithms of rapidity ratios, that need to be resummed for sensible results. I

Within the Swedish prison and probation service 80% of the officers on duty (which is a leadership position) are male. Could this inequality have something to do with the stereotypical male authoritarian uniform used in this specific organization? The purpose of this study was to investigate if the uniform used within the Swedish prison and probation service could influence our leadership aspirati

Studien genomförs inom forskningsområdet för strategisk kommunikation och syftar till att ur ett kommunikativt perspektiv analysera hur organisationer bedriver lobbying i praktiken. Studien avser att komplettera den svenska lobbyforskningen genom att studera bransch- och arbetsgivarorganisationers lobbyaktiviteter som syftar till att påverka beslutsfattare. Studien utgår från kvalitativ metod och

Detta examensarbete beskriver hur Sveriges inträde i Europeiska Unionen påverkat de bilaterala handelsflödena mellan EUs medlemsländer (EU15). Som kontrollgrupp undersöks även de länder som definieras som rika OECD-länder. Stor vikt läggs vid Single Market Program som på EUs initativ möjliggjorde en starkare inre marknad (inom EU). Sverige blev medlem i EU 1995 varför åren 1992-2000 analyseras, föThis Bachelor thesis aims to describe how Sweden's entry into the European Union has affected the bilateral trade flow. The thesis will describe the trade flow between the EU member states, with a control group in which the high income OECD countries are included. Years investigated are 1992 to 2000 since Sweden was a member of the EU in 1995. Great emphasis is given to the Single Market Progr

This research has explored the intersection between the subject, activism, and posthuman theory, setting out to investigate whether posthuman theoretical understandings can be applied to contemporaneous subjects. Using NVivo software, a qualitative data analysis is conducted into 17 autobiographical texts taken from the anthology Restoried Selves (Kumashiro 2011). This analysis finds that these su