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Despite its OECD membership and transformation from aid recipient into a major donor of official development assistance (ODA), Japan has long been criticized for pursuing commercial interests through its infrastructure-focused ODA, which has heavily relied on its own corporate private sector for implementation. Throughout the last two decades, institutional reforms have altered the structure and

The Japanese government managed to implement the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets (SDS) in late 2014, making it easier for government agencies to withhold information. The debate that was ignited by the SDS is central to this thesis. Existing research on the SDS can be characterized as a battle for truth, with a focus on the surface effects of the law. In contrast, this paper

This thesis evaluates the hazards occurring during extinguishing of a passenger car fire in order to obtain recommendations for the Swedish rescue services on how to extinguish a passenger car fire in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. The thesis evaluates both acute and long term toxicity of combustion products as well as extinguishing agents, regarding both human health and the environm

Power electronics is today used almost everywhere. The development of power electronics hardware is fast, pushing the performance limits. Still the conventional two level converter is the most commonly used converter on the market. The output voltage of the conventional two level converter is generated as pulses. The pulses are generated with semiconductor switches with short switching times to k

The aim of this study was to investigate the health and job satisfaction in Swedish elderly care. The data was collected by doing semi-structured interviews with employees at an elderly care facility in an average sized Swedish city. Participants were chosen randomly, but it was made sure that the balance between formally educated and non-formally educated personnel was nearly equal. The Human Res

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur ekonomistyrningen i ett franchisebolag ser ut samt belysa skillnader i styrningen mellan franchiseenheter samt egenägda enheter. Metoden som används är en fallstudie över Waynes Coffee där empirisk data insamlas med hjälp av kvalitativa, semi-strukturerade intervjuer med franchisetagare. Resultatet utmynnar i att det finns en mycket tydlig skillnad i st

Access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is a human right. Today water scarcity is a large problem and inequality in access to safe water is a striking truth. In Mozambique, the US foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corporation introduced the Rural Water Point Installation Program to increase access to safe water and sanitation – a step towards reducing poverty. 600 water points – in

The aim of this study was to examine nursing home staffs experiences of different health promoting activities that are implemented in their work and how they view their own health. The main questions of this study were: how did staff experience discussion and work with health on their workplace, how did staff discuss the continuity of health activities, how did staff discuss responsibility for the

The purpose of this study is to examine how young women construct their identity in biographies in relation to their own mental health state, their self harm behavior and the psychiatric institution. Self-harm behavior is a growing problem, primarily for young women. I’ve used a narrative text-analysis to investigate how women construct their identity and to examine the differences between the aut

Avrinningsområdet Mundaú har sitt ursprung i den Brasilianska delstaten Pernambuco och rinner i sydöstlig riktning mot Mundaúlagunen längs Atlantkusten tillhörande delstaten Alagoas. Området faller under nationell jurisdiktion, är relativt oreglerat och erfar både översvämningar och torrperioder. Modellering av avrinningsområdets hydrologi kan ge en fördjupad förståelse av dessa händelser och hur The relatively unregulated, union domain Mundaú river basin, upper reaches originating in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco and flowing southeast to the Mundaú Lagoon along the Alagoas state’s Atlantic coast, suffers from both flooding and drought. Modeling the basin’s hydrology can lead to a deeper understanding of these events, and how changes within the basin can affect its hydrology. This stud

I denna kandidatuppsats genomförs en kvalitativ fallstudie av Jodelhotet som ledde till nedstängningen av Lunds universitet måndagen den 12 oktober 2015. Min teoretiska utgångspunkt grundas i Beck (1998), Bauman (2001) och Giddens (1996, 1997) tankar om senmodernitetens tillstånd som i en tid där samhällets risker och hot förstärks samtidigt som individualiseringen gör det allt svårare att nå geme

The purpose of this study was to examine how staff at residential care homes for youths reason about issues relating to sexuality and sexual relations of the youths. The purpose was also to examine how staff perceive the availability, or lack thereof, of relevant educational resources and guidelines in this area, such as action plans, brochures, further training about sexuality during employment,

Hur påverkar Herpes Simplex Virus vilka gener som uttrycks i den infekterade cellen? Herpes Simplex Virus har förmågan att ändra vilka gener som uttrycks i en infekterad cell. Detta gör att viruset får verktyg att ändra på proteinerna på den infekterade cellens yta. Vi har undersökt hur den lyckas med detta genom att blockera olika signalvägar och mäta hur mycket RNA av olika gener som produceratHerpes Simplex Virus type 1 (HSV-1) is a virus infecting over 90 % of the population. It causes latent infections in nerve cells and can upon reactivation travel along the neurons and cause lytic infections with painful blisters as a result. HSV-1 infects multiple cell types, fibroblasts and T-cells among others. During infection HSV-1 is known to downregulate the transcription of many of the gene

The labour migration to the GCC states and Qatar in particular remains substantial. 94 % of Qatari labour force is migrant workers. After Qatar was awarded to host the FIFA World Cup 2022, migration is on the rise and Qatar is expected to welcome at least 1 million workers to build infrastructure for hosting the world-famous event. While Qatar is luring more workers, Asian sending countries are al

The aim of the study was to examine the role of the social worker employed within Malmö psychiatry regarding the social worker’s status and impact on patient care. The social worker’s role within hospital environment is a topic that has been examined many times before. In 2014, Socialstyrelsen released a report about introducing a license for social workers employed within hospital environments. T

The goal of this study, through the use of mainly an organizational theory perspective, is to examine the problems and obstacles in the cooperative work between social workers and other social actors in cases involving children at risk. The aim is to highlight problems that exist in social secretaries cooperative work and to find ways to understand them. The result showed that poor professional in

The aim of this study was to examine how the guidelines of interprofessional cooperation regarding clients with substance drug abuse problems and mental illness are implemented between the organisations of social services and healthcare. The study was performed in four Swedish small municipalities. The survey is based on the perspective of the staff from social service and also examines what strat

Informationssamhällets framväxt bidrar med nya utmaningar för rättsliga regleringar utformade efter traditionella gränser när dessa ska upprätthållas i en gränslös digital miljö. Digitaliseringen av samhället ger upphov till rättsfrågor som inte nödvändigtvis är nya men som placerar dessa i en ny miljö, vilket bidrar till en viss osäkerhet kring rättsläget i många fall. Mot bakgrund av detta behanThe development of the information society brings new challenges to legal constructions created in a landscape of traditional boundaries when these are to be upheld and enforced in a borderless digital environment, mainly due to a technical development that is constantly pushing the boundaries. An increased digitalisation of the society gives rise to not necessarily new legal questions but put the