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This report aims to evaluate the personal safety of Tumba care home for elderly in case of fire. The current fire safety was assessed by analyzing a number of fire scenarios. Simulation in regard to evacuation and fire development was carried out combined with an index method. The simulated time for evacuation was compared to the time when untenable conditions occur according to the fire simulati

Projektet rör sig runt att undersöka science fiction som en särdeles användbar genre för feministisk politik och agenda. Detta är en genreövergripande studie som undersöker tre feministiska science fiction-romaner från 70- och 80-talets Nordamerika. Jag undersöker hur den feministiska kritiken belyses genom texterna men även vilka alternativa verkligheter som verken gör gällande. För att göra dett

This report is written as a part of the course Fire Safety Evaluation at Lund University. The purpose of the report is to evaluate the fire safety of Sollentuna centrum. Sollentuna centrum is a mall north of Stockholm that has 18 000 to 19 000 customers per day. The focus is mainly on evacuation and human safety. Other aspects, such as structural stability and property damage, have not been evalua

The following report contains an evaluation of the fire safety regarding evacuation at Aeroseum in Gothenburg, Sweden. This report is the result of the course Fire Safety Evaluation given by the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund, Sweden. Aeroseum is an old hangar located underground that now functions as an aircraft museum. They also arran

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the current fire hazards and evacuation safety on board the M/S Hansa in Helsingborg. The report is a part of the course, VBR054, Fire safety evaluation. The main goal of this report is to study the safety of people evacuating the building, therefore damage to property and structural stability has not been evaluated. M/S Hansa was originally built as a pas

This report is a fire evaluation of Jakobsbergs Shopping Center. The aim is to analyze and evaluate person safety and evacuation in regard of fire in the stores mainly at ground level of the building. Jakobsbergs Centrum consists mainly of a shopping center and apartments. However this report is limited to the area with the shopping center that consists of about fifty stores. During a visit, likel

This report contains an evaluation of the fire safety regarding evacuation in Östermalms Saluhall, a well known market and food hall in Stockholm, capital of Sweden. The market is a center for high quality delicacies of many kinds and has been since the late 19th century. Many people visit the market every day especially in conjunction to official holidays like Easter, Christmas and the Swedish mi

This report is the final result of a fire safety evaluation of Örebro Concert Hall, with main objective to evaluate the personal safety in event of a fire. Örebro Concert Hall is one of the top event halls in the region. The number of visitors varies depending on the event, but the great concert hall has capacity for over 700 guests. The report is limited to cover the public areas of the building

Problem: Uppsatsens huvudsyfte är att undersöka och beskriva genom vilka källor eller kanaler småbarnsföräldrar primärt känner att de får stöd och trygghet i sitt föräldraskap, för att därigenom se vilken plats barnhälsovården har i föräldrakulturen. En central fråga är hur förstagångsföräldrar ser på barnavårdscentralers (BVC) information i jämförelse med andra medier samt vänner, föräldrar och e

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur de förändrade kraven på Försvarsmaktens soldater reflekteras i deras rekryteringskampanjer. Samt vilka motiverande incitament som tas upp. Genom avskaffandet av värnplikten har Försvarsmakten blivit tvungen att tävla om arbetskraften med andra organisationer på arbetsmarknaden. Utifrån detta har det undersökts vilken bild av soldatyrket som framträder ur F

This thesis examines the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for maintaining human rights in a transnational context. In a globalized world, where companies have their head office in the western countries but its production located in developing countries, the lack of supranational regulation is severe. The ambition is to understand how responsibility for human rights is represented with

In this thesis the democratic legitimacy of transnational governance arrangements is examined normatively. The ambition is to take on a pragmatic viewpoint and the democracy perspective outlined with this in mind provides us with three aspects that should be considered in order to obtain democratic legitimacy. On the normative side of democratic legitimacy we have the principle of self-determinati

This is an essay about the reconciliation process in Guatemala its focus is on investigating the strategies used and their results. The theoretical framework consists of reconciliation-theory with truth and justice as central concepts. The method used is a combination of abductive and theory consuming method with a qualitative approach that allows an in-depth study, which is necessary to understan

This bachelor thesis in political science focuses on the precautionary principle in genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations. This principle has been incorporated into the European Union (EU) law system, which the legislation advocates that the GMO assessment process should be undertaken in a precautionary fashion. This principle is today considered being the most radical of all environmen

This Master’s thesis examines the outcomes of the new Free Choice policy with particular emphasis on whether giving residents the right to choose their providers of primary health care leads to a more equal distribution of primary health care accessibility. This study is based on the Secondary Analysis of assessment for vårdval (choice of health system) in Stockholm by Karolinska Institute (2010),

Sustainable development as a policy concept has during the last twenty years developed into a huge field where the environmental, economic and social areas of society are being intertwined. And the aim of these policies is to reach the goal of a global sustainable future for all. Even though, the social aspects of sustainable development has been shown to often be neglected in the analysis, and no

The Swedish Law requires every school to construct and annually revise an equality plan that is intended to facilitate the work for equality and the prevention of discrimination and how to deal with discriminating practices. Through a poststructuralist queer and norm critical theory I have analyzed four interviews, observation material and the schools equality plan to answer the question of how mi

The perceptions of what caused the disappearance of the Neanderthals have been argued a great deal among researchers. In this paper I will present five hypotheses that different researchers have presented. Each one of these hypotheses departs from the others and stands behind either a cultural, biological or an environmental model of explanation. The aim of this thesis has been to view what the ar

The present thesis deals with the unsatisfactory access of the blind and visually impaired persons to accessible copyrighted materials as part of the clash of human rights and intellectual property rights. Therefore, numerous human rights of these groups of people affected by the lack of access to copyrighted works are studied. Finally, the World intellectual Property Organisation Draft Treaty for

The goal of this single-case study is to contribute to understanding of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash crisis from the institutional perspective. The Eyjafjallajökull eruption in April 2010 and the subsequent volcanic ash crisis grounding the flights across Europe demonstrated certain procedural inadequacies in the international aviation regime. This prompted the two institutions responsible in