How can nanoscience be used to raise the energy efficiency of established industrial technologies and in residential housing By reviewing the literature concerning nanotechnology and the impact it may have on energy efficiency, it becomes quite clear that it will have a mayor impact in the future. Much of the impact will probably come in the form of enabling technologies that could be used to impr

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Hong Kong used to enjoy high degree of press freedom during the period under the British colonial control, however, since the handover to China in 1997, the media self-censorship is becoming explicit. Attributed by the political and economic influences from China, Hong Kong media become more reserved in reporting Chinese sensitive issue, the objectivity and impartiality is threatened. This paper i

Author: Simon Sandberg Title: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Supervisor: Yoshiko Boregren Matsui Reports show that there is an increasing demand for social activity from the elders in elderly care and that people with learning disabilities are being discriminated from the open labour market. To meet the staff requirements of the elderly care year 2030 one o

Den här uppsatsen grundar sig på en översättning av ett stycke ur Andre Agassis självbiografi ”Open”. Den inleds med en källtextsanalys, i huvudsak baserad på Hellspong och Ledins analysmodell. Efter ett kort stycke om mina överväganden inför översättningen följer sedan en översättningskommentar, i vilken jag diskuterar några av de problem som dykt upp under översättningsarbetet. Denna översättnin

Social exclusion has affected the lives of Romanies for centuries. Today this continues in France and across many countries in Europe. In France, a large obstacle for inclusion has been the lack of education regarding Romani history, which has enabled stereotypes and misperceptions of the Romani communities to become prominent. Additionally, many Romanies have not received general education as is

The purpose of this study was to explore how deacons in the Swedish church practice social work. It was also aiming to highlight the place of faith in their practice. As a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with eight different deacons, we were seeking answers to questions about the deacon's target group, how they see their own professional role and their acting space, and h

Abstract Tiba Khozestani Konsten att inte njuta av livet- En studie i flexibla anställningsformers effekter på människan Kandidatuppsats: SOC01 15hp Handledare: Eva Kärfve Sociologiska institutionen, Vårterminen 2011 The aim of this study is to examine the effects of flexible forms of employment regarding the physical and psychological health of the employees. Theoretically, my point of depart

Klimatförändringar är ett av dagens mest omtalade samhällsproblem. Utsläpp av växthusgaser har ökat markant sedan 1970-talet och störst påverkan på klimatet har utsläppen av koldioxid. Sverige har, tillsammans med resten av världen, ett ansvar att minska och kontrollera utsläppen av växthusgaser. Konjunkturinstitutet anger, i en rapport publicerad i mars 2011, att svensk klimatpolitik kan bedriva

Abstract This study aims to study the policies and measures adopted in order to attract FDIs to the extractive industry and to maximize their effects on the Albanian economy. Emphasis is put on fiscal policy and the allocation of tax revenues received from FDIs in the extractive industry. To conduct the study I have used theories explaining the reason behind FDI decisions and the mainstream theori

This paper investigates whether inflation series are mean-reverting. Traditional unit root tests (ADF and KPSS tests) are conducted in the paper. These tests indicate that inflation contains a unit root. It is however well-known that traditional unit root tests have difficulties to distinguish between a unit root process and a fractionally integrated process. Hence, in this thesis, fractional inte

In this essay a four stage GJR-GARCH(1,1) model is applied to test the presence of both return and volatility spillover to the European market from the oil market. The GJR-GARCH-model allow for asymmetric effects to be present in the country specific stock market. This four step model is applied to eight European countries and allow for spillover effects from oil market, US market and European mar

Problemområde: Trots att radio är ett av de medier som vi ägnar mest tid åt idag finns det relativt lite forskning inom området. Det finns alltså utrymme att lyfta fram ett antal viktiga aspekter och problem inom detta ämne. Jag vill belysa hur ekonomiska tankesätt påverkar radions innehåll. Syfte: Syftet är att kartlägga och förstå hur den svenska radiomarknaden präglad av kommersiell radio förh

It is during a child’s second year that the rate of word learning increases drastically and they start to pay more attention to the property of shape when categorizing new objects. The present study set out to investigate the relationship between productive vocabulary size and the shape bias when children learn novel words. In order to better understand the neural mechanisms behind this process, e

The issue of a housing bubble has been abundantly debated in Sweden. In this thesis, we investigate whether the current state of the Swedish housing market is comparable to the recent US ‘housing bubble’. Growth rates of house prices can vary greatly between different regions, which shows the need for analysis of house prices on a regional level. Using a panel consisting of 22 Swedish counties and

As a transition economy, China faces the reality of shortage of innovation resources and unbalanced allocation of innovation resources among regions when operating innovation activities. In order to solve these two problems, China needs to make efforts in increasing innovation efficiency and narrowing disparities between eastern regions and other regions. Among them, central regions are the area t

Integration programs are important and at the same time controversial parts of an immigration policy. This paper contributes to this debate by evaluating the effectiveness of German language trainings for immigrants with respect to their labor market performance. To allow for possible sample selection bias, the propensity score matching method is applied. This method matches treated and control pe

Denna studie behandlar prognostisering av månadsinflation och utgörs av en jämfö-relse mellan en skattningsmetod som enbart använder data för den specifika situationen – en klassisk metod – och en skattningsmetod som använder både datan och annan kunskap – en bayesiansk metod. Bägge skattningsmetoderna används på en enkel modell för månadsinflation i Sverige, Norge, Eurozonen, Storbritannien, JapaThis paper covers forecasting of monthly inflation and consists of a comparison between an estimation method solely based on data – a classical method – and an estimation method based on that data and other knowledge – a Bayesian method. Both methods are applied to a simple model of monthly inflation in Sweden, Norway, the Euro area, Great Britain, Japan and the US, and the comparison is performed