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Productive use of coffee husks - How to make briquettes from coffee husk in Karagwe, Tanzania

In the Tanzanian district of Karagwe the NGO KADERES is working with agricultural development. In relation to this they produce fair trade coffee obtained from local farmers. Coffee husks are created as a waste product from the plant and are currently not used for any purpose. Instead they are left outside the factory. The propose of this project is to find a way to create briquettes from these hu

Diversifying The Single Path: The Existential Dilemmas of the Taiwanese Student Elite

In this thesis I set out to investigate how Taiwanese elite students experienced their upbringing. I do so by developing my own concept, Single Path, and use Susanne Bregnbaek’s utilization of the concept Aporia. I apply them in order to answer how Taiwanese elite students negotiate their self-cultivation process in relation to the single path. I found that one of their most prominent existential

Meeting local needs from a distance: The role of diaspora media outlets as providers of informative humanitarian support across borders - The Case of Syria

In a time shaped by an increased level of globalization and transnationalism, our perception of the immediate ‘local’ and the more distant ‘global’ is becoming more and more challenged by the forging of transnational flows, bonds and networks evolving in a rapid pace across profound distances. The new social, political and economic opportunities deriving from such transnational connections have be

Human Rights at stake: sacrificial separation of conjoined twins

This thesis is a response to the highly debated judicial decisions regarding separation surgery of conjoined twins. As separation surgeries often result in the death of one or both twins due to a medical condition, the question whether there is a legal justification for separation is controversial among scholars.

Corruption of the Press - A Cross Country Panel Data Study of Corruption, Press Freedom and the Perceptions of Press Freedom

In this paper I investigate the relation between corruption and press freedom, perceived press freedom and the difference between press freedom and perceived press freedom as well as the causality of corruption on press freedom. My hypothesis is that corruption has a negative effect on both press freedom and perceived press freedom but that a higher level of corruption tends to make people believe

Ungas fritidsresande – En studie av barn och ungdomars förutsättningar att resa hållbart på fritiden

The aim of this master thesis was to examine the leisure travel conditions of children and adolescents. Results from The Swedish national travel survey 2011-2014 shows that journeys to leisure activities represents a great portion of the total travel and a significant share is made by car. Former research implies that active transport among youth improves physical and mental health, increases inde

Lärande och minnande på demensvisningar : en komparativ fallstudie av pedagogik inom demensvisningar på museer

This master’s thesis focuses on pedagogy and aspects of learning and remembering within guided museum tours for people with dementia. We explore in what way learning and remembering are focused on and triggered during those tours and with the help of which pedagogical means. Furthermore, we discuss what place these tours have within the museum as an institution. In order to examine our questions a

Ekonomipriset och samhället – en undersökning av den ekonomiska vetenskapen ur ett sociologiskt perspektiv

Syftet med det här arbetet är att undersöka hur den forskning som tilldelats Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne förhåller sig till den allmänna samhällsutvecklingen och hur detta kan förstås utifrån sociologisk teori. Tre frågeställningar ska besvaras: 1) vilket övergripande perspektiv lyfts fram i de olika prispresentationerna, 2) går det att identifiera några

Generalized integration operators on Hardy spaces

Inom komplex analys och operatorteori studerar man vanligtvis begränsade linjära operatorer mellan Banachrum bestående av analytiska funktioner. Detta görs för att kunna erhålla information om själva Banachrummets struktur. Ett klassiskt exempel är Cesaros medelvärdes operator på H^p , ett Hardyrum bestående av analytiska funktioner. En generalisering av denna operator är det så kallade Cesaros Inspired by the study of generalized Cesaro operator T_g introduced by Aleman and Siskakis we study a variation of this operator,namely P(g,a) , depending on an analytic symbol g and an n - tuple of complex numbers, a . Regarding the boundedness properties of this operator we prove that P(g,a) is a bounded linear operator from H^p to itself if and only if g is an analytic function of bounded mean

The Trade Effects of Graduation in the EU’s GSP Scheme

Graduation has been imposed in unilateral preferential trade agreements when product groups from beneficiaries or beneficiaries themselves are viewed as too competitive and developed. What happens to the product groups of the beneficiaries when the trade preferences are withdrawn? This paper addresses the potential trade effects of graduation from the European Unions Generalized System of Prefere

Is it enough to ‘add homosexual men and stir’? The significance of materialism in HIV prevention in the Global South.

Given the HIV/AIDS peak in the 1980s, Uganda has been hailed as a success story after having dramatically decreased the infection rate in the 2000s. However, the country’s HIV/AIDS rate has started to increase again in recent years. At the same time, homosexual males represent a key population whose needs must be taken into account if the pandemic is to be eradicated. Therefore, the thesis focuses

Förlossningsbarnmorskors inifrånperspektiv av krav och kontroll – vad behöver stressinterventioner fokusera på?

Förlossningsarbetet har beskrivits som stressintensivt, och förlossningsbarnmorskor anses behöva mer stöd från sjukvårdsledningen. Flera forskare har argumenterat att organisatorisk ledning har svårt att definiera arbetsrelaterad stress och att investera i rätt interventionssatsningar för personalen efter deras reella behov. Mer pragmatisk forskning ute i sjukvården har efterfrågats. Första stegetWorking in labour units has been described as strenuous, and midwives are considered to need enhanced support from management. Several researches have argued that management however struggle to define occupational stress and invest in proper interventions for the employees based on their actual needs. More pragmatic research in the field has been requested. The first step forward is arguably to pr

Kvinnor och löneskillnader : En studie om hur arbetstagare påverkas och arbetsgivares ansvar inom socialt arbete

The aim of this study was to focus on how individual female employees perceived the pay gap in the Swedish labor market, as well as in their workplace. The purpose was to study how the awareness of pay gaps based on gender inequalities or other circumstances, affects the individual female employees. Moreover, the purpose has also been to capture the employers reflections on their work to detect, c

Från bok till cyberbok?

Ämnet för denna uppsats är högstadieelevers läs- och medievanor och hur deras minskade intresse för skönlitterär läsning kan belysas ur två perspektiv: hur barns literacyutveckling ligger till grund för deras medieanvändning och hur den avgör om de upplever ett medium som omedelbart eller hypermedierat. Syftet är att försöka ta reda på om det finns möjligheter att förena de digitala världar som ba

Development of an HPLC method for analysis of zoledronic acid with potential application to bone graft substitutes

One widely used method for the detection of active pharmaceutical ingridients is high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC). The purpose of using this technique is that it can detect low concentrations of molecules in a solution, as well as separate molecules in a solution from each other. This report will illuminate the aim to implement a method that successfully can detect zoledronic acid, wit

Foreign Direct Investment’s Effect on Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions versus Greenfield Investments

Foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs when a domestic corporation invests in another company in a foreign country. There are two main entry modes through which corporations can invest into the foreign country, merger and acquisitions (M&A) or greenfield investments. According to endogenous growth theory, FDI in either form should have a significant effect on economic growth in the host countr

Owners perception of urban domestic gardens - A study of CES in Lund, Sweden

Idag lever ca hälften av världens befolkning i städerna. Detta beräknas öka till ca 60%, närmare 6 miljarder människor till 2030 och en stor fråga som kommer med detta är vart skall alla bo? Jo, det byggs såklart nya bostäder hela tiden för den ökade befolkningen men nästa fråga blir då, vart ska man bygga alla dessa bostäder? Ska de byggas i utkanten av städerna vilket gör att de spiller över på Around half of the world population live within urban areas and is expected increase to encompass 60% by 2030. As the human population increases, cities are forced to densify or expand onto surrounding land, leaving less space for communal green space that supply the urban residents with vital ecosystem services. A resource of green space that thus far hasn’t been explored is private domestic gard