The aim of this work is to critically examine the multimodal aspect of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (the Rotterdam Rules), in order to determine if the Convention would, in practice, bring the long desired legal uniformity and an overall beneficial environment for the shipping industry. The focus is on the liability prov

Uppsatsen behandlar etnisk mångfald inom kommunal förvaltning, och har sin utgångspunkt i hur man genom ledarskap kan arbeta med etnisk mångfald inom organisationen. I inledning presenteras ämnet övergripande, för att i bakgrund sedan smalas av kring hur det idag arbetas med etnisk mångfald på olika nivåer. Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga chefers inställning till etnisk mångfald, vilket ligg

The aim of the study was to highlight the situation of children with disabilities. Previous research shows that these children are more vulnerable to different types of abuse than other children. Several studies show, due to the large number of unreported cases, that society is ill-equipped to detect cases of abuse against children with disabilities. The purpose of this study was also to examine h

Abstract This study aims to get an insight into the complex relation between welfare payments and social guilt and shame, asking questions about different evaluations of the experience of receiving economic support from the state. In what situations related to social assistance do guilt and shame become observable? Which are the experienced positive social effects from income support? The study wa

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the genuine problems face by female teacher of Govt. Girls Primary schools and Federal Community Girl Primary School in F.R Peshawar. The main theme of this study is to investigate female teachers’ work related issues in government primary schools and federal community schools?, also what are the available facilities to female teaching staff at g

How can national human rights institutions (NHRIs) socialize international norms of the rights of women migrant workers in a gendered manner? This is the main question of the thesis. With the thesis, I contribute to the theory on human rights norms socialization by shifting the highlight from states and transnational advocacy networks to NHRIs. By integrating a feminist perspective, I enrich the t

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the preconditions for implementing a sustainable livestock sector in Pakistan during the period (1960-2002). This study examines the economic policies related with production structure, technology and infrastructure available for livestock producers. The production and consumption patterns of meat and milk are analyzed for investment opportunities. The role

The objective of this paper is to examine the possibility of predicting the recovery of a distressed firm into a turnaround based on its current financial situation and a set of variables that are considered of having a significant impact on the turnaround probability. To assess this problem 150 firms are used that were distressed at some point during the period 1991 to 2001. These firms were all

Syftet med vår studie är att studera hur ishockeyföreningars strategiska arbete stödjer deras verksamhetsidé. Därför vill vi studera hur ishockeyföreningars verksamhetsidé vuxit fram. Avslutningsvis vill vi identifiera svårigheter som föreligger strategiskt arbete i ishockeyföreningar. Utifrån en abduktiv och kvalitativ ansats har vi genomfört en fallstudie av fyra stycken ishockeyföreningar. Vi h

Denna uppsats huvudsyfte är att beskriva och analysera vilka faktorer som är avgörande för hur anställda mottar förändringsprocesser till följd av förvärv, samt hur ledningen kan påverka dessa faktorer för att få medarbetarna att arbeta som medkrafter till förändringarna. Syftet är även att utifrån analys av teori och empiri att bidra med ett framställt teoretiskt ramverk. Undersökningen har gjort

Syfte: Vårt primära syfte med denna uppsats är att analysera och beskriva hur CSR kan implementeras i den övergripande företagsstrategin. Ett delsyfte är även att analysera i vilken utsträckning det är möjligt för företag, som inte uppfattas verka för ett hållbart samhälle, att arbeta med CSR. För att empirisk kunna studera implementeringen av CSR ämnar vi att göra en fallstudie av ett företag, vi

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a form of wireless communication technology enabling data transfer by putting two devices close to each other. The main idea behind NFC is to integrate wireless payment and tag reading in mobile phones along with peer-to-peer communication. An example of the benefit with NFC peer-to-peer communication is that it gives the possibility to quickly set up a Bluetooth

The Single Molecule Spectroscopy Group at the department of Chemical Physics in the Chemical Centre of Lund University conducts research involving spectroscopy on single molecules of organic dyes. Fluorescence microscopy using a wide-field scheme has been used and such a scheme has many advantages such as full image capture at once when using a high sensitivity CCD or CMOS camera. Using different

An engineer always strive to help in the continuous exploration of the unknown. By doing so we go further out in space and further down in scale. This is the case with microfluidics which in the last years have gotten a lot of attention. This thesis will examine and better try to understand and optimize a fluidic system that uses ultrasonic trapping. Its application may be everything from enrichin

In this Master's thesis I present a means of finding active sources of cortical electrical activity from electroencephalogram (EEG) data acquired during operation of a brain-computer interface (BCI). A novel subspace-based technique was used to suppress spatially correlated EEG interference sources, followed by a technique that estimates the source parameters with a near maximum likelihood per

This thesis, issued by Securitas Direct, investigates the possibility of using acoustic emission as a basis for an intrusion alarm application. Piezoelectric elements were used to detect and characterize fractures in glass, metal and wooden materials. As a comparative study, the functionality and possibilities of using an existing glass break detector, GlassAlertTM, on wooden materials were invest

This essay examines the implicit relationship between political science and rare events, or so called Black Swans. The purpose is to analyze Black Swan weakness by evaluating the nature of political analysis and political theories. The key to this assessment is the analysis of the predictive powers of political analysis and theories. This essay claims, on the basis of Karl Poppers historicism crit

During the devastating civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone women’s organizations played an important role for the emergence of peace, and are still influential in the building of equal and democratic societies. In Liberia, however, the women’s movement was more successful in influencing and affecting the warring parties for peace and gender equality and the purpose of this thesis is to outline

This thesis aims to develop a theory on the role of water in an intrastate peacebuilding process, which is an area of research that has not yet been explored. The notion presented and which drives the following argumentation is that water with its practical, essential, local and cooperative characteristics could be an important factor in a peacebuilding context. The theoretical discussions take as