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This thesis addresses many issues surrounding the simple question: why have trams? With city populations exponentially growing alongside concerns over the environment and the economy, tramways have become a resurging form of sustainable transportation for municipalities. Once an endangered transportation mode, torn up and scrapped to make room for the age of cars, tramways are phoenix artifacts of

European Spallation Source (ESS) is a linear particle accelerator planned to be built in Lund, Sweden. There is a need to control the electric field in the cavities in the particle accelerator, according to given specifications of the field. The aim of this thesis is to compare a traditional PI controller to an MPC controller, to see if there is any difference in the performance that can be achiev

This research aims to explore the Value Proposition concept in the French newspaper industry before and after the popularity of the Internet. We conclude that the Value Proposition of the French newspaper industry has changed after the rise of the Internet. The Value Proposition is becoming more interactive and the newspapers are acknowledging the consumer voice by adopting a more participative a

This paper explores the phenomenon of male rape and how the international community recognizes sexual violence against men. U.N. resolutions on sexual violence have been analysed in order to study how men are included or excluded as victims of sexual violence in conflicts. By excluding men as victims from research and policymaking on sexual violence, an important part of the understanding of sexua

The paper examines the state failure of Somalia, seeking to enhance the understanding of the situation and how history, as well as colonial heritage, has affected the country. By embracing the theory of state building the concept of state failure will be analysed in a quest to understand what brought Somalia to fail so miserably. It also considers the controversial link made between terrorism and

Arbetets syfte är att påvisa en samexistens mellan två kontrasterande förhållningssätt, det sociala respektive det psykometriska, till rekrytering samt att utforska den psykometriska ansatsens roll för EONs två rekryterare. För att uppnå detta syfte har kvalitativa, semi-struktureade intervjuer utförts i ett fallföretag. Studiens teoretiska perspektiv är diskurs- och legitimitetsteori. Studiens em

Det är viktigt att det i ett land finns rättssäkerhetsgarantier. För svensk del är Europeiska konventionen angående skydd för de mänskliga rättigheterna och de grundläggande friheterna en väldigt viktig utgångspunkt. I min framställning har jag studerat vilka krav konventionen ställer på rätten till en domstolsprövning och en rättssäker process, art 6 i Europakonventionen. Med dessa krav i bakhuvuLegal certainty is important in every country. For the Swedish part the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is a very important starting point and framework. In my presentation, I have studied the requirements that the Convention imposes on the access to court and the entitlement to a fair and public hearing, art 6 of the Convention. With these requirements in mind, I look

Syfte: Att pröva agent- och stewardshipteorins relevans och användbarhet i ideella föreningar. Metod: Flerfallsstudie av studentnationer i Lund mellan den största, Lunds nation och minsta, Wermlands nation. Datainsamling genom semistrukturerade intervjuer av kurator, två aktiva medlemmar och en medlem i seniorskollegiet. Pattern matching som analys verktyg, vilket innebär en jämförelse av empiri o

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur musikdistributionen ser ut idag och hur den kan komma att se ut i framtiden ur ett musikförlags, en musikproducents och en etablerad artists perspektiv. Undersökningen är en kvalitativ intervjustudie med fördefinierade förslag till in-tervjufrågor med efterföljande transkription och systematisk analys av intervjuutfallet. Informanterna utgjordes av en repreMusic distribution today and tomorrow - from the perspective of the music publisher, the music producer and the artist. The purpose of this study was to assess how a music publisher, a music producer and an established artist experience the music distribution of today and how, in their specific perspectives, it may look like in the future. This qualitative study is based upon in depth interviews w

In this text the idea that a higher order thought theory is a fruitful theory is brought to question. This is done by proposing a simple question, by the form “Can we know if my computer is conscious?”. The main point of this text will be that HoT fails to answer the question in a satisfying way. This is because we can see from the distinction between creature conscious theories and state consciou

Thesis purpose: The purpose of the present master thesis is to examine if new ideas generated in an organization are able to change its business model, thus leading to business model renewal. For that reason the way an organization can be creative is going to be examined, focusing on the result that the application of an idea had, investigating possible connections between new ideas and the renewa

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka gymnasieungdomars acceptans för sammansättningar med ett inskott av en diskurspartikel, exempel utrikes-liksom-politik. I en tidigare studie av gymnasieungdomar spelade jag in ungdomar i grupp och fann just en sådan sammansättning. Varför denna uppsats går vidare i ämnet och undersöker acceptansen för sådana sammansättningar. Resultatet i min studie visar att acce

As a major step to development, countries try to implement e-government and encouraging the public to use e-services instead of traditional ways. It is obvious that adoption of e-government has increased in many countries over the world, but the rate of adoption varies from country to country, and also the factors which are affecting the adoption of e-government differ from developing countries to

The focus of this paper is the paradigm of the Kyoto realization of the dialectal honorific suffix -haru found in the dialects spoken in the Kansai area of western Japan. A number of hypothetical forms are examined and tested against the intuitions of a native Japanese speaker familiar with the dialects of the Kansai area, including the Kyoto dialect, and the morphological possibilities and constr

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to elucidate the organisation Family First's campaign against the anti-smacking law in New Zeeland. This has been done through a qualitative content analysis of how Family First use arguments and rhetoric in their campaign, and what consequences Family First mean the anti-smacking law has had for the society, the parents and the children and how this con

Abstract Author: Patricia Pawlowska and Fatime Juka Title: Substitute treatment – the way out of an addiction or continuation of a long – term addiction? A qualitative study of substitute treatment from a user perspective. Supervisor: Erika Werner Keywords: substitute treatment, subutex, methadone, drug abuse and heroin. Aim: the aim of this study is to investigate how former drug addicts perce

Genom vår studie har vi kommit fram till att en individs identitetsprocess kommer att påverka hur de ställer sig till kompetensdelning. Synen på kompetensdelning kommer även att påverkas av de sociala utbytesregler som finns i organisationen. Vi har sett att synen både främjas och motverkas av dessa två faktorer och hävdar att företag bör ta dem i beaktande då de utformar strategier för hur kompetThrough our study we found that the identity process will have an impact on the view on competence sharing. We also found that the view on competence sharing will be affected by the social exchange rules in the organization. The view on competence sharing were both encouraged and discouraged by these two factors, thus we argue that companies should take them into account when designing strategies

The migration of people by sea is not a new phenomenon. Since early days, people whose lives have been under threat or people in search of better living conditions often have taken this route. However, today States are trying to prevent every attempt of irregular migration as they have established policies of interception at sea. They often engage in interceptions without taking into consideration