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Det här examensarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av en självbiografisk och litterär essä skriven av den kanadensiska författaren Nancy Huston. Uppsatsen inleds med en textanalys, som delvis stödjer sig på Hellspong & Ledins (1997) analysmodell. Därefter följer några överväganden inför översättningen där jag bl.a. går närmare in på Lita Lundquists begrepp imitativ och funktionell översättn
Sports are seen as a part of today’s society and are founded on the norms and moral codes we live by. Therefore for those practicing it, it can result in a more successful integration because of the socialization taking place when people integrate with each other in the sports arena. In this explorative paper soccer, basketball and boxing are illustrated as possible arenas for integration. Six men
Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur det har gått för nyexaminerade tre år efter examen, om de har fått jobb och vad för slags anställning de har. Under den undersökta perioden tittar jag på två kohorter för en jämförelse (en kohort som följs upp år 2004 och en annan som följs upp år 2008). Lämpliga nationalekonomiska teorimodeller belyser de förväntade effekterna vid förändringar på arbetsmarkna
Domestic food waste is a concept that recently has gained a lot of interest in the waste management industry. While people’s daily practices have converged more cultural and social symbols with food waste and keep re-defining and re-constructing the domestic food waste system, food waste then has emerged as a way to explain the real meaning hidden behind the everyday practices. By studying litera
Ireland is considered to have been one of the worst affected economies during the latest financial crisis. As a result, there is continuing uncertainty as to the potential losses that one could incur on Ireland’s ISEQ 20 stock index. This thesis aims to quantify the expected loss of the index by using Value at Risk and Expected shortfall models, comparing their performance and explain the origin o
This paper discusses the use of microcredit as a poverty alleviation strategy that may simultaneously be used to promote women’s empowerment. The study is based on social anthropological fieldwork conducted in cooperation with microfinance NGOs in marginalized settings in Peru. The data points to the benefits of NGOs management of microcredit programs, in comparison to traditional bank’s microcred
Statkraft is Europe’s largest renewable energy company, operating in 23 countries, and employs more than 3000 staff. The company generates and develops renewable energy in a broad range, hydropower, gas power, wind power, district heating and is one of the major players on the European power exchange Nord Pool. This thesis will primarily focus on assessing Statkraft’s potential and strategic compe
The thesis interviews people who produce chipmusic - a music style that evolved in the 1980s from the use of computers and game consoles that featured primitive digital sounds. It has seen a renaissance in the past decade and is commonly understood as an act of nostalgia or a reappropriation of technology. The aim of the thesis is to achieve a deeper understanding of how and why people make chipmu
The purpose of this study was to examine the school counselors’ role in school, how they perceive their role and how much discretion they have. Who are the school staffs that can affect the counselors work? This is a qualitative study where we interviewed ten low-and high school counselors. The results showed that school counselors continuously have dialogues with students, parents, staff members,
Title: Finding optimal logistical hubs for Swedish export - A study of selecting global locations Authors: Cecilia Eskilsson and Fredrik Hansson Tutors: Andreas Norrman, Professor, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Oskar Henkow, Lecturer, Department of Business Law, School of Economics and Management, Lund University Henrik Danielsson, He
This paper examines what the local impact of the research installation ESS might be on the region of Lund and its surroundings. Done by looking at literature concerning agglomeration and clustering, reports on large research installations and interviews with local actors. The impact of the ESS will be much dependent on whether the local actors respond correctly to the opportunities from the instal
In order to few an equal society is the important to work actively with equality work within all areas. Within the misuse care it has long been a discussion if the treatment staff sees different on female and male drug miss farmers and about they to be treated differently on the basis of its sex. The essay`s aim is to analyze how sexes to be designed within the misuse care. The survey bases itself
Hög personalomsättning har varit och är fortfarande ett stort problem inom ett flertal branscher. Tidigare forskning har visat på negativa konsekvenser såsom ekonomiska kostnader och ojämn kvalité i arbetet som utförts. Intressant var därför att undersöka ett företag inom en av branscherna med hög personalomsättning för att se vad konsekvensen innebar för företaget, samt vilka faktorer som påverka
This thesis analyzes how the Swedish organization Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning (in English, Swedish Association for Sexuality Education) constructs sexuality through the introduction of the word slidkrans. The word slidkrans (vaginal corona in English), was formally introduced by RFSU in 2009 as a replacement for the word for the hymen, mödomshinna, which literally means “virginity membran
This study was served to unfold partly students in upper (senior) level of compulsory school and policeofficers attitudes and point of views on the upcomming gowernment bill on young offenders in the age of 15 and younger that commits crimes. We chose to mainly focus on the procedure where policeofficers have the rights to drugtest children under the age of 15 years without their parents approval.
The focus of this research is to examine the basic factors affecting the West Sahrawi young refugees’ lives and survival strategies in their situation of exile in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria. The purpose is to answer the following questions: First, which are the main problems as perceived by the youth born in the refugee camps? Second, which are their coping strategies? And finally, whic
Studiens syfte är att undersöka om vapenfokuseringseffekten påverkar det visuella minnet allena eller om den även påverkar det auditiva minnet. Ett teoretiskt resonemang förs även huruvida vapenfokuseringseffekten påverkar arbetsminnets system selektivt. Efter bekvämlighetsurval utfördes experiment där den ena gruppen (30 personer) fick se en film på ett rån (experimentgruppen) och den andra grupp
The aim of our study is to examine how fathers with experience of addiction perceive paternity and community support systems for addiction fathers. To answer our question formulations we performed eleven qualitative interviews with fathers who have experience of addiction. The study shows that there is an ambivalence concerning the perception of paternity. This due to the fact that many fathers be
The purpose of this study was to examine how Romanian social workers, working with LGBT-people, experience their work situation and the conditions for their work. The questions at issue were; How do the social workers describe their work and the conditions for conducting this work? What kind of attitudes do they meet, regarding their work, from the surrounding society? What kinds of strategies are
Genuine forms of participation of the local people are integral to the success of government development projects implemented to curtail escalating insurgency against the State in the restive southern borders provinces of Thailand. This thesis aims to determine the form of participation that has manifested itself and the mechanisms of power that shape its parameters, given the centralized and hier
