Moatize district located in Tete province in the center of Mozambique has one of the largest unexploited coal deposits of the world with a capacity of 2.5 billions of tones. Recently many multinational coal mine companies started exploitation of coal in Moatize. Coal exploitation has economical, social and environmental impacts. The main environmental impact is generation of acid mine drainage (AM

Uppsatsen har undersökt hur EU:s fredsfrämjande arbete på västra Balkan har bidragit till att den fientliga bilden av Kroatien som skapades under kriget i början av 90-talet omvandlats till en mer positivt laddad bild; och hur denna representeras i det lokala medieflödet i Bosnien och Hercegovina. Teorin som använts som grund för studien, och som skildrar EU:s fredsfrämjande arbete i regionen är ”

Informations- och kommunikationsteknologin har expanderat och många organisationer har hakat på trenden med att anamma nya teknologiska innovationer. Det har resulterat i att den digitala världen blivit alltmer viktig, men samtidigt problematisk för organisationers kommunikation. Vi har valt att rikta studien mot resultatet av fusionen mellan sociala medier och traditionella intranät, det vill sägIn the past years, Information- and Communication Technologies have expanded, and many organizations are following the growing trend of embracing new technological innovations. This has resulted in the digital world becoming increasingly important, yet problematic for organizations' communications. We have chosen to focus the study on the outcome of the fusion of social media and the tradition

I den logopediska testarsenalen ingår ett test av komplext arbetsminne, det så kallade CLPT, Competing Language Processing Task. Vid testning med CLPT ska barnet bedöma om en mening är semantiskt acceptabel eller ej. Därefter ska det sista ordet i meningen, alternativt i flera meningar, återges. Ibland väljer logopeder istället att be barnet återge det första ordet. Forskare har under 1900-talet u

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Utvinning av naturgas ur skiffer ses sedan början av 2000-talet som en energikälla med växande potential på flera håll i världen. Den öländska alunskifferformationen undersöks för att utreda om det finns naturgas att utvinna på ön på grund av formationens höga organiska innehåll. Dess potential synas med tanke på utbredning och mäktighet men också eventuella milAbstract: Extraction of natural gas from shale has grown since the early 2000s as a source of energy with growing potential in several parts of the world. The Alum Shale formation has been investigated to clarify the potential for extracting natural gas on the island of Öland, Sweden. A brief description of shale gas as unconventional energy source and the differences between various types of natu

This study investigates the impact of monetary policy on the demand for housing following a common shock to the mortgage rate. This is done through a global model linking individual country vector error correction models in which the domestic variables are related to the country-specific foreign variables. The Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) model is estimated for 10 Euro area countries, over

The polymer PTFE has become an important and widely used sealing material in the valve industry in recent years. It provides good strength and low friction, but it is sensitive to stress relaxation, i.e. loss of stiffness with time. This in turns may cause problems with leaking seals. The objective of this master’s dissertation is to perform a stress analysis of the PTFE sleeve used in an indust

Abstract Mean dive duration and probability of observing Minke whale surface feeding were estimated throughout three consecutive feeding seasons in Faxafloy bay, Iceland. Observations were done using manual theodolite and binoculars each season from June to August. Surfacings of the whale as well as behavioural notes were fixed into Pythagoras program. Mean dive duration was significantly longer i

The essay points out some important features regarding hermeneutics of the concept ‘sculpture’. The aim is to make a comparative analysis of two sculptures sited in New York City, Manhattan. One is a monument, entitled Hope, dedicated to the former Swedish Ambassador Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of lives in Budapest during the Second World War. The artists are the Swedish couple Ulla and

Branding definieras i denna uppsats som alla marknadsföringsaktiviteter ett varumärke använder för att synas, stärka, definiera och särskilja sig samt den goodwill som erhålls av dessa marknadsföringsåtgärder. Detta innefattar således reklam, events, utskick, sponsring etcetera. Att skapa ett starkt varumärke är mycket kostsamt och en långsiktig investering. Det krävs därför stora resurser för att

I Skåne permanentades år 2008 vårdprogrammet höftlinjen vilket innebär att patienten redan på skadeplatsen gavs smärtlindring och förberedelser inför kommande operation startades. För att kunna utvärdera och förbättra den prehospitala omvårdnaden krävs forskning av patienternas upplevelse. Syfte: Att belysa patientens upplevelse av den prehospitala omvårdnaden vid höftfraktur. Metod: Elva semistru

I många högprofilerade kriser blir hjälporganisationer, journalistik och media starkt sammankopplade med varandra. Hjälporganisationerna är beroende av att få ut det humanitära budskapet för att informera världen om katastrofer för att på så sätt kunna utnyttja kraften hos givarna för att samla in pengar och möta krisen. Förhållandet mellan de som levererar nyheterna och de som ger humanitärt bist

The purpose of this thesis is to create a greater understanding of the process of the commissionaires’ work with the report Malmö’s way to a sustainable future, which was finished and presented in March 2013. It is not the content of the report that is of interest for the writer, or in focus in this thesis, but how the commissionaires working with the report experienced the process: was it transpa

This thesis aims to present the mental constructions behind the zero tolerance against graffiti in Stockholm. By constructing two different frames, those in favor for the zero tolerance and those against, the representation of concepts and mental constructions are exposed. The zero tolerance policy will be investigated by the method of Carrol Bacchi’s “What’s the problem represented to be?” and th

This thesis revolves around wage labour and its constitution in the Swedish society and how its being has become a non-political issue, a paradigmatic truth. This is presented through the organization of the Swedish workers movement but also through present day mainstream politics. With the ambition of unravelling the foundation on which this norm is built Roland Barthes concept of the myth is use

This essay examines especially Russia`s role in the civil war in Syria that started on 15 March year 2011. External actors` political views, their cooperation with Russia and their interests in Syria have also been processed in this paper. My methodology consists of qualitative text analysis. An open approach was used when I have practiced my textual analysis. This means that the investigation is

This study discovers how the microentrepreneurs running water refill stations (WRSs) assess the income generation potential of drinking water sale in Jakarta including the motivations to start up and sustain the business as well as the challenges they face with in the water market. The study further provides insights on the broader externalities to which WRSs have contributed. The design of the re