This paper evaluates the way that patents influence FDI in China. The theory suggests that a strong property right in terms of patents may benefit the inflows of FDI. An empirical study is conducted based on 31 provinces in China (not including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macaw) during the period 1995-2007. The panel data method is chosen for the analysis in the study, with preliminary unit root test. T

Våldtäkt är ett ord som väcker många känslor och associationer hos människor i dagens samhälle. Alla har på något sätt kommit i kontakt med det, även om han eller hon inte själv varit drabbad eller känner någon som har. Med jämna mellanrum är våldtäkt och sexuella övergrepp i stort ett stort och hett ämne i media. Tyvärr speglar inte alltid deras bild av hur det ser ut, den som finns i verkligheteRape is a word that arouses many feelings and associations of people in today's society. All have somehow come into contact with it, even if he or she has not personally been affected or knows someone who has. Periodically, the rape and sexual abuse in general is a great and hot topic in the media. I do not always reflect their view of how it looks in the real world. It's easy to think and

This thesis discusses two cases of rape against adolescent girls that happened in Cianjur, West Java, and Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia. First of all, the thesis evaluates the availability of the legal framework in the area of rape in Indonesia that ensures the victims rights with regard to rape. It will look at whether Indonesia has ratified relevant international human rights instrumen

Mord är det allvarligaste av de grövsta brotten. Straffet för den som berövar en annan person livet har sedan brottsbalkens ikraftträdande år 1965 varit fängelse i 10 år eller på livstid. I syfte att skapa en mer nyanserad straffmätning för mord och en höjd straffnivå för de mord som ej föranleder fängelse på livstid infördes den 1 juli 2009 en utvidgad straffskala för mord, enligt vilken den som Murder is the most serious crime of violence according to Swedish law. The punishment for a person who commits a murder has been either 10 years or a lifetime in imprisonment since the year of 1965. In order to create a more nuanced sentencing for murder and increased punishments for murders that do not give rise to life imprisonment imposed on 1 July 2009 an expanded scale of punishment for murde

The aim and purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between archives and cultural tourism and how people within the Swedish archives sector relate to this. Specifically, the aim is trying to find out if and how the selected archives are using (cultural)tourism and for example marketing to attract new visitors to their institutions. But also to see if it is so that the archives and th

Uppsatsen undersöker normbrott och strategiska redogörelser kring dessa vid tvångsarbetsanstalten i Karlskrona under tidigt 1900-tal. Utifrån förhörsprotokoll kartlägger jag vilka normbrott fångarna begick och hur de agerade vid förhören. Vid analysen av de intagnas redogörelser använder jag mig av den kriminologiska neutraliseringsteorin. Majoriteten av alla normbrott hade sin grund i tystnadsbro

When grief finds new ways - a qualitative study about grief blogs The purpose of this study was to examine why people who suffer from grief chooses to share their experiences through blogs on the Internet. Furthermore and by studying the blogs we intended to gain understanding of the advantages and disadvantages that blogging can bring to the bloggers. The study is based on a qualitative analysis

China’s surging OFDI has been a prominent phenomenon since the start of 20th century. As China’s economic growth is widely received as following a unique path, a question arises immediately---does Chinese outward investment also follows a distinctive pattern which can only be explained by special theori¬es? This paper analyzes the determinants of Chinese OFDI by adopting Random Effects FGLS estima

There is a remarkable gap between the socio-economic living conditions of the urban aboriginal people compared to other urban residents in Canada. The purpose of this essay is to explain why this gap is intact by explaining how urban space is intimately connected with the search for a national identity. The Canadian national identity was originally based on the displacement of the aboriginal peopl

The purpose of this essay was to research and study the accountability of NGOs. The main question dealt with is with what measures and mechanisms NGOs handles critic on legitimacy and accountability deficit. It defines accountability and non-governmental organisations to facilitate an understanding of the concepts and notions of the study and goes on to discuss the criticism faced by NGOs, mainly

The most common cause of death in the world is not cancer or heart attack. The most common cause of death, is a deaths related to poverty. Yet, poverty is rarely mentioned in a connection to the right to life. Is there a reasonable ground for not mentioning the poverty in connection to the right to life? What difference could be made if the deaths caused by poverty, was mentioned in a direct conne

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the Colombian children’s situation looks like due to the internal armed conflict in Colombia. I do this by exploring how the different actors, illegal armed groups and the state, of the conflict affect the children’s rights to education, life and safety, and adequate standard of living. In the last mentioned rights indicator I focus on children’s health

Parents have the primary responsibility to create a safe environment for their children. The family is of great importance, both as a basic social unit, but also for the individual child's development. In cases where the parents for various reasons are unable to care for their children and the family environment may be even harmful to the child, it is society's role to take over parental r

The purpose of this essay is to present the conclusions and recommendations in the Goldstone report that were given to the state of Israel, as well as presenting the state of Israel’s response and presented investigations against the allegations. Along with that, a presentation of Amnesty International’s updated assessment will be given along with its criticism towards the state of Israel due to t

Den boreala skogen, mer känd som taigan, breder ut sig på de nordliga delarna av norra halvklotet innan den trädlösa tundran tar över. I detta enorma skogsområde som sträcker sig genom Skandinavien, Ryssland och Nordamerika är störningar i form av bränder, insektsangrepp och stormar vanliga och en naturlig del av ekosystemet. Dessa störningar påverkar skogens kolbalans genom deras inverkan på bådeNatural disturbances such as fires, insect outbreaks and windthrows are able to influence the balance between the ecosystem gain and loss of carbon in the boreal forest. This effect of natural disturbances on the ecosystem carbon balance has been proposed as one of the reasons why the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere varies between years. At present the boreal forest as a whole act to mitigate

Denna uppsats studerar hur kausal attribution kan predicera för risken av migränanfall eller vice versa. Testningar gjordes dels på normalpopulation och migränpopulation En inomgruppsmätning gjordes även för att se om kausal attribution kan samvariera med migränintensitet, frekvens och duration. Deltagarna var 90 personer varav 66 kvinnor och 24 män. Testpersonerna rekryterades via facebook, psyko

Uppsatsen söker finna empiriskt stöd för teorin om Environmental Kuznets curve genom regressioner baserade på paneldata från 59 länder under en 47-årsperiod. Att undersöka hur sambandet mellan koldioxidutsläpp per capita och BNP per capita ser ut är det centrala i uppsatsen. Relationen enligt teorin för EKC bör få formen av ett uppochnedvänt U om teorin stämmer. Bäst empiriskt stöd för detta har t

This paper studies the determinants of bank capital structure and discusses how traditional theories of capital structure apply to banks in the light of financial regulation. The purpose is to find out the impact, to EU in particular, of the new regulatory framework that has been pushed through because of the financial crisis post 2007. This is done by a review of capital structure theories and th

The conventional NAIRU model stipulates that any existing money illusion would vanish by the passage of time. In contrast, the model developed by Akerlof, Dickens and Perry (2000) (ADP) argues that inflation, instead of time, dissipate money illusion. Accordingly, there exists a possibility of an inflation unemployment tradeoff in the long run. This essay reviews the evidence of money illusion and

Abstract The spring of 2011 unrest grew in the Middle East and North Africa, and as a result we saw a surge in in oil prices. This essay conducts an evaluation on if these kinds of geopolitical events within the OPEC have affected the oil price in the past in the same way. As a contrary variable we have also assessed if the VIX-index is a good indicator of decreasing oil prices. We have used