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Denna uppsats behandlar en konfliktartad relation mellan det offentliga och privata. Vad som i detta fall är unikt, är den aggressiva nivå som konflikten når, med hot och obstruktion, fängelse och en lång rad juridiska processer. Samtidigt kommer invånarna i Övertorneå kommun och norra delarna av Haparanda kommun att drabbas av utebliven gatubelysning. Efter att ha rekonstruerat förloppet, så pröv
The Office du Niger is the most important rice production area in Mali. It plays an important role in ensuring food security for the country‟s rapidly growing population. In order for the Office du Niger rice sector to keep supplying consumers with sufficient amounts of rice, an efficient market channel (i.e. the chain through which the rice must pass from producer to final consumer) is needed. I
This thesis focuses on the Swedish politics of immigration and the discourse within governmental committees from 2000-2010. The aim of the thesis is to describe and analyze the existing discourse as it appears in three different texts, and to finally be able to conclude some of its main conceptions. The method used is a text analysis, with a discourse perspective based broadly on thoughts of Miche
This report has been developed as a part of the course Fire Safety Evaluation given at the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety at LTH. The primary purpose of the report is to evaluate human safety and evacuation regarding the shopping centre Femman in Gothenburg, Sweden. Two main fire scenarios have been studied, and through computer simulations and hand calculations it has be
This paper deals with the existing Swedish Civil-Military Co-Operation capacity (CIMIC) in the Swedish Armed Forces in Afghanistan. We intend to clarify how advanced this capacity is, and try to highlight any changes that may lead to increased interoperability and effectiveness of the capacity in the future. The analysis is based on three different organizational theories, which together create an
This paper looks at al-Qaida and the nearly decade of war through concepts offered by a scientific paradigm called complexity theory. The networks, organization and ideology of al-Qaida in this paper are described in terms of complex adaptive systems, emergent networks with localized behavior. How Al-Qaida in the face of adversity of being one of the most hunted organizations, networks and ideolog
The Nile has always been the lifeblood of Egypt and even today Egyptian leaders invoke threats of military nature if its access to the Nile is in any way diminished. Being a downstream nation it is in a vulnerable position and compensates with a strong military and bigger economy than other riparian states. With Egypt’s rights to the vast majority of the Nile water quota stemming from colonial tim
This study will address the party leader's personal popularity effects on voters' voting behavior. To what extent are voters’ party choice influenced by the party leaders' popularity, if the electoral polls show any signs of party leader effects in the Swedish election results and whether some political parties are more sensitive to the effects of party leaders than others. The study w
Hur ser sambandet mellan ekonomisk utveckling och demokratisering ut? Detta är ett statsvetenskapligt mysterium utan något definitivt svar. Moderniseringsteorin har sitt ursprung före 1959 och har sedan dess varit ett av de mest aktuella verktygen för att undersöka detta samband. I denna uppsats följer en vidare redogörelse för hur moderniseringsteorin utvecklats fram till idag, jämte kompletteran
At the turn of the century a new situation on the international energy market emerged and the European Union is now facing a growing number of energy challenges. Climate change, import dependency, growing global competition for energy supplies and increasing risks of energy supply disruptions has made energy security the dominant element of European energy policy. The demand for a common European
This thesis investigates through semi-structured interviews the perceived discretionary practice of frontline bureaucrats who work with unaccompanied refugee children in Sweden. The frontline bureaucrat theory outlined by Lipsky (1980) has additionally been used in understanding the effects of transit on the clients of these so-called gatekeepers, which in this study consist of teachers, social we
The right to non-public schools with an ethnic or denominational profile has for the past two decades been a highly contested matter in political and media debates in Sweden. This study seeks to examine the political debate surrounding schools of muslim profile. Through a method of descriptive analysis of ideas the study explores the debate about the right to grade schools with a muslim profile a
My research seeks to present Public Private Partnerships in the delivery of welfare services most especially within a developing country context. I use a project case located in the South West region of Cameroon called RUMPI, jointly financed by the African Development Bank and Government of Cameroon to assess partnership contribution of two different types of institutions partnering for welfare d
The main purpose of this study is to examine if the relationship between a target and an acquiring company´s abnormal return prior the transaction can affect the outcome in the future. Furthermore, our secondary purpose is to see if Swedish companies have a higher success rate compared to what earlier studies have shown about these phenomena. Finally our third purpose is to try to identify if ther
This thesis describes how software for automated bidding on for example auction sites could function. The thesis is divided into three parts. The elements are composed of: • Collecting bid data from the website that the auction is held on and pass the raw data to the main application for further processing. • A graphical presentation of the auction data is shown divided into individual auctions in
To satisfy this growing need of financial expertise, media through TV, radio, morning and evening newspapers and trade press is literally flooded with information about the market and strategies on how to invest ones capital, and how to achieve excess returns. Moreover, the increased number of investors, both private and institutional, has led to an abundance of ideas how to outperform the markets
Nowadays cloud computing is becoming very popular and it has started to evolve in the ERP arena as well. Known as cloud based ERP it is a paradigm which is in an infancy stage and growing steadily. There is a lot research about the cloud computing as a technology but, it is still foggy in organizations perceptions of what this technology really means for their ERP. In the scientific studies there
The purpose of the present essay is to describe what happens to the rights of parents and children when a child falls fatally ill. The method involves the comparison of scholarly literature, chiefly from Sweden, but also from Norway and the UK. Likewise dialogue has been carried out with the relevant parties in this matter, including personal contact with both physicians and Patientnämnden (the Sw
The essay aims to discuss the issue of climate change. I will focus on Bangladesh, a county vulnerable to environmental hazards due to its geographical location. I have clarified how climate change may affect a country like Bangladesh and how the environmental issues are connected to human rights violations. To problematize the issue of climate change further have I looked into the matter of justi
