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The main goal of this thesis is to determine to what degree can there be observed indications for an overvaluation of Internet companies, which in turn may lead to the next asset price bubble in the Internet industry. By conducting an ex-ante analysis, the current study sets out to add additional knowledge in regards to whether and how well the emergence of a bubble can be determined in advance. T

The U.S.-China relationship is undeniably one of the most important economic and security relationships of the 21st century. Since Barack Obama took office in 2009, increasing emphasis has been put on ending the two wars in the Middle East and to redirect focus towards the increasingly important Asia Pacific region. The U.S. relationship with China has proven difficult to manage, and major differi

This thesis is devoted to understand the relationships between the European Union (EU) and Russian Federation (RF). The study is concentrated on the fields of energy (Oil and Gas) in their strategic partnership. The events during the last century in the global energy markets have put the European Union face to face with new challenges. Obviously, it is claimed that growth dependency on Russian ene

ABSTRACT Greece is generally known in recent years for a difficult financial situation. We show that institutions and corruption play a big role in how society is structured. Measuring institutions is a difficult thing to do when there is no precise data that says "this is it." We have used a measure of Transparency International which is an organization that assesses countries corruptio

Identity is formed in the understanding of the self and others, and it is also a consequence of how people perceive the world. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate which actors besides Israel individual Palestinians identify as significant for their understanding of their collective identity. The purpose is also to analyze how these actors have influenced Palestinians’ understanding of the

Abstract Author: Nicole Eklund Title:”Female wedding-frenzy and male urges - A qualitative content analysis of the two fashion magazine’s ELLE and King” [Translated title] Assessor: Elisabeth Martinell Barfoed Supervisor: Staffan Blomberg The main purpose behind this paper was to study two fashion magazines, King and ELLE, and how they describe and portrait men, women, femininities, masculinities

Det har blivit allt vanligare att anställda på företag tar med sig egna mobila enheter för att utföra arbetsuppgifter, detta kallas för Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD). När anställda medför privata enheter in i verksamheten uppstår ett antal komplikationer. Beroende på hur företag hanterar BYOD kan det leda till olika möjligheter och risker. Syftet med dennna studie är att undersöka vilka möjligheter

The thesis is a study of citizenship as lived experience. The study is devoted to “from below” understanding of lived citizenship of immigrant women. Particularly, this research aims to explore how immigrant women get included in their host society through both theoretical framework and empirical case of Korean women in Sweden. In the theoretical part, I shed light on how citizenship theory explai

The aim for this study was to gain a better understanding of how cyber-bullying presents itself among school students, and in what ways schools and school counselors are involved when it comes to working with the problem. The study was based upon semi-structured interviews with six school counselors from three primary schools in Sweden. The material was analyzed and put into the context of Hasenfe

This paper is a discourse analysis of the concept of equality between men and women in the village Enkokidongoi in southern Kenya. Through interviews with persons connected to the village it explores how thoughts and opinions about equality between men and women are formulated, but also whether equality between men and women is seen as a goal in the community. These thoughts and opinions are analy

Denna uppsats bottnar i integrationsproblem och ojämlikheter som syns i en rad städer i dagens moderna samhälle. Denna uppsats är en fallstudie över Malmö och försöker se hur Malmö stad och det kommunala allmännyttiga bostadsbolaget i Malmö (MKB) arbetar för att minska integrationsproblem och ojämlikheter. I denna studie undersöks hur ett samhälle med social sammanhållning och integration kan bygg

Death and grief in fairytales. An exploratory literature study The aim of this study was to examine how death and grief is portrayed in fariy tales and how we can understand these stories from a therapeutic purpose. Our main questions were: What general norms are conveyed in the fairytales? What norms on grief and death are produced in these stories? What would these stories convey if they were t

Following the national responsibility theory in the school of international society which argues that national interest drives a state’s foreign policy, this thesis first attempts to deconstruct China’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in Myanmar since 2004 by picking apart and manipulating financial data in order to determine the resulting trends and developments. It then analyzes how Myanmar’s ab

Thailand’s food retail sector was rapidly transformed during the past decade. This change was resulted in a substantial reduction in the number of traditional retailers as well as the sales of the existing ones while the number of modern retailers and their sales accelerated progressively. However, this can be seen as the must-happened transformation process, as it was also seen in other developed

Vårt syfte med denna uppsats har varit att hitta adekvata förklaringsfaktorer med pedagogisk koppling till varför tjejer i högstadiet avstår idrottsundervisning. De kategorier av faktorer som vi kommit att fokusera på är: klassupplägg och undervisningsmoment, kroppsrelaterade faktorer, motivation och skolmiljörelaterade faktorer. Dessa kategorier har vi valt att studera då de är de mest frekvent f

2011 startades NPF-teamet vars mål var att finna strategier för elever med NPF (neuropsykiatriska funktionshinder) så att även dessa barn skulle kunna integreras och få möjligheten att fullfölja årskursen i en ”vanlig” skola. Då NPF-teamet till våren 2012 skulle fortsätta i annan form blev det viktigt att göra en utvärdering av detta projekt. Syftet med denna utvärdering var att belysa projektets

The media debate about child poverty in Sweden reached a new form of intensity in the spring of 2011. Various claims were made about whether or not child poverty was to be considered a matter of importance, due to its relative nature. My interest in how social problems are constructed made me choose to focus on this debate in my essay. The aim of this study was to, with a social constructionist ap

The aim of this study was to look further in to how adolescents perceived their primary schools sexual education and other sources of information on the matter. We wanted to find out how they valued and choose between the different kinds of sources they encountered. We also wanted to find out if there were any differences or similarities in how boys and girls searched for information. We used a qu