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This study investigates the relationship between mortgage rates and other interest rates such as the repo rate and the long-term rate and whether this relationship has changed due to the financial crisis in 2008. This is done through time series estimation for eight European countries (Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and United Kingdom) over the period 1999-2011 using quart

Realising social justice has been one of the central goals of the International Labour Organisation since its inception. Yet today the unique environment and dangers associated with working at sea make the world’s 1.2 million seafarers a particularly vulnerable group, both in terms of their physical safety and mental wellbeing, and concerning the realisation of social justice. Social justice is a

Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera vilka förväntningar lokala aktörer har inför Eurovision Song Contest i Malmö. Vidare vill vi få klarhet i vilka svårigheter som uppkommer vid tillfredställandet av förväntningarna. Uppsatsen präglas av en kvalitativ forskningsansats, i form av djupintervjuer med diverse lokala aktörer samt två projektledare från Malmö turism. En deltagande observation har u

An aim with this master thesis is to evaluate when, according to Swedish building code, design of structural fire protection can be carried out using a localized fire as the design fire, i.e. to determine when flashover is not likely. Another aim of the thesis is to examine how a structure is globally affected by a local failure due to a localized fire. One of the goals is to develop a method that

This thesis evaluates the UNISDR led campaign Making Cities Resilient and specifically investigates how cities are matched within the campaign’s initiative city-to-city learning, which factors that may be conducive for successful partnerships as well as whether the participating cities implements activities in accordance with the rights-based approach. The evaluation is partly based on a literatur

Centralt inom marknadsföring och främst dagens moderna reklam är att skapa kreativa kampanjer som fångar mottagarens intresse, en utmaning som även retoriker har stått inför sedan antiken. Uppsatsen syftar till att från ett retoriskt perspektiv studera hur kreativitet uttrycks i fyra prisbelönta reklamkampanjer ur Cannes Lions Awards 2012-2013, samt att diskutera de olika dragens betydelse för rek

The aim with this project is to renew the traditional beehive into a modern and easy to use device. Many people who are interested in becoming beekeepers hesitate due to a number of problems. One is the amount of time that you need to spend working with your bees, it’s also costly to buy all the things that you need for keeping bees and harvesting the honey. You usually need a shed where you can s

Uppsatsen behandlar hur företagen kan vara delaktiga i ett samhällsansvar genom Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), och hur detta ansvar samtidigt kan förenas med aktiebolagslagens krav på vinst. Det tar flera år att bygga upp ett starkt varumärke, men kan röra sig om timmar för att förstöra det, om det visar sig att företaget inte lever upp till kraven på samhällsansvar. Det råder fortfarande

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate how information systems are utilised for capital investment appraisals in organisations in the private and public sector as regards to employees and controllers who are involved in the production of investment appraisals. The conslusion reached is that usage of information systems for capital investment appraisals is affected by individuals’ characterist

The study is a narrative study based on two life history interviews (n = 2) with people who have dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). The study also includes five interviews (n = 12) with professionals, who in their work meet people with DID. The study investigates how people with DID are experiencing the encounter with Mental Health Care and

Frågan om rätt till heltid på arbetsmarknaden har länge varit omdebatterad. Kraven på rätt till heltid drivs såväl av de fackliga organisationerna som av politiker. Det kan vara svårt att försörja sig på ett deltidsarbete, och ur den aspekten har den deltidsanställde ett berättigat intresse av att kräva ett så högt arbetstidsmått som möjligt. Arbetsgivaren har å andra sidan ett intresse av att anpThe issue about the right to work full time has been debated for long time. The demand for the right to work full time is driven by the trade union movement as well as by politicians. It can be hard to earn a living when you work part-time, and from that aspect the part-time worker has an entitled interest to ask for such a high employment rate as possible. On the other hand the employer has an in

An increasingly amount of parents choose to drive their children to the school. The tendency has increased to a point when schools parking areas is too congested which impairs road safety. When motorists no longer have any space to legally unload their kids, they park in unsuitable locations that significantly increase the risk of an accident. The increasing amount of car driving is not only creat

Purpose: The aim of the thesis is to create a prototype model for Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TD-ABC) within Lean Accounting, to study whether it can serve efficiently for cost and resource allocation within Skånes Universitetssjukhus (SUS) and compare TD-ABC with the existing costing method. Methodology: To deepen our understanding of the subject we have chosen to observe a health care p

In this thesis, the main focus of study has been the construction of violence in correlation with men using violence and violence being used against men. With a qualitative reasearch method, six interviews with six seperate employees at the Crisis Center have been conducted. The Crisis Center is a treatment center where therapy is given to men, women, teens, and children that have experienced phys

The responsibility to protect emerged out of the need to find an alternative to humanitarian intervention to guarantee effective individual and collective security. Eight years after its conceptualization, the principle still lacks efficiency and is applied in an inconsistent manner. With an interest-based approach, this thesis aims to contribute to existing explanations of sovereignty and neo-imp

En tingsrätt i Sverige har påbörjat ett hälsoprojekt för notarier då ledningen vill ge dem ett redskap för att hantera känslor som kan uppkomma i mötet med människor i kris. Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur notarierna beskriver känslomässiga krav och upplevelser i sin yrkesroll och på sin arbetsplats där hälsoprojektet är en integrerad komponent. Genom att intervjua sju notarier som delta

This qualitative case study analyses the Chilean NGO TECHO, now present in 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the perspective of Foucault's concept of governmentality, as elaborated by Rose and Miller (2008). They argue that non-state modes of power are the defining features of contemporary societies, and that these operate through loose, associative networks through which a

Många lärare tycker att skolans uppdrag att utveckla både kunskaper och demokratiska värden hos eleverna är svårt att genomföra. Kan undervisning verkligen både bidra till att utveckla samhället samtidigt som skolan ska fostra, bevara och reproducera vissa normer, tankar och värden? Syftet med uppsatsen är att skildra hur elever och deras lärare beskriver och förhåller sig till bärande begrepp i

Ett språk är i ständig förändring, nya verb och uttryck myntas hela tiden. Ett språk lånar även ord från andra språk, anledningarna kan vara olika. I denna uppsats undersöks fyra engelska ord (appeal, competitor, design, target) som numera även finns i italienarnas vokabulär. Frågan är: hur används dessa ord i italienskan? Undersökningen har gjorts via ett italienskt corpus och det framgår att desLanguage never stops changing, new verbs and words are established all the time. A language sometimes borrows words from other languages, the reasons for why can differ. This essay investigates four English words (appeal, competitor, design, target) that nowadays can be found in Italian. The question is: how are these words used in Italian? The words have been searched for in an Italian corpus and

Surface chemistry and electrical properties of InAs and InP III-V semiconductor nanowires and nanowire based devices were studied using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and Spectroscopic Emission and Low Energy Electron Microscopy (SPELEEM). Changes of the surface as well as electrical properties in these devices as a function of annealing temperature under atomic hydrogen background were studi