Since the Rwandan (1994) and Balkan (1990s) atrocities, the humanitarian dimension and in particular the protection of civilians (POC) mandate has become increasingly important in UN peacekeeping operations. It is often used as a visible indicator of a mission’s success. Yet scores of civilian deaths continue to plague missions baring the failures of UN peacekeeping to fulfil its mandate. The aim

During the Zika outbreak in Brazil, the incidences of Zika related congenital microcephaly seemed to be concentrated mainly among women from the lower socioeconomic classes. This study examines the relationship between the inequalities in Brazilian society and the effects they have had on the Zika outbreak. This is a qualitative case study using a comparative literature review of secondary sources

Andelen äldre i befolkningen ökar stadigt i Sverige och allt fler äldre bor ensamma. Ensamhet hos äldre har därför blivit ett allt angelägnare problem. Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att undersöka vad sjuksköterskan kan bidra med för att minska ensamhet hos äldre. Metod: Sökning efter relevant litteratur gjordes i databaserna PubMed och CINAHL där 10 artiklar valdes ut och analyserad

The purpose of the study was to examine how common exhaustion was among students of Lund’s University. An additional aim was to investigate to what extent the factors self-esteem, gender, social support, physical activity and being in nature could predict exhaustion in the sample. A cross-sectional web-survey consisting of Karolinska Exhaustion Disorder Scale (KEDS), Rosenberg’s Self-esteem Scale

The main purpose of this essay was to examine how social workers reason when the custody of a child placed in foster care should be transferred from their biological parents to their foster parents, and how social workers understand and use the concept of the child’s best when doing these considerations. The method used was semi-structured interviews based on two vignettes. In total six respondent

The study sets out the objective to investigate how a firm’s customer-base diversification affects its stock return idiosyncratic volatility. The research paper primarily focuses on the way that the distribution of sales impacts the firm specific risk that is unrelated to the risk of the market, and it does so through the use of both a geographical and an operating customer-base concentration meas

People has always had a tendency to pigeonhole their fellow human beings into "we" and "they". "They", or the Other, could fx consist of colored, women, homosexuals or Jews. Those Others have then been disregarded, exploited or otherwise been treated badly. This can also be seen in literature, where science fiction (SF) constitutes no exception. Within the realm of th

In autumn and winter 2015/2016, the Swedish government introduced a border control between the Danish and Swedish side of the Øresund region, which ended almost 60 years of free mobility between the two countries. The scope of the present study is to examine how the introduction of the border control has altered the conditions within the cross-border Regional Innovation System (RIS) of the Øresund

Artificial neural networks are, again, on the rise. The decreasing costs of computing power and the availability of big data together with advancements of neural network theory have made this possible. In this thesis, LSTM (long short-term memory) recurrent neural networks are used in order to perform financial time series forecasting on return data of three stock indices. The indices are S&P

In this study, we analyze the abnormal returns of Chinese acquirer's shareholders around the day of the acquisition announcement to check the impact of the cross-border acquisition by using event study method and difference-in-difference model. A total sample of 81 cross-border acquisition deals is used, and the results of two methods are consistent, we find that the occurrence of cross-border

International human rights law has been progressively expanding and filling the areas that have traditionally been subject to the political decision-making process of sovereign states. Some states, however, have resisted to this, for instance, by refusing to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. For the same reason, they are also considering the withdrawal from the Europea

Abstract - Svenska Denna kvalitativa uppsats syftar till att framföra subjektiva erfarenheter av att leva med Premenstruellt Dysforiskt Syndrom, PMDD på Engelska. Studiens fokus låg på att undersöka upplevelser av: (1) symptompåverkan på individerna med PMDS och deras arbetsplats; (2) påverkan på individens sociala liv och; (3) Vilket stöd föreslås och görs tillgängligt och hur stödet upplevs. NitThis qualitative essay's purpose was to relay subjective experiences of living with PMDD. The focus of the study was on experiences of: (1) impact of symptoms on the individuals with the PMDD and their workplace; (2) impact on the individual's social life and; (3) what aid is suggested and made available and how they are experienced. Nineteen people with PMDD were recruited from a Facebook

This research, through a collective case study, explores how social movements in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, experience their influence on democratisation processes, how they frame this influence and whether the framings and experiences matter for who succeeds in claiming credit. Focusing on events following the popular uprising in 2014. The analysis is conducted using a thematic experience analysi

Tax avoidance has never been fought this aggressively. The EU drafted ATAD to follow the BEPS work and they chose a minimum directive as the legislative instrument. Principle of subsidiarity and the reasoned opinions of the Malta and Sweden are analysed to support the findings of the research. The Directive goes further than the previous case law on abusive situations, and this will be analysed in

There is a general idea in the bookbusiness that poetry, as a genre, isn’t profitable. At the same time it is considered to be high esteemed to publish poetry. The purpose of this thesis was to illustrate the terms of the genre within the swedish bookmarket by doing a survey of the published poetry in 2016 and comparing it to the advertising in Svensk Bokhandel. The purpose was also to review what

58 million children around the world lack access to education, and another 250 million children only have access to unfit schools with poor quality. Through interviews with volunteer teachers and social workers conducted during three weeks of fieldwork in Tehran, this study maps the educational situation of undocumented Afghan migrant children living in Iran, in order to understand the role of edu

Diabetes typ II är en sjukdom där insjuknandet ökar påtagligt runt om i världen. Sjuksköterskan har en viktig roll i livsstilsrådgivning för att motivera personen med diabetes typ II till att bli aktiv i sin egenvård. Syftet med studien är att belysa sjuksköterskans erfarenheter av livsstilsrådgivning till vuxna personer med diabetes typ II. Studien genomfördes som en litteraturstudie där åtta kva

This report was made in order to evaluate the safety of persons within the hotel Scandic Arvika in case of fire. Except for the hotel rooms, Scandic Arvika is also arranging conferences and festivities throughout the year. The building was constructed in 1815 and has since then been updated with several changes which have made the evacuation situation of the hotel complex, and therefore this is th

This thesis conducts a qualitative analysis of the Russian foreign policy concept from 2016, as it is presented on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The analysis is based on the aspirational constructivist theory and is realized by utilizing a functional idea analysis with elements of argument analysis. By applying these tools this thesis is enabled to analy

In this paper we analyze the effects that automation and population aging exert on economic growth. We do that by means of an Overlapping Generations Model (Diamond, 1965) in which automation capital is taken into account in the production structure of the economy. The framework we use was first created by Gasteiger and Prettner (2017) and we further develop it by adding a new feature: a pay-as-yo