The economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa has been unimpressive, particularly in comparison with other developing regions like East Asia. Using a panel data for 30 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1970-2010, this study investigates the extent to which the health of the population affects the economic performance in the region. Employing the theoretical model based on an augmented

Optical fibers induces phase noise when used to transmit a laser beam due to its small variations in optical length caused by temperature- or pressure changes, or vibrations. This induced phase noise, called fiber noise, is often neglectable, but when used to transmit laser beams with extremely narrow linewidth this fiber noise is of great importance. This thesis work present a way to cancel the f

Since the mid-nineties the migratory flows towards Spain have reached an unprecedented level in a country typically accustomed to emigration. Using data from the National Immigrant Survey (ENI) for the year 2007, the objective of this work is to study the main characteristics of Eastern Europeans, Latin Americans and Africans and their situation in terms of earnings assimilation with respect to th

The thesis is an extension of an existing authentication service provided by the companies Crunchfish AB and Ubiqo security AB. The authentication service is based on a personal mobile phone and it’s internet connection to verify his/her identity on internet. The companies are interested in expanding the service so that authentication can be done through the mobile phone’s GSM network. This thesis

Destination image is a concept that can be interpreted in different ways. Image sender and receiver may perceive different images due to diverse information sources, purposes, goals and so on. This thesis is going to explore the destination image held by different stakeholders. From demand perspective, how tourists view the destination image; from supply aspect, how destination authority attempts

A concern for the status of women particularly in the developing country‘s context has created global and national level initiatives with a goal to empower them. Compared to men, women lack economic opportunities, have limited access to productive and financial resources; moreover they also have minimal participation in the decision-making process. In recent years many developing countries have in

Denna uppsats undersöker politiskt medvetna individers mottagande och tolkningar av humor i form av humoristiska medietexter. Mer specifikt studerar och analyserar uppsatsen hur personer med feministiska åsikter tolkar komediserien Family Guy, som innehåller skämt som personerna själva anser är sexistiska. Uppsatsens ansats är delvis fenomenologisk, i det att stor vikt har lagts vid att förstå

Författare: Hans-Erik Kangasharju Titel: Kriminalvård i frihet som förnuftsmässig behandling - en diskurs och dokumentanalys Kandidatuppsats: SOCK01, 15 hp Internet Handledare: Birgitta Ericson Sociologiska institutionen, Vårterminen 2012 Kriminalvård i frihet är humana straffpåföljder där preventiva termer som rehabilitering, vård och stöd - samt strafftermer i form av kontroll och övervakning -

Books and learning materials are often multimodal to their character; with content depicted in text, images, tables, diagrams and so on. This multimodality has shown to motivate students, improve retention and knowledge creation. The question is how this fragmented information is approached, being read and combined into meaning – and is this behaviour similar among different ability groups? Both

Examensarbetets titel: En empirisk prövning av Simon Barrow och Richard Mosleys employer branding-modell på ett företag Seminariedatum: 2012-06-01 Ämne/kurs: FEKH95, Examensarbete kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng Författare: Cecilia Gad, Michaela Kamp och Caroline Lilja Handledare: Claes Svensson Fem nyckelord: Employer branding, RBV, VRIO, konkurrensfördelar, förmågor Syfte: Syftet är att pröva SimTitle: An empirical examination of Simon Barrow and Richard Mosley’s employer branding model at a company Seminar date: 2012-06-01 Course: FEKH95, Degree Project Undergraduate level, Business Administration, Undergraduate level, 15 University Credits Points (UPC) or ECTS-cr) Authors: Cecilia Gad, Michaela Kamp and Caroline Lilja Advisor: Claes Svensson Key words: Employer branding, RBV, VRIO, comp

Frågan om människans plats i och förhållande till naturen diskuteras sedan länge i den offentliga debatten. Människans inverkan på jordens resurser genom produktion och konsumtion av olika tjänster och produkter debatteras ofta livligt. Samtidigt debatteras behovet av fortsatt exploatering. Även om många av dessa frågor rör sig på organisatorisk och statlig nivå har de knappast undgått samhällets

Aim of this study is to explore the term normalization as a social process that shifts the level of tolerance in societies through examination of the association between cannabis usage as daily life leisure activity and the growing tolerance of this substance use. Contemporary studies suggest that consumption and usage of cannabis should be examined as any other social processes, which are unavoid

Dams are pervasive features of the river systems in the United States. More than 80,000 large dams, and as many as 2.5 million small dams, are spread throughout every major watershed in the country. While this vast number of dams has made a considerable contribution to development, recognition of the environmental impacts has significantly increased. Furthermore, over 25% of the nation's dams

Det här magisterarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av Frankrikes nationella anpassningsplan inför klimatförändringarna. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys som till stor del bygger på den analysmodell som Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledin använder sig av i boken Vägar genom texten (1997). Källtextanalysen följs av ett avsnitt om överväganden inför översättningen och ett om vilka översättnings

This thesis is based on a qualitative study of paratexts, or paratextual elements, in Muḥammad Khalīfah al-Tūnisīys translation of the Antisemitic forgery Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion (in translation: al-Khaṭar al-Yahūdīy: Brūtūkūlāt Ḥukamā’ Ṣahyūn ), from 1951. Gérard Genette, and his book Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation constitutes the theoretical framework of the study, whi

I och med Hu Jintaos och Wen Jiabaos tillträde till makten har den kinesiska regeringens fokus kommit att flyttas från ren ekonomisk utveckling till att i högre grad än tidigare fokusera på att minska klyftorna mellan stad och landsbygd. Denna uppsats undersöker några av de problem som centralregeringen ser på landsbygden idag, samt några av de lösningar som presenterats. I undersökningen av situaSince Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao took office the focus of the Chinese government has been less on pure economic development than before and more on developing the countryside. This paper investigates some of the problems the central government sees in the countryside as well as some of their solutions to those problems. The book The Grain People: Will China’s Villages Disappear? (Liangmin－Zhongguo n

“Near-synonymy is the study of semantic relations between lexemes or constructions that possess a similar usage” (Glynn 2010: 2; Lyons 1995:60; Divjak 2006:21). In this study two near-synonyms awesome and wicked are to be looked more closely at. Near-synonyms have similar meanings but they do not mean exactly the same. The aim of the study is to try to locate whether such small differences in mean