Delimiting the logistics system: a delicate problem in assessing environmental impact from transport

Remissvar: till betänkandet SOU 2005:90 Abort i Sverige

Output Feedback Tracking of Nonholonomic Systems in Chained Form

Queering Multiculturalism: Canadian Multiculturalism from a Queer Perspective – finding a transcultural Canada?

Reconstruction of Curves in R^3, using Factorization and Bundle Adjustment

Determinants of the timing of weaning in humans and other mammals

Falls in the outdoor environment among older persons – a tool to predict accessibility?

Thermodynamically based Fictitious Crack/Interface Model for General Normal and Shear Loading

A crack model that considers general normal and shear loading is proposed. It involves elasticity, plasticity and damage and it is thermodynamically based. An essential feature of the model is its consistency with the concepts behind the fictitious crack model.

Bisexuella trekanter och tvetydigheter – bisexualitet som teori och kritik mot tvåsamhetsnormen

The role of institutional innovations in the transition to low-carbon futures

Deep cuts in carbon emissions to avoid dangerous climatic change will require fundamental transformations of the energy and transport systems. This is an enormous challenge for society and the political system. In order to tackle this challenge, we argue that it will be necessary to develop new institutions and institutional practices that address and give priority to long-term climate policy obje

The title specific bookbinding or How to mass produce the unique

To give the latest novel by Joyce Carol Oates a book binding design identical with one used for a novel by for instance Orhan Pamuk would be unthinkable in today’s book market. What I like to call the title specific book binding, or book cover – that is a binding or cover designed for a specific title – is something we take for granted to such an extent that we hardly even reflect over the phenome

Some Aspects of Current Discourse on Knowledge Production and Knowledge Exchange between 'East' and 'West'

Increasing international and, often, cross-cultural contacts and exchanges in all spheres of human activity have created a world in which the access to other, alternative knowledge pools seems to be easier than ever before. Science in particular, or, more generally, fields of knowledge creation, are considered to have greatly benefited from this global inter-connectedness. At the same time, we can

Överdriver klimatforskare klimatproblemen?

Wave decomposition in nonlinear, anisotropic media

Moral Hazard and Insurance: Optimality, Risk and Preferences

Popular Abstract in Swedish Försäkringsmarknader präglas generellt av informationsproblem av olika slag. I denna avhandling studeras ett specifikt sådant problem: moral hazard. Detta innebär att den försäkrade kan vidta försiktighetsåtgärder för att minska sannolikheten för att drabbas av en olycka, men att försäkringsbolaget inte säkert kan urskilja storleken på dessa försiktighetsåtgärder. Vi fåThe thesis consists of an introductory chapter, followed by three chapters which all deal with theoretical issues related to moral hazard and insurance. In Chapter 2 we assume symmetric and perfect information. We conclude that, given some standard assumptions, the expected utility function cannot be quasi-concave, which strengthens earlier findings in the literature. As a consequence convex prefe

Learning to Become a Female or Male: Vietnamese Children and Processes of Gender Socialization

Determinants of chairman compensation

Arguments pros and cons the extension of the application of IAS/IFRS to the local level in Sweden and Germany - the battle between professions

"Överallt möter mig låsta dörrar" – det slutna rummet i Christine Falkenlands prosa

Question to myself