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Denna kandidatuppsats är en litteraturstudie som behandlar jökulhlaups och deras tillhörande landformer samt deras inverkan på landskapet. Jökulhlaup är den isländska termen för störtfloder från glaciärer och används internationellt för att beskriva detta fenomen. Vattnet som skapar dessa störtfloder kan ha många olika ursprung, såsom kraftig nederbörd, snabb avsmältning av glaciäris, tömning av eGlacial outburst floods also known as jökulhlaups are important features connected with glaciers globally. They may induce catastrophic floods as well as new landforms. This review describes and synthesizes jökulhlaup trigger mechanisms as well as associated landforms and landscape impacts of jökulhlaups with a special focus on Skeiðarársandur, south Iceland, and the 1996 jökulhlaup. Important sou

The purpose of this study was to examine how gambling addiction is understood by those active in the field, the consequences of gambling addiction and treatment available for gambling addiction in Sweden. We also wanted to examine if gambling addiction could be seen as a social problem or not depending on our theoretical basis. Our main issues were: 1 How do active within the field of gambling add

Denmark’s biotech industry has a strong position in terms of R&D investment and net sales compared with other countries in the European Union. The biotechnology patent per million inhabitants has a leading position worldwide. This thesis aims to research the key factors that ensure and promote companies’ growth in biotech industry compared with other industries in Denmark. The research results

När rovfåglar flyttar använder de antingen glid- och kretsflykt eller en kombination av glid och aktiv flykt. Energikonsumtionen vid aktiv flykt ökar snabbt med ökad kroppsvikt och används därför oftast av mindre rovfågelarter så som falkar, sparvhökar och kärrhökar. Glid- och kretsflykt används till mycket stor utsträckning av de större och tyngre arterna som vråkar, glador och örnar, som då är bRaptors migrate by using either soaring and gliding flight or a combination of gliding and powered flight. The energy consumption when using powered flight increases rapidly with body mass and is therefore mainly used by the smaller raptors, such as Falcons, Sparrowhawks and Harriers. Soaring and gliding flight are mainly used by the larger raptors such as Buzzards, Kites and Eagles. When using so

The purpose of this study was to examine the responsibility for children’s right to education. More precisely the aim was to find out who, in the on-going debate, was presented as being responsible of making sure that children, who have the right and obligation to attend school, actually do so. In my study I did a document analysis of two newspapers, one for teachers; Lärarnas tidning, and one for

The research investigates different aspects of pansexual self identifications within contemporary online communities. To explore such identifications, the research asks the subsequent question of whether pansexual identification constitutes an anti-identity position against conservative conceptualizations of identity, as well as new-homonormativities that mainstream LGBTQ movements of the West eng

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur mentaliseringsförmåga påverkar uppkomsten och upplevelsen av tidig terapeutisk allians, för både individen och den andre personen. Specifikt undersöks den tidiga allians som uppkommer under en intervjusituation. Tidigare forskning tyder på att en högre mentaliseringsförmåga hos patienten innebär större möjlighet att utveckla och upprätthålla en god terThe purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the mentalization ability on the development and experience of early therapeutic alliance, in this case the early alliance that occurs in an interview setting. Research indicates that higher mentalization capacity in the patient is correlated with stronger therapeutic alliance during therapy, but little is known about this relationship

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om TED-spread kan indikera drastiska förändringar i ekonomin på den svenska marknaden, i det här fallet en ekonomisk kris. Genom multipel regressionsanalys har uppsatsen undersökt huruvida det finns ett starkt samband mellan TED-spread och variablerna reporänta, aktiepriser, fastighetspriser, BNP, valutareserv, guldreserv, hushållens sparande, hushållens dispo

This paper is a case-study of river rafting in California. The purpose is to contribute with an anthropological approach to the subject of risktaking within the adventure sport. The significance of the risk factor to identity creation af the rafting guide is examined. Furthermore it is examined, in which way strong character, autority, the stautus as river god/godish and adventure indentity is bei

Our main purpose with this study is to examine and elucidate the recovery process that occurs when women choose to break up from destructive relationships. Our aim is also to clarify what, by the women themselves, is considered to be efficient help in relation to what in fact is offered in actuality. The idea of this selection was that we, in the study of the recovery process, would make a compili

The purpose of this study was to emphasize how Social Workers seen from a gender perspective reasoned about youth sexuality and about male and female prostitution. Our question at issue concerns how gender is constructed based on the Social Secretaries discussion about sexuality and prostitution. The used method was qualitative and the empirical evidence was collected through semi-structured inter

Villkorade aktieägartillskott har som syfte att stärka ett bolags finansiella ställning genom att aktieägare tillför bolaget kapital. Aktieägartillskott är en mycket vanlig kapitalanskaffningsform bland de svenska aktiebolagen men trots det har inte några lagar kring ämnet stadgats. Trots oklarheter i rättsläget har ämnet endast marginellt behandlats i rättspraxis. Behandlingen av aktieägartillsko

EU-domstolen har i sin praxis utvecklat principen om förfarandemissbruk. Principen innebär ett förbud mot missbruk av EU-rätten. För att principen ska bli tillämplig krävs att ordalydelsen i viss bestämmelse följts men att resultatet strider mot bestämmelsens syfte. Dessutom krävs att syftet med vidtagna åtgärder var att uppnå detta resultat. I Halifax-målet konstaterade EU-domstolen att principenThe EU court has in its rulings developed the principle of prohibiting abusive practices. The principle is existing to prohibit abuse of European Union law. In order to apply the principle requires that the wording of a certain provision have been followed but the outcome is contrary to the purpose of that provision. It is also required that the purpose of the action taken was to achieve this resu

This thesis is concerned with the possible existence of a motivated relation between sound and meaning (“sound symbolism”) in demonstrative pronouns. The goal was to search for evidence of such non-arbitrariness, and to gain a better understanding of the motivating factors behind it. Six motivations are considered. Two motivations were based on the senses of Touch and Vision. Two others - on the s

This thesis focus on how notions of equality and neo-liberal pursuits for growth are negotiated in policy, discussing the relationship between problem definition at top level and the implemented solution at policy level. The problem is defined in the European Union’s growth strategy Europe 2020 as Europe having to increase productivity, while the implemented solution I focus on is the emerging foc

Det språk vi använder är ett sätt att visa hur vi ser på verkligheten. Löpsedelsrubriker når oss varje dag, fyllda av information om människor, information som vi får via språket. Denna information speglar då verkligheten, men faktum är att informationen eller språket även präglar och reproducerar verkligheten. Det torde alltså var av största vikt hur man uttrycker sig, det är åtminstone min utgån

How rich is an experience of a visit at the museum Kulturen in Lund? According to the economists Joseph Pine and James Gilmore there are four realms of an experience; an educational, an entertaining, an esthetic and an escapist. The more of these realms that you feel in an experience, the richer the experience is. In this study I have through a hand out survey to 50 visitors at Kulturen in April 2

A qualitative study of family members and spouses experiences regarding the depression and the support One third of the Swedish population has at some point of their lives been afflicted with a depression, and although there are many interventions to be had, a majority of them focus solely on the individual with the depression. Shedding light on how family members and spouses experience the suppo

On the ground of a highly dynamic economic environment, the necessity for time-varying risk measures emerged. Inclusion of higher-order conditional moments in asset pricing models is a very common topic in recent research articles. The present essay was inspired by the seminal work of Harvey and Siddique (1999), who proposed estimation of time-varying skewness and pricing its explanatory power by