The concept of the leapfrog, whereby developing economies ‘jump’ directly to adopting the advanced economy technologies without having to follow the development paths of their predecessors, is a very appealing theory. A leapfrog attempt is visible in the Chinese governments ambitions to react to the recent change of focus of the global auto industry to developing more sustainable vehicles to addre

Abstract This thesis work was performed at RUAG Space AB, Göteborg, Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to test the performance boundaries of SiGe based heterojunction bipolar transistor in designing a low noise amplifier meant for GNSS applications. After careful consideration of different alternatives for active components in SiGe HBT process, BFY640-04 from Infineon was selected as the active com

Att beskriva känslor med hjälp av text är ett av basbehoven som finns hos varje individ. Våra föräldrar har uttryckt dem i brev och dagböcker vilket till följd av Internets framfart har utvecklats till email, chatt och SMS. Symboler har funnits och använts långt innan den textuella kommunikationen och i takt med att samhället moderniseras har symbolanvändning nu nått dagens digitala kanaler. DennaDescribing feelings with the help of text is one of the basic requirements contained in each individual. Our parents have expressed them in letters and diaries, and as a result of the Internet's rampage this has developed to email, chat and SMS. Symbols have existed and been used long before the textual communication, and as society modernizes the symbolic use has now reached today's digit

Denna studie ämnar kartlägga faktorer som påverkar ett företag och deras internationella kommunikationsanpassning till olika kulturer. Studien har som utgångspunkt den anpassning de internationella företagen Barilla Group och Top-toy genomförde vid varsin kris på en nationell marknad. Studien är en kvalitativ textanalys med empiriskt material bestående av texter från både ett sändar- och mottagarpThis study intends to highlight factors affecting the tension between corporate values and international communication adjustments among cultures. This case study has its base when Barilla Group and Top-toy were adjusting their communication while going through separate crises. We conducted this study through a qualitative text analysis with a hermeneutic viewpoint. Collecting empirical findings f

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a part of the globalization process, a process increasing all over the world. These investments affect people, both in the home economy and the host economy. People in the host economy are, due to several aspects, affected in different ways. One of those aspects is gender. Gender inequality in the world is well known, women have less political, economic and socia

In this thesis the subject has been to investigate if there is any connection between government agency presence and tax revenue in the municipality. Previous studies in Sweden have more focused at the intergovernmental relation between state and local level and especially they have focused on government grants and the effects. But this thesis recognizes that the government can also shift the dist

Several researchers have asked themselves the question of why households do not diversify enough as according to theory, and why some households do not even enter the stock markets. This study looks further into this puzzle through a new angle where the focus is on house- holds’ risk appetite – their investment in stocks compared to funds stored in saving accounts. The study asks the question of w

This study examines possible causal relationship between investments in research and development (R&D) and economic growth of the European Union (EU) regions using R&D per capita as a measure of innovation. Given the importance the EU policies have put on innovation in creating better economic outlook, questions whether investments in R&D are growth enhancing and efficient in promoting

It has been shown that during certain steps in the packaging process, the paperboard is prone to forming in-plane cracks. Hence, it is proposed to establish a model that can simulate failure in paperboard in order to get a better understanding of the mechanisms and ultimately, prevent any cracks from initiating. The thesis begins with some introductory chapters which describes the background of t

The ability of law to govern the internet continues to be doubted by many activists. Yet there are still calls from many to sanction actors believed to be construing the freedom of the internet. One popular call has been for net neutrality, aiming to stop Internet Service Providers from customizing traffic for different services. But is legal action the only tool we have to regulate a thing? Lawr

Joint Operations at the external borders of the EU are axiomatic for EU’s border management policy and constitute forms of collective action involving the efforts of two or more Member States for the purpose of securing the common borders. Nevertheless, participation in joint operations is based on voluntarism and guided by the principle of solidarity, which should act as catalysts encouraging MSs

The research area of this field study is external perceptions of the EU. Morocco is the specific target field and the material is gathered from semi-structured interviews with Moroccan university students. The aim has been to identify prevailing perceptions of the EU in accordance with role theory and in comparison with previous research. There are important political and economic ties between Mo

The thesis is a study of how politicians and public servants at the municipal level are experiencing the relation between them. The thesis also examine how participants experience may affect the view on their own role. The collected material is analysed based on theories on how to organise public administration. The thesis is a descriptive work and gives a picture how public administration can b

How can Swedish equality politics be understood, based upon analysis of formulations about gender and power, in the Swedish politic parties’ election manifestos from 1998, 2006 and 2014? Can any change, or trend, be identified over these years? By using a Faircloughian discourse analysis, along with a feministic theoretical perspective, is this study aiming to investigate how the nine largest poli

Many consider United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 a ground-breaking document, and as a resolution which attest to the new ambition of gender equality in the international community. However, questions remains of the actual effects of UNSCR 1325. This thesis analyses and compares the peace processes in Liberia and Rwanda in order to understand how UNSCR 1325 have affected them. The anal

This study is of qualitative nature where the problem area, domestic violence, is analyzed through feminist theory, aided by a critical discourse analysis. The study aims to reveal if the discourse of an official report from the Swedish government, named SOU 2014:49, challenges or maintains a gender power order. This structure exists in the society and maintains men’s superiority to women and rein

Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire in December 2010 in Tunisia. That was the starting point for what would then be known as the Arabic Spring where public mass protests managed to oust the leaders of countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Protests arose in virtually all arabic states during the following months. In this essay it will not be the revolution itself in focus. Instead it

This thesis explores the state of refugeehood in the political order of the nation-state system through a case study study of the Tamil refugee population in Tamil Nadu, India. How, and in what ways, does refugeehood affect peoples’ lives as political subjects? And what is the role of the refugee figure in the political order of the nation-state system? The research questions are explored through

A well-known maxim defines politics as "the art of the possible". This definition implies that the nature of politics is relative to specific circumstances and derives from an adoption of the line of action possible under given circumstances; correlated to this is a rejection of political activities whose realisation is impossible while being subjected to these circumstances. This essay

Studiens syfte var att ta reda på hur mötet med patienterna påverkas när terapeuterna är trötta på sina arbeten. Det är en kvalitativ studie med sex öppet riktade intervjuer som underlag. Informanterna var anställda på den allmänpsykiatriska mottagning där även författarna arbetar. Materialet transkriberades ordagrant och texterna granskades och analyserades. I studiens huvudsakliga slutsats framkThe thesis is a qualitative study of how therapists experience facing their patients when being tired of their work, due to the increasing workload at our job. Six therapists at a psychiatric open day care center were interviewed. The interviews were rigorously transcribed and we analysed the texts several times, approaching each interview hermeneutically (interpreting) and phenomenologically (des