The thesis aims at supplementing a critique of the existing international instruments, regional responses and national legislation of the Arctic related to marine environmental protection. With this aim in view, the thesis satisfies its objective by proposing a Bipartite “Arctic Council” acting as a conglomeration of the Arctic States and the Flag States with a hybrid “Arctic treaty”, which is an

Introducing flexibility as a factor that determines prices is something that is possible by giving different types of contracts different levels of flexibility. This is in particular very apparent when one starts to analyze domestic flight tickets. The flight ticket is today a good that is vertically differentiated and this thesis will address the problem of pricing with flexibility as vertical pr

Bakgrund: Studier visar att blivande pappor inte alltid upplever sig delaktiga under graviditeten. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa barnmorskors reflektioner om blivande pappors delaktighet under graviditet samt barnmorskors eventuella åtgärder för att få de blivande papporna att känna sig delaktiga. Metod: Enskilda intervjuer med 18 barnmorskor som arbetade inom mödrahälsovården gjordes.

Spridningen av främmande invasiva arter i den marina miljön genom barlastvatten och andra bärare har blivit fastställt som ett av de fyra största hoten mot världshaven, men trots detta har problemet blivit lite uppmärksammat av allmänheten. Under de senaste decennierna har spektakulära fall av invasioner, såsom t.ex. spridningen av vandringsmusslan till de amerikanska och kanadensiska Stora sjöarnThe introduction of invasive marine species into new environments by ships’ ballast water and via other vectors has been identified as one of the four greatest threats to the world’s oceans and yet this problem has gained little public attention. In the last few decades dramatic invasions, such as e.g. the spread of the zebra mussel in the Great Lakes marine area of the USA and Canada, have brough

In recent years, remittances have emerged as an important external source of finance for most developing countries, Cameroon inclusive. The debate on international migration and development has been widely discussed across academia and given a considerable attention by researchers, policy makers, stakeholders and governments. Departing with the premise that remittances conduct development, this st

Syftet med föreliggande studie var att anpassa och att utprova det neuropsykologiska instrumentet Faux pas på en frisk svensk undersökningsgrupp (N=47), med en svensk version av testet. Intraklasskorrelationen visade ”excellent” interbedömarreliabilitet mellan studiens två bedömare. Undersökningsgruppens resultat visade sig vara jämbördiga med tidigare studiers kontrollgruppers resultat avseende dThe aim of the current study was to test and adapt the neuropsychological instrument Faux pas in a group of healthy Swedish adults (N=47), with a Swedish version of the test. Intraclass correlation showed an excellent inter-rater reliability between two raters. Results in this study are considered to be equal to results from previous studies regarding the detection aspect of Faux pas. The relation