Affirmative action, a notion characterized by both potential as well as predicament, is one of the most controversial concepts of equality law. This thesis examines the legal standpoint of affirmative action, its nature as well as its requirements and limitations within the international human rights sphere. The analysis reveals affirmative action as a variable obligation of States to combat discr

Authors: Linn Andersson and Malin Olsson Title: “We want to place a child in such a normal family as possible”- A qualitative study of social workers experiences of same-sex foster care parents. [Translated title] Supervisor: Kristina Göransson Assessor: Gabriella Scaramuzzino In contemporary swedish society there are many different ways of “making” family beyond the so-called nuclear family, suc

In this time of global health interventions, preventing borderless diseases, such as Ebola, is a question of implementing global health policies in different cultural contexts. Although these interventions are mediated by international organs, the healthcare workers on the ground are actually those who implement policies. From this starting point, this thesis investigates the extent to which Swedi

"The dishes can wait...": A qualitative study on good quality of eldercare from the view of health care assistants The aim of this study was to examine and describe how health care assistants working in nursing homes for the elderly reflect on good quality of care. I used a qualitative method through semi-structured interviews. The study was based on eight interviews, conducted with fou

Integrated silicon photonics is emerging as the most promising route for interconnects and on-chip com- munication to keep up with the constant performance increase of CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology. Among the components of integrated photonics, the electro-optic modulators implemented on silicon are suffering from high insertion losses and high power consumption. Due to

Från analogt till digitalt - snabba och strömsnåla omvandlare Dagens digitala samhälle ställer höga krav på prestanda och effektivitet. I samarbete med Ericsson i Lund har en krets för signalomvandling utvecklats. Genom smart design uppnås hög hastighet och låg strömförbrukning som ligger i forskningens framkant. Från analogt till digitalt Ett viktigt byggblock för telekommunikation och videoapAnalog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with high conversion frequency, often based on pipelined architectures, are used for measuring instruments, wireless communication and video applications. Successive approximation register (SAR) converters offer a compact and power efficient alternative but the conversion speed is typically designed for lower frequencies. In this thesis a low-power 12-bit 200 MS

I stora delar av världen är deponering den dominerande metoden för avfallsbehandling. Bara inom EU skiljer det sig mellan länderna, då vissa deponerar över 90 % av sitt avfall medan andra idag deponerar under 10 %. När avfallet i deponin bryts ner bildas metangas, som är en kraftig växthusgas. Denna gas måste därför tas om hand genom förbränning. På senare år har allt högre krav börjat ställas på

This thesis investigates how context-awareness and learning from user patterns could improve the user interaction for a smartphone applica- tion that can control the computer and home and how it could create a smarter more personal experience. It looks at both how a existing cus- tomers would react in three different experiments (a survey, interviews and a prototype of the application), and how no

The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate and analyze swedish social worker’s experiences of working according to Lean as a work-method. This study was executed in two departments within the social services in southern Sweden. In the municipality in which the study was performed, Lean has been active as a work-method within the public sector for a few years. To better reflect the experien

Den psykiska ohälsan bland ungdomar har ökat de senaste decennierna. Ungdomsmottagningen är en viktig instans i främjandet av ungdomars psykiska hälsa samt i förebyggandet av psykisk ohälsa. Det är därmed väsentligt att den psykosociala verksamheten på ungdomsmottagningen anpassas till besöksgruppen samt dess behov av stöd. Syftet med studien var att kartlägga besöksgruppen hos den psykosociala peMental ill-health among adolescents has increased over the past decades. The youth clinic is an important instance in promoting mental health and preventing mental ill-health. Hence, it is important to adjust the psychosocial work to the visit group and its needs of support. The purpose of this study was to chart the visit group at the psychosocial staff at the youth clinic in Region Skåne. This w

Performing fault localization is one of the most time consuming and expensive aspects of software development today. In large software systems the manual fault localization techniques quickly become unmanageable and as such there is a growing need for automated solutions. In this master’s thesis we propose and evaluate a new method for fault localization based on comparing code coverage and diff u

This paper empirically examines the relationship between fuel prices and patenting activity in environment-friendly technologies in the auto industry across the OECD countries for the period 1994-2011. Overall, the results suggest that tax-inclusive fuel price affects innovative activity in environment-friendly technologies. More specifically, the analysis shows that the technologies aiming to red

Emmy Svensson Våtmarker: tillstånd, nytta och värdering Våtmarker finns över hela världen. Det är naturliga ekosystem som bidrar med många nyttor och ekosystemtjänster. Att anlägga en våtmark större än 5 ha kräver enligt miljöbalken tillstånd. Att söka tillstånd kan både anses som krångligt, dyrt och tidskrävande. Tillståndsprocessen bör studeras för att identifiera var problem kan uppstå samtWetlands are natural ecosystems that are valuable in many aspects since they offer multiple benefits. According to the Environmental Code wetlands larger than 5 ha are licensed water activities. As the authorization process can be both time and resource consuming this study aims to study the process and try to identify where there may be gaps or obstacles. Since wetlands are valuable ecosystems, i

The German wasp Vespula germanica is found in the Palaeartic region of the globe. Outside this area, it is highly invasive species. It has an omnivorous diet and is able to hunt other insects and scavenge for food from both natural and anthropogenic sources. It has been previously shown that this species has efficient and specialized foraging strategies depending on the resource. It is capable of

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding and contribute with knowledge of older people’s online behavior, with a particular focus on the process of social identity construction on Facebook. Theoretical framework: The theoretical framework consists of theories related to self and identity, in both an offline and online context in order to obtain a more complex and nuan

Some consider increasing income inequality within countries as one of the biggest threat to the world economy in the year of 2015. Increasing within country inequality creates both political as well as economic insecurity. It erodes economic initiatives as well as democracies and people are left in exclusion, which undercut the ideal of human equality. In the light of the above, this thesis invest

The relational database has long been considered the de facto standard for managing data in software applications. Today, a need for more scalable, flexible and distributed software solutions has led to the development of NoSQL database technologies that aim to replace the relational database in applications where such features are needed. In this thesis we have investigated the potential benefit

This thesis is the culmination of an action research project conducted at Axis Communications, which tries to enable test selection based on historical test data. In order to realize this, a prototype program -- the Difference Engine -- was created, which can parse and analyze historical test data drawn from a large database. The analysis produces a weighted correlation between code packages and t