The purpose of this thesis has been to ask whether the financial crisis in Greece is having any effects on gender inequality using the two concepts of gender roles and care work as theoretical frameworks. The scope of the study stretches from the beginning of the crisis in 2009, to 2012. Greece is used as a case study in the thesis and the data consists of official statistics from Eurostat and ELS

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 shock the financial markets worldwide and caused major losses for financial institutions and institutional investors. German pension funds need to invest their assets also during times of financial and economic downturns, regardless the uncertainty about the future development of the market situation. Real-estate is considered a safe investment for capital in time

The partnership rhetoric is widely spread in development studies and practice. This thesis revisits the debate on partnership using Honneth’s theory of recognition. In order to shed light on the role of recognition in donor-recipient relations, Sino-Malawian cooperation on infrastructure projects in Malawi is exemplarily examined. A discourse analysis of original expert interviews with Malawians i

This essay is an analysis of the on-going debate concerning child poverty in Sweden. In what follows, I will outline the most significant definitions of child poverty currently in use. These are absolute poverty, absolute poverty in a Swedish context and relative poverty. I have based my discussion of these issues on Save the Children Sweden’s report on child poverty, along with its strongest coun

The purpose of this thesis has been to categorize the criticism that the pro-Israeli side presents against UNRWA. With a rhetorical perspective I have carefully examined an academic journal with an expressed pro-American agenda to find the main theses of the criticism. My studies showed that the criticism the authors are presenting is that it is wrong that the integration has disappeared from UNRW

Sweden was one of the most popular countries where many non-European students chose as the destination to study. However, since the introduction of tuition fees in the autumn of 2011, there has been a major reduction of enrolment in the total number of non-European students. Approximately all Swedish universities had a 33% decrease in the number of foreign students in 2011. However, Lund Universit

Denna kandidatuppsats handlar om hjärtespalterna i VeckoRevyn från åren 1950, 1970 och 2010. Med hjälp av en kvalitativ textanalys, samt användandet av Judith Butlers teori om den heterosexuella matrisen samt om det performativa könet har jag analyserat hur rådgivarna bemöter sina läsare och brevskribenter. Rådgivarnas röster har gått från att 1950 var ganska krass, till att 1970 vara väldigt dist

Olagligt, orapporterat och oreglerat (IUU) fiske är ett av de största hoten mot den marina biologiska mångfalden. Problematiken går hand i hand med farhågorna kring överfiske, något som har anammats av det internationella samfundet under de senaste två decennierna. Stater har uppmanats att på egen hand eller genom gemensamma initiativ, vidta åtgärder för att bekämpa IUU-fiske. Som en utav de störsIllegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities are currently considered to be one of the largest threats to the conservation of marine living resources and biodiversity. Thus, the international community have for the last two decades called upon States to take measures, individually or jointly, to combat IUU fishing. As an important actor on the global market, the European Union (EU)

Purpose: To explore and describe how country-of-origin has its effect towards both high- and low-context culture societies. Theoretical perspectives: Country-of-origin effect, cultural context, international marketing. Methodology: A comparative study using six focus group discussions to obtain differences and similarities on country-of-origin effect in both high- and low-context culture societies

Quantication of cardiovascular flow and blood volumes are useful tools in diagnosing cardiovascular disease such as congenital heart defects and different kinds of valve leakage. Medical imaging techniques enables non-invasive analysis of anatomy and physiology. In order to perform flow quantification from medical image sequences, the boundaries of the vessels of interest are usually delineated ma

The horizontal principle which usually applies when it comes to international law is not more universal than the human rights they concern. At least not in all of the worlds regions. This thesis´ starting point is Africa and is based on a combination of theory of power and empirical examples from the colonial era. It argues that the power relations between the state and the individual generated un

I denna uppsats undersöks hur grundläggande rättigheter inom EU påverkar medlemsstaternas ansvar vid tillämpning av Dublinförordningen. Uppsatsen inriktas på två huvudsakliga skyldigheter hos medlemsstaterna – skyldigheten att bedöma andra medlemsstaters skydd av grundläggande rättigheter och skyldigheten för alla medlemsstater att respektera de grundläggande rättigheterna inom unionen. MedlemsstThis essay examines the responsibilities of the Member States in the European Union under the Dublin II Regulation from a fundamental rights perspective. The examination focuses in particular on two main obligations of the Member States – the obligation to assess other Member States’ compliance with fundamental rights and the obligation for all Member States to respect fundamental rights in the Un

The question of the Palestine refugees has been an issue to the United Nations’ General Assembly (UNGA) ever since its creation in 1948, and it has played an immense role in the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Everyone involved wants to find a solution to the problem, but 65 years on, the issue is as complex as it has ever been. The question of which actor have the main human rights responsibility for

The report contains an environmental investigation of the automotive and transportat-ion program on Svalöfs gymnasium and an analysis of the environmental communicat-ion between management, teachers and students. The environmental investigation has been based on the methodology of ISO 14001. The various environment aspects on the automotive and transport program has been identi-fied and then eval

The study concerns urban change in Rosengård where the study discusses the urban phenomena gentrification witch is reinvestment in urban areas. Rosengård is a product of ”miljonprogrammet” where the government had the intension to build one million apartments in ten years. Rosengård have gain hard critic for over 50 years for being rationalized and standardized. The study portray results from a su

The aim of this Master’s thesis is to study some of the consequences the collaboration model has brought about to public libraries in Skåne. Since the implementation of the model in 2011, the regions have obtained increased responsibilities in terms of both development work and allocation of funds to public libraries in the region. The regional cultural plan states that Kultur Skåne – The Administ

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilka utmaningar och möjligheter som föreligger vid tillämpningen av kommunikativ planering, med fokus på den utförande aktören i medborgardialoger. Genom att studera och analysera två fall av medborgdialoger utifrån teorier och tidigare forskning kring kommunikativ planering är förhoppningen att kunna dra slutsatser kring vad som är framgångsrikt respekti

Som en följd av omvärldsförändringar och nya resemönster har regionernas roll i samhällsutvecklingen hamnat på agendan de senaste decennierna. Denna uppsats handlar om den regionala planeringsprocessen som idag, till mångt och mycket, går ut på att förankra det regionala perspektivet hos kommuner och andra aktörer i regionen. Detta eftersom Sveriges regionala planeringsorgan saknar både resurser o

In this thesis four methods for automatic verification of images and video on mobile platforms are developed. Both the case of recording images and video and the case of viewing images and video on the mobile lcd screen are considered. The first method is used to test the zoom function of the camera. It uses SURF decriptors along with clustering and histograms to determine which of six discrete zo

Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på hur elever reflekterar över sitt eget lärande inom rytmikämnet och hur detta generellt påverkar deras lärande. Målet är att genom tolkning och analys av elevernas svar kunna utveckla rytmikmetoden och därmed bidra med material till den vetenskapliga litteratur som idag finns inom detta område. Ett delmål är också att bidra till utveckling av metoder för reTitle: Eurhythmics, learning and reflektion. Student insights on the significance of reflection in their personal learning experiences. The purpose of this study is to find out how students reflect on their learning process in eurhythmics and how this in turn affects their overall learning. The interpretation and analysis of student responses will be used to further the development of eurhythmics