Corruption is indisputably an immense obstacle for many developing countries in their endeavor to prosper economically. Zambia, a peaceful, politically stable democracy is still facing many of the problems connected with corruption. Corruption has so far mostly been measured on a state-level, but in our thesis we narrow the field of investigation down to the ministry-level. We use questionnaires t

The Swedish National Laboratory MAX-lab contains a facility for production of bremsstrahlung photons for photonuclear experiments. A so called "tagging technique" allows for a determination of the energy of the individual photons via a spectrometric measurement of the energy of the corresponding electron. Some of these photons are lost in a collimation process. The fraction of photons in

This paper presents the outcomes of an applied cultural study carried out during spring semester 2010 with more than 10 Chinese female postgraduate students in Swedish universities. The aims of this research were to investigate Chinese female postgraduates’ decision-making process, to understand university lives in Sweden with the main focus on their learning experiences and social activities, and

Studien vände sig till personal, olika yrkesgrupper, som arbetar med krigsskadade och torterade i Sverige. Syftet var att beskriva personalgruppens mående och tillväxt i relation till arbetet, inställning till död, ondska och förlåtelse samt bakgrundsvariabler (t.ex eget trauma och arbetssituation) och undersöka samband mellan dessa. 69 traumaarbetare svarade på ett frågeformulär som mätte dessa fThe 69 participants of this study were Swedish personnel of various occupations, working at centers for war and torture survivors. The aim was to describe the personnel’s reactions from their work, their background (e.g. trauma prevalence, work situation), their attitude towards death, evil, and forgiveness and the relationships between these. The results of this study show that the participants h

The purpose of this study was to examine the way of communication and sense of community on an online extreme virtual community called pro-ana. The pro-ana community consists of like-minded people who see Anorexia Nervosa as a choice of lifestyle and not a disease. Through qualitative observations of threads of dis-cussion the communication on a Swedish pro-ana forum has been the focus of the stud

Throughout the Turkish Republic’s history and today, women’s bodies and sexualities are sites of control and regulation by family, society and the state. My focus in this study will be the regulation and control applied by the state and its institutions from the perspectives of feminists in Turkey. By applying feminist critical discourse analysis of the feminist journal, Amargi, I will analyze how

The purpose of this study was to examine voluntary organizations’ lobbying around hiv and aids in Sweden and to compare how organizational conditions influence this work. To do so I have analyzed two different Swedish organizations, RFSU and Noaks Ark Stockholm. They are both working with lobbying around hiv and aids but have at the same time different organizational conditions for this work. More

This study aims at examining changes in the conservative attitudes of immigrants. By examining the conservative attitudes of immigrants, the study intends to explore in what ways they change when immigrants start a new life in different social and cultural contexts. In order to provide an answer to this question, previous research on immigrants and conservatism in Turkey are analyzed and a group o

In today's world the protection gap in the 1951 Refugee Convention regarding the environmentally displaced persons (EDPs) has been discussed, claiming that EDPs international protection and assistance should be considered too. This thesis addresses the issue of displaced people due to environmental factors and the options that are suggested for their protection and assistance. With a starting

Europeiska unionen har definierat ett gemensamt järnvägsnät kallat "Transeuropeiska nätverket för järnväg", där person- och godstrafik ska kunna transporteras över nationsgränserna. Nordiska triangeln är en del av detta nät och är ett av de 30 prioriterade projekten som ska påbörjas innan 2010, där Sverige inte har påbörjat än. Till detta järnvägsnät har det då uppkommit harmoniserade re

Redan 1997 började Skanska Sverige AB att använda sig av maskinstyrning med GPS. Maskinstyrning är en teknik som bygger på att anläggningsmaskinerna har kontakt med satelliter, totalstation eller planlaser. Tillsammans med en digitaliserad anläggningsmodell som visualiseras på en datorskärm i maskinen kan maskinisten se maskinens exakta position och veta exakt hur han/hon skall gräva/schakta för a

Title: Fashion Blog- A study of how young women use fashion blogs in their buying decision. Seminar Date: 25th of August 2010 Course: SMTX07, Master dissertation, 15 University Credits Points Authors: Josephine Claesson, Ida Johnsson & Charlotte Wiebe Advisors: Katja Lindqvist & Pia Siljeklint Keywords: Fashion Blogs, young woman, buying process, buying decision Purpose: The purpose of the

Decentralization has in recent decades become a common concept in public policy making especially in developing countries. The concept, defined here as the transfer of functions, responsibilities and financial resources to lower levels of government, is further expected to have a positive effect on a country´s development process by reducing the inefficiency associated with a centralized form of g

Prostitution as a construction - The social worker in the tension between society and the individual Discussions about prostitution seems to be of large interest for different feminist groups. The main discussions are about whether people sell sex as a result of free will, or if prostitution is a part of patriarchal structures, and that people selling sex, have been forced to do so in one way, or

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur den svenska rättsutvecklingen, kring vad som anses vara tillåten särbehandling på grund av ålder, förhåller sig till den rättspraxis som har skapats av EU-domstolen med bakgrund av direktiv 2000/78/EU och den allmänna principen om förbud mot diskriminering på grund av ålder. Uppsatsen syftar även till att applicera Anna Christensens teori om normativa The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the development in Swedish law, as to what is considered to be a permissible difference in treatment on grounds of age, relates to the case law developed by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the view of Directive 2000/78/EU and the general principle of non-discrimination in respect of age. The secondary purpose of this thesis is to apply the

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the way the concept of family is defined in the legislation on family-related migration in Sweden and what implications this definition have for the applicants, for family-related migration and for the view on family in Sweden. The empirical material consisted of five individual, semi-structured interviews with officials working with cases concerning famil

The aim of this study was to explore the eviction process from a cooperation perspective and how a community in a welfare state works with households in risk of eviction, that not already were in the social system regarding to addiction- and medical problems. The eviction process with an outcome leading to households losing their homes is in its organization according to Swedish laws, a process t

The aim of this study was to, through qualitative interviews, look at the roles of qualified mentors of teenagers with social problems such as criminality and addiction. The idea of qualified mentorship is quite new and has only been practiced in Sweden for a few years, which is why we thought it would be interesting to see how the work of the mentors have been conducted in the social service orga

Author: Barbro Liljegren Title: Importance of communication for long-term unemployed people with ADHD Supervisor: Yoshiko Boregren - Matsui Assessor: Hans Swärd With a high unemployment a more selective labormarket follows and it always remains a group of long-term unemployed during such circumstances. The aim with this essay was to examine the importance of communication for them who are longterm