We travel like never before, whether it themselves if it is a business travel (commuting), busi-ness trip or a leisure trip. Sweden´s population made about 5 billion trips in 2001, where car travel accounted for 55 percent of all trips (SIKA, 2001). Travel to and from work accounted for about 1.25 billion trips and of these trips was the car for 61 percent of all trips to and from work (SIKA, 2001

This thesis investigated the effects of word accent mismatch on the processing of word accents in Swedish. It was found that Accent 2 is more strongly associated with suffixes in the mental lexicon as compared to Accent 1.

I denna uppsats undersöker författaren en grupp kinesiska migrantarbetares syn på de egna arbets- och livsvillkor. De frågor relaterade till arbets- och livsvillkor som migrantarbetarna framför allt diskuterar i en sluten miljö och denna uppsats tar fasta på är arbetsskador, ensamhet, kollektivitet och arbetsrätt. Migrantarbetarnas skildringar är hämtade ur migrantarbetartidningen Jiemei Miyu In this thesis the author examines a group of Chinese migrant workers own views on their working and living conditions. The questions related to working and living conditions that the migrant workers particularly discuss by themselves, and this thesis relies on are work-related injuries, loneliness, collectivity and labour legislation. The migrant workers descriptions are collected from the migran

The effects of Central Swedish word accents on morphological and semantic processing were investigated. It was found that Accent 2-inducing suffixes preceded by an Accent 1 tone were more difficult to process compared to Accent 1-inducing suffixes preceded by Accent 2. This effect was relatively task-independent, i.e. found both when participants judged the tense or number of the word and when the

Problemställning: Vid en experimentell undersökning, om mekanismen bakom avskalning på ytan av betongdammar, upptäcktes höga fuktkvoter hos provkropparna ovanför vattenlinjen. Detta fenomen kunde man inte med säkerhet anvisa till rätt mekanism. Många studier har visat att under frysprovning ökar vattenupptagningen, frågan var om det gick att särskilja om det var själva temperaturändringen, minusgr

“Men from March, women from Venus” is a bachelor thesis where the Swedish populations consumption habits of the product groups clothes, underwear and shoes are individually examined through statistical analysis. The aim of the thesis is to examine if any differences between male and female consumption of those product groups can be determined for the first year of the financial crisis. This is det

Sverige och Danmark anses i komparativa sammanhang tillhöra samma rättsfamilj. I arbetsrättsligt avseende skiljer sig Danmark från övriga nordiska länder på så sätt att man undvikit lagstiftning i mesta möjliga mån och t.o.m. överlåtit implementering av vissa EU-direktiv åt arbetsmarknadens parter genom kollektivavtal. Den lagstiftning som finns är spretig och i stor utsträckning införd p.g.a. EU-In a comparative context Sweden and Denmark are often considered part of the same families of law. In respect of labour law, Denmark differs from the other Nordic countries by avoiding legislation as much as possible and have even left implementation of some EU directives to be performed through collective agreements. The legislation is uneven and to a great extent introduced after demands from th

Det primära syftet med uppsatsen är att utreda om det aktiebolagsrättsliga förvärvslåneförbudet är tillämpligt på säkerheter som är ställda efter förvärvstidpunkten. Att sådana säkerheter i vissa fall kan träffas av förvärvslåneförbudet verkar man i stort sett vara överens om i doktrinen, åtminstone vad gäller s.k. minutenlån. Däremot råder oenighet exakt om vad som krävs. Ett upplägg som används This thesis primary aim is to investigate the applicability of the prohibition of purchase loans, stated in the Swedish Company Act, on securities issued after the time of the purchase. The majority of doctrine on the subject is in agreement that at least so called minute loans, is embraced by the prohibition, the closer criterions necessary for such applicability is however unclear. A praxis used

It has in recent years been shown that some linguistic items, in particular lexical and abstracted movement verbs, activate the motor cortex in the human brain while being processed. The present study sets out to investigate how far this activation is retained for grammaticalised motion verbs which have shed their lexical content in exchange for grammatical functionality. Traditional literature su

The study reported in the present paper aimed to determine the effect of prosodic cues on automatic word processing in the brain by comparing the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the event-related potentials (ERP) elicited by isolated words and pseudowords. More specifically, it attempted to explore the influence of changes in certain suprasegmental cues such as fundamental frequency and int

Varför väljer utbildare inom FM de utbildningsmetoder de väljer? Vilka faktorer påverkar? Skiljer sig FMs utbildningsmetoder från skolans utbildningsmetoder? Denna studie penetrerar frågorna ur före detta värnpliktigas synvinkel. En litteraturstudie redovisar en jämförelse mellan utbildningsmetoder inom olika utbildningar, inte bara inom skolans värld. En kvantitativ och kvalitativ studie redovisa

Long time series of satellite remotely sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as an indicator of vegetation greenness can be used in a broad range of research topics such as climate change, vegetation dynamics and desertification monitoring. The first phase of this study tests a practical method using Hyperion imagery onboard on Earth Observing-1 (EO1) spacecraft for simulation of MO

Climate change has emerged as the most prominent of the global environment issues and there is a need to evaluate its impact on the agriculture. General Circulation Models (GCMs) which are considered as the most advance tools for estimating future climate change scenarios operate on coarse resolutions. It is for this reason the climate change model MAGICC coupled to SCENGEN developed by the IPCC w

45 % av Sveriges energi produceras av vattenkraft. Forskning har visat att det finns en positiv korrelation mellan den naturlig förekommande klimatvariationen Nord Atlantiska Oscillationen (NAO) och vattenkraftproduktionen i Norge och norra Sverige under vintertid. Sambandet är dock svagare i södra Sverige, vilket visar på att skulle kunna finnas andra storskaliga klimatvariationer som påverkar va45 % of the Swedish energy is produced by hydropower. Previous researches have shown a positive correlation between the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the hydropower production in Norway and northern Sweden during winter time. The correlation is weak in southern Sweden, which indicates that there might be other climate patterns affecting this area. A Spearman correlation was made between the

This paper analyzes if there exist a statistical relationship between liquidity on stock, listed at NASDAQ OMX Nordic Stockholm, and financial stress. Liquidity is approximated by volume turnover, and financial stress is represented by SIXVX implied volatility index. To find out if stock liquidity responds differently to financial stress, depending on capitalization value, the stocks were divided

In this thesis, we use CasADi to implement a new optimization algorithm in the open-source platform JModelica.org. CasADi is a tool for computing derivatives using automatic differentiation, which is tailored for optimal control. JModelica.org is a platform for simulation and optimization of physical systems created using the Modelica modeling language. The implemented optimization algorithm is ba

Att mobbning leder till negativa konsekvenser för de som utsätts är sedan länge känt. Skolan är den plats där mobbning ofta sker men även där den bekämpas. Ett stort ansvar ligger hos lärarna när det gäller detta arbete och därför är deras attityder till mobbning av stort intresse. Syftet är att belysa samt jämföra yrkesverksamma lärare och lärarstudenter gällande deras attityder, upplevda kunskap

För att se om brand regimerna i Sverige före större antropogena påverkningar skett år jämförbara med nutida Kanadensiska brand regimer jämförde jag två datasets av brand storlek och antal bränder. Man kan se likheter när Kanada och Sveriges brand regimer jämfördes, men eftersom sökarean varierade mycket (Kanada: hela landet, Sverige: 608km2) och den temporala upplösningen (Kanada: 41 år, Sverige: To assess if the fire regimes in Sweden before the strong human intervention are comparable to the recent Canadian fire regime I compared two datasets of fire numbers. A likeness could be found when comparing the Swedish and Canadian fire regimes, but due to the differences in study area (Canada: the whole state; Sweden 608km2) and time span (Canada: 41 years, Sweden: 800 years), no significant re