One of the latest, and maybe the most innovative, institutional changes in the EU is that the president of the European Commission should be nominated after taking the result of the EP-elections into account. This is said to create a democratic link between the EU-voters and the president, stir EU-wide debate as presidential candidates emerge and hopefully result in higher voter turnout and a pre

This master’s thesis focuses on the experiences of retired public librarians in relation to their professional life. The public library as an institution and the librarian profession have to this day gone through many changes, and a high level of research has been conducted regarding this. Yet, there is a lack of perspective from those who have actually lived through and during these changes. Base

Corporate Social Responsibility har inte fått genomslag bland företagen. Detta beror främst på att företagen är små och intresset för miljöansvaret relaterat till alkoholprodukterna är lågt. Samhällsansvaret och miljöansvaret är däremot en viktig del av producenternas vardagliga arbete, men det är inte attraktivt nog för att användas i marknadsföringen eller som en del av varumärket. Av samma anle

Ifrågasättandet av det rådande valutaförhållandet är stort, både på grund av brister som påpekas i systemet centrerat kring dollarn och på grund av den kinesiska ekonomins framfart. Genom en översikt av de teorier som beskriver användandet av internationella valutor, förutsättningar för en ökad spridning av en valuta samt en historisk översikt av tre tidigare internationellt framträdande valutor,

This Master’s thesis consists of a qualitative case-study of the ideas of the public library expressed in politicians, librarians and users descriptions of the public library in general and specifically Klostergårdens library. Klostergårdens library is a branch library in Lund that has been reestablished in cooperation with a local youth center in a newly constructed building. We argue that when e

In the last few years, we have seen an emerging activity among library institutions to release their catalogue data under the terms that are often referred to as “linked, open data”. The linked, open data concept brings some new features to the practice of bibliographic data exchange: It is done in a linked data environment following the technical principles of what is called the “semantic web”. I

The aim of this master's thesis is to examine how the architecture and interior design of The International Library in Stockholm affects the library use and the identification of the library as a multi-lingual place. The International Library is a library that is specialized in multi-lingual library services and collections. As a theoretical outset of the study serves the assumption that the i

American and Bermudan options have a wide range of applications in financial markets, e.g. in commodities markets among others. The pricing literature of such contingent claims is broad and many different algorithms and frameworks have been developed. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the Least-Squares Method (LSM), \cite{LSM}, can be extended to incorporate stochastic convenience y

I den här studien strävade vi efter att undersöka hur Holacracy®, en organisationsstruktur, skulle fungera i en modell utformad av Anthony et al. (2014) som visar hur en organisations struktur samspelar med organisationens kultur, styrmedel och Human Resource Management. Syftet var att undersöka om tillämpningen av Holacracy kunde medföra ökade möjligheter till målkongruens. I vår analys upptäckte

Social media have been around for over a decade and many institutions have incorporated them into their communication strategies for some time now. However, despite numerous studies on social media in the US universities, there is a wide knowledge gap regarding the use of these communication platforms in the European higher education sphere, with only a handful of studies in the UK and Netherlands

Titel: Från gårdsbutik till upplevelse – en studie om hur företagare på landsbygden skapar upplevelser kring sin verksamhet. Författare: Isabell Davidsson och Alexandra Sundell Nivå: Kandidatuppsats i Service Management, VT 2014 Institution: Institutionen för Service Management, Lunds universitet, Campus Helsingborg Handledare: Erika Andersson Cederholm och Carina Sjöholm Nyckelord: upplevels

This Master’s thesis investigates how Swedish cultural heritage institutions discuss their work and their role in the preservation of computer games as a cultural expression. The organizations investigated for this thesis is Gamevaults in Malmö, Museum of Technology in Stockholm and the audiovisual department at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm. The first question in this thesis invest

International migration facilitated by contemporary globalization has brought about feelings of insecurity in terms of identity for both the host societies as well as incoming immigrants posing a major obstacle in host countries to integrate immigrants into society. In such context, social exclusion and discrimination can occur. The author argues that this is not a one-directional process. In orde

The European Union (EU) in its current shape and form is primarily a product of deepening economic integration, whereas a social dimension of European integration that would be comparable in ambition to its economic dimension has failed to manifest itself despite repeated attempts to give the social dimension greater weight. Based on a neo-Gramscian theoretical perspective of hegemony, this can be

Primeval forest or prime grassland. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the paleoecology of the Boreal and Atlantic forests and archaeological bone assemblages. The study has been focused on central Scania, Sweden, an area known for rich Mesolithic findings. The population responses over time to ecological changes in the environment has been studied for the five most commonly recovered game

Remifentanil är en ultrakortverkande opioid. På grund av dess mycket potenta effekt måste den ges kontrollerat, antingen via målstyrd tillförsel [TCI] eller manuell kontroll [MK] av hastigheten på pumpen. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om det fanns någon skillnad i dos eller biverkningsfrekvens mellan TCI och MK. Metod: Data samlades in från 49 operationer. Resultat: Ingen signifikant skil

This master's thesis focuses on information seeking from a student perspective. The purpose was to explore how students describe their search for information in relation to writing their master's thesis, where prioritising amongst search tools was one aspect further looked into. Since the context was Lund University and specifically master students within the field of political science, th

Economic evaluation has become an important tool in health and transport economics. To evaluate decisions, thresholds and benchmark values are required. These thresholds can include valuating lives in monetary form. To ensure an efficient distribution of resources the value of human life should be approximately the same between the sectors. In transport economics value of statistical life (VSL) is

In this thesis the question concerning possible influence of language on thinking was addressed by investigating constituent orders in non-verbal representations of motion events. Forty-nine participants, 25 native speakers of Swedish with the default order SVO (or Agent-Act-Patient), and Kurdish with SOV (Agent-Patient-Act) were recruited in Sweden and 24 in Iraqi Kurdistan to take part in an exp

Home ownership has for long been welcomed and subsidized across most Western countries. Earlier macro studies on the linkages between home ownership rates and unemployment rates have shown a fairly strong support of the Oswald hypothesis. However, these results have been contradicted by micro level evidence on the topic. In this paper the Oswald hypothesis will be analysed by conducting a panel da