Fair use is a doctrine native to the U.S., but is with the introduction of the internet more than a decade ago now informally applied worldwide. It has become a potent tool for the digitisation of classic content, such as books and music. In a very debated area of law, copyright is now regarded not as a promotional tool for intellectual endeavours, but as a brake block obstructing the development

What is a public library? This is the fundamental question our thesis deals with on a broader level. Should it simply be a collection of books, an experience centre or an information centre – or perhaps something else? The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to carry out a discourse analysis of the media debate concerning Malmö public library that took place in 2009 and of the library´s strategical

Foster children´s contact with the biological parents [translated titel] My intentions with this paper were to examined how social services respond to needs the children placed in foster care might have of their biological parents. Conflicts often arise in the contact between the biological parents and foster families. These could affect the children in placements in a negative way, and therefore

The famine in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has once again reached a point of emergency wherein the international community has a moral duty to protect the population from their government. Although the member states of the United Nations have affirmed a global Responsibility to Protect, the ways in which that responsibility are carried out are often contradictory and help to sustain t

In this essay the problem of finding fair equilibria in auctions with multiple heterogeneous and indivisible items is investigated. We assume an equal number of bidders demanding items as number of items, and that every bidder is assigned exactly one item. Among the theoretical results we show the existence of an equilibrium, strategy-proofness for a particular set of prices and convergence of the

The purpose of this Master Thesis is to propose a standardisation process, to act as a support when developing standardised machine elements within Tetra Pak. The standardisation process has the intention to investigate the potentials to reduce the variety of the machine elements by applying common elements in several machines. The standardisation process is developed through altering between lite

The notion of Climate debt (or Carbon debt) has been used for more than a decade, but it was only during 2009 that it got a lot of attention through a NGO campaign and through interventions in the UNFCCC by Bolivian delegates. Climate debt is defined by Boliva as over-consumption of the available capacity of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate system, and it calls for the developed countries to rep

Abstract Author: Emilie Premberg Title: “A smiling face – support and strategies up one`s sleeve” A work environment study at DSB First Sverige AB. Supervisor: Charlotta Zettervall Assessor: Hans Swärd The aim of this study has been to find different “healthy-factors” that helps trainmanagers at DSB First to handle their situation at work with threat, violence and other negative stressors. A fur

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the determinants of the retirement decisions in Sweden by using qualitative micro data from The Survey on Health and Retirement in probit models. The models investigate the change in job status between the first survey wave in year 2004 and the second survey wave in year 2006/2007 by adding background variables measured in years 2004. The study show that de

Author: Nina Andersson Title: The employees right – The managers obligation. A study regarding midline managers view of performance reviews. [Translated title] Supervisor: Tove Harnett Assessor: Hans Swärd In Swedish municipalities all employees have the right to once a year have a private meeting with their manager. This meeting is meant to give feedback to the employee regarding their work eff

The study aims to explore the relationship between migration and the quality of education, considering the lowering quality of higher education in Georgia as one of the main ‘push-factors’. The research itself tries to identify the main motivations of why Georgian students migrate. Furthermore, the main gaps and disadvantages of the higher education system of Georgia are investigated. The findings

This thesis test weak form efficiency in the stock markets of Ukraine, Russian, and China and compare the efficiency with USA stock market. We employ Distribution test, Unit root test, Runs test, ARMA test and GARCH test to estimate the efficiency of the above four stock markets. In our study, we find that under unit root test and runs test, all of the four stock markets are not weak-form efficie

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka studenters, som blivande arbetstagares, inställning och syn på några av arbetsmarknadens nya normer. Genom förändringar i form av teknisk utveckling och globalisering har nya normer på arbetsmarknaden tagit form. I denna studie ligger fokus på de förändrade normerna kring anställningsform och konkurrens. Tidsbegränsade anställningar har blivit allt vanligare och k

The aim of this paper is to characterize the daily price fundamentals of European Union Allowances (EUAs) traded in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) during the period September 2005 - February 2010. We use GARCH model in order to account for changes in volatility. We split our analysis into two periods according to the two phases of the ETS. We disregard the period 02.04.2007 – 11.08.2008, wh

This paper indentifies the factors that affect the childbearing behaviors for marriage immigrants in Taiwan during 1987 to 2003, measured by individual level data for 87, 798 observations obtained from QLSFS (Quasi-longitudinal Study on Living Status of the Foreign Born Spouses in Taiwan). This survey contains the socio-demographic information for both immigrant women and their native husbands, wh

Begreppet kundlojalitet är omdiskuterat och meningarna om vad denna lojalitet innebär samt hur den skapas går isär. Stor fokus ligger på relationen som skapas mellan kund och företag vilken anses avgörande för skapandet av kundlojalitet. Bankers förhållande med kunderna har alltmer kommit att karaktäriseras av kontakt via telefon och Internet och i takt med yngre generationers intåg på konsumentma

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate different formulations of multivariate GARCH models and to apply two of the popular ones – the BEKK- GARCH model and the DCC- GARCH model – in evaluating the volatility of a portfolio of zero-coupon bonds. Multivariate GARCH models are considered as one of the most useful tools for analyzing and forecasting the volatility of time series when volatility

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, which allows industrialised countries that have binding emission targets to invest in emission reduction projects in non-industrialised countries. These CDM investments generate certified emission reductions (CERs), which can be used by the industrialised countries towards meeting their own targets. The dual objective o