For three decades, food supply in Cuban cities was dependent on oil from the Soviet Union. Then the socialist bloc collapsed, oil supply ceased, and an urban agricultural movement brought vegetable production into the cities. – Today, the need for low-carbon energy transitions is increasingly recognised globally. This thesis examines energy transitions based on the Cuban urban agricultural experie

Synthetic biology, a branch of the life sciences, can be summarized as the deliberate attempt to design living organisms. It is an emerging technoscience and a potential platform technology portrayed as possibly the next industrial revolution. This thesis is an inquiry into synthetic biology; an exploration based on observations in text. An explorative tool is the question: What is synthetic biolo

När förslaget om löntagartagarfonder blev officiellt på LOs kongress 15 juni 1976 ska den dåvarande partisekreteraren Sten Andersson ha sagt med skämtsam tvist: ”Låt oss bedja för partiet” (Peterson 1999:162). Detta ger en ganska bra bild av hur Socialdemokraterna kom att betrakta förslaget om löntagarfonder som klubbades igenom av LO. Vi har använt oss av och jämfört två teorier, Multiple streams

To be able to transport oneself within the community is important for engagement in meaningful occupations outside of one’s home, and for participating in the society. People with disabilities may have limited transportation options, due to their lack of cognitive and physical abilities. The most common barrier for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is unpredictable factors that occur when

Bakgrund: Föreningsdrott har visat sig vara bra för fysiskt-, psykiskt- och socialt välmående för personer med funktionsnedsättning. En ökad förståelse av varför aktiviteten upplevs som meningsfull och vilka värden den kan innefatta kan hjälpa arbetsterapeuter att inspirera och motivera personer att utföra idrottsaktiviteter. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka meningsfullhet och värde av

Östafrika är en region med ett myller av etniska, religiösa och språkliga minoriteter. Regionen har vid flera tillfällen fått utstå både inbördeskrig och folkmord. Samtidigt finns det flera länder med liknande problem där samhället utvecklas under förvånansvärt mycket lugnare omständigheter. Skillnaden i stabilitet länderna emellan är slående. Lijphart menar att nyckeln ligger i hur institutionern

The aim of this study is to examine which attributes supervisors find most attractive when employing a new colleague. The dissertation was carried out through interviewing seven supervisors within social work, all of whom were searching for a new team member. The word employability has, in this study become central and relates to something that can make a person more or less employable. It also in

Förmannaansvar (command responsibility) är en form av straffansvar som utvecklats till största delen under 1900-talet och ger möjlighet att åtala militära befälhavare och andra överordnade för krigsbrott samt brott mot mänskligheten genom att bevisa tre rekvisit. Inledningsvis måste befälhavaren ha effektiv kontroll över den underordnade som begått brottet. Vidare krävs att befälhavaren innehar enCommand responsibility is a mode of criminal responsibility that developed mostly during the 20th century and provides the opportunity to charge military commanders and other superiors for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by their subordinates by proving three criteria. To begin with, the commander must have exercised effective control over the subordinate, moreover the commander m

The purpose of this study is to assess the effort of Non-Governmental Organization in combating violence against women in Nigeria using an NGO known as Women Right Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA). This study uses qualitative method in gathering empirical data as well as in the analysis. The interview guide was semi-structured interviews whereby WRAPA’s employees working at the organ

The purpose of the essay was to study and create an understanding for welfare officers´ work with focus on their preventive work. The study was based on strategic choice of five school welfare officers' experiences with preventive work in the schools and the method used was semi-structured interviews. The study was further more an investigation on how the welfare officers´ experience their wor

Reflecting on the theoretical as well as the practical learning outcomes of the Masters Program in Entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation, the following paper aims to examine the concepts of liabilities of newness and legitimacy and their bearing on emerging entrepreneurs as well as experienced entrepreneur crossing over to new fields of business. The paper will discuss some of the findings in ent

I uppsatsen analyseras valutaspekulationsstrategin carry trading och huruvida den kan generera positiv avkastning och överavkastning. Perioden som studeras är 1990 till och med första kvartalet 2012. Vidare undersöks om skillnader förekommer i överavkastningar från carry trades innan och under den nuvarande finanskrisen som startade kring 2008. Teorierna kurssäkrad- och icke kurssäkrad ränteparite

De perspektiv av blankningslagstiftningen som kommer att lyftas fram i uppsatsen är inte enbart de nationella utan även de europeiska. Den europeiska harmoniseringen har inte uppnått så stora resultat på det skatterättsliga området, vilket beror på den starka suveräniteten som funnits historiskt när det gäller ländernas egna skattesystem. Fokus kommer i huvudsak att ligga på de skatterättsliga effThe perspectives of short-selling rules that will be highlighted in the paper are not only national but also European. The European harmonization has not achieved such great results in the tax area, which is due to the strong sovereignty that existed historically in terms of countries own tax system. The focus will mainly be on the fiscal impact of the phenomenon of short selling, but also the civ

Vi har undersökt ifall myten om mödomshinnan lever kvar bland ungdomar. Efter att ha gjort en enkätundersökning bland gymnasieelever kan vi konstatera att den gör det. Syftet har varit att undersöka hur man kan förändra ungdomars föreställningar med hjälp av kommunikation. Vi har intervjuat olika aktörer inom hälsokommunikation för att bredda våra kunskaper i ämnet. Därefter har vi gett förslag påWe have examined whether the myth surrounding the hymen still exists in the minds of adolescents. After a survey amongst high school students we can establish that it does. The purpose has been to investigate how one can change adolescents’ ideas through communication. We have interviewed people involved in health communication to broaden our knowledge. We have thereafter suggested a couple of com

The purpose of the study is to examine whether the group therapy, KIV (Kvinnor i Väntan ‘Women waiting’) improved the mental health and the symptoms of PTSD for six female asylum seekers. The hypothesis for the investigation was that the participation in the group therapy would lead to improved mental health and decrease of PTSD symptoms. The experimental group was compared to a control-group cons

This master’s degree project, carried out within 20 weeks of the spring term 2012 within Lund University’s School of Industrial Design was started with an unconventional topic of sexual health and design which quickly specified itself into Sexual health and Adolescence. The view point of the research was focused on Finnish society and its youth. Trough professional literature, interviews and discu

Denna magisteruppsats grundar sig på den egna översättningen av delar av en populariserad sociologisk analys av arbetarnas situation vid Peugots bilfabriker i norra Frankrike (Stéphane Beaud & Michel Pialoux 2004). Den första delen består av en textanalys grundad på i huvudsak Hellspong & Ledin (1997). Den andra delen utgörs av ett antal översättningsteoretiska reflektioner och presenterar

The RAINBOW program, a Child and Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy program (CFF-CBT) for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder (PBD) designed for children aged 8-12 years and their parents, in a parallel group format, has been adapted to adolescents aged 14-17. The aim of this study was to investigate if CFF-CBT is effective and feasible for adolescents and their parents in Sweden. Method: The samp

This master’s thesis analysed sustainable development policies in China’s 11th Five-Year Plan and sustainable development considerations at the building of the Bui Dam in Ghana. The theory section discusses and defines sustainable development, and in the method section, ‘ideal-types’ of economic, social and environmental development were developed. These ideal-types were then used as reference poi

As globalization advances, so does international trading. This Bachelor’s thesis’ purpose is to analyze in what way corporations conform to human rights by using suppliers in a globalized environment and what impact globalization has on corporation’s actions in accordance with human rights. By qualitatively analyzing documents and by conducting an argumentation analysis, the methodological foundat