This research will focus on the economic geographic patterns of the diffusion of grid photovoltaic (PV) cells. The analysis is specified to the EU 15 and the time period 1990-2010. The causal and correlational relationships will be derived from energy transitions that occurred in history and recent research directed towards renewable energy and solar energy in particular. This results in five inde

En undersökning av Stig Larssons andra roman Nyår utifrån idéer om den romantiska ironin så som de presenteras av Friedrich Schlegel och tolkas av Paul de Man samt Horace Engdahl. Uppsatsen kontrasterar synvinkeln med tidigare forskning som valt att se romanen dels som en existentialistisk roman, dels som en postmodern metafiktion.

This thesis discusses the potential conflicts between the MARPOL and BASEL regimes in relation with management of wastes derived from operations of ships. The analysis whether the BASEL Convention provides an overarching regime to deal with waste cycle from generation to disposal is also addressed for determining if MARPOL has to complement this regime. To this end, a holistic view regarding the e

Riksåklagaren är Sveriges högsta allmänna åklagare och allmän åklagare i HD. Riksåklagaren har en central roll inom rättsväsendet. Han ska bland annat verka för en enhetlig rättstillämpning, vilket till stor del utförs genom Riksåklagarens yttranden i sina svarsskrivelser och överklagandeskrifter i mål som överklagas till HD. År 1993 infördes ett system med prövningstillstånd avseende vissa brottThe Chief Public Prosecutor is Sweden's most high-ranked public prosecutor and public prosecutor in the Supreme Court. The Chief Public Prosecutor has a central role in the legal system. He will, among other tasks, work for a uniform application of the law, which is mainly achieved by the Chief Prosecutor´s opinions in his replies and appeal papers in the cases being appealed to the Supreme Co

Vision Zero was introduced as an innovative traffic safety policy that has the eradication of mortality and severe injuries caused by traffic accidents as its final goal. The process of achieving that goal is through a set of measures, rules and regulations that change not only the way of thinking and acting of traffic members (and drivers, in particular), but also of car and road designers. Since

Förevarande uppsats behandlar det interimistiska förbudet i ett praktiskt perspektiv. Mer konkret uttryckt undersöks i vilken utsträckning det immaterialrättsliga interimistiska förbudet faktiskt används i det praktiska rättslivet, samt hur det interimistiska förbudet i praktiken fungerar som ett tvistemålssubstitut. Genom en kvantitativ analys av opublicerade immaterialrättsliga rättsfall har eThis thesis addresses the interlocutory injunction from a practical perspective. The subject of the thesis is the actual use of the interlocutory injunction and the injunction’s effect as a substitute for civil litigation in cases of intellectual property infringements. A number of aspects of the actual use of the interlocutory injunction have been established in an empiric study of unpublished c

How do museums relate to working in a culturally diverse society? The notion of increasing diversity as a result of social change and Sweden as a multicultural society is central to public discussions and cultural initiatives. The goal for museums is to reflect demografics of society in their visitor numbers, and a shift to increase awareness of needs and views of the museum audience. This increas

Capitulation is wisdom - not defeat! The aim of this study has been an attempt to clarify how parents of children with neuropsychiatric disabilities such as autism, Down syndrome and intellectual disability manage to cope in their everyday life despite the high levels of stress and long term strain it involves being a parent and a caretaker of such a child. We focused our study on the family as a

Information and Communications Technology is an increasing factor in the everyday life, whether this is private or public. In coherence with this, reports and research presents the contribution to effects in terms of pollution, such as greenhouse gas emissions and electronic waste. Current reports state that the agendas of enterprises, governments and societies increasingly include how to tackle e

The following paper discusses the ideological and aesthetic contexts discernible in the poetry of the Norwegian author Tor Ulven (1953–1995). Generally considered the major Norwegian poet to emerge after the Second World War, Tor Ulven was, in his own self-taught way, a “poeta doctus,” although his extensive knowledge – of European literary traditions, languages, philosophy, music and paintings –

Corporate social responsibility is a management concept originating from the Anglo-Saxon background and associated with the tradition of arm’s length relations between business and institutions in society. However, different institutional systems handle organizational innovations in dissimilar ways, and in the age of globalization, national institutions often interact with global ones. This study

I den här uppsatsen undersöks maskinöversättningstjänsten Google Translates förtjänster och begränsningar vid översättning till svenska. Detta görs genom att närstudera ett litet material av googleöversatt text till svenska från engelska och spanska och sedan med denna närstudie som grund laborera med onlinetjänsten för att belysa hur översättningarna kan variera beroende på form och kontext. Goog

Remarkable success of Japanese economy after WWII has been an intriguing topic for many researchers. In relation to the theory and previous research this study proposes a different explanatory model of Japanese growth after WWII. The model proposed here relies upon a contribution of two key features of the Japanese economy- subcontracting as a type of organizational form of conglomerates and indus

The aim of this explorative study using a phenomenological approach is to have a closer look at individual perceptions of the phenomenon of intercultural communication and how it is constituted within at a work place. Eventual communication difficulties based on different cultural origins, as well as forms of interaction and working conditions in the enterprises, will be analyzed as possible reaso