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Should a normally unmanned installation rely on helicopter shuttling to allow for the people working there to be accommodated at another platform during the resting periods with regards to the potential loss of life (PLL)? Would the risk the personnel are exposed to increase or decrease if the need for helicopter shuttling was eliminated due to a different design allowing for periodic manning of t
The aim of this essay was to study how posters on the internet forum Flashback discuss social assistance and social assistance recipients. Research show that there is a tendency in today’s society to interpret the reasons for receiving social assistance as having individualistic causes. This is in spite of the fact that studies show that the individuals’ ability to provide for oneself often have s
The empirical evidence on the cross-sectional relation between stock returns and monthly idiosyncratic volatility is mixed. Ang, Hodrick et al. (2006) document that stocks with high past idiosyncratic volatility underperformed those with low idiosyncratic volatility. In this thesis, I show that the pricing effect of idiosyncratic volatility disappears when a sample of stocks with high market value
Author: Pernilla Palm Title: May I take a walk? A study of elderlys influence in their everyday life. Supervisor: Yvonne Johansson The aim of this study was to examine the aspects of the elderlys influence on their everyday life when they are living at nursing homes. The problem that discussed was in what ways the elderly have influence in their daily lives and on those routines that are imprin
This study is concerned with how the reading process reacts to detection of errors in discourse, and how this differs from cases where an error is missed or if no error is present. It sets out to investigate these questions using eye-tracking methodology. In order to determine the influence of detection of errors during the reading process, native English speakers were asked to read short news ite
Sweden is in a period of change in its establishment of a new welfare system. One of the main reasons is the political power shift from social democratic welfare regime to liberal welfare regime. This change involves, among others, a restructuring of the relationship regarding responsibility in the social welfare, between the public, private and non-government sectors. This is due to how different
Uppsatsen är en undersökning i hur upplevelsen av färg ter sig i monokromt måleri. Tre monokroma verk analyseras med hjälp av perceptionsteori, färglära och fenomenologi. En perceptionsanalys med utgångspunkt från författarens färgupplevelse av tre monokroma verk utförs. Resultatet anger bland annat att upplevelsen av en icke-föreställande yta bestående av färgnyanser kan skapa en känsla av imme
Uppsatsen undersöker samspelet mellan diskurser om manlighet, nationalism och emotioner i en svensk 1800-tals kontext. På vilket sätt emotioner artikulerar manlighet och nationalism
Bakgrund: Lean och Kaizen är idag vanligt förekommande organisationskoncept på många företag. Det är inte bara inom tillverkningsindustrin som Kaizen och Lean har utvecklats utan även inom andra sektorer. Lean Health Care, Lean Higher Education och Lean inom offentlig förvaltning är andra varianter av Kaizen. Vi ställer oss frågande till om man utgår från ett humanistiskt perspektiv på organisatio
Bakgrund: Spädbarnskolik är en diagnos som är övergående, men det är en påfrestande period för hela familjen så länge symtomen pågår. Av alla spädbarn drabbas 10-25 procent av kolik. Orsaken till kolik är oklar och ännu finns ingen effektiv och säker behandling. Nyligen har forskning visat positivt resultat gällande effekten av minimal akupunktur på mängden skrik vid spädbarnskolik men det finns e
This paper examines the use of second person narration in the short story ”A King Listens” by Italo Calvino. The main goal is to highlight and answer the following questions: (1) How does the second person narration work in this case? (2) Why would a writer choose this particular type of narration? (3) Who is the narrator in Calvino’s short story? Narratology is utilized as a toolbox for this anal
En analys av skrivprocessen kring mitt bokprojekt novellsamlingen "Sagor från ett järnvägshus".
This essay is going to bring up the terms of adaptation, mainly from book to film and the genre of vampire movies. With the book Låt den rätte komma in and the movie with the same name, I have made an analyzes based on founding out why Tomas Alfredson, the director of the movie cut out some important details from the book while making the movies script together with John Ajvide Lindquist, the auth
Today Cape Verde is considered a good example and at the forefront in prosperity development compared to other Sub-Saharan African countries, and since Cape Verde recently made stricter legislation in gender based violence, the aim of this study has been to analyze why reports of domestic violence against women in Cape Verde have increased. I have done research in three key areas: local environmen
The tourism industry is growing each year and according to the United Nation World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) there will be one billion international trips during 2012. A sustainable tourism destination is a place that focus on all the different levels, a collaboration for sustainability include all stakeholders. Sustainability is shown through three aspects: socio/ cultural, economic and enviro
"Sex and the City" var en nyskapande TV-serie som väckte stor uppståndelse när den kom. Seriens enorma popularitet har sammanlänkats med uppvisningen av det samtida modet samt att den var trendig, rolig och utmanade förutfattade meningar om kvinnors framgång, sexualitet och singelliv. Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur väsentlig mise-en-scène var för serien och på vilket sätt
a metaperspectiv on a very personal basis from a structural view of writing a novel buildt on structure
