After more than a century of colonial subjugation by the United States, Puerto Rico’s stunted development model has finally collapsed. As a result, the island is currently facing one of the worst economic crises in its history. Despite the United States’ continued affirmation of its political dominance over Puerto Rico, it has largely placed the blame for the crisis on Puerto Ricans themselves, ac

The aim of this empirical study was to find out which characteristics, behaviors, and drives high-performing women have in common in order to illuminate why they have become successful in their work. The aim also included getting insights into some of the challenges that these women meet. Participants were fifteen high-performing women who work in business and academia in Sweden. Semi-structured,

During the early 1800 century it was common for several family members to work at the same workplace. Child labour was nothing unusual in the early British factories. This bachelor study focuses on the part of the world that underwent industrialization first; the British Isles. The purpose of this paper is to give a snapshot of the household economy in the early 1830’s, when agrarian society turne

Nowadays, consumers are daily exposed to an overflow of content in mainstream media. Many companies have developed a trend where they target different sexual orientations as separate segments in order to create a closer relationship to all consumers. However, when companies use homosexual themes in their advertising, it can be perceived as a sensitive area, especially when including minority group

Article 9(1) of the VAT Directive requires a person to independently carry out economic activity in order to be considered as taxable for VAT purposes. Article 10 provides a negative definition of the term “independently”, precluding from the scope of this concept persons that are bound to an employer by a contract of employment or any other legal ties creating the relationship of employer and emp

Bakgrund: Postoperativa sårinfektioner medför stora konsekvenser för både den drabbade patienten och för samhället. En viktig åtgärd för att minska postoperativa sårinfektioner är preoperativ handdesinfektion av hand och underarm. Syfte: Att mäta förekomst av bakterier på händerna hos operationspersonal efter genomförd preoperativ handdesinfektion inför en operation. Metod: Etthundra prov togs på

Med en växande global infrastruktur blir det allt vanligare att verksamheter använder olika typer av molntjänster för att underlätta sitt dagliga arbete. För myndigheter, kommuner och andra verksamheter som utnyttjar dessa tjänster till personuppgiftslagring finns det en komplexitet kring hur de ska förhålla sig till lagstiftning och teknik. I den här studien behandlas detta problemområde genom at

This thesis investigates how the civil war in Syria and flight to Sweden has affected male Syrian refugees’ national identity. I conducted individual interviews with 10 informants, a focus group with 4 informants and participant observation at a café. In this thesis, national identity is defined as a part of an individual’s personal identity and consists of a person’s sense of belonging to a speci

Bakgrund: Både operationssjuksköterskor och kirurger har ett ansvar att förebygga vårdrelaterade infektioner och det lidande VRI orsakar patienten. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att undersöka operationssjuksköterskors samt kirurgers följsamhet till WHO’s riktlinjer i preoperativ handdesinfektion. Metod: Kvantitativ observationsstudie. Deltagarna observerades under utförandet av preoperativ handdesinf

Elever på S:t Petri skola deltog i en undersökning som utredde hur pass miljömedvetna elever är och resultatet anses vara mycket lovande. I dagens samhälle antas det ofta att äldre generationer har koll på allt inom miljö, men det visar sig att det har även elever. Resultatet visar att elever själva anses sig vara mycket miljömedvetna. Hela 90 % av eleverna placerade sin miljömedvetenhet vid medelThis thesis aims at surveying the environmental knowledge of students attending a high school in Malmö, Sweden. An analysis of the environmentally friendly behavior was performed where the ability and performance of waste sorting was questioned. The method used was a questionnaire where the socioeconomic background of the students’, environmental awareness and behavior was investigated. 204 studen

Vår planet är uppbyggd av hundratals grundämnen som bildar marken vi går på. På vissa platser finns högre halter av tungmetaller så som bly (Pb) och kadmium (Cd) än på andra platser. Är så fallet på en plats kan det innebära hälsorisker för människor och djur om vi skulle få detta i oss. Därför har jag valt att undersöka om vattnet i bergborrade brunnar, i en viss typ av berggrund där risken för hLead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) are two heavy metals that exist naturally in low concentrations throughout earth’s crust. In some places lead and cadmium are found in higher concentrations due to the bedrock in the area. A study made in Höörs County by the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) has shown high rates of lead and cadmium in drilled wells just west of the city Höör. They found that the reason f

På grund av den potential som har upptäcks med ett samarbete mellan den växande e-handeln och den personliga detaljhandeln har omnikanal fått en hög prioritering hos nordiska klädföretag. Komplexiteten med att skapa omnikanalslösningar som fungerar sömlöst innefattar ett omfattande arbete. Utifrån detta samt bristen på tidigare forskning är det intressant att studera kring ämnet, hur olika klädför

A linear system – one that extracts materials and then puts them in landfills and incinerates them, thus creating a demand for even more materials – is fundamentally unsustainable. Swedish waste management is thought by many to be progressive and at the forefront, when looking at the waste hierarchy. While there is a ban on landfilling non-hazardous and organic waste in Sweden, around 50% is incin

This thesis examines the potential of society, and social movement in particular, as an agent of change for sustainability. In August 2014 student activists initiated a sit-in strike outside of the Hong Kong government headquarters, as a protest against the non-democratic electoral system forced upon the city by China. The attempt by the police to disperse the crowd by using teargas had a reverse

The evolution into a networked society, where a wide variety of devices are connected to the Internet, opens up many new opportunities for creating smart products and applications that dynamically adapt to the current environment. A common scenario will be that applications require or benefit from using several devices at the same time for the execution. Such distributed applications may be comple

Global climate projections forecast more frequent, intense and longer heat waves in the decades ahead. Heat waves are considered the most dangerous extreme weather event for human health, with impacts most pronounced in cities because of the urban heat island effect. Heat-related mortality rates are highest in certain at-risk populations, like the elderly. Toronto, Canada’s largest city, faces two

This paper examines youth engagement within the Global Landscapes Forum, a conference that took place in Paris, December 2015, and its contribution towards moving intergenerational equity forward. Youth are considered one of the main stakeholders when it comes to decision-making in long-term environmental issues as they are part of the current generation that are likely to face the implications of

In this paper, we study the effect of raising the fee for non-attendance on non-attendance rates in health care from a Swedish perspective. We do this by using a difference in difference design and exploiting a natural experiment in Sweden, where one county increased non-attendance fee to the double and the other county had a constant fee. Data on individual level allows us to investigate a genera

Dagens klassrum representerar en mängd olika kulturer, något som ofta problematiseras. Denna forskning utforskar hur en mångkulturell kontext kan användas som en resurs, istället för ett hinder. För att undersöka detta har jag observerat konceptet Ethno-läger - med syftet att identifiera viktiga aspekter av vad Ethno består av, för att senare diskutera om dessa aspekter är exklusiva för Ethno elleThe classrooms of today represents a variety of different cultures, a facet that is often problematized. This research explores how a multicultural context can be used as resource, instead of an obstacle. By investigating this theme, I have been conducting research on the concept of Ethno-camps – trying to identify the key aspects of these, and discuss whether or not these key aspects can be trans