Numera kan vi läsa information om Polisen och svenska polisers egna texter på sociala medier. Poliser runt om i världen har erkänt potentialen med att använda sig av sociala medier för att sprida information och kommunicera med medborgare. Tidigare forskning har visat på att ökat tryck på poliser, medborgares uppfattning av Polisen, samt nya informations- och kommunikationsmedel lett till att Poli

Personalen är organisationers viktigaste resurs och då chefer syftar till att leda, utveckla och organisera verksamheter blir rekryteringen av dessa individer avgörande för organisationers lönsamhet. För att rekrytera rätt person till rätt tjänst krävs det att arbetet blir gjort på rätt sätt. Felrekryteringar är kostsamma för verksamheterna och för att undvika sådana förespråkas standardiserade re

This paper conducts an empirical study on the relationship between the emerging financial market of China and the developed market of the US, both during and after the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Stock indices from the two countries are analysed to examine whether there exist any comovements between the different equity markets. Econometric time series testing of weekly stock values indicate that

Eighteen years since the agricultural landscape of southern Öland were inscribed on the World Heritage list, this study aims to investigate the effect on the agriculture that created and are maintaining the World Heritage. Its relation to the tourism and the threats of climate change. Semi-structured interviews with farmers, destination developer and climate strategist were conducted to gain deepe

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how marketing freelancers perceive personal branding and how they practice it. Both offline and online environments for practicing personal branding have been included. The aimed contribution is to broaden the understanding of personal branding by adding the perceptions that marketing freelancers have towards this topic. Additionally, the attempt is to prov

Housing affordability is an increasingly discussed political and economic issue. Recent research finds a negative relationship between housing affordability and mental health. Much of the prior research uses a ratio measurement for housing affordability. Using alternative measures of housing affordability, I re-examine the relationship between housing affordability and mental health. A fixed effec

There is much literature on the topic of statistical comparability of African countries. However, the focus on Africa has left an information gap for other regions. This paper aims to fill some of that gap by comparing GDP data on Asian countries from some of the most frequently used datasets. Additionally, by comparing the base years and versions of the system of national accounts of Asian countr

Denna eventstudie avser att undersöka marknadsreaktioner från annonsering och arrangering av olympiska spel. Studien undersöker samtliga sommar- och vinterspel sedan 1994. Abnormala avkastningar runt annonseringsdatum och under de olympiska spelen är inte signifikant skilt från nollhypotesen, vilket innebär att eventstudien inte bekräftar den predikterade, ekonomiska nyttan som följer av eventen.

Arbetet är en brandteknisk riskvärdering på vuxenpsykiatriavdelningen på Helsingborgs lasarett. Syftet är att undersöka nuvarande brandskydd på avdelningen för vuxenpsykiatri för eventuell utrymningsproblematik. Målet är att efter genomförd analys komma upp med åtgärdsförslag för att uppnå en ökad personsäkerhet. Avgränsningen för rapporten innebär att arbetet bara innefattar personsäkerheten och

This thesis provides insights regarding patentees’ motives to file and apply for patents. The respective motives are scrutinized in Austria, where interviews with patentees, as well as experts in this field were conducted. Furthermore, an extensive literature analysis provides an overview of motives identified in other international research projects. It got discernible that among the Austrian pat

This thesis draws upon social movement theory to explore the impact of the Ni Una Menos protest in Chile. In October 2016 thousands of people took the streets of the capital Santiago to protest the wave of recent femicides in Chile. The Ni Una Menos protest gained widespread attention and mobilized activists from all divisions in the women’s movement. The material of this case study was gathered t

Föreliggande uppsats undersöker översättning mellan svenska och engelska av språkhandlingsmarkören please, vilken är knuten till språkhandlingen request och i detta språkpar utgör vad Tirkkonen-Condit (2004) benämner unik enhet. Undersökningen avser att svara på vilken effekt språkhandlingsmarkörens status som unik enhet kan få på språkhandlingsassociationer i översättningen av dialoger. Materiale

In August of 2017, Chile lifted its total ban on abortion that had been in effect since 1989. The new abortion laws allow women to access safe and legal abortion in cases of incest, fatal fetal impairment or if pregnancy is threatening the life of the mother. This research will put focus on the process that led to the amendment of the Chilean abortion laws and will primarily strive to enhance the

ABSTRACT I detta arbete kommer det att belysas hur självbilden påverkas av grupper inom sociala medier på facebook. Syftet med uppsatsen är att genom intervjuer med några kvinnor från en tjejgrupp på facebook försöka bidra samt förklara hur dessa kvinnor framställer sig själva och hur medlemmarnas självbild påverkas utifrån andras framställning. Följande frågor har vi avgränsat oss till: Hur frams

Inspired by what appears to be a nationalist turn in cultural policy-making across Europe, this thesis is concerned with the recent upsurge in the canonisation of Danish culture as it seems to somewhat contradict the cultural policy priorities pursued by the supranational and intergovernmental bodies of which Denmark is a member. The purpose of the research is to investigate how collective identit

This thesis examines the recently implemented Swedish airline tax. It focuses on two areas surrounding the tax. The first being the dual objectives of increasing efficiency by internalizing the climate externality of aviation and reducing emissions to aid in the completion of Swedish climate goals. The second being the effect of the tax in relation to those objectives. Elasticity estimates for air

Gender Studies departments have struggled to legitimize their own space in the Swedish academia from 70´s. Even when the institutionalization of Gender Studies can be told as a success story, its departments continue to be quite paradoxical spaces in the academia, where the feminist oppositional tendency seems to collide with academic standards and requirements. Additionally, this clash is aggrava

The aim of this study has been to investigate how treatment staff perceive and relate to gender in everyday institutional practice. Throughout my study I examine how the treatment that aims at creating change and normalizing the young clients can be expressed on the basis of a gendertheoretical approach. My ambition has been to make it visible how the staff perceive and make gender in an instituti

Detecting lies is crucial in numerous contexts, including situations in which individuals do not communicate in their native language. This study investigated the influence of nonnative language use on lie detection in written statements. An online study prompted 100 native English speakers, referred to as judges, to assess the veracity of truthful and fabricated accounts of job experience written

The Danes’ have the highest municipal waste generation per capita in the European Union and it is estimated that 40% of residual waste is biowaste. Fortunately, it is possible to address environmental pressures and counteract resource loss from incineration by the process of bio-gasification of collected biowaste in Denmark. However, despite efforts to reduce barriers of convenience and accessibil