In March 2011 the Swedish government appointed a committee to investigate and analyze the literature’s situation and the literature area. The committee will not investigate the conditions and positions of the actors on the book market, nor analyze the distribution of the National Arts Council’s literature support – a support with the purpose to encourage publication of quality literature with grea

Both Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now are regarded as outstanding works in their respective field of art. Their reputation rests partly on their artistic value and partly on their preoccupation with topics which were highly relevant at the time of their publication/release. They are for the most part regarded as independent works of a

It is assumed that humanitarian aid in civil war does good by relieving the suffering of the civilians undergoing hardship. However, some authors claim that aid can also lead to the exasperation and prolongation of conflict. In this paper we test the hypothesis that humanitarian aid can lead to the exasperation of conflict in civil wars. Taking Operation Life line Sudan as an example this thesis p

Uppsatsen berör klimatforskningen och det upplevda klimathotet. Utgångspunkten är en rad svenska privatpersoners tankar och känslor kring detta område så som detta kommer till uttryck i svenska medier under de senaste åren. Syftet med studien är dels att identifiera och analysera dessa utsagor, och dels att sätta dem i relation till sociologiska och vetenskapsteoretiska perspektiv på vetenskap i s

För hundra år sedan hade många av oss svårt för att överleva. Med modern läkemedelskonst kan även de svårast sjuka blomstra. Innebär det att vi har satt evolutionen ur spel? Är detta slutstationen för mänskligheten eller utvecklas vi fortfarande?

According to society and the media, many social workers are often exposed to threats or violence, or to threats of violence, at work. Social workers can work in numerous different fields, including in social welfare. The purpose of this study was to examine how such welfare workers experience their work situation from an exposure point of view. A total or four interviews were held with welfare off

This essay investigates the impact on trade flows of the formation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) and whether countries with differences in the degree of exchange rate volatility prior to the adoption of the euro have experienced such trade effects to different extents. The gravity model forms the basis for the study, which is performed using a fixed effects-method on panel data from 24 OECD

Syftet med studien var att utreda om en expertgrupp, bestående av 24 deltagare rekryterade från en larmcentral, hade en bättre förmåga att minnas röster än en kontrollgrupp bestående av 24 deltagare. Försöksdeltagarna testades i ett experiment bestående av en röstdel och en ansiktsdel, varje del bestod av en verbaliseringsdel, som var tänkt att testa fenomenet verbal överskuggning samt en icke-ver

The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the price development over time, the price setting procedure and industry structure theoretically and empirically. From these studies, the aim is to analyze what models are most apt to value agricultural estates.

Finns det kvalitetsproblem i virkesleveransskedjan som påverkar slutkvaliteten på producerade byggnader med trä negativt? För att bringa klarhet i den frågan har platsbesök och intervjuer genomförts på sågverk(3st), hos grossister(3st) och vid mottagning av virke på arbetsplatser(3st). En enkät har också gått ut till 58 stycken produktionschefer i Skåne för att undersöka bland annat vilka kontrollAre there quality problems in the timber supply chain that affect the final quality of the produced buildings with wood negatively? In order to shed light on the issue there has been site visits and interviews conducted in the sawmill (3x), wholesalers (3x) and the acceptance of wood in the workplace (3x). A questionnaire has also been provided to 58 pieces of productionmanagers in southern Sweden

Through time Sweden has become a multicultural society due to the immigration. Statistics show that foreign-born persons have a lot more difficulties to confront compared to Swedish-born people, not least at the labour market. The integration in the Swedish society is often seen as deficient because of the situation at the labour market and in relation to the Swedish language. But integration is a

This paper examines how attractive or beneficial traveling by train is from a price and time perspective in comparison to other means of transport within Germany. These comparisons are carried out using a measure known as the Proportional Net Difference in Cost in addition to descriptive statistics. Comparisons of the attractiveness of traveling by train versus other types of transport are also ma

Makt och maktutövning finns överallt i världen. Denna uppsats undersöker hur maktstrukturer framkommer i Alice i underlandet och diskuterar detta utifrån ett genusperspektiv. Analysen baseras främst på teorier från Max Weber och Robert Dahl.

Hispanic immigration strongly impacts Florida's economic and demographic identity, whose population is projected to become the third largest in the US by 2020. The results from dozens of standard OLS multiple regressions suggest that foreign-born males typically "americanize" within 15 years of arrival in Florida: in accord with Barry Chiswick's broader, years-since-migration var

The drug discovery process has changed dramatically during the last decade. The development of technologies such as combinatorial chemistry has introduced methods to synthesize massive numbers of new diverse compounds. This, combined with High-Throughput Screening techniques HTS, makes it possible in vast numbers to examine the potency in vitro of new compounds. This kind of approach is highly suc

To communicate reliably over noisy wireline or wireless channels, algorithms that add redundancy are used to help reconstruct the transmitted sequence at the receivers. Such error control coding algorithms are today used in all digital communication systems. Optimum decoding algorithms such as the Viterbi and BCJR have very good performances but often too high complexity. Therefore, less complex s

Abstract Development and security have historically fashioned distinct discourses. More recently, they have been inevitably linked both in discourse and policy, having as a consequence the so-called development–security nexus. The goal of this paper is to examine the construction of notions and the establishment and consolidation of the discourses that the main theories that shape the field of