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Powwow is a gathering of North America`s native people. North American native people meet to dance, sing, socialize and honor Native American culture. The thesis seeks to understand why the North American natives uses powwow as a way of manifesting their identity and cultural affiliation. The thesis also seeks to understand how the North American natives and the powwow movement is represented at t
This master thesis explores some ideas about interaction design of mobile communication and mobile devices. In initial studies the definitions of mobility and communication are summarised as a foundation for deeper understanding of the interaction between the user and the technical devices. Also additional studies about future usage and human behaviour are presented. Based on additional user obser
This thesis analyses the failure of the post-war cadastre reconstruction that has been taking place in Kosovo since 1999, from the perspective of post-development theory. The “failure” is to be understood not as that the project process failed, but that the project failed in the sense that the finished product (the cadastre register) is not being used to the extent it was intended and is therefore
This project is about trying to decrease bullying in Swedish schools. The project is limited to discover bullying among children between the ages 6-9 years. It is primarily aimed to classmates who stand by and watch without interfering. The result is an open tool consisting of felted wool balls representing the pupils voices. They put the balls into a container that signals either positive or nega
This thesis is a study of the Hebrew word nešer, which is the name of the bird most often mentioned in the Old Testament. What kind of bird it is, is not defined in any of the texts in which it occurs, but the modern interpretations call it either an eagle or a vulture. The purpose of this thesis is to see if it is possible to define what kind of bird it is, see how it has been used in the Old Tes
This study investigates the possibility of implementing a public transport system in the Croatian city Koprivnica. In 2000 Koprivnica signed the Aalborg Declaration that commits the city to work towards a sustainable development of the city including upgrading pedestrian and bicycle pathway. Firstly the paper examines the current status of the city to locate the important target points and possibi
This study investigates the relationship between mortgage rates and other interest rates such as the repo rate and the long-term rate and whether this relationship has changed due to the financial crisis in 2008. This is done through time series estimation for eight European countries (Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and United Kingdom) over the period 1999-2011 using quart
Realising social justice has been one of the central goals of the International Labour Organisation since its inception. Yet today the unique environment and dangers associated with working at sea make the world’s 1.2 million seafarers a particularly vulnerable group, both in terms of their physical safety and mental wellbeing, and concerning the realisation of social justice. Social justice is a
Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera vilka förväntningar lokala aktörer har inför Eurovision Song Contest i Malmö. Vidare vill vi få klarhet i vilka svårigheter som uppkommer vid tillfredställandet av förväntningarna. Uppsatsen präglas av en kvalitativ forskningsansats, i form av djupintervjuer med diverse lokala aktörer samt två projektledare från Malmö turism. En deltagande observation har u
An aim with this master thesis is to evaluate when, according to Swedish building code, design of structural fire protection can be carried out using a localized fire as the design fire, i.e. to determine when flashover is not likely. Another aim of the thesis is to examine how a structure is globally affected by a local failure due to a localized fire. One of the goals is to develop a method that
This thesis evaluates the UNISDR led campaign Making Cities Resilient and specifically investigates how cities are matched within the campaign’s initiative city-to-city learning, which factors that may be conducive for successful partnerships as well as whether the participating cities implements activities in accordance with the rights-based approach. The evaluation is partly based on a literatur
Centralt inom marknadsföring och främst dagens moderna reklam är att skapa kreativa kampanjer som fångar mottagarens intresse, en utmaning som även retoriker har stått inför sedan antiken. Uppsatsen syftar till att från ett retoriskt perspektiv studera hur kreativitet uttrycks i fyra prisbelönta reklamkampanjer ur Cannes Lions Awards 2012-2013, samt att diskutera de olika dragens betydelse för rek
The aim with this project is to renew the traditional beehive into a modern and easy to use device. Many people who are interested in becoming beekeepers hesitate due to a number of problems. One is the amount of time that you need to spend working with your bees, it’s also costly to buy all the things that you need for keeping bees and harvesting the honey. You usually need a shed where you can s
Uppsatsen behandlar hur företagen kan vara delaktiga i ett samhällsansvar genom Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), och hur detta ansvar samtidigt kan förenas med aktiebolagslagens krav på vinst. Det tar flera år att bygga upp ett starkt varumärke, men kan röra sig om timmar för att förstöra det, om det visar sig att företaget inte lever upp till kraven på samhällsansvar. Det råder fortfarande
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate how information systems are utilised for capital investment appraisals in organisations in the private and public sector as regards to employees and controllers who are involved in the production of investment appraisals. The conslusion reached is that usage of information systems for capital investment appraisals is affected by individuals’ characterist
The study is a narrative study based on two life history interviews (n = 2) with people who have dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). The study also includes five interviews (n = 12) with professionals, who in their work meet people with DID. The study investigates how people with DID are experiencing the encounter with Mental Health Care and
Frågan om rätt till heltid på arbetsmarknaden har länge varit omdebatterad. Kraven på rätt till heltid drivs såväl av de fackliga organisationerna som av politiker. Det kan vara svårt att försörja sig på ett deltidsarbete, och ur den aspekten har den deltidsanställde ett berättigat intresse av att kräva ett så högt arbetstidsmått som möjligt. Arbetsgivaren har å andra sidan ett intresse av att anpThe issue about the right to work full time has been debated for long time. The demand for the right to work full time is driven by the trade union movement as well as by politicians. It can be hard to earn a living when you work part-time, and from that aspect the part-time worker has an entitled interest to ask for such a high employment rate as possible. On the other hand the employer has an in
An increasingly amount of parents choose to drive their children to the school. The tendency has increased to a point when schools parking areas is too congested which impairs road safety. When motorists no longer have any space to legally unload their kids, they park in unsuitable locations that significantly increase the risk of an accident. The increasing amount of car driving is not only creat
Purpose: The aim of the thesis is to create a prototype model for Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TD-ABC) within Lean Accounting, to study whether it can serve efficiently for cost and resource allocation within Skånes Universitetssjukhus (SUS) and compare TD-ABC with the existing costing method. Methodology: To deepen our understanding of the subject we have chosen to observe a health care p
