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Written declarations in the European Parliament have not been given much attention in the field of political science. The scope of this Master's thesis is to examine whether symbolic politics are present in written declarations and how this may show. In this study, the aspects of symbolic politics of written declarations of the sixth parliamentary term are examined using a taxonomy for id
The Emissions Trading Scheme represents a new departure in the field of environmental policy-making in the EU. With it, the EU has deployed a market-based instrument to meet its Kyoto Carbon Dioxide emissions reduction commitments. This paper will account for its emergence as a concrete policy output. It will first refer to the historical, ideational and interest-based logics which shaped its emer
This report has resulted in a method to evaluate and map the safety culture within a company. The method consists of two templates. One template, the assessment template, which works as a reference point and one presentation template where simply the facts and status of the company will be presented and evaluated compared to the assessment template. Safety culture relates to attitudes, behaviour,
Today hazard studies are a self evident part of a project plan while creating a new process or making changes in an existing one in the chemical industry. Therefore it is important to make the hazard studies as efficient as possible. The objective for this thesis was to optimise the hazard study processes based on the main methods presently used at Neste Oil Oyj, Neste Jacobs Oy and Borealis Polym
The title, “for she loved much”, stems from Luke 7:47. The aim of this essay is to interpret Luke 7:36-50 using the method of narrative criticism, since the structure and rhythm of the episode is similar to the structure of a novel. The purpose is to inquire into the issues of forgiveness by analyzing whether the sinful woman of the city was forgiven before or after approaching Jesus during the di
Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om de teoretiska fördelarna som Machine Learning kan ha på kapabiliteten hos AI-robotar har fått genomslag, och hur dessa fördelar kommer att påverka hur RPA-robotar placeras i verksamhetsprocesser i form av roll och uppgift. Genom intervjuer med branschexperter och sammanställning av teorier ser vi att introduceringen av ML i RPA-robotar kan innebära en u
Vi lever idag i en värld vars system och strukturer tillåter oss människor att konsumera och producera långt över våra tillgångar. Om inga åtgärder görs riskerar vi oåterkalleliga förändringar i klimat och miljö som kommer att påverka förutsättningarna för kommande generationer. Klimatkrisen är global men vi måste agera lokalt. Nu. Hur vi utformar byggnader och samhällen har stor inverkan på milj
Titel: Vi och nördarna – Individer i ett postmodernt samhälle och dess vilja att identifiera sig med karaktärer i serier Ämne: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, vid institutionen för kommunikation och medier, Lunds universitet. Nyckelord: Identitetsskapande, image, den postmoderna identiteten, The Big Bang Theory (TV-serie), jaget och beundrarskap. Den teknik som idag finns har medfört att
Electromechanical metal oxides, such as piezoceramics, are often incompatible with soft polymers due to their crystallinity requirements, leading to high processing temperatures. This study explores the potential of ceria-based thin films as electromechanical actuators for flexible electronics. Oxygen-deficient fluorites, like cerium oxide, are centrosymmetric nonpiezoelectric crystalline metal ox
Environmentally friendly InP-based quantum dots (QDs) are promising for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and display applications. So far, the synthesis of highly emitting InP-based QDs via safe and economically viable amine-phosphine remains a challenge. Herein, we report the synthesis of amine-phosphine based InP/ZnSe/ZnS QDs by introducing an alloyed oxidation-free In-ZnSe transition layer (TL) at
The London public transport suicide bombings, which occurred on 7th July 2005, were described as the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil to date. Past acts of terrorism have been associated with deterioration in population mental health. They may also negatively impact levels of social capital, which is considered a buffer against poor mental health outcomes. By employing panel data fr
We consider continuous review inventory systems with general doubly stochastic Poisson demand. In this specific case the demand rate, experienced by the system, varies as a function of the age of the oldest unit in the system. It is known that the stationary distributions of the ages in such models often have a strikingly simple form. In particular, they exhibit a typical feature of a Poisson proc
Clinical trials examining insulin-like growth factor-I receptor (IGF1R)-targeting strategies have emphasized that better predictive biomarkers are required to improve patient selection. Immunohistochemical tumor-specific protein expression of IGF1R, insulin receptor (InsR), and phosphorylated IGF1R/InsR (pIGF1R/InsR) individually and combined in relation to breast cancer prognosis was evaluated in
Things are seldom ideal. The quality in information underlying the assessment of risk and support decisions is not an exception. Quantitative measures of uncertainty are extremely useful, but a problem with quantitative measures of uncertainty is that qualitative aspects of uncertainty, e.g. related to weaknesses in background knowledge or deep uncertainty (Cox 2012), are difficult to address.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop, implement, test and further enhance a framework for measuring organizational change initiatives. Design/methodology/approach: The conceptual part of the framework is based on the structured analysis of existing literature. The framework was further developed during an action research (AR) study where the authors developed, implemented, evaluated an
