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The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact, in magnitude and direction, of some preliminary push-pull economic forces on the decision of Finland people to migrate to Sweden in the time period 1960-2009. It also aims to see how different people respond to those forces active based on their sex, marital status and age, 15-30 and 50-65 and strives to oversee which economic factors were mor
This Master Thesis in Technical Mathematics at LTH, directed towards simulation and computation,has treated the subject of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) for incompressible flowwith small vibrations. The open source packages DEAL.II and OpenFOAM have been used to create a coupling between a finite element formulation for structure and a finite volume formulation for fluid ( gas or liquid ). A s
Vetevendosje is a Kosovo-Albanian social movement which main political demand is self-determination. Social movements most commonly disappear or get institutionalized when reaching their political aim. What is interesting is that Vetevendosje did not follow this pattern. Even though the prime minister of Kosovo declared independence on the 17th of February in 2008, Vetevendosje is still alive and
A considerable number of studies on historical and some third world populations have reached a magnificent consensus that both mortality and fertility do respond to economic changes in a surprisingly shared pattern. Such response, however, remains a great deal of controversy, obscure and inconsistency in the secular industrialized countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the association betw
Despite that diarrhoea accounts for 16.5 percent of the total child mortality in Kenya little is known about how nurses work to prevent diarrhoea. The aim of the study was to investigate what kind of information and to what extent nurses inform women how they can prevent diarrhoea in their children. The study was performed in three phases. In the first phase scientific articles on diarrhoeal preve
European strategic autonomy has been a fluctuating discussion since the end of the Second World War. It has primarily been the project of France, but has mostly failed to materialise. This is partly due to other European states’ worry that such a project would become an extension of French national interests. Some of the strongest opponents of an exclusive European defence cooperation have been sm
Syftet med foreliggande undersökning var att göra en utvärdering av en preliminär version av ett grammatiskt test som bygger på processabilitetsteorin (Pienemann, 1998) for att se hur väl det fungerar och for att ge forslag till eventuella omarbetningar infor det fortsatta arbetet med testet. Ytterligare ett syfte var att undersöka humvida processabilitetsteorins utvecklingsnivåer går att tillämpa
This thesis uses Vietnamese household’s surveys from 2006 and 2008 to assess income inequality in Vietnam and households access to credit in order to boost their income. Three econometric models are introduced to explain which factors affect income, household’s value and loan value, all important factors in order to obtain loans in theory. The Vietnamese financial market is still underdeveloped wh
The Formula for Unification via a National Community which has been the official unification formula of South Korea has served as a framework for reunification policies of previous South Korean governments. The thesis focuses on the community-building approach of the South Korean formula and explains why a formula which prioritized economic-community has not served as an adequate formula for South
This thesis investigates what kind of inequality the world is concerned about today and compares traditional and new measures of inequality to see how these measures relate to current views on fairness and justice. The analysis is based on different theories of justice and measurement princi- ples, and the relationship between each measure and the theory is investigated. Latin America and the
The world around us is urbanising at a faster rate than ever. Today more than 70 per cent of the European population lives in urban areas, especially small and medium-sized cities. Often, cities are the centres of economic growth. In the context of urban pollution and climate change, cities are at the core of European policies due to their ability to be the ‘places’ where solutions and innovations
I och med övergången från den svenska konstruktionsnormen, BKR, till den nya europeiska normen, Eurocode, har både karaktäristiska värden och tillvägagångssättet för beräkning av träts hållfasthet förändrats. Trä som konstruktionsmaterial är även specifikt påverkat, då ett nytt klassificeringssytem har införts i samband med övergången till Euorocode. Träts hållfasthet har överlag blivit nedimensio
I dagens samhälle räcker det inte med en produkts relativa överlägsenhet för att garantera dess framgång på marknaden. Snabb ekonomisk utveckling och avancerad teknologi har lett till knivskarp konkurrens på den globala marknaden. Genom ökad marknadstransparens och avancerade kommunikationer underlättas tillgänglighet till information samt genomförande av gränöverskridande transaktioner. Det har bIn today’s society, the relative superiority of a product is not enough to guarantee its success on a marketplace. Rapid economic development rates and advancing technology has led to a more competitive global market. Increased accessibility to information and cross-border transactions is a result of market transparency and advanced communication techniques. Creating product imitations or very sim
Spain has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world in 2012. This study asks, why, through studying, which food environment some Spanish parents create for their children. It studies the historical perspective of resources of food and the image of body and health this interpretatively has generated. Moreover, it studies the social circumstances of the studied parents, how they de
As the global economy expands, international carriage of goods is playing a more and more important role all over the world. Interdependence of shipping with other commercial activities including insurance is one of the features of international carriage of goods. In the present international business climate, insurance contract is an effective method through which one recovers losses from underwr
This thesis looks at the phonological changes and variations of Putonghua, the standard language spoken mainly in the People‟s Republic of China (PRC). It examines how linguists and other scholars regard these changes and also how the PRC government has reacted to their recent upsurge in broadcast media. While some scholars view language developments, including phonological such, as something expe
The purpose of this paper is to examine if pornography can constitute a human rights violation. This will be done analysing arguments for and against pornography in relation to human rights conventions and a general human rights perspective. The study concludes that pornography from a convention perspective is a social pattern to be modified, while the human rights perspective proposes pornography
