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In the 2002 election, the Swedish conservative party, Moderaterna, did their worst election in over twenty years. After the 2002 election the party managed to become successful and in eight years the party has doubled their voter support, and has together with the parties from Alliansen managed to win two elections in a row. This study focuses on Moderaterna’s success in Swedish politics in the la

Abstract: The physiological responses of two Hong Kong acorn barnacles, Tetraclita japonica and T. squamosa differed under identical heat stress conditions. Both species experienced increased body temperature and mantle water osmolality with higher temperatures and prolonged emersion time. Species comparisons however, showed that T. japonica had warmer body temperatures and more concentrated osm

Within-country inequality varies greatly between countries. Despite much research about the determinants of this inequality there is little consensus on what the underlying factors are. This thesis looks into the connection between political institutions, integration and inequality. Both institutions and integration has previously been put forward as important determinants of within-country inequa

Title: Team Works Seminar date: 2012-06-01 Course: ENTN09, Entrepreneurial Project, Business Administration, 7.5 ECTS Author: Robin Eriksson Advisors: Dr. Tomas Karlsson and Ragnar Ahlström Söderling, Key words: Entrepreneurship, New Venture Creation, Teamwork, Group Dynamic, Purpose: The purpose of this personal reflection is to study and analyse what makes a successful team in theory, and how

Backgrund: Nederman har ett långsiktigt mål att förbättra enheten i Helsingborg. Ett steg i detta är att se om det finns några förbättringar att genomföra i lagerstyrningen i form av lager- och servicenivåer. Detta då de anställda upplever dagens verktyg som ganska trubbiga för det nuvarande produktsortimenetet och att detta kanske kan förbättras genom ytterliggare en dimension på det befintliga s

I Sverige drabbas omkring 300 barn av cancer varje år och majoriteten av dem är bara fyra-fem år gamla när de får sin diagnos. Omkring två tredjedelar av barncancerdiagnoserna utgörs av leukemier, lymfom och hjärntumörer, medan den sista tredjedelen är olika solida tumörformer som njurtumörer och nervvävnadstumörer i buken. Cancersjukvårdens utveckling under de senaste årtiondena har medfört en avPurpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of including PET (Positron Emission Tomography) in the process of pediatric radiation therapy planning. The aim was to study the effect on target volumes and how this in turn affects the resulting treatment plans. This study also aims to compare the estimated risks of various long-term complications and how the use of PET influences the

Preferred acoustic characteristics in a room can vary depending on the purpose of the room. A room adjusted to e.g. teaching may not be suitable for music practice and a room suitable for one type of instrument may not fit another. The judgement of what defines good and bad acoustics is subjective and differs among individuals. Practice rooms at music schools are good examples of rooms were the ac

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) from 1989 is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this paper we want to see how Save the Children Sweden relates to the CRC in their work. The material that has been used to compare and investigate Save the Children Sweden's project the Compass (2008) is their annual reports between 2008 and 2011. Reynaerts (et al.) C

Förbudet mot åldersdiskriminering implementerades i svensk lagstiftning den 1 januari 2009 genom en sammanhållen Diskrimineringslag (2008:567). Bakgrunden till förbudet återfinns i EU:s direktiv 2000/78/EG om inrättande aven allmän ram för likabehandling. Direktivet fastställer att åldersdiskriminering i arbetslivet måste bekämpas för att likabehandlingsprincipen ska kunna genomföras i medlemsstatThe prohibition against age discrimination was entered into force on 1 January 2009, through the comprehensive Discrimination Act (2008:567). The Swedish protection against discrimination on the grounds of age are based on the Directive 2000/78/EC Employment Framework, whose purpose is to combat age discrimination in the working life and to put the principle of equal treatment into effect in the M

The fight about the syringe - a discourse analysis of the needle exchange debate The debate about needle exchange had been going on for twenty years in Sweden when the Act (2006:323) on the exchange of needles and syringes was introduced in 2006. But still the syringe exchange program is only implemented in Skåne. The purpose of this study was to, with a social constructionist and discourse analy

In recent years the debate on local democracy and its gradual weakening has become increasingly lively. Citizens’ lack of commitment and engagement has been recognized as one factor of explanation to this decrease. The principle of a representative democracy is being jeopardized. This thesis is a case study of Skånedialogen in Skåne Regional Council. Deliberative polls were developed by James S.

This research study has sought the contextual understanding of young adults’ realities and the perpetual use of violence within heterosexual intimate partner relationships in Hanuabada village, Papua New Guinea through an interactive transformative approach. Peer interviewers guided the researcher’s tasks and conducted semi-structured interviews utilizing a photo voice methodology to investigate t

This study investigates the implementation of the EU cohesion policy in a Swedish context. The EU cohesion policy aims to, through the Structural funds, diminish the economic and social differences between less-favoured and affluent regions in the EU. However, there has been a paradigm shift in Swedish politics; from income equalization and redistribution to the poorest regions, towards a greater

Sweden is renowned for its centralized wage bargaining system, which has been studied for decades from the point of view of inflation, wage differentials and unemployment. A coordinated system in place since 1997 has been compared to the centralized system of the postwar era, while other scholars have pointed to differences in how the institutions work in practice. This paper studies media coverag

Over the past decades, global warming has led to a lengthening of the time window during which temperatures remain favorable for carbon assimilation and tree growth, resulting in a lengthening of the green season. The extent to which forest green seasons have tracked the lengthening of this favorable period under climate warming, however, has not been quantified to date. Here, we used remote sensi

The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to neodymium-glass lasers produced reasonably well-behaving picosecond pulses. This triggered an intense activity, with respect to developing improved laser pulse sources, measurement techniques, and application to chem

Background: The Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR) are developed to promote public health and to prevent food-related diseases such as obesity and cardiovascular diseases. Objective: To investigate the nutrient intake and adherence to the NNR in a Swedish cohort with abdominal obesity. Design: Dietary intake data were collected using 3-day food diaries and anthropometry and clinical chemistry

Most microalgal species are geographically widespread, but little is known about how they are dispersed. One potential mechanism for long-distance dispersal is through birds, which may transport cells internally (endozoochory) and deposit them during, or in-between, their migratory stopovers. We hypothesize that dinoflagellates, in particular resting stages, can tolerate bird digestion; that bird

There are many indicators that the representative democratic system is currently facing serious legitimacy challenges. Two central indicators of these challenges are changing patterns of political participation and a decline in system support. Against this backdrop, a growing number of governments claim that democratic innovations (DIs) could reconnect institutions with citizens. This thesis focus