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This study examines how Japanese women have been portrayed in women's fashion magazines and tests how women's fashion magazines have affected female readers? self-image creations and consumption behaviour. To this end, five copies magazines were selected for visual analysis to analyze the portrayals of Japanese women in the magazines from a gender perspective. In addition, interviews were

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate the influencing factors of the busi-ness potential of products with health claims, using PrimaLiv as an example, and give recommendations on how a dairy producer, which is present in the Swedish market, could improve the sales rates of products with health claims. We have chosen to put a main focus on the consumers, since they determine the busin

The aim of this theoretical study is to explain how the notion of the Other and Otherness affect individuals possibilities to form multiple, personal identities. This is done by the use of the theory of the Other and the construction of identities. In my analysis I will be using the power perspective presented by Lukes. The purpose of my study is also to investigate whether a focus on similarity o

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate the influencing factors on the business potential of products with health claims, using PrimaLiv as an example. And to give recommendations on how a dairy producer, which is present in the Swedish market, could improve the sales rates of products with health claims. We have chosen to put a main focus on the consumer, as he or she determines the b

This study focuses on young adults with mild mental retardation and how their early adult life is a few years after leaving high school. They have grown up in a society where the view on mentally disabled has undergone big changes. Political decisions regarding handicapped, laws, official principles and social reforms have been dominated by the prinziple of normalization. The purpose has been to

Since Denmark's ?no? to the Maastricht treaty in 1992, public opinion and support for European Integration has been the subject of increasing study. Now that referendums play a greater role in the construction of the European Union, as demonstrated by the forthcoming ratification of the European Constitution, European leaders are finding it necessary to pay more attention to Eurosceptic factio

Researchers in the field of political corruption generally expect voters in democratic states to lose trust in corrupted politicians. However, there are cases where corrupted politicians maintain their popularity, a phenomenon studied in this thesis. Focus lies on three cases of political corruption: the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who has been the subject of several judicial investig

Sustainability is an ever increasing field of interest in business management. However, the notions of sustainability are elusive and its implications are not always clear. What is clear though is that being sustainable can enhance a corporate organisation’s competitive advantage. Risk management in general, and fire protection in particular, can be argued to inherently provide benefits of a susta

Large and strongly growing organizations tackle the issue of finding a way to decide which business requirements to fulfill and which projects to move forward but often forget the strategic. Once a strategy has been developed, its implementation appears to be seen as a matter of operational detail and tactical adjustment. As efforts and resources risk to be put on the wrong projects, how do you ma

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between alexithymia, exhaustion syndrome and well-being. The examination was designed as a crosssectional study in which the measures TAS-20, KEDS and BBQ was administered by a survey online. A total of 557 participants were recruited. The results showed that higher degree of alexithymia was connected to more severe symptoms of exhaustion s

This essay aims to explore to what extent the municipality is able to influence the type of housing that is produced in new development projects, on the basis of adhering to the ambition of developing a socially sustainable housing supply. This is investigated through a case study of Brunnshög in the municipality of Lund. Interviews combined with analysis of planning documents as well as literatur

The aim of this study was to investigate school counselors perspective and their view of the concept honour-related violence and oppression. We have explored how school counselors perspective are taken into consideration when they define the students who live under honour-related violence and oppression. Furthermore the study also aims to describe the school counselors comprehension on their work

Europeiska kommissions förslag till en ny Dublin IV-förordning lades fram den 4 maj 2016, COM 2016 (270). Med hjälp av detta instrument ska det vara möjligt att fastställa vilken medlemsstat som är ansvarig för att granska en ansökan om internationellt skydd från tredjelandsmedborgare och statslösa personer som underställs Europeiska unionen. Förslagets effektivitet kommer att studeras genom dess The European Commission’s proposal for a new Dublin IV Regulation has been on the table since 4 May 2016, COM 2016 (270). With the help of this instrument, determination of the Member State responsible for examining an incoming application for international protection from third-country nationals and stateless persons to the European Union should be possible. The proposal’s efficiency will be stud

Software security has become an increasingly hot topic of debate during the last few years of cyberattacks, especially now that we are entering the era of Internet of Things. How does the developer of a product decide which software to include from a security perspective and is it possible to create a tool for software comparison that the developer could use for this purpose? The aim of this thesi

Flera länder runt om i världen har valt att effektivisera sin brottsbekämpning genom att vidta åtgärder som öppnar upp möjligheter till förhandling mellan brottslingar och brottsbekämpande myndigheter. I Sverige kan rätten använda sig utav strafflindringande omständigheter vid påföljdsbedömningen, omständigheter som i dagligt tal kommit att kallas för billighetsskälen. En av de situationer som omfSeveral countries around the world have chosen to streamline their law enforcement by taking measures that enables opportunities for negotiation between criminals and law enforcement authorities. In Sweden, the court can make use of mitigating circumstances during the sentencing, circumstances that in daily speech have been called for the reasons of fairness. One of the situations covered by the g

This case study seeks to contribute to an ongoing discussion about planning for a sense of community by exploring which approach is used by the municipality of Linköping when planning for the neighbourhood Vallastaden. Vallastaden is presented as a neighbourhood planned to create meetings and a local sense of community. However, in times of increased mobility and digitalisation, this local scale o

The purpose of the report is to study the yellow cycle route in the city of Lund and investigate the inadequacies that could be found on today's route. The yellow cycle route goes from Dalby in the south to Gunnesbo in the north. The method used to answer the questions of this report is literature study and a technical inventory. The analysis of the studied route is based on Lund’s cycle strat

With population growth, urbanization and political instability affecting the MENA region, people in Jordan have been facing a number of challenges. From the Israeli-Arab war of 1948 until 2011, with the Syrian crisis, waves of refugees arrived to Jordan fleeing conflicts. Additionally, man-made issues such as mismanagement of resources and a top-down approach in the decision-making have worsened t

Slash fiction emerged in China in the 1990s with the rising polarity of Japanese animation and manga culture, and it has rapidly developed into a cultural icon of the whole nation, especially among female fans. The major objective of this thesis is to investigate female slash writers in China as well as how they see slash fiction in their daily lives in terms of gender equality, friendship ties an