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Sri Lanka has been a leading example among developing nations in the fight against poverty. Human development has been a priority of the Sri Lankan government, and many social indicators are today more in line with those of a developed country. Still poverty is a severe and widespread problem in the country. The economic growth has been under the country’s potential, and the unequal development ha

The purpose of this essay was to look at how the Swedish Prison and Probation Service and the Social Service work with children who have parents in prison and what they can do to ease the contact between the children and their parents. In our study we have used different questions regarding parent role, gender, child perspective, contact possibilities and collaboration. We have interviewed six pri

Jag presenterar invändningar mot två av Jason Stanleys argument mot kontextualism i Knowledge and Practical Interests (2005). Kontextualism hävdar att sanningsvillkoren för kunskapstillskrivningar varierar med kontexter genom kontexters kunskapsteoretiska standard. Det ena av Stanleys argument som jag invänder mot går ut på att kontextualism inte kan förklara att kunskap är kontextberoende genom aI object to two of Jason Stanley's arguments against epistemological contextualism in Knowledge and Practical Interests (2005). Contextualism is the thesis that truth-conditions of knowledge ascribing and denying sentences vary according to contexts in which they are uttered by the context's epistemological standard. Against Stanley's argument that the burden of proof is on the context

Naturliga faror kan inträffa överallt på jorden. När en naturrisk inträffar kan detta leda till en stor inverkan på människor, miljö och samhälle för lång tid framöver. Naturliga faror klassas då som naturkatastrofer. Värst drabbade är utvecklingsländer, där ekonomin, infrastrukturen och de sociala skyddsnäten är sämre än i industriländer. Naturkatastrofer har ökat markant det senaste århundradet Natural hazards can occur anywhere. Natural hazards become natural disasters when they have great impact on people and environment. Developing countries are more affected than industrial countries. Natural disasters have increased in number the last century, mainly due to the following reasons: climate change, population increase, urbanisation as well as degradation of the environment. Crisis mana

Den samlande gemensamma bilden av ett folk, den s.k. nationella identiteten, används för att legitimera nationalism. Alla politiska intressen kan använda sig av nationalismen på grund av dess relation till ett folks gemensamma identitet. I linje med en sådan politisk teori presenterar den här magisteruppsatsen thailändsk nationalism. Det är politisk metod som ligger bakom nationalistisk propagandaNational identity, the unifying image of a people, is used to legitimate nationalism. Because of its relationship to a populations’ common identity any political side can make use of it. This essay presents Thai nationalism in line with this political theory. Behind nationalist propaganda we find a political method. The elite holds the political power and also the contemporary key to how inclusive

We need universal policies that can embrace the broad masses in the society. At the same time, this does not mean that these policies are good for everyone. There could be local knowledge and experiences from individuals that universal education policies fail to notice, see or neglect. It is important to have universal education policies that can embrace the broad masses. It is also important to k

In recent years considerable investments have been made in the Swedish infrastructure and they are expected to continue in the near future. Large public investments within one particular area stimulate market growth and more companies will choose to establish themselves within this industry. When the market environment changes, even major players with large market shares will have to review their

Empirically the thesis is based on a qualitative inquiry of five companies in the cultural sector. They have all been chosen because of their alternative ways of thinking in relation to the purpose of economic activities. They represent a social criticism not usually associated with entrepreneurship, they are not growth-oriented, they work in both the cultural- and the market sphere and they opera

Konstgjord grundvattenbildning är en viktig teknik i vattenhushållningssammanhang och är idag en av de vanligaste och mest utbredda metoderna i världen för att öka vår grundvattenkapacitet. I många länder har den här tekniken använts under lång tid medan den i andra är i framåtskridande. Tekniken har använts i Europa sedan början av 1900-talet och är fortfarande en vanlig metod för grundvattenförsArtificial groundwater recharge is an important technology in water resources management and is nowadays one of the most common and rapidly spread world wide methods for increasing groundwater capacity. In many countries this technique has been employed for a long time, however in the others it is in progress. It has been used in Europe since the early 1900s, and is still a popular method municipa

Uppsatsen behandlar våld mot kvinnor i nära relationer som grund för flyktingstatus i internationell rätt med svensk rätt som exempel på implementeringen i nationell rätt. Våld mot kvinnor i nära relationer förekommer i alla länder, kulturer och samhällsklasser i världen. Den här typen av våld är den vanligaste orsaken till skador hos kvinnor i näst intill alla länder i världen. Det kan vara mycke

With this paper the goal was to study the pottery of the Iron Age settlement of Uppåkra in southern Sweden, with the view that the ceramic material from this site is indeed a “mass material”. I examined what strategies an Iron Age society might have had for their waste, as waste is something that all societies create and have to manage, somehow. I was curious to know how the waste from this period

With a current financial crisis and a tough competitive environment, all units and departments within the companies have to keep up with the market and its demands. Every time Sandvik sells a machine to a mining company, the buyer faces the fact that they normally have to educate their operators from scratch. This, implicitly, means a period with high risks of failures and mistakes. Training with

England is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. Rewilding creates ‘benefits for both ecosystems and societies’ (Perino et al., 2019). Disadvantaged communities are often those who would benefit most yet are continually side-lined for their more privileged counterparts. Through a literature review and three interviews with experts related to each research question, focus is place

Over the years, humankind have made us dependent on fossil fuels. Not the least in terms of how we transport ourselves and goods. This dependence has a downside. The consumption of fossil fuels is contributing to global warming and climate change. An issue so urgent that we need to take action, and we need to do it now. With global agreements such as The Paris Agreement and The Sustainable Develop

The interest for corporate governance as a research subject has surged over the past decades as a result of a number of publicised corporate scandals. These events highlighted the substantial impact that poor decision making at board level can have on a firm and its stakeholders. In an effort to counter the threat of dysfunctional boards, stricter corporate governance regulations have been enforce

In our society, digital cameras are used for a countless number of different purposes. There are many components going in to making such a complex product but one could argue that the camera sensor and lens make out the heart of a digital camera. Axis Communications AB, founded in 1984, is a Swedish company which pioneered and specialize in digital network cameras. In 1996 Axis delivered the first

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om svenska företag resultatmanipulerar åren innan konkurs. Dessutom syftar denna studie till att undersöka om mängden resultatmanipulering åren innan konkurs korrelerar med hur kapitalintensiva företagen är och med företagens storlek. Metod: Studien har använt den modifierade Jones-modellen för att mäta mängden resultatmanipulering bland 738 svenskaPurpose: The purpose of this study is to examine if Swedish companies perform earnings management four years prior to filing for bankruptcy. This study also aims to examine whether the amount of earnings management before bankruptcy correlates with how capital intense the companies are and the size of the companies. Methodology: The modified Jones model has been used to measure the amount of earn

I sitt arbete mot att förhindra skatteplaneringsförfaranden har lagstiftaren i inkomstskattelagen infört begränsningar mot rätten till att dra av ränteutgifterna för koncerninterna lån. Vid lagstiftningens införande kom detta endast att gälla lån som hänförde sig till förvärv av delägarrätter men då lagstiftningens syfte inte ansågs uppnås utvidgades reglerna till att omfatta alla interna lån. LagIn the legislator’s work towards preventing tax evasion, the legislator introduced restrictions against deduction of interest expenses relating to inter corporate loans. At first, the adjudication process only applied to loans that were attributable to the acquisition of ownership rights within the corporation. But when the purpose of the law was not considered to be achieved, the legislation was

The topic of this thesis is to identify a surface with robot force control. To achieve this a robot performing contact force control on a surface while it also follows a trajectory is needed. All experiments were performed in the robot laboratory at the Department of Automatic Control at Lund Institute of Technology. The robot used was an ABB Irb-2000 robot, equipped with a wrist mounted force and

A method of realigning the quadrupole magnets in storage rings to achieve minimum dipole corrector strengths is described. The corrector strengths after realignment are mainly determined by Beam Position Monitor offsets relative to the quadrupole magnets they have been calibrated against and the extent to which magnet dipole errors stay constant during the realignment. The accuracy to which quadru