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In modeling unsteady compressible viscous flow problems with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, time adaptive implicit methods are needed to solve the initial value problems that arise when discretizing the equations in accordance with the method of lines. The methods most used in industrial code today are a family of multistep methods called BDF-methods. Because BDF-methods with higher ord
Music has a role to play in every country and every culture. Sweden today is a country whith many different cultures, religions and music genres. The purpose of this investigation is to study how immigrants youths profit from music education on the basis of music teachers' perspectives. Questions at issue are: are there immigrant children/ youths who can not take part in music education? Have
High frequency words are easier to recall compared to low frequency words in lists of only one frequency-range. This effect disappears when words of different frequencies are mixed in a list. Word frequency effects have often been assumed to rely on associations between words. The relationship between word frequency and associations was investigated by controlling associations using Latent Semanti
The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the success factors of M&As in the European energy industry. Thus, the theoretical framework of this work covers both the structure of the European energy industry and the key success factors in M&As. In an event study analysis a total amount of 103 large-scale energy deals in the period between December 1996 and March 2008 are analysed. Ac
The purpose of this study was to gain deeper understanding of how family members to people who died from ALS or malign brain tumours experienced the time from when the diagnosis was given to the actual time of decease. The frame of questions during this investigation was: How was the diagnosis given? How did the family members experience the care provided by the hospital’s neurological department?
The Stockholmprogramme was recently adopted by the European Council. In a five-year period the focus of EUs work should be in the area of justice and security. Human rights defenders has criticized the European Union for promoting the security of the Union before human rights. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the contradictions in the Stockholmprogramme about the right to seek asylum and
The realisation that climate change will have serious effects on human life has activated the wider human rights community, which is now searching for an entrance into the global issue of our time. So far, most efforts by human rights practitioners have been concentrated on the overarching problem of global injustice, which relates to the right to development. However, in estimating the effects
Studien undersökte grundskolelärares inställning till att bli utvärderade av sina elever. Metoden var kvantitativ och en enkät utformades av författarna för att förstå lärarnas inställning. Svar från 55 grundskolelärare analyserades och presenterades i studien. Resultatet visade att grundskolelärare inte anser att elevutvärderingar kan bidra till att förbättra undervisningen. Lärarna trodde att de
The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of today’s consumers’ behavior, specifically how consumers perceive product packaging attributes, and whether those perceptions make a difference in their purchase decisions. To investigate the research area specified above, an exploratory experimental approach was taken, along with a qualitative research strategy. The study is based on Packa
We can more and more often hear in the media about multinational corporations conducting human rights abuses. This is due to the fact that this discussion, surrounding corporations and human rights, is a hot item on the agenda today. Higher demands are put on the companies to follow human rights and to take more responsibilities in the promotion and protection of human rights. One of the reasons f
Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka hur de senaste årens effektivisering inom socialpolitiken förändrat socialtjänsten och dess arbete, med utgångspunkt i Försäkringskassans ändrade regler. Försäkringskassans nya regler som trädde i kraft i juli 2008, har inneburit att sjukpenningen är begränsad till ett år. Regeringen har på så sätt implementerat arbetslinjen i sjukförsäkringen så tiThe purpose of this essay has been to investigate how the latest years of effectiveness in social politics has changed the social services and their work with starting point in the changed rules for social insurance in form of sickness leave. The new rules which emerged in July 2008 have meant that sickness benefits is limited to one year. This occurred in the time when labour market policy become
The aim of this study is to investigate the World Bank Development Report from a perspective of human capabilities. Of interest is to understand the meanings of the deve- lopment issues stated in the report, and how they affect individuals living in development countries. In this way, the complexity of the problems can be illustrated. The purpose of this paper is to use Martha Nussbaum’s theory ab
The latest years have seen the worldwide interest around wind power increasing significantly. Italy as well has joined this global movement. But does the Italian wind power industry have the capabilities for a substantial and sustainable future growth? This paper analyzes the Italian wind power sector using a slightly modified Porter’s diamond model in a comparative analysis with the Spanish one,
The theory of the hedonic wage model and compensating wage differentials dates back to the times of Adam Smith, and this study attempts to investigate, using econometric analysis, whether the Swedish labor market can give any claim to these theories. A brief background to the health economics discipline is followed by relevant theory and research in the field of compensating wage differentials. Us
SKV har sedan en lång tid tillbaka varit av uppfattningen att ägare till fåmansföretag ska förmånsbeskattas för dispositionsrätten till rörelsefrämmande egendom oavsett faktiskt nyttjande. När det gäller rörelsetillgångar i fåmansföretag anser SKV att sådan egendom som huvudregel endast ska förmånsbeskattas i de fall där faktiskt nyttjande ägt rum. I de fall där rörelsetillgångar på olika sätt kanSKV has a long held the view that owners of closely held companies should be taxed for the benefit outline the rights of the non-operating property, regardless of actual use. As regards the operating assets of closely held companies believe SKV to such property as a general rule should only benefit is taxed in cases where actual use took place. In cases where the operating assets in different ways
Tanzania is an illustrating case of how gender inequalities hinder the social, economic and political development of the country. Women’s subordinated position is an alarming factor which takes intricate forms grounded in traditional African culture and patriarchy. The struggle of existing laws does hence not reach out to the majority of women, leaving them unaware of their rights. Further, a numb
We investigate stability issues for steady states of the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system numerically in Schwarzschild, maximal areal, and Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates. Across all coordinate systems we confirm the conjecture that the first binding energy maximum along a one-parameter family of steady states signals the onset of instability. Beyond this maximum perturbed solutions
