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The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore two dimensions of the firm hierarchy of international market-specific linkages, using data on Swedish manufacturing firms from 1997 to 2007. First, we investigate the productivity ordering with respect to three international linkages; importing, exporting and investing abroad. Second, we explore whether differences in the productivity ordering ac

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

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was established in the post Second World War society in Western Europe. Its emphasis was to resolve the problems regarding the agriculture and non-existing food supplies, by offering subsidies to vulnerable farmers. This was assumed to increase the farmer’s production incentives. Today, CAP constitutes almost half of the common EU-budget, still subsidizing far

Zanzibar, as a part of a developing country in East Africa, struggles with a bad municipal solid waste management system. This master thesis is an attempt to analyse the current waste situation on Zanzibar and the environmental and social effects of four dumpsites in order to give recommendations on how to improve the waste management system. The thesis was made as a Minor Field Study funded by SI

I många svenska hem finns den bruna papperspåsen som matavfallet ska slängas i, men hur många gånger har du inte blivit trött på att den droppar och luktar illa? Ibland kan det kännas lättare att slänga matavfallet i restavfallet för att slippa dessa problem, men det är viktigt att matavfallet sorteras ut för miljöns skull. Därför utvecklas tekniker som kan göra det lättare för dig att sortera matFood waste has received increased attention due to its negative environmental and economic effects. In Sweden, households account for 71 % of the total amount of generated food waste. A large portion of this food waste is thrown in the residual waste instead of being source-separated, which indicates a need for improved options regarding food waste disposal. This study aimed to assess how in-sink

Kriget i Jemen har nu pågått i sju år och FN-organisationer beskriver den humanitära situationen som den värsta i världen just nu med över 20 miljoner människor i behov av akut humanitär hjälp och för ca 11 miljoner av dessa är behovet akut. Förenade Arabemiraten och Saudiarabien leder en militärkoalition mot Huthirebellerna i ett krig där båda sidorna i konflikten har begått brott mot den interThe war in Yemen has now entered its seventh year and human rights organizations are describing the humanitarian crisis as the largest in the world with over 20 million people in need of humanitarian aid, the need being urgent for 11 million of them. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi-Arabia are leading a military coalition against Houthi-led forces in a war that has seen violations agains the i

Climate change adaptation is taking a more visible role in the planning agendas of countries, cities, and communities. With increasing attention being paid on the different approaches and practicalities of selecting and implementing adaptation strategies and interventions to cushion the risks and impacts of climate change. Globally, there have been calls to strengthen adaptation especially among v

This thesis aims to reproduce and improve a paper about dynamic road user detection on 2D bird's-eye-view radar point cloud in the context of autonomous driving. We choose RadarScenes, a recent large public dataset, to train and test deep neural networks. We adopt the two best approaches, the image-based object detector with grid mappings approach and the semantic segmentation-based clustering

Neuronnät är en typ av modell inom maskininlärning, som efterliknar strukturen av sammankopplade neuroner i en hjärna. Som en typ av maskininlärning kan neuronnät anpassa sig från tidigare försök för att förbättra sina resultat. I en dator används en förenklad modell av en kamera för att kunna visa realistiska bilder i datorspel till exempel. Förenklingen innebär att vissa effekter som skärpedjupIt is possible to create images from a computer model closely resembling those taken with a physical camera. To improve the photo-realism and perceived quality of a rendered image, it is often desireable to add realistic effects that do not appear in computer graphics due to the camera model. One of these effects is depth of field, where a physical camera with a lens can only focus at one specific

With the technological advancements of the 21st century, online pornography has become increasingly available to children and adolescents, and this research aims to investigate how individuals who started watching pornography at an early age experience pornography. The study implements a phenomenological approach and is based on 13 qualitative interviews with participants who started watching p

This thesis investigated the ambitions of Japan in the space sector through the development of the country’s space programme. Drawing on content and discourse analysis of policy, law, strategy documents, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency website and documents about the ISS, this thesis explored how Japan has been articulating their space ambitions since 2000. It aimed at analysing the ambitio

Diskrimineringslag (2008:567) trädde i kraft den 1 januari 2009. Lagen erbjuder ett bestämt antal avskilda grunder som en missgynnande handling behöver ha samband med för att diskriminering ska kunna anses föreligga. Diskrimineringsgrunderna utgör avskilda kategorier och kan varken kombineras eller adderas. Kategorierna utgörs av kön, könsöverskridande identitet eller uttryck, etnisk tillhörighet,The Discrimination Act (2008:567) entered into force on the 1st of January 2009. The act offers a set number of separate grounds with which a disadvantageous action needs to have a connection for discrimination to be considered present. The grounds for discrimination constitute separate categories and can neither be combined nor added. The categories consist of gender, gender identity or expressio

Title: To make a living by library music; Opportunities and prerequisites. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how a music producer or composer can achieve placement of his or her music in commercials, TV-shows, computer games, and other media. What is required to make a living by composing and producing music today? This is a qualitative study made by interviewing six persons, who all in

The regime theory is the dominant paradigm in the studies of urban politics in USA. It provides a set of concepts to analyse the change from government to governance in the American local politics. The regime theory postulates that governing power in local government tends to be highly fragmented. The private sector has with its control of economic resources a major influence in shaping governing

Smålands museum, the museum of Småland, is a museum for the county of Kronoberg, a mission given to the museum by the state and county council. The main fields of the museum are the cultural heritage and the history of culture of the region. The museum of Småland is also the Swedish museum of glass. This Master s thesis focuses on the information requirements of the employees at the museum of Smål

There were certain behaviours that were more or less correct during the 1950´s Cold War. Men had their fixed positions in society and women theirs. Men were the breadwinners and women were house makers. (McEnany, 52) Single men could easily become homosexuals or go to prostitutes and it was the women´s duty to tame those wild men. It was women´s obligation to make sure that their men were satisfie

The first purpose of this thesis is to investigate if, how, and why the perceived collective identity in the town of Karlskrona has changed. Collective identities can due to their socially constructed nature change rapidly in light of new collective experiences. The reason for suspecting such a change in Karlskrona is the immense impact that the change in the global economy, according to Saskia Sa