Sökresultat

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in subnational levels of governance as sites of potential and renewed ambition on climate change. One recent challenge to dominant neoliberal discourses of climate governance is legislation enacted in Wales, which places sustainable development as the central organising principle of local government. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis, supplemen

Heavy-duty vehicles of today consist of much electronics and many sensors. One of these sensors is a longitudinal accelerometer. This Master's thesis investigates the possibilities to determine the road slope angle with a longitudinal accelerometer. With the knowledge of current road slope angle, many other control systems in the trucks can be improved. The optimization of these control system

The problem I investigated was about man whom commited sexual outrage. My purpose with this problem was to know how to understand a man who commited sexual outrage. I used a qualitative method in order to illuminate the problem. To investigate my problem I met two male prisoners whom commited this kind of crime. The questions I used was divided in three topics: "How was the situation for the

This composition deal with the phenomenom and concept moral panic. It is thoroughly a theoretical composition and therefor has exclusively secondary material been used. The purpose of the composition have been that the writer shall study and analyse how the concept moral panic have been used and defined by the scientists who created and used the concept. The composition have used the three followi

This essay considers whether one can set criminal youth "right". The purpose was partly to illuminate how youths in NFG (Non Fighting Generation) in Halmstad described what use they could get of the membership, and partly to explain for what reasons they would chose a way of life against violence and criminality. I have done qualitative interviews with members of NFG in Halmstad. I start

Undersökning och hantering av arsenikförorenade brunnar i Nicaragua Arsenik förorenar dricksvatten i Nicaragua och framkallar cancer. Lösningen är enkel: sand, tegelstenar och järnspikar. Varje år dör hundratusentals människor till följd av arsenikförorenat dricksvatten. Världshälsoorganisationen WHO listar arsenik på topp-tio-listan över de kemikalier i världen som hotar människors hälsa mest. The awareness of problems concerning arsenic contaminated drinking water sources has during recent years increased. WHO (World Health Organization) decided in 1993 to lower the recommended limit of arsenic in drinking water from 50 μg/l to 10 μg/l, mainly due to observations of its carcinogenicity. New places where the WHO limit for arsenic is exceeded are constantly discovered all over the world.

Undersökning och hantering av arsenikförorenade brunnar i Nicaragua Arsenik förorenar dricksvatten i Nicaragua och framkallar cancer. Lösningen är enkel: sand, tegelstenar och järnspikar. Varje år dör hundratusentals människor till följd av arsenikförorenat dricksvatten. Världshälsoorganisationen WHO listar arsenik på topp-tio-listan över de kemikalier i världen som hotar människors hälsa mest. The awareness of problems concerning arsenic contaminated drinking water sources has during recent years increased. WHO (World Health Organization) decided in 1993 to lower the recommended limit of arsenic in drinking water from 50 μg/l to 10 μg/l, mainly due to observations of its carcinogenicity. New places where the WHO limit for arsenic is exceeded are constantly discovered all over the world.

Since the Washington consensus in the 1980s, economic liberalization has been seen as a panacea for increasing the economic development and the welfare of a developing country. By reducing trade tariffs and barriers, moving from a socialistic economic system and removing state monopoly on major exports, it is believed that a developing country will increase its income and economic growth while ben

The question ‘What is Vulnerability’ is hard to answer. This thesis deals with this question by investigating narratives of vulnerability amongst staff members at DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture. Drawing on the thoughts, theories and epistemology of understanding vulnerability by Erinn C. Gilson and Judith Butler, this thesis seeks to uncover how vulnerability is narrated amongst staff

Authors: Ida Lingegård and Gabriel Skarrie. Title: “Third sector as actors of integration” - A qualitative study about swedish- somalian organizations’ work with integration. Supervisor: Lotti Ryberg Welander. The purpose of this study was to see how swedish-somalian organizations in Skåne define and work with integration. We’ve done four qualitative interviews with people working for different sw

Title: Logistic planning on construction sites Author: Anton Grönvall Viktor Baum Supervisor: Radhlinah Aulin, Department of Construction Management, Lund University Faculty of Engineering & Elias Hallberg, Peab bostad AB Examiner:Stefan Olander, Department of Construction Management, Lund University Faculty of Engineering Purpose:The purpose of this rapport is to analyze how different constru

In order to alleviate the financial burden on the healthcare sector as well as relax its employees’ workload, there is a need to introduce novel tools that automate some of the tasks that today are performed manually. Especially pathology poses a problem with few pathologists, demanding manual labour and unnecessary work on benign tissue. As a response, the DOGS project aims to develop a tool to a

Using Drosophila melanogaster as a study organism, we tried to find differences in male and female attractiveness due to female-limited X-chromosome evolution (FLX). In the first part of the experiment, we tested the male attractiveness (measured as female preference) of the FLX-populations and as a control group we used the LHm-population. (LHm comes from a large laboratory-adapted population co

This study is about the Europeanization of national politics in Sweden, based on the analysis of empirical data collected from the government ministries and offices. The focus of the study is to answer which policy areas are subject to a high-level of Europeanization, as well as investigate whether we can identify the level of Europeanization within the Swedish government ministries and the overal

Recently, municipal social departments have been effected harder by budget cutbacks. The aim of our study is to investigate how social workers’ discretion has been influenced when assessing actions under the impact of the budget, the law and the consideration of client needs. The study has been conducted using a qualitative approach in which seven semi-structured interviews were held with social s

The purpose of this essay was to investigate and gain a deeper understanding of how newly graduated social workers express professional approach in the meeting with clients. Our questions were how recent graduates define professional approach? How do newly graduated socialworkers experience that education and practical experience have contributed to their development of professional approach? What