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Perceived feeling of insecurity in public space is a complex issue. Fear of violence and crime has been a central theme in politics and media since the 1980’s. Lots of local projects have been conducted in an aim to work with the issues, often in collaboration between the local police force, real estate companies and other local actors. A new structured and knowledge based working model has emerge
This bachelor's thesis analyses the transformation of the Finnish Armed Forces between 2004 and 2017. The aim is to answer the question of what the changes have been like and in what way these changes have affected the Finnish Navy. In the long run, could the changes affect the Swedish-Finnish defence cooperation? The thesis is mainly based on the four defence policy reports published during t
Trade has for long been seen as the most efficient and important measure to increase the economy and welfare for a country. Therefore, several industrialized countries have agreed on different benefit trade agreements towards the LDC countries. One of these trade agreements is the ‘Everything But Arms’ agreement between the European Union and the LDC. However, these trade agreements have been crit
The CFA Franc Zone in Northern Africa is a currency union where the currency has been pegged to the French Franc since 1945. After the formation of the European Monetary Union in 1999, the peg is now against the larger currency Euro and no longer against one single currency, the French Franc. Has the new peg to the Euro had a positive effect on the CFA countries’ trade flow with the Eurozone compa
The topics of regional innovation systems (RIS) and cross-border regions attract increasing attention, but few studies combine the themes. Further, the existing empirical studies of cross-border innovation and knowledge creation analyse one case at one point in time, thus, making it difficult to assess the progress of integration in the regions, as well as the effect of cross-border innovation pol
Time synchronisation is crucial for distributed systems, and particularly for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), where each node is executing concurrent operations to achieve a real-time objective. However, synchronisation is quite difficult to achieve in WSNs, due to the unpredictable deployment conditions and to physical effects like thermal stress, that cause drifts in the local node clocks. As a
Denna socialrättsliga uppsats utgör mitt examensarbete inom juristprogrammet. Syftet med studien är att klargöra om regleringen kring självbestämmanderätten inom hälso- och sjukvården tillåter särbehandling av äldre och om det i så fall orsakar avvägningsproblem i förhållande till självmordsbenägna äldre. För att kunna uppnå syftet har jag undersökt om hög ålder tillåts påverka element i självbestThis essay on social and welfare law is part of my final examination at law school. The aim is to clarify if the regulation about the right to self-determination in the Swedish health care system allows different treatment of elderly and if so is the case, if it causes problems in relations to conditions for suicidal elderly. The subject is relevant partly because elderly persons often are conside
Är tiden för privatliv förbi i och med de nya möjligheterna att fotografera med mobilkameror och installera privat övervakningsutrustning? Diskussionen om personlig integritet och dess samband med bildupptagning är inte ny. Däremot har teknikens utveckling och nya snabba kommunikationsvägar via internet bidragit till att frågan är högaktuell och ett ökat skydd mot smygfotografering och filmning bIs the possibility for privacy long gone as a consequence of mobile cameras and easily attainable surveillance camera equipment? The discussion on personal integrity and its correlation with photography is not a new one. However, recent inventions and new fast communication channels through the internet has elevated the actuality of the issue, and a stronger protection against secret photographin
Problem: The Sandvik quote system does not offer the possibility to deliver the total cost of ownership for their equipment. They have a draft model that is in need of further work and calculation follow‐ups. Purpose: The objective is to finalize the existing model for calculations and to verify the model calculations with comparisons to reality. Methodology: Some of the methods that are used in t
This paper compares and evaluates two survey-based economic indicators’ ability to predict industrial production in Sweden. The economic indicators predictive ability is evaluated in a pre-crisis and crisis setting. Whereas “the crisis” is defined as the recession that took place in 2007-2009 often referred to as “the financial crisis”. More exactly, the total sample is divided into three subsampl
The balance-of-payments-constrained growth theory has emerged as perhaps the most interesting objection to the doctrine of unregulated free trade within the field of development economics. It stipulates that growth is constrained by demand, particularly demand for exports because exports are the only source for foreign currency (assuming balanced current account in the long run) and thus crucial t
The story of Jonathan and David is a part of the deuteronomical view of Israels history from the occupation of the holy land all the way to the exile in Babylon. I am aware of that this is not true history, but it is nevertheless interesting to ask oneself: Why are those people a part of the deuteronomical history? What was the meaning in telling the story in this way? Exegetes and researchers ar
International law is divided into different functional entities governed by different international institutions. The fields of the institutions may intersect and give rise to situations of norm conflict and/or diverging interpretation. This in turn may create legal uncertainty and conflicting State obligations on the international arena. The thesis examines the relationship between the World Trad
The microeconomic literature has for a long time asserted that homos economicus act ration-ally i.e. the choices she makes in life are based upon the fact that she always seeks to maxim-ize her own welfare. By the available information she is capable of calculating which alterna-tive of consumption possibilities that gives her the highest utility subject to its costs and hence, she always makes op
The two most recent parliamentary elections in Sweden were followed by intense negotiation and remarkable long periods of time before government formation. This culminated in comprehensive agreements between the government parties and supporting parties. The January Agreement was the foundation for Stefan Löfven’s government (Januariavtalet, 2019), and the Tidö Agreement is the foundation for Ulf
The constant debate over corporations’ responsibility towards shareholders or stakeholders has provided opinions in excess, though answer few, especially in the context of emerging markets, namely, BRICS. This paper advocates a stakeholder approach that goes hand in hand with corporations’ economic motive. Through the assessment framework developed in the empirical study, an analysis of CSR activi
While the climate crisis is gaining more attention, market mechanisms and individual behaviour changes seem to remain the dominant political answer to mitigate climate change. This thesis aims to examine how blue-collar labour unions in Sweden position themselves in the climate transition. Additionally, it explores ideological frontlines and identifies interest conflicts and power relations in the
Over the past twenty years, the metal detector has received considerable attention, both from archaeologists, private persons and media, among other things because of problems with crimes related to archaeological heritage. Archaeologists have long pursued a hot debate on the regulations that are in force in Sweden concerning the use of the metal detectors. Comparisons with Danish regulations - wh
Previous research has shown that L1 speakers use Swedish word accents to predict what linguistic material is to follow. This study investigated how L2 learners of Swedish process the word accent – suffix association. Low to intermediate level L2 learners trained this association for two weeks, using the Language Melody Game. Before and after training, participants took part in a pre- and post-test
I denna uppsats kommer det skatterättsliga neutralitetsperspektivet hos fastighetstransaktioner att diskuteras och särskilt fokus kommer att ligga på stämpelskatten. De fastighetstransaktioner som tas upp är överlåtelse, bolagsförvärv och fastighetsbildning. Det moderna svenska skattesystemet bygger på nationalekonomiska teorier och de senaste 30 åren har fokus legat på att få ett effektivt skattIn this essay, the tax neutrality perspective of property transactions will be discussed and a special focus will be put on stamp duty. The real estate transactions which are covered in the essay are transfers, acquisitions and “fastighetsbildning”. The modern Swedish tax system is based on economic theories and in the last 30 years the focus has been put on getting an efficient tax system, wher
