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Over the past two decades several central banks have to varying extent and over different periods used unconventional monetary policy in order to govern stubbornly low inflation rates. As policy rates decrease to near zero or even negative levels for prolonged periods of time, the risk premium on financial markets as well as the cost of debt is altered. This thesis examines how equity valuations o
This thesis establishes an understanding of violence as discourse in the setting of Turkish prisons, during the death fast in the early 2000s. It uncovers discourses embedded in the acts of torture, hunger striking and force-feeding, each able to produce certain kinds of subjects. Investigating the interplay between power logics that underpin these violent practices, the thesis contests the idea o
To roll its dung-ball along straight paths across the African Savanna, the ball-rolling dung-beetle Kheper lamarcki (Mac Leay, 1821) utilizes a broad repertoire of celestial compass cues. These include the position of the sun and the polarization pattern that forms around it. It is hypothesized that a celestial snapshot of these cues needs to be stored in order to support orientation. However, it
Introduction The global prevalence of HIV is still increasing and the AIDS epidemic has become an endemic disease for the inhabitants of South Africa. UN states that AIDS was the second leading cause of death in adolescents, age 10-19 on a worldwide basis. Southern Africa has the most densely HIV inhabited countries in the world. In Sweden the incidence rate of HIV is 4.3 cases per 100,000 lived p
This thesis analyzes the effects of mountain tourism on local people and communities in Nepal with a focus on three main questions: the equity of mountain jobs, the impacts of Western mountaineering’s dominance on local cultures, and the respect and lack of respect for local workers' lives. Despite repeated accounts of precarious and dangerous working conditions the adventure and mountain tour
Huvudregeln gällande en stats brukande av våld framgår av artikel 2(4) i Förenta nationernas stadga. Av artikeln så framgår ett förbud för såväl hot som bruk av våld. Då det görs i syfte att inskränka en annan stats politiska oberoende eller territoriella integritet. Till detta så förbjuds även sådana hot eller bruk av våld som kan anses vara oförenligt med Förenta nationernas värdegrund. Av artikArticle 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations presents the general rule regarding states use of force in international relations. The article states that all members are obliged to refrain from threat or use of force against another member states political independence or territorial integrity. Additionally, actions of threats or use of force that are in violation of the purposes of the United
This study examines the long-run impact of air pollution exposure at the month of birth and during pregnancy on labour outcomes in Germany. I match air pollution levels on a federal-state level to a longitudinal survey sample on individuals born in Germany. The study focuses on individuals born between 1985 to 1992, as this time period relates to consistent economic growth in Germany. The main ide
This master's thesis explores the use of unsupervised machine learning techniques to cluster countries based on their degree of human rights violations. Accordingly, the study evaluates the performance of two clustering methods, K-Means clustering and Latent Class Analysis (LCA), using two cluster validation metrics (Silhouette Coefficient and Dunn Index), as well as an Accuracy measure using
This bachelor’s thesis research focuses on information security. With the growing use of technology in research, information security has become an increasingly important concern for academic institutions, which face, among other, challenges related to the protection of sensitive data from unauthorised access, theft, and misuse. The research purpose was to explore the current information security
Online transactions, networking, also online shopping of goods & services have exponentially increased. Digital markets have been preferred by consumers, businesses. Undertakings are competing to persuade customers. Well established business groups gain dominant position in the market and more possibility to avoid new entrants, avoid competition. Conversely, new entrants face huge competition,
This study exploits the introduction of a new prioritization criteria for food security interventions to estimate the marginal impact of such programs. Findings indicate that, in municipalities assigned to receive nutrition policies more intensely, the number of children receiving micronutrient supplements was higher. In addition, being prioritized was associated with a very small improvement in n
This thesis will investigate how Erik Hobsbawm’s theory of ‘social banditry’ can be applied to a contemporary setting to explain the strength and workings of ethnic Albanian organised crime groups. The paper will delve into a pre-existing debate surrounding the effectiveness of this theoretical lens as a method to account for the global phenomenon of banditry (particularly in the feudalist age).
Colombia is advancing its mitigation and renewable energy policy instruments implementation. Specifically, the country has introduced support schemes for electricity generation from renewable energy sources (RES-E) and a national carbon tax. Therefore, these two instruments interact within the climate-energy policy mix. However, the interaction between them could be complementary or overlapping de
Right-wing populism has spread across the European continent during the 21th century, this paper examines if this also is the case on the social media platform Facebook. Through the use of multivariate ordinary linear regression models the thesis seeks to answer if right-wing populist parties and leaders in 12 western European countries generate more followers on their official Facebook accounts t
This thesis explores the functions of memory, collective identity, and communication of those same categories to the reader by means of the poetic form in Hanna Rajs’ poetry collection Under månen (2020). Situated or framed within a discussion on Holocaust Literature, Rajs’ poetry is considered in the light of a general historical purview of Holocaust writing, and her specific place within an auth
This essay investigates the effects of a same-sex teacher assignment on female and male 8th grade students in Australia and New Zealand using data from the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). I employ the first difference (FD) method introduced by Dee (2007) to analyze the impacts on students' math and science academic achievements, as well as their attitudes toward these subjects
This text is an attempt to re-evaluate the significance of Roman imports in Scandinavian contexts as well as to answer overarching questions concerning frontier zones, and the building of core-periphery relationships. This is achieved by applying the Roman concepts of hospitium and dona militaria as well as theoretical frameworks such as provincial ritual practices and cultural hybridisation to a
The first aim of this project is to make high-order harmonic (HHG) setups more compact and user-friendly, by including a micro-channel plate (MCP). Simulations of the transmission properties of an MCP has been performed. These simulations displayed introduced structure in the far field, but a very well behaved beam in the near field. Further, the wavefront of the zeroth order diffraction spot of M
