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Background: Scotland possesses the worst mortality outcomes and slowest improvement in life expectancy of Western Europe. Within Scotland, stark inequalities exist in both morbidity and mortality. There remains paucity in assessment of subnational variation in disease burden. Aim: This thesis explored geographical inequalities in burden of disease (BoD) across 32 Scottish authorities. Secondary an

This thesis analyses the size of the foreign exchange reserves across countries and attempts to find the determinants that could explain the differences in reserve levels. Factors such as the foreign exchange regime, country development level, current and capital accounts balance, as well as the fuel-exporter status, are all important predictors of reserve size. The results provide evidence that b

According to TCO (The Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees) the worst threat to the Swedish welfare is that so many people because of bad health and unemployment are not a part of the labour force. If Sweden could make the number of people with health and unemployment problems half the size as today, the GDP would increase with more than five percent. In real money this means 110 billi

I detta arbete studeras hur word of mouth fungerar i praktiken. Word of mouth är passerande, verbal och informell information. I huvudsak handlar det om rekommendationer men även generell information från en person till en annan. Word of mouth är ett mänskligt fenomen som har funnits sedan urminnes tider då människor är kommunicerande varelser. På senare år har dock fenomenet word of mouth blivit

In order to answer the question in the title, a cross-cultural analysis of two countries was done. Countries chosen were the Republic of Latvia and the Kingdom of Spain. The need for this research was suggested by increased cross-border business activities inside the European Union, and the lack of previous studies involving new Member States. The aim of the research was to see what environmental

This study was carried out at Luftfartsverket (LFV Group, Swedish Airports and Air Navigation Services). The aim was to study what characterizes an employer of choice and further to examine how well the employees at Luftfartsverket feel that their employer lives up to this image. A quantitative method was applied in the form of a selfdeveloped questionnaire. It was answered by a random sample of e

Undersökningen i detta arbete utfördes bland 69 anställda på ett företag som berörs av ett skiftformsbyte. Syftet var att undersöka hur de anställda upplever sin aktuella arbetssituation, hur de förhåller sig till det pågående förändringsarbetet samt hur de ser på sin framtida arbetssituation. Två olika metoder användes, en enkätundersökning samt djupintervjuer. Frågeformuläret besvarades av 69 p

This study investigates a group of globalized foreign-born people among the new residents in Malmö who came to Sweden mainly in 2005. The life situation of this group of immigrants is not as well studied as the integration problems of refugees. Since the social and labor migration is increasing in Europe and in the whole world it is worth to study the lives of the globalized people in different as

The aim of this study was to look at introduction for staff in a social service office and the social workers experience off the first period at a new workplace. Qualitative interviews have been used as a method of investigating how social workers look at introduction in the workplace and how social workers have experience the first period at the workplace. The empirical material have been analyse

This thesis intends to point out the limits of exclusively formalist literary criticism. To locate these limits with precision the thesis contrasts the formalist criticism of Monroe C. Beardsley with the critical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The idea for this thesis is based in an experience that strictly rule-governed formalist criticism does not seem to correspond to the fullness of its object,

Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the possibilities for China to create a socio-economic environment whereby the domestic accounting firms can compete with and even challenge the ¡®Big Four¡¯ accounting firms in Chinese auditing market. Methodology The development of Chinese domestic accounting firms is reviewed and analyzed from macro and micro aspects including politi

An important question for the psychology of religion is if religion can be interpreted as a constructive or a destructive force. When people endure a crisis caused by the death of a beloved relative, this subject is more pressing than ever. In today’s society, the religious death rite is the normalized way for the mourner to bid her last farewell , regardless if she’s religious or not. This is one

Examensarbetets titel: Att argumentera för att konsumera. En multimetodologisk studie kring hur konsumenter argumenterar för oetisk konsumtion. Seminariedatum: 2022-06-03 Ämne/kurs: FEKH29, Examensarbete kandidatnivå i marknadsföring, 15 högskolepoäng Författare: Danira Numanspahic, Vera Pamp, Vilma Persson Handledare: Annette Cerne Nyckelord: Oetisk konsumtion, Fast fashion, The Attitude-Beh

During the 1960s, the United States of America experienced a surge of riots and inner turmoil, with the Detroit Riots of 1967 being one of the more violent instances. In a period of heavy turbulence, the need to maintain law and order whilst maintaining the various freedoms laid out by the Constitution became crossed. This essay thus explores the Detroit Riots of 1967 within a constitutional frame

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka tänkbara orsaker till skillnader och likheter i svenska konsumentföretags val att anpassa och/eller standardisera sin marknadsföring till den amerikanska marknaden, samt därefter undersöka om dessa orsaker har ett samband med hur och om företagen väljer att använda sig av sitt svenska ursprung som marknadsföringsmedel.

Before the coming Durban Review Conference against racism the universality in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is questioned as a result of the intense conflict between freedom of expression and religious liberty particularly according to the concept of defamations of religions. The conflict is declared to be the opposition between “universal ideal” and “cultural relativism”. In this inve

A study about the positive and negative effects of bilingualism in bilingual adults.

Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) suffers from inherent ill-posedness due to the vast number of possible solutions to the reconstruction problem. To increase the robustness of such a problem one need prior information. We present here a method for rendering a priori information of the position of a fluorescent inclusion inside turbid media. The method utilizes solely two spectral bands withi