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To address child labour, research discusses the potential of social protection programmes. This thesis therefore examines the unresolved impact on child labour and children’s school attendance of its household members’ participation in the public employment programme MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. By applying the combined difference-in-differences propensity score matching method,

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Effekter av förorenat vatten på grödor Sötvatten är en allt mer begränsad råvara och snabbt växande befolkningar i länder med begränsande vattenresurser är speciella problemområden. Egypten är ett sådant land, vars enda källa till sötvatten är Nilen. Egyptens befolkning var 21 miljoner 1950 och beräknas kunna vara 129 miljoner 2050. Alla dessa människor behöveAbstract The Bahr El-Baqar drain is considered one of the most contaminated waters in Egypt, and along the drain the farmers use its water for irrigation. This study aimed to investigate effects of this irrigation water on crops, with special focus on metal contaminants, using wheat (Triticum sp) as model species. Also, protective effects (against heavy metal poisoning) of adding mycorrhiza form

This paper explores the phenomenon of male rape and how the international community recognizes sexual violence against men. U.N. resolutions on sexual violence have been analysed in order to study how men are included or excluded as victims of sexual violence in conflicts. By excluding men as victims from research and policymaking on sexual violence, an important part of the understanding of sexua

The Chinese economy in central and western regions is not as developed as eastern coast. There is a big discrepancy between various regions in economic development. The disparities of Chinese regional economy have become the main problem, since it affects China’s continued economic prosperity, social stability, national unity and it’s attracted by world attentions. This study intends to analysis t

The Chinese economy in central and western regions is not as developed as eastern coast. There is a big discrepancy between various regions in economic development. The disparities of Chinese regional economy have become the main problem, since it affects China’s continued economic prosperity, social stability, national unity and it’s attracted by world attentions. This study intends to analysis t

Rising construction costs, expensive building material and low profitability are problems that the construction industry today is struggling with. NCC's goal is to reduce production costs by 5% per year between year 2008 and 2012. Virtual construction is a part of this effort. Using object-oriented 3D-models increases the opportunity of identify errors that have been made during the project pl

Student–industry activities are often heralded as win–win–win activities in which students gain knowledge of their future professional fields, companies access student knowledge, and universities both offer students stimulating learning opportunities and strengthen ties with industry. Student–industry projects can be defined as an active learning methodology characterized by pedagogical values suc

Reference attribute grammars (RAGs) is a powerful formalism for developing modular extensible compilers and program analysis tools. This paper presents JavaRAG, an implementation of RAGs as a Java library that is independent of the abstract syntax tree structure. This makes it possible to extend legacy compilers implemented in Java with RAG computations. We have evaluated the approach by integrati

We are concerned with software that can self-adapt to satisfy certain reliability requirements, in spite of adverse changes affecting the environment in which it is embedded. Self-adapting software architectures are heavily based on dynamic binding. The bindings among components are dynamically set as the conditions that require a self-adaptation are discovered during the system's lifetime. By ado

The purpose of risk management in the development of safety-critical software is to eliminate or reduce harmful behaviour. In health-care it is essential to manage risk related to software due to its increased use in medical devices and other computer systems. This paper presents some of the experiences gained from an ongoing case study at a large hospital in Sweden. The study focuses on identific

Since software development is of a dynamic nature, the impact analysis is an inevitable work task. Traceability is known as one factor that supports this task, and several researchers have proposed traceability recovery tools to propose trace links in an existing system. However, these semi-automatic tools have not yet proven useful in industrial applications. Based on an established automation mo

A measurement of the jet activity in t (t) over bar events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented, using 2.05 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The t (t) over bar events are selected in the dilepton decay channel with two identified b-jets from the top quark decays. Events are vetoed if they

Reference attribute grammars (RAGs) have proven practical for gen- erating production-quality compilers from declarative descriptions, as demonstrated by the JastAdd system. Recent results indicate their applicability also to generating semantic services in interactive editors. For use in editors, it is necessary to update the attribution after edit operations. Earlier algorithms based on statical

Designing decorrelated MIMO antennas in small mobile terminals at frequencies below 1 GHz is challenging since more than one antenna tend to excite the single resonant mode available to a typical chassis structure. This challenge increases even further when multiple frequency bands are required from each antenna. Recently, a design framework to obtain efficient and decorrelated MIMO antennas based