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This thesis examines and analyses the relationship between the principle of complementarity and the principle of universal jurisdiction. The establishment of the International Criminal Court provides for the first time in history a permanent international criminal institution. One of the most important principles on which the ICC is built upon is the principle of complementarity. The road towards

The purpose of this thesis is to arrive at a definition of lawfulness with respect to the international legal system of today. The idea is to show, how Kelsen's monist theory of international law and Communitarian theory can be used, together, to legitimize the international legal structure, by means of employing, qua concept of approach, the security argument (''peace'' being

Problem: Today's changing environment gives rise to rapid sequence of events and rapid information dissemination. More attention is given to crisis and how organizations should manage them. Today there is much literature and many approaches to illustrate how an organization can optimize their crisis management, but yet crisis continues to generate problems for organizations. We believe that on

Någon enhetlig definition av begreppet molntjänst finns inte, vilket har lett till en mångfald av olika aktörers egna förklaringar och en minst sagt suddig begreppsbild. För att kunna bedöma molntjänstleverantörens straffrättsliga ansvar för molntjänstanvändarens upphovsrättsliga intrång måste därför först begreppet molntjänst tydliggöras. Molntjänsten delas upp i moln, den hårdvara som tillhand

This thesis is a case study with the purpose to add to the discussion of the conceptualisation of Hezbollah. Motivated by the blacklisting of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States Neumanns theory regarding ‘old and new terrorism’ is applied. The three variables that are the cornerstones of Neumanns theory are following; aims, method and structure. In the

Uppsatsens studieobjekt är den organisationsförändring som genomförts inom SEB Pension & Försäkring. Syftet blir därigenom att ämna undersöka vilka implikationer övergången från provisionslön till fast lön medfört, med särskilt fokus på motivation och incitament. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkt utgörs av principal-agentteorin och stewardshipteorin, som är två teorier som gör anspråk på att fThe object of study is the organizational changes implemented at SEB Pension & Insurance. Before the change the sales representatives were rewarded with a commissions-based salary and worked independently without close contact with neither the manager nor their co-workers. After the transformation, the sources of motivation had changed and the importance of collaboration and customer satisfac

De bestämmelser som i dag tillämpas i Sverige beträffande vård av barn och ungdomar som lever i missförhållanden eller som på annat sätt far illa återfinns i socialtjänstlag (2001:453) samt lag (1990:52) med särskilda bestämmelser om vård av unga. Bestämmelserna i socialtjänstlag (2001:453) reglerar den frivilliga vård som kan erbjudas då barnets föräldrar, och i vissa fall den unge själv, lämnat The regulations that Sweden applies regarding the care of youths who live in grievances or in other ways being neglected can be found in socialtjänstlag (2001:453) and lag (1990:52) med särskilda bestämmelser om vård av unga. The rules in socialtjänstlag (2001:453) regulates the voluntary care that can be offered when the legal guardians, and in some cases the youth itself, has given his or her co

This research has explored the intersection between the subject, activism, and posthuman theory, setting out to investigate whether posthuman theoretical understandings can be applied to contemporaneous subjects. Using NVivo software, a qualitative data analysis is conducted into 17 autobiographical texts taken from the anthology Restoried Selves (Kumashiro 2011). This analysis finds that these su

Europaparlamentets och rådets direktiv 2012/13/EU om rätten till information vid straffrättsliga förfaranden utgör en del i en färdplan inom EU att förstärka rättighetsskyddet för misstänkta personer i brottmålsförfaranden. Artikel 7.1 i direktivet införlivades med svensk rätt den 1 juni 2014 genom införandet av 24 kap. 9 a § rättegångsbalken. Enligt artikel 7.1 i direktivet ska den som frihetsberDirective 2012/13/EU on the right to information in criminal proceedings (the Directive) is part of a road map within EU to strengthen the protection of rights of suspects in criminal proceedings. Article 7.1 of the Directive was implemented in Swedish procedural legislation on June 1st 2014 through a new statutory provision in the Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure, 24 kap. 9 a §. According to Ar

Nitrification-denitrification process, which is the most commonly used method for nitrogen removal from wastewaters, is energy demanding and contributes very much to the the carbon footprint of wastewater treatment. One of the alternative methods for nitrogen removal is the nitritation-anammox process. Nitritation-anammox has been implemented successfully in sludge liquor streams and industrial wa

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of both online and offline fault location and state of health technologies for airport series circuits used to provide power to light fixtures on the runway. In current series circuits, only some ground faults can be detected and no automated fault location or state of health features are available. Fault location is currently performed w

The term bibliotherapy is well known in several scientific fields as well as among practitioners in the US and in the UK, but in Sweden there seems to be a more modest use of the term as well as presence of practical bibliotherapeutic activity. On the other hand, some of the effects of reading that are commonly associated with bibliotherapy in the scientific literature seems to be similar to the e

I Sverige infördes en ny lagstiftning om mutbrott 2012. Syftet med lagstiftningen var att skapa en mer ändamålsenlig, mer lättillgänglig och mer modern lagstiftning med tydligare kriterier för straffansvar. I den här uppsatsen kommer jag att utreda lagstiftningens innehåll med avseende på det nya brottet vårdslös finansiering av mutbrott, 10 kap 5 e § BrB. Enligt den nya lagregeln finns det möjligIn Sweden a new legislation on bribery was introduced in 2012. The purpose of the regulation was to create a more efficient, more accessible and more modern legislation with clearer criteria for criminal liability. In this essay I will examine the legislation regarding the new offense of negligent financing of bribery, chapter 10, 5th e § Penal Code. Through this new legislation, it is possible to

There is no illness without a name – A study in the importance of diagnosis The aim of this study was to examine and gain knowledge about the psychiatric disabilities in social work. More specifically we wanted to examine how the diagnosis could impact on a persons prospects of treatment and to see the advantages and disadvantages with being diagnosed. The study was conducted by interviewing eigh

This thesis compares Auto Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) and Generalized Auto Regressive Conditional Heteroscedacity (GARCH) models for three metal commodities. ARMA models have an unconditionally non-random and constant variance, which typically serves well in effectively representing homoscedastic data. The GARCH models feature variable variance that is non-random when conditioning on the past

Cognitive ability can be measured with several different instruments. The first thing that springs to mind is probably IQ or knowledge tests, such as the SAT. In 2005, a new test came out on the market, the cognitive reflection test (CRT). This test was constructed differently, namely to capture cognitive reflection, an ability to use system 2 in an effective way. System 2 is a concept from the du

We study the predictability of sentiment on stock return of the Hong Kong market. We measure sentiment by forming composite sentiment indices from several proxies using principal component analysis and the partial least square method. We find that sentiment measures using either method have similar in-sample forecasting power but the one formed by using partial least square method has better out-o