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During the 21st century, right wing populist parties (RPP:s) all over Europe have started entering the political parliaments. The Sweden Democrats have, like few others, had a fast growing political success in Sweden, growing from about 7% in the 2010 election to about 20% in the 2022 election. With their success, it is inevitable that the sociocultural and sociopolitical discourse has changed. Th

Idag finns det uppsägningsregler inom arbetsrätten som möjliggör det för arbetsgivaren att särbehandla på grund av ålder vid anställningens upphörande, vilket resulterar i att arbetstagare kan komma att missgynnas på grund av ålder. Samtidigt finns det diskrimineringsregler som ska skydda mot åldersdiskriminering, bland annat inom arbetslivet. Därför undersöker denna uppsats hur uppsägningsreglernToday, there are termination rules in the labor law which enable the employer to take age into account in certain termination situations, which results in workers being disadvantaged due to age. At the same time, there are discrimination rules to protect against age discrimination in the labor market. Therefore, this essay examines how the termination rules in the Employment Protection Act relate

The literature on sustainability transitions analyzes structural shifts towards more sustainable consumption and production patterns. Recently, it has been recognized that structures transcending national boundaries can both hinder and promote sustainability transitions. In this context, multi-scalar transition trajectories have been outlined, suggesting, among other things, that sectoral transfor

Background: Children’s need for play is intertwined with health and development. For many children public playgrounds represent environments that are playful and important in developing good health. Without efforts to facilitate climate adaptation of outdoor playgrounds there may be a loss of health and well-being during childhood and their future lives. Purpose: To explore the reasoning and descr

Bakgrund: På grund av krig, förföljelser och kränkningar ökar flyktingströmmarna i världen. Antalet människor på flykt 2021 var 89,3 miljoner. Miljöförändringar som asylsökande och flyktingar upplever påverkar alla aspekter av deras dagliga liv och uppfattning om sig själva. Begränsade möjligheter till meningsfulla aktiviteter i mottagarlandet har en ytterligare negativ påverkan på hälsa och välbeBackground: Refugee flows worldwide are increasing due to war, persecutions and harassments. In 2021 the number of refugees globally reached 89,3 million. Environment changes influenced asylum seekers and refugees in all aspects of daily living and self-concepts. Limited opportunities to participate in meaningful activities in the host country had a further negative impact on health and well-being

This thesis examines the effect of past acquisition experience, industry momentum, past acquisition performance, CEO change, joint ventures and cancelled transactions on the likelihood and performance of subsequent cross-border acquisitions made by Swedish listed companies. We investigate learning effects for acquiring companies by using an organizational learning theory framework and use logit re

This thesis presents a closer look into the application of the Merger Regulation on various transactions concerning the concentration of undertakings, and it begins with an analysis of the legislative winds of change leading up to its adoption, followed by a closer assessment of some of the results of the reform with relevance to the basic theme of the thesis, namely efficiencies. Furthermore, the

Taking in to consideration the countless human rights violations and impunity in Africa, there is not a shred of doubt about the dire need for effective human rights protection mechanisms at continental level. This concern has mainly increased due to the Africa Commission’s poor track record of enforcement of human rights norms in the region. Hence, it is in the effort to cure the ills suffered by

The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of traditional stop-loss rules and trailing stop-loss rules compared to the classic buy-and-hold strategy. The evaluation criteria of whether stop-loss strategies can deliver better results are defined as return and volatility. The study is conducted on daily equity returns data for stocks listed on the OMX Stockholm 30 Index during the t

Abstract This paper analyses the concept and the construction of homosexuality in relation to the issue of gender and feminism in Ethiopia. While Female homosexuality is simply overlooked, male homosexuality has been criminalised under Ethiopian law with imprisonment up to three years. The media and the elite has been creating homophobia in discourse and linguistic terms; however, it is the church

The threat of change and the loss it can incur creates the need to preserve a detailed version of the past. Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford can be interpreted as a piece looking backwards as a means of looking forward; acknowledging and commemorating the existence of a rich and detailed past allows for the closing of its chapters, and thus eventual movement into a new future. In this paper I will

The production of core material/blocks is divided in multiple steps. Before the hardening process the blocks are placed horizontally in stacks of 10 on a pallet. Between each block plastic spacers are placed to insure a spacing of 5 – 8 mm in between the blocks. This is done to achieve a better water flow and cooling efficiency in the hardening chamber. The use of plastic spacers complicates work

There is a need to make the front and specially the window on the phone more resistant to scratches and marks. The main reason for this is that scratched windows will spoil the appearance of the complete phone and customer will perceive variations on visual aspect that could make them change the brand. The improved scratch resistance for the front will also improve the yield during the production

Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB has for the production of Optima 3, decided to replace the existing welding equipment with a new laser-welding process, to weld the spacer that keeps the fuel rods in place at the fuel box. The author wrote this master thesis for the department of Mechanical construction, MKON within the Faculty of Engineering of Lunds University. The goal was to examine Westinghous

The purpose of this study is to examine the change in consumer behaviour regarding the intention towards buying fruit when the layout of the fruit section has been altered. We want to increase the probability of making impulse purchases by altering the layout. In our study we have combined structured quantitative observations with structured quantitative as well as qualitative interviews, with sec

Price and output stabilities determine the success of monetary policy in either economy. This paper briefly examines the monetary policy strategies of three developed countries (USA, UK, Sweden) and three developing countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan). It is found that the developed countries follow some rule-based monetary policy whereas the developing countries with ill-organised monetary sy

The aim of this essay was to examine, from the relative's angle, which actions and behaviour that had an effect on how the relatives valued the encounters with the personnel at so called group housing for persons with cognitive disabilities. The constructional frame of the investi-gation originated from two presumptions. Firstly that the encounter between people is af-fected both by the person

Since 2008, a picture is emerging of a global rush of the world’s farmland, referred to as land acquisition. Several factors underpin these land acquisitions such as the financial crisis and the food prices hikes of 2007/8. Another key driver behind the deals is the biofuel boom that has been a major cosmopolitical topic the last few years. Land acquisition refers to when a wealthier nation, firm

With the perception from literature that the partial concepts within SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) Sexual Health (SH); Reproductive Health (RH); Sexual Rights (SR); and Reproductive Rights (RR) where used more or less interchangeably and to an uneven frequency, my aim for this paper was twofold – to find the distinctions between the partial concepts and through framing theory su