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It is common for Italian women hire domestic workers, often migrants, informally without contracts or contracts which reflects some hours and not the reality. As the country gives a high statistical number of Italian female unemployment the interest in the subject was born. The aim of the research is to get knowledge if the “living law” reflects the “juristic law” among six Italian women with dome
Land degradation has already been treated as one of the most serious problem all around the world. This study is a GIS-based time series study which devotes to calculate annual soil loss value, seek for soil erosion trends linked with precipitation and land use in Manafwa micro-catchment, Mount Elgon region, Uganda. Two different versions of Revised Universal Soil loss Equation (RUSLE) are impleme
In the contemporary or so-called “post-2012” period of climate governance, the question of what a new future climate agreement might entail has arisen in conjunction with the initiation of negotiations on the Durban Platform on Enhanced Action in the climate regime. In parallel to this, larger states, industrial countries as well as developing countries are now dominating the UNFCCC process, seeki
An implementation to convert one of Adobes Flash file-format (xfl) to HTML5 has been created. The problems that need to be solved for completion of this converter are. What programming language should be used that is suitable for the application and locating some form of documentation of the file-format xfl. Javascript was chosen for implementation, but a usable documentation of xfl was not to be
Swedish Development Cooperation emphasizes the need for collaboration among actors on a national level. In that context, the purpose of the thesis is to investigate how Public Private Partnership (PPP) on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) may influence the changing role of the state. The thesis is informed by Critical Discourse Analysis. In order to investigate the social constructions of real
In this paper I have tried to find out the reason the medieval town of Vä was created. I have studied several different areas in witch all, in one way or another, have had an effect on the making of Vä. This areas includes topography, iron production, mill handling, religious effects, royal affliction and also if the name Vä could tell something about Väs history as a religious cult. I have also l
The purpose of this essay was to study how youths think about their youth and future. Our intention was to study in which order of priority today's high school students in Helsingborg ranked family life, education, career and vagabonding. We also investigated what the term adolescence meant to them. Our main questions were how our respondents looked upon their youth and their future. In which
The hedge fund industry has become one of the most creative and innovative areas within banking and finance during the past ten years. Its rapid growth and constant development has made it hard for regulators to mitigate the potential risks posed to investors and the financial system. The aim of this thesis is to discuss the potential need for further regulation of hedge funds, mainly based on the
This document deals with the sustainability trends and the relevance of these trends to Thule AB. The purpose of this report is to advise THULE AB about the trends in sustainable development practices. This document is part of our work thesis for master’s degree in Sustainable Business Leadership Program, at Lund University, Sweden. The research was done with classmates Jorghe Cardozo, Bei Gao and
”It is not normal” A survey about social work students knowledge about different sexualities. The purpose of this study was to examine Swedish social work students thoughts what extent they had knowledge about homosexual and bisexual living conditions. The study also aimed to examine heteronormativity in the University education for Social workers. Earlier research shows that there is little or n
The aim of this study was to examine the professional’s experience of children’s computer use in families where the parents are seeking advice considering the question. Media writes about that the problem only can be found in the child and that most parents are in need of assistance. The study was based on qualitative interviews with five professional’s that have had contact with parents who were
This research paper focuses on historical, arithmetic equity market risk premium in emerging and frontier markets. Equity market risk premium, as we know it today, has been easily estimated in developed markets; whereas, emerging and frontier markets often require different approaches to determine an appropriate equity market risk premium. I make use of a variety of methods, including volatility a
Buildings account for 40% of energy use and about one third of CO2 emissions in the EU. The huge energy saving potentials offered by the building sector has been targeted by a large number of policy instruments. To improve policy intervention in this area, more information on the extent to which the applied policy instruments are supporting the development and dissemination of different types of e
This master thesis is a part of the research project Coping with the new risks: Understanding, Organization and Economics, which in turn is a part of the program Risk and safety in the transport sector (RISIT), led by The Research Council of Norway. One aim of this thesis is to survey train passengers' risk perception of terrorist attacks and their attitude towards security measures. Demograph
