The fear of a loss in competitive advantage due to increasing costs and prices is an argument often brought up against compliance to human rights and labour standards. On this basis, the present thesis is researching the association between compliance to labour standards and factory survival in the Cambodian garment sector. The latter is an important driver of industrialization in the country. At

In Sweden, the concept of gender equality is presented as a self-evident and self-explanatory collective goal that is rarely further examined or questioned. Based on the assumption that concepts of gender equality, supposedly self-evident, actually subsume different meanings, the aim of this study was to examine how political players and school authorities articulate the concept of gender equality

Chromatography is a separation technique frequently used in the purication of medicinal drugs. In studies and project at the department of chemical engineering at Lund University a large amount of data have been generated through the use of their research software Orbit and their ÄKTA chromatography system. Methods have been developed for visualization of this data but there is currently no good w

The relevance of grassroots innovations for higher citizen participation in the sustainability transition of electricity systems has been progressively increasing. Renewable energy cooperatives are grassroots innovations that envision an electricity system where citizens become producers and consumers of electricity from renewable sources instead of being dominated by big energy companies dependen

I takt med att världen blir mer medveten om hur människans beteende påverkar jordens klimat, ställs också högre miljömål. Ett hållbart energisystem är en del av dessa miljömål och att övergå till enbart förnybara energikällor är ett verktyg för att uppnå dessa. Övergången till endast förnybara energikällor riskerar dock att medföra problem, bland annat så kallad effektbrist. Effektbrist är inget nAs the world becomes more aware of how human behavior affects the earth’s climate, higher environmental goals are also set. A sustainable energy system is one part of these environmental goals, and switching to only renewable energy is a tool to reach such goals. However, a system with only renewable energy can be vulnerable at time periods of reduced production of electricity, with a subsequent r

I en bransch som i allt större utsträckning präglas av hållbarhet och miljö, blir det allt viktigare att hitta sätt att återvinna och återanvända snarare än att nyproducera. Ett exempel på detta är när det kommer till de obundna lagren, bär- och förstärkningslager i vägöverbyggnaden. Till dessa används traditionellt bergkross och naturgrus, som bryts från bergtäkter. Dessa material är inte oändligIn an industry that is increasingly affected by sustainability and environmental matters, it is becoming more and more important to find ways to recycle and reuse materials rather than producing new materials. An example of this is when it comes to unbound pavement materials, such as the base and subbase layers. For these layers, mineral aggregate and natural gravel is traditionally used, which ar

With an aging population, the need for elderly care is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. One challenge associated with this growth is hiring and retaining home care workers. The aim of this study was to investigate factors in the psychosocial work environment that may be of value to make people stay in elderly care. There are several factors at play, however the present study foc

Kemiindustrin har en betydande roll på den globala marknaden och dess produkter hittas i nästan alla tillverkade produkter. Kemiindustrins påverkan på klimatet är stor och sker både genom hanteringen av dess slutprodukter och även i själva produktionen. För att ställa om industrin för att hejda den globala uppvärmningen krävs att de största företagen är med i omställningen. För att undersöka föret

Research on employment and Covid-19 has shown that women across the world have shouldered many negative socioeconomic consequences of the current global pandemic. This study looks at the relationship between gender, having children, and living with a partner, and the likelihood of losing employment or experiencing a decrease in paid working hours during the first wave of Covid-19 in the EU27 count

Problem description: A vast amount of research has been done on outsourcing due to the trend of outsourcing activities to low-cost countries that have influenced the manufacturing industry. However, many researchers emphasize that there is not enough research conducted on the subject of insourcing decisions. Hence, it is necessary to explore this area further to create a deeper understanding of th

This paper contributes both to investigating the relationship between the macroeconomic environment and stock market liquidity and to reviewing existing empirical evidence related to this relationship. We develop and examine panel data regression models for stock market liquidity based on macroeconomic factors. Initially, we evaluate the liquidity measures and their viability in respect of the Swe

This thesis takes upon the explorative discussion of the role of architecture as a tool of age integration, which means this is a manifesto appealing to the architectural discourse. The thesis started off with the goal to design a facility that is age inclusive, but after conducting research and discovering different places that work with this concept, my aim has shifted. This aim has been readdre

Syfte: Att beskriva patienters psykiska hälsa efter ett cancerbesked. Bakgrund: En cancerdiagnos är ett svårt besked till mottagaren som påverkar den psykiska hälsan på flera sätt, där bland annat stress är ett av dem. Patientens livskvalitet påverkas också. Det är inte bara själva cancerdiagnosen som påverkar den psykiska hälsan utan även cancerbehandlingen. För att kunna hantera detta besked och

På uppdrag från Trafikverket har en utredning om PAH-detektering inom vägteknik genomförts för att kunna ge förslag på hur de bör utforma ett kommande undersökningsprogram. Polycykliska aromatiska kolväten, PAH, är en grupp organiska föreningar som är en del av vägtjära. Vägtjära användes som bindemedel i asfaltsbeläggningar i Sverige under nästan 50 år, fram tills 1973. Flera PAH har visat sig vAn investigation regarding PAH detection in road pavements has been put together as an assignment from Trafikverket. The purpose of this investigation is to put forward suggestions about how they should shape their upcoming research program. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, PAH, is an organic chemical compound which is found in road tar. Road tar was used as a bonding agent in asphalt pavements i

An attempt was made to create a museum that focuses on the issues of democracy, migration and human rights by the Swedish authorities in 2015. As a result of the feasibility study of such an institution, the Museum of Movements (MoM) began to operate in its temporary location in Malmö. In September 2020, it was decided that the museum would no longer be financed by the Swedish government and the d

Denna uppsats har som syfte att undersöka hur lärare kan utforma en normkritisk litteraturundervisning i ämnet svenska på gymnasiet. Undersökningen utgår från Ninni Holmqvists novell ”Kostym” för att analysera lärares arbete med värdegrunds- och queerfrågor i litteraturundervisningen. Teorier om litteraturdidaktik, normkritisk pedagogik och queerteori samt intervjuer med svensklärare och novellen The purpose of this essay is to investigate how teachers can provide a norm-critical literature education in upper secondary school. Four teachers using the short story “Kostym” by Ninni Holmqvist were interviewed to evaluate how they incorporate the Swedish school’s fundamental values in their teachings of literature. A theoretical basis of literature education, norm-critical pedagogic and queer

Den svenska offentliga sektorn har under de senaste decennierna varit föremål för en rad förändringar vars konsekvenser satt sina spår i många av dess verksamheter. Förändringsprocessens startskott skedde redan på 1980-talet och den offentliga sektorn präglas sedan dessa allt mer av ökad privatisering, konkurrensutsättning, (de)centralisering och ökade krav på effektivisering. Samtliga ovanstående

Strong online platforms, such as Facebook, Amazon and Google, pose new obstacles in the field of EU competition law. For example, the process of assessing dominance is generally divided into two steps: (i) defining the market and estimating the undertakings’ market shares and (ii) analysis of ‘other factors’ that are indicative of market power. However, since online platforms differ considerably i

This paper explores different aspects of maritime environmental legislation with the goal of identifying the influencing factors associated with achieving compliance with international maritime environmental legislation. International shipping is often considered the most environmentally friendly form of transport, and while this is true, it is still a significant contributor to global warming an

Bolsa Família is one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world. It provides cash transfers to poor households, conditional on human capital requirements such as minimum school attendance. The literature emphasizes that more schooling increases the human capital formation of children, which leads to improved employment outcomes and will break the inter-generational transmission