This research study aims to examine the effects of economic growth on poverty reduction and income distribution in the Dominican Republic from 1992 to 2016; by employing a broad range of methodological tools used in previous country case studies on the basis of micro-level data, we develop a multidimensional approach that allows us to incorporate an inter-temporal dimension of analysis across the

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine and analyze the discourse on female prisoners in Sweden. To be sentenced to prison requires severe criminality and the lifetime sentence is the most severe conviction to criminal acts. Female prisoners are a small group (six percent of all convicted individuals in 2017) and for that reason there is limited research about these women. Therefore, this d

Fermenterade mejeriprodukter har utvecklats i flera samhällen, och idag är yoghurt den mest populära fermenterade mejeriprodukten över hela världen. En av svårigheterna med bearbetning och modellering av fermenterade mejeriprodukter är deras komplexa beteende, som orsakas av den gelstruktur som bildas under fermentering samt deras anisotropiska natur. För Tetra Pak är de enklaste reologimodellerIt is difficult to predict the flow behaviour of yoghurt during processing because it is a complex fluid that is problematic to characterise. This study correlated measurable flow properties to issues during automatic filling. Yoghurt is currently the most popular fermented dairy product world wide. The complexity of yoghurt causes its viscosity, the property describing resistance to flow, to cha

The following report is an evaluation of the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Center (SECC) located in Gothenburg, where several different exhibitions, congresses and concerts are arranged. The building consists of eight exhibition halls, but in this report the B-hall is the only one being studied. The B-hall is the biggest hall where the largest variation of events is being organized. The aim o

Denna uppsats har sin utgångspunkt i mäns våld mot kvinnor i nära relationer, med särskilt fokus på det stöd som erbjuds utsatta kvinnor via kvinnojourer. En kvalitativ studie har gjorts genom att genomföra sex semistrukturerade intervjuer med kvinnor som arbetar eller har arbetat på kvinnojourer. Syftet med studien var att undersöka bemötande, metoder och brister i arbetet med kvinnor utsatta förThis essay is about men's violence against women in close relationships, focusing on how women are approached in women’s shelters. A qualitative study has been carried out by conducting six semi-structured interviews with women who work or have worked on women’s aid. The purpose of the study was to investigate treatment, working methods and shortcomings in the work with women exposed to violen

The Lundium decay station improves on the existing TASISpec spectrometer used to investigate the nuclear structure of superheavy nuclei by photon- and charged particle-spectroscopy. This thesis aims to explore the potential benefits of the future Lundium station with the augmentation of anti-Compton shields com- posed by a set of BGO scintillator bars. The effects of anti-Compton shields was in- v

According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), the cost of equity estimates are a function of the systematic risk relative to the market portfolio. The market portfolio is a non-observable portfolio containing all investible assets in the world. CAPM is a well-established model in practice. However, most practitioners use an equity-only proxy to calculate the estimated cost of equity. In thi

Default risk is a major source of potential losses to equity investors and the effect of default risk on stock returns have therefore been widely examined by several papers. However, whether there exists an anomalous significant relationship between default risk and stock returns is a rather unexplored subject on the Swedish market. This paper is therefore analyzing 436 firms on the Swedish market

This study investigates the role of China in the development of Cambodia’s building construction sector and identifies some of the perceived impacts of China’s foreign direct investment on the livelihood of the Cambodian local people including construction workers in Phnom Penh. It rests on two theoretical/conceptual frameworks: sustainable development and dependency theory. The methods conducted

Föreliggande uppsats bygger på en undersökning vars syfte varit att utvärdera fanfiction som bearbetningssätt av skönlitteratur i gymnasiekurserna svenska 2 och svenska 3. För att kunna uppfylla detta syfte har elever skrivit fanfiction med en novell som källtext. Jag har sedan undersökt elevtexterna för att ta reda på vad de väljer att imitera från källtexten samt vad det kan säga om elevernas liTranslated title: Time-travel in the classroom – Fanfiction as a way to process fiction in upper secondary school. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of fanfiction as a way to process fiction in upper secondary school courses Swedish 2 and Swedish 3. To reach this aim students have been writing fanfiction based on a short story. I have then examined the students texts to see what they

Socialization into gender roles shapes the perception of the world from an early age which might, amongst others, constrain how one handles challenging situations. Therefore, this research aimed at investigating gender-specific coping mechanisms following life stressors in a nonclinical sample. The present study first hypothesized that women are more likely than men to seek emotional social suppor

Begun in 2010, the Lund-York-Cologne-CAlorimeter, LYCCA, collaboration is targeted at discovering exotic nuclear reaction products whilst implementing the possibility of both position tracking and measuring residual energies of relativistic particles. Each LYCCA module is composed of a double sided silicon detector and 9 CsI(Tl) detectors. This project is primarily focused on the Si detectors, the

The existence of frozen conflicts in Europe are posing difficulties in the application of international human rights treaties. This is due to, de facto governments of break-away regions not cooperating with international mechanisms and refusing to comply with regional and international instruments. The break-away regions of Transnistria and Abkhazia are such examples. Officially part of Republic o

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Swedish state-funded housing concept egnahemsrörelsen, translated into ”own-home-movement”, emerged due to an acute shortage of housing amongst the growing working class. Seven properties were built between 1916 and 1936, funded with governmental loans, by a housing-cooperative of workers in Västra Sorgenfri, Malmö. The aim of this study was to examine if

This qualitative multiple case study has identified and examined two environmental sustainability innovations and their implications on the dairy value chain by utilising an abductive research approach. For this purpose, plant-based and cellular agriculture innovations in the U.S. dairy industry served as the case objects of the study and were analysed in terms of their disruptivness. Thus, plant-

Tanken med examensarbetet var att skapa grund för en framtida torkad produkt baserad på vildsvin. Vildsvin är idag en outnyttjad klimatsmart resurs som det finns gott om i våra skogar. Idén med att göra en produkt av vildsvinskött kom under vårterminen i kursen produktutveckling, som ingår i utbildningen Livsmedelsteknisk. Vildsvinsköttet är ett magert och näringsrikt kött. Enligt VärldsnaturfondeThe idea behind the thesis was to create a basis for a future dried product based on wild boar. Wild boar is today an untapped climate smart resource that there are plenty of in our forests. The idea of making a product from wild boar meat came during the spring term in the product development course, which is part of the Food Technology program. Wild boar meat is lean and nutritious. According to

Utilizing Business Intelligence (BI) technologies is becoming increasingly important in order to make data-driven decisions enabling organizations to stay competitive. However, with long lead times, organizations are not able to take those time-critical data-driven decisions in order to stay ahead. With the introduction of Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) systems, more and more organizati

I Sverige finns det 335 500 hästar enligt Statistiska centralbyrån. Hästsporten är växande och handeln med tävlingshästar har kommit att utgöra en stor del av hästbranschens levebröd. Beroende på om säljaren bedöms vara näringsidkare eller privatperson så blir olika lagar tillämpliga vid en hästförsäljning. Som näringsidkare har säljaren enligt konsumentköplagen (1990:932) ett mycket långtgående aThere are 335,500 horses in Sweden according to Swedish Statistics. The equestrian sport is growing and the trade with competition horses has become a large part of the sports livelihood. Different laws apply depending on whether the seller is considered an entrepeneur or a private individual. As an entrepeneur, the seller has a far-reaching responsibility due to konsumentköplagen (1990:932) (Kköp

The use of the term ‘refugee crisis’ does already suggest a scenario that apparently, the European Union was not expecting and consequently, was not prepared to tackle. As the mass influx of asylum seekers arrived in Europe in 2015, the national reception systems, especially in states of first arrival such as Greece and Italy were disrupted, and the Common European Asylum System was put to a test.