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The vacuum cleaner industry has until recently been exempt of energy labeling in the EU which, unlike refridgerators, cookers and washing machines, has enabled it to turn to power as a main sales argument towards consumers. Both in energy usage and from a styling perspective, power has been and still is a strongly enforced value - making it one of the few domestic appliances that often looks like
“The important criterion for a graph is not simply how fast we can see a result; rather it is whether through the use of the graph we can see something that would have been harder to see otherwise or that could not have been seen at all.” William S. Cleveland When presenting graphs for people with visual impairments the solutions found on the market today often present pure data values only. Over
This thesis covers the use of ensemble forecasts, how they work and their benefits. It will also give a brief history of weather forecasting followed by an evaluation, where ensemble mean precipitation data from the ECMWF is compared to observation data for 21 different observation stations spread across Sweden. From the evaluation, the mean has difficulty representing amounts of precipitation cor
Mot bakgrund av att det ofta påstås att Sverige har kommit långt med sitt jämställdhetsarbete och sin kvinnosyn är det intressant att undersöka hur gamla föreställningar om kvinnor har förändrats i lagstiftning och praxis under en knapp 50-årsperiod sedan brottsbalken infördes 1965 till idag. Syftet med min uppsats är tredelat och i den första delen av uppsatsen undersöks hur utvecklingen av den rGiven that it is often claimed that Sweden has come far in its gender equality work and in its attitudes towards women, it is interesting to examine how ancient notions of women have changed in law and in case law for nearly a 50-year period since the Penal Code was introduced in 1965 until today. The aim of my thesis is divided into three parts and the first part of the thesis examines the develo
I svensk förvaltningsrätt har den generella rätten att överklaga sedan lång tid varit öppet formulerad i lag och lämnats till domstolarna att konkretisera. I praxis har talerätten gjorts beroende av indikationer i lag och förarbeten för att avgöra vilka intressenter som ska ha rätt att överklaga. Tre grunder för saklegitimation kan urskiljas. För det första är den som haft partsställning vid myndiIn Swedish administrative procedural law the right to appeal has long been regulated in a manner which has left it to the courts to decide the specifics. In practice who has the right to appeal has been determined by viewing the law in conjunction with the preparatory works established in its creation. Three different bases for standing can be identified. First and foremost the addressee of a deci
Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) arise from fluctuations in Earths magnetic field and can reach alarmingly high levels and cause malfunctions or blackouts in the power grids in which they occur. AF Klercker Alaküla and Lindahl invented a patented GIC immune transformer which eliminates the effects of GICs, though it is not known how this implementation will affect the transformers behavior
Health and emergency services aim to provide patients with urgent care according to an accessibility policy that is characterized by “proper service at the proper time and place” (Jordan et al. 2004; Murad 2007). Network analysis using geographical information system (GIS) applications has frequently been used in healthcare planning to investigate a population's accessibility to professional c
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
After having received criticism during previous inter-governmental conferences the European union decided to arrange a convention on the future of europe during 2002 in order to draft a European constitution. This was done to foremost to improve the transparency, participation and decision-making in the preparatory phase of inter-governmental conferences. At first, it received little attention, bu
Politics should be constituted by social representativeness in order to be conceptualised as democratic and legitimate. The set of politicians ought to be diverse and heterogeneous with the aim to include a wide spectrum of interest and concerns. The debate about women lacking power in politics was raised in the seventies. The political parties acted in response to the debate by implementing diffe
In this essay a discourse analysis, inspired by Michel Foucault, is applied on the Swedish social democratic party’s policies on employment. Specifically, the feasibility conditions of the discourse are examined – that is, why employment is problematized today. The purpose of the essay is to make visible and analyze conceptions within the discourse which are seldom questioned. Policy documents o
Under hösten 2014 spreds den senare benämnda ”dåliga stämningen” bland Sveriges kyldiskar då branschorganisationen Svensk Mjölk Ekonomisk Förening (Svensk Mjölk) valde att stämma havredrycksföretaget Oatly AB (Oatly) för bland annat vilseledande och misskrediterande marknadsföring. Domen kom i november 2015 och fällde Oatly på de flesta punkter. Fram tills domen föll men även efter fick den svenskDuring the fall of 2014 the Swedish Dairy Association sued the Swedish oat drink company Oatly. The already cold relationship between the two parties got even more tainted. The legal basis for the lawsuit was the way Oatly had chosen to market its oat drinks, which the Swedish Dairy Association found deceptive and discreditable. The judgment was announced in November 2015 with the Swedish Dairy As
This study details the factors which affect the adoption of electronic and online voting in national elections. It researches adoption theories such as Davies' Technology Acceptance model (TAM) and Rodgers' Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) model. The study pays particular attention to three factors - secrecy, trust and accessibility. The paper then focuses on four nations due to their differe
Popular Abstract in Swedish Djurs förmåga att hitta då de förflyttar sig långa sträckor mellan fortplantningsområden och övervintringsområden har fascinerat människor i hundratals år. Det finns flera olika teorier kring hur djur navigerar, till exempel med hjälp av dofter, landmärken, solen, polariserat ljus, stjärnorna eller jordens magnetfält. Att djur skulle kunna använda sig av just jordens maMigration research is a large and diverse field and in my thesis I have focused on the impact of geomagnetic cues on animal orientation, navigation and migratory fuelling. Several animal species from widely different taxa possess the ability to sense and make use of geomagnetic information during migratory or homing events. I used a map showing isolines for magnetic total field intensity and incl
Popular Abstract in Swedish Denna avhandling behandlar konstnären Elis Erikssons liv och verk ur ett semiotiskt perspektiv. Den semiotiska teori som appliceras i avhandlingen ska ses som en kultursemiotisk eller sociosemiotisk teori. Den är därmed uttryckligen kritisk mot den rigida tillämpning av lingvistiska modeller som så ofta förknippas med semiotiska studier inom humaniora. I enlighet med deThe title of this thesis translates as "Elis Eriksson: Objects and Signs" and concerns the life and work of the Swedish artist Elis Eriksson (1906-2006) as analysed from a semiotic point of view. The semiotic theory applied in the thesis is to be regarded as a theory of cultural semiotics or socio-semiotics, explicitly critical towards the rigid application of linguistic models so often associated
Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of medium and large vessels of the body which is mainly characterized by the formation of lipid rich plaques within the arterial tissue. It is the most common cause of cardiovascular disease leading to clinical manifestations of coronary artery and cerebrovascular disease. Immune responses targeting modified low density lipoprotein (LDL) play an im
The aim of this study is to highlight how the collaboration regarding youth criminals works between the police organization and the human service organization in a county in southern of Sweden. We have noticed that collaboration between organizatons can be difficult in our society because of things such as the organizations have different point of views on how they should collaborate, they have di
The intention of this thesis is to explore how four self-defined BDSM practitioners describe and understand their practices. Furthermore, I want to explore if their point of view can help us to understand BDSM in other terms than violence and battery. The interviews are semi structured and were done through instant messaging. By using grounded theory method it turned up that the informants describ
