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In the past century, Sweden has seen vast developments in narrowing the gender earnings gap between men and women. Nevertheless the gap still remains, and has revealed patterns of stagnation in the recent decade. In the presence of a gender earnings gap there is an unequal distribution of economic power between men and women, which may lead to an inefficient resource allocation. Today there is a l
This qualitative mixed methods case study aims to seek understanding of employer branding within the public sector from a New Public Management perspective. The chosen case is two campaigns from the Swedish Armed Forces of 2011 and 2019. Due to political changes in Sweden, the Swedish Armed Forces faced major organizational changes regarding their staffing. Through a text analysis of the commer
In this thesis, it is analysed if cardiac arrest patients can be grouped into similar clusters based on different underlying conditions and clinical variables and if there is a difference between clusters in either mortality or neurological outcome as measured by the Cerebral Performance Categories (CPC) scale. The two data sets both contain a targeted temperature management variable which indicat
The purpose of this essay is to show how every individual’s consumption affects the environment and people all around the world. Our consumption has another price than the financial one we pay in the store. In my essay I analyze the different aspects of responsibility of states, companies and individuals. To get a theoretical perspective I used Magdalena Bexell’s theories about the need to expand
På uppdrag av regeringen har Socialstyrelsen utrett var ett nationellt centrum för kunskap om våld och andra övergrepp mot barn, med målet att samla in och förmedla kunskap, ska inrättas. Om regeringen beslutar i enlighet med förslaget kommer kunskapscentret att förläggas vid Linköpings universitet och kallas Barnafrid. Under våren år 2015 kritiserades Sverige av FN:s barnrättskommitté för att aktThe National Board of Health and Welfare has, on behalf of the govern-ment, investigated where to establish a national centre for knowledge about violence and other abuse of children with the aim to collect and pass on knowledge. The board has suggested that the centre should be located at Linköping University and be named Barnafrid. In the spring of 2015 the United Nations Committee on the Rights
Rätten till familjeåterförening stadgas i såväl EU:s Familjeåterföreningsdirektiv som i den svenska utlänningslagen. Principen om familjens enhet, allas likhet inför lagen och barnets bästa är principer av stor vikt inom både internationell, europeisk och svensk rätt. Trots principer som att familjen ska hållas samman och att det ska göras vad som är möjligt för att återförena splittrade familjer,The right to family reunification is regulated in both the Family Reunification Directive of the European Union and in the Swedish Aliens Act. The principles of the family as a unit, all individuals equality towards the law and the child’s best interests, are principles of high importance in International, European and Swedish law. There are obstacles in the Swedish law preventing many families fr
The Global Compact on Refugees, which is to be adopted in the autumn of 2018, represents an aspiration on the part of the international community towards strengthened solidarity with refugees and affected host countries and is the most ambitious instrument of its kind to date. Indeed, the creation of the Refugee Compact is timely, although perhaps also somewhat surprising in an era of rising popul
Abstract: Interest conflicts has been a major issue when it comes to urban planning especially when it comes to traffic planning. The purpose of this thesis is to identify these conflicts and why they appear in the planning process. The aim of the research is to evaluate what can be done in order to ensure that these conflicts does not affect the planning of sustainable cities in a dissatisfactory
Cloud is used more than ever before, and the trend seems to continue as more and more organizations choose to use cloud services such as database, storage, computing, or web servers. As more organizations choose cloud, the question of which cloud platform that best suits their needs is more relevant than ever. Within this thesis, the four largest cloud platforms have been evaluated to give future
In light of the housing shortage in Sweden, municipalities all over the country are struggling to fulfil their responsibility of housing provision. In many municipalities it is an imminent problem to provide affordable and proper housing, not least for the most vulnerable groups in society. This situation has not gone by unnoticed. Several political initiatives have been taken in order to examine
Price stability has become an increasingly important target of policy makers. However, the debate on the effects of inflation and economic growth is by no means settled. It is generally agreed that inflation uncertainty harms growth, however, a common challenge in inflation-growth studies lies in the difficulty to separate the effects of inflation rates from inflation volatility. Using inflation r
A debate in the EU and Sweden is ongoing on whether advertising of fossil fuels is to be banned. Some state that banning fossil fuel advertising is one step in the right direction toward a more sustainable world. In contrast, others say that the prohibition of communication channels prevents consumers from intake transparent communication, especially in a democratic country. This study problematiz
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
This essay examines the rhetorical tools and how the different politics choose to use them. We have also chosen to investigate the role of good and bad leadership in individual behaviors and positions. Why does people choose to embrace a particular behavioral pattern and what is it that makes us trust and follow our leader even though it may not be the right thing to do. We choose to compare and e
When designing a building one must consider safety aspects. One such aspect is that in the case of an emergency people should be able to efficiently evacuate the building. In this paper we investigate how the width-profile of a corridor leading to an exit might affect the efficiency of evacuation. We model the dynamics of crowds using a continuum model, leading to a one-dimensional non-linear hype
This master thesis project proposes methods for individualizing closed-loop controlled anesthesia. One of the largest challenges with closed-loop anesthesia is the variation between patients in the sensitivity to the anesthetic drug, here propofol. Due to limited excitation in the process dynamics together with a high measurement noise level is it not possible to determine a full reliable model de
In induction heating processes with complex workpiece geometries or stringent requirements, more than one induction coil is usually needed to obtain acceptable results. One objective could be to achieve uniform heating, with minimal temperature variations throughout the workpiece. One frequency converter for each induction coil could be used, but it would not be cost-effective, and instead, it is
The master thesis is a collaboration between Trelleborg AB and the division of Production and Materials Engineering at Lund University, Faculty of Engineering. The objective of the thesis has been to analyse the current production system from a lean perspective, identify an area in need of improvement and generate concrete solutions for how the studied area can be improved in terms of cost, perfor
A protein’s function is directly related to its structure, which is in a water medium where it is affected by hydrogen bonds and the hydrophobic effect. These interactions are in turn dependent on the water molecules’ orientations around the protein. Therefore, it is vital to have correct orientations for the water molecules. Such information can be obtained by neutron crystallography. However, ev
