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En auteurstudie av den polska regissören Roman Polanski. En analys av hans fyra filmer: Kniven i Vattnet, Repulsion, Cul de Sac och Ghost Writer och en slutdiskussion där filmerna knyts an Polanskis omtalade liv.
The purpose of this qualitative research was to examine how medical social workers define their professional commission and expertise. It also examines whether the idea of their professional role is established among other professions within the healthcare system, enabling them to gain access to and carry out their professional social work. The empirical research, consisting of interviews with 3 m
Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka bank- och försäkringsföretagens förhållning till sociala medier. Ambitionen är att utreda huruvida det föreligger en passiv inställning samt vad den beror på. Undersökningen är kvalitativ och således av djup karaktär, med förklarande ambitioner. Vi har använt oss utav en induktiv ansats och med hjälp av ett fallföretag ökat förståelsen.Insamling av uppsatsens
Title: Lessons from the financial crisis – the importance of communication in a world where business is king. Authors: Peter Houli and Robert Sarvik Mentor: Asta Cepaite Nilsson Problem statement: Currently, seemingly few studies have been conducted with focus on how organisations have used issues and crisis management during the financial crisis. Furthermore, issues and crisis management as field
This thesis investigates the game of oil shipping; both the market settings and how the players play the game. An important characteristic of the oil shipping market is cycles in the spot freight prices. The cycles are created by the imperfect adjustment mechanisms of supply within the relatively short run, and by that the demand is not perfectly predictable. By a mathematical investigation, I sho
During the 1980s and 1990s more and more countries opened up their economies to trade and increased their volumes of trade. In the same period of time it has been said that income inequality increased in many parts of the world. The aim of this thesis is to discover whether increased income inequality can be related to trade openness. This relationship is studied using three different hypotheses.
Due to the increasing need for advanced credit risk management and lacking quantitative credit risk measurement modeling at the Chinese banks, the purpose of this dissertation is to study the feasibility of applying the Western credit risk model, the Moody’s KMV (MKMV), to China. Because of the particular Chinese considerations, such as developing stage of financial market and lacking of default d
The EC Internal Market is aiming at integrating all markets, securing competition and allowing for free movements of goods, services, persons and capital. Measures have been taken to also include the so-called network industries in the internal market, but because of their special features this is not as straight forward as with regular goods. The electricity sector is one of these network industr
Obesity is one of the most important public health concerns around the world. Research suggests that obesity has potentially important effects on labour market outcomes. Using longitudinal data, the thesis aims to study the effect of obesity on wage earnings in Sweden. The data set used in this study is the Swedish level-of-living Survey (LNU) from the year 1991 and 2000. Different estimation proc
In this thesis, employment and earnings differentials between visually or hearing-impaired and non-disabled Swedish workers are analyzed. The thesis investigates whether there are any differences and if so, how large, in the earnings and the employment probabilities of the visually or hearing-impaired and the non-impaired on the Swedish labor market. Due to the detailed measures of visual acuity a
This thesis will focus on one of the most external factors that drove the institutional change particularly in Chinese industry, which is the emergence of private de novo firms. The purpose of this thesis is to bring together the important role of emerging private firms in a marketizing economy and the impediments imposed by the government. Several institutional problems need to be addressed in or
Title: Health in developing countries – The determinants of health in Latin American and Caribbean countries Author: Fredrik Klintberg Supervisor: Carl Hampus Lyttkens, Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University Problem discussion: There are still today many problems related to health in developing countries. When reasoning on how to deal with these pro
ABSTRACT The threat of globalization to public spending as well as a fiscal debate of the disciplining hypothesis and compensation hypothesis on large sample of countries, have been widely analyzed in the public finance literature. Yet the welfare states in Nordic countries with largest share of public expenditures have never been singled out for similar studies. This study employs a much more det
The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether EQ-5D is a valid measure of Health Related Quality of Life of psoriasis patients. The objective was carried out by investigating the correlation between the EuroQol EQ-5D and two other Health Related Quality of Life measures, Dermatology Life Quality Index and a Visual Analogue Scale assessed by the patient, as well as two clinical outcome measu
The Indonesian law against pornography has caused controversy since 2006. This thesis aims to explore what norms and conceptions that can be found amongst politicians and influential actors promoting the Indonesian pornography law, in order to understand its significance. Six interviewees’ understanding of the law and pornography is analysed from a theoretical platform inspired by discourse theory
I 24 kap. 10 § a-e IL regleras begränsningen i avdragsrätten för ränta på vissa koncerninterna skulder. Reglerna framarbetades i samband med de av Skatteverkets konstaterade skatteflyktsförfaranden som skedde i anslutning till avdrag för koncerninterna ränteutgifter. Skatteverket har försökt att komma åt transaktionerna genom att tillämpa skatteflyktslagen men har inte haft framgång eftersom skattThe Income Tax Act Chapter 24 Section 10 a-e deals with restrictions of interest deductions for certain dividends. The regulations were worked out in connection with the established tax evasion procedures that occurred together with deductions for intergroup interest expenses. The Swedish Tax Agency has attempted to get hold of the transactions by applying the Law Against Tax Evasion, but have not
Vi ämnar bidra med ny kunskap kring hur svenska konsumenter uppfattar Swedish Matchs kommunicerade CSR-arbete, samt visa på eventuella skillnader i hur företaget och branschen uppfattas. Vi har genomfört en kvalitativ undersökning med kvantitativa inslag där vi samlat in sekundärdata från internetbaserade källor, samt primärdata genom utförd enkätundersökning. Denna baserades på vår teoretiska ref
The aim of the paper is to provide a systematic review of the estimation of cost-of-illness (COI) due to air and noise pollution related ill-health. The methodology used for the review includes a systematic search on electronic databases for peer-review published literature and manual searches for the identification of unpublished literature. Searches are based on the major electronic databases su
The problem of poverty is present all over the world. Poverty consists of many different factors and appears in different dimensions in all environments. Institutions are the rules and games of a society and are important to people experiencing poverty as they provide safety nets such as social security or strong social relations in the form of kinship ties. I will describe the role of institution
