Sökresultat

A new generation of N-heterocyclic carbene palladium(II) complexes containing vinyl groups in different positions in the backbone of the N-heterocycle have been developed. The fully characterised monomers were copolymerised with divinylbenzene to fabricate robust polymer supported NHC-PdII complexes and these polymers were applied as heterogeneous catalysts in directed C-H halogenation of arenes w

This essay aims to investigate how Amnesty International handles the so called peace versus justice dilemma in post-conflict societies. This is done by studying a number of Amnesty publications published between 1996 and 2000, concerning various aspects of justice within the peacebuilding-process in Sierra Leone. More concretely, what is studied is whether Amnesty tends to prefer judicial (trials)

In recent years the liberal representative democracy has been subject of a substantial critique because of its inability to accommodate difference and create a genuinely democratic political process. One such critique comes from the theory of deliberative democracy. Supporters of deliberative democracy try to promote a model of democracy that take its vantage point in free and equal deliberation

This report tries to introduce a new way to use high expansion foam in case of a fire, namely as a protection for property. The use of high expansion foam as a tool to extinguish a fire in a building is widely known in Sweden. But the tool is not the first action taken by the fire service and the knowledge of how to use high expansion foam is not very high. Information on how Swedish rescue serv

The purpose is to answer the question: what are the consequences of the EU discourse on civilian crisis management for the social structures? Critical discourse analysis has been used, both as theory and as method together with social constructivism and the concepts of power and policing. Furthermore, semi-structured interviews with 16 Swedish police officers with experience from EU missions were

Imagining how contemporary conflicts have divided societies in the recent times put one in a position to think of possibilities that will improve the activities of reconciliation initiatives for a lasting peaceful coexistence in the aftermath of conflicts. In Rwanda series of conflicts have emerged since the end of colonial rule till the genocide in 1994 calling for a necessary transitional justic

The famine in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has once again reached a point of emergency wherein the international community has a moral duty to protect the population from their government. Although the member states of the United Nations have affirmed a global Responsibility to Protect, the ways in which that responsibility are carried out are often contradictory and help to sustain t

This case study considers what appears to be a political convergence in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Four political transitions that have occurred in all three countries are studied: the military coups of 1964, 1973 and 1976, the transitions back to democracy, the implementations of liberal economic reforms, and the recent turns leftwards. Three different types of explanations are presented, ea

In this thesis, the power dynamics underpinning the relationship between USAIDfunded humanitarian organizations and U.S governmental agencies – in relation to the Global War on Terror (GWoT) - are critically investigated. To this end, a Foucauldian lens of ’disciplinary power’ is utilized to uncover U.S governmental agencies’ employment of disciplinary practices categorized as surveillance, correc

Essential to many films is the conflict between good and evil. This paper presents an overview of the representation of evil in film. The paper’s purpose is to find out how the three principal antagonists in four Robin Hood movies are represented as being evil and how this has changed over time. The study method used is semiotic analysis. The previous research in the field of evil representation i

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which a strongly identity driven (brand oriented) organization in the not-for-profit sector can meet the expectations of the market’s wants and needs and still stay true to its identity. Methodology: Literature review, case studies Findings: The paper finds that brand oriented organizations that are fully aligned with

Analogisk överföring undersöktes hos förskolebarn (24 månader till 55 månader) med en faktoriell tvärsnittsdesign. Analogisk överföring testades direkt efter inlärning eller ett dygn senare med en visuo-spatial uppgift. Vidare testades de kognitiva förmågorna arbetsminne, inhibering, självreglering och verbal intelligens. Studiens hypoteser var att fler barn skulle klara den direkta överföringen äAnalogical transfer was studied in preschool children (24 months to 55 months) with a factorial cross sectional design. Analogical transfer was tested directly after learning and one day later, using a visuospatial task. The cognitive abilities working memory, inhibition, self-regulation and verbal intelligence was assessed. The hypotheses were that more children would pass the direct condition th

The aim of this paper is to evaluate a machine learning technique, Random Forest, to predict default rates for banks in the United States. This study extends the findings of a Random Forest model first introduced by Petropoulos et al. (2017) by extending their model by evaluating a longer sample period and adding macroeconomic variables to analyze how current market conditions impact the predictio

Artificiell intelligens (AI) har på senare tid fått en otrolig uppmärksamhet. Det tröttsamma arbetet med att manuellt koda in lösningar i ett program har ersatts av att lära programmen att hitta egna lösningar; detta är en AI-teknik som kallas för maskininlärning. Sådana program tränar upp förmågan att känna igen mönster eller anomalier i data, vilket kan användas för allt från att köra bilar tilMachine learning projects are often constrained by data that is messy, scarce, sensitive or costly to produce. These are issues which could be mitigated by synthetic data. This thesis tries to improve Swedish license plate localization in images by synthesizing images through superimposition, a process that produces data cheaply and in abundance. A generative process algorithmically creates imag

Rätten till abort är idag ett aktuellt ämne som är föremål för mycket debatt runt om i världen. I Sverige har vi idag fri aborträtt, förutsatt att graviditeten inte är för långt gången, men så har det inte alltid varit. Den här uppsatsen undersöker den svenska abortlagstiftningen ur ett rättsutvecklingsperspektiv med utgångspunkt i lagförarbeten och lagtext. Fokus för uppsatsen ligger på hur abortThe right to abortion is a current issue which is widely debated around the world. The current abortion law in Sweden states that the choice of an abortion is entirely up to the woman. This is an essay about the history of the Swedish abortion laws from a legal development perspective. The material that the essay is based on is mainly abortion legislation and legislative history. The focus of the

Despite ample evidence on the importance of labor market opportunities for women’s bargaining power, the link between public childcare availability and female empowerment has so far been widely overlooked. Using detailed survey data on household dynamics, this paper investigates the impact of the Mexican childcare program Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras on women’s decision-m

In this thesis I examine how two variables: closeness and the TP-share (two-party-share) of votes impact turnout in elections. I use data from the 2016 Georgian parliamentary election and its two-rounds of election in the majoritarian districts. This field of research poses a wide variety of methodological approaches. One concerns the definition of the dependent variable, turnout. Instead of only

This project targeted automating production steps where stud bolts are welded on a heat exchanger within allowed perpendicularity and position requirements. Until now, this has been a manual process where an operator uses steel templates to position the bolts in the right place and manual welding guns to weld the bolts. The scope of this project is to create a digital model of a robot cell to calc