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The majority of poor people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Agriculture is one important tool for rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contract farming has been widely used in agribusiness and has potential to contribute to the development process in rural areas. This paper examines the main features of contract farming in SSA and analyse the consequences of
This is a Master Thesis carried out for and done in cooperation with Getinge Water System A/S. The purpose of the thesis was to develop a new separation system for their Pure Steam Generator. The focus was set on making it smaller without affecting separation efficiency and manufacturing costs. During the projects course, objectives were altered and size was no longer highly prioritized; instead,
My primary objective in this study was to investigate the impact of the upbringing environment on the development of children’s effortful control and achievement motivation. Twenty-five SOS Children’s Village- and 33 family-raised children reported on achievement motivation, whereas SOS Village and family mothers assessed children’s effortful control along with emotion regulation as an additional
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Mosasaurier var en grupp stora, marina ödlor som under ett geologiskt sett kort tidsavsnitt i kritaperioden, om ca 25 miljoner år, snabbt tog över positionen som toppredatorer i haven. De tidigaste fossilen från gruppen har återfunnits i sediment av turonsk ålder och i likhet med flera andra djurgrupper försvinner mosasaurier under sen maastricht. Några arter nå
Denna uppsats är en kritisk granskning av snabblån och den reglering som finns på detta område. Snabblån är en förhållandevis ny företeelse i Sverige, de första företagen kom 2006. Efter detta följde en explosionsartad ökning av antalet företag, som erbjöd en liten kredit med mycket kort löptid. Till en början var detta område i princip helt oreglerat. Företagen stod inte under finansinspektionens
Ett datorprogram kan, i Sverige och alla andra EU-medlemsstater, erhålla upphovsrättsligt skydd om det är originellt i den bemärkelsen att det är upphovsmannens egen intellektuella skapelse. Möjligheten att erhålla skydd är av särskild vikt med tanke på att utveckling av datorprogram ofta innebär stora kostnader. Av datorprogramdirektivet framgår att det tillgängliga skyddet ska gälla ett datorproA computer program may, in Sweden and all other member states of the EU, obtain copyright protection if the work is original in the sense that it is the author’s own intellectual creation. The possibility of obtaining protection is of particular importance since software development often involves significant costs. The Software Directive states that protection applies to the expression in any for
This project investigates if access to a solar powered calculator improves numeracy and who benefits the most from the use of a calculator. A randomized field study was carried out in two different high schools in Palawan, a province in the Philippines. All participating students took two identical mathematics tests based on mental arithmetic, the first at the initial stage and the second seven we
In Sweden suicide is, alongside traffic accidents, the most common cause of death amongst children. Every year approximately 30 children take their lives, and 2011 nearly 800 children was hospitalized after deliberately having harmed themselves. School is a place where children are forced to spend approximately 30 hours per week during at least nine years. Because of this school is where the state
Abstract Author: Sanne Modin, Matilda Berggren Title: Who has the reproductive responsibility? – A reflection of gender roles in work with financial assistance [translated title] Supervisor: Yvonne Johansson Assessor: With this study our intent were to examine the Swedish social services workers view on financial assistance to contraceptive use. We wanted to look at this subject from a gender pe
This paper deals with questions of romanization of the Chinese language. It examines the history of phonetic Chinese transcription and writing systems, from the first occurrences of such systems in the 16th century to the present day. The paper’s main focus is on the two systems Gwoyeu Romatzyh and Latinxua Sinwenz which were in use from the 1920s to the 1940s and aimed at replacing Chinese chara
The “pay to be paid” Rule is a fundamental component of Protection & Indemnity (hereinafter referred to as “P&I”) insurance policies, which requires a Club Member to discharge his liabilities to the injured third party before he can be indemnified by the P&I Club. If the Club Member cannot compensate the third party as a result of insolvency, the third party is denied full satisfaction
The purpose of this study was to find out how social workers handle and experience working with substance abusing women who are pregnant. We were interested in finding out how they experience their role as social workers in their professional relationship with the woman and how they look at the pregnancy in relation to motivation. Further on, we wanted to know their thoughts of how collaboration b
Background: In a perfect world, a company would not have to keep any cash at all but because of market imperfections created by information asymmetries and agency problems it has to. Previous research has suggested that a firm’s cash holding level is related to its size, growth opportunities and leverage. The Swedish market is particularily interesting to study from a corporate governance perspect
An EU strategy to reduce carbon emissions and become more energy independent was the introduction of Directive 2002/91/EC. The EU member states were required to transpose a directive into national legislations. This resulted in that Sweden admits the law on energy certification of buildings. Certified energy expert who declares the buildings must be certified energy expert and independent of his p
Triple helix concept is old and well applicable in developed nations but in developing countries it is not so old and hardly applicable. It consisted on three basic elements of regional innovation system which includes government, universities and industry. Rather then taking regional innovation system as a whole now a day more emphasis is on these three key elements because of their great importa
