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The paper aims at discussing the potential of the Belarus’ national mechanism of constitutional control to maintain the adherence of this post-soviet State to national and international human rights standards. At the outset, the paper provides an overview of the theoretical understanding of constitutional control as an appropriate mechanism of protecting and promoting human rights in the context o

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

By using a case study of a smallscale fishing community in the Mediterranean Sea, Sigri (Lesvos, Greece), this thesis aims at exploring the drivers and barriers for an effective local implementation of the target Good Environmental Status by 2020. The future of the Mediterranean Sea is increasingly linked to the people who live by its coasts and depend on it for their livelihoods. On the other han

In this paper we want to draw attention to the relationship between economical and cultural issues in the publishing industry by examining in what way these issues have been dealt with at Albert Bonniers Förlag, a most dominant player on the Swedish book market since 1837. Our purpose is to reveal how intimately interconnected economical and aesthetical matters are in the publishing industry at la