This paper examines how debt cancellation, given under the HIPC-initiative, has affected corruption over the period 2000-2006. The examination is foremost interesting due to earlier research showing that high corruption leads to unequal distribution of economic resources. This, combined with the objective of the HIPC initiative to reduce poverty, indicates that combating corruption must be successful in order to fulfill the goals of the initiative. A linear regression shows that countries that have benefited from the HIPC-initiative indeed have a lower corruption than other countries. A panel-data analysis shows on the other hand that no effect on corruption due to debt cancellation or reforms undertaken in the program can be confirmed..

This paper accounts for the work with a website for a company whose real name will not be disclosed in the text of this paper. Instead, they have been assigned the fictitious name Larmbolaget, which can be translated as ?The Alarm Company?.During our work with Larmbolaget?s website, we consulted a selection of accessibility guidelines from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, developed by a working group within the World Wide Web Consortium, as well as a number of design principles and heuristics outlined in this paper. We also conducted several usability tests on users from our intended target group. All the measures taken were an effort to ensure that Larmbolaget?s website be as accessible and usable as possible.Our conclusion is that the resulting website does comply with the accessibility guidelines and design principles described in this paper, and thus we consider it to be accessible and usable to a wide range of users, including those with disabilities..

Most of the goats in the world exist in the developing countries where they are important in the meat industry. In Europe, goats are mostly kept for milk production although the interest for meat is growing. Goats have a thin carcass with only small amounts of intramuscular fat, which gives a lean meat. This thin subcutaneous fat cover can cause cold shortening when chilling the carcass. By using electrical stimulation cold shortening can be prevented.

Denna uppsats undersöker om tjänstesektorns storlek har någon effekt på ett lands ekonomiska tillväxt. Data för 92 länder under perioden 1975 till 2003 skattas i en dynamisk panelregression med tre alternativa metoder. Resultaten visar genomgående att effekten är negativ, dock med frånvaro av signifikans för vissa estimat. Detta resultat är i linje med den teoretiska bakgrunden som predicerar att produktivitetstillväxt är svårt att uppnå i tjänsteproduktion. Vidare säger teorin att den ekonomiska tillväxten blir lägre i länder med stor tjänstesektor eftersom långsiktig tillväxt per capita ytterst beror på produktivitetstillväxt.

Can you ensure that your smoke detector will sense fire and sound the alarm in the middle of the night?In 80 percent of the cases where emergency pulls out, smoke detectors are missing where the fire occurred. In the year of 2009, 118 people in Sweden died in fires ? most of them would have survived if there had been a functioning smoke detector.Earlier development of smoke detectors has mainly been focusing on components that sense smoke and alert in case of fire. But in most cases the problem has not been whether the smoke detector was working or not as fully assembled, but rather that it was missing.

This thesis investigates how the optical properties of paperboard influences printing with targets in ISO 12647-2. The targets for optical properties in ISO 12647-2 are defined for paperboard without optical brightening agents and fluorescent brightening agents wich makes it difficult to reach the targets when printing paperboard containing these agents.Seven different types of paperboard, some with and some without the agents, have been printed and instrumentally andvisually measured to see if there is any deviation from the standard targets and if it shows visually.The result shows that paperboard containing optical brightening agents and fluorescent brightening agents can print with targets in ISO 12647-2 but in many measurments the difference between the types of paperboard were to small to assess. The differences between the types of paperboard in the instrumental measurements did not fully correspond with the waythe panel appraised them visually..

The problem presented in this report is that of finding a method to calculate the lift force from a single-element airfoil of arbitrary shape. A number of restrictions are used in order to simplify calculations while retaining reasonable accuracy. The problem is solved for the two-dimensional case only and no finite-wing effects are taken into account. Furthermore, inviscid and incompressible flow is assumed. The method used to solve the problem is the vortex panel method, with vortex singularities distributed over simplified airfoil geometry.

When traffic in large cities increases, it becomes more vulnerable to disturbances such as accidents, stalled vehicles or construction; therefore, traffic jams are more likely to occur. For better control of the traffic at a disturbance the Swedish National Road Administration (SNRA) has traffic equipment which can be controlled from a command centre. This traffic equipment consists of gates and signs with variable messages. This report will discuss the system used for traffic control in Stockholm. It will present proposals designed to improve it.

För att göra informationen tydligare för en larmoperatör som sitter och övervakar larm som kommer in från ett antal olika nätverkskomponenter så har vi skapat ett system som förser larmen med extra information, kallad Context Type, så att vi kan presentera larmen på ett enklare sätt. Vår informationsberikning, även kallad mappning, är utbyggbar för att möta kravet på framtida utveckling. En webbaserad klient skriven i JavaScript är skapad för att presentera larmen på ett nytt innovativt sätt som är baserad på context typen istället för larmobjektet. Mappningen är skapad med hjälp av Python kod och begränsas av att endast använda textfiler som datakälla och webbapplikationen är endast utvecklad för webbläsaren FireFox samt att visningsintervallet för larmen är begränsat till ett dygn med entimmesintervaller. Mappningen var långsam då vi använde oss av regular expression.

Bakgrundentar upp tidigare studier att intensiwårdspatienter utsätts kontinuerligt forstress, högaljudnivåer och störd sömn, som tillsammans kan leda till en utveckling av IVAsyndromet. Syftetmed studien var attkartlägga larmstarter från teknisk apparatur ochandrastörande  ljud på en intensiwårdsavdelning. Metoden var enobservationsstudie dagtid undertre  dagar på två intensiwårdssalar och larmstartsprotokoll användes, for attdokumentera varje larmstartfrån teknisk apparatur. En ljudnivåmätare användes ftir att få enuppskattningav decibel på larmstarter från  den tekniska apparaturen. Resultaten belyser attteknisk apparatursåsom respiratorer, stod for 262larmstarter (cirka 33yo),övervakningsutrustning sommäter invasivt blodtryck, for 175 larmstarter (cirka 22%o) och saturationlarm ftir143 larmstarter (cirka18o/o) av alla larmstarter i studien. Ett medelvärde påvisar0,72larmstarter perminut.

The aim of this paper is to analyze aid, grouped into sectors, and its effect on growth in developing countries, to find out which type of aid has had the most positive effect on growth. We compiled a regression analysis based on panel data over 81 developing countries from 1975-1999. In our first regression we considered and group countries by institutional quality, in the other we considered and group countries after regional differences. As a measure on institutional quality we used the KKZ-index. The principal aim of this paper was to find out what kind of aid is the most efficient in its influence on growth in LDC?s.

Objective: The out-of-hospital cardiac-arrest incidence in Sweden averages about 10 000 a year. Whether the victim will survive or not is dependent upon rapid actions according to the chain of survival ? early alarm, early CPR, early defibrillation and early medical treatment. While waiting for the ambulance the victim is completely dependent on immediate help from any bystander, because early CPR improves survival rates by two-three folds. Unfortunately not all bystanders start CPR because of different reasons.

The objective of this thesis is to examine the capital structure of Swedish small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Accounting data from Swedish game developers, combined with the result from a survey, is used to examine their financial conditions and capital structure decisions. We find that non-debt tax shield, firm size, growth opportunities and age are, to various extents, the determinants of capital structure in the game industry, while effective tax rate and asset structure have marginal effects. Our study also implicates that most of the existing capital structure theories can explain SMEs leverage decisions to some extent; however, some adaptation is needed to fit these theories into the SME context. Additionally, we find the existence of a financial gap in the game industry which might need efforts from both demand side and supply side to eliminate..

Partiuppsättningsmodeller används mer och mer inom opinionsforskningen för att underlättaförståelsen och förklaringar av väljarbeteende. Tidigare modeller, som den populära partiidentifikationsmodellen,har visat sig alltmer oanvändbara i främst västeuropeisk politisk kontext, främstp.g.a. större väljarrörlighet och mer individualiserade röstningsmönster. Partiuppsättningsmodellenkan grovt delas in i två steg; 1) partiuppsättning, där en väljare valt ut ett eller flertal partierhon eller han kan tänka sig att rösta på och 2) partival, det slutgiltiga valet av ett parti som perdefinition ingått i partiuppsättningen.Uppsatsen lägger fokus på steg 1) och hur man kan mäta vilka partier en väljare väljer mellan.Jag utgår från datamaterial från 2010 års e-panel, en kampanjpanel som genomförs inom ramenför Valforskningsprogrammet på Statsvetenskapliga institutionen vid Göteborgs Universitet.Tre olika mått på partiuppsättningar ? affektion, trolighet och övervägande ? jämförs med främstdeskriptiva medel.

Objective: The out-of-hospital cardiac-arrest incidence in Sweden averages about 10 000 a year. Whether the victim will survive or not is dependent upon rapid actions according to the chain of survival ? early alarm, early CPR, early defibrillation and early medical treatment. While waiting for the ambulance the victim is completely dependent on immediate help from any bystander, because early CPR improves survival rates by two-three folds. Unfortunately not all bystanders start CPR because of different reasons.