This thesis examines the presence of threats and violence directed towards animal welfare inspectors/ officers. The main tool is a survey regarding threats and violence directed at animal welfare inspectors/officers. The questionnaire was distributed to animal welfare inspectors/ officers who worked on 15 of the country's 21 provincial governments. The response rate of the survey was 68.9 percent. The main conclusion of the study is that threats and violence directed at animal welfare inspectors/ officers are common.

The valleys southwest of Storuman has been exploration targets for sulfide mineralizationslike the Laisvall Pb-Zn deposit since the late 1900 when several mineralized boulders wherefound. No previous glaciogeological survey has been made. This report focus on thedirections of local paleoiceflows and glacial transportation in the area of Skikkisjön, thelocation of the westernmost mineralized boulder, found in 2010. The aim of this study hasbeen to create a picture of the glaciogeological evolution of the area in order to determinatepossible hostrock areas. My results suggest that the geomorphology and transportationoccurred during a western icedivide located in the nearby mountainrange.

A common form of communication within Facebook is the communication between users via status updates. If you write a status update all your friends have the opportunity to read and to respond to the update. The overall issue of this survey is: how are Facebook users to commu- nicate with status updates?  The survey aims to gain insight and greater understanding of communication patterns and user awareness of social contexts when they write status  updates. The study will act as an attempt to understand a small part of a complex interaction taking place in a social situation.

Frånvaron av priser och förvirring kring vem som konsumerar tjänsten gör att effektiviteten i sjukförsäkringsadministrationen inte kan bedöms utifrån den gängse nationalekonomiska definitionen. I denna uppsats definierar jag kriterier för effektivitet i handläggning av sjukförsäkringen. Vad och hur mycket som skall produceras bestäms av politikers efterfrågan. Hur det skall produceras på rätt sätt varierar mellan olika sjukfall. Utifrån dessa kriterier analyseras därefter lösningar på ett principal-agentproblem inom Försäkringskassan.

This essay investigates the pupils, in Swedish upper secondary school in the greater Stockholm area, who choose to study the Russian language as a foreign language. The essay asks; who are these students, and what is motivation behind their language choice? In order to answer these two questions the essay uses both interviews and paper survey. The theoretical background ofth is essay is based on the works and theories of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and thus the question; who are these students is aimed at the students' social and economical background in lines with Bourdieu's theories. The essay also uses the earlier study of Swedish sociologist Mikael Palme, in which he maps the different schools and programs in the greater Stockholm area, in a socio-economical context based on habitus.

I denna uppsats jämförs skillnader mellan svenska och utländska hedgefonder med avseende på avkastning och risk. Information om fondernas avkastningar är hämtade från de olika fondernas hemsidor. Jämförelser görs under två olika tidsperioder, 18-respekive 48 månader. Mått som beräknas är genomsnittlig årsavkastning, standardavvikelse, kurtosis, skevhet och Sharpekvot. I resultat och analys konstateras att de svenska och utländska hedgefonderna inte skiljer sig mycket åt i det första intervallet.

The purpose of this study was to highlight cyber-bullying and its place in today?s schools. Our aim was to research how schools with bullying prevention programs are equipped to handle and take action against cyber-bullying. Furthermore this study focuses on whether or not schools are responsible for cases of cyber-bullying. We also aimed to present teachers? general views and knowledge regarding this phenomenon.

Uppsatsen sammanfattar nationalekonomiska teorier kring fair trade och, för teorierna, relevant empiri. Störst vikt läggs vid fair trades prismekanism och vilka effekter samt bieffekter den innebär. Teorikapitlet består i princip av fyra delar; Premiens konsekvenser i effektivitetshänseende. Rational choice, om incitamenten att delta i fair trade. Därefter en handelsteoretisk jämförelse mellan fri handel och fair trade i heckscher-Ohlinmodllen.

Syfte: Studiens syfte är att beskriva upplevelser av specialpedagogisk handledning i två skolverksamheter och utifrån detta syfte är följande forskningsfrågor beaktade.? Hur uppfattar pedagogerna specialpedagogisk handledning?? Vilka möjligheter ser pedagogerna med specialpedagogisk handledning?? Vilka hinder ser pedagogerna med specialpedagogisk handledning?Kunskapssyn och metod: Vi vill lyfta fram det socio-kulturella perspektivet som en viktig del i lärandet mellan människor. Vygotskij (1934) förenar tänkande och språk och ser det som enhet där de inte kan fungera utan varandra och det socio-kulturella perspektivet fokuserar på att dessa hör ihop. Han myntade begreppet ?den proximala utvecklingszonen? och enligt honom upphör man aldrig att utvecklas utan det fortgår hela tiden (Vygotsky, 1978).

Den här uppsatsen studerar sambandet mellan egalitarism och tillväxt i fem sydostasiatiska länder under fyra decennier från 1960-talet och framåt. Egalitarism operationaliseras med Gini-koefficienten samt andel absolut fattiga i befolkningen. Uppsatsen behandlar även hur statens autonomi och sociokulturell påverkar ekonomisk tillväxt. En kombination av kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod används. Teorier är hämtade från både nationalekonomi och ekonomisk historia.

This thesis analyzes and discusses the role of institutions concerning countries' abilities to create economic wealth. The countries that we are analyzing are the former members of the Warsaw pact and former Yugoslavia. These countries are referred to as transition countries. In order to analyze the transition countries institutional structure we are using Douglass C. North's theory regarding institutions and institutional building.

This essay discusses and evaluates the international currency market in regards to efficiency. To prove the theory that, the difference between expected and actual exchange rates is explained by the difference in expected and actual interest rates and the difference in expected and actual inflation between countries, a model was developed. This model was inspired by the paper of Sebastian Edwards (1982), and is based on three theories; UIP, IS/LM and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis. The model uses 16 regressions estimated from three pairs of curriencies: $/SEK, £/SEK and ?/SEK.

Prediktionen av aktieprisutvecklingen har alltid legat i intresse för den finansiella marknadens aktörer. Flera studier har frambringat värdefulla prediktorer för aktieprisutvecklingen. Som en relativt ny prediktor av aktieprisutvecklingen har varians riskpremium rönt uppmärksamhet i forskningsvärlden. Varians riskpremium har i studier visat sig vara träffsäkrare i prognostiseringen av aktieprisutvecklingen än de traditionella prediktorerna som P/E (price over earnings ratio), CAY (consumption wealth ratio) och dividend yield. Varians riskpremium kan även betraktas som ett mått på marknadsimplicerad riskaversion med negativ korrelation till BNP-tillväxttakten.

The purpose of this essay is to analyse and understand how students, as consumers, choose brands from the aspects of the concept of CSR, the economic, social and environmental. The essay is based on a qualitative method with three focus groups, with five respondents in each of them. The respondents are all studying at Kalmar University and they have all studied some kind of economic-course. We have used a lot of different sources for our theory chapter, this because of the fact that we wanted to have different angles, so that we would be able to cover all of the questions we wanted to discuss in the focus groups. In our two final chapters we discuss the issues similar to the theory section and we highlight our own thoughts.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to investigate how diversity takes shape in children?s picture books published in Sweden. Twelve picture books, which touch the aspect of diversity in the categories of gender, ages, culture, nation, ethnicities, language, class, sexuality and functional disorder, were chosen from the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs catalogue for youth and children?s books 2006. They have been analysed with the conception of ikonotext and with the theory of Pierre Macherey?s image in the mirror, of how literature reflects the reality of society.