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Worldwide, many fisheries are under severe stress and extensive depletion of fish stocks is common. Besides overfishing an important problem preventing depleted stocks from recovery is that fish stocks are commonly managed following administrative rather than biological reasons. This stresses the importance of sub-stock-specific assessments for sustainable fisheries. The present study performed su

This thesis asks the question “How do government-initiated local referendums affect citizens’ perceptions of democracy?”. In the theoretical discussion, direct democratic theory is found to be inadequate in studying the effects of government-initiated referendums. Since the referendums are government-initiated, that negates the important aspect of bypassing elites. The referendum democracy concept

Narkotikapolitik är idag ett väldiskuterat och aktuellt ämne. Lagstiftning skiljer sig väsentligt mellan länder och likaså idéer och tankar kring vilken väg som är rätt att gå. Syftet med denna uppsats är granska samt synliggöra Portugals och Sveriges vitt skilda narkotikapolitik för att genom teori analysera och redogöra för ländernas motiv, resultat och påverkan på samhället samt individ. En visDrug policies are today a deeply discussed subject and types of legislation, ideas and thoughts differ from country to country. The purpose of this paper is to examine the widely different narcotic policies of Portugal and Sweden, as a means to through sociological theory analyze and portray the different motives, results and effects on society and the individual. Both Sweden and Portugal use soci

Den här uppsatsen har syftet att utreda en arbetsgivares möjlighet att säga upp en anställd om denne beter sig olämpligt på privata sociala medier. I Sverige finns ett långtgående skydd för anställningen, och en ännu starkare yttrandefrihet. I kontrast har anställda en lojalitetsplikt mot sin arbetsgivare, och är skyldiga att inte skada arbetsgivaren ens på sin fritid. I uppsatsen undersöks om detThis essay aims to investigate an employer's ability to terminate an employment if the employee is behaving inappropriate on private social media. Sweden has a strong protection of the employment, and an even stronger protection of the freedom of speech. On the other hand, employees have a duty to be loyal to their employer, and are obliged not to harm the employer even in their spare time. Th

Spallations anläggningar är ämnade för produktion och forskning med fria neutroner. Ett problem uppstår för dessa anläggningar efter att högenergetiska neutroner skapas via en så kallad spallation. Högenergetiska neutroner är problematiska att hålla udner kontroll. På grund av deras höga energi kan dessa neutronerna ``rymma'' och orsaka kärnreaktioner som bidrar till en försvagad signal-upAt European Spallation Source ERIC, 2 GeV proton bunches will be accelerated towards a tungsten target where spallation will occur, producing a wide neutron energy spectrum. Despite the shielding and moderators in place to stop and/or reduce their energy, a significant portion of the most energetic neutrons, called prompt neutrons, might still reach the sample position of a neutron-scattering inst

The music content online is expanding fast, and music streaming services are in need for algorithms that sort new music. Sorting music by their characteristics often comes down to considering the genre of the music. Numerous studies have been made on automatic classification of audio files using spectral analysis and machine learning methods. However, many of the completed studies have been unrealis

Sveriges kommuner har ett stort ansvar för samhällsplaneringen och därmed också för klimatarbetet på lokal nivå. Kommunerna kan genom strategisk fysisk planering av områden såsom bebyggelse, trafikinfrastruktur och energiförsörjning, bidra till att minska utsläppen av växthusgaser. Kommunens översiktsplan är det dokument som på ett strategiskt sätt ska ange inriktningen för den långsiktiga utvecklSwedish municipalities have the responsibility for spatial planning in Sweden and therefore also play an important part in the climate change efforts at the local level. Municipalities can, through strategic planning of areas such as housing, traffic infrastructure and energy supply, contribute to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Municipality's comprehensive plans are meant to set the di

Cross-country data links good health status to an increase in wealth status (income levels) as evidenced by existing prevalence of rates of child morbidity and mortality in poorer settings. Essentially, Primary Health Care amongst other affordable health interventions is prioritized in most countries now. This thesis focuses on Ghana, to establish whether there exists an association between wealth

Developing wind farms is a long and costly task. Assessing the potential of a site is a major part of the development of a wind project. Reanalysis, that are modelling of the wind speed made from scattered wind data across the world (from satellites, weather stations for example), can help to fulfill this step as they are improving their accuracy with each new release. Among them is EMD-WRF, a rea

Huvuddelen av alla pianoelever slutar spela inom 3 år på kulturskolan. Varför är frånfallet så stort och vad kan man göra för att förhindra det? Tidigare forskning visar bland annat att popmusik är den genre pianoeleverna helst vill spela och att det är viktigt att eleverna känner att de utvecklas och upplever en känsla av kompetens för att vilja fortsätta spela. Att spela ett instrument kommer ocThe main part of all piano students stops playing within 3 years at culture school. Why is the number of dropouts so high and what can be done to prevent it? Previous research shows, among other things, that pop music is the genre piano students preferably want to play and that it is important that students feel that they develop and experience a sense of competence to want to continue playing. Pl

Presence of lactic acid bacteria on a beer brewery The purpose of this thesis is to help a brewery solve a mayor problem regarding the quality of their product. The brewery has for a considerable amount of time had a problem with the presence of lactic acid bacteria in their product, which has caused it to acid long before the expiration date has passed. The root of the problem could be establishe

Following rising remuneration levels, significant owner reactions to excessive executive pay, and a request for more executive accountability, there has been increased focus on disclosure of more complete information on the pay levels, program structure and performance criteria for key executives in most European markets. In general, the academic research in the area has been about the conformance

The purpose of this study was to examine a few home care workers’ conception of their discretion connected to work-related health within the home care service. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with three home care workers from different areas of a common district in the south part of Sweden. The analyzed result was based on theories about control and research on health. Theoretica

Elater ferrugineus is a saproxylic click beetle inhabiting old deciduous trees in Europe. It is threatened throughout its area of distribution due to habitat loss. No efficient monitoring method has been available for this species, but observed attraction of females to (R)-(+)-γ-decalactone, which is a male-produced sex pheromone of its prey, the scarab beetle Osmoderma eremita, has led to the dev

Wrist fracture causes pain and decreased physical, social and emotional function. The International Osteoporosis Foundation has developed a specific questionnaire to assess quality of life in patients with wrist fracture. This questionnaire, including 12 questions, was validated in a multicentre study and compared with an osteoporosis-specific questionnaire (Qualeffo-41) and a generic questionnair

This paper reports on a test of the validity of Pienemann's (1998) Processability Theory (PT). This theory predicts that certain morphological and syntactic phenomena are acquired in a fixed sequence. Three phenomena were chosen for this study: attributive adjective morphology, predicative adjective morphology, and subordinate clause syntax (placement of negation). These phenomena are located at s

Abstract Nilsson, Nils-Erik, Write in Your Own Words: A Study of Learning Processes in Research Report Writing in School. The thesis examines sixty pupil texts produced in the school activity called pupil research at secondary level of a Swedish school where this activity was scheduled one day per week. The purpose of this thesis is to develop knowledge about the writing done by pupils under the

Pharmacy-grade exogenous lung surfactant preparations of bovine and porcine origin, dispersed in physiological electrolyte solution have been studied. The organization and dynamics at the air/water interface at physiological temperature was analysed by neutron reflection. The results show that a well-defined surface phase is formed, consisting of a multilayer structure of lipid/protein bilayers al