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According to the legislation for accident prevention and protection, which took affect January 1st 2004, all Swedish municipalities have to establish plans of actions for accident prevention and the fire service. Municipal risk analyses should constitute the foundations for these plans of actions. The purpose of this report is to describe and meet the requirements on municipal risk and vulnerabili
Författarna avser att jämföra avkastningen mellan svenska hedgefonder och räntefonder under perioden 2003 till 2008. Uppsatsen ämnar fungera som ett hjälpmedel för en försiktig och passiv investerare som inte har tid att bevaka marknaden. Relevanta teorier samt insamling av kvantitativ och kvalitativ data har använts för att beräkna räntefondernas och hedgefondernas avkastning i förhållande till r
Metals play a key role as a cornerstone of our modern society; they are part of the most basic elements of our daily life and have been part of our lifestyles for millennia. Current trends of metal production point out that developing countries in order to attain a developed-countries consumption level will require 3-9 times the present metal stock per capita, yet their mining practices are far fr
Countries around the world are employing renewable energy policies to increase renewable electricity in their electricity mix. Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), located in the Caribbean, has endogenous sources of oil and natural gas and has not yet capitalised on sources of renewable energy. The country‟s electricity is currently dominantly generated from natural gas however the natural gas reserves
This paper analyses the effects of emigration on unemployment and wages in the ten Central and Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. These countries experi-enced large migration outflows following their accession and thus lost a considerable share of their labour force. This presents a good natural experiment to study the impact of emigration on the labour market outcomes
This essay contains an analysis of the Root Causes of the Post Election Violence that broke out in Kenya after the 2007 election. Authors of the action plans for prevention of similar situations need to make assumptions of causal relations in order to take the right measures and make the right changes. The main focus of this paper lies on the assumptions on causal mechanisms of those phenomena tha
Det här examensarbetet ger en översikt över organiskt material (kerogen) i Jordens yngre lagrade berggrund och hur detta material omvandlats till olja och naturgas genom olika geologiska processer. De viktigaste är tryck, temperatur och tid. Med fortskridande sedimentpålagring förs det organiskt rika sedimenten successivt ned på större djup, där de genomgår en så kallad mognadsprocess till följd aThe origin, composition and maturity of kerogen, and its conversion to petroleum is reviewed. Various methods for estimating the maximum temperature to which kerogen and potential source rocks were subjected are also reviewed. Several kerogen maturation parameters can be distinguished and grouped into two categories: chemical paleothermometres and biological paleothermometres. Biological paleother
The aim and purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the utilization of private-public collaboration of the exchange of information on risks and vulnerabilities concerning food supply in Sweden, with a view to provide the participants with recommendations on how to improve or how to initiate this collaboration. The study consists of interviews with respondents from Swedish municipalities, one Swedish
Sufficient access to financial resources is important in sustaining a business especially in the early phases. First years in business development are very critical since owners learn by doing mistakes in order to get a proof of concept of the business idea. Being aware of this fact, external financial institutions try to avoid taking part in highly risky endeavours. Although there are financial o
Mottagandet av asylsökande ensamkommande barn har blivit en obligatorisk uppgift för kommunerna. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur den nya bestämmelsen påverkar barnets rättsliga ställning. Ensamkommande barn definieras som barn under 18 år som vid ankomsten till Sverige är skilda från båda sina föräldrar eller från någon annan vuxen person som får anses ha trätt i föräldrarnas ställe, ellThe reception of asylum-seeking unaccompanied minors has become a mandatory task for the Swedish municipalities. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how this change in legislation affects the child's legal status. Unaccompanied minors are defined as children under 18 who, upon arrival in Sweden, are separated from both their parents or from another adult who may be considered to have e
Den svenska riksdagen har höga ambitioner om att utveckla den förnyelsebara energin i allmänhet och vindkraften i synnerhet. Nationella energi- och miljöpolitiska mål har antagits för att förenkla etableringar och således skapa förutsättningar för en utveckling av vindkraften i Sverige. Ambitionerna är högt ställda men politiska ställningstagande kräver verkställighet och resultatet av det finner The Swedish Parliament sets high ambitions in order to develop renewable energy in general and wind energy in particular. National energy and environmental policies have been adopted to facilitate wind power establishments and thus create conditions for development of wind power in Sweden. The ambitions are high but political positions requires enforcement and the result of the objectives are foun
Allt fler företag har insett marknadsföringsvärdet i att marknadsföra produkter via bloggar. Detta då bloggarna oftast paketerar budskapet som en produktrekommendation vilket gör att bloggaren betraktas som källan till budskapet. Vår undersökning har studerat hur trovärdighet skapas för bloggarens personliga varumärke, hur celebritetsrepresentation är iakttagbart på bloggar och varför bloggaren be
This thesis examines youth attitudes toward the gender-system and the believed causes of gender roles: biology or social factors. The study has been designed as a survey conducted among 116 Swedish 9th graders, where the students had to classify weather stereotype roles and tasks are more natural for one sex than the other, or both. By comparing the answers of the pupils with respect to their own
