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This study details the factors which affect the adoption of electronic and online voting in national elections. It researches adoption theories such as Davies' Technology Acceptance model (TAM) and Rodgers' Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) model. The study pays particular attention to three factors - secrecy, trust and accessibility. The paper then focuses on four nations due to their differe

The shape of a diffuse reflectance spectra can provide knowledge about tissue composition. By analysing this spectra one can, with the right evaluation methods, find out information about the tissue. With known absorption properties of the present tissue chromophores it is possible, with a curve fit algorithm, to find their volume fractions in any measured tissue. In this work, the usability of

This thesis first and foremost analyzes and compares Hamas and Fatah's political documents from 2005 and 2009 respectively, and how Israel is portrayed as the enemy in these documents. The theoretical framework focuses on enemy images, but also includes concepts such as national identity, intractable conflicts, intergroup relations and the Other. These concepts are necessary to broaden my anal

Sammanfattning Enligt svensk rätt krävs det att parterna till en transaktion har vidtagit ett sakrättsligt moment för att en förvärvare av lös egendom ska vara skyddad mot överlåtarens borgenärer. Vilket sakrättsligt moment som uppställs varierar beroende på vilken typ av egendom som transaktionen rör. Vid förvärv av lösöre vinner köparen som huvudregel skydd mot säljarens borgenärer först när vaSummary Swedish law requires that the parties to a transaction have fulfilled a controllable measure in order for a buyer of movable property to obtain protection against the seller’s creditors. What kind of controllable measure that needs to be carried out varies depending on what type of property the transaction concerns. When the purchase concerns chattels the main rule is that the buyer recei

I dagens moderna samhälle blir ett företags goda anseende, eller goodwill, av större och större vikt. Att ett intrång i en immateriell rättighet kan medföra att både företagets och produktens goodwill lider skada framstår kanske inte som alltför kontroversiellt. Det är inte heller ovanligt att förlorad goodwill vid framförallt varumärkesintrång ersätts med skadestånd. Ett immaterialrättsligt områIn today's modern society a company's reputation, or goodwill, becomes of greater and greater importance. That an infringement of an intellectual property right can lead to that both the company’s and the product's goodwill suffer damage may not be too controversial. It is neither uncommon for loss of goodwill, primarily because of trademark infringement, to be awarded with damages. A

The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to a more holistic understanding of youth experiences under the phenomenon of societal transitions caused by processes of modernization. Bhutan has been subjected to major changes in terms of economic development, political and societal transitions. The group mostly associated with this modernization and globalization process is the youth living in the

PFOS (Perfluoroktansulfonat) har genom sina unika ytaktiva och beständiga egenskaper använts i en mängd olika tillämpningar och blivit ett av jordens mest spridda ämnen. Metallytbehandling, hydrauloljor till flygplan och impregnering av textilier hör till ämnets användningsområden, men mest uppmärksammat är nog tillsatsen till brandsläckningsskum där PFOS är den aktiva beståndsdelen. Upprepade släPFOS (Perfluorooctane sulfonate) has, through its unique surface active and non-reactive properties been used in a range of applications and has become one of the earth’s most wide spread substances. Metal plating, hydraulic fluids and textile repellants are among the chemical’s field of application, but most attention has probably been given the presence in fire-fighting foam, where PFOS constitu

Linda Siggelow Uppföljning av giftfria förskolors upphandlingskrav Arbetet med giftfria förskolor har utvidgats de senaste åren, och idag arbetar ungefär hälften av Sveriges kommuner med att försöka minska mängden oönskade kemikalier i förskola och skola. Ett av de verktyg som kommuner kan använda för detta ändamål är upphandling, men för att upphandlingen ska ses som komplett krävs någon formChildren should not be exposed to unwanted chemicals in their everyday life and several organizations in Sweden are working towards reducing the amount of chemicals that exists in toys and material intended for preschools. Many municipalities are joining the project, and are now working towards the goal “toxic free preschools”. In this struggle the municipalities have an impact in their procuremen

Förevarande uppsats behandlar de argument och ställningstaganden som ligger bakom lagstiftarens beslut beträffande assisterad befruktning i allmänhet, och surrogatmoderskap i synnerhet. Den alternativa familjebildningen och den assisterade befruktningens historia går långt tillbaka i tiden, men började på allvar regleras på 1980-talet, då inseminationsutredningen grundligt utredde frågan. VariatThe thesis at hand deals with the arguments and positions underlying the legislators decisions concerning Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in general, and surrogate motherhood in particular. The history of alternative ways to start a family, and ART goes far back. However, it only really began to be the subject of regulation in the 1980s, when the government issued an investigation, to thoro

This paper combines theory and data collected from a shadowing study to explore the role of communication and public relations practitioners in reputation management. In seeking to explore the role communication managers have on the reputation of a CEO and the corporate reputation, this study builds on the existing research on roles research and corporate reputation. The theoretical framework conn

Equipped with Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and his collections of short stories Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), this thesis interprets the fundamentals of migrant literature, studies Díaz’s tools of migrant depiction, and examines contemporary postcolonial and migrant discourse. This is performed in three integral segments of study. First, the un

Microplastic particles are of increasing environmental concern around the globe and recent studies have shown that these particles are present in the entire water column, thus affecting a range of zooplankton including copepods that have a vital role in the marine food web. This study investigated whether microplastic beads have an effect in the filtration rate in the copepod Acartia tonsa, which

Förbättringar i reproducerbarhet och kapacitet av akustiska mikrofluidiska infångningssystem Vad är akustisk infångning? Arbetet i den här uppsatsen är fokuserat på mikrofluidiska system som med hjälp av ultraljud kan fånga in celler och små partiklar. Mikrofluidik är ett fält som innefattar tekniker där man hanterar små flöden i mycket små kanaler. Principen för akustisk infångning bygger på attAcoustic trapping is a novel technology that allows for microfluidic sample preparation and pretreatment. The aim of this text is to give the reader a general insight in microfluidics with a focus on acoustic trapping. One of the next steps in the development of acoustic trapping is to promote commercialization of the technology which requires that similar devices can be manufactured reproducibly.

In order to alleviate the financial burden on the healthcare sector as well as relax its employees’ workload, there is a need to introduce novel tools that automate some of the tasks that today are performed manually. Especially pathology poses a problem with few pathologists, demanding manual labour and unnecessary work on benign tissue. As a response, the DOGS project aims to develop a tool to a

The debate on the legislation on sexual offense has a long history regarding the current wording, which defines the circumstances of the crimes rape and sexual coercion should be removed and the line between criminal and unpunished deed should be drawn at the level of whether participation was involuntarily. In October 2016 the Sexual Offences Committee introduces a new SOU (Swedish Government Off

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the level of trait anxiety and to which extent the equestrians reinvest to consciously control their movements, and if the result had an influence on performance. The selected participants were 30 elite equestrians, actively competing in dressage. All participants were competing on a both national and international level in thisSyftet med studien var att undersöka om det fanns ett samband mellan individens grad av trait anxiety och tendens att kontrollera sina rörelser hos elitryttare i dressyr, samt om utfallet hade en inverkan på prestation. Urvalet bestod av 30 stycken elitryttare som aktivt tävlade på nationell- och internationell nivå i den finmotoriska ridgrenen dressyr. Deltagarna besvarade en webbenkät som involv

Den här uppsatsen diskuterar äktenskapet och dess okritiserade roll i den svenska familjerätten. Det huvudsakliga syftet med uppsatsen är att granska äktenskapet som en statligt reglerad samlevnadsform. Detta görs genom att granska äktenskapets historia, gällande rätt, äktenskapets funktioner och lagstiftarens överväganden vid reglering av intima relationer. Uppsatsen har också ett kritiskt anslagThis paper discusses marriage and its uncriticized role in Swedish family law. The main purpose of the essay is to examine marriage as a state regulated form of intimate relation between individuals. The essay examines the history of marriage, the applicable law, the function of marriage and the legislator’s considerations when it comes to legislation concerning intimate relations. This paper als