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The focus of this study is the frozen ethnic conflicts emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These conflicts have been long disregarded by the EU and popped into European foreign policy agenda relatively recently. Thus the study tries to understand, first the security concerns that the unresolved state of these conflicts bear also for the EU security and what policy instruments the Union

In the past decades, the laser technology market for industrial material processing has grown by double digits. Nowadays, material processing by high power laser represents the almost irreplaceable solution for many needs. The company SEI S.p.A., based in Curno, Italy, requested a solid-state laser suitable for fast marking application. A Nd:YVO4 crystal in end-pumped configuration was chosen in o

This essay seeks to investigate the role of demands for quantifiable and measurable results in Human Rights capacity building projects in development countries. The nature of the work is slow processes, yet the financers need to see results for their investments, to make sure that it goes through the right channels. The Swedish minister of Aid has made statements that show a wish to focus Sweden’s

Within the scope of the debate surrounding globalization, ever increasing attention is being directed to the growth of border-crossing social relations and the emergence of transnational social spaces on the micro-level. In particular, the question of how these border-crossing interrelations influence the attitudes and values of the people involved causes some controversy. Some assume that the inc

The severity of the crisis in the Southern Eurozone countries is frequently attributed to inflated economies and reckless spending. Thus, it isn’t surprising that the main interpretation is that the crisis ought to be solved by decreasing government spending and lowering wages. This paper argues, instead, that one of the core underlying reasons for the severity of the crisis in the Southern Eurozo

The fragmentation rate function connects the fundamental drop breakup process with the resulting drop size distribution and is central to understanding or modeling emulsification processes. There is a large interest in being able to reliably measure it from an emulsification experiment, both for generating data for validating theoretical fragmentation rate function suggestions and as a tool for st

In recent years a concept gaining much traction amongst both economic and policy communities is that of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE). We are interested in this concept because it has clear roots in innovation system thinking and can be argued to represent a contemporary iteration of ideas around systemic understandings and policy approaches to economic development, innovation, and entrepreneurs

Forskningsområdet kring employer branding har vuxit till ett nyckelområde inom strategisk kommunikation. Forskningen har varit otillräcklig när det gäller att studera det praktiska arbetet med employer branding i relation till offentlig och privat sektor. Denna uppsats syftar till att analysera vilka budskap organisationer väljer att kommunicera och hur de använder utförandestrategier som employerThe field of employer branding has grown from attracting little interest into a key subject within strategic communication. The research is fairly inadequate when it comes to studying the practical work of employer branding in the context of the public and private sectors. This paper aims to analyse what messages organizations choose to communicate and how they use strategies such as employer bran

Genom EU-förordningen 650/2012 om internationella arvsfrågor har nationalitetsprincipen bytts mot hemvistprincipen med avseende på vilket lands arvsregler som ska tillämpas inom EU. Ingen harmonisering har dock skett av arvsrätten inom EU, och i den situation att en person byter hemvistland inom EU blir det således angeläget att jämföra ländernas arvsregler och vid behov upprätta testamente. Åtski

Denna studie ämnar att öka förståelsen för hur Volvo Cars, som ett multinationellt företag, stärker sitt varumärke genom att strategiskt knyta an till den nationella identiteten och tillhörande myter för att kommunicera svenskhet och mångkultur. Studiens empiriska material består av tre reklamfilmer i Volvos kampanj Made by Sweden, som utifrån ett kvalitativt perspektiv analyseras med hjälp av semThe aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how Volvo Cars, a multinational company, strengthen their brand by strategically relating to national identity and its corresponding myths in order to communicate swedishness and multiculturalism. The study’s empirical material consists of three advertising films from Volvo’s campaign Made by Sweden which from a qualitative perspective is a

Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BM-MSCs) are critical for hematopoiesis and have been largely explored for potential stem cell therapies in a variety of diseases. This will inescapably create the need for long term storage via cryopreservation. Nevertheless, the effect of cryopreservation on primary human BM-MSCs remains largely unknown. We demonstrated that the surface marker expression pa

Following a time period where a large number of refugees and immigrants had been received by Germany, the German minister of development proposed a new framework for Africa policy in the beginning of 2017 targeting the root causes of poverty and large migration flows. Titled Marshall Plan with Africa, the project aims to establish a new partnership between the continents, highlighting private inve

This paper aims to test the impact of a changing dimensional structure on the party system polarization for several countries in Western Europe. It will focus on research on why new parties, and in particular radical right parties, have been able to find ground in Europe. In particular, it will quantitatively test how this might correspond with an increase in the polarization of the new dimension

States are increasingly applying economic means of power to pursue political objectives. The Chinese geo-economic mega-project the Belt and Road Initiative is the worlds foremost example of this trend. At the heart of this strategy, both geographically and strategically, is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. This infrastructure project, worth approximately $62 billion, is expected to revitalise