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“They get breakfast and transportation. What else could they need?” : An explorative study of how to improve ethical labour standards in Sri Lankan companies
No full textAbstract Bachelor’s thesis, Enterprising and Business Development, Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics, 2EB00E, VT 2015 Authors: Jesper Gunnarsson and Mathias Holst Tutor: Maria Persdotter Isaksson Title: ”They get breakfast and transportation. What else could they need?”. An exploratory study of how to improve ethical labour standards in Sri Lankan companies. Background: The globalization has led to an increase in movement of goods and capital across national borders. This has contributed to an increase in overseas manufacturing in low-wage countries, meaning a decrease in costs and improved profits for western companies. Since the ethical standards generally are lower in developing countries numerous NGOs have launched awareness campaigns for CSR. In Sri Lanka there are issues regarding ethical labour. There is a concern that the government are not committing enough towards the improvement of these standards. The improvement of ethical standards has the potential to improve the quality of life and the entire economy which makes it interesting to see how the government in cooperation with other stakeholders can improve the situation. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to explore how ethical labour standards can be improved in Sri Lankan companies. Method: The study uses a general inductive approach where two main themes are extracted from seven interviews with representatives from the Sri Lankan government, Labour Department, ILO and employers. The study is of a qualitative character and its hermeneutic approach allows the subjective opinions of the respondents to affect the direction of the study. Conclusions: Through this study it has been explored that ethical labour standards in Sri Lankan companies can be improved through two categories: 1) The role of the government and through 2) communication and cooperation. The most prominent conclusions are that the Sri Lankan government have to increase their commitment in the ethical labour discussion and the social dialogue, that promotes the interests of all the stakeholders within the debate, is required. Through a stronger ethical labour legislation further social initiatives can have better conditions through out the Sri Lankan society and through ICT-implementations the monitoring of ethical labour can increase in efficiency, hence increase the ethical labour standards in Sri Lankan companies.
“They get breakfast and transportation. What else could they need?” : An explorative study of how to improve ethical labour standards in Sri Lankan companies
No full textAbstract Bachelor’s thesis, Enterprising and Business Development, Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics, 2EB00E, VT 2015 Authors: Jesper Gunnarsson and Mathias Holst Tutor: Maria Persdotter Isaksson Title: ”They get breakfast and transportation. What else could they need?”. An exploratory study of how to improve ethical labour standards in Sri Lankan companies. Background: The globalization has led to an increase in movement of goods and capital across national borders. This has contributed to an increase in overseas manufacturing in low-wage countries, meaning a decrease in costs and improved profits for western companies. Since the ethical standards generally are lower in developing countries numerous NGOs have launched awareness campaigns for CSR. In Sri Lanka there are issues regarding ethical labour. There is a concern that the government are not committing enough towards the improvement of these standards. The improvement of ethical standards has the potential to improve the quality of life and the entire economy which makes it interesting to see how the government in cooperation with other stakeholders can improve the situation. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to explore how ethical labour standards can be improved in Sri Lankan companies. Method: The study uses a general inductive approach where two main themes are extracted from seven interviews with representatives from the Sri Lankan government, Labour Department, ILO and employers. The study is of a qualitative character and its hermeneutic approach allows the subjective opinions of the respondents to affect the direction of the study. Conclusions: Through this study it has been explored that ethical labour standards in Sri Lankan companies can be improved through two categories: 1) The role of the government and through 2) communication and cooperation. The most prominent conclusions are that the Sri Lankan government have to increase their commitment in the ethical labour discussion and the social dialogue, that promotes the interests of all the stakeholders within the debate, is required. Through a stronger ethical labour legislation further social initiatives can have better conditions through out the Sri Lankan society and through ICT-implementations the monitoring of ethical labour can increase in efficiency, hence increase the ethical labour standards in Sri Lankan companies.
Folkenes og troens stamfader:Abraham i Det Gamle Testamente og i jødedommen
No full textDet Gamle Testamente skildrer Abraham ikke blot som israelitternes stamfader, men som ophav til en hel stribe folkeslag. I jødedommen fortolkes der, lige som i kristendom og islam, videre på patriarken, der gøres til både tempelkultens og synagogegudstjenstens egentlige ophavsmand, selv om han ifølge Bibelen levede, før jødedommen som vi kender den, blev ti
Picard - an electrostatic particle in cell simulation code
No full textThis is a particle-in-cell plasma code 'picard' that was developed
by Jesper Lindkvist and Herbert Gunell with start in 2016 using
resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for
Computing (SNIC) at the High Performance Computing Center North
(HPC2N), Umeå University, Sweden. Jesper Lindkvist was funded by
the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB project 201/15) and
Herbert Gunell by the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA
project 108/18).
A paper based on the first version was published in A&A .
The present version has been updated to include ionisation as a source of cometary ions, and hdf5 files are used for writing the output. The changes in this version were made by Herbert Gunell.
The files included are:
picard.tgz Package containing all source file, some matlab m-files
that can be used for plotting of the results, and an input
file that was used for a simulation that will be used in an
upcoming publication by Herbert Gunell and Charlotte Götz.
fig-cur.mp4 Videoclip showing results from the simulation defined by the input file, specifically
three-dimensional current paths from different angles.
@author : Jesper Lindkvist
Email : [email protected]
@author : Herbert Gunell
Email : [email protected]
Type Theory Unchained: Extending Agda with User-Defined Rewrite Rules
No full textDependently typed languages such as Coq and Agda can statically guarantee the correctness of our proofs and programs. To provide this guarantee, they restrict users to certain schemes a- such as strictly positive datatypes, complete case analysis, and well-founded induction a- that are known to be safe. However, these restrictions can be too strict, making programs and proofs harder to write than necessary. On a higher level, they also prevent us from imagining the different ways the language could be extended. In this paper I show how to extend a dependently typed language with user-defined higher-order non-linear rewrite rules. Rewrite rules are a form of equality reflection that is applied automatically by the typechecker. I have implemented rewrite rules as an extension to Agda, and I give six examples how to use them both to make proofs easier and to experiment with extensions of type theory. I also show how to make rewrite rules interact well with other features of Agda such as-equality, implicit arguments, data and record types, irrelevance, and universe level polymorphism. Thus rewrite rules break the chains on computation and put its power back into the hands of its rightful owner: Yours.Programming Language
35 frågor och svar inför en edering av Jesper Swedbergs Swensk Ordabok
No full textIn this paper, the author accounts for his work on editing an early 18th centurydictionary manuscript, bishop Jesper Swedberg’s Swensk Ordabok. A similar project– i.e. editing an old, hitherto unpublished dictionary manuscript – has beenperformed in Sweden only once before. This means that there is no tradition onwhich the solution of many problems concerning the edition of Swedberg'sdictionary could be based. For instance, there are no less than five manuscriptversions. Which of them should be selected as the basis manuscript of the edition,and to what extent should the differences between the manuscripts be accounted forin the edition? As argued by the author, none of the manuscripts written bySwedberg himself can serve as the basis manuscript, since they are all incomplete.Also, a relatively restricted account of the differences between the manuscripts issuggested; otherwise, the readability of the edition would be too low
Bokrecensioner
No full textBöcker som recenseras är: "Party or patient? Discursive practices relating to coercion in psychiatric and legal settings" av Stefan Sjöström. "Liv och kvalitet i omsorg och pedagogik" av Per Holm, Jesper Holst, Sos Balch Olsen, Birger Perlt (RED. "Makt över kropp och hälsa. Om leprasjukas självförståelse i dagens Grekland" av Georg Drakos. "lnformative paternalism.Studies in the ethics of promoting and predicting health" av Nina Nikk
Achieving Sustainable Consumption for Sustainable Development: Issues and Solutions
No full textPromoting sustainable consumption and production are important aspects of sustainable development. Agenda 21, endorsed by the United Nations Conference on Economic Development (UNCED) in 1992, identified unsustainable consumption and production patterns, particularly in industrialised countries, as the major cause behind the continued deterioration of the global environment. Agenda 21 stresses that changes in consumption and production patterns are necessary to ensure more sustainable development. It calls on industrialised countries to take the lead in achieving sustainable consumption patterns and demonstrate that resource-efficient, low-pollution lifestyles are feasible. The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg recognised the necessity of “changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production”. Current patterns of consumption and production, particularly, in the developed countries are unsustainable. They are depleting forest resources, fisheries, groundwater and bio diversity, polluting air, water and eco systems and causing dangerous climate changes. Environmental decay is occurring everywhere around the globe. This article focuses on sustainable consumption. Without sustainable consumption, sustainable development is impossible. Sustainable consumption has become an important issue on the global governance agenda. There is an increasing recognition that increases in resource productivity alone will not be sufficient to deliver sustainable development. Shifts in the scale and pattern of consumption are essential and it depends on the expectations, choices, behaviours and the lifestyles of consumers. These issues are key components within the emerging concept of ‘Sustainable Consumption’.Sustainable Consumption; Sustainable Development
Satellite Attitude Control: Using Magnetorquers with Magnetic Dipole Moment Calcellation
No full textThis thesis describes the design and anal- ysis of a nonlinear attitude control system for a CubeSat sized satellite based on the structure of the AAUSAT satellites.An analysis of the main disturbances is made with the conclusion that only the magnetic dipole moment needs to be taken into account when performing at- titude control, as this disturbance is 10 times larger than the rest combined.An estimation of the satellite dipole mo- ment is made as a bias estimation by an Extended Kalman Filter. The resulting estimate is correct within 8 % of the true dipole moment when estimating on data basen on a slowly tumbling satellite with state noise.A sliding mode controller is used as the nonlinear controller and uses the mag- netic dipole estimate from the Extended Kalman Filter to counteract this distur- bance. The result is a controller capa- ble of following a Nadir reference within an axis-wise error of 10 degrees. The downside to the controller is the constant power consumption needed, in order to counteract the magnetic dipole moment of the satellite
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