Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att hitta samband mellan de demografiska faktorerna och en förändring i det privata pensionssparandet år 2015. Teoretisk och empirisk metod: Forskningsstrategin för denna studie har varit av kvantitaiv form, med en hypotetisk deduktiv ansats. En enkätundersökning låg till grund för insamling av empirin i denna forskning. Målgruppen för respondenterna var mellan 20-65 år, då det anses till största del vara dessa som pensionssparar. Enkäten bestod till största del utav frågor med alternativ som respondenterna fick fylla i. Resultat och Slutsats: Resultatet av denna forskning visar hur vissa av demografiska faktorer påverkar personers privata pensionssparande och även hur de agerat efter förändringen av avdragsrätt. De demografiska faktorer som kan påvisas påverka är en persons ålder och inkomst. Det fanns ett positivt samband mellan stigande ålder och summa pensionssparande och stigande inkomst och summa pensionssparande. Åldern och inkomsten sågs även påverka hur individer valde att ändra pensionssparandet efter ändringen i avdragsrätt. / Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find connections between demographic factors and a changing of the reduced deductibility year 2015. Theoretical och empirical method: The strategy for this empirical study has been in a quantitative shape with a deductive approach. A survey has been formed to collect the empirical material. The target group for this study has been individuals between 20-65 years old, because these are the people that should be saving for their retirement. The questionnaire was for the most part filled with beforehand given answers that the individual chose the answer that they felt represented themselves. Conclusion: The results of this paper shows how some of the demographic factors has an impact on how an individual acts when they are saving for their retirement and that there is some differences on how they have act after the reduced deductibility. The two factors that have an impact is a person’s age and their level of income. Where people in a higher age and with a higher income will save more for their retirement then others. People with a higher income and a higher age will have change their retirement plan after 2015.

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How do legislatures develop or institutionalize? Our knowledge about legislative development is mostly based on studies of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. state legislatures. However, we know next to nothing about legislative development in the emerging democracies of Latin America. Given the need to develop effective democratic institutions in that region, it is critical to understand how institutions change and how legislatures in particular develop. In this study, I develop a model of legislative development that complements rational choice and path dependent explanations of change. In particular, this model provides an answer to the question: how does a legislative organization change into a legislative institution?In particular, I hypothesize that legislative development varies depending on the extent to which electoral and constitutional reforms balance executive-legislative power asymmetries. To test this hypothesis, I compare legislative development in Nicaragua (1979-2005) and Costa Rica (1871-2005). Central to the process of legislative development are: (1) power asymmetries between presidents and assemblies, (2) the rules and organizations that are established to balance these asymmetries, (3) how rules and organizations affect the development of the legislatures from simple, subordinate organizations into complex and autonomous institutions, and (4) how the broader social, political, and economic environment contributes to legislative development.I find that political actors do not act or function within an historical or contextual vacuum, nor does history and context alone determine political choices and outcomes. Instead, political actors function within rational, institutional, and historical boundaries, so an approach that incorporates aspects of both rational choice and path dependent explanations is preferable to existing models of legislative change. Therefore, part of my contribution is (1) to clarify the conceptual confusion surrounding institutions, organizations, and rules, and reduce ambiguity relating to their incorrect use in current scholarship; (2) to conceptualize legislative development as a process - not an outcome - that unfolds in a causally related sequence; and (3) to develop a Bounded Rationality Model that complements rational choice with path dependent explanations of legislative development to explain how organizations become institutions.

In this thesis I argue that a leading sentimentalist theory, Rational Sentimentalism, faces the Problem of Superfluity because the evaluative properties to which certain emotions are responses can be defined independently of examining those emotional responses. In other words, the connection to value that Rational Sentimentalism aims for fails to obtain. I show that at least one such emotion, disgust, is influenced by higher cognition to a degree incompatible with Rational Sentimentalism avoiding the Problem of Superfluity. I conclude by suggesting ways in which other emotions are structurally similar to disgust, and therefore face the same problem in being incorporated into Rational Sentimentalism.

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A sign pattern matrix is a matrix whose entries are from the set {+,-,0}. The minimum rank of a sign pattern matrix A is the minimum of the rank of the real matrices whose entries have signs equal to the corresponding entries of A. It is conjectured that the minimum rank of every sign pattern matrix can be realized by a rational matrix. The equivalence of this conjecture to several seemingly unrelated statements are established. For some special cases, such as when A is entrywise nonzero, or the minimum rank of A is at most 2, or the minimum rank of A is at least n - 1,(where A is mxn), the conjecture is shown to hold.Connections between this conjecture and the existence of positive rational solutions of certain systems of homogeneous quadratic polynomial equations with each coefficient equal to either -1 or 1 are explored. Sign patterns that almost require unique rank are also investigated.

Tikslas: Įvertinti aminoglikozidų koncentracijos tyrimo svarbą racionaliai farmakoterapijai. Nustatyti ir įvertinti amikacino ir gentamicino koncentracijų tyrimų tendencijas Limoges universitetinėje ligonineje (CHU) ir Kauno medicinos universiteto klinikose (KMUK). Metodai: Duomenys buvo gauti iš CHU farmakologijos – toksikologijos ir statistikos skyrių bei KMUK klinikinės chemijos - hematologijos laboratorijos ir statistikos skyriaus. Apskaičiuota kiek koncentracijos tyrimo tenka vienam lovadieniui per 2007 metus, įvertintos gentamicino ir amikacino ištirtų koncentracijų duomenys bei paskirtos dozės. Duomenų statistinė analizė buvo atlikta naudojant MS Office programų paketo MS Excel skaičiuoklės ir duomenų apdorojimo programos. Rezultatai: Gentamicinui buvo atlikta 400 koncentracijos tyrimų (184 atvejų Cmax koncentracijai tirti, 216 – Cmin koncentracijai tirti) . Tirti 131 ligoniai (46 moterys ir 85 vyrai), kuriems gentamicino dozė individualiai adaptuota 221 kartą. Amikacinui buvo atlikta 169 koncentracijos tyrimai (82 atvejai Cmax koncentracijai tirti , 87 – Cmin koncentracijai tirti). Tirti 62 ligoniai (24 moterys ir 38 vyrai), kuriems amikacino dozė individualiai adaptuota 92 kartus. CHU tenka 6,85×10-4 (1:1460) gentamicino koncentracijos tyrimo vienam lovadieniui ir 2,89×10-4 (1:3456) amikacino koncentracijos tyrimo vienam lovadieniui.KMUK tenka 2,77×10-5 ( 1:36089) gentamicino koncentracijos tyrimo vienam lovadieniui. Taigi, CHU 24,72 kartais lenkia KMUK gentamicino... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Objectives: To evaluate the importance of researh on aminoglicozids for rational pharmacotherapy. To determine and evaluate the tendencies of studies of amikacin and gentamicin concentration in Limoges University Hospital (CHU) and Kaunas University of medicine Hospital (KMUM). Methods: The data has been received from the department of pharmacology and toxicology and the department of statistics of CHU and from the laboratory of chemistry and hematology and the department of statistics of KMUK. It has been calculated how much concentration study belongs to one bed-day in the year 2007, the data of the studied concentrations of gentamicin and amikacin have been evaluated and the doses have been administered. Statistical analysis of the data has been carried out by the use of MS Excel and data processing programs of MS Office. Results: 400 concentration studies have been carried out for gentamicin (184 cases for the study of Cmax concentration, 216 cases for the study of Cmin concentration). 131 patients (46 women and 85 men), who have been individually adapted the dose of gentamicin for 221 time, have been studied. 169 concentration studies have been carried out for amikacin (82 cases for the study of Cmax concentration, 87 cases for the study of Cmin concentration). 62 patients (24 women and 38 men), who have been individually adapted the dose of amikacin for 92 times. In CHU, there is 6.85×10-4 (1:1460) of gentamicin concentration study for one bed-day and 2.89×10-4 (1:345... [to full text]

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Plotinus (3rd century C.E.) and Afdal al-Din Kashani (12th century C.E.) each posit that the highest human goal is to become aware of the ultimate unity of reality. Both are rational mystics, and each describes a rigorous moral and intellectual training through which alone a human can achieve the goal. Seldom studied as a field in itself, rational mysticism offers a vision of philosophy that combines reason, intuition, virtuous practice, and mystical awareness. The relatively young discipline of feminist philosophy is both a response to what its practitioners see as male prejudice in past and present philosophical theories and an attempt to forge new, inclusive theories. Plato and Aristotle, among others, are called to account for their alleged contributions to the philosophically common representation of women as less rational than men, and to the development of philosophical and theological paradigms reflecting a male perspective. Since Plotinus and Kashani both owe much to Plato and Aristotle, including significant elements of how they conceptualise human nature and the nature of ultimate reality, it might be expected that they would incur the same criticisms. So far, however, little feminist attention as such has been paid to Plotinus and the rational mystics of the Islamic tradition, and almost none to Kashani. My examination of these two figures is an attempt to rectify this neglect. In addition, for the first time in a feminist historical critique of this kind, a diversity of feminist perspectives is taken into account. Thus, the question 'Is rational mysticism compatible with feminism?' will be seen to yield a somewhat different answer according to which group of feminists is in view. In offering a revisionist interpretation of Plotinus and Kashani, I aim first to establish which of their theses are consistent with feminist theses; second, to determine whether the consistency of theses is significantly affected, in Kashani's case, by the additional influence of Islamic religion; and third, to identify which group or sub-group of feminists could find in rational mysticism resources for reconstructive work in philosophy. I thereby aim to enrich the understanding of both rational mysticism and feminism.

Due to health problems and the negative externalities associated with cigarette consumption, many governments try to discourage cigarette consumption by increasing its price through taxation. However, cigarette, like the other addictive goods, is viewed as that it is not sensitive to demand rules and the market forces. This study analyses the effect of price increase on cigarette consumption. We used Swedish time series data from 1970 to 2010. Our results reveal that though cigarette is addictive substance its demand is sensitive to changes in the price. Estimates from this study indicate short-run price-elasticity of -0.29 and the long run price elasticity of -0.47.