DVVJ (Dal - Västra Värmlands järnväg) är en lågtrafikerad järnväg i Dalsland. Trafikverket förvaltar delar av sträckan, i dagsläget Mellerud – Billingsfors och sträckan Billingsfors – Bengtsfors är förvaltade av stiftelsen DVVJ. Stiftelsen DVVJ är ett samarbete mellan kommunerna Mellerud, Bengtsfors samt Årjäng som sköter trafiken på hela banan. Banan har varit nedläggningshotad ett flertal tillfä

The average age of the signalling systems the Swedish railways is high and the technology old. Parts of the current system are over 50 years old and requires a high amount of service due to its old age. Due to an EU-directive regarding interoperability, the current signalling system on the most heavily trafficked parts of the Swedish railway (equal to about 2/3 of the total number of signalling po

The Landeyjahöfn Harbour, located on the south coast of Iceland, has since its opening in 2010 been suffering from siltation problems. Sediment deposited in the harbour entrance, preventing the ferry to run at full capacity. The problem was addressed in previous studies, but without arriving at a sustainable solution, stimulating the present study with the overall objective to investigate the sedi

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate if culture influences a firm’s decision to implement enterprise risk management (ERM). It will examine which factors influence this decision on a worldwide level, how ERM implementation varies across countries and to what extent these differences are influenced by cultural dimensions. The study is based on 380 firm observations from 19 countries.

Forest biomass acts as an important indicator of carbon resources in terrestrial system. Estimation of forest biomass enables a straightforward measurement of carbon storage and provides initial values for process-based carbon cycle models to simulate carbon dynamics. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) remote sensing is increasingly used to estimate forest biomass because of its ability to detect

Title: Open Innovation: An offer Some Can't Refuse. A comparative case study on the strategic implications of being bound to openness Seminar date: 2016-06-03 Course: FEKH19 Degree project, Undergraduate level in Strategic Management, Business Administration, 15 University Credit Points (ECTS) Authors: Björn Arvesen, Jakob Matto, Jacob von Segebaden Advisor: Anna Brattström Key words: Open inn

This paper aims to shed light on whether the newly received government bill "Better criminal tools against organized crime" (prop. 2015/16: 113) can counteract criminal groupings in Sweden. We have done a case study in which we intented to apply the goverment bill prop. 2015/16: 113 on a specific criminal grouping in Malmo. Through this we have studied how this bill according to previous

Metod: Studien tog sin början i en genomgång av befintlig litteratur för att skapa en grundförståelse samt ett teoretiskt ramverk att utgå ifrån. Detta resulterade i en första version av ett teoretiskt ramverk som ligger till grund för datainsamlingen. Den vetenskapliga ansatsen för studien är således abduktiv. I syfte att förstå beslutsfattande bakom kvasi-standarder användes sensiterande kategorMethod: The study departs in a rigorous review of existing literature in order to create a broad understanding and ultimately a theoretical framework. This theoretical framework is the basis both for data collection and analysis of the empirical findings. The theoretical approach is hence mainly abductive. In order to understand the decision factors behind quasi-standards, sensitized categories we

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur gymnasieelever upplever motivation i sin skolvardag inom sina profilämnen. Vad innebär motivation för dem? Vilka faktorer påverkar deras motivation? Hur upplever gymnasieelever motivation i sin skolvardag? Studien utgår ifrån kvalitativa forskningsmetoder och omfattar två elevgrupper från estetiska programmet, varav en grupp går musikinriktning och den andraThe purpose of this study is to investigate how high school students experience motivation within in their chosen profile. What does motivation mean to them? Where does motivation come from? What promotes it and what impedes it? How is their motivation affected by their education? The study makes use of qualitative methods and includes two groups of students from the arts programme. One of the gro

Den 15 mars 2016 offentliggjorde Instagram hur applikationens kommande uppdatering ska fungera i praktiken. Företaget berättade att på grund av att personer ofta missar sina vänners Instagram-uppdateringar så ska Instagram nu – efter den tidigare kronologiska ordningen i innehållet – styras av algoritmer, alltså system som baseras på användare och olika typer av aktivitet. Uppsatsen “Man vill ju b

Förekomsten av luftvägsallergier som astma och hösnuva har ökat under de senaste årtiondena. Dessa sjukdomar kan leda till fysiska och psykosociala besvär; astma kan i värsta fall få fatala konsekvenser. Dendritceller är skickliga regulatorer av immunförsvaret och av allergiska reaktioner. I den här studien har vi i en cellkulturmodell undersökt hur dendritceller kan påverkas av deras närmiljö i lDendritic cells (DCs) are influenced by signals from their microenvironment, which may affect how they regulate immunity. Activation of T helper (Th) 2 cells by DCs in allergic reactions is well supported, yet the underlying mechanisms that regulate DCs to stimulate Th2 development are less clear. Airway epithelial cells (AECs) have been suggested as potent regulators of DCs and drivers of DC indu

This project will analyze the current situation for fiber routing. It will research how well planned excavations on the roads and their restorations are today. The project will also study how often road reinforcements and fiber routing are applied simultaneously and how experts perceive the situation. The project is carried out in the municipality of Svalöv who are currently building a fiber netwo

The purpose of this study was to examine the socio-economic problems faced by urban refugees with a case study of Kampala Uganda. Under this topic, participants were asked why they live in unrecognized areas, why they never lived in settlements and why urban refugees are not visible to humanitarian agencies. The study went ahead to investigate the socio-economic problems refugees were facing as we

I nordvästra Lund finns ett handelsområde vid namn Mobilia. I området finns industri och dagligvaruhandel. Vid höga trafikflöden så har området uppfattats som otillgängligt och besvärligt att ta sig runt i för samtliga trafikantgrupper. Området har därför analyserats och som hjälpmedel så har analysen inspirerats av åtgärdsvalsstudier. Fokus har främst legat på oskyddade trafikanters tillgänglighe

Daily-deal websites have recently been a new and successful way of attracting product service providers since they offer ‘‘free’’ advertising and at the same time the opportunity to sell products and services via certain promotional campaigns. However, research on the concept of daily deal consumer behaviour has been somewhat limited in the context of online shopping, especially regarding empirica

This thesis examines the motives of IT employees to stay employed at their current job in an organisation or resign voluntarily and suggests possible factors for organisations to consider while designing retention strategies. The research was conducted as an inductive case study at an IT organisation headquartered in Sweden. A mixed method approach was adopted to gather empirical data through inte

Repeatedly it has been demonstrated that the specific performance of an individual or a small group of workers have a significant impact on the profitability of a company. Hence, talented workers are vital for companies in order to stay competitive in today’s fierce business market. In addition, in industries where employees constitute the offered product the role of talent becomes even more impor

Skam är en kraftfull känsla med både positiv och negativ funktion. Känslan kan vara övergående och reglera beteendet i förhållande till omgivningens normer. Internaliserad skam är ett mer konstant tillstånd av negativ självbild där individen uppfattar hela sig som misslyckad, pinsam och mindre värd än andra. Skammen kan döljas genom att man undviker situationer som aktiverar och avslöjar den plågsShame is a powerful affect with both positive and negative functions. The emotion can be transient and help the person to socialise and behave successfully in relation to social norms. Internalised shame is a more constant state of negative self-image in which the individual regards all of him- or herself as a failure, awkward and of less worth. The shame can be hidden by avoiding situations that

Chiral perturbation theory is an efficient effective theory to describe meson-meson scattering at low energy. An effective theory naturally introduces low energy constants and they are used, for example, to solve the ultraviolet divergences. The aim of this master thesis is to focus on meson-meson scattering to find some theoretical bounds on the coupling constants, based mainly on arguments from

The study contains both an empirical and theoretical purpose. The aim is to analyze and explain the current portrayal of auditors by Swedish media, and if and when this portrayal is made in a positive way. Different theoretical perspectives will be combined in order to develop a more comprehensive framework for analysing the relation between media and auditors. The theoretical framework is based