Abstract Achilles tendon rupture and tendinopathy are frequent ailments with increasing incidence. Still today, there is no consensus regarding optimal treatment for neither condition. However, studies indicate that the rehabilitation program following an injury is more important for the functional outcome and recovery of the tendon than the initial treatment (surgical or non-surgical). For patie

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to provide the reader with insights regarding what Syrian highly-educated immigrants (HEI) in Sweden think are the underlying prerequisites and actions needed to facilitate their entrance into the Swedish job market. Key Research Question: What are the key requirements needed to expedite the employment of HEI in the Swedish job market, and take up relevant jo

The current thesis examines the role of intuition in the strategic decision making process of executives. Limited applied research has been conducted on the field of intuitive processes in strategic decision making of top managers, therefore this paper attempts to shed more light on this specific topic. The purpose of this study is to investigate how and to what extent intuition affects executive

Examensarbetets titel: Ett bredare perspektiv på ett snävare sätt att konkurrera - En komparativ studie mellan mindre och större företag med fokusstrategi Seminariedatum: 2017-06-02 Ämne/kurs: FEKH19, Företagsekonomi: Examensarbete på kandidatnivå i Strategic Management, 15 hp Författare: Stina Jonsson, Ewelina Larsson, Ilhan Safia Yosef Handledare: Devrim Göktepe-Hultén Fem nyckelord: FoTitle: A broader perspective on narrow scope competition - A comparative study between smaller and larger companies using a focus strategy. Seminar date: 2017-06-02 Course: FEKH19, Business Administration: Bachelor Degree Project in Strategic Management, Undergraduate level, 15 credits Authors: Stina Jonsson, Ewelina Larsson, Ilhan Safia Yosef Advisor: Devrim Göktepe-Hultén Key words: Fo

Today we depend on data based services, for example in logistics, at warehouses, and accounting services. When a data based service is delayed it can depend on its servers being overloaded, leading to economic losses. To prevent this, it is necessary to have appropriate monitoring tools that can make the system administrators aware of when performance thresholds have been breached and servers are

Mesh networks are highly relevant and interesting today considering all the connected devices that exists. These devices often aim to have low power consumption to be able to be powered by smaller power sources such as solar cells or batteries. The hardware used by mesh networks often has the same purpose, to minimize power consumption. The purpose of this thesis is to provide an increased underst

The essay deals with the development of the train station environment with smart technology. The purpose is to identify the current needs on train stations and to give proposals of technical solutions. The study contains five different parts: a literature study, a survey, an interview, an analysis and a discussion. The study for the research includes three different groups. The first survey study

This thesis examines the idea of calibrating Level 1 jets. These are used in the Trigger-Level Analysis at the ATLAS in the search for a new mediator, in this case between Standard Model and Dark Matter particles. In the thesis, the idea to calibrate the Level 1 jets is investigated. To calibrate the Level 1 jets, they are divided into bins of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity. The responses

Dublinförordningen reglerar mekanismer för att avgöra vilken stat som ska vara ansvarig för att pröva en asylansökan som lämnats in i EU. Förordningen är en del av unionens gemensamma asylrättsliga regelsystem och anses vara väsentlig för detta systems funktion. Europeiska Kommissionen har med bakgrund av flyktingkrisen 2015 lagt fram förslag till att reformera och ytterligare harmonisera EU:s asyThe Dublin regulation establishes mechanisms for determining which state is responsible for the examination of an asylum application submitted within the EU. The regulation is a part of the Union's common asylum system and is considered essential for the functioning of this system. In the context of the refugee crisis of 2015, the European Commission has put forward proposals to reform and fur

Background: Within research, it has been stated that transportation cost is a large part of logistics cost which is a large contributor to supply chain costs. To reduce transportation cost, choosing the appropriate transportation mode is an important decision both on a strategic and tactical level. There are several models and approaches when choosing transportation mode, including several factors

Sous vide går ut på att råvarorna vakuumförpackas i påse för att sedan tillagas i den förslutna påsen vid en temperatur lägre än vad som traditionellt används. Livsmedel som tillagas med sous vide har vanligtvis en bättre smakmässig kvalitet samt en längre hållbarhet än livsmedel som tillagats med traditionella metoder. Många hemmakockar saknar vakuummaskin och tar istället till andra metoder somSous vide is a cooking technique where ingredients are vacuum packed in a bag and then cooked in a waterbath, the temperature of which sous vide is used is often lower than the temperature used for traditionally cooked food. Foods cooked with sous vide usually have a higher quality when it comes to taste, as well as a longer shelf life than food cooked with traditional methods. Since many home co

Corporate social entrepreneurship (CSE) is a fairly new concept in academia and is not very well researched. This study aims to develop more knowledge about the concept. It is emphasizing the concept of CSE, and how Swedish companies are working with CSE. A comprehensive framework based on literature is presented and tested on the empirical data. Another framework was developed from the empirical

This thesis covers the optimal control of stochastic systems with coarsely quantised measurements. A particle filter approach is used both for the estimation and control problem. Three main families of particle filters are examined for state estimation, standard SIR filters, SIR filters with generalised sampling and auxiliary filters. A couple of different proposal distributions and weight functio

E-handeln växer sig bara starkare och starkare. För att företagen ska kunna ge en så bra upplevelse som möjligt krävs det att man förstår sig på hur kunderna beter sig. Vi har skapat en matematisk modell som i 80 % av fallen kan förutspå hur en kund kommer agera i framtiden. Länge har butiksförsäljning varit den dominanta inkomstkällan för affärskedjorna, men senaste åren har E-handeln bara vuxit sE-commerceisgrowingwithinalotsofareas. Itcreatesnewchallengesbutalsoalot of possibilities for the companies. In this thesis we will try to understand customer behaviorthroughaparametricmodel,namelylogisticregression. Theavailabledata isprovidedbyabigcompanyinSwedenwhichissellingproductsthatcanbebought weekly. Besidesunderstandingcustomers’behaviorthemodelintendtoworkasatool indecisionmaking. Subje

In a growing global corporate bond market, insights and understanding of the markets pricing mechanisms becomes increasingly important to investors. While previous research on credit risk has mainly focused on the American bond market, European bonds remain rather unexplored in academia. In this article, we investigate the explanatory power of a family of credit risk models - called structural modThis thesis empirically tests the explanatory power of structural models on the European corporate bond market. Using new evaluation methods, including LASSO and gradient boosting regression, we can provide an in-depth assessment of the models’ shortcomings. With these tools we show that the structural models tend to systematically overstate or understate the spread due to an oversensitivity to le

Syfte: Att undersöka vilka barriärer sjuksköterskor upplever vid sexuell rådgivning till personer med hjärtsjukdom. Metod: Studien genomfördes som en integrerad litteraturstudie där totalt åtta artiklar, varav tre kvalitativa, fyra kvantitativa och en mixad metodartikel, inkluderades. Resultat: I resultatet framkom två huvudkategorier av barriärer, Yttre faktorer och Inre faktorer, med vardera två

The sharing economy, which is an Internet-mediated economic model based on sharing practices, presents the potential to reshape nature-society interactions with relevance for leading to transformative change for environmental and social aspects of sustainability. It is widely presented as a model leading to environmentally sustainable pathways through reduced resource use and reduced levels of con

China has experienced unprecedented economic success since the liberalisation process began in 1978. However, this expansion has also brought with it large scale environmental damage. Using data obtained from the Chinese National Buraeu of Statistics, this study investigates CO2 emissions from the years 2000 – 2012 on a provincial level in comparison with company state and private ownership struct

E-post och dokument kan innehålla ostrukturerade personuppgifter och används flitigt av företag i dagens digitaliserade värld. I maj 2018 kommer en ny dataskyddsförordning GDPR att verkställas och ersätter då PuL. Detta innebär en förändring för samtliga företag i Sverige då deras arbetssätt kring ostrukturerade personuppgifter tvingas att förändras. Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur företag för

Vi lever i en tid där det blivit allt enklare för företag att samla in och lagra stora mängder data om sina kunder. Möjlighetenattutnyttjaalladennadataförattidentifieraochförutsekundebeteendenstårhögtpåagendanföralla somsysslarmedförsäljninginågonform. Att i förväg känna till vilka kunder som är troligast att köpaenspecifikproduktellerattkunnaidentifieravilka låntagare som är mindre troliga att betalThis thesis aims to shine light on some different machine learning methods. As reference a more common statistical prediction method, namely the generalized linear model, is applied to compare the results of the machine learning methods. Six different machine learning methods are investigated. These methods are explained in detail and used to predict hit rates within insurance customers. To further