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The last two decades, socially responsible investing has emerged such that there is a value in itself to invest responsibly. This paper analyzes the relationship between Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and stock returns, and investigate if any of these three individual pillars have a more significant impact during the period 2005 – 2018. The study contributes to the field by applying an ES
Exposure to high levels of noise may affect a person’s health and behavior. A lot of education in Swedish preschool occurs outdoor, which makes having good sound environment important for the children and the teachers. Today, Swedish preschools use equivalent sound level Leq24h and max sound level Lmax for outdoor sound environment benchmark values. These standardized sound level indicators have s
Abstract: This thesis analyzes the distribution of profits to labor. The factor share distribution has attracted mounting attention from researchers in the last decades, as it has been identified as a central determining factor for economic inequality. However, how the factor share distribution has developed historically is debated. By analyzing the historical wage share for manufacturing workers
According to the sustainable development goals by the United Nations, EU’s sustainability agenda and Sweden’s own sustainability goals we all need to reduce our waste. Despite this there is a common belief that waste separation is the key to sustainability, when minimization is the prime focus for a sustainable future. Therefore, this study aims to shows how six scanian municipalities are working
This Master’s thesis investigates if a previously integrated Simulink based vehicle model works for testing and verifying software on an ECU (electronic control unit) used to control a four-wheel drive coupling in cars. The testing is done through a specific program called CANoe that allows the tester to both develop and run test cases. This work also investigates the possibility to use static eva
This study aimed to identify which management and leadership soft skills project managers in project-driven industries are required to have, to contend with complexity and change. To gain a holistic understanding, this knowledge was generated through four different research methods: literature research, interviews with twelve experts across the automotive and IT industries, interviews with five cl
Acidification was one of the biggest environmental issues during the 20th centaury, especially in Sweden since acidic emissions from other regions ended up in the ground and water here. In this study, data from several lakes in Ulricehamn Municipality was analysed with consideration of acidification. Liming has been carried out in three lakes, Surströmmasjön, Vallsjön and Trehörningen, since the 1
Time to disease progression or death (PFS) is of main interest in oncology clinical trials. The data is commonly analyzed using a Cox model. Early discontinuation gives uncertainty in the estimated hazard ratio (HR). Censoring is generally used to handle discontinuations. However, if discontinuations are related to the patients’ prognosis, the HR may be biased. By simulating PFS data, this bias wa
In this project we present a phenomenological study of signal to background interference effects in leptonic tridents produced in parton showers. The interference effects are introduced by linking matrix element corrections of a kinetically mixed dark photon model to the parton shower Dire. Using different dark photon masses and coupling strengths positron+proton collisions are simulated and diffe
Management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is an urgent issue throughout the world. Urbanization, population increase, and economy growth are all factors which contribute to an increase of MSW generation. The most common treatment method of MSW is through landfilling, which lead to a constant dissipation of resources in terms of material and energy, as well as environmental pollution and emission o
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the ECB’s Asset Purchase Programme has affected the yield spread of eligible green bonds. One further aim is to investigate if the partial effect of bond liquidity on the yield spread among these green bonds is associated with their eligibility for purchase by the ECB Asset Purchase Programme. Methodology: The econometric methodology is
I denna uppsats har en närläsning skett på tre artiklar från Viralgranskaren. Syftet har varit att studera om retorik kan användas som ett verktyg för källkritik och med hjälp av retorikteori göra källkritiska resonemang. I analysen har resonemang och likheter funnits mellan Viral- granskarens granskningar samt retorikteorin även om de inte får exakt samma användnings- område. Viralgranskaren lägg
Thin-Film Transistor (TFT) technology refers to process and manufacture transistors, circuits, Integrated circuits (ICs) using thin-film organic or metal-oxide semiconductors on different substrates, such as flexible plastic foils and rigid glass substrates. TFT technology is attractive and used for applications requiring flexible, ultrathin ICs to enable seamless integration into devices. TFT t
Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) neural networks have gained popularity for applications such as keyword spotting, speech recognition and other artificial intelligence applications. Typically for most applications training and inference is performed on cloud servers, and the result are transferred to the power constrained device, e.g., an hearing instrument (HI). This approach has disadvantages such as
The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of what leads an employee to judge an event as fair or unfair through the lens of sense-making, sense-breaking and sense-giving, within mergers or acquisitions. This study had an abductive qualitative case-study approach, mainly focusing on semi-structured interviews. Our study constitutes based on the theory of perceived fairness in orga
The cocktail-party problem relates to the challenge of separating a single sound source from a noisy and crowded background based on the listener’s attention. Earlier work has been done in order to use the relations between the sounds heard and the following brain response to develop a model that can accurately classify which sound an individual listener is listening to. The model deals with an re
The primary focus of this study is to determine the effect of additional education on the wage earnings structure in Uganda. The study is empirical and uses data obtained through the Uganda National Housing Survey (UNHS) 2015/16 in the World Bank Database. The study employs the Mincerian wage function as the main model with different specifications that cater for urban-rural, regional and gender d
In recent years, there has been a surge in research on menstrual poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, and scholars are debating which interventions are the most appropriate. One of the leading theories is Civil Society Based Intervention which prescribes a mix of sanitary product-provision and menstrual education. This study contributes to the discussion by testing the Civil Society Based Intervention o
Byggnationen av bostadshus med trästomme har enligt Statistiska centralbyrån ökat med 85% efter den senast lägsta uppmätningen 2011. Statistiska centralbyrån menar också att det är bostadshus bestående av 4-8 våningar som byggs mest i Sverige idag. Av denna statistik förutspås det bli en ökning av efterfrågan på bostadshus med 4-8 våningar med trästomme inom den närmsta framtiden. Tillsammans meThe construction of residential buildings with timber as load-bearing system has according to Statistics Sweden increased with 85% since 2011, which is the latest low point of the collected data. Statistics Sweden also shows how residential buildings consisting of 4-8 storeys are, in Sweden, the most built type of house today. Of these statistics, 4-8- storey residential buildings made with timber
