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Two major trends in scholarly publishing to have emerged in recent years are the increased demands on the availability of scientific publications (Open Access) and the evaluation of scholarly publishing by quantitative measures. On the one hand, scholars today have to conform to demands from funding agencies as well as other institutions to publish their findings Open Access. On the other hand, th

Research question-/s: Incumbents in the financial industry - what are the challenges faced in the beginning of a reactive transition to Market Orientation and how do these influence the process? Methodology: The case study was conducted in a global financial service provider based in Sweden. The research takes a qualitative approach which follows an inductive method with small elements of deductio

Skräp som skräp? Eller? Vad gör det om vi slänger lite fel i soppåsen ibland? Det mesta blandas väl bara och bränns upp ändå? Nej, så är det inte, och särskilt viktigt är det att inte slänga produkter med farliga egenskaper i vanliga soporna. Farligt avfall är produkter och ämnen som kan innebära en risk för miljön eller människors hälsa. Det handlar inte bara om kemikalier som färg och oljor, uAnnually, approximately 11 000 tons of hazardous waste ends up in the residual waste in Sweden, causing economic losses as well as negative environmental- and health impacts. This study examines the extent of incorrect sorting of household hazardous waste (HHW) in six municipalities in southern Sweden. With data from 62 waste composition analyses carried out during the period 2006-2015, a detailed

Varje stjärna vi ser på himlavalvet en stjärnklar natt tillhör vår galax Vintergatan, och var och en har de en historia att berätta. Målet med astronomi, den äldsta grenen av naturvetenskapen, är att förstå hur dessa magnifika strukturer uppstod och formades till den skepnad de antar i dag. Stjärnor bildas ur enorma gasmoln, och vid slutet av sin livstid slungar de ut sina beståndsdelar i galaxen.Metal-poor (MP) stars in the Milky Way (the Galaxy) and its satellite galaxies open a window into the earliest times in the history of the Universe, probing the chemistry of the earliest times. Recent galaxy formation simulations predict that the oldest MP stars are those on tightly bound orbits in the inner regions of a galaxy (Tumlinson 2010). Applying this to the Milky Way, MP stars in the bulg

Arkiv används ofta som en källa inom olika forskningsprojekt. I den här uppsatsen är det istället arkivet i sig som är studieobjekt. Utifrån mediearkeologisk teori undersöks Biblioteksstyrelsens arkiv i Åmål. Uppsatsens teoretiska utgångspunkter är att arkiv befinner sig i en samhällelig kontext och återspeglar det minne det lagrar. Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ studie och arkivet har undersökts på fArchives are often used as a source in various research projects. In this essay, it is instead the archive that is a study object. Based on media archaeological theory, the Library Board's archive in Åmål is examined. The theoretical basis of the essay is that archives are in a social context and reflect the memory it stores. It is a qualitative study and the archive has been investigated on s

Kartong kan framställas för att få fram olika egenskaper. En kartongförpackning har någon gång i tiden vikts fram av en bit kartong. Men hur viker man utan att få oönskade skador och veck, och hur påverkas detta av materialets egenskaper?Paperboard is frequently used as a base material in packages. There is folding involved in the conversion process, where a package is formed from a paperboard sheet. However, because direct folding causes undesirable effects such as wrinkles, it must first be creased. The creasing procedure consists of intentionally damaging the material, creating an indentation on the piece, after which the mater

Background: Ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt is a catheter which circulate flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the lateral ventricle to the abdomen and it is the most commonly used shunt in modern neurosurgery. Complications of VP shunts are very common and often require emergency services. For the perioperative nurse this means that theVP shunt reoperation is one of the most often performed em

Over the last decades Sweden’s archival institutions have taken a turn towards becoming open and modern cultural institutions with outreach work. This is especially noted in the City of Malmoe where Malmoe City Archives has undergone a heavy renewal and has among other things been relocated from the prosperous Western Harbour in the outskirts of the city to the more diverse inner city in Möllevång

Med 1944 års djurskyddslag införs de första djurförsöksbestämmelserna i svensk rätt. Debatten om djurförsökens reglering hade då under lång tid varit föremål för ett flertal motioner i den svenska riksdagen, utan att resultera i någon lagstiftning. Genom att försöka kontextualisera bestämmelserna söker jag svar på frågan vilka faktorer i den rättsliga utvecklingen som kan bidragit till tidpunkten The scientific use of animals is a complex question, in itself and in law. In this essay the rules regarding animal experimentation are studied through the lens of the legislator’s arguments as well as the historical context in which these rules first came about. Thus, this essay situate the Animal Protection Act of 1944 in its historical context, as well as analyzing the arguments on the use of a

De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libris Tres, av Hugo Grotius, och den westfaliska freden, i 1600-talets Europa, har ofta betonats av forskare som födelseplatsen för den moderna folkrätten. Denna studie har ämnat granska validiteten i dessa påståenden genom en rättshistorisk undersökning av omständigheterna kring texterna och en komparativ utredning dem emellan. Arbetets huvudsakliga syfte har varit att utfDe Jure Belli ac Pacis Libris Tres, by Hugo Grotius, and the Peace of Westphalia, in 17th century Europe, has often been highlighted as the birthplace of modern public international law. This study aims to review the validity of such statements through research of the legal history concerning the topic and through a comparative examination of the two works. The main purpose of the study have been

The purpose of this study was to find out which type of informant the Social Media Influencer embodies when consumers voluntarily switch brands after the endorsement of a brand by a Social Media Influencer. To answer the research question, this thesis utilised a quantitative questionnaire which was created with the help of a qualitative pre-study to assess the relevance of dimensions proposed in t

This paper studies the bitcoin lending market and the factors explaining loans defaults. No financial intermediation implies that investors are faced directly with the credit risk. This increases information asymmetry at the cost of the lenders, so bitcoin lending platforms try to reduce this negative effect by providing information about the borrowers and their loan requests. Credit grade and int

There is an ongoing discussion in information retrieval research regarding the merits of subject indexing with controlled vocabularies as opposed to relying on free-text descriptions. Earlier research has compared subject headings with other metadata, such as document titles or tables of contents, to determine the relative value of subject headings as subject access points in an information search

This thesis focuses on the librarian’s professional identity and how this is formed. The purpose of this study is, more specifically, to discover how the professional identity of the research librarians is constructed, and which professional identity positions are avaliable during Book a librarian-meetings at Lund university. By doing this I want to establish an understanding for what Book a libra

This study examines if commodity indices can be used to predict stock index returns on the Nordic financial markets. With a forecast period between 2000 and 2016, the study is conducted with an Ordinary Least Squares method to predict both in-sample and out-of- sample. The results indicate that the Baltic Dry Index and the London Metal Exchange Index are the best predictors of monthly stock return

In 2016, a much-noted museum debate took place in Swedish media in which some critics accused the government of politicizing its public museums and using them as propaganda tools by detail managing them. These are serious accusations which motivate a thorough review of the relation between cultural politics and museums. With the aim of investigating politicization of public museums, Malmö Museum

Med förklaringsbörda avses det förhållandet att den tilltalade underlåter att lämna en förklaring till en viss omständighet och att detta får en för denne oförmånlig bevisverkan. Den laga grunden för att ålägga den tilltalade en förklaringsbörda återfinns dels i RB 35 kap. 1 §, enligt vilken domstolen har att fritt bevisvärdera allt som förekommit i målet, dels i 35 kap. 4 §, enligt vilken domstolThe burden of explanation refers to the situation where the accused omits to explain a given circumstance, which as a result affects the evidentiary effect unfavorably. The legal basis for imposing a burden of explanation on the accused is found in Chapter 35, Section 1 and 4 of the Swedish Code for Judicial Procedure. Section 1 states that the court is free to evaluate everything that has occurre

Plutocracy is a subject that has not traditionally attracted the interest of scholars in the disciplines of International Relations and Political Science. This is unfortunate, as the number and importance of affluent private individuals in global affairs has steadily increased in recent decades. Since most existing academic research on contemporary plutocrats focuses on philanthropists and other ‘