Global warming has both short and long term effects on seasonal phenological cycles of vegetation. Phenology parameters of vegetation such as start, end, length and amplitude of season can describe life cycle events of vegetation. In this thesis, long-term dataset of GIMMS NDVI time series from 1983 to 2005 was used to extract and analyze vegetation phenology over Sahelian to equatorial areas and

This thesis is concerned with the examination of the Swedish vowels /ɛ:/ and /ø:/ for qualitative differences between their pre-r allophones and the allophones occurring in other contexts. For this purpose, electromagnetic articulography and speech recordings were carried out on Swedish speakers from the two dialectal areas Malmö and Stockholm. Articulatory and acoustic analyses of the collected d

Sammanfattning När lagen om företagsrekonstruktion trädde i kraft 1 september år 1996 infördes möjligheten för en näringsidkare att under ordnade former och under kontroll av en domstol och en rekonstruktör genomföra en rekonstruktion av företaget. Förfarandet syftar till att återställa livskraften hos i grunden lönsamma företag som hamnat i en ekonomisk kris. Vad en företagsrekonstruktion mynnar Summary When the Company Reorganization Act took effect on September 1, 1996, it became possible for a business owner to orderly and under control of a court and a reconstructor, carry out a reorganization of the company. The reorganization proceeding aims to restore profitability of companies with a viable business model that have encountered financial difficulties. The result of a company reorga

Syfte: Denna studie har som syfte att undersöka utvecklingen för fyra alternativviktade aktieindex på Svenska Stockholmsbörsen, detta i förhållande till utvecklingen av ett traditionellt kapitalviktat aktieindex OMXS30. Metod: Utifrån studiens syfte har vi valt att använda oss av en kvantitativ metod med en deduktiv ansats. Vi har valt att titta på ett stort antal företag mellan åren 2003-2012, d

The pilot project which is reported here was triggered by the author’s curiosity of the origin and development of basic textile technologies in early Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer groups. The research question for the study is: Can comparisons of textile artefacts over a large range of areas and time spans tell us something about the early manufacture, use and development of textiles

Årligen drabbas runt 10000 personer av plötsligt hjärtstopp utanför sjukhus i Sverige, för att öka överlevnaden vid ett hjärtstopp måste HLR och adekvat syretillförsel snabbt initieras. Ambulanssjuksköterskorna har olika hjälpmedel för att säkerställa luftvägen och adekvat syretillförsel. Syftet med studien var att belysa faktorer som påverkar ambulanssjuksköterskornas val. Vald datainsamlingsmeto

Arktis utgör ett av de minst utvecklade internationella regioner i världen. Trots politiska initiativ som arktiska rådet och liknande existerar det inte idag något övergripande legalt ramverk för att adressera flertalet juridiska dispyter och kontroverser. Jordens klimatförändring, främst på grund av en ökning av koldioxid i atmosfären, har resulterat i ett Arktis som skiljer sig markant mot det vThe Arctic is one of the most severe and least developed international regions in the world. Despite arrangements such as the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and its successor the Arctic Council, there is no existing viable multi-lateral Arctic body. Pari passu, earth’s climate change, primarily due to an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, is rapidly re-forming the Arctic. The

SAMMANFATTNING Denna uppsats belyser hur unga svenska flickor med arabiskt ursprung samspelar med andra aktörer i en svensk kontext genom användningen av modet, för att integreras i sin skolmiljö konsumtionssamhället i det västerländska samhälle som flickorna lever i, och de olika justeringar av identiteter, som sker i en. samhällets förändring För att förstå detta samspel beskriver jag med hjälp

The aim of this research paper is to explore how, and to what extent, the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty addresses the issue of restricted access to copyrighted materials by persons with visual impairments while securing legitimate interests and human rights of the central stakeholders; specifically, copyright rightholders and persons with visual impairments. In doing so, the focus centres on the compromis

Social kompetens har blivit ett frekvent använt begrepp de senaste tjugo åren av både arbetsgivare och rekryterare i urvalet av ny personal. Platsannonser fokuserar mer än någonsin på individens personliga egenskaper och hennes sätt att agera. Så har inte arbetskraven alltid sett ut och i och med denna uppsats vill jag därför studera de förändringar som skett både på organisatorisk och samhällelig

Since opening up their economy Chinese ODIs has started to be a large part of the country’s economic development. In recent years the share of ODI from China into the EU has increased dramatically. In this paper, an empirical estimation on the determinants of Chinese ODIs in EU is made. The date used for calculations are collected from different databases at the World Bank as well as at the Minist

Psychologists have until lately been rather likeminded when it comes to how the human brain is interpreting and processing different types of information. We react in certain ways when exposed to certain information but considering those reactions stem from experiments mainly conducted on Americans is not something that is considered to be of importance. Whereas these statements tend to hold true

Traditional basal-bolus and closed-loop artificial pancreas therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus were studied in the present work and novel insulin delivery profiles have been identified. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition resulting from autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic insulin producing β-cells. Inadequate insulin secretion prevents efficient glucose metabolism and is a serious health

This qualitative study is based on interviews with four different voluntary workers. The focus on this study is young voluntary workers inside the organization TAMAM. TAMAM is a voluntary organization with a focus on helping children with their homework, but also bounding relationships between children with different backgrounds. The main goal with this study was to find out how young voluntary wo

Timer options are relatively new exotic options with the feature that they expire as soon as the accumulated realized variance exceeds a predefined level. This construction leads to a random time to maturity instead of having a fixed exercise day. As shown by Bernard an Cui [7], Timer options can be priced by solving a partial differential equation or by time-changing the stock price process and t

In this thesis we theoretically investigate quantum correlations and entanglement of electron scatterers through two coupled quantum dots (QDs). The interaction is described in terms of two-particle collisions modeled by two-particle scattering matrix. The correlation between the two dots is expressed in terms of density-of-states matrices. Wave packets are introduced into each system and for the

I uppsatsen behandlas unionsrättens påverkan på EU:s medlemsstaters inkomstskatteregler. De nationella inkomstskattelagstiftningarna får inte strida mot den fria rörligheten stadgad i EUF-fördraget, vilket gör att unionsrätten har stor påverkan på den direkta beskattningen även om den direkta beskattningen till största delen inte är harmoniserad. En medlemsstat får således inte utforma sin nationeThis thesis focuses on the impact of EU law on national direct taxation. National income tax rules may not restrict the free movement of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This means that EU law has a considerable impact on national legislation in this area, even if the member states for the most part have retained their competence to legislate. A member state may, therefo

Green entrepreneurship – technological eco–innovations and ecopreneurs’ acts – has recently received much attention from European policymakers as one promising response to the challenges of sustainable economic development due to its potential to catalyze and build a low–carbon or green economy. This topical relationship between green entrepreneurship and sustainable economy has also gained increa

There is a constant need for the fire and rescue service to develop new methods, materials and extinguishing media to implement the most effective firefighting operations as possible while minimizing environmental impacts. The effect of additives in the extinguishing water is fairly unknown. In this report small-scale experiments shows that additives and fire retardants can provide a significant i