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ATC Airport Builder-A shapefile tool for simulation purposes

Saab supplies the global market with products, services and solutions ranging from military defense to civil security. One of their many offices is located in Helsingborg where a new product for training air traffic controllers (Saab ATC training solution) is developed. This product offers air traffic control students a realistic 3d environment where they may go through a variety of supervised air

Renewable energy development in Trinidad and Tobago: Exploring scenarios for the deployment of solar photovoltaic systems

Countries around the world are employing renewable energy policies to increase renewable electricity in their electricity mix. Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), located in the Caribbean, has endogenous sources of oil and natural gas and has not yet capitalised on sources of renewable energy. The country‟s electricity is currently dominantly generated from natural gas however the natural gas reserves

Financing a Green Future: An examination of China’s banking sector for green finance

With the rapid economic development, China has accelerated its trade and investment at home and abroad. China’s banking sector, in supporting financial activities with capital flow, has become an emerging force at international financial stage. Meanwhile, this numerous amount of cashes provide banks an environment for excessive lending and investments. The increasing environmental accidents have s

GM Plants in Green Economies: A Risk of Necessity?

What this paper endeavors to achieve is an exploration into the issues behind and within the debate surrounding the inclusion of GM plants in a green economic framework. What is first described is the green economic framework, what it is, how it works, why it is desired. Following this is the subject of plant biotechnology, what it is and how it differs from conventional plant breeding, its potent

The proposed Perform Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme in India: A policy evaluation

Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme, proposed in 2008,is the first of its kind energy efficiency trading scheme in India. PAT aims for improving the energy efficiency in the eight most energy intensive large scale industrial sectors, covering almost 54% of the total energy consumption in India, through certification of energy savings which can be traded. This thesis seeks to provide an early i

Drivers and Barriers for Investments in Wind Energy in Serbia: “Don Quixote against the windmills”

The objective of this thesis has been to explore the potential for expansion of wind power in Serbia, through analysis of the key drivers and barriers for further development. This has been done primarily through literature review and semi-structured interviews. After elaborating on the institutional setting and national legal framework, this thesis examines international circumstances that impact

Svenskt anställningsskydd och turordningsregler vid uppsägning. Styrka, effekter och kvalitativ flexibilisering

Vid uppsägning på grund av arbetsbrist åligger det arbetsgivaren att enligt huvudregeln i 22 § fjärde stycket LAS upprätta en turordningslista för berörda arbetstagare. På listan ges arbetstagare med lång anställningstid företräde till fortsatt anställning framför arbetstagare med kortare anställningstid. Med anledning av lagens dispositivitet finns dock möjligheten att även avtala om andra kriter

Angular Distribution of Light in the Habitat of Cuttlefish

This work presents a way of analysing photographs stored in Canon’s CR2-format in order to analyse the light intensity profile of the area where the photographs were taken. A set of underwater photographs of the habitat of the Cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, were provided for this thesis. The light intensity profile of the habitat of the cuttlefish is of interest because of the unusual shape of its pupil

Emigration and Labour Market Outcomes in the CEE EU Member States: A Closer Look

This paper analyses the effects of emigration on unemployment and wages in the ten Central and Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. These countries experi-enced large migration outflows following their accession and thus lost a considerable share of their labour force. This presents a good natural experiment to study the impact of emigration on the labour market outcomes

Att skydda en varuutstyrsel

En produkts formgivning är avgörande för hur eftertraktad den blir på marknaden, något som resulterat i att stora resurser läggs ner på att ge pro-dukter ett så tilltalande yttre som möjligt. För att investerade resurser inte ska gå om intet är det viktigt att skydda formgivningen på ett adekvat sätt, vilket t.ex. kan göras med hjälp av olika, till viss del överlappande, im-materialrättsliga skyddA product's design is crucial to how popular it will become on the market. This has resulted in that significant resources are laid down to give products an exterior as attractive as possible. To make sure that the spent resources should not be wrecked, it is important to protect the design adequately. This can e.g. be done by different, partially overlapping, kinds of intellectual property pr

Accounting for SMEs and suitability of IFRS for SMEs in Macedonia

The purpose of the study is to see if International Accounting Standards for Small and Medium sized entities are suitable for entities in Macedonia, with the emphasis on accounting quality. This thesis has an inductive approach. A qualitative method was selected as a strategy and semi-structured interviews were conducted in order to gather relevant information from the respondent. Hereto, we concl

Does It Matter Whom You Trade With? The Case of African Institutions and Chinese Trade

The debate on Chinese activities in Africa has so far been polemic and inconclusive. In parallel, the literature on how trade affects institutions has evolved while failing to draw any definite conclusions. By joining the two areas of research, this study seeks to make contributions to two ongoing debates. The study is based on the understanding that entrepreneurs engage in foreign trade, and in a

The effects of happiness on productivity: Panel evidence from the United Kingdom

This paper examines the causal effects of happiness on productivity, using cross sectional time series (panel) data from the UK, spanning the years 1996 to 2008. Innovations in this paper include the use of total compensation instead of wage rates as a proxy for productivity, the use of overall happiness instead of operationalized measures of happiness, and the use of GIS-derived bioclimate variab

Tariffic Tuna - a study on the impact of rules of origin on Thailands tuna trade

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of Rules of Origin (RoO) on the tuna trade in Thailand by comparing the existing trade agreements of two major partners, the EU and Japan. It is widely recognised that RoO affect the outcome of preferential trade agreements (PTA) due to its complicated nature. Thailand is the largest producer of canned tuna in the world and conducts its trade wit

Sustainability Reporting in the Electric Utility Sector - Connecting leading reporting indicators with risks – Using Idaho Power Company as an example

The author of thesis investigated the potential benefits of using of leading indicators in sustainability reporting as a means to reduce risk in the electric utility sector. Leading indicators describe the processes that help to achieve desired results (lagging indicators). The main argument for considering leading indicators built around the concept that sustainability is, to a large extent, abou

Human Security, Peacebuilding, and the Hazara Minority of Afghanistan: A study of the importance of improving the community security of marginalized groups in peacebuilding efforts in non-Western Societies

This thesis is focused on the lack of investment in the human security of the marginalized Hazara minority of Afghanistan. Human security is a relatively new concept over which there is considerable debate and this thesis presents a discussion of various debates regarding human security and peacekeeping before taking a firm stance in the debates, emphasizing the importance of investing in the huma

Demarcating good solutions in system biology computer models using artificial neural networks

How close a computer model comes to recreating real-world phenomena often depends on the value of its internal parameters, but investigating the outcome of the model for every point in parameter space is in practice an impossible task. Here an artificial neural network is used as a numerical predictor on two different system biology computer models. A semi-implicit solver was also implemented for

A high brightness source of entangled photons

In the field of quantum optics and its wide variety of applications it is essential to have high brightness sources of entangled photons. In this Bachelor project, the aim has been to produce such a source based on recent experimental setups [1] [2] with a so-called Sagnac interferometer to generate polarization-entangled photons. The source built shows high quality entanglement. High visibility p

Semivarians, ett användbart riskmått eller endast ett överflöd?

Since Markowitz presented the mean-variance model as a way of putting together a financial portfolio, variance has been the established measure of risk. Even though the measures of downside risk hasn’t gained the same attention as variance, it has been used in research for some time. Semivariance, best described as the risk of a portfolio’s return falling below a set target, was introduced as a ri