The widespread consequences of climate change are becoming more and more evident around the world and are raising crucial awareness to world leaders that a sustainable transition is direly needed to mitigate against disastrous climatic events. In Australia, in early 2020, these events took the form of some of the most devastating and largest forest fires the country has ever seen. This devastation

The parents growing interest towards children clothing has become apparent when following Finnish media during the past years. In similar vein consumer culture literature has noticed the rise of clothing markets for newborns. It is scientifically proven that consumption objects have a significant role in life transitional phases. Symbolic meanings of consumption objects are used to facilitate the

Significant behavioral changes will need to be implemented to prevent the energy supply sector from tripling CO2 emissions by the midcentury. However, within the academic research, behavior changes remain primarily focused on the individual level, while the behavior of companies that are responsible for elevated greenhouse gas emissions falls behind. This master’s thesis analyses the core values

Inom kollektivtrafiken digitaliseras biljett- och betalsystem för att utveckla smartare tjänster som når fler resenärer och konkurrerar med nya mobilitetstrender. I Sverige ses en övergång till mobila biljett- och betalsystem, där mobiltelefoner blir primär biljettbärare. I samband med digitalisering av samhällstjänster får äldre det allt svårare att få vara delaktiga i samhället. Det finns brist

This paper is an exploratory study of how destination images are projected in online travel vlogs. Destination image plays a significant role in influencing tourists’ purchase decision, therefore building and maintaining a desired image is important for destination marketing organizations (DMO). However, with the prevalence of social media, tourists’ perceived destination image is largely affected

Title: A Study of Buyout-, Venture Capital-, and Non-backed IPOs and the Actual Efficiency of Debt Course: NEKH02, Economics: Bachelor Essay - Ekonomie kandidatprogrammet, 15 credits Authors: Ofelia Aspemyr & Rebecka Lundgren Månsson Advisor: Jens Forssbaeck Keywords: Private equity, buyout, venture capital, financial sponsors, initial public offerings, capital structure, long-term IPO per

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease, defined by abnormal accumulation of proteins, both extracellularly (senile plaques, consisting of amyloid-beta(Aβ) accumulation) and intracellularly (neurofibrillary tangles, formed by Tau protein). Several studies demonstrate that the immune cells play a central role in the pathogenesis of AD, but it is not known if immune cells from the peri

Hur ska vi analysera elberoenden i framtiden? Hur analyseras elberoendet i samhället och vad borde ingå i en sådan analys? Detta har Kicki Rönnåker och Sofia Wennerbeck försökt ta reda på i en studie där vetenskapliga metoder jämförts med praktiska tillvägagångssätt för analyser av el. Den skillnad som hittades fick ligga till grund för ett antal förbättringsförslag som förhoppningsvis kommer kuIn Sweden, risk- and vulnerability assessments, including dependency analyses, are required by law for public actors who are of vital societal functions or critical infrastructure. However, there is a lack of guidance regarding how to perform this kind of analysis. Electrical power is one of the strongest dependencies of our society today. Thus, it is interesting to examine how the dependency of e

Sammanfattning Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur Helsingborgs stad hanterar balansgången mellan att å ena sidan bygga ett starkt varumärke och samtidigt vara lyhörda, lyssna på och involvera stadens invånare i detta arbete. Studiens empiriska material består av fem halvstrukturerade livsvärldsintervjuer med personer som arbetar med kom- munikation och varumärkesbyggande vid Helsingborgs sAbstract This study aims to examine how Helsingborg City handles the balance between creating a strong city brand and at the same time being responsive, listen to and involve the city’s residents. The empirical material in this study consists of five semi-structured interviews with people who are involved in the communicative and brand building work at the city of Helsingborg, as well as three str

Today, organizational competitiveness largely depends on a company’s ability to learn, which is why more and more organizations aim to enhance organizational learning through practicing Knowledge Management (KM). Due to the little research on organizational culture and subcultures in KM literature, practitioners often embark on KM change efforts in a technocratic fashion and focus solely on techno

The winter of 2020 was dominated by Canadian and international news coverage about a group of indigenous land defenders in Northern British Columbia, Canada. At the centre of the media frenzy was a pipeline conflict involving an indigenous community, namely, the Wet’suwet’en Nation, and Canada’s largest private sector investment ever which is set to cross directly through Wet’suwet’en territory. T

The importance of spaces of resistance lies in their ability to subvert and even change the hegemonic discourse. However, and despite extensive research on geopolitics and space-making processes, little has been said on the power that subaltern spaces can have in this area. Thus, it is the aim of this thesis to demonstrate the existence and strength of these space-making practices – which I choose

Purpose: even in the era of exponential increase in the amount of stellar data gathered, binaries are still often overlooked in observational data due to the special handling they require. The goal of this work is to develop a method capable of automatically and efficiently identifying and extract double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2) from a spectroscopic survey, while being scalable and techn

Vid den nordöstra kusten av den karibiska ön Grenada ligger en övergiven flygplats. Denna extraordinära miljö ligger i en dal mellan tropiska berg täckta av frodig regnskog. Landningsbanan är en 1,5 kilometer lång historisk startbana som möter Atlantens livfulla vatten. Grenada har redan drabbats av orkaner och andra tropiska stormar. Utvecklingen av klimatförändringar skapar oftare och mer intenOn the north east coast of the Caribbean island Grenada, there´s an abandoned airport. This extraordinary environment is located in a valley between tropical mountains covered by lush rain forest. The landing stripe is a 1,5-kilometer-long runway of history, facing the rough Atlantic Ocean. Grenada has already suffered badly from hurricanes and tropical storms. While climate changes are evolving

Hållbarhet och digitalisering är två mycket omtalade ämnen idag, och något som genomsyrar samhället på såväl global som lokal nivå. Vår studie syftar till att undersöka hur vi med hjälp av modern teknologi, mer specifikt smarta kylskåp, kan minska matsvinnet i det privata hushållet. Genom kvantitativa och kvalitativa undersökningsmetoder, i form av intervjuer respektive en enkätundersökning, har v

This thesis is about Y4CA, a youth organization in Korea for climate action. It discusses how non-teenagers support teenage activists for the sustained climate action by considering three factors for social movement: political opportunities, mobilizing structure and framing process by adding collective identity. By using mixed methodology, a survey about behavioral factors of teenagers, in-depth i

Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to enhance the existing scope of emotional labor(EL) literature and broaden its reach to discussing the role of emotional labor in the workplace from a social sustainability perspective, exemplified within the context of hotel service work. It tries to identify how EL is experienced by hotel service employees and to understand how service employees percei

The thesis aims to explore the customers' attitude and perception about trust between customers and hotels through the expression of trust of customers. Hotels nowadays interact and build relationships with customers frequently where there are many possible terms evoking expression of trust customers. In order to study the dynamic feature of trust, a qualitative approach is used. A netnographi

This master’s thesis focuses on consumer engagement in the circular tourism economy. It is doing so by exploring the underlying ‘whys’ of consumer engagement in the circular tourism activities and the ways in which tourist situation can affect consumer engagement. The study supplies the liminality theory as an analytical tool through analyzing of 16 semi-structured interviews. The findings introdu