Filtyp
The European Nations foresees a growing population and a trending urbanization which, pose significant health, environmental and social concerns. Municipal decision makers attempt to leverage the smart city concept as a means to maintain the prepossessed living standard in the city because they cannot manage the radical change themselves. However, the smart city concept force municipalities outsid
Hur en privatinvesterare ska agera för att lyckas generera god avkastning på fondmarkanden är något som har intresserat många. En strategi för att generera god avkastning kan vara att investera i de fonder som tidigare år har uppvisat god prestation och hoppas på att så kallad Persistence of Performance existerar. Denna uppsats ämnar undersöka om det föreligger en skillnad i investeringsstrategier
Den virtuella vårdmottagningen är en växande lösning för distansvård och utvecklingen leder till oundvikliga förändringar för en medarbetares arbetssätt och för hur distanssjukvårdsrådgivning kan skötas med hjälp av videokonsultation. För att förstå värdet av virtuella vårdcentraler är det angeläget att undersöka vilka fördelar respektive nackdelar det finns utifrån medarbetares perspektiv. Denna
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine and contribute with some practical insights on how Management Control Systems (MCS) can be used by companies to control their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Methodology: A qualitative research method has been used to collect data. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with four different companies in the food industry and i
One of the central features of a successful decision support system is the interface. What to provide and how to provide information that later will support the users to make a decision is crucial. With the emergence of mobile business intelligence, the concern about how this technology could increase its user performance in the decision making context and how to deliver these capability to the wo
The aim of this project was to assess the microbiological safety of twelve beer starter cultures produced by four different manufacturers by screening for microbial contamination. Enumeration of microorganisms was done on Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA), Rogosa agar, Reinforced Clostridial Agar (RCA), Baird- Parker agar, HiCrome agar and VRBD agar. The Enterobacteriaceae count was below the detection limit
Purpose - The purpose of this research is to investigate how the business network develops, when habitual entrepreneurs enter into a different industry context. How these entrepreneurs expand their existing networks, and how they build new networks, when entering new industry context. Design - Qualitative analysis. Findings are primarily based on semi-structured interviews with ten habitual entr
The purpose of this study was to analyze the current discourse in Swedish press regarding how men and women with eating disorders are produced. The question formulations that we have used to answer our purpose were as follows: - How are eating disorder constructed in the selected articles? - How are men and women with eating disorders constructed in the selected articles? To find empirical data,
Dagens svenska vänsterrörelse präglas av motsättningar med längre teoretiska rötter, där marxistiska föreställningar konkurrerar med poststrukturalistiska influenser. Dessa premisser påverkar hur politiska projekt, gemenskaper och konfliktlinjer byggs upp. Ett begrepp som är förhållandevis nytt i den svenska kontexten, och som existerar i skärningspunkten mellan vänsterns teoretiska motsättningar
This master’s thesis presents relevant research articles within helping behaviour answering why we help, when we help and whom we prefer to help. In addition, a quantitative and qualitative analysis is performed on an online survey answering whom we prefer to help, who is more likely to help, what people need help with and who is more likely to need help. All of these findings are then incorporate
Purpose: There has been a lot of research about city rebranding, however in the realm of tourists and businesses as stakeholders. The aim of this study is to investigate the involvement of residents in the city brand as part of rebranding. This is an explicit and explorative research in how residents co-create their city during Amsterdam’s rebranding. Materials and Methods: Data for this research
This study investigates the barriers that high-skilled Asian immigrant entrepreneurs have in the process of starting their entrepreneurial ventures outside of Asia. The study interviewed eight high-skilled Asian immigrant entrepreneurs from Sweden, Germany, France, and USA. The study uses five theoretical frameworks to investigate the barriers, which are: cultural barriers, social capital, human c
The housing shortage is a severe problem in Sweden. Too few habitats are being built. In the next five years 250 000 homes will be built, but it is still almost 200 000 fewer than what will be needed. A solution to the housing shortage could be that we live closer together. By making interviewa with people with experience of cohabiting I found that many people experience sounds and noises from the
Inflammatory bowel diseases as ulcerative colitis and Cohn’s disease represent significant health problems in the western world. Colon cancer is a common consequence of those chron- ic inflammatory disorders, thereby it is essential to improve knowledge and research level of this area. AOM/DSS is a known and well-established chemically induced mice model of coli- tis associated cancer. In order to
This study was done due to observed differences during production, involving the active pharmaceutical ingredient mesalazine, obtained from different suppliers. The aim of the present thesis was to make an investigation of previously not specified properties of mesalazine. This was done to enable adjustment of different parameters during production to account for differences in the raw material.
En fastighet är fast egendom definierad som jord vilken avgränsas antingen horisontellt eller både horisontellt och vertikalt. Vid förändring i fastighetsindelningen utförs en lantmäteriförrättning där fastighetsbildningslagen tillämpas. Om det finns ett hinder mot ny- eller ombildning av fastigheten där sökt åtgärd därför inte är möjlig kan en lantmäteriförrättning vilandeförklaras, om åtgärden sThe cadastral procedure is, in Sweden, led by a cadastral authority. If there is an obstacle to applied new division into property units, the cadastral authority can declare the cadastral procedure dormant until the obstacle is obviated if the new division into property is later expected to be allowed. This master thesis aims to clarify how dormant declaration is used today and how the implementat
The purpose of the study was to examine how the second generation Swedish Indians (I use "the second generation" to refer to the children of immigrants, born in Sweden) developed their ethnic identity while analysing their self-identification, cultural preferences, social interactions and daily practices. This qualitative study was based on ten in-depth interviews with second generation
