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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

The Gender Digital Divide

Gender not only pervades how people use the ICT, but also influences whether or not and how much they use them. This study, making use of the latest possible secondary data, studies the possible gender digital divide among users of ICT in both developed and developing countries. I move the study of gender digital divide from an early narrow perspective of ICT access and usage patterns among biolog

Hur mycket kostar ”egentligen” en Gastric Bypass - i tusenlappar, tid och tårar?

Bakgrund: Obesitaskirurgi är på stark frammarsch över hela den industrialiserade vårdapparaten, det senaste decenniet har antalet operationer i Sverige ökat med flera tusen procent och samhället hoppas kunna spara stora pengar med hjälp av denna radikala intervention mot folkhälsoproblemet fetma. Syfte: Syftet med denna retrospektiva analys är att kartlägga det postoperativa förloppet hos GBP-pati

Gräsrötter och globalisering : kampen för att få gehör

Several challenges face small grassroots movements and human rights organizations when trying to draw the world’s attention their cause. In today’s world of technological development and readily available internet, they’re not only competing against other local movements, but against movements around the globe. Simply being a member of a just cause will not guarantee a following of dedicated suppo

Fel i småhusentreprenad, köp ett nytt hus och få ett fel på köpet

Husköpet är ett av de viktigaste köpen en privatperson gör i sitt liv. När ett nytt hus köps av en entreprenör ska konsumenten kunna vara säker på att konstruktionen är hållbar. Under mitten 1990-talet dök det upp ett nytt sätt i byggbranschen att bygga småhus på. Dessa byggdes med enstegstätade fasader, som på den tiden ansågs vara ett rätt och bra sätt att bygga på. Efter några år upptäckte däre

Existentialismen och socialt arbete

This thesis was an attempt to examine how existentialism could be used in social work by using it to interpret how youths with experience from an institutional environment understand their existence. This was done by a hermeneutic-phenomenological interpretation of texts written by the youths in two published books. The youths’ understanding of their existence were put into themes and presented as

The Irish Property Bubble of 1995-2010; Japanese Lessons for the Celtic Tiger

Lauded for its success and heralded as an economic model for peripheral European countries to follow, since the bursting of the Irish property bubble in 2008 the management of the Celtic Tiger by the Irish state has been castigated as expressively how not to manage an economic bubble. Following a decade and a half of continuous growth averaging over six per cent, the Irish economy has since experi

Is Default Risk Systematic? An Augmentation of the Fama and French Three-Factor Model with Credit-Default Swap Spreads

The purpose of the study is to quantitatively verify the systematic property of default risk and to statistically test if adding a default risk factor to the Fama and French Three-Factor Model can enhance its performance. The applied method is derived from the Fama and French Three- factor methodology and enhancing it with an additional default risk factor. The study employs Credit-Default Swap sp

"Hej, hej, följer du med mig hem?" - En studie kring personalens attityder kring genus, sexualitet och självbestämmande på LSS-boenden för människor med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning

This paper investigates the possibilities and hindrances for expressing identity and sexuality for people with intellectual disability. People with intellectual disabilities in Sweden are faced with care in special needs homes, provided by the public sector as well as private service providers and foundations. Legal support for the organized care is Lag om stöd och service till vissa funktionshind

Deforestation and carbon stocks in Africa

Popular summary Deforestation has been recognized globally as the second largest source of Human-induced release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Carbon stored in trees is important in the global carbon cycle and affects the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The process of deforestation takes place when man clears forested land. The amount of carbon stored in forested areas is larg

Analysis of M&A announcements effects on rivals’ wealth in Distiller & Vintner industry: Case study of Pernod Ricard’s acquisition of Vin & Sprit AB

Analysis of M&A announcements effects on rivals wealth in distiller & vintner industry by examining which firm specific characteristics determine rivals’ abnormal returns following Pernod Ricard’s acquisition of the Swedish state owned Vin & Sprit AB.Rival companies have earned positive average abnormal returns from Pernod Ricard–Vin&Sprit AB transaction both acquisition and comple

Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Academia: The Case of Armenia

The aim of the study is to analyze gender equality and women’s empowerment in Armenian academia over the past decade. For these purposes a Subjective Women’s Empowerment index has been developed as a result of data analysis from two small-sized surveys. The theoretical framework primarily draws upon the Human Capital and Subjective Well-being theories. Analysis of the statistical data has provided

Den bestraffande människan - Homo Afflige - en studie om kriminalvårdares föreställningar om straff

Uppsatsen handlar om fenomenet bestraffning och verkställande av straff utifrån hur kriminalvårdstjänstemän föreställer sig den repressiva och korrektiva dimensionen av arbetet. Studien baseras på tolkningar av kvalitativa data från intervjuer med 14 stycken kriminalvårdstjänstemän, vilka till vardags tillser att verkställa straff i anstalt (fängelse). Studien visar att kriminalvårdares tillsynes

Pressen på revisorn. En retorisk textanalys av revisorn i media

Syftet med studien var att i samband med en redovisningsskandal undersöka vilken bild media förmedlade av revisorsprofessionen samt hur de retoriskt och språkligt framställde denna bild. Uppsatsen är en dokumentstudie av dagspressens rapportering om revisorn i HQ Bank-skandalen. Studien utgjordes av en retorisk och språklig textanalys av kvalitativ karaktär. En kvantitativ förstudie presenterade m

The Black-Litterman Model Applied on OMXS30

This thesis applies the Black-Litterman (BL) model on the stocks that makes up the Swedish stock index OMXS30 during the year of 2012. Public information in the form of stock recommendations from financial institutions has been used as views in the BL-framework. A method of estimating confidence in these views has been analyzed and further clarified. The testing consists of two BL-portfolios along

Need of the Market Information in the B2B Packaging Industry - Insights into the Milk Formula Market in the Asia-Pacific Region at A&R Carton AB

As the ultimate demand of packaging is derived from the end- consumer, the packaging industry needs to have comprehensive end-user market knowledge to acquire new customers. The importance of the market information is further emphasized when the potential customer is in the unfamiliar geographical region. Milk formula is a food product that the recent growth comes from the Asia-Pacific; therefore

Vilken betydelse har terapin haft för mig? Fyra unga vuxna tänker tillbaka på sina psykodynamiska psykoterapier

The purpose of the study was to elucidate the significance of psycho-dynamic therapy for young adults while working from a client perspective. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four former clients, all of whom had completed therapy four to five years prior. The interview material was initially condensed using five questions taken from hermeneutic single case efficacy design. The conde