As the world is changing rapidly in many ways, competition is getting increasingly fierce amongst manufacturing firms. As such, it has become more and more important for companies to properly understand the needs of their customers in order to provide enough value to be sufficiently competitive. Providing delivery and installation services which might’ve been viewed as necessary evils before have

To encounter the ambiguity of the contemporary understanding of neighborhood, we must fundamentally view the concept from a broad historical and global perspective. A neighborhood should be understood as an organism; this whole organism is alive, constantly changing, and its structure is fluid. The way people live and create community has changed with all the social and technological changes in th

The building industry, like many others, are currently experiencing the effects of the digitalization, and the increased spread of smart buildings is a result of this. Much research has been done on smart buildings and their predecessors intelligent buildings, but there is limited research available on how entrance systems should be designed for smart buildings, especially regarding their connecte

Rapmusik har varit kontroversiell ända sedan musikgenren tog fart. Teman som våld, droger och aggression har varit teman som gestaltats i genren sedan långt tillbaka. Syftet med den här uppsatsen har varit att analysera hur kriminalitet framställs i svensk rapmusik och hur svenska rappare förhåller sig till kriminalitetens närvaro i musiken. Studien har även analyserat hur svenska rappare använder

Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka vilka som är de bidragande faktorerna till att oanvänt material och spillmaterial uppkommer på byggarbetsplatserna. Vad finns det som går att ändra på för att minska mängden oanvänt material samt att minska hanteringen. Det material som idag blir över på projekten hur det hanteras och vad där finns för strategier. Finns där en möjlighet att utveckla hur hanterinThe purpose of this study is to investigate which contributing factors that leads to unused and waste materials at the construction sites. What can be changed to reduce the amount of unused material and to reduce handling. The material that is over today on the projects, how it’s handled and what strategies are there. Is there an opportunity to develop what the handling looks like today on the pro

Bakgrund: Sexuellt våld är en inte ovanligt förekommande erfarenhet bland kvinnor i såväl Sverige som världen över. Eftersom sexuellt våld orsakar negativa hälsoeffekter samt har en negativ inverkan på förlossningsutfallet är det viktigt att som barnmorska ha kunskap på området. Syfte: Att belysa sexuellt våldsutsatta kvinnors upplevelse av graviditet och förlossning. Metod: Systematisk litteratur

Syfte: Syftet med vår forskning är att skapa en större förståelse för hur det relationella ledarskapet upplevs i en kris, det vill säga hur relationer byggs, bibehålls eller förändras mellan chefer och medarbetare i en pandemi. Frågeställning: Hur upplever chefer relationellt ledarskap i en kris? Teoretisk referensram: Först presenteras relationellt ledarskap mer djupgående, där följarens roll bet

Title: Developing a Supply Chain Mapping Framework: A case study at IKEA’s Comfort Category. Authors: Rohit Jacob and Monica Mora Chaves Supervisors: • Dag Näslund, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Lund University. • Lenny Nilsson, Logistics Manager Category Area Comfort at IKEA of Sweden • Marcus Johansson, Project Leader, Supply Chain at IKEA of Sweden. Background: As a lo

Smittspridning i ventilerad inomhusmiljö har sedan Covid-19 pandemin startade blivit ett högaktuellt ämne. Smittan som uppstod i Kina spred sig snabbt över hela världen och gav upphov till omfattande restriktioner och förändringar i det vardagliga livet för miljarder människor. Till en början antogs Covid-19 endast spridas via dropp- och kontaktsmitta men forskning och kända utbrott visar att luftThe transmission of airborne aerosols in a ventilated indoor environment has become highly relevant since the Covid-19 outbreak. Initially, Covid-19 was only assumed to be spread via droplet and contact infection, but research and known outbreaks show that airborne transmission via aerosols occurs. Modern humans spend a large part of their life indoors. Understanding and calculating how virus-carr

The increased use of plastics has become an environmental problem where plastics, due to the slow degradation, accumulate in the oceans and landfills. Although plastics are a very cheap and useful material with desirable properties and a wide variety of applications, they are primarily made from petroleum-based resources which are non-renewable and of fossil origin. An alternative to these non-ren

Context Since the time of Tycho Brahe astronomy has been an observing science defined by the quality of its instrumentation. The introduction of primitive telescopes by Galileo in 1609 began a period of development of ever-larger telescopes with greater measuring precision. Refracting telescopes were soon overtaken technologically by reflecting telescopes. The epitome of this development is the bu

This study aims to investigate consumers’ perceptions of luxury fashion brands and whether these perceptions differ with and without the context of luxury rental platforms. A qualitative methodology was adapted, using semi-structured interviews and an abductive research approach. In order to investigate consumer perception of luxury brands in the context of rental platforms, the study applied con

Problemområde: Begränsningarna i den tidigare forskningen öppnar upp för möjligheten att byta perspektiv från kvinnors synsätt på varför de har svårigheter att klättra i hierarkin till mäns uppfattning om varför det finns en överrepresentation av män på chefspositioner. Eftersom män besitter störst andel höga befattningar vill vi skapa en ökad förståelse för mäns handlingar och uppfattningar om ch

Authors: Tatev Nazaryan, Nella Karapetyan Supervisor: Fleura Bardhi Date: May 31st, 2021 Course: BUS39 Degree Project in Global Marketing Keywords: Vaccine Hesitancy, Covid-19 Pandemic, Vaccination, Vaccine refusers, Vaccine deniers, Immunization, Social Marketing Thesis Purpose: The aim of this qualitative study is to understand the factors affecting the Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy phenomenon in S

Data derived from online platforms increasingly inform firms’ innovation processes, raising the potential for abuse and privacy violations. Hence, algorithmic and data transparency are required. This study contributes insights into the opportunities and barriers arising from data and algorithmic transparency for data-driven innovation approaches within platform ecosystems. The case of Apple Inc is

This thesis assesses the role of social capabilities in the development of Iceland’s economy in 1870-2019. Throughout the period, economic shrinking gradually decreased in the country. The paper argues that a lower frequency of shrinking resulted in better economic performance and that these changes are due to increased resilience to shrinking, provided by the build-up of social capability. By ana

Safe drinking water is important and the water quality is related to the microbial community. In this study, two public buildings that receive drinking water at different locations in a distribution system were selected as sampling points. The drinking water samples in the buildings were sampled every week to investigate the impact of the distribution system on the microbial community. The samplin

The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly visible and will have detrimental impacts on society’s health and safety, ecosystems and the economy, especially at the local scale. As a response, municipalities all over the world are setting up climate adaptation strategies, as is also the case in the Netherlands. However, many of the proposed measures require action not only on public but

The Philippines is one of the most affected countries by climate change. Income levels do not say much about its national wealth as it leaves out depreciation and excludes other necessary types of capital but are still mainly used to report a country’s economic standing regardless of its sustainability. This study uses Genuine Savings (GS) as an indicator of sustainable development and offers thre

Information asymmetries are abound in the agricultural process for many farmers in developing countries. At the same time, adoption of mobile phone technologies have been growing exponentially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study analyzes the potential for mobile phones to improve agricultural and economic outcomes for smallholder farm households. Using panel-data collected over three periods from 20