Vi befinner oss i en tid där väl utformad design utgör en eftertraktad konkurrensfördel vid reklam- och saluförandet av produkter. Det blir därför allt viktigare för formgivare och företag att kunna skydda sina immaterialrättsliga prestationer för att kunna kapitalisera på dem. Inom ramen för de immaterialrättsliga regelverken finns det möjligheter till skydd för en designprodukts utseende inom upWe are currently at a day and age when well-designed products represents a sought after competitive advantage in the advertising and sales of goods. It is therefore becoming increasingly important for designers and companies to be able to protect their intellectual property rights and capitalize on them. Within the framework of intellectual property rights, it is possible to achieve protection of

Detta examensarbete handlar om förslaget på en samtyckesbaserad sexualbrottslag och huruvida lagförslaget kan bidra till en attitydförändring i samhället. Tanken bakom lagförslaget är att sända ett tydligt normativt budskap och på så vis påverka människors värderingar gällande synen på sexuellt umgänge. Lagförslaget anges vara ett viktigt steg mot ett mer jämställt samhälle, eftersom en stor del iThis thesis is about the proposal of a consent-based legislation regarding the crime of rape and whether or not the proposal can contribute to a change of attitude in society. The idea behind the proposal is to send a normative message, which will impact people’s values regarding sexuality and sexual contact. The proposal is said to be an important step towards a more equal society, since a great

Malware has proven to be a persistent problem with an increasing amount of variations, and new attack vectors are constantly being taken advantage of. Security specialists are always on the hunt for new technologies useful in the fight against malware. Blockchain technologies bring promises of high integrity, decentralization, and transparency. The technology is very much in its infancy, but previ

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur dagens kosacker i Ryssland minns den 24 januari, dagen tillägnad minnet av de kosacker som dödades av bolsjevikerna under och i efterdyningarna av det ryska inbördeskriget. Studien är en diskursanalys av 5 olika artiklar som behandlar dagen. Genom diskursanalys och teorier om kollektivt minne påträffades två olika identiteter i materialet, varav den en

Data quantities and their sources have amplified over the years and so has the trend to employ dashboard-based data visualizations into the hands of a wider audience of end-users. By selecting four of the most common data visualization formats and combining these into a dashboard this thesis quantitively explored the relationship between similarity features of dashboard-based data visualizations,

The main purpose of any Customer Relationship Management(CRM) system of any customer-focused organization is to build new and retain old relationships with its customers.Such CRM systems provide customer data so that its users or top management can make correct decisions in order to improve organization’s performance. Nowadays, advanced analytics in the form of Business Intelligence (BI) can be us

Oils are some of the most energy dense compounds produced in nature and play a vital role in society as a source of food, energy and as raw material in many chemical processes. Plant produced oils (triacylglycerols) are a key asset in the transition away from fossil oils. The progress made in recent years in molecular biology has greatly increased our understanding of plant oils biosynthesis. Howe

Klimatet på jorden ändras hela tiden och temat klimatförändringar är mer aktuellt än någonsin. För att förstå vilka konsekvenser klimatförändringarna har är det viktigt att förstå hur klimatet påverkades förr av uppvärmning eller avkylning. För att utröna detta används olika proxymetoder. Under senare år har man insett att Mg/Ca kvoten i skalen hos bentiska foraminiferer är en användbar proxymetodThe climate on earth is continuously changing, and climate change discussions are more relevant than ever. To understand the consequences of climate change one has to understand how the climate responded to changes in temperature in the past. Different proxy methods can be used to determine these changes. During later years, researchers have discovered that the Mg/Ca ratio in benthic foraminifera

The aim of this thesis was to investigate how social counsellors employed in health care reasoned on transgender persons as a group and their work with transgender persons, as well as analyse the knowledge they use in that work. The method used for collecting data was qualitative interviews with social counsellors working in health care. Social counsellors interviewed were selected by way of conve

VIX indexet, även kallat "the fear gauge" är världens ledande indikator för framtida volatilitet. Indexet beräknar ett 30 dagars framtida förväntat värde på volatiliteten kring USA’s börs S&P500. Indexet baseras på köp och säljoptioner med S&P500 indexet som underliggande tillgång. Optionerna som används in- nehar två olika löptider som vi kallar för nära och nästa periods-optionThe purpose of this paper is through an empirical approach understand the dynamics of VIX and investigate to what degree the benchmark computed by CBOE is representative of its definition. The method implemented is of a design where one constructs a hypothetical world in which synthetic options data are produced by the Bates-Heston model. This implies an underlying and known volatility with chosen

Motivation and Objective: This study investigates how analysts generate from data using business intelligence tools. The motivation for study at the premise that organizations are finding it very challenging to gener-ate insights from a vast amount of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. The ini-tial problem background indicate that this may be because organizations are silo driven,

The aim of this thesis is to survey and map out what it means to believe in unexplainable phenomena, that is phenomena not scientifically explained, in a secular late modern society. The study is explorative and used methods are five focus group interviews supplemented with a questionnaire, performed in southwest of Sweden. Used theories in the inductive analysis to explain belief in unexplainable

The round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is a non-indigenous species to the Baltic Sea that has drawn the attention of many researchers in the last decade due to its rapid spreading and its impact on the local fauna. With recent concerns about the dispersal of the round goby towards the North Sea, the aim of this study was to determine if the native shore crab could compete with the invaders and pr

Uppsatsen undersöker röst, perspektiv samt den rytmiska och stilistiska presentationen av dessa i Kristina Sandbergs roman Liv till varje pris. Uppsatsen undersöker romanens mångstämmighet och därmed dess eventuella polyfoni och dialogicitet.

The aim of this thesis is to find out whether the political council in the municipalities is important for the outcome of work towards sustainable development. With increased migration into cities and increasingly major environmental problems, humanity is facing serious consequences if nothing is done. The municipalities in Sweden have great opportunities to reverse the bad trend. I examine ten mu