Popular science summary: Bolder the brighter – personality affects learning performance in crucian carp Just as humans, many animals have a personality. For example some individuals are more prone to take risks – they are bold, while others prefer to play it safe – being shy. Bold animals increase their risk of being attacked by a predator but may also receive higher gains by being first to a foAbstract Gathering information about the environment is crucial to living organisms as it makes up the foundation upon which decisions are made. In a diverse environment a huge amount of information sources arise. An individual can choose to follow other’s decision (social information use) or to gather its’ own information. Which sources are used and how well they are perceived vary between indi

Forecasting foreign exchange rates and financial asset prices in general is a hard task. The best model has often been shown to be a simple random walk, which implies that the price movements are unpredictable. In this thesis models that have been somewhat successful in the past are developed and investigated for different forecasting horizons. The aim is to find models that significantly dominate

This paper discusses what the transfer of white trash from the US to Sweden means; how did it happen, why did it happen and what are the swedish interpretation of the concept? The concept of white trash include both pride and dirt; it frames an anomaly composed of bad taste and a dangerous body. But it is also a subject of creating identities and making fun. The journey to Sweden should be seen in

Whether a law implementation can be said to have had an social impact is largely dependent on if the law in question effected the minds of the people it was tasked to govern. Previous research of successful implementation of laws identify the importance of certain conditions to be present if a law is to be termed “successful”. A law implementation that has been recognized as having had a marked ef

The big risk topic in recent years, in the nancial industry, has been about capital requirements. The nancial crisis in 2008 displayed several shortcoming regarding weak capital buers in banks. After that crisis big eorts have made sure that the capital buers have been improved drastically over Europe. Now another issue is starting to worry nancial regulators in Europe regarding the quality of ban

Syftet är att undersöka hur olika faktorerna påverkar kundanpassningen i mångfaldsutbildningar. Utifrån denna kundanpassning vill vi även se vilka konsekvenser som kan uppstå i ett mångfaldsarbete.

The fire protection engineering is primarily about the design of fire protection systems based on identified fire risks in a building. The design process comprises of three main stages i.e. conceptual design stage, construction/implementation stage and final implemented design which is the end product. Sometimes the final implemented design deviates from either the defined goals and objectives, or

There have been numerous tragic incidents in nightclubs leading to hundreds of fatalities. This thesis attempts the current situation. Different nightclub fires from the past 17 years were analysed in order to identify the critical factors influencing these events. As most dominant factors the illegal operations of nightclubs; the use of pyrotechnics; the choice of materials; manual & automati

Examensarbetets titel: Projekt som arbetsmetod - En lågkostnadsproducents strategiska val. Seminariedatum: 2014-06-04 Ämne/kurs: FEKH19 Examensarbete Strategic Management på kandidatnivå, 15 högskole-poäng. Författare: Ida Eckerström, Josefine Ericson, Emelie Wenthzel Handledare: Ola Mattisson Fem nyckelord: Lågkostnadsproducent, Projekt, Strategival, H&M, Dynamisk kapabilitet. Syfte: At

In this master’s thesis, an industrial control system together with a network camera and servo motors were used to automate a ball and plate labyrinth system. The two servo motors, each with its own servo drive, were connected by joint arms to the plate resting on two interconnected gimbal frames, one for each axis. A background subtraction-based ball position tracking algorithm was developed to m

Background: Migrant health remains a rather under researched topic, particularly within the migration from and to countries within West Africa. For Cabo Verde, a ten-island archipelago, approximately 500 kilometers off the coast of Senegal, immigration is a fairly recent phenomenon and has caught the country off guard. The aim of this study was to explore how West African immigrants living in Cabo

There is a bright future for friggeboden. So far it has been a success, by allowing the villa owner to take responsibility for his/her own plot and be able to build as they want. Until now has the maximum size been 15m2, which is big enough for a guest cottage, shed or as hobby house. Now the government will change the law the 1st of July 2014 to 25m². This allows permanent housing in friggeboden.

Abstract To build airtight buildings is something that is becoming increasingly important for operators in the construction industry. As stricter demands on airtightness and lower energy consumption are required This airtight project addresses two aspects of the construction for the success of air sealing. Partly which methods to use to get a building airtight but also what utilities have been dev

Syfte: Studiens syfte är att öka förståelsen för hur man som leverantör kan agera på en offentlig marknad genom att anpassa sin affärsmodell efter kundens inköpsprocesser. Metod: Genom en kvalitativ studie med inslag av både deduktiv och induktiv karaktär genomfördes semi-strukturerade intervjuer med personer på olika nivåer i inköpsprocessen i den offentliga sektorn. Urvalsramen för studien är vå

Bedrägeri är ett brott vars förekomst har ökat stadigt under de senaste åren. Reaktionen från lagstiftarens håll har resulterat i nya brottsrubriceringar och utredningar om huruvida ännu fler borde införas. Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga den reglering av bedrägeribrottslighet som på senare år utökats med nya brottskonstruktioner både inom den allmänna straffrätten och specialstraffrätten. Fraud is a crime that has become more and more frequent lately and the reaction from the legislator has been to introduce new crime classifications and investigate the need for even more. The purpose with this essay is to map and investigate the different kinds of fraudulent crimes that have been introduced the last couple of decades. The possible resulting effects the introduction of different c

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding on how SMEs can position themselves through brand identity, by investigating their strategic approach to brand identity creation and development. Methodology: This research is based on an exploratory case study with an iterative approach. The data collection has primarily been conducted by personal interviews and secondary documents.

This study utilizes new archival data to develop a series of wages for unskilled workers, skilled worker, and women from early modern Scania in the south of modern-day Sweden. These series are used in combination with already-published data on builders’ wages in Stockholm and other European regions to further the understanding of Scandinavia’s position in early modern Europe during the Little Dive

The purpose of this study was to investigate massively-multiplayer online role-playing games from the social interactionist perspective. The aim was to chart the social interaction within the game environment as well build upon previous known findings concerning player's in-game preferences as well as the sociability of the game environment. The questions addressed by this study were: - How d

Sociala mediers enorma expansion de senaste åren har bidragit till att miljoner människor varje dag använder plattformar som Facebook för att interagera med andra människor. Företagens intågande på denna plattform har inte gått förbi obemärkt av människorna som befinner sig där. Konsumenter väljer idag att använda företagens sidor på Facebook som en plats där de kan dela med sig av sina erfarenhet

Outdoor air pollution is generally recognized as a serious environmental risk factor of premature mortality. The main aim of this thesis is to examine how changes in fine particulate air pollution (PM 2.5 ) account for changes in selected mortality indicators, using empirical evidence from 45 districts in the Czech Republic. Besides the impact on changes in life expectancy, a special emphasis was