In recent years, self-employment has emerged as an important avenue of economic livelihoods for immigrants in the western world, including the Chinese immigrants. The debate on immigrant self-employment has been widely discussed across academia and given a considerable attention by researchers, policymakers and governments. This study addresses the self-employment experience of Chinese immigrants

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to implement the One Supplier Capacity Process, a standardized method of working with capacities within IKEA. In order to do this the current way of working with capacities is investigated prior to the actual implementation of the process. The key contribution of the authors is the development of a template to support the implementation process and ensure acc

This master thesis is about the mathematical modeling of an inventory control system. The system is a single-echelon two-location system with one type of item. The locations replenish from a supplier that is assumed to have an ample stock. The demand is modeled as customers arriving according to a Poisson process with a known intensity and each customer only demands one item. In addition to replen

Background Lantmännen is one of Scandinavia’s largest and problem corporations in agriculture, food and energy. Since many of the corporations’ markets are mature and highly competitive there are low margins and hence a constant need for new and improved products, processes and services to maintain profitability. There is also a constant increase in complexity and cost of research and development,

Issue of study For the past ten years there has been a remarkable growth in the wind power industry. During 2003 - 2010 the production capacity increased by 456 % in Sweden, corresponding to total capacity of 2019 MW. An additional 754 MW was installed in 2011, and there is a planned capacity installation of 950 MW for 2012. This will, according to a prognosis from Svensk Vindenergi, generate a po

In July of 2009 punitive measures were taken by the Swedish government in order to deal with the somewhat new phenomenon known as grooming. The law, called “contact with children for sexual purposes” requires that the adult perpetrator contacts a child, with the purpose of committing sexual offences at a future meeting with the child. Although the law was received with gratitude from many parts of

Background and the Situation at Company X To remain competitive, it is essential for companies to take advantage of new business opportunities. However, seizing new opportunities often imply changes within the organization, and projects associated with change are bound to encounter resistance. To efficiently manage change and thereby avoid resistance and engage in measures that generate support fo

Gamification is a new trend that seeks to engage people and change their behaviour by implementing game-design thinking in non-game contexts. Recent analytics predicts that more than 70 % of the world’s 2000 largest organisations will have at least one gamified platform by 2014, which indicates that gamification is, and will continue to be, very important in the future of IT-strategy and digital m

To guarantee that the products in the IKEA catalogue are available when requested, IKEA needs to plan and secure capacity. IKEA has developed a process called ONE Supplier Capacity Process to solve supplier capacity issues in a more proactive way. The thesis is focused on suppliers’ in the category Frames and Mirrors with frames in Greater China. Purpose The purposes of the thesis are fourfold: •

Company X Equipment division is a mature organization that has experienced a desire to broaden the knowledge about the market potentials of the Canadian markets. There is also an ambition within the organization to improve the sales in Canada by exploring previously unknown market opportunities. The needs for increased knowledge are experienced both at the Canadian sales office and at the Lund hea

Nyexaminerade anestesisjuksköterskor kan ha svårigheter att klara av olika situationer. En ny studentsalsmodell skapades för handledning av anestesisjuksköterskestudenters kliniska träning i pargrupper vid tre tillfällen. Syftet med studien var att undersöka och beskriva en ny modell för pedagogisk handledning operationssal erfors av studenterna. Tolv studenter som genomgick sin verksamhetsförlagd

Det finns olika uppfattningar om huruvida påförande av skattetillägg vid tillämpning av skatteflyktslagen harmonierar med skattelagstiftningens syfte. Det har framförts att det finns ett bristande logiskt samband mellan skatteflyktslagen och skattetilläggsbestämmelserna. Det har vidare hävdats att domskälen många gånger endast är svagt förbundna med lagtext och förarbeten, det har även ifrågasattsIn cases of incorrect information in the declaration of income the Swedish Tax Agency (SKV) can decide on tax surcharge. Decisions according to the Tax Evasion Act (1995:575) are, however, only decided on by court. It has been argued that there is a lack of logical association between the Tax Evasion Act and the decision on tax surcharge and that the applicability of the Tax Evasion Act and the ta

To date China has become one of the largest receivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) and this FDI has had an important role in China’s economic growth. It is therefore important to study the determinants of FDI in China. This paper evaluates if general applied tariffs on Chinese imports in China’s trading partners influence the amount of FDI to China. In previous studies this approach has not

When capturing digital video there is always some amount of noise in the resulting signal. This is more pronounced in low-light conditions. In this thesis we have evaluated five algorithms for motion detection and noise reduction. All algorithms produce a filtered image and a motion mask. One of the algorithms is based on block-matching, one on fuzzy logic and one on low-rank matrix completion. Th

This study aims to illuminate the perception of Spanish and English language bloggers and to understand them and their activities from the analytical perspective of an online European Public Sphere (EPS). The research, using a methodology of semi structured online interviews, answers two questions. The first one is how these bloggers give evidence of an actor-based online European transnational bl

This paper explores the extent to which international labour and human rights law places obligations on States to protect the interests of migrant workers in countries of employment. The purpose of this paper is to examine Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs and work-related regulations, and determine whether Canada lives up to the international norms with respect to the rights of migrant w

Nowadays, very few public services could be delivered by only one department or organization. In order to deal with those "wicked" issues, like transportation, housing, environmental protection, food safety or some other problems, collaboration between departments has been a need. Meanwhile, cross-departmental collaboration has been proved to be an important means for governance, which h

Hur arbetar man, rent konkret, på bästa sätt med dans för skådespelare? Vilka verktyg och strategier kan vara användbara för koreografer som arbetar med skådespelare, och för dansande skådespelare? Syftet med uppsatsen är i första hand att besvara denna frågeställning. Men jag vill också bidra till, och utöka, den svenska litteraturen i ämnet Dans för skådespelare samt höja dansens status på teate

In this project, an Energy model from Thomson Reuters HBV-TR similar as the HBV model from Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) is used in Yangtze River Basin for energy inflow simulation. Yangtze River is the biggest river in China and the area of whole river basin is about 1.8 million square kilometers covering more than one fifth of whole China area. At the same time Yangtze