This study contributes to existing theory by underlining that product brands do have a gender. In addition, the results of this study show that the need for product gender congruence is minimized in Generation Y. Therefore, rethinking the traditional gender stereotyping of products may have more consumer appeal by being marketed to both sexes, or at least to emphasize more of the products attribut

Syftet för denna uppsats är att undersöka fem instrumentallärares uppfattningar om sin undervisning i gymnasiekursen instrument/sång (INSÅ) utifrån begreppen; betygsättning, motivation, kreativitet och elevinflytande. Vidare är syftet att undersöka hur betygsättning i musik får konsekvenser för elevens motivation, kreativitet och aktiva påverkan av undervisningen. Studien är kvalitativ och grundarTitle in English: Instrumental education in high school; instrumental teachers' opinions regarding the concepts of marking, creativity, motivation and pupil influence. The aim of this essay is to study five instrumental teachers’ opinions of their instrumental teaching in the subject instrument/song (INSÅ) starting out with the concepts; marking, motivation, creativity and pupil influence. The

Problem The often informal new service development processes and less structured decision processes for strategic decisions about service portfolio of service companies, makes it especially interesting to investigate the prerequisites for, and develop a formal process for decision making about new service development and create the right decision quality in these decisions. The main problem become

I en värld där städers fysiska strukturer ständigt producerar och reproducerar social orättvisa kan stadsplanering sägas spela en central roll. I Malmö sjösatte kommunen hösten 2010 ett femårigt stadsutvecklingsprojekt kallat ”Områdesprogrammet” vars syfte är att öka den sociala hållbarheten i fyra utvalda områden där problem med sociala klyftor och segregation anses vara som störst. Seved är ett

Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to help the company with their strategic business development and positioning. The purpose is fulfilled by analysing the following areas; business environment, the company, competitors and customers. Issues: The company and its business environment have gone through big changes during the company’s existence. With big internal changes, such as shutdown of own

There is a growing interest in the usage of social media in European museums. Research in the area is scares though. The problem is a lack of an overview on how the usage of social media is spread around Europe and on how museums use social media. Through the observation of 70 European museums and how they use different social media tools, we hope to clarify these questions. We used a three way ap

The main objective of this thesis is to argue whether Chinese characters (kanji) exists in Japanese spoken language as mental agents to distinguish homophonous words. A clearer picture of the background to this phenomenon is given by a brief review of the history of kanji, by bringing up different definitions of what kanji is and by explaining the relation between kanji and homophonous words. The

We have examined and analyzed the impact of ceiling sound absorbers and sound insulation in a false ceiling, on the speech privacy between two adjacent rooms. We concluded that they had a significant impact on the speech privacy and that the combination of ceiling sound absorbers with sound insulation in the false ceiling was the best option from an acoustic point of view.

This master thesis was commissioned for the company IAC Group AB in Gothenburg. The factory assembles and delivers instrument panels in sequence to Volvo Car Corporation. The task was to create and implement a maintenance system where all maintenance processes such as preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance can be registered. The purpose was to give the company a deeper knowledge of the

In this essay a four stage GJR-GARCH(1,1) model is applied to test the presence of both return and volatility spillover to the European market from the oil market. The GJR-GARCH-model allow for asymmetric effects to be present in the country specific stock market. This four step model is applied to eight European countries and allow for spillover effects from oil market, US market and European mar

Problemområde: Trots att radio är ett av de medier som vi ägnar mest tid åt idag finns det relativt lite forskning inom området. Det finns alltså utrymme att lyfta fram ett antal viktiga aspekter och problem inom detta ämne. Jag vill belysa hur ekonomiska tankesätt påverkar radions innehåll. Syfte: Syftet är att kartlägga och förstå hur den svenska radiomarknaden präglad av kommersiell radio förh

Background Presona AB manufactures fully automatic balers and compactors for waste management. A simple and clear supply chain is wanted. High inventory costs and long lead time have been identified; the long lead time partly is due to insufficient supplier processes. The company is not satisfied with the stock turnover. The communication with the suppliers today is handled by fax which is time de

Ett sätt att förstå fallet Facit är att man sätter det i ett historiskt sammanhang där teknik, forskning, ekonomi, politik och kultur samspelar. Facit AB var ett företag som fanns under 1900-talets industriella guldålder. Det strukturella perspektivet förklarar varför Facit i likhet med andra företag hamnade i en strukturkris i början av 1970-talet. Det evolutionära perspektivet betonar förändring

Problem definition: When investing in bonds there are some fundamental things the investor needs to be aware of, such as how the bond is being priced, how the structure of the company's capital structure is affecting the risk of holding the bond and the dynamics that could change the price of the bond over time. When a company tries to get more finance through credit capital markets, the capit

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