Title Pricing from a 4PL perspective Authors Louise Kjellberg and Maria Björholt, master students at Industrial Engineering and Management, Lund university Supervisors Jenny Sjöholm, Logistics Developer, Schenker Dedicated Services AB Dr. Andreas Norrman, Professor in Engineering Logistics, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University Problem

ABSTRACT Author: Charlotte Jeppsson Title: Leg amputation and change of identity Supervisor: Staffan Blomberg Assessor: Sune Sunesson Losing a leg is a devastating event, and as an amputee, the individual’s view of her- himself changes in relation to the society. As I have been working with amputees for a long time, I have observed these changes and have found interest in the issue. The purpose o

Studies show that preferences can be learned through repeated choices and feedback is identified as a mechanism through which people can learn from a repeated choice structure. In this study participants were subjected to repeated choices of bodies and repeated false feedback regarding body size. Images presented to participants were in fact videos in which the bodies increased or decreased in siz

Computational modeling is a commonly used method to understand, predict and explain for instance the organization of neuronal connectivity. Here it is applied to the problem of the development of the neural control of locomotion. Locomotion, e.g. walking and swimming, can be characterized as an alternate activation of opposing muscles and is controlled by central pattern generators, CPGs, in the s

Tidigare forskning har visat att när mäns manlighet ifrågasätts genom ett så kallat maskulinitetshot, så kommer de tillfälligt att bete sig mer stereotypt manligt (Vandello, Bosson, Cohen, Burnaford & Weaver, 2008). Detta för att försöka visa inför andra män att de tillhör ingruppen män. I denna studie undersökte vi om maskulinitetshot kommer att få män att bli mer risktagande och mer intresse

I lagen om anställningsskydd ingår bestämmelser om företrädesrätt till återanställning för arbetstagare under vissa förutsättningar. Inhyrning av personal blev i Sverige legaliserat i början av 1990-talet och bemanningsbranschen har sedan dess blivit väl etablerad på arbetsmarknaden och regleras till stor del genom kollektivavtal. Inhyrning och återanställning är två alternativa lösningar på ett aThe Employment Protection Act regulates the employee’s right of priority to reinstatement under certain conditions. Temporary hiring of personnel was legalised in Sweden at the beginning of the 1990’s and the temporary agency work industry have since become well established in the labour market and is largely regulated through collective agreements. Temporary hiring of personnel and reinstatement

Isabel Allende is one of the most famous Latin American writers and since her first work was published in 1982, The House of the Spirits, her popularity has only increased. Allende is commonly referred to as one of the first writers of the Latin American post boom, with which Latin American literature once against experience an emphasize on ethics, instead of esthetics. This essay proposes that Al

Intrusive recollections are one of the core symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Flashbacks, a subcategory of intrusive memory phenomena, are considered exclusive to the disorder, indicating a direct correlation between the traumatic event, the memory encoding and the subsequently intruding flashback. The experience of a flashback is defined as the highest degree of reliving, and the

The Thesis’ subject, a notion of trademark parodies, by its legal nature simultaneously belongs to two branches of law – an intellectual property law and a human rights law. Thus, it falls under umbrella of ongoing debate about relations between the aforementioned ones. A chosen area of the research – trademark law – narrows viewpoints to the specific perspectives. The question about parody in law

This paper uses a quantitative method of analysing if the idiosyncratic risk on the Stockholm Exchange has changed over time. In order to do so we divided the risk, measured as volatility, into three different risk categories, idiosyncratic-, industrial-, and market volatility. Analysing the result received from the data of 85 listed corporations, that represents the five major sections on the Swe

The research questions in this study address perceived effectiveness when performing common project management tasks with locally installed Project Management Tools software vs. Cloud Computing Project Management Tools software with Swedish as language. With the Competitive Values Framework framework as a basis, Usability Experiments and questionnaires are used to study perceived effectiveness usi

Our purpose is to analyze the ereader as a medium and its place on todays book market. We also try to understand what possible changes e-books might lead to in the book industry. Therefor we have attempted to put the ereader into a wider historical context of the evolution of the book. To do this we provide a basic, but necessary, description of the technology used in ereaders and tablets, and to

Detta examensarbete grundar sig på en översättning av en statsvetenskaplig och samtidshistorisk text om Pinochets regim och dess tid vid makten. Arbetets första del är en analys av källtexten som till största del följer modellen Hellspon & Ledin (1997). Sedan följer en förklaring av mina översättningsstrategier och kommentarer av min översättning. Arbetet fokuserar på översättarens val att ant

Europe, following the American model, became a Car Society during the Golden Age. In Sweden, mass-motorization spread faster and approximately ten years earlier than in the rest of the continent. This study aims to pinpoint factors explaining this advance. In general, living standards are considered as the determinant of private car diffusion; population dispersion is also assumed to be an acceler

This thesis aims to explore to what extent internal branding efforts foster the level of understanding necessary to allow a brand to act as the uniting force of a virtual web. We conclude that focusing on recruitment can establish a baseline for brand understanding, but refined communication processes are necessary to facilitate the level of understanding required to encourage web members to actua

This research is giving a descriptive view on reformation process of accounting education in Russia after collapse of the Soviet Union through the lens of transnational governance and institutional theory. The research was conducted using inductive approach and qualitative research design. The interviews were used as a main research tool supplemented with secondary source analysis. Five semi-struc

Key words: Corporate environmentalism, ecologic-economic decision-making, CSR worldviews Purpose: To explore environmental decision-aming processes at managers at Skanska, also with regard to enviornmental decison-making conceptualizations in theory. Method: The research of the thesis is based on a qualitative approach through the use of semi-structured and open interviews. Furthermore an interpre

Background and problem: In October 2010 the European Commission issued a Green Paper on Audit Policy in which they set out to draw lessons of the auditors’ role in the recent financial crisis. The European Commission considers the function of the audit to be a key contributor to investor confidence and suggests a number of controversial measures with the aim of ensuring financial stability in the