År 2007 kom journalisten Isabella Lövin ut med boken ”Tyst hav”. Boken fick stor uppmärksamhet och belönades bland annat med Stora journalistpriset och Guldspaden och hon utnämndes till årets miljöjournalist. Den utlösande faktorn, som fick Isabella Lövin att börja sätta sig in i fiskeripolitiken på allvar, var ett pressmeddelande från Fiskeriverket i oktober 2003 som meddelade att inflödet av gla

Den här uppsatsen grundar sig på en översättning av en religiös text från klostret Taizé. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys med utgångspunkt i Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledins (1997) modell samt Jonny Karlssons (2000) definition av predikan. Därefter kommer ett kortare kapitel om överväganden inför översättningen, följt av en längre översättningskommentar där jag diskuterar funktionell översä

The world economy has undergone the transitional period of rebalancing in economic power from the Northern to Southern economies over the past decades, with the shifting becoming even more visible after the phenomenon of the global financial crisis in 2008. This paper examines the role of three large emerging economies, China, India and Brazil, as the new regional and global economic drivers via t

Syftet med uppsatsen är att med hjälp av statistiska metoder undersöka hur en uppsättning ekonomiska mått påverkar nivån på svenska börsbolags utdelning. Resultatet ämnar hjälpa potentiella aktieägare och övriga intressenter som söker indikationer på hög/låg direktavkastning i sina investeringar. Studien syftar även till att belysa huruvida finanskrisen 2008 påverkade nivån på direktavkastningen i

Examensarbetets titel: Samhällets efterfrågan av revision Seminariedatum: 31 maj 2012 Ämne/kurs: FEKH95, Examensarbete kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng. Författare: Linnea Ahlquist, Marcus Hagström och Emelie Persson Handledare: Kristina Artsberg Fem nyckelord: Revisionsefterfrågan, Revisionsplikt, Aktiebolag, Revisorsprofession, Förväntningsgap. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att redogöra

Markov Regime-Switching GARCH (MRS-GARCH) models have been gaining popularity due to their ability to account for shifts volatility regimes that tend to characterize returns series. Previous empirical studies have shown that this capacity to capture the volatility dynamics leads to a superior forecasting power of the MRS models. We investigate the performance of these models in quantifying and man

The goal with this paper is to formally define knowledge from the assumption that our universe is computable. Based on this assumption, we will formulate a minimalist ontology that will be the theoretical basis for our formal definition of knowledge. We will use the classical definitions of knowledge like "reliabilism" (RTB) and "justified true belief" (JTB) as our starting poi

The failing firm doctrine (FFD) has been firstly enounced 1921 in case International Shoe Co v FTC. The key case in EU is Kali where the Commission has discussed the concept of FFD in depth. The Commission has established that FFD is not the rule but the exception from the rule that horizontal mergers are harmful for the competition. The binding Acts in the field of Merger Control are EU Regulatio

Thesis purpose: The purpose of this thesis revolves around investigating which factors a company should consider when attempting to dual brand a wide array of products. Methodology: Our thesis intends to investigate the opinions of dual branding among FMCG companies within the Swedish market. We have conducted a qualitative approach, consisting of interviewing five marketing practitioners, mostly

Driven by an interest in ethical fashion consumption and having identified the necessity for a clear understanding of consumer traits within this increasing phenomenon, we conducted a quantitative research, adopting a objectivist and positivist stance, involving over three-hundred young Swedish consumers. Positioning ourselves along the lines of the behavioral decision theory and assuming a positi

This thesis is about building in Iraqi Kurdistan. I have analyzed a family house in Erbil and gave suggestions for improvement, inspired by the Swedish building techniques. Energy consumption is reduced by 78 % using the suggested improvements regarding the plan, foundation, exterior walls, floor, roof, installations and surface coatings. The differences in the construction process and building co

In this final degree project, a system for an Android application that should be able to lock and unlock door locks has been developed. This will be done by using a mobile phone that is communicating with an online server, this server is communicating with the Arduino board which in turn is communicating with the door lock. The phone has an application made for Android version 1.6 and after. To ma

One of the biggest expenses for airline companies is the fuel for the aircrafts; preceded only by labor costs it is important for an airline to optimize its use of fuel. One option to save money on fuel is by doing something called Fuel Tankering. Essentially, fuel tankering is a way to lower the fuel cost by refueling at departures where the fuel price is lower than at the destination of the airc