Öreland – a Lost World The aim of this BA Study is two-folded. First, to investigate if and when the Strait of Öresund has been dry land and, second, if there are traces of human activities – tools and settlements – that could be related to Öreland, e.g. when Öresund was dry land. My starting point is that Öreland was a geographic area in its own right. By that I mean that Öreland should not only

This study examines if the Swedish stock market adheres to the weak form efficient market hypothesis using Fourier analysis on past stock prices to identify possible cyclic returns. Fourier analysis is well suited for finding seasonalities which would violate the weak-form efficiency. 10 firms were randomly selected from stock market index OMX30 to represent the Swedish stock market. All firms

Detecting gene targets of glucocorticoids in pancreatic beta cells by bioinformatics approaches The pancreatic beta cells (β-cells) are the cells that synthesize and secrete insulin, the hormone that is responsible for controlling the blood sugar levels in the body. Studies have revealed that a certain group of drugs, called glucocorticoids (GCs), despite being widely prescribed against various p

This study examines the generalization process of trademarks from a consumer perspective. The phenomenon verbification, when trademarks are used as verbs, is particularly in focus. Since it is the consumers that determine whether trademarks are generic, this study examines consumers’ role more closely. Through a qualitative study of the trademark Vipps, qualitative interviews has been conducted to

Arbetet utgår från en riktad kvalitativ innehållsanalys av ett metodstöd för jämställdhetsintegrering på HVB-hem skapat av Länsstyrelsen Dalarna. Jämställdhetsintegrering av nyanlända görs genom övningar som främjar samtal. Analysen gjordes utifrån Judith Butlers queerteoretiska perspektiv och det tillfördes även ett intersektionellt perspektiv taget främst från Paulina De los Reyes och Diana Muli

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze if and how advertising and gender equality in Sweden may affect and relate to each other. We want to analyze advertising images from 1950 ́s until 2016 and examine the relationship between different discourses. Method: This study uses a qualitative method where a feminist image analysis of advertising images are used to create a deeper understandin

The aim with this paper is to investigate how children and youth librarians, the main persons in the selection process, in five public children departments discuss around selection. My ambition is by qualitative interviews and by text analyse (analysis of ideas) find out how librarians relate to the library collection from ethic, moral, censorship and freedom of speech. And also what they think of

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) represent the first sale of the firms’ shares to the public. By setting lower offer prices, companies going public create opportunities for investors to earn abnormal returns, making IPOs an attractive investment strategy. This is a well-known and widely discussed in academic literature the IPO underpricing phenomenon. There are different motives for the IPO underpr

Syftet med denna studie är att genom intervjuer med sex stycken svenska fjärrvärmeföretag som nyligen bytt prismodell undersöka vilka för och nackdelar som prismodellsförändringarna har medfört, samt att undersöka om de tilltänkta incitamenten för energieffektiviseringar har gett någon effekt. Studien har utförts vid Institutionen för Energivetenskaper vid Lunds Tekniska Högskola efter en idé av S

I och med ett nuvarande svenskt politiskt klimat där strategisk politisk kommunikation har blivit mer påtagligt, gäller det för partierna att anpassa sina budskap gentemot marknadens efterfrågan. Ur det förändrade politiska rummet har marknadsorienterade tendenser uppkommit bland partier som lämnar sina ideologiska värderingar för att generera fler röster (Strömbäck, 2007). Syftet med denna studieWith the current Swedish political climate in which a strategic political communication has become more apparent, it is more important for parties to adapt their messages towards the market demand. From the constant changing political room, market trends has arose among the parties who leaves their ideological values ​​to generate more votes (Strömbäck, 2007). The purpose of this study is to exami

The aim of this study was to examine service user involvement in planning for economic selfsufficiency in the social services economic aid department. More specifically the aim was to find out what experiences social workers have of service user involvement during planning, since they are responsible of maintaining the plan. Four semi-structured interviews were made with social workers in a Swedis

Andelen förnybar kraft växer i produktionsmixen, med löften om att ersätta traditionell fossilintensiv kraftproduktion. I kombination med en trend mot elektrifiering av transporter uppstår nya möjligheter som användning av elfordon för att hantera variabiliteten i förnybar kraftproduktion. Detta examensarbete utforskar potentialen i att använda sådana balanserande tekniker, ofta refererade till soThe share of renewable power grows in the generation mix, wielding promises of substituting traditional CO2-intensive power production. In combination with the trend towards electrification of transport, opportunities are emerging to use electric vehicles for balancing the variability of the renewable power sources. This master thesis explores the potential for such balancing techniques, often ref

Den svenska hästnäringens största marknad utgörs av privatpersoner och det är inte sällan det uppstår frågetecken kring vad som anses vara ett fel rent juridiskt. När det gäller köp mellan näringsidkare och privatpersoners regleras dessa av konsumentköplagen och det har under de senare åren diskuterats kring ifall hästar bör undantas från denna lag eftersom en häst är ett levande djur. Det störsThe Swedish horse industry's largest market is made up of private individuals, and it is often question marks about what is considered to be a legal fault. The purchase between traders and private persons are regulated by the Consumer Sales Act and in recent years it has been discussed about whether horses should be exempted from this law because a horse is a living animal. The biggest proble

Seminar date: 30th of May 2018 Course: BUSN79 Business Administration; Degree Project in Accounting and Finance Authors: Oskar Lundin & Valdemar Olin Supervisor: Johan Dergård Keywords: Management control, Professional service firms, Clash of Cultures, Motivational theory, Social psychology theory Purpose: The purpose of this study is to contribute to the knowledge of why the performance o

This paper analyzes relationships between efficiency, non-performing loans and capitalization in the Nordic banking sector (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland) based on a panel dataset of 40 banks from the period of 2006 to 2015. Efficiency is measured by the ratio of non-interest expense to net operating income, the ratio of loan loss provision to total loans serves as a proxy for non-p

Effekter från klimatförändringen och bekämpningsmedel på en av våra viktigaste jordbruksgrödor - Raps. Vår jord står inför svår prövning. Klimatförändringen och ökad användning av kemiska bekämpningsmedel inom jordbruksverksamheter är två kommande utmaningar för oss att hantera. Denna stress som jorden utsätts för kommer inte bara ha direkt påverkan på mänskligheten, utan även störa viktiga sampeOne of the most important ecosystem services is animal pollination, which has been found to increase both crop quantity and quality and hence is important for sustainable food production. To provide food to an increasing population, farming systems are intensifying to maintain high crop yields. However, stressors such as climate change and intensified agricultural production schemes may alter plan

Den (o)kontrollerade delningen I år gick Facebook ut med att deras användare har slutat att dela, vilket är pro-blematiskt då delningar är ett sätt för organisationer att effektivt, enkelt och eko-nomiskt nå ut med marknadsföringsinnehåll på sociala medier. Vi argumenterar att tidigare forskning främst har fokuserat på vad organisationer får för värde av att användare delar, snarare än vad användaThe (un)restrained share This year Facebook announced that their users have stopped sharing content, which is problematic since this is a way for organisations to effectively and easy target their audience on social media. We argue that previous research mainly has focused on how organisations benefits from users sharing their content, ra-ther than what users generates from it. Therefore, we aim t

Tidigare forskning inom interkulturell kommunikation och interkulturell kompetens har ofta fokuserat på utbytesstudenters kommunikation eller på olika sorters översättningsproblematik. Det finns därmed en brist på forskning om interkulturell kompetens i reklam. Därför var syftet med denna uppsats att bidra med kunskap kring interkulturell kompetens i kommunikation genom att undersöka reklambudskap