This paper tests the “Square Root Rule” (the SRR), a Basel sanctioned method of scaling 1-day Value At risk to higher time horizons. The SRR has come under serious assault from leading researchers focusing on its week theoretical basis: assuming i.i.d. asset returns. I performed an empirical test of the SRR on the 10-day horizon, the maximum horizon allowed by Basel, comparing SRR performance to d

The effects of Central Swedish word accents on morphological and semantic processing were investigated. It was found that Accent 2-inducing suffixes preceded by an Accent 1 tone were more difficult to process compared to Accent 1-inducing suffixes preceded by Accent 2. This effect was relatively task-independent, i.e. found both when participants judged the tense or number of the word and when the

Att ha Parkinsons sjukdom i arbetsför ålder innebär att det dagliga aktivitetsutförandet kan påverkas av miljö, person samt aktivitet. Det finns inte mycket forskning kring detta. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur individer med Parkinsons sjukdom i arbetsför ålder upplever sina dagliga aktiviteter. Urvalsgruppen bestod av sex män och två kvinnor i åldern 30-65 år. De hade olika familje

A review of adaptations in fossil and extant mammalian carnivores has been made. Adaptations to different locomotor behaviours can be seen in the postcranial skeleton. Typically cursorial adaptations are long distal limb segments and restrictions in the mobility of the limbs to move in other directions than forward and backward. Diggers have fore limbs constructed for large out-forces. Climbers ha

A previously unknown fauna of hybodont sharks has been revealed from the Vitabäck Clays at the boundary between the Jurassic and Cretaceous. The material consists of oral teeth, cephalic spines and placoid scales from the five genera Egertonodus, Hybodus, Lissodus, Polyacrodus and Hylaeobatis. The palaeogeographical area and stratigraphical range of the six species found are extended: E. basanus (

The purpose of this study has been to investigate how social workers, who work with drug abuse treatment in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, experience that organizational, political, economic, societal and power aspects, affect them in their daily work. The study is formed on a basis of qualitative interviews, applying organizational theory as a tool for analysis. The main empirical material

This thesis examines a number of leaflets and political proclamations distributed in and around Cairos Tahrir Square in the early months of 2011. The theoretical frame work for the study is the claims made by Barbara Johnstone that arabic rhetorics - modern and classical - depend primarily on repetition (lexical coupling, paraphrase, parallelism) when construction an argument, and that this has fa