The thesis serves to understand how women create gender identities and constructions of the world within the Swedish blogosphere. The research is based on a Qualitative Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the language and imagery used in the Swedish blogosphere.The study of the Swedish blogosphere reveals how “The new woman” is internally conflicted due to old gender stereotypes and her purs

Wearable electronics is the technology on everybody’s lips as of 2015. Different companies release smartwatches almost once a month. One of Jayway Syd AB’s clients is the trading bank Nordnet and together they saw an opportunity with trading in combination with smartwatches. This master’s thesis describes the process in which the possibilities around smartwatches and trading were explored with the

Today there are still single family houses with direct electric heating systems, even though this is an expensive and inefficient way of heating a house. It is common to install an air-to-air heat pump that requires less electricity to produce the same amount of heat as a direct electricity heating system. These heat pumps do not produce any energy for domestic hot water since the water is heated

Psykiskt störda lagöverträdare har särbehandlats sedan antikens dagar. I de flesta länder i världen finns det än idag ett krav på att en person ska vara tillräknelig för att kunna dömas till ansvar för brott. Om man är tillräknelig betyder det att man vet vad man gör och att man har förmåga att kontrollera sina gärningar, det vill säga att man har ansvarsförmåga. I Sverige finns det inget krav på Mentally disordered offenders have always been treated differently by the criminal justice system. In most countries the law requires that the accused is sane to be considered accountable for his or her actions. Accountability, in this context, means that you know what you are doing and that you are able to control your actions. In Sweden there is no requirement that the accused is sane to be cons

The worldwide exponential increase in smartphone penetration has changed the way in which many consumers shop, as their personal device is more frequently used as a shopping tool. Retailers now have to consider the integration of this technology in their omnichannel strategy. While some industries, such as customer electronics, have been highly affected by this trend, m-commerce has not received t

Parents' experiences of child protection investigations - a meeting with society's safety net. The aim of this study was to explore how parents experience child protection investigation processes and further to examine what those investigations are perceived to do and consist of. The study was conducted through a social constructionist approach through which parental experience is seen

Den här uppsatsen utreder den s.k. Decemberöverenskommelsen. Decemberöverenskommelsen tillkom efter att Socialdemokraternas samt Miljöpartiets gemensamma budget röstades ner i budgetomröstningen den 3 december 2014. Den efterföljande debatten blev turbulent och flera jurister gick ut och diskuterade överenskommelsen innebörd, betydelse och effekt. Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka decemberöveren

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of brand management, specifically the user-brand relationship in online brand communities for innovation purposes by conceptualizing brand requirements which can be derived from users’ perceptions and expectations. Hereby the authors apply the Social Exchange Theory which helps to understand what a brand needs and how a brand can support innovation

The purpose of this paper is to add knowledge to the understanding in which way the measures of the audit reform are in accordance with the EC’s intended objectives. This is examined for the case of Germany. The study further contributes to the program impact theory by applying this theory to a new research area.

The aim of this study is to examine the book About Sweden, a text provided by Swedish local authorities to non-EES immigrants moving to Sweden. The study focuses on how Sweden, Swedishness and immigrants are portrayed in the book, focusing especially on discussion of the relationship between Swedish society and immigrants. Using qualitative content analysis, the text is methodically analysed in re

Social work with quality? Public Comparisons as show-window and tool Auditing, evaluations, rankings and performance measurements of the public sector are often presented as tools to ensure accountability, improvement, quality and transparancy in publicly funded organizations. One such tool is called "Public Comparisons" (Öppna jämförelser), a Swedish publicly reported measurement of qu

Det hör verkligen inte till ovanligheterna att lida av någon form av allergi. En del har besvär året runt medan andra bävar inför pollensäsongen. Att få problem med nysningar, kliande näsa och rinnsnuva undviks förstås gärna. En näsolja som bildar en skyddande barriär i näsan kan vara en lösning på problemen.Bioglan AB is manufacturing a nasal water-in-oil microemulsion that is used to prevent allergic reactions in the nose. However some users have reported that the product feels irritating in the nose and throat. Another problem with the product is that it is not temperature stable, forming crystals at low temperature. Sometimes spontaneous crystallization occurs. Therefore a new product has been de

Mediebevakningen av Islamiska staten har under de senaste två åren varit omfattande. I synnerhet har rapporteringen fokuserat på organisationens terror- och våldshandlingar i Syrien och Irak samt dess kopplingar till terrordåd i Europa och den hotbild som till följd därav har riktats mot Sverige. Uppsatsens syfte är att analysera hur Islamiska staten och organisationens anhängare framställs i medi

Till grund för denna uppsats ligger en undersökning om översättning av spanskt diminutiv till svenska. Syftet med undersökningen är att ge en deskriptiv bild av vilka översättningsstrategier som är de mest förekommande vid översättning av diminutiv och att undersöka huruvida översättarna lyckas överföra den diminutiva funktionen till de svenska översättningarna eller ej. Uppsatsen inleds med en ge

Rapporten undersöker begreppet gemensamma servitut. Det övergripande målet är att upplysa om de gemensamma servitutens existens och klargöra under vilka premisser de får och kan bildas. Viktiga frågeställningar blir: vad de är, hur de går att bilda, hur de registreras och hur vanligt förekommande de är. Gemensamma servitut omfattas av samma förvaltningsregler som gemensamhetsanläggningar. En frågaThe thesis aims to examine and define the concept of common easements in Swedish real property law. The overall goal is to highlight their very existence, and the conditions for their formation. In order to achieve this goal, material has been collected and examined; mainly from legislative sources and doctrine. The thesis concludes that a common easement is an easement with two or more dominant e

Using a newly digitised historical dataset on clean water technologies in Swedish cities, this study tries to find the causal effect (and the magnitude of this effect) of the introduction of clean water technology on mortality in urban areas. Using urban mortality data on a county level, and clean water access data on city level, both OLS, fixed effects, and difference-in-differences models are tr

Title: Can you pick the winner? - Predictability of long-term IPO performance Course: BUSN89 Authors: John R. Saidac & Christoffer Swedérus Advisor: Naciye Sekerci Key words: Initial public offerings, IPO performance, Financial variables, Swedish stock market, Buy-and-hold abnormal return Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the relationship between publicly available fin

Syfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur rekryteringsprocesser kan agera som en förebyggande process mot agentproblem. Metod: Via en kvalitativ forskningsmetod genomfördes en enkel fallstudie med hjälp av intervjuer, observationer och dokumentation. Åtta intervjuer och två observationer genomfördes. Data analyserades med en kombination av pattern-matching och grundad teori. Teoretiska perspektPurpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how recruitment processes can help prevent the emergence of agency problems. Method: Following a qualitative research design, a single case study was conducted using interviews, observations and documentation. Eight interviews and two observations were conducted. Data was analysed through a combination of pattern-matching and grounded theory.

- Examensarbetets titel: Visionären, Mästaren och Databussen – En fallstudie om styrning av kunskapsintensivt arbete på ett svenskt spelutvecklingsföretag. - Seminariedatum: 2015-05-26 - Ämne/kurs: FEKN90 – Magisteruppsats på civilekonomprogrammet, organisation, 30 HP - Författare: Fanny M Bystedt - Handledare: Nadja Sörgärde - Nyckelord: Kunskapsintensivt arbete, styrning, spelutveckling - Syfte- Title: The Visionary, The Master and The Data Bus– A case study of control of knowledge intensive work at a Swedish game development company. - Seminar date: 2014-05-26 - Course: FEKN90 – Master Thesis in Business Administration, 30 University Credit Points (30ECTS) - Author: Fanny M Bystedt - Advisor: Nadja Sörgärde - Key words: Knowledge intensive work, control, game development - Purpose: The

Media has a great influence on our everyday life, where they report on a daily basis about news from all around the society we live in. With the help of their stories we create our own realities and truths. Media decides to write about incidents that has a public interest, however there is also an underlying thought of economic interest. Malmö has long been seen as a dangerous city with a high cr