Background This thesis was initiated to meet the needs of Alfdex, a truck component manufacturer, to investigate the company’s possibility for expansion onto the US aftermarket. To this end the market and the company are to be examined and analysed to give the foundation for making this strategic decision. Purpose To explore the aftermarket of a product and to use this to construct an aftermarket

Debatten om polisens kontroller av ID-handlingar i samband med färdbeviskontroll i Stockholms tunnelbana kulminerade under första halvåret av 2013. I media diskuterades att färdbeviskontrollerna egentligen syftade till att utföra inre utlänningskontroll, metoderna för dessa och på vilken rättslig grund det kan ske. Det uppmärksammades även att kontrollerna tycktes rikta sig mot personer med minoriThe debate on the Police’s identity checks in connection to ticket control in the Stockholm metro culminated during the first half of 2013. In the media the discussions focused whether the ticket controls were undertaken due to internal border control, the methods for the procedure and on what legal ground it was undertaken. It was also especially noted that this form of controls seemed to specifi

In this thesis I study depictions of USA in works written by the two Swedish authors Anna Lenah Elgström (1884-1968) and Lars Gustafsson (1936- ). The purpose is to shed light on the expressions of modernity in crisis in their depictions of the USA. To fulfill this purpose I study the material from a phenomenological method approach combined with a theoretical focus. I find that they both give exp

This paper examines whether monetary autonomy can explain the divergence in macroeconomic performance between Euro and Non-Euro countries across the OECD since 2007. The paper also provides a short overview on the gold standard literature. Historical, empirical, and theoretical accounts of the Great Depression have mainly revealed that the economic downturn in the 1930s was largely of monetary nat

Which factors will influence who you choose to recommend in referral hiring? Questions regarding nepotism and referral hiring were examined in the study. Special focus was laid on in group favoritism, perceived fairness and gender. With an experiment participants were faced with a scenario where they were asked to select a replacer for a job spot. In the experiment the participants were faced with

The Basel III regulatory framework was created in direct response to the financial crisis that occurred in 2007-2008. The regulatory framework in place during and before the crisis, Basel II, had not done enough to prevent the crisis. This prompted a revision and expansion of the regulations. The regulators created a new framework, which was initiated in January of 2013 and is expected to be fully

The focus of this paper is on the partial replication and reevaluation of the work of Palangkaraya and Yong (2007) regarding the impact of the lifetime health cover policy in Australia. The analysis is performed using data on single person households obtained from the Hilda survey. The method used is a regression discontinuity design applied to a panel data material with age as the forcing variabl

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the western society has been transformed by, and dependant on, cheap and abundant energy. With respect to today’s changing conditions, we might have reached the end on this long and prosperous journey. Today’s global energy consumption consists of more than four fifths of fossil fuels. These fuels are not unlimited, and will consequently constrain

The aim of this study is to highlight how the collaboration regarding youth criminals works between the police organization and the human service organization in a county in southern of Sweden. We have noticed that collaboration between organizatons can be difficult in our society because of things such as the organizations have different point of views on how they should collaborate, they have di

Sverige har en lång tradition av industriell verksamhet vilket har lett till att områden har förorenats. Jönköpings län har bland annat präglats av kvarnverksamhet där betning av utsäde bedrivits. Betning utfördes för att skydda sädeskornets ytskikt mot svampangrepp när det såddes ut på åkrarna. Betningsmedlet som användes var Panogen som är en metylkvicksilverförening. Användningen av detta betni

In order to predict the life expectancy for the tungsten target at the planned European spallation source, the fatigue properties of pure tungsten have been studied at room temperature and 300°C. Constant amplitude, stress controlled fatigue tests have been performed to investigate high cycle fatigue and cyclic hardening effects have been studied using multistep, strain controlled fatigue tests. T

One of the major problems of our society is the increasing air pollution in urban environments. The reason is the increasing population, urbanization and globalization. The underlying cause of the many health issues that derive from bad air quality, is the common unawareness of the air quality indoors. In many cases, this results in a long-term exposure for unhealthy chemical particles before any

This paper examines the effects of an income tax cut on economic growth. The way it is examined is twofold; in part through an increased savings rate and in part through increased inequalities. The former one is considered a more direct effect of the tax cut whereas the last one is considered a more indirect effect. The income tax cut is investigated under the assumptions of the Solow growth model

Tillgången till rent dricksvatten varierar mellan olika delar i världen. Till exempel är grundvat- ten en stor resurs i Sverige där det står för 50 % av dricksvattnet, både artificiellt och naturligt bildat. Den siffran är endast 6 % i Moçambique och med tanke på att 47 % av populationen i landet saknar rent dricksvatten kan artifici- ell grundvattenbildning vara ett bra alternativ. Det finns olikThe amount of clean drinking water varies across different parts of the world. For example is groundwa- ter a big resource in Sweden and stands for 50% of the drinking water, both artificially and naturally recharged. The corresponding fraction is only about 6% in Mozambique and considering that 47% of the population in Mozam- bique lacks clean drinking water artificial recharge might be a good op

This project was conducted during the spring of 2013 at the IMEP-LAHC laboratory in Grenoble, as part of their research into the electrical and optical properties of ZnO/CdTe-based radial nanowire array solar cells. Simulations with different transport mechanisms and physical properties of the semiconductors were made and compared to experimentally acquired data. It was confirmed that the nanowire

There are large differences in income level and growth across the members of the European and Monetary Union, and the differences are even larger at a regional level. As integration intensifies an important question is whether the disparities in terms of per capita incomes will diminish. The purpose of the paper is to empirically test the hypothesis of per capita income convergence among 144 NUTS-

This essay investigates the Russian position towards Kosovo’s declaration of independence. Russia chose not to recognize Kosovo and I try to examine why by reading articles in three Russian newspapers. I examine the articles by using three different theoretical approaches, inspired by previous research and scientific literature in this field. These approaches consist of the ideas that the Russian

Since book covers have become the focus of critical attention only in few recent years, there is a small number of studies published that examine the interaction between the text and the book cover. This interaction seems to be especially significant in the case of autobiographies as there are at least two ways for the author to present himself: as the narrator of the text and as the subject visua