This study aims to examine the effects of oil price shocks on the overall trade- and the non-oil trade balances for ten oil-importing Euro area countries. Theory suggests that the effects from an oil price shock on the oil component of the trade balance for oil importers is negative, but that the effect on the non-oil component is positive. Thus, the effect on the overall trade balance is ambiguou

Den mytomspunna energin El och energi finns ständigt omkring oss. Men vem eller vilka aktörer som står för denna samhälleliga funktion är något vi sällan reflekterar över i vår accelererande samtid. Energimarknaden är avreglerad i Sverige sedan år 1996, vilket medfört nya förutsättningar för kommunala energibolag. Detta ställer krav på aktörernas varumärkeskommunikation för att tilltala kunder, saThe mythical energy Electricity and energy are constantly surrounding us. However, the brands who provide these products are something we seldom reflect upon within our accelerating society. The Swedish energy market has been deregulated since year 1996, which has led to new conditions for public energy brands. As a result, branding efforts are required in order to appeal to customers, which is di

Till skillnad från andra immateriella rättigheter är i princip det varumärkesrättsliga skyddet inte tidsbegränsat. Detta medför att företag, istället för eller som ett komplement till patent eller mönsterskydd, kan se en möjlighet i att söka varumärkesregistrering för funktionell respektive estetisk design. Därför finns det i varumärkeslagstiftningen absoluta registreringshinder vilka innefattar aUnlike other Intellectual Property Rights, trademark law does not have any time restrictions concerning protection possibilities. This constitutes companies to apply for trademark protection for functional or aesthetical designs instead of, or as a supplement to, patent and design protection. Therefore, there are absolute grounds for refusal that include that a sign with either a technical result

The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces towards second-hand shopping for clothing. Though literature on this topic already exists, there is still room for further examination, especially when adding other perspectives to it. Therefore, this project is especially concerned with gaining a deeper understanding of the underlying motivations for shopping second-hand, looking into

Allt fler organisationer med en house of brands arkitektur, vilket kännetecknas av att företagsvarumärket döljs bakom flertalet olika fristående, välkända produktvarumärken, har på senare tid lagt ner stora resurser på att kommunicera det övergripande företagsvarumärket. Således kan ett skifte och en ny trend identifieras i hur organisationer med denna struktur interagerar med sin marknad. Denna sToday, more and more organisations with a house of brands architecture, characterized by a strong company brand and several independent, well-known product brands, are using a large amount of resources on communicating the company brand. This development indicates a shift in how organisations with this architecture operates on the market. This study aims to examine how organisations use branding s

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur individer som i sin yrkesroll arbetar med flyktingar tenderar att uppleva medkänsletillfredsställelse, utbrändhet och sekundär traumatisk stress. En kvantitativ enkätstudie utformades baserad på frågeformuläret ProQOL version 5. Formuläret mäter professionell livskvalitet hos individer som arbetar i hjälpande yrken. Till mätinstrumentet adderades demog

Denna uppsats syfte är att undersöka relationen mellan oljepriset och europeiska gröna energibolags aktiepriser för att således utgöra ett underlag för investerare och beslutsfattare. Metoden denna uppsats bygger på är en kvantitativ studie. Genom att skapa ett index för europeiska gröna energibolag undersöks relationen mellan deras pris och priset på Brent råolja. Detta genomförs med hjälp av oli

This report evaluates personal safety during evacuation of the arcade Gallerian, Västerås, in case of fire. The report focuses on evacuation through Gallerian’s main paths. During a visit to the arcade potential fire scenarios and current fire protection systems were identified, and a survey was handed out to some of the staff members. The results from the survey concluded that some of the staff w

Femtosecond pulse shaping is a versatile tool that enables the generation of ultrashort laser pulses with nearly arbitrary temporal shapes. Among others, the technique is of use in ultrafast spectroscopy experiments where it can be employed for dispersion control and the generation of well-defined laser pulse sequences. In this work, a Fourier-transform pulse shaper based on a pixelated liquid crys

This master’s thesis is a discourse analysis of a media debate, which mainly took place in the summer of 2015, concerning disturbing situations caused by patrons in public libraries. In the early stages of the debate a lot of attention was spent on defining the patrons causing violent and threatening situations towards librarians and other patrons. Soon the media debate also came to focus on what

In this thesis, a holographic model for quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is used to estimate the electromagnetic contribution to the kaon mass difference. The principal ideas of the model are inspired by the AdS/CFT correspondence, which is believed to be exact. The calculation is first performed theoretically, highlighting the expansion of the result into a diagrammatic structure referred to as Witte

Syftet med studien är att undersöka om det råder ett signifikant samband mellan andelen kvinnor i bolagsstyrelsen och aktieavkastningen för bolag noterade på Stockholmsbörsen. Tidsperioden för studien sträcker sig från år 2000 till och med år 2015 och inkluderar 35 stycken industribolag noterade på Stockholmsbörsen. I studien utförs två stycken OLS-regressioner, en baseras på single-index-modellen

This bachelor thesis was executed at Mårtensson Consulting in Kristianstad. The thesis aimed at investigating how information from a PLC can be transferred to an SQL-database. The project was done with the intention of implementing it at one of Mårtensson Consulting’s clients. This influenced the choice of for instance PLC and software. The information that was to be logged came from a Clean In Pl

The aim with this thesis is to examine whether there are any differences between the linguistic and cultural strategies used by translators when translating song lyrics from English to Danish and Swedish. A description of translations of song lyrics has been presented as well as three popular songs from different time periods. The songs were analysed using five criteria for translation: singabilit

This study investigates if, and to what extent, a membership in the EU affects a country’s economic growth. The aim is to find out if an EU-membership leads to a permanent effect on economic growth, a temporary effect the first ten years after entering the EU, and if the fact that the growing number of members in the EU has any effect on economic growth. Panel data is used to estimate nine regress

Att drabbas av en kritisk sjukdom och vårdas på intensivvårdsavdelning är en traumatisk upplevelse som både patient och anhöriga bär med sig under lång tid. Denna studie utgår från ett patientperspektiv där individens subjektiva upplevelse studeras. Syftet var att belysa intensivvårdspatienters upplevelser av återhämtning efter utskrivning från sjukhuset. En kvalitativ intervjustudie genomfördes o

The Brazilian tax system is known to be very complex. The main reasons to that is presumably the fact that the federalist pact adopted by the Brazilian Federal Constitution gives a considerable autonomy to all federal entities (the federal government, the states, the Federal District and the municipalities) to impose levies. Besides that, the Brazilian tax system is composed by numerous levies, su

Nyskapad ängsmark norr om Lund ökar artrikedomen i jordbrukslandskapet Ängsmarker och deras växter har minskat drastiskt under de senaste århundradet men på MAX-området strax norr om Lund försöker man skapa en ängsmark genom att hämta hö från en närliggande artrik gräsmark och sprida ut på det nya stället. 85 av de drygt 200 arter som kan ingå i höet, varav flera utrotningshotade, har lyckats etaThis study investigates if transfer of plant material in the form of hay is an effective method for establishment of species rich grassland on former arable land in southwestern Scania, Sweden. An inventory of vascular plants was conducted to analyze the early establishment on areas with added hay vs. areas with no hay added. The inventory data was related to a set of ecological indicators (mainly

Surrogate motherhood and whether it should be legalized or not, has been a controversial area in Sweden. Swedish law has not any evident legislation prohibiting surrogate motherhood, but existing law can be interpreted as not allowing such arrangements. Due to that, many couples in Sweden are going abroad in order to implement surrogate arrangements. Therefore, some problems have occurred when the

The science of climate change stipulates that fossil fuels must be kept in the ground in order for earth's global temperature to stay below the 1.5 degrees' Celsius increase pre-ordained as safe for continued human civilization, and to avoid catastrophic natural, social, and economic disasters. Although this is a scientifically proven and agreed upon, governments around the world continue