During the last three decades, the number of NGOs within the educational field in India has increased dramatically due to the Indian government struggling with providing free quality education. NGOs in India have been praised for their contribution to development, but also criticized for inefficiency and lack of accountability. This case study provides an empirical example of a NGO called Mother M

Från barnsben uppmanas vi till att tänka utanför boxen, något som kan komma att visa sig inte bara användbart, utan också nödvändigt när det gäller att lösa de miljöfrågor vårt samhälle ställs inför. Att hitta nya sätt att minska miljöpåverkan på vår omgivning är alltid aktuellt. Pappers- och massaindustrin har länge varit stämplad som miljöbov, något som med tiden blivit mindre och mindre sanniThe fouling of an ultrafiltration plant, separating bleach plant effluent coming from a sulfite pulp mill, was evaluated depending on the pH value of the feed stream for both softwood and hardwood. The objective was to decrease the dosage of the alkaline substance NaOH in the first bleaching stage, without altering the performance of the ultrafiltration. Incoming feed streams, as well as permeate

In an attempt to bridge the gap between active and passive investing, Smart Beta strategies have become a popular alternative for investors given their systematic, rules-based approach to portfolio construction and historical tendency to capture market inefficiencies. In this thesis, we examine the performance of Smart Beta strategies versus the S&P 500 and the Euro Stoxx 600 index for time pe

This work was carried out for the company Verifyter AB in Lund. Their main customers are microchip manufacturers. Verifyter provides a tool called PinDown that does automatic debugging on their customers' test runs. The tool creates a large amount of data with information about these test runs. The company wants to be able to visualize this data for their customers in order for their customers

Microbial water quality is often assessed with heterotrophic plate counts (HPC) which are not trustworthy and time consuming, and flow cytometry (FCM) with DNA staining by SYBR® Green I (SG) has been suggested as a suitable tool for analyzing the bacterial community in drinking water. This study investigated the existing staining protocol and then applied this protocol to monitoring of slow sand f

Microplastic particles are of increasing environmental concern around the globe and recent studies have shown that these particles are present in the entire water column, thus affecting a range of zooplankton including copepods that have a vital role in the marine food web. This study investigated whether microplastic beads have an effect in the filtration rate in the copepod Acartia tonsa, which

Skrivfel ger billig öl trots framtida klimatändringar Ölpriset är kanske inte det första man oroar sig över när man hör farorna med framtida klimatförändringar. Men var lugn, det kommer man inte att behöva göra heller. Genom att lägga ihop pusslet över hur kornets strålängd regleras kommer man kunna fortsätta att ta fram kornsorter som klarar av mer extremt väder. Kornsorter som sedan används förLodging, the tendency in barley to lie down on the ground when exposed to hail and heavy fertilising, is one of the most important traits that barley breeding is trying to remove from the barley cultivars. This may be an even greater challenge when future climate changes may lead to more extreme weather leading to more severe storms with heavy rain and hail. In this project, 8 breviaristatum (ari)

The recent upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) benefits searches for new physics phenomena using multijet final states. The increased center-of-mass energy opens new possibilities to probe new physics at scales beyond the Tera-electron volt (TeV), especially in di-jet final states. However, in the sub-TeV mass region, the QCD background to dijet searches is overwhelming and not all events c

Perovskites have proven to have very promising properties applicable in future higher efficient technological devices such as light emitters and solar cells. In further development of perovskite solar cell devices there are however serious material drawbacks such as instability and toxicity, causing the perovskite research community to question if and how these obstacles can be overcome. In this

Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka hur arbetsterapeuter använder bild inom psykiatrisk rehabilitering. Metod: Kvalitativ ansats med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Sju arbetsterapeuter intervjuades på sina arbetsplatser, två psykiatriska rehabiliteringar. Sex av sju intervjuer spelades in, transkriberades och analyserades genom en innehållsanalys. Resultat: Genom att individanpassa miljö samt

Bakgrund: Andelen äldre i Sverige beräknas öka, vilket innebär högre krav på hälso- och sjukvården då den ska arbeta för att främja hälsa. Arbetsterapeuter arbetar för att möjliggöra aktivitet, vilket på sikt ökar välbefinnandet och bidrar till minskade hälso- och sjukvårdskostnader. Studier visar att det finns ett ökat behov av att arbeta med aktivitetsbaserade interventioner i ett tidigt skede a

Bakgrund: Att vara förälder till barn med funktionsnedsättning innebär ofta ökade stressfaktorer i vardagen med de ökade behov barnet har. Stress, ångest och depression är vanligt förekommande samt bortprioritering av meningsfulla aktiviteter, vilket kan leda till aktivitetsobalans. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att i vetenskapliga studier undersöka interventioner för föräldrar till barn med funkt

Statistical arbitrage is widely used in the quantitative based trading strategies. In this paper, we mainly use Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (O-U) process model and the GARCH model to estimate the parameters and verify trading signals for the statistical arbitrage. In addition, a new model is created through the combination of O-U model and GARCH model. To estimate the models, HuangXia Bank and Industrial B

This paper seeks to investigate if factors extracted from macroeconomic and financial variables can improve the forecast accuracy of the bull and bear market in the S&P500 stock index. The study extended the models constructed by Nyberg(2012) and Chen (2009) by augmenting their model with factors. Very little, if any research has been done in modelling the bull and bear using this approach. Af

Dagens matkonsumtion är inte hållbar. Den främsta anledningen till det är den oändliga mängd animaliska produkter som konsumeras. För att dagens samhälle ska utvecklas mot en mer hållbar konsumtion krävs en förändring av människans matvanor, alltså ett dietskrifte från animaliska produkter till växtbaserade dieter. Veganism är en livsstil som inte involverar konsumtion av animaliska produkter. Den

Pokémon Go is a Pokémon theme smartphone game released in July, 2016. The game surprisingly created a global boom of ‘Pokémon Go gaming engagement’ during the second half of 2016. This thesis is interested in the phenomenon, and wants to investigate how the factors including the technology of augmented reality (AR) impact the gaming experience and drive the gaming engagement in this case. The rese

This thesis project has been conducted in collaboration with Cenito AB, a software-developing company based in Malmö. Cenito has currently a responsive website, a SPA (Single Page Application). A responsive website implies that the size and appearance adapts to the unit that is trying to access the site. This site is being used by Cenito as a basis or first building block for other application tha

The most central for the population to grow is the fertility rate. When the birth rate is not the most central for an individual the conditions change the population growth. The fertility rate in Sweden is around 1,88 children per woman, although there has been a drastic increase in the population. This increase, which is a combination of the domestic birth rate and an external increase, has given

Syfte: att ta reda på om anställdas motivation påverkas om företaget har implementerat ett hållbart förhållningssätt som ska påverka miljön positivt. Forskningsfråga: Hur påverkas anställdas arbetsmotivation av att företaget har implementerat hållbarhet i verksamheten? Metod: kvalitativ, abduktiv Teoretiska perspektiv: agentteori, motivationsfaktorer, motivations påverkan på lönsamhet EmpirPurpose: To examine whether the motivation among employees is affected when the company implement sustainability. Research question: To what extent is the work motivation among employees affected by the company’s initiative to implement sustainability in the business. Methodology: Quantitative, abductive Theoretical perspectives: Agent theory, motivational factor, motivation as an influence