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Towards Understanding Consumer Reactions in Out-of-Stock Situations: A comparison of price promoted versus regular-priced items in grocery retail

Temporarily unavailable products in the grocery retail environment cause problems for multiple parties, resulting in possible sales losses for retailers and high dissatisfaction among consumers. With price promoted products being twice as often out-of-stock (OOS) as regular-priced items, the need for a further understanding of reactions to price promoted products is evident. The purpose of this th

Investigation of high-barrier materials development for long shelf-life dairy-based products with enhanced properties

This thesis has been pursuing an objective to investigate the recent developments in the field of high oxygen barrier materials for the dairy based medical nutrition portfolio. The main goal of this research was to identify the materials and/or approaches that would allow the decrease of oxygen ingress with resulting shelf-life extension. Both flexible (pouch) and rigid (bottles) packaging has bee

Toaster ovens och Racketeers - Lexikala översättningsproblem vid mottagaranpassning av två amerikanska krönikor om dataspel

Den här uppsatsen bygger på en översättning av två amerikanska krönikor om dataspel, skrivna av Ian Bogost och publicerade i antologin How to Talk About Videogames (2015). Uppsatsens inleds med en textanalys av källtexten som baseras på Lennart Hellspong & Per Ledins analysmodell (1997). Textanalysen följs av ett antal överväganden inför översättning där den globala översättningsstrategin funk

Multicultural Violence Work at Shelters in Finland – A Feminist Postcolonial Perspective

The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore multicultural violence work at shelters in Finland from a feminist postcolonial perspective. The main interest of this study is to analyse the shelter workers’ ways of speaking about multicultural clients, on their own position and on their working methods. The study is based on four semi-structured interviews with shelter workers and on six observatio

Varför handla ekologiskt? - Gröna konsumenters självidentitet och riskmedvetenhet

Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på varför vissa konsumenter väljer att handla ekologiskt och vad som är deras drivkrafter. För att undersöka dessa motivationsfaktorer används en kvalitativ metod där tio ekologiska konsumenter har djupintervjuats och en fokusgruppintervju med fyra konsumenter har genomförts. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av kunder som kontinuerligt handlar i butikerna Sju

Antibody Testing for use in Immunohistochemistry and the Investigation of Precociously Induced Maturation of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Young Nude Rats

Sambandet mellan mognaden av immunsystemet och mag- tarmkanalen Mognaden av mag-tarmkanalen tros vara sammankopplad med mognaden av immunförsvaret efter födseln. Nyligen gjorda studier indikerar att immunceller, framförallt T-celler, kan ha en roll i detta eftersom behandling med immunhämmande mediciner kan fördröja mognadsprocessen hos unga råttor. Råttor föds med en omogen tarm anpassad för uppBackground: Rat pups are born with an immature intestine adapted for the effective uptake of milk nutrients and with high permeability for bioactive molecules from the maternal milk until weaning. During weaning the immune system is activated after stimulation with e.g. dietary antigens, leading to an inflammatory response in the gut. This response is believed to be important for progress of gut m

Gröna taks samhällsekonomiska nytta och kostnader

Gröna tak – en samhällsekonomiskt lönsam lösning för att bibehålla viktiga ekosystemtjänster i städer? Den växande urbaniseringen är en global trend och idag bor åtminstone 54 procent av världens befolkning i städer. År 2070 förväntas 70 procent av världens befolkning bo i städer och Sverige är idag det land med näst högst urbaniseringstakt. Precis som i flera andra länder används i Sverige förtäCity densification in Sweden has decreased the amount of green areas in Swedish cities. This undermines the existing ecosystem services that could for instance provide climate change mitigation and adaption. Green roofs are considered to be a product that can strengthen or substitute the urban ecosystem services produced by natural vegetation. This paper investigates whether retrofitting green roo

Influence of consumer behaviour on the circular economy application. The case study of a revival strategy for home textiles at IKEA.

Notwithstanding the increasing environmental awareness among consumers, researchers do not witness a substantial shift in consumption and disposal behaviour of textiles. Since research on disposal behaviour of home textile products is currently limited, it is relevant to explore consumers’ decision-making when handling no-longer-wanted home textiles. This thesis aims to better understand consumers

Tidsaspekter och visualitet i modetrender : en studie om Snapchats påverkan och betydelse för spridningen av modetrender inom modesystemet

Speed and visual influence on fashion trends – a study of Snapchat’s impact and significance on the spread of trends in the fashion system through visual images. Today’s fashion system has reached its climax due to technological advances and increasingly speedy nature of how fashion trends are conveyed to consumers. The tool used to examine the thesis of this study was a qualitative text analysis

Från jämställdhetsarbete till mångfaldsarbete. - En fallstudie av jämställdhets- och mångfaldsarbete i en kommun

Det är vanligt att bedriva ett mångfaldsarbete i organisationer idag, men dess omfattning och definition är ofta otydlig. Jämställdhetsarbetet tenderar att läggas till som en del i mångfaldsarbetet. Därför är det intressant att undersöka hur jämställdhets- och mångfaldsarbetet fungerar ihop, och vilken plats jämställdhetsarbetet får i mångfaldsarbetet. För att ta reda på det undersöktes tre kommun

Adaptive Beamforming for Next Generation Cellular System

In this work aMatlab model of a simplified LTE system has been implemented. The PUSCH and PDSCH signal chains has been used for reception and transmission of data and DM-RS symbols are used as pilots. Moreover, the model supports communication and interference between multiple users and base station antennas. The wireless channels are modeled as multi-path Rayleigh fading and are continuous in tim

Labor-market status and first-time parenthood: The experience of female minorities in the United States, 1979-2012

Background. The United States has been a diverse country since it is establishment. The effects of socioeconomic characteristics including immigration, age, employment status, educational attainment on total fertility rate have been discussed in the previous studies. Objective. The objectives in this study are to explore whether the difference in the timings of first childbirth among Hispanic wome

Hur läser mottagaren? Effekter av klarspråk i läsning

Klarspråk är ett språkligt koncept som myndigheter kan tillämpa i syfte att göra sina texter vårdade, enkla och begripliga. På så sätt antas myndigheten kunna uppnå kraven i Språklagen. I denna uppsats testar jag effekter av klarspråk på ett nytt sätt: genom ögonrörelsemätningar och två typer av intervjuer studerar jag samspelet mellan en specifik typ av mottagare och en specifik typ av myndighets

C-terminal TFPI-1-derived peptides: their evolutionary host defense functions

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are evolutionarily ancient molecules. They are essential innate immune response molecules that protect organisms from invading pathogens. Tissue factor pathway inhibitors (TFPI-1 and TFPI-2) C-terminal derived peptides exert host defense mechanisms against microbes. Studies showed that in human plasma, C-terminal TFPI-1 and -2 derived peptides mediate bacterial killin

Assessment of drift in the Immunotechnology cell line MUTZ-3

Analys av immunteknologis MUTZ-3 visar tecken på genetisk drift Allergi är en vanligt förekommande sjukdom som drabbar en stor del av befolkningen. Sjukdomen kan ta många olika former och vanliga typer är matallergi, luftvägsallergi och kontaktallergi. Kontaktallergi uppstår när en person kommer i upprepad kontakt med kemikalier som kan aktivera immunförvaret. Immunförsvarets är ett komplext nätveThe continued increased exposure to chemicals and the increasing prevalence of allergic contact dermatitis makes it important to develop accurate testing methods and strategies to assess chemical sensitizers. The Genomic Allergen Rapid Detection (GARD) assay is an in vitro test method that uses the transcriptional response of a myeloid cell line, MUTZ-3, after exposure to test substances to assess

The Dark Playground

Based on readings, news and experiments this project is a creative exploration of data collection in the age of Internet. The disclosure of government online surveillance programs in 2013 raised questions about the power of data collection by governments and companies. Although this was big news when it happened, the topic is not as discussed or as acted on as it should be. Has anything changed si

Meeting E-Waste Targets in Italy: an evaluation of the national WEEE management system

As volumes of e-waste (WEEE) are increasing worldwide, the environmental and health impacts caused by this waste stream are leading to rising concern over how it is managed and disposed of. In the European Union this has been addressed by the WEEE Directive, a policy requiring all Member States to have a system for managing e-waste. The revised policy (Directive 2012/19/EU) sets increasingly ambit

Remote sensing-based monitoring of snow cover dynamics and its influence on vegetation growth in the Middle Atlas Mountains

Endowed with diverse vegetation covers, the Middle Atlas Mountains receive substantial snowfall in winter, which contributes to plant hydration during the growing season. Using remotely-sensed imagery, this study aims to assess the trends in snow cover variations between 2000 and 2015, analyse the local influence of snowpack persistence on vegetation growth and evaluate the significance of this ef