This thesis examines the relationship between fanfiction and the publishing industry, and the changes that occur when the former enters the latter. By focusing on five authors with different backgrounds in the writing of fanfiction, the study maps literary values and attitudes regarding fanfiction in a context of publishing studies. The thesis uses the digital publishing communications circuit dev

Denna uppsats undersöker huruvida en bensinstations tjänsteutbud, geografiska läge eller konkurrenssituation kan förklara skillnader i bensinpriset på detaljistmarknaden. Studien genomförs med en empirisk analys av data över 223 bensinstationer inom Skåne. För att undersöka detta skapas variabler som beskriver områdes-och stationsspecifika faktorer utifrån insamlad information om stationerna. En r

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att studera motorfordons väjningsbeteende på cykelöverfarter och –passager och undersöka om väjningsbeteendet är beroende av utformningen. För att undersöka detta har en fältstudie genomförts som innehållit en väjningsstudie och hastighetsmätningar i de utvalda korsningspunkterna. De olika korsningarna skiljer sig i utformning, reglering, cykelflöde eller trafikfl

China’s economic development has not only led to enormous growth figures, but also to a severe degradation of the environment. Mass-consumption of fossil fuels like oil and coal in China contributed to reaching the level of the largest greenhouse gas emitter worldwide. For the Chinese government to react, it is crucial to take the electricity purchase decisions of households into account to succes

One of the central features of a successful decision support system is the interface. What to provide and how to provide information that later will support the users to make a decision is crucial. With the emergence of mobile business intelligence, the concern about how this technology could increase its user performance in the decision making context and how to deliver these capability to the wo

Denna studie behandlar den komplexa karaktären hos snölaviner och hur de kan förutsägas, och därmed undvikas, vid navigering genom fjällterräng under vinteraktiviteter. Risken för laviner i skidområdet Nuolja, i norra Sverige, utvärderades genom en experimentell tillämpning av The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) som är en modell utvecklad för planering och bedömning av lavinexponering. ModThis study addresses the complex nature of snow avalanches and how their location can be predicted, and thus avoided, when navigating through mountainous terrain during winter recreations. The avalanche risk in the ski area of Nuolja, in northern Sweden, was evaluated by an experimental implementation of the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) which is a model for pre-trip planning and assessm

Protoplanetary disks consist of matter in both gas and solid form. The sizes of the solid particles, dust grains, although in minority compared to the gas, are important in the formation of larger bodies such as planetesimals. This is a topic which has been widely explored. However, the impact of the dust grain sizes on the underlying disk structure has not yet been as extensively modeled. Differe

Syfte: Vi ämnar öka förståelsen kring hur olika ägartyper påverkar ett företags CSR-strategi genom att utföra en fallstudie på den svenska apoteksbranschen. Detta innefattar företagens prioritering och involvering av sina intressenter samt hur de kommunicerar sitt hållbarhetsarbete. Metod: Vi har valt en kvalitativ metod och genomfört vår undersökning med semistrukturerade intervjuer. Urvalet bePurpose: We aim to increase the understanding of how different types of ownership influence the CSR-strategies in companies by conducting a case study of the Swedish pharmacy market. This includes the prioritisation and involvement of stakeholders and how the CSR-activities are communicated. Methodology: We have chosen a qualitative method and conducted our research based on semi-structured inte

Comparing with traditional linear regression methods that used to monitor vegetation trends, a nonlinear regression algorithm (PolyTrend) developed by Jamali et al. (2014) can provide more accurate information of vegetation trends by fitting a polynomial line with a degree of up to three for ASCII-formed time-series NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) dataset of a single pixel. To extend

How China interacts internationally can affect human rights inside and outside its borders. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to understand China’s interaction with the United Nations Human Rights Council and its member-states. The analysis was constructed on the basis of two processes, socialization and norm shaping. These processes follow the constructivist ontology of agent and stru

Agile Management is a management method based on the principles behind Agile Software Development. Compared to Traditional Management, Agile Management is more iterative and is therefore suited for fast paced and unsecure environ-­‐ ments. Even though agile is a fairly old methodology; there are few case studies outside the software industry. There are indi-­‐ cations, though, that Agile Managemen

Problem definition Freight transports are necessary to supply urban areas with goods. The complexity of urban freight transports is affected by growing cities that increases the demand for goods and the competition of city space, globalization which is altering the extent and complexity of supply chains, and technology innovations which have introduced new data collection methods. Policy makers of

Background Kenya is facing social and economic problems related to the high unemployment rate the country has suffered since independence. The Kenyan government are placing a lot, if not all, eggs in one basket and betting on entrepreneurship to solve these problem. For entrepreneurship to thrive there needs to be an ecosystem facilitating it and inherent in this ecosystem are support organisation

Cofactors are essential for the growth of bacterial pathogens also inside a human host and one source of cofactors are proteins in blood. Pathogens can use surface proteins to bind and extract cofactors from these blood proteins. Here, using protein modeling of these proteins in complex with bacterial protein combined with bacterial growth assays with blood proteins from different species, we demo

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate short term poverty and reduce intergenerational poverty by supplying targeted poor households with cash transfers contingent upon certain program parameters, such as school attendance for children. Evaluation on CCTs have found that such programs generally increase school enrolment and school attendance but its subsequent effect on labor ma

Examensarbetet är utfört på och i samarbete med Imtech Ventilation i Malmö. Författarens avsikt har från början varit att skapa något som kan vara till stor nytta för företaget. Därför har examensarbetet utförts i nära samarbete med Imtech Ventilations medarbetare. Författaren har gjort en bakgrundsanalys av energikravs-läget i byggbranchen. Detta för att ta fram en validerad problemformulering ocThis master thesis is performed on and in cooperation with Imtech ventilation in Malmö. The author's intention was from the beginning to create something that can be of great benefit to the company. The master thesis has been carried out in close cooperation with the employees of Imtech Ventilation. The author has done a background analysis of the current excising energy regulations. This was