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This study engages with the informal e-waste sector, its financial, environmental and human health impacts as perceived by the e-waste workers. Although recovering resources from e-waste informally is useful to the financial needs of the workers, the rudimentary techniques employed are detrimental to the human-environment system. Surprisingly, not much is known about the perception of informal e-w
Governments and municipalities are now starting to open up their large amount of collected data and provide it as open government data. The opening of data is often simplified, and the complexity of the phenomena is generally not understood by municipalities. In line with this, the purpose of the thesis is to discuss how the factors that affect utilizations of open government data are being manage
As the world is becoming more digital, the use of data is rapidly increasing. To protect all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches, the regulations will become stricter. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become effective on the 25th of May 2018. This will mean big structural changes for organizations, but it will also mean tougher requirements for gathering and maintaining pe
Bakgrund: Nästan varje dag diagnostiseras ett barn med cancer i Sverige. Barncancer drabbar inte bara barnet utan även resten av familjen. Sjuksköterskan spelar en central roll i omvårdnaden kring barnet och familjen och behöver kunna möta varje individs behov. Syfte: Att undersöka föräldrars upplevelse av information och kommunikation med sjuksköterskan när deras barn vårdas för cancer. Metod: En
The purpose of this thesis is to examine if it exists a relationship between gender diversity on the board of directors and firm performance and to answer if a legislated gender quota for corporate boards would affect the performance of Swedish public firms. The approach in this study is quantitative and conducted on 48 large cap companies listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, during the time period 20
Automatisering har haft en stor påverkan i det svenska näringslivet och spås att fortsättas. Vi har genom intervjuer med olika ledare samlat in data som berättar om hur de tror ledare i framtiden kommer bli påverkade av automatiseringen. Resultaten visar på en tro om förändrat arbetsbörda, stort ansvar vid implementering av automatisering och ökat krav på teknisk förståelse. Resultaten visar också
This paper investigates to what extent Swedish-English code-switching and recent English loanwords occur in the printed and online versions of five newspapers and magazines. The newspapers and magazines that were included are Aftonbladet, Amelia, Elle, Café, and Helsingborgs Dagblad. The study shows that English was the most common in the printed media, while the hypothesis was that it would be mo
Pre-treatment with pulse electric field (PEF) of whole carrots was investigated, with the aim of achieving maximal tissue damage and reduce drying time of carrot cubes. Relative electrolyte leakage (REL) measurements and trypan blue staining was used to evaluate the extent of tissue damage of carrots subjected to PEF. The investigated PEF parameters were: electric field strength, number of pulses,
A radar detector excels in poor light conditions compared to a camera, but currently there is no way to visualize the radar detections in an arbitrary camera monitoring the same scene. In this thesis, a method for automatic calibration of a radar-camera system is proposed. With our method, the position and orientation of the camera (in relation to the radar) can be calculated automatically. The ca
På Volvo Construction Equipments produktionssite i Braås tillverkas olika varianter av dumprar. Produktionen på siten ligger i framkant men i ett av produktionsavsnitten har det inte skett några förändringar på många år. Uppdraget var därför att ta fram ett underlag till ledningen för möjliga investeringar samt förbättringar inom produktionsavsnittet. I uppdraget ingick även att undersöka hur en mAt the Volvo Construction Equipment site in Braås, different kinds of articulated haulers are being produced. The production is in the forefront of its kind but one of the sections of the production has not seen any changes in many years. This thesis aims to present a decision basis to Vovlo for future investments and how the section should develop their future work. The thesis also aims to presen
Denna kvantitativa studie har i syfte att undersöka svenska högstadieelevers inställning till traditionella och digitala nyhetsmedier samt nyhetsföretag trovärdighet. Med utgångspunkt i strategiska kommunikationsteorier såsom gatekeeping, the Bandwagon effect och filterbubblor, utformades tre frågeställningar och fyra hypoteser. Med hjälp av statistikprogrammet SPSS analyserades 189 fullständiga eThis quantitative study was conducted with the aim to inquire into Swedish 9th graders’ attitudes towards traditional and digital news media and news outlets’ trustworthiness. With basis in strategic communication theories concerning gatekeeping, the Bandwagon effect and filter bubbles, three research questions and four hypotheses were designed. A statistical analytics were compiled from 189 onlin
The increasing competition in the retail industry is forcing online and offline retailers to innovate to deliver great customer experience. Online retailers are responding by opening offline retail spaces featuring technology, known as showrooms. The recent phenomenon of the showroom remains underresearched. Furthermore, existing literature on retail technology lacks focus on the consumer perspect
I och med det ökande användandet av sociala medier och en misstro till traditionell reklam har varumärkesstrategin Influencer marketing utvecklats. Influencers är personliga varumärken som tillsammans med produktvarumärken ingår i ett samarbete, så kallat co-branding. I denna studie har co-branding mellan personliga varumärken och produktvarumärken undersökts med fokus på hur mottagarna kommunicerAs a result of the increase in usage of social media coupled with a disbelief in traditional marketing, Influencer Marketing has emerged as a brand strategy. Influencers may be considered as a merging of personal brands and product brands, also known as co-branding. This study examines co-branding, focusing on how the receivers communicate their acceptance in co-branding. Furthermore, through conc
Denna uppsats ämnar undersöka hur diskursen kring hållbarhet gestaltas av flera aktörer i förhållande till H&M. Primärt fokuserar uppsatsen på att särskilja aktörernas olika positioneringar och undersöka interaktionerna mellan de olika aktörerna för att kunna 3 påvisa eventuella maktstrukturer. Analysen grundar sig i dagordningsteori, gestaltningsteori och diskursteori, och för att analysera eThis essay aims to investigate the discourse of sustainability as portrayed by multiple actors in relation to H&M. The main focus is to distinguish the different discussions and to explore the relationship between the different actors in order to unveil possible power structures. The analysis of the study stems from agenda setting theory, framing theory and discourse theory, and the method use
The aim of this study was to analyze how the social problems underlying the care of boys and girls are described in judgments according to 3 § LVU (Care of Young Persons Special Provisions Act) from Judith Butlers gender perspective. Therefore I have studying totally 40 cases of 3 § LVU to see if there are any similarities and differences in how each genders social problems is described by social
The aim of this study is to provide a deeper understanding of how digital and emotional storytelling can be used in advertising campaigns in order to build a relationship with recipients. Based upon previous research, theories about advertising, relationship marketing, digital and emotional storytelling, and narrative transportation have been presented. In order to fulfil the aim of this study, fi
Title: The Swedish Container Shipping Industry: An Analysis of the Service Quality Perception and its Measurement Purpose of the paper: The aim of this research paper is to gain a greater understanding of the container shipping industry. This way the notion of service quality can be brought to the given industry and acknowledge the perceptions of various actors regarding the aspects of quality in
Vietnam is one of the countries in the world that is projected to be most impacted by climate change. Extreme weather events such as storms and floods are predicted to increase with the changing climate. As such, climate change adaptation is crucial, especially for farmers who are relying on vulnerable livelihoods to climate change. This thesis investigates gendered patterns within the province of
This study examines indigenous peacebuilding in Colombia in line with the liberal peace project, which frames the territorial peacebuilding in Colombia. The need for exploring alternatives to the peacebuilding paradigm as an emblem of the liberal peace is urged; as it attempts to achieve a standardized peace while developing war-torn countries. The problematic dimension of the development discours
This thesis explores how representations of sleep and sleeplessness in mass culture can be reflective of shifts in the constitution of time and self-image driven by neoliberal capitalism, using Shattered, a reality TV show and Sleep Cycle, a self-tracking app, as points of analysis. The first part of the thesis introduces various discourses around sleep, optimisation and productivity that exist i
