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Oslo has until now been divided into the west and east, separated by categories of economic and social class as well as a physical barrier, the river, Akerselva. The west predominantly represents people of middle to upper class, whereas the east represents the middle to lower class people. This division has been formed throughout history, as the river that separates Oslo has been home to industry,
There is a need of developing methods for evaluating material parameters for peat. It is hard and costly to obtain undisturbed samples for laboratory testing of the peat. Therefore, in this thesis the possibility of using in situ measurements of the shear wave velocity for first order estimates of the consolidation parameters has been investigated. In earlier work, relationships have been found be
In this paper, it is investigated whether High-Frequency Trading has an impact on the stock market predictability or not, using nine different Autoregressive moving average models forecasts are generated. Thenceforth, ordinary least squares are used to regress the variance of the forecasting errors with High-Frequency Trading as an explanatory variable in order to see if it has any form of impact.
The way how retirement is organized in a society is linked to multiple basic social processes such as the evolution of family ties, migration or inheritance. Intra-familial care and charity dominate our view of retirement in the pre-industrial past, while commercial arrangements hardly play a role. This thesis delivers a case study on how the commercial retirement home of St. Catherine’s Hospital
This thesis has sought to understand what has governed China’s behavior towards North Korea along with what keeps China aligned with North Korea, how the US is influencing Sino-North Korean relations and if China has been increasingly critical of North Korea in the light of its nuclear tests in 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2017, the sinking of the Cheonan and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island. A theore
This thesis explores whether and how rural-to-urban migration alters the Chinese migrant family in the case of divided rural households of 10 male migrant workers. The study relied on in-depth semi-structured interviews with married men, who are fathers, husbands and sons, and who are currently working on construction sites in Beijing. Drawing on Lusher & Robins’(2009) theory of masculinity, t
Tourism is an important income for regions, where souvenirs play an important part. As we are heading into a more creatively oriented tourism, visitors are encouraged to participate rather than merely observe. The current supply of static objects symbolized by the host region, do not necessarily fulfill the underlying purpose of a souvenir; helping you remember a special moment in your life. Memo
The tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) is a migrant bird adapted to dry, sandy habitats. In southern Sweden, land use changes have resulted in a reduction of suitable areas, affecting the birds’ population size. The SandLife Project was created with the goal to restore those sandy grasslands and improve local conditions to stimulate the recovery of biodiversity. In order to compare the current and th
The Swedish government has committed to a steep increase in renewable energy production, with the aim that Sweden's energy supply should become entirely renewable by 2040. One of the renewable energy forms that is currently under expansion is wind power, with approximately a third of existing installed capacity in the four northernmost provinces. In these provinces, however, the wind power dev
This paper explores how marketing is conducted in for-profit social ventures. Knowledge regarding the for-profit social context is considered rather limited given that it has been largely marginalized by being associated either to the fully for-profit or solely non-profit extremes. In that respect, much of the existing literature has not to acknowledge the unique challenges that a dual mission, su
BAKGRUND: Operations- och anestesisjuksköterskans kompetensbeskrivningar belyser vikten av att ha god förmåga att kommunicera med och fatta beslut i samråd med resterande teammedlemmar och de har ett gemensamt ansvar för patientsäkerheten. SYFTE: Att beskriva operationssjuksköterskans syn på det perioperativa samarbetet med anestesisjuksköterskan och dess påverkan på patientsäkerheten. METOD: Kv
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how individuals perceive a personal brand online on social media, compared to how it is perceived offline in real life, and whether there is a difference in the perception of the personal brand. By using Instagram as an empirical context, this thesis explores similarities and differences in the perceptions of a personal brand from a perspective of ordinary
The electric vehicle public charging network has been suggested as a major challenge hampering the further adoption of electric vehicles. Little research have applied a user perspective when investigating the charging network, and there is a knowledge gap concerning what affects the charging network experience of electric vehicle drivers. The area of research was limited to include electric vehicl
Risk för föroreningsspridning vid framtida översvämningar Mellan åren 1995 och 2015 registrerades över 3000 översvämningskatastrofer världen över. Detta gör översvämningar till den överlägset vanligaste förekommande naturolyckan. På grund av pågående klimatförändringar och den globala uppvärmningen förväntas antalet översvämningar bli ännu fler i framtiden. Detta beror dels på att framtida skyfaAccording to IPCC:s latest report a rise in extreme weather situations is expected as a result of global warming. Climate changes are causing more intense precipitation and rising sea levels. Because of this, flood events are expected to increase. Studies show that flood events cause increased transport of contaminants due to flooding of contaminated sites. This can cause harm on both humans and t
This paper attempts to extend the knowledge in entrepreneurial theory, through the expansion of traditional concepts for entrepreneurial processes, to identify a new phenomenon in new venture creation. In combination with previous research on entrepreneurial processes, creation theory, user entrepreneurs and community-driven innovation in the sport industry, the study will focus on a single in-dep
The purpose of this study is to explore the opportunities and challenges for self-employed artists who use social media for their business. The research is focused on painters and illustrators who have digitalised and commercialised their own artwork. The method follows a qualitative research framework with a comparative design of multiple cases on the level of individual artists. Seven artists fr
Nya Zeeland – landet som ligger mitt på två kolliderande tektonikplattor. Ett land som präglas av jordbävningar och vulkanutbrott. Utanför Auckland i norra Nya Zeeland ligger den mytomspunna ön Rangitoto, som är en vulkan som tros ha uppstått från en s.k. hotspot, en plym av magma från djupt i manteln. Rangitoto har en eruptionshistoria på omkring 1000 år, och hade sitt senaste utbrott för bara 55The volcano Rangitoto belongs to the Auckland volcanic field and is situated north east of Auckland city, New Zealand. The volcanos of the Auckland volcanic field have previously thought to be of monogenetic origin, but recent studies indicate that Rangitoto has a long history of eruptions, which would suggest that the volcanic system may have entered a new phase. The last eruption is dated to 500
In this report the preparation of colloidal molecules through electrostatically driven self-assembly of spherical, thermoresponsive microgel building blocks is investigated. Colloidal molecules are of interest to the scientific community because, unlike spherical colloids, they account for anisotropic interactions that can also be found in atomic molecules. The added benet of using thermoresponsiv
