Västvärlden och industriländerna präglas i allt högre grad av globaliseringen och av en individualisering av samhällslivet. Detta innebär bland annat att människor i allt mindre utsträckning kan planera sina liv då de ständigt måste vara beredda på förändringar. Samtidigt har yrkesidentitetens tidigare tydliga identitetsskapande funktion minskat. Dessa förändringar och det jag benämner som en ”avt

Today a newly built road has high standards on the bearing capacity; it should withstand the rigors of heavy traffic. To test the roads ability to cope with the oversized strain we use heavy and light weight case, static plate load or YPK (Wide area compaction control) as a control for bearing capacity. The method is used to measure the roads E-module, which is a measurement of the bearing capacit

Syftet med uppsatsen är att med hjälp av statistiska metoder undersöka hur en uppsättning ekonomiska mått påverkar nivån på svenska börsbolags utdelning. Resultatet ämnar hjälpa potentiella aktieägare och övriga intressenter som söker indikationer på hög/låg direktavkastning i sina investeringar. Studien syftar även till att belysa huruvida finanskrisen 2008 påverkade nivån på direktavkastningen i

The main goal for this master thesis project was to create a robot balancing on a ball with the help of omni wheels. The robot was developed from scratch. The work covered everything from mechanical design, dynamic modeling, control design, sensor fusion, identifying parameters by experimentation to implementation on a microcontroller. The robot has three omni wheels in a special configuration at

Examensarbetets titel: Samhällets efterfrågan av revision Seminariedatum: 31 maj 2012 Ämne/kurs: FEKH95, Examensarbete kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng. Författare: Linnea Ahlquist, Marcus Hagström och Emelie Persson Handledare: Kristina Artsberg Fem nyckelord: Revisionsefterfrågan, Revisionsplikt, Aktiebolag, Revisorsprofession, Förväntningsgap. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att redogöra

Combinatorial auctions allow buyers to express preferences over bun- dles of items. The Primal-Dual (PD) auction developed by de Vries et al. (2007) is an efficient ascending combinatorial auction which, given certain conditions on buyers valuations, achieves Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) payments. The Universal Competitive Equilibrium (UCE) auction by Mishra and Parkes (2007) is a generalization of

Background: Postoperative pneumonia is an acknowledged risk following surgical procedures, for which there is currently no prophylactic treatment. Different methods have been tried with varying results, such as the administration of antibiotics or chlorhexidine to reduce pathogens in the oral flora. This study explores a prophylactic oral treatment with a suspension of two lactobacillus-strains, L

Att utröna vilka skillnader som existerar mellan regelverken och varför dessa har uppkommit samt en fördjupad studie av konvergensprojektet mellan IASB och FASB. Detta med fokus på föreställningsramen och intäktsredovisning. Därutöver en analys av den potentiella utgången av konvergensprojektet.

The aim of this Master´s thesis is to explore how the public libraries in Sweden work with children´s and youth´s independent, aesthethic and artistic creations and play as new ways for stimulating and developing children´s reading. The method is a literature study which gives an overview of the theories and the research on Children´s culture concept and The Concept of participation, the meaning o

Markov Regime-Switching GARCH (MRS-GARCH) models have been gaining popularity due to their ability to account for shifts volatility regimes that tend to characterize returns series. Previous empirical studies have shown that this capacity to capture the volatility dynamics leads to a superior forecasting power of the MRS models. We investigate the performance of these models in quantifying and man

The goal with this paper is to formally define knowledge from the assumption that our universe is computable. Based on this assumption, we will formulate a minimalist ontology that will be the theoretical basis for our formal definition of knowledge. We will use the classical definitions of knowledge like "reliabilism" (RTB) and "justified true belief" (JTB) as our starting poi

The failing firm doctrine (FFD) has been firstly enounced 1921 in case International Shoe Co v FTC. The key case in EU is Kali where the Commission has discussed the concept of FFD in depth. The Commission has established that FFD is not the rule but the exception from the rule that horizontal mergers are harmful for the competition. The binding Acts in the field of Merger Control are EU Regulatio

This project aims to highlight the manufacturer as an important asset in product development. In order to design a product, it is necessary, especially for industrial designers to have good knowledge of the manufacturing technologies that are available and to have knowledge of the working environments in which our ideas are put into practice. Increased cooperation between local actors opens opport

Thesis purpose: The purpose of this thesis revolves around investigating which factors a company should consider when attempting to dual brand a wide array of products. Methodology: Our thesis intends to investigate the opinions of dual branding among FMCG companies within the Swedish market. We have conducted a qualitative approach, consisting of interviewing five marketing practitioners, mostly

Local and regional governments play a key role in responding to climate change. Climate change vulnerability assessment is used to inform them about the possible risks and response options. It is apparent that with those assessments there is a risk of ‘learning on paper’ as opposed to ‘learning in use’. To move from one to another, the policy-makers have to understand climate change in relation

The authors are intending to investigate if theoretical arguments for misalignments from compensation structures go for Swedish firms. Attempting to bring research forward, the frameworks on M&A and compensation literature will be combined to investigate the interdependence between CEO compensation and M&A behaviour. An empirical research is made utilizing a multiple panel regression stud