Sustainable development is currently a topic of great interest due to United Nations’ Brundtland report in which a strong case is made for the need to transform societies towards a more sustainable orientation. Despite relatively few studies on the subject, sustainable entrepreneurs are claimed to play a significant role as change agents in sustainable development. For this reason, we chose to mak

Many economists agree that financial development and economic growth have a positive relationship, that financial structures have been critical for many countries to achieve modern economic growth. In the past decades, foreign investment has become more widespread in the entrepreneurial world, and the banking sector has not been an exception. Mexico experimented during the late 1990’s an unprecede

This master thesis aims at improving vehicle positioning in high-speed movement scenarios where global navigation satellite system (GNSS) does not work well. The standard 802.11p, as one of the WiFi family members, it can support to share vehicle information between vehicle and vehicle or between vehicle and infrastructure in a high-speed movement environment. Without the help of GNSS, the vehicle

In view of its complex demographic composition and the lingering controversies on recent civil war historiography, Lebanon provides a unique case of education in a post-conflict context. The absence of a common Lebanese national history curriculum puts individual history teachers under significant pressure. In lieu of an engagement with recent national history, avoided because of its controversy,

Uppsala University building was built in the 19th century. A larger renovation was conducted in 2016, when the buildings fire protection systems was improved. This report investigates and evaluates the existing fire protection with consideration to both human safety and economic damage. After conducting a risk scenario analysis, two scenarios where determined to be more crucial to investigate than

The building industry has a negative effect on the environment by contributing greatly to the greenhouse effect, wastage and the depletion of materials. This project explores through the design of a house how architects can battle some of these problems and contribute to a more sustainable future. To accomplish that we should design for reuse and recycling to use our resources more effectively and

Emotioner har studerats och varit viktiga för att förklara och förstå sociala händelser hos många av sociologins klassiker. Emotioner påverkar kvaliteten på relationen mellan människor och känslor kan både skapa avstånd som närhet till andra . Det finns en mängd olika emotioner som upplevs både positiva eller negativa. De väcks i relationen till andra människor, i olika situationer och på olika ar

Currently, there is a lack of qualified workers of all categories in the construction industry in Sweden and it is difficult to recruit people with the right skills. Therefore, it's important that the construction industry works to increase its diversity and change the way people communicate with each other at the construction sites. This study is designed to investigate what the challenges of

The prevalence of ageing population and growing old-age consumption per capita has raised concern about the fiscal burden of state and family. As individuals age, they have increasing need for assistance in activities of daily living (ADL). Therefore, long-term care makes up the most in the consumption of elderly. State and family are responsible to meet this demand and the care distribution depen

Med hjälp av dagens bärbara elektroniska enheter är vi ständigt nåbara, vilket har skapat nya förutsättningar för vårt sätt att arbeta. Gränserna för när en individ arbetar och är ledig har förflyttats för dem som alltid är tillgängliga för arbetsrelaterad kommunikation. Den här kvantitativa studien ämnade undersöka heltidsarbetande individer med tillgång till en smartphone. 116 heltidsanställda pElectronic devices have made it possible for working individuals to be constantly available for work-related communication at any time and place. The boundaries between time on and of work therefore have changed, with new and different working conditions as an effect. This quantitative study aimed to examine people working full time with access to a smartphone in their work, with the purpose of ex

In this Master’s thesis, data from a pediatric intensive care unit for children and youth at the Skåne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, are used for predicting child mortality and investigating if the PIM2 model can be improved using neural networks and blood gas test results. In the analysis, 1155 patient admissions were included after removing patients without tests witin the first hour of a

För att kunna bygga ut samhället har transportinfrastruktur ansetts ha en mycket viktig roll. Den ökade tillgängligheten medför att mark kan utvecklas på ett samhällsnyttigt sätt, till exempel genom att det byggs fler bostäder. Det är genom att tillgängligheten ökar som transportinfrastruktur leder till att värdet på närliggande mark ökar, vilket blir ett incitament för markägare att exploatera siSince 2009 Swedish municipalities can contribute economically to infrastructural projects conducted by the national government. To better enable municipalities to fund state projects the act of co-financial reimbursement was passed in April of 2017. This new amendment means that municipalities now are able to extract co-financial reimbursement in conjunction with entering a land development agreem

The high sex ratio at birth and its gradual increase are one of the most significant demographic changes in China in the past 30 years. The sex ratio at birth first increased until 1994 and then stayed fluctuating before it decreased from 2000 on. Regarding the issue of whether or not China's current family planning policy affects and to what extent it affects the sex ratio at birth, starts wi

This study analyzes hedging maturity structure and examines the relation between the maturity structure of corporate hedging and debt characteristics. The purpose of the study is to provide new insights in what determines the hedging maturity and discover new aspects of companies hedging positions, which still is an unexplored area of modern risk management theory. The objective of the paper is to

Quantification of CO2 emissions for case 1 - ISLK and case 2 - Föraren arrived at 42 and 125 CO2 per A_temp and with suggested changes it was possible to reduce to 38 and 109 CO2 per A_temp. The review of the possibility of lowering emissions in the manufacturing of concrete showed that the addition of fly ash reduced CO2 emissions by 10% per 10% of cement exchanged for fly ash. As well as demonst

Millimeter-wave radar imaging has potential uses in applications such as material analysis and medical in-vivo scanning of tissue. This thesis is about measuring objects using a millimeter wave radar, implement radar imaging algorithms and evaluate the resulting images. The measured objects are plates and rods made of metal and a rod made of acrylic glass (PMMA). The objects are measured using the

För att skapa ett miljövänligt plastmaterial blandades bioplast in i traditionell oljebaserad plast. Detta nya material erbjuder intressanta materialegenskaper och är ett grönare alternativ till plast helt baserad på fossila tillgångar.Due to increasing awareness and consumer demands it has become important for companies to develop an economical and environmentally sustainable alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics. The transition from fossil material to bio based is important for the future of people and planet, still, how the transformation should be implemented is yet unknown. In this report, the possibilities of

Many studies on how to encourage pro-environmental behaviour have been done. However, they have tended to focus on individual behaviour in isolation of social interactions despite increasing scepticism about the effectiveness of this approach in promoting the necessary transition toward a more sustainable society. Such a transition constitutes a central part of the transformational mode of sustain

Problem - Although experiential and social learning theory have contributed to our understanding of the entrepreneurial learning process, a major limitation is the focus on learning of the individual entrepreneur. As most start-ups work in teams, understanding the organizational learning process is important. Aim - The purpose of this study is to discover how start-ups learn by participating in an