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This paper evaluates the diversification possibilities in emerging markets for a Swedish investor. Two investors with different objectives, one seeks to minimize her risk and one seeks to maximize her risk-adjusted return, are examined. We investigate how non-normal distribution of returns affects the investments and if the benefits of diversification are decreasing over the time period 2006-2018.
In 2012, the Government made an amendment to the Act of alcohol, which meant an exception to the licensing of alcohol on special housing, including for elderly people. The aim of this study was to gather experiences among nursing staff about when elderly’s alcohol consumption becomes problematic and how they argue to solve a problematic situation. Although how the staff of nursing home for elderly
While career-related motives are not given much attention in studies on party membership, there are strong reasons to believe that such professional factors are important for young party members. This study is the first comprehensive investigation of how career-related motives impact the willingness of Swedish leading young party members to become politicians in the future. A unique survey among t
The aim with this essay was to study how professionals within the social services describe collaboration between the different various actors in regard to people with dual diagnosis. This study relies on four qualitative, semi structured interviews with professionals who work with the dual diagnosis target group. The theoretical frame which this study is based upon consists of Berth Danermarks (20
Convolutional Neural Networks impressed the world in 2012 by reaching state-of-the-art accuracy levels in the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. The era of machine learning has arrived and with it countless applications varying from autonomous driving to unstructured robotic manipulation. Computational complexity in the past years has grown exponentially, requiring highly efficient
Den matematiska teorin för populationsgenetik utvecklades av Sewell Wright och Ronald Fisher under 1920-30 talet. Wright-Fishers modell för evolution beskriver hur frekvenser av gener i en generation kan beräknas från frekvenserna i den föregående generationen. Förändringar i frekvenserna, evolution, uppkommer på grund av mutationer och selektion, men även på grund av slumpen, så kallad drift. Så Finding the expected number of generations it takes before every individual in a population (of constant size) only has one type of gene at a particular locus of a chromosome, can be formulated as computing the mean absorption time in a Markov chain. However, the Markov chain approach is inappropriate when the population is large. This is commonly solved by approximating the Markov chain with a di
The modern society is getting more and more digitalized and the concept Internet of Things is growing. The data being collected and digital services require a place to be accessed and sold, thus setting the demand for a new kind of marketplace; an online IoT focused marketplace. The large EU supported open source platform for Smart Solutions, FIWARE, has created such a marketplace, namely the Busi
Fertility tracking phone apps are widely used by women today, in order to both achieve or prevent conception. Due to the health risks of hormone based contraceptions, many women opt for non-invasive methods, such as fertility tracking. Most of the algorithms for tracking fertility use parameters such as the basal body temperature (BBT), cycle length and days of menstruation. The widely used "
Title: Significant factors for drug freedom -the perspective of the professionals(translated title) The purpose of this study was to investigate how social workers in the addiction care experienced what factors might be important when it comes to leaving the abuse and achieving drug freedom. The study follows the qualitative method in which four social workers on a support housing for adult addic
During the recent years there have been an increase in sick leave due to mental health issues all over Europe. In Sweden it started to rise in the 90’s and have not stopped since then. Today mental health disorders are the most common reason for sick-leave in Sweden. This applies especially among people working within human services, including social workers. Social workers have a high risk for st
The goal of this thesis work is to implement a convolutional neural network on an FPGA device with the capability of recognising human sign language. The set of gestures that the neural network can identify has been taken from the Swedish sign language, and it consists of the signs used for representing the letters of the Swedish alphabet (a.k.a. fingerspelling). The motivation driving this projec
Uppsatsen undersöker rättskällevärdet för OECD:s riktlinjer om internprissättning för multinationella företag och skattemyndigheter vid tolkning av de s.k. korrigeringsreglerna i svensk och tysk lagstiftning. Genom internprissättning (transfer pricing) avgörs priserna vid transaktioner av fysiska varor och immateriella värden samt utförande av tjänster internt mellan närstående företag i multinatiThis paper examines the legal value of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations as a source of law for the legal systems of Sweden and Germany with regards to internal law regulations enforcing compliance to the arm´s length principle in transfer pricing. Transfer prices are the prices at which enterprises transfer physical goods and intangible pr
This study uses primary survey data to analyze the impact of international remittances on household expenditure across four different districts in the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. The impact was explored by testing whether the share of different expenditure categories varies across recipient and non-recipient households. OLS methods were used to assess the impact of international remitta
Den svenska raggarkulturen är en av våra absolut mest seglivade subkulturer. Från att ha varit en stadsburen, beryktad ungdomskultur på 50-talet till att idag blivit en symbol för landsbygden. Syftet med den här musiketnologiska studien är att undersöka musikens roll och funktion för raggarkulturen i byn Venjan i norra Dalarna. I teorikapitlet förklarar jag olika musiketnolgiskabegrepp och perspek”Raggare” is one of Swedens most long-lived subcultures. From a city based, notorious youth culture in the 50s to a symbol today associated with the countryside. The purpose with this essay is to study the musical part in raggarkulturen in the village of Venjan in northern Dalarna. In the theory chapter I explain different ethnomusicology perspective and terminology such as emic and etic, music as
Det finns några pågående projekt som provocerar fram väldigt många och starka åsikter men få har involverat så många kvalificerade och uttalanden som Nobelcenter som planerades att byggas på Blasieholmen i Stockholm. Jag vill därför utforska projektet, läsa in vad som utmärkte vinnaren, vad som nu bromsade det samt utforska hur ett alternativ hade sett ut som jobbar med kritiken men ändå är placerIn this thesis I’m investigating the project to build a Nobel centre in central Stockholm. By first studying the competition, the winner and the critique it faced I then want to explore what a Nobel centre that tries to meet both critique and program might look like. The focus of the thesis lies in the investigation and the learning by exploring, the result in the end should be regarded as how far
The contrasting perspectives of citizenship, as either participating in the national community through a common language or common values, contra the juridical meaning of citizenship as an upholding of ones rights and obligations towards the state, has in the last years gained strong foothold in the Swedish debate. This has led to an incertitude in how to interpret the term, and has made communita
The purpose of this essay is to investigate whether the characters of Charlotte Brontë’s and Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels Jane Eyre, North and South and Ruth romanticise tuberculosis, how the disease was romanticised, and what qualities the affected characters had to possess to die from the disease. Major and minor characters who contract the disease are scrutinised, as well as the characters surrou
In literature there is a great variety of detective novels and The Secret History is one that presents the whydunnit-plot pattern, as the murderers are exposed early on. Another extensive part of The Secret History is its connection to Greek tragedies and Dionysian influences. Therefore these are considered and part of the formulation of this paper. I aim to establish ‘control’ as a unifying theme
Denna studie utforskar sånglektionens sociala klimat. Speciellt fokus läggs på den fysiska interaktionen mellan sångpedagog och elev. Bakgrunden till studien finns i spåren efter #metoo då bland annat ett par pedagoger från svenska musikhögskolor fick lämna sina tjänster efter anklagelser om sexuella trakasserier under lektionstid. Syftet är att studera hur sångpedagoger på svenska gymnasieskolor This essay explores the social climate of the singing lesson. Particular attention is given to the physical interaction between singing teacher and student. The motive for this line of enquiry lies in the traces of the #metoo-movement when, amongst others, a couple of teachers were forced to leave their positions at Swedish music colleges due to accusations of sexual harassment during lessons. The
