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To minimise the risk for new product failure and accurately assess the commercial potential of an innovation, companies make predictions. The majority of the available prediction methods are however tailored to either existing products or established companies. For new companies developing high-technology innovations, the literature offers limited guidance on how to navigate the many market uncert
A key for the wellbeing of all humans is to have a reliable and lasting clean water source. This source would ideally not negatively impose on the environment and its ecology. This is one of the Swedish environment quality goals, to minimize the environmental impact of the drinking water extraction. Vombsjön is a drinking water source lake in southern Swe-den, supplying 25% of Skåne county with wa
This thesis analyzes how and why old toys are restored by and for adults, despite contemporary Western society's understanding of toys as signifiers of childhood exclusively. With this in mind, the intent is to answer whether childhood attachments to toys can also be observed in adults by analyzing how the restoration process of toys reaffirms emotional and social significance for all involved
Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging (Bragg CDI) is an X-ray imaging technique used to recover the internal strain information of nano-scale crystalline particles. A particle, illuminated by X-ray beams, is rocked along a direction θ and the entire diffraction volume is sampled by a series of 2-D diffraction patterns. From the diffraction volume, the internal structure of the particle can be recover
Miljöförändringar är framträdande i den samhälleliga debatten där sådana förändringar ses som ett växande hot mot diverse samhällsstrukturer. Detta hot har följts av regleringar inom EU med målet att uppnå nettonollutsläpp till år 2050. För att möjliggöra ett nettonoll-skifte riktas uppmärksamhet mot marknadsorganisationer och deras hållbarhetsarbete. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka miljö
Due to the increasing incidence rates of skin cancer, there is an urgent need for novel technologies that can improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outlook. In a previous study, a machine learning model was developed to automatically delineate skin tumours from non-invasive hyperspectral images. However, the reliability of the model was undermined by difficulties with a preprocessing step in whi
The study explores possible determinants of fertility in Costa Rica, in the context of a fertility decline between 2010 and 2024, using a double hurdle model. The research considers household, female, and male characteristics, as well as intra-household bargaining dynamics. Key findings include a consistent negative effect of income on fertility, supporting the quantity-quality trade-off theory. E
Forskningsfråga: Hur uppfattar unga vuxna män marknadsföring genom upprepade samarbeten med ett fåtal influencers jämfört med enstaka samarbeten med flera olika influencers? Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur unga vuxna män uppfattar och påverkas av olika strategier inom influencermarknadsföring, med fokus på skillnaden mellan långsiktiga och enstaka samarbeten. Studien bidrar med insi
This essay analyzes frequently used adjectives co-occurring with general gender-specific nouns and investigates the sociolinguistic effects that the semantic associations and gender-stereotypical descriptions in sentences have on English speakers. A mixed-methods approach was conducted, with one corpus-based, and one empirical methodology used. Previous researchers have studied gender stereotypes’
Syftet med uppsatsen “priset för säkerhet” har varit att undersöka hur remissinstanserna i förfarandet om säkerhetszonerna resonerar kring mänskliga rättigheter i sina remissvar för att få förståelse för vilka intressen de värdesätter. För att uppnå detta har en deskriptiv argumentationsanalys inspirerad av Arne Næss teknik pro et contra dicere genomförts på de remissvar som lämnades in för promemThe purpose of the thesis “The Price for Security” has been to examine how the referral bodies in the legislative process concerning security zones reason about human rights in the responses, in order to gain understanding of which interests they value. To achieve this, a descriptive analysis of arguments has been conducted based on the consultations responses submitted regarding the memorandum wi
Hårdare krav ställs idag på ljudmiljön i kontor där bland annat minskad överhörning mellan kontorsdelar och bättre rumsakustik i mötesrum eftersträvas. Att åtgärda dessa problem blir ofta aktuellt vid inflyttning av nya hyresgäster- en process som vanligtvis innebär omfattande rivningsarbeten och nybyggnation av icke-bärande innerväggar. Syftet med projektet var att ta fram en metod för att förbä
This research investigates the perceived barriers to UK Trade Unions (TU) engagement in climate change and environmental issues, from the perspective of union members working at local branch, union policy and strategy levels, and what opportunities there are for developing an environmental trade union movement. With the advent of catastrophic climate change necessitating rapid decarbonisation of t
Thesis purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which perceptions of the brand name “Barndiabetesfonden” influence donation willingness among adults who are directly or indirectly affected by type 1 diabetes. Theoretical perspective: This study builds on the Theory of Planned Behavior, incorporating an additional variable called perception of brand name. Methodology: The s
This study investigates how digital innovation influences green technology innovation (GTI) in China, using provincial panel data from 2011 to 2023. It explores three transmission mechanisms—technology diffusion, R&D, and policy support—and further examines GTI’s downstream effects on economic growth and employment. The analysis reveals a complex, partially nonlinear relationship, with regiona
This thesis examines Swedish bilateral imports between 1860 to 1913 to assess Sweden’s 1888 shift from free trade to protectionism on Swedish bilateral imports while also exploring the Swedish Norwegian free trade agreement known as Mellanrikslagen during this period. This is approached using Difference in Differences and an event study within a gravity framework. The gravity methodology is co
S-Rprop is an extension of resilient backpropagation (Rprop), which introduces mini-batch learning to the Rprop algorithm. This is done by using two different mini-batch sizes, one for the learning rate and one for the weight updates, allowing for an accurate learning-rate update whilst gaining the fast weight updates of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimizer. In this paper, the concept o
Through the literature on self in the digital sphere, there has been a large focus on vocal consumption and the expressiveness of consumers, hence, there is minimal knowledge concerning how silent consumption can influence the self. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore and understand how the consumer uses social media and silent consumption, which we define as consumption and interac
Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” are two famous American works of literature that, although similar in theme and published around the same time, have never been studied together. This thesis examines resistance and agency in the two selected works by leaning on previous work by scholars such as Raymond Olderman and his concept of the w
