This study investigates the relationship between human capital investment opportunities in developing economies and cash holdings of foreign firms. Using a sample of 1838 foreign firms operating in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, I find a positive relationship between cash holdings of foreign firms and human capital investment opportunities, measured by human capital opportunities i

The aim of this study is to investigate the references to a national and/or a European identity in the news coverage of the terrorist attack in Paris, France on the 13th of November 2015. How does the news coverage of the second bloodiest terrorist attack to ever take place in Europe, after Madrid 2004, appear in terms of identity? Does the national identity overshadow a supranational identity, or

The current thesis aimed to explore the knowledge in the field of Healthy Eating Behavior with a particular emphasis on the consumers of Millennial generation. The main focus laid on the Millennial consumer healthy eating decision-making process and intention-behavior gap. Moreover, the authors of this thesis strove to understand factors influencing healthy eating intention, as well as the gap bet

Organisational collaboration among clients – a qualitative interview study about opportunities and obstacles in collaboration. The purpose of this qualitative study was to, from a new institutional theory, examine how five different organisations cooperate with work rehabilitation to help individuals with complex difficulties reach employment or studies. The collaboration is more precisely called

The aim of this master’s thesis is to shed light on the phenomenon of story time in public libraries. Story time is in the present study defined as a scheduled event where a librarian or a library assistent tells one or more stories to a group of children, often with the help of audiovisual aids and/or elements of drama. The main focus is the pedagogy of story time from the perspective of the stor

The purpose of this master’s thesis, based on literary and empirical studies, is to illustrate and discuss how libraries with special collections are affected by thefts. All institutions working with cultural heritage are possible targets of theft. The study examines how thefts from library special collections affect the libraries. In Sweden only a few regional and university libraries own collec

Den här rapporten är en litteraturstudie av gummigranulat, ett material tillverkat av återvunna fordonsdäck. Gummigranulat har blivit mycket uppmärksammat för sina positiva egenskaper i olika typer av anläggningsarbeten, men sina bra egenskaper till trots, så är det inte tänkt att däck ska användas till andra syften än att rulla på vägarna. När däcken nu får ett nytt användningsområde behöver det

There is a call for more analysis and case knowledge of how the media use the participatory architecture of social media in media production. The research field of audience participation comes from the integration of concepts and theories about an active audience with production research, and social and cultural theory. This thesis analyses cultural participation from the perspective of profession

The case Micula gave people the impression that EU law and ICSID arbitration law are incompatible legal orders, unable to accept each other’s dissenting opinions. Every ICSID tribunal decision in the field seems to cause heavy defence reactions in the EU legal system. However, this clearly does not have to be the case if all parties involved behave cautiously. This thesis will analyse in detail

För att organisationer ska kunna ta del av organisatorisk information på ett effektivt och strukturerat sätt har det elektroniska dokumenthanteringssystemet etablerat sig allt mer hos företag. Akademiska studier har kartläggt de för- och nackdelar som dessa system medför till ett företag och vikten av slutanvändarens involvering i implementationsprocessen för deras upplevda för- och nackdelar. Vi

This report is the result of a fire safety evaluation of the Royal Opera in Stockholm. This report was written as a project by students at the fire protection engineering program at Lund University. The objective of the evaluation is to ensure successful egress of visitors of the Royal Opera in case of fire. No concern has been taken of environmental or economical damage nor the safety of the staf

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om det finns en korrelation mellan musikpreferens och specifika personlighetsdrag samt se huruvida de resultat som tidigare forskning har uppvisat inom ämnet kan generaliseras på en svensk population. För att ta reda på detta fick 134 deltagare fylla i ett online-frågeformulär bestående av enkäterna STOMP (the Short Test Of Musical Preferences) och BFI (thThe purpose of the present study was to examine if there is a correlation between music preference and specific personality traits and furthermore whether the results from previous research may be generalized in a Swedish population. In order to measure musical preference and personality 134 participants filled out an online questionnaire consisting of the surveys STOMP (the Short Test Of Musical

Föräldrar till ett prematurfött barn kan hamna i ett tillstånd av chock, där förväntningar på föräldrarskapet raseras. En bergochdalbana av känslor kan uppstå och föräldrarna är ofta i behov av sjuksköterskans stöd för att hantera situationen. Syftet med föreliggande litteraturstudie är att beskriva föräldrars upplevelser av vården av deras prematura barn. De 12 inkluderade kvalitativa studierna r

This work evaluates the personal safety in case of a fire in Halmstad Arena hall D, an ice rink which is also used for exhibitions during the summer. Simulations and calculations were performed on possible design fires based on information given by an on-site visit and given design drawings. Solutions were discussed and conclusions drawn to increase the maximum number of people allowed in the buil

The case company in this paper absorbs great amounts of knowledge from their customers. The abundance of absorbed knowledge creates a need for prioritization, which has not yet been recognized within absorptive capacity literature. In the case company however, knowledge is not strictly prioritized in one or the other way, due to different influencing factors. New product development literature has

This bachelor thesis has studied the established routines and procedures among protection and support for children after visiting a "Barnahus". The purpose of a "Barnahus" is to develop effective investigations based on the suspicion that a child is or have been harmed. In addition, "Barnahus'" should also provide protection and support to the child in case of a l

I den här uppsatsen lyfts synen på föräldraskap och familjebildning i det samtida Sverige. Med fokus på den nya lagstiftningen om assisterad befruktning för ensamstående syftar uppsatsen till att klarlägga rådande normer kring moderskap, faderskap och familjepraktiker. Vidare utforskas på vilket sätt lagstiftningen är del i samhällets förändrade syn på familjebildning. Studien är en diskursanalys

The main goal of this thesis is to show how operational risk can be measured if even the use of standard extreme value theory fails to explain single catastrophic events in the tail of the distribution. Against the background of regulatory requirements imposed by the Basel Accords, an Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA) is developed for a dataset of operational losses occurred in US businesses bet

This paper examines export diversification with main focus on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a union promoting economic integration in the region of West Africa. The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), another Regional Integration Agreement (RIA), is also of main importance for the study. The study was conducted in order to determine whether ECOWAS and WAEMU,

In this paper I explore the visual literacy of images produced by nanoscopes picturing objects the naked eye cannot see. In the first part of the paper I introduce three nanoscopical images supposed to be read without knowing what they are picturing, and how they are produced. Visual literacy and exosomatic vision are introduced and used to open for a discussion whether the images are read or obse