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Problem definition: When investing in bonds there are some fundamental things the investor needs to be aware of, such as how the bond is being priced, how the structure of the company's capital structure is affecting the risk of holding the bond and the dynamics that could change the price of the bond over time. When a company tries to get more finance through credit capital markets, the capit
The Panama Canal expansion is an external factor on the tanker freight market that is made to change cargo volumes, channel fee income, the average transit time and might also change or create new profitable transportation routes. Shipowners operating in the region will, in one way or another, be affected by this. For tanker shipping companies like Stena Bulk the challenge is to create robustness
What characterises diffusion of mobile applications? Is it possible to find certain factors that to a great extent affect the speed which an application is diffused? What implications do technical and cognitive difficulties have on a user’s distribution behaviour? How important is the social dimension when spreading content to others? . Purpose: The purpose of the master thesis is to give guidelin
Detta examensarbete handlar om hur Agresso kan öka sin försäljning till befintliga kunder genom organisatoriska förändringar. Agresso AB tillhör Koncernen Unit4Agresso som tillverkar och säljer affärssystem samt tjänster kopplat till produkten. Företaget har under de senaste åren vuxit kraftigt i storlek gällande anställda, kunder samt produkter och tjänster. Arbetet berör frågan hur Agresso kan ö
The purpose of the report is to investigate and evaluate how a global company can use different strategies to achieve competitive advantages for the future. The existing Customer Relation Management (CRM) department in FLSmidth will be investigated to se if possible improvements can be made to make the department become the competitive advantage that it is intended to be. Methodology: To be able t
The objective of thesis was to do an analysis of the current situation of Vattenfall´s “Gewerbekunden”. The “Gewerbekunden” are small-to-medium enterprises that consume up to 100 000 kWh/year. Since the deregulation and liberalization of the energy market conditions have changed. New actors entered the market and the competition increased distinctly. All the energy suppliers were focusing on the p
Russia began its accession process to become a member of the GATT, which later turned into the WTO, in 1993, but has not yet become a member. This paper’s ambition is to investigate whether a membership in the WTO would have a positive effect on Russia’s export and if the country would gain from a membership. By using data from, mostly, UN-Comtrade and CEPII, and analyzing how trade flows from a s
An attempt to assemble play and dissociation through their common base, attachment, is presented. The Adult Playfulness Scale (APS) was given to 60 university students whereby eight with high scores on the APS and nine with low scores on the APS were selected for the second part of the study. The subjects completed the Dissociation Experience Scale C (DES-C), the Depression Anxiety Stress-Scale (D
This project uses proton-proton collision data from the ALICE experiment at CERN to investigate the differences between three ways to classify events, known as event shape classifiers. The event shape classifiers that were investigated are RT , spherocity and flattenicity. The motivation behind this is the consistent use of these classifiers to select events when investigating the heavy-ion like
The empirical analysis conducted in this study explores the determinants of leverage thus capital structure formation in the European banking sector from 2012 to 2023. Utilizing a panel data regression methodology, we analyze relationships among key financial factors and apply the theory of capital structure to the results presented, accounting for regulatory constraints. Our findings underscore t
Lymphatic metastasis is a critical determinant of poor prognosis in various human cancers, facilitating further dissemination through the vascular system. However, the absence of an appropriate murine model impedes the comprehensive study of lymphatic metastasis. To address this, the host laboratory employs the EO771 mouse mammary carcinoma model, which ectopically expresses the chemokine receptor
One way to reduce the growing workload for radiologists is to automate the trans- formation of 3D MR images of the brain into the AC-PC coordinate system. In this thesis, both non-deformable and deformable image registration methods were used to register images to a template in the desired space, the AC-PC coordinate system. First, three non-deformable transformations were used together with three
On January 1, 2022, the first requirement regarding climate declarations was introduced. This mandate specified that all new buildings must include climate declarations during the construction phase, encompassing modules A1-A5. In 2025, limit values are also planned to be added for the existing modules included in the 2022 climate declarations. These required values will be implemented as a signif
Since 2010 and the enactment of the primary care reform, accredited private providers have been allowed unrestricted establishment in Sweden. Today, this means that a large share of primary care in Sweden is provided by large corporations. However, despite the important role that primary care plays, research into how private ownership affects the care that is provided is very limited. Drawing from
Following the adoption of the "double carbon" policy in China, the concept of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has gained considerable attention within the Chinese market, significantly impacting investor decision-making. This thesis examines the impacts of ESG principles on the overall financial performance of investment portfolios. Through the classification of Chinese A-lis
This thesis explores the causes contributing to the persistence of child slavery in the fishing industry in Ghana, focusing on Lake Volta, the world’s largest artificial reservoir. Although Ghana is often seen as a prime example of a stable democracy with legal frameworks for the protection of children, exploitative child labour practices remain widespread. The theoretical understanding of chi
Nowadays, archaeological museums are open to innovation with an ever-changing character in order to remain relevant to contemporary museology in terms of dissemination of knowledge. In that spirit, digital technologies have been used systematically by museums in an effort to move beyond their ocular-centric nature, resulting in the integration of multisensory practices within the exhibition space.
Inom forskningsfältet har autenticitet visat sig vara en viktig aspekt för välbefinnande, men det har genomförts få kvalitativa studier på fenomenet. Denna studies syfte var att ge en nyanserad beskrivning av och fördjupa förståelsen för svenska, manliga gymnasieungdomars upplevelse av autenticitet. Frågeställningarna undersöker hur autenticitet som tillstånd upplevs, upplevelsen av relationen melAuthenticity has been proven to be a significant component of well-being, but few studies with qualitative methodology have been conducted on the matter. The purpose of this study is to give a nuanced portrayal and an in-depth understanding of how state authenticity is experienced by Swedish, male high school students. We examine how state authenticity is experienced, the experience of the relatio
