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Costa Rica is a developing country that has been the first to produce electricity form 100% renewable sources for 300 days and its representatives advise other countries to “follow Costa Rica’s example”. The aim of this study is to inspect this phenomenon from the points of factors that contributed to it, the country’s national innovation system capabilities, and technology transfer issues. The te

The aim of this thesis is to examine how archival institutions perceive their role in managing archives that contain witness testimonies from Holocaust survivors. Choices made by the archival institutions in regards of preservation, digization, ethics and availability to users are analyzed. Three archives are the focus of this research. The Polish Research Institute archive contains witness testim

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the intra-organizational process during the implementation of evidence-based working methods in a Swedish municipality. The case study was conducted in the municipality of Malmö Stad, and the empirical material comprises documents and interviews with one program coordinator and four development leaders. Content analysis was used to analyze the docu

Biotech companies on the stock market follow a rigorous clinical process for their product development. The implications of this for investors is an alternative approach to stock valuation that incorporates the uncertainty to the potential future cash flows will be realized. The 3- step clinical process prior to regulatory approval each increase the probability of having drug candidates approved.

In today’s competitive market landscape, companies in an early phase with a business model that in the long term is expected to generate revenues from a global customer base, are facing increasing challenges to realise their growth targets. At the same time, global economical, technological, and societal megatrends forces incumbents and new challengers alike to adapt their modus operandi. The purp

Urban inequalities are one of the most important questions in contemporary times. One urban area that is struggling with inequalities is Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden. The new comprehensive plan for Malmö from 2018, states that a socially balanced city is necessary for further development of Malmö, to tackle inequalities the plan states that all citizens need to be able to shape society

Sammanfattning Titel: Byggsektorns syn på hållbar utveckling. Författare: Rebecca Kulneff Handledare: Moohammed Wasim Yahia, arkitekt och lärare vid boende och bostadsutveckling på Lunds Universitet och Mattias Ryckert, arkitekt. Examinator: Erik Johansson, lärare vid boende och bostadsutveckling på Lunds Universitet. Bakgrund: Bakgrunden till arbetet grundar sig i den problematik som uppdagAbstract Background: The background for this essay takes its place in the problem that has been detected due to the human activity on the planet. An interest took place for the perception of sustainability which led to the study on how the building sector relates to a sustainable society. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain comprehension about how the building sector is working for a

The increasingly interwoven landscape of development and security (often referred to as the ‘development-security nexus’) has become a salient feature of contemporary international relations. This thesis will investigate what this nexus entails and how it impacts the reality of developmental projects ‘on the ground’. From a theoretical perspective, this thesis will utilize the Foucauldian inspired

Child institutionalization is a common and growing phenomenon embedded in today’s Ugandan society, with a variety of socio-economic factors contributing to it. The increase of child institutionalization has coincided with an increase of research into the developmental effects of growing up in institutional care, which proved to have negative impacts on a child’s cognitive, physical and social-emot

Abstract Title: Developing an Inventory Control Policy and Forecasting Model for an E- Commerce Company Authors: Patrik Lorentsson & Nilan Nabavieh Supervisor: Johan Marklund, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics Background: Increasingly competitive business environments forces companies to develop better control of the material flows in their supply chain. Inventories are oft

In this thesis we apply deep reinforcement learning to the problem of recom- mending music. A content-based approach is taken, and features from music is extracted with a pretrained deep learning music-tagger. For training, user- interactions are simulated.

By making a descriptive comparison, this paper examines how the prevention against hate crime works in Sweden and Germany. The aim is to compare both the work in general, and also the work against hate crime that takes place on the Internet and in social media. A number of concepts, such as democracy, human dignity and freedom of speech, serve as the theoretical foundation. From the results, it ap

There is an increasing need for companies to showcase and communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives to stakeholders, yet the majority of former research on CSR communication provides little insight into how CSR is communicated to internal stakeholders. This thesis aims to understand from an employee and managerial perspective how a Swedish CSR frontrunner communicates its

This study is a qualitative case analysis based on fieldwork and multiple semi-structured interviews in Tolima, Colombia. It investigates the community level of the Development Program with a Territorial-based Focus (DPTF) in the south of the department. The program is a result of the peace agreement that was signed between the Colombian government and the guerrilla group the Revolutionary Armed F

This paper estimates and simulates a New-Keynesian small-scale DSGE macro model. The model consists of the hybrid forms of the Phillips curve and the IS curve, and is closed with a Taylor-type feedback rule allowing partial adjustment of the monetary policy instrument. We estimate the three-equation system simultaneously on Swedish data 1995:Q1 to 2014:Q4 with the FIML estimator. The empirical par

It is important in psychological research to use well planned methods that are as time and resource efficient as possible, without jeopardizing the reliability and validity of psychological science. The present paper aims to test how sequential analyses could be implemented in psychological research using Bayesian statistics. With sequential analyses it is possible to stop an experiment or study i

Titel: Villkor för nybyggnation på svaga marknader Bakgrund: På senare tid har vi sett försörjningsproblem av bostäder i Sverige. En högre byggnation de senaste åren har delvis bemött problemet. Dock rapporterar samhället fortfarande en bostadsbrist i stora delar av landet bland annat genom höga bostadspriser och långa bostadsköer. 243 av 290 kommuner rapporterade ett underskott av bostäder undeTitle: Conditions for new housing productions in weak housing markets Background: As of late, we have seen issues with supply of housing in Sweden. A higher rate of housing construction these latest years have partly counteracted the issue. Despite this, the society is claiming a housing shortage in major parts of the country – often with referral to high housing prices and long housing-queues. 2

This thesis analyses the spatio-temporal patterns of inequality and income growth in Sweden during the time-period 1990–2016. It aims at answering the question of whether there has been increasing inequalities, if so where and why. The study is motivated by the ongoing debate on regional development in research, public policy and media which frequently raise questions on the ongoing patterns of in

A critical issue for brand fan page marketing is to drive consumer engagement and to or- chestrate enjoyable engagement experiences that consumers desire. Despite the growing amount of research on how various characteristics of brand posts would influence different levels of consumer engagement on the brand fan page in the Western context, the study of consumers’ intrinsic motivations for engageme