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Social Impact and Its Challenges in Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation – A Case Study of Social Impact in Sweden

Social impact in social entrepreneurship and social innovation is a significant common denominator in these fields which received increasing attention recently. The attention is concentrated to measurement methods but the concept social impact is still “fuzzy”. This thesis contributes with clarification of social impact. The study is a case study of social impact where an abductive qualitative app

Discovery of novel biomarkers for cardiovascular disease, focus on endothelial specific proteins - a SCAPIS pilot study

SCAPIS is a national project in Sweden and stands for Swedish CardioPulmonary bioImage Study. The objective of SCAPIS is to find biomarkers in order to improve the risk prediction and lower the death rate of Cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD is a big health problem and is one of the main causes of death in many industrial countries. It is usually related to atherosclerosis, which is plaque buildup

"Videorekrytering är framtiden - bara att lära sig nu." En kvalitativ studie kring motiverande faktorer inom videorekrytering

Videorekrytering är en form av rekrytering som möjliggjorts inom ramen av den digitala utvecklingen, som under de senaste åren haft stor påverkan och förändrat HR-avdelningarnas sätt att arbeta. Studier kring eHRM (elektronisk Human Resource Management) har haft mycket fokus på organisationens perspektiv, och kunskapsluckor har uppstått kring kandidaternas upplevelse av detta nya sätt att rekryterVideo recruitment is a form of recruitment that has grown in the recent years as a result of the rapid digital development within the field of Human Resource Management. Studies within eHRM (electronic Human Resource Management) have mainly focused on an organizational perspective, leaving knowledge gaps regarding the candidate’s experience. Företag X has noticed from their own recruitment process

Reacting to the Solid Waste Management Crisis: Investigation of a Public-Private Partnership in Lebanon

Since 2015, the provision of solid waste management-related services in Lebanon has been severely lacking and environmentally detrimental. This national crisis has led some municipalities and local enterprises to collaborate to implement sustainable solutions to the disposal of waste. This work explores the functioning of one specific partnership established in Lebanon between the municipality of

Exploring the Scaled Agile Framework in a Virtual Team Setting

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an agile methodology that aligns collaboration between multiple teams in agile software development. SAFe is commonly being applied to global environments where team members are sitting distributed, through so-called virtual teams. The aim of this study is to investigate how the Scaled Agile Framework is perceived by employees working within a virtual team sett

Hur utvärderas faunapassager? - En litteraturstudie om säkra passager för djur över vägar och hur de utvärderas

Vägar är en onekligen central del i vårt globala samhälle. De betyder kontakt och förflyttning för oss, men för djuren är dem ofta hinder vilket kan leda till att habitat fragmenteras och att djur isoleras. När djuren isoleras kan de inte nå nya resurser eller nya habitat, eller hitta en partner. Detta kan innebära att djuren får sämre överlevnadschanser och svårare att fortplanta sig. I värsta faHabitat fragmentation is a common problem in relation with road infrastructure which leads to mortality, isolation of animal populations, and has a negative effect on biodiversity. Animal crossings have been implemented in many countries and are a useful tool to mitigate these problems but they are expensive to build. This thesis explores the methodological approaches used to evaluate how wildlife

Seeking Justice: The subjugation of nature and women as seen through the struggles for environmental justice and reproductive justice in the U.S., 1970-present

This thesis aims to gain a better understanding of the modern subjugation of nature and women in the United States, by looking at the recent history of the Environmental Justice Movement (nature) and Reproductive Justice Movement (women). Through examining the history of these movements and relevant politics from 1970 to present day, events can be analyzed to shed light on the current political si

Job Crafting - the Secret of Engaged Workers: Links Between Personality, Job Crafting, Employment Type and Work Engagement

This study aimed to investigate the value of HEXACO personality traits in predicting job crafting, as well as the relationship between the proactive dimensions of HEXACO (extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness) and job crafting, work engagement and employment types. Based on previous literature findings, this study proposed that job crafting will mediate the relationship between personality

Skönlitterär genvägsläsning

Detta arbete syftar till att undersöka hur lärare och elever förhåller sig till de uppgifter och den bedömning som förekommer i samband med skönlitterär läsning i ämnet svenska på gymnasiet. Studien inriktade sig mer specifikt på en elevstrategi, som getts begreppet genvägsläsning, där elever inte själva läser föreskrivna verk utan istället läser sekundärkällor om verket. Som teoretiskt ramverk an

“Writing is Processing What You Have Read”: Using Written Input-to-Output Tasks in the Swedish Upper Secondary School

The Swedish national syllabi for the subject of English challenges upper secondary students to not only produce text, but to interact with and through it; students should actively engage with the learning process through reading, writing, and speaking. Previous research within this field has investigated the relationship between reading and writing, as well as how to use writing to complement the

Ergonomiskt gitarrspel. Hur kan hälsosammare musicerande ge ett bättre musikaliskt resultat?

Har ergonomi fler funktioner än att förebygga skador? Denna studie undersöker hur fyra gitarrister kan gynnas av att spela mer ergonomiskt. Gitarristerna har fått instruktioner av mig hur de ska öva med ett ergonomiskt arbetssätt. Det studien syftar på är att undersöka hur det hjälper deras uthållighet, teknik, fokus och avslappning under gitarrspelandet. Studien är utformad som aktionsforskning dDo ergonomics have more functions than preventing injuries? This study examines how four guitarists can benefit from playing with ergonomics in focus. The study examines how it helps their endurance, technique, focus and relaxation while playing guitar. The guitarists have been given instructions on how to practice more ergonomically. The study is designed as action research in which the guitarist

Är arbete utanför ordinarie kontorstid relaterat till psykiskt välbefinnande och kan individuella karaktärsdrag ha en modererande effekt?

Today’s working life is becoming increasingly flexible, which is a consequence of and enabled by the technological development that is constantly affecting organizations around the world. According to a Swedish study from 2013 almost half (47 %) of the jobs on the Swedish labor market can be described as partly or even completely unregulated. But the question is whether this flexibility affects th

Big data analytics for achieving smart city resilience Key factors for adoption

The impressive growth of smart city initiatives can be widely witnessed worldwide. These cities are launched at the effort to improve quality of citizens’ life and help city planners optimize and operationalize management of urban infrastructures. Smart cities are characterized by technologies and systems that are sources of high-volume and high-variety data sources which can be gathered, stored a

Ersättning för servitut som upphävs för att frigöra byggrätt

Servitut är ett rättsförhållande mellan fastigheter där den ena fastigheten har rätt att nyttja den andra fastigheten för att komplettera fastighetens behov så att den kan användas funktionellt och ändamålsenligt. En grundregel för servitut är att rättigheten ska gälla tillsvidare. I vissa situationer är det dock möjligt att upphäva servitutet. Ett servitut som upphävs är i de flesta fall berättigThe master thesis aims to examine which profit-sharing principle that is appropriate for repeal of easement for the release of development rights and if recent court deci-sions on the matter has had any impact on these situations. Easement is a legal relationship between real properties where one property is enti-tled to use the other property to complement the property's needs, so it can be

A study of DGAT enzymes from Tropaeolum majus with focus on oil biosynthesis

An alternative energy and chemicals must be found to meet the future demand. A possible source of renewable energy is plant oil since it has a close chemical structure to fossil oil with less refining requirement. However, vegetable oil has not made a significant contribution to replace fossil oil as an energy source because of high demand of fossil oil. It is possible to substitute fossil-based c