Salt inducible kinase 2 (SIK2) is found abundantly in adipose tissue and may have a role in the development of diabetes. SIK2 is downregulated in insulin-resistant and obese individuals, thereby providing a new potential target for therapeutic solutions. Dysfunctional adipose tissue is observed in obesity and this is correlated with impaired insulin signalling, which might contribute to imbalanced

Thesis Purpose: The objective of this study is to research how vocal green companies can use green claims in online marketing advertisement text with the aim to recommend ways in which they can positively impact the purchase intention of environmentally friendly fashion products. Methodology: In this quantitative study, the data is analysed through correlations, after which significant difference

Title: Making sense of Sustainability-oriented Innovations in the Front-End of Innovation - A single case study on the role of organizational sensemaking for decision-making in the front-end of innovation Research Question: How is the decision-making in Front-End of Innovation (FEI) for Sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) influenced by an organization’s sensemaking to engage in SOI ideas? M

Bakgrund: Stressrelaterad ohälsa har ökat bland unga och de upplever sig ha svårighet i att hitta balans mellan olika aktiviteter. Inom vården är sjukskrivning och hög psykosocial belastning vanligt förekommande, vilket utgör en risk för unga vuxna som går ett gymnasialt vårdprogram. Syfte: Att kartlägga aktivitetsbalans respektive stress bland unga vuxna på ett gymnasialt vårdprogram och undersöBackground: Stress-related illness is increasing among young adults, who find it difficult to achieve a balance between everyday activities. Workplace environments in health and social care are often stressful, and sick leave is common. This poses a risk to young adults attending an upper secondary healthcare educational programme. Purpose: To identify the degree of occupational balance and stres

Thesis purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how Taiwanese brands can manage the country-of-origin effect on product evaluation in Lithuania. Methodology: This is a quantitative research based on primary data collected in Lithuania. An online survey was conducted and analyzed by applying the Paired-samples test and the One-way Anova method. Theoretical Perspective: Literature revie

Uppsatsen har som syfte att beskriva rättsutvecklingen i mål gällande F-skattsedeln genom en studie av rättsfall. Rättsfallsstudien ämnar svara på huruvida det förekommer avvikelser mellan de olika rättsinstansernas avgöranden. Uppsatsen är av beskrivande karaktär med analytiska inslag. En rättsanalytisk metod används för att besvara frågeställningen. Studien visar på viss diskrepans mellan instanThe thesis aims to describe the legal development in cases concerning the Swedish tax system “F-skatt” through a study of case law. The case law study intends to answer whether there are discrepancies between the decisions of the different courts in Sweden. The thesis is of a descriptive nature with analytical elements. A legal analysis method is used to answer the question of the thesis. The stud

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a commonly used industrial organism which cannot consume xylose naturally. This is a problem since xylose is a major component in renewable resources, for instance lignocellulose. The Weimberg pathway is a pathway that converts xylose into α-ketoglutarate. It has been successfully integrated into S. cerevisiae, enabling it to utilize xylose. The successful strain had th

Byggbranschen har länge varit, och är fortfarande, en mansdominerad bransch. I takt med att samhället har blivit mer medvetet om vikten av jämställdhet har byggbranschens ambition om att anställa fler kvinnor ökat (Hedman-Pétursson och Berggren, 2005). Utvecklingen går framåt vad gäller jämställdhet och en jämnare könsfördelning i byggindustrin, men den trenden återspeglas inte lika tydligt ute på

In the light of lean methodology, World Class Manufacturing requires continuous improvement in analyzing the losses to eliminate the wasteful resources and to boost the overall productivity. However, the standardized loss structure should be well-balanced to be general enough to cover the whole manufacturing procedure while being specific enough to point out the real issues happening for further i

This paper applied a broader, more diverse dataset to investigate whether match results still lead to abnormal returns and to identify which match factors are the most influential. Abnormal returns were measured using the market model and event studies for 23 teams during the 2016-2019 seasons. We confirmed that victories result in positive abnormal returns of 0.39% and draws/losses lead to negati

Titel: Konsumenters motivation till att återförsälja kläder. Nivå och kurs: Kandidatuppsats vid institutionen för service management och tjänstevetenskap, Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg. KSMK65 Examensarbete för kandidatexamen, VT2020, 15 HP. Författare: Emelie Olesen Handledare: Malin Andersson Inledning: I takt med att konsumenter konsumerar behöver de också göra sig av med föremål. Secon

The green bond market has grown immensely since 2013 and is projected to continue on this growth path in the future. There is no consensus surrounding the effect of green bonds on the issuing firms share price. The purpose of this study is to analyze and compare the effect the announcement of the issuement of green bonds and conventional bonds have on the issuing firm’s share price in Scandinavia.

Background: Scotland possesses the worst mortality outcomes and slowest improvement in life expectancy of Western Europe. Within Scotland, stark inequalities exist in both morbidity and mortality. There remains paucity in assessment of subnational variation in disease burden. Aim: This thesis explored geographical inequalities in burden of disease (BoD) across 32 Scottish authorities. Secondary an

Kampen mellan dyngbaggens solkompass och vindkompassen Att kunna orientera utifrån sin omgivning är viktigt för många djur över hela djurriket, inte minst för insekter. Hos dyngbaggar, vars föda är dynga, utförs en typ av orientering för att undvika konkurrens om mat; bibehållande av en rak kurs. När en dyngbagge har hittat en färsk dynghög formar den en boll av avföringen och rullar sedan iväg mThe ability to orient requires reliable cue information, and the primary cue used in straight-line orientation by the diurnal dung beetle Kheper lamarcki is the sun. It is previously known that the orientation precision of the dung beetle decreases at high solar elevations compared to lower elevations. In this study, the reliability of the sun compass was investigated in detail by testing the orie

People in Hong Kong continues to wrestle with the configuration of national identity and local distinctiveness, even though the fact of handover from the British to China was settled long ago. In the recent decade, several large-scale political protests have witnessed the hostile sentiments from Hong Kong people towards the central government and their shrinking attachments to the nation. The 2019

Under 2019 ägde världens största klimatdemonstration rum med den svenska klimataktivisten Greta Thunberg i fronten. Samtidigt meddelade den amerikanska presidenten Donald Trump att USA skulle dra sig ur Parisavtalet. Mediernas gestaltning påverkar samhällsdiskurser och utgör därmed ett viktigt koncept inom strategisk kommunikation. Genom att undersöka 31 elektroniska nyhetsartiklar om när ThunbergIn 2019, the largest climate strike in human history took place, led by the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Around the same time, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, declared that the U.S. was to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. A central concept in strategic communication is how the media frames certain issues and thus influences public dialogue and soci

The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm value effect of the relative voting power between the minority blockholders and the largest shareholder in firms, and the excess voting rights relative to capital rights for minority blockholders. The Holdings database was used to collect detailed ownership data on a sample of 266 listed Swedish firms corresponding to 1 781 firm-year while finan

Given a discrete dynamical system T, one can ask what the time average of the system will be, that is, what is the average position of T^n(x) for large n? Birkhoff’s ergodic theorem, one of the most important results in ergodic theory, says that for an ergodic system on a finite measure space, the time average will in the limit as n -> infinity be equal to the space average for almost all initial

Under 1990-talet bröt den före detta socialistiska federala republiken Jugoslavien upp längs sina republikers gränser, till stor del på grund av en ekonomisk och politisk kris, liksom en ökning av nationalism och etniska spänningar. Där olika nationaliteter och etniska grupper kämpade för att samexistera, och olösta etniska, nationalistiska och religiösa problem steg upp till ytan - försökte en seDuring the 1990s, The Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke up along its republics' borders, largely due to an economic and political crisis, as well as a rise in nationalism and ethnic tensions. Where different nationalities and ethnic groups struggled to coexist, and unresolved ethnic, nationalistic and religious troubles were rising to the surface - a Serbian politician by t