The aim of this study was to examine the feelings experienced by family members of someone with a substance abuse. A qualitative approach has been used and the study was based on five autobiographical books, written by Swedish authors, both female and male. The focus was the authors’ described narrative, experiences and behaviors. The empirical material was analyzed using a gender perspective and

When a victim is in need, people are less likely to help when there are other persons present. In general, this means that the probability of helping decreases in negative correlation to the number of bystanders affected. In social psychology literature, researchers refer to this phenomenon as the individual Bystander Effect. From another perspective, the decreased probability for the victim to re

We live in a busy world, where the demand of ready-to-eat (RTE) salad products has increased rapidly in a relatively short time. Despite of being an easy and fast way to add more vegetables to the daily diet, RTE salads have a serious underlying risk and the amount of vegetable-derived foodborne disease outbreaks has been increasing. The aim of the present study is to protect plants against contam

Recognising the macroeconomic importance of private consumption, this thesis aims at examining possible forces that drive changes the level of households’ consumption. I do so by analysing the relationship of housing wealth, financial wealth, and consumption of households in Sweden in the short and long run. Using an M-TAR approach I find evidence for cointegration of these variables. Housing weal

I evaluate a total of 204 U.S. equity mutual funds split into one major group and one additional group for the time period 2002-2016. The major group consists of the ten largest U.S. mutual fund families based on AUM while the additional group consists of a sample of the remaining operative U.S. mutual fund families. The major group manages 58% of U.S. mutual fund supply, thus indicating a non-com

This thesis analyses price relations in Malaysian energy and agricultural markets. In partic- ular interactions among prices for biodiesel, palm oil and crude oil were studied. The levels of the series are modeled by a standard vector autoregression set-up in combination with an impulse response analysis. A multivariate GARCH was utilized for identifying possible correlations among the volatilitie

This study attempts to highlight the importance of friendship in young adulthood, motivated by a curiosity of a lack of sociological attention. This is done by exploring concepts of modernity including individualism and the formation of identity. Objective: The research attempts the answer the questions: 1) how can the importance of friendship in young adulthood be understood, 2) how is the emotio

Metropolitan cities are increasingly becoming the undisputed centers of growth and innovation. This thesis investigates the driving forces of urban growth and innovation in the Swedish metropolitan cities from the 1980’s and onwards through a mixed method case study. The theories of Richard Florida, Enrico Moretti and Edward Glaeser are used to form three hypotheses of how cities attract high-skil

This thesis explores the links between China’s demand for foreign exchange reserves and the political economy aspects of China’s monetary policy framework since the start of reforms in 1978. In a single-country approach focused on China, this study combines an assessment of the politico-economic factors that may have influenced China’s demand for foreign exchange reserves with a cointegration anal

The purpose of the thesis relates to the Quality anomaly observed in the US equity market, where stocks with Quality characteristics tend to outperform and have higher risk adjusted returns. By dissecting the Quality anomaly, the thesis aims to analyze the drivers of the over performance of Quality and investigate the presence of a systematic Quality premium. From previous research, three areas ha

Vi bor i Vintergatan, en av Universums många galaxer. Men hur bildades den, och alla andra galaxer vi kan se genom våra teleskop? Rådande teorier hävdar att för många miljarder år sedan, när Universum var ungt, bildades först små dvärggalaxer, som sedan slogs ihop till att bilda stora galaxer såsom Vintergatan. Men många detaljer i den här processen är fortfarande oklara. Därför vill vi titta på sIn this project aperture photometry has been performed for stars in the direction of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo II. The observations were carried out using the Stro ̈mgren filters v, b and y, during three consecutive nights in 2003, out of which all but the first one turned out to be non-photometric. The data was reduced and calibrated (using the metallicity calibration of Calamida et al. (20

This thesis takes its outset in the newly coined expression ‘Hell Joseon’ used by the youth in South Korea. ‘Hell Joseon’ is a comparison between today’s society and the pre-modern Joseon Dynasty. By asking “what are the main characteristics of life in ‘Hell Joseon’ from a youth perspective?”, I arrive at the following conclusion. Life in ‘Hell Joseon’ is highly characterized by discrepancies betw

En människa exponeras och angrips varje dag av virus och bakterier och immunförsvaret skyddar oss från dessa angrepp. Immunförsvaret utgörs av vita blodkroppar som bildas i benmärgen och sprids vidare ut i kroppen. De vita blodkropparna finns i många olika varianter och varje variant har en specifik uppgift. Lymfocyter är en typ av vita blodkroppar och kan dela in i två huvudgrupper: Blymfocyter oToday antibodies are an important part in the treatment of diseases such as cancer and Guillain–Barré syndrome. It is of course important to be able to regulate the levels of the antibodies in the treatment. In this study a general method for antibody production were investigated. The antibody construct was made for transportation out of the cell. Four different tagged variants of an antibody wer

In today’s society, traffic congestion is a major problem in several aspects. Apart from the obvious problem that people are losing valuable time due to the resulting delays, it also has negative impact on as well the economy as the local and global environment. With the development of sensors and navigation support, it has now become possible and thus of interest to study optimal routing of vehic

Bakgrund: sjukvården genomgår ett paradigmskifte där dagens sjukvårdsinrättningar har svårt att möta patienternas komplexa behov. Nya riktlinjer ska hjälpa till att stärka bevisen för evidensbaserad design (EBD) och mycket tyder för att enbart enkelsalar bör rekommenderas. Trots detta saknas omvårdnadsforskning inom området utifrån ett patientperspektiv. Syfte: studiens syfte var att undersöka pat

Autenticitet är ett begrepp som genomsyrar nutida musikvetenskap. Begreppet har flera innebörder. Denna kandidatuppsats använder autenticitet i betydelsen tidstrogenhet eller s.k. ljudande autenticitet. Arbetet är en studie av tradjazzfestivalen i Hällevik 2016 där sju orkestrar, enligt festivalprogrammet, har ambitionen att spela jazz så som man gjorde kring 1920 i USA. Uppsatsen besvarar frågan Authenticity is a concept that permeates contemporary musicology. The term has several meanings. In this bachelor thesis authenticity means fidelity to the time period or so-called sounding authenticity. The work is a study of the traditional jazz festival in Hällevik 2016 where seven bands, according to the festival programme, play jazz as it was played around the 1920’s in the US. The essay answ

Corruption is often compared to a double-edged sword. While acting as a “necessary evil” to avoid bureaucratic inefficiencies such as red tape to grease the wheels of commerce, there are many other studies expressing their concerns regarding the negative effects corruption has on growth. Based on previous empirical evidence and theories such as the “rent-seeking” theory that conceptualize the rela

Examensarbetets titel: Änglar och entreprenörer - En studie om värdeskapande och värdeappropriering i relationen mellan affärsänglar och entreprenörer Seminariedatum: 2017-06-02 Ämne/kurs: FEKH19 Examensuppsats Kandidatnivå, Företagsekonomi, 15 hp Författare: Johanna Jacobson, Ellen Olsson & Hedvig Winsa Handledare: Niklas Hallberg Nyckelord: Värdeskapande, värdeappropriering, affärsänglaTitle: Angels and Entrepreneurs - A study on value creation and value appropriation in the relationship between business angels and entrepreneurs Seminar date: 2017-06-02 Course: FEKH19, Bachelor Thesis, Business Administration, 15 University Credit Points (ECTS) Authors: Johanna Jacobson, Ellen Olsson & Hedvig Winsa Advisor: Niklas Hallberg Key words: Value creation, value appropriation,

Detta arbete kartlägger hur musiklärare undervisar i svensk folkmusik i grundskolan. I kapitlet om tidigare forskning berörs begreppet folkmusik samt folkmusikens historia och hur den ser ut idag, där ryms också ett avsnitt om genrens repertoar. Metoderna för undersökningen består av en kvantitativ enkät samt en fördjupande intervju. I resultatet presenteras den data som inkommit från enkätundersöThis study maps the teaching of Swedish folk music in elementary school. The literature review covers the history of Swedish folk music, the concept folk music and the repertoire within the genre. The methods of the study are a survey and an interview. The result of the national survey and the interview show how much space there is for Swedish folk music, what material the music teachers use, how

This study seeks to provide an up-to-date analysis of how fandom communities perceive the stadium naming rights phenomenon. In order to gather empirical material which includes both a hypothetical and a retrospective perspective, the research is comprised of two independent cases. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were the selected data collection methods, while the empirical data was an