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In this paper, the effect hosting a mega sports event has on economic growth and the inflow of foreign direct investment is investigated over the period 1970 – 2016. This paper differentiates between six different mega sports events. Furthermore, it also investigates whether hosting mega sports events in developing countries has a different impact on economic growth and the inflow of foreign direc

Syfte: Syftet med följande studie var att undersöka hur talmotoriska markörer för taldyspraxi är applicerbara på en svenskspråkig population samt hur andra talkaraktäristika ter sig hos barn med misstänkt taldyspraxi. Metod: Transkriptioner och analyser genomfördes på 51 barn med misstänkt taldyspraxi i åldrarna 3;4 till 8;10 år utifrån audio-videoinspelningar. Analyserna berörde inventering av ta

Syfte: Studien undersökte om det fanns signifikanta skillnader mellan flickor och pojkars språkliga förmåga i årskurs två, i syfte att lyfta diskussionen kring sammansättning av normeringsgrupper för logopediskt testmaterial. Vidare undersöktes även korrelationen mellan testresultaten och deltagarnas ålder samt hur mycket kön, ålder och flerspråkighet kunde tänkas påverka variationen i deltagarnas

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how companies with an explicitly stated long-term investment strategy manage their capital in comparison to companies without such a statement. The research addresses the topic by analysing leading US companies in the following areas: Short-term vs. long-term perspectives, leverage, earnings & share price, capital structure and capital expenditures.

Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka om vårdnadshavares skattning av sina barns expressiva ordförråd samt barnens resultat på ett formigenkänningstest vid 20–24 månader kan förutsäga barnens expressiva och impressiva ordförråd 6–7 månader senare. Föreliggande studie är en uppföljning av en undersökning av Strahl (2017) som vid tillfälle 1 inhämtat data avseende formigenkänningsförmåga samt expressivt o

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how the phenomenon of brand personas with a story can be constructed and categorized by integrating literature theory, illustrated by case examples. There is a need for this type of study, as a profound knowledge gap exists in relation to brand personas, their stories and the creation of them as characters. Thus, the study is foundational and concep

Syfte: Denna pilotstudie hade som syfte att utveckla och testa ett nonordsrepetitionstest för svenskspråkiga barn i åldern 24-36 månader. Metod: I studien deltog 20 barn som rekryterades från förskolor. Barnen filmades då de testades med ett nytt framtaget nonordsrepetitionstest innehållande 18 stycken nonord, som hade en, två eller tre stavelser. Nonorden var anpassade efter barnens ålder och and

We show that an unsupervised artificial neural network can be trained to parameterize the set of N representable density matrices well enough to enable ground state energy calculations. A one-dimensional harmonic oscillator system is used to test the method. 4, 5, or 6 fermions are placed in an external potential. They interact with one of three different interaction types. By choosing the most su

This report consists of three main parts. The first part explores how the density of traffic on a road can be mathematically modeled as a partial differential equation: a relation between a function and its derivatives. The second part describes an algorithm which can find a numerical solution for the differential equation. This algorithm is used in the third part of the report where simulations a

More and more structural analyses today are being conducted with computer-based tools in comparison to traditional methods using hand calculations. The development, according to the Norweigan scientist Kolbein Bell is shifting from using first order analyses with correction factors, to using second order analyses, with computer-based tools. This dissertation mainly compares analyses of glulam colu

It is questionable how project management can aid an organization’s pursuit of achieving a sustained competitive advantage through innovation. Especially within the technology industry, organizations are facing increasing competition in today’s dynamic environment and are obligated to act in order to fulfill customers’ eagerness for innovative products. This research study is targeted at merging t

Cross-country data links good health status to an increase in wealth status (income levels) as evidenced by existing prevalence of rates of child morbidity and mortality in poorer settings. Essentially, Primary Health Care amongst other affordable health interventions is prioritized in most countries now. This thesis focuses on Ghana, to establish whether there exists an association between wealth

Describing many-body quantum systems has been an analytically and computationally challenging task since the advent of quantum mechanics. However, in the past 50 years as a result of our technological advancement and the emergence of methods such as density-functional theory (DFT), we have taken crucial steps forward regarding our ability to study and understand large quantum systems. In this work

This paper studies the relationship between contraceptive adoption by women and three relevant predictors: women’s education, empowerment and religious affiliation. I employ recent information on women’s characteristics and the institutional environment for six Latin American countries, in the years 2013-2015, to perform a cross-section analysis with binary and multinomial logistic regressions, ha

This research looks into the gender equality work of two IT companies in Sweden, examines what actions the companies pursue in their gender equality work, the level of management involvement and how that affects the outcome. In the IT industry, organizations are failing with retaining their female employees (Correll & Mackenzie, 2016). Further, stereotypes result in, e.g. the IT industry is se

Developing countries have undergone a process of rapid urbanization since the 1950s. However, some of them did not follow the “natural” path of urbanization, implying that additional factors also played an important role in the process of urbanization. This thesis examines common drivers of the urbanization process across countries in Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Thereby, it analyse

Abstract: Over the last decades, remittances have significantly gained in importance for developing countries. Using recent household data, this thesis assesses the impact of remittances on agricultural productivity for the case of Ghana. Accounting for sample selection bias and endogeneity concerns, an overall positive but modest impact of remittances emerges. Yet, this estimate discerns crucial

Currently, more than one billion people in the world is exposed to flooding and approximately 10 percent of them suffer its consequences every year. With the onset of climate change, the frequency of these events is likely to increase, and especially in Asia and Africa, where many of the global poor are located. One of the reasons why this is likely to present a challenge for poverty reduction is