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Vinna eller försvinna - Kampen om konsumenters förtroende på en omreglerad marknad

Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka förståelsen om konsumenters förtroende för en tjänsteverksamhet till följd av en omreglering. För att kunna besvara detta syfte kommer följande två frågeställningar besvaras; > Vad påverkar konsumenters förtroende för en apoteksverksamhet? > Och hur uttrycks detta hos konsumenter? Metod: Uppsatsen tillämpar en genomgående kvalitativ ansats där en abduktiv m

Bränn skogen - låt den leva : identifiering av potentiella områden för kontrollerad naturvårdsbränning på Gotland med hjälp av Geografiskt Informationssystem

Följande uppsats är skriven på uppdrag av Länsstyrelsen i Gotlands län med syfte att tillämpa GIS för att identifiera lämpliga områden för kontrollerad naturvårdsbränning. Skogsbränder, både naturliga och antropogena, har historiskt varit en frekvent närvarande störningsregim i den svenska skogen. Branden har bidragit till att skapa stora delar av de strukturer och den biologiska mångfald som finnThis study was conducted on behalf of the county administrative board of Gotland, with the aim of using Geographical Information systems to identify protected forest areas where controlled fires would be suitable to incorporate in management plans. Forest fire, being both a natural and cultural phenomenon has historically been a frequently recurrent disturbance regime in the boreal and boreonemora

Subjective Image Quality Evaluation Using the Softcopy Quality Ruler Method

Image quality is in essence based on subjective experience, and the involvement of human subjects is therefore necessary in one way or the other in order to make reliable assessments of it. This topic is of interest for Axis Communications AB -- the market leader in surveillance cameras. In this thesis, the softcopy quality ruler method described in ISO 20462 is evaluated through a study of one s

Personality and information use in fish: bolder crucian carps learn faster

Popular science summary: Bolder the brighter – personality affects learning performance in crucian carp Just as humans, many animals have a personality. For example some individuals are more prone to take risks – they are bold, while others prefer to play it safe – being shy. Bold animals increase their risk of being attacked by a predator but may also receive higher gains by being first to a foAbstract Gathering information about the environment is crucial to living organisms as it makes up the foundation upon which decisions are made. In a diverse environment a huge amount of information sources arise. An individual can choose to follow other’s decision (social information use) or to gather its’ own information. Which sources are used and how well they are perceived vary between indi

Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates, A comparison between forecasting horizons and Bayesian vs. Frequentist approaches

Forecasting foreign exchange rates and financial asset prices in general is a hard task. The best model has often been shown to be a simple random walk, which implies that the price movements are unpredictable. In this thesis models that have been somewhat successful in the past are developed and investigated for different forecasting horizons. The aim is to find models that significantly dominate

The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Capital Markets- Case of Canada and U.S FTA, Sector Level Study.

Transitional economies tend to see trade liberalization and capital reforms hand in hand. The main goal or aim for lawmakers is to maximize welfare effects when bringing trade and capital reforms within an economy. A nation gets greater access to international financial markets, which in turn attracts inflow of investments within economy. This newfound inflow of investments can also be attributed

"The relationship between Education and Fertility Rate, an analysis for Andean Countries"

One of the topics that has generated discussions and focuses on demographic theory is undoubtedly the treatment of fertility rates, another important number of studies have incorporated different methods for measuring behaviors in count data, such as Poisson models, also used in the present document. On the other hand, by using panel data, we estimate a random effects model and evaluate the dete

Rollbaserad åtkomstkontroll inom organisationer - rätt åtkomst till rätt användare vid rätt tillfälle

The paper examines the extent to which role-based access control is used within organizations to control and assign access rights to users. Furthermore, this paper investigates whether organizations are aware of security risks that arise when users are assigned too many or incorrect access rights and the steps they take to reduce the problem. The survey was conducted through the collection of qual

Vi kallar dom white trash: En ny svensk underklass

This paper discusses what the transfer of white trash from the US to Sweden means; how did it happen, why did it happen and what are the swedish interpretation of the concept? The concept of white trash include both pride and dirt; it frames an anomaly composed of bad taste and a dangerous body. But it is also a subject of creating identities and making fun. The journey to Sweden should be seen in

Samhället och barnaga: en rättsociologisk fallstudie om det samhälleliga genomslaget av förbudet mot aga av barn

Whether a law implementation can be said to have had an social impact is largely dependent on if the law in question effected the minds of the people it was tasked to govern. Previous research of successful implementation of laws identify the importance of certain conditions to be present if a law is to be termed “successful”. A law implementation that has been recognized as having had a marked ef

Redesigning the Swedish VAT system – Room for Pareto improvements?

This paper investigates the characteristics and history of value added taxes. Many previous studies have focused on the theoretical implications of value added taxes; this paper differs in the method used as well as the phrasing of research question. This paper seeks out to answer whether a redesign of the current Value Added Tax system in Sweden could be a Pareto improvement. It looks at relevant

Decomposing Colour Structures into Multiplet Bases

In this thesis a method for decomposing QCD colour structures into multiplet bases is described. The method is applicable for any number of gluons and quarks. To achieve the decomposition requires the knowledge of group theoretical weights, so-called Wigner 3j and 6j coefficients. The number of required coefficients have been calculated for up to 12 external gluons, and been shown to scale well in

Forbearance Policy in an Asset Quality Review Framework

The big risk topic in recent years, in the nancial industry, has been about capital requirements. The nancial crisis in 2008 displayed several shortcoming regarding weak capital buers in banks. After that crisis big eorts have made sure that the capital buers have been improved drastically over Europe. Now another issue is starting to worry nancial regulators in Europe regarding the quality of ban

Tuning of Learning Algorithms for Use in Automated Product Recommendations

In this thesis, we study the problem of predicting users' media preferences based on their, as well as other users' historical rating data. The model used is that a user's rating for an item can be explained by a sum of bias terms and an inner product between two vectors in some multidimensional feature space that is specic to the product domain. This model is tted using a stochastic d

Two techniques for investigation of proteins and short-chain fatty acids of Lactobacillus plantarum in presence of galactooligosaccharides

Abstract The long-term aim of this project was to develop synbiotic drinks presenting food supplements with beneficial effects on human health. A synbiotic consists of a combination of probiotic bacteria and one or more prebiotics. For the part of the project that was covered by this Master thesis, a probiotic strain, Lactobacillus plantarum F44 and a prebiotic galactooligosaccharide (GOS) were t

Vi och Dem : en studie av Sydsvenskans etniska framställning

I det mångkulturella samhälle Sverige idag är, har dagstidningar en viktig roll i att spegla detta samhälle på ett korrekt sätt. Vi har intresserat oss för hur personer med annan etnicitet presenteras och hur ämnen som immigration och integration framställs i Sydsvenskan. Vi vill undersöka hur representationen ser ut och om den kan tänkas vara en bidragande orsak till vardagens problem, såsom disk

Svensk till varje pris?

Att inte få sina anspråk erkända på grund av brist på överensstämmelse med samhälleliga förväntningar är ett problem som står i rampljuset i denna studie. Studiens empiriska utgångspunkt är hämtad ur tv-serien ”Svenska till varje pris”, vilken visar åtta människor som deltar i en utbildning i ”Svenska för invandrare” (Sfi) med målet att slutföra den på åtta veckor. Syftet med uppsatsen är att unde

Kommunicerad närhet - en sociologisk undersökning av intimitetsskapande i icke-monogama relationer

Med utgångspunkt i den monogaminorm som är så gott som allrådande i det moderna samhället är syftet med denna undersökning att ta reda på hur intimitet skapas i relationer som går bortom denna norm. Sex personer som har erfarenhet av icke-monogama relationer intervjuas för att synliggöra hur överenskommelser, förväntningar och gränsdragningar bidrar till skapande av närhet och intimitet. Dessa ber