The purpose of this study is to investigate the barriers of consumer adoption of digital technologies in retail stores. Specifically, this thesis examines the underlying reasons behind consumer reluctance towards the adoption of digital devices in retail stores and how to overcome this customer reluctance towards digital tools in retailing from a consumer perspective. Furthermore, the research ado

It has for long been undecided among critics whether Forster should be counted as belonging to the modernist literary tradition or not. This essay will analyse Howards End’s sea imagery, the notion of the sea when it is used as a symbol or in any other type of imagery. The sea when used as a symbol has several possible interpretations, and these interpretations have connection to the thoughts and

Commercial fishing makes the coastal inlet in Hornafjörður to an important navigational link for the port of Höfn in southeast Iceland. Low water depth caused through sediment accumulation along the ebb shoal generates navigational problems and the phenomenon of glacial rebound seems to intensify this problem. Economic losses caused by the inability of fishing boats to navigate through the coastal

In this thesis, the intrinsic magnetic characteristic of 10 nm FeCr oxide nanoparticles is studied. The nanoparticles is produced using the method of Spark discharge generation. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) is used to characterize the size distribution and coverage of deposited particle. Magnetic characterization is carried out using a magnetometer equipped with superconducting quantum inter

Insect monitoring has earlier been a manual, tedious and time consuming task that is impossible to do in real time. Thus there exists a need for a real time automatic insect monitoring system for counting and classifying insect for use in scientific research and pesticide spraying control. One approach to automatize this is using LIDAR to detect insects. In this thesis it has been explored how to d

I denna studie undersöks samspelet mellan distributionskedjans relationer och logistikaktiviteter. Syftet är att öka förståelsen för hur distributionskedjans relationer och logistikaktiviteterna ser ut och vilket samspel som finns mellan dem. Att kunna belysa vad som är unikt med relationerna och logistikaktiviteterna i en kedja som består av ett flertal aktörer. Frågorna som besvaras i denna stud

Title: Financial Behavior and the Momentum Strategy Seminar date: 2018-05-31 Course: FEKH89, Bachelor’s Degree Project in Financial Management, Business Administration, Undergraduate Level, 15 ECTS Authors: Emil Eliasson, Olle Josefsson, Fredrik Thörning Advisor: Maria Gårdängen Purpose: The authors of this thesis aim to study if it is possible to generate a better Sharpe ratio within the CAPM-th

This diploma project reclaims a soon-to-be expendable coal power plant in the heart of Helsinki and proposes a reuse idea for facilitating a multidisciplinary museum for Finnish visual arts, with an emphasis on spaces for learning and cultural growth.

Thanks to the Internet, User-generated translated (UGT) material has spread at an impressive rate. Not much research exists on the subject as of the writing of this thesis, since it is a relatively new field within Translation Studies. It is an interesting topic worth exploring nonetheless. This phenomenon began in the 1980s, where these fan-translations had to be done by manually changing the vid

Although health disparities among immigrants and natives has been researched quite extensively, the associations with acculturation and health require more attention, especially in Costa Rica where elderly immigrants have been increasing relatively for years and research is scarce. This study explores, with help of a longevity and aging survey (CRELES) and an ordered logit model, how this associat

ABSTRACT Background: Prediabetes is a global epidemic with rising prevalence rates, but its diagnosis based on traditional risk factors is challenging. Application of novel machine-intelligence based methods to public health databases could provide valuable insights into the disease process. Aim: To build predictive models to elucidate the determinants of prediabetes using machine learning algorit

The following study investigates subscription commerce, a new form of e-commerce which delivers boxes with diverse products to consumers in a periodical manner. Thereby, this work focuses on a special type of subscription commerce, namely curated subscriptions, implying that the content of each subscription box is unknown to consumers and adapted to their individual needs. Previous research has fo

The purpose of this master’s thesis project is to aid Thomson Reuters to forecast soil moisture, enhancing the agricultural productivity of its clients. This thesis focuses on testing the company’s HBV model (HBV-TR) to accurately produce daily soil moisture values in Brazil, France, and the U.S.A. The problem is that, up to this day, the most reliable monitoring of this soil water content is als

Existing literature on entrepreneurial learning and venture development within accelerators is limited to the perspective of the organisers of such programs. ost studies have been conducted on developed for high-tech ventures in commercial sectors. This paper aims to new insights into the start-up’s perception on skill development an accelerator for social entrepreneurship. Whil the need for socia

The conditions for identity formation are changing depending on where it’s presented and represented. Fashion is an important component when trying to communicate and create a social identity in today’s urban society which is characterized by consumption and media. This essay aims to examine in what way the transparent plastic bag can communicate our identity. By investigating and analyzing Instag

This thesis aims to perform a case study of a house concept by analyzing it with the help of any of the established green building certification systems that are currently on the market. The case study object for this thesis is KUNO, a house concept developed by Henrysson & Thulin. Between 2017 and 2018 14 KUNO-houses are being built at Parallelltrapetsen in Ängelhom, and Henrysson & Thuli