The current fashion system known as Fast Fashion (FF) is responsible for severe environmental and social impacts. Fashion democratisation has increased consumers’ appetite for new trends, leading fashion companies to design an increasing number of collections per year. Manufacturing is outsourced to developing countries, where workers’ rights and working place regulations are hardly respected. Add

This paper examines the stability of Islamic banks and conventional banks during and after the recent global crisis by determining the impact of the crisis on the banks’ stability. This was accomplished by measuring the z-score (the stability measure) for both types, with 96 observations of 12 banks in 4 countries where both types of banks have significant market share. This analysis suggests that

Vid de flesta processer som innefattar insamlande av data kan det ibland uppstå problem som gör att all data inte samlas in korrekt. När detta händer uppstår det tomma platser i datan där värden saknas. Det finns många sätt att hantera dessa tomma platser och i många fall kan man bortse från dem. Om ett komplett dataset behövs för analys kan så kallade imputationsmetoder användas för att fylla i dImputation of data is the process of filling in missing values in an incomplete data set. Missing data is a common problem in many fields, not least in clinical research. This report aims to evaluate different methods for imputing missing data in health records of dialysis patients. The imputed data will, in a related project, be used to predict hospitalizations of dialysis patients. The hope is t

Den här uppsatsen undersökte vilka variabler som påverkar lån utfärdade på P2P-lånsplattformen Bondoras sannolikhet att gå i fallissemang. Tidigare har forskning visat att ett behov hos långivare finns om att bättre kunna använda information om låntagare för att förutse fallissemang. Genom regressionsanalys har uppsatsen identifierat olika variabler som kan förklara sannolikheten för fallissemang.

Vår värld kan beskrivas av hur fermioner interagerar via att utbyta bosoner. Fermioner är partiklar som utgör materias beståndsdelar, som till exempel elektroner, och bosoner är partiklar som till exempel fotoner (ljuspartiklar) som utbyts mellan laddade partiklar i elektromagnetisk växelverkan. Hur fermioner och bosoner uppför sig kan beskrivas med en kvantfältteori via hur olika fält interagerarThe equivalence of the sine-Gordon model and the massive Thirring model, (1+1) dimensional theories of a single scalar field respectively a single Dirac field, is derived by two alternative approaches. The equivalence is derived by a comparison of the perturbation expansions of the correlation functions of the theories around the corresponding massless theories. The alternative derivation of the e

Purpose - To investigate if the forensic accounting education offered by universities provides the knowledge and skills that are required by the forensic accounting profession. Methodology - First, a qualitative content analysis of curriculums, with a mix between a deductive and inductive approach, is conducted. Second, an inductive quantitative content analysis of job advertisements is administe

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate China’s role in global higher education. It did so through focusing the investigative lens on global student mobility. The thesis followed a mixedmethods case study design, using interviews with Nordic students about their motivations to illuminate some of the features of Chinese higher education in a global context. A framework drawing concepts from t

Financial intermediaries are ubiquitous in modern society and its impact have been exhaustively studied. A particularly vibrant field of research concerns the interrelationship between financial and economic development. While much research has been carried out on this topic, most only focus on narrow measures of both economic and financial development. Hence, this study assumes a wider approach b

Over the last decades Sweden’s archival institutions have taken a turn towards becoming open and modern cultural institutions with outreach work. This is especially noted in the City of Malmoe where Malmoe City Archives has undergone a heavy renewal and has among other things been relocated from the prosperous Western Harbour in the outskirts of the city to the more diverse inner city in Möllevång

The thesis investigates how multi-level governance can explain the actions of urban local authorities in the European refugee crisis between September 2015 to September 2016. The research is building on the increased role and empowerment of local authorities and the harmonisation of migration policy through Europeanisation. Looking specifically at the role of cities is crucial due to the asserted

This paper examines if a growing financial sector has a negative effect on economic growth by draining the rest of the economy on resources. By using data over the financial sector´s share of real capital, ICT-capital, high-skilled labour and gross value added for 15 OECD-countries between 1970 and 2005 a series of panel regressions give support to the hypothesis that the relationship between the

The aim of this study was to examine social workers experience on the Swedish statutory regulated program “contact family”. A contact family is a non-compulsory intervention to support children in families with social problems. The intervention contact family together with the intervention contact person is the most common non-compulsory intervention in the Swedish social service. The child lives

The aim of this study was to examine how adolescents reason about climate change and how they themselves perceive that climate change affects their emotions and social interactions. Climate change is one of the greatest issues of modern time and adolescents are the ones who to a higher extent will have to face the issue in the future. The present study is based on semi-structured interviews with s

The purpose of the study was to investigate school counselor’s reasoning’s about collaborations with social services regarding children who have been subjects to a report of concern from their schools. Children’s needs for support and help from the school is not limited to merely before a report of concern is made but also after. Therefore, it has been of interest to investigate what is done to en

The rights of the children : a formality or a reality? Incorporating the Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law This essay investigates the arguments for incorporating the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law through a discourse analysis. The empirical data for the analysis consists of the Swedish Government Official Report (SOU 2016:19) on the su

Emotional Strain - Social Workers Experience of their Psychosocial Working There has been a rise in work-related mental health issues that leave people sick and absent from work. This is especially true for people in social work and in municipal social services with exercise of public authority. The employer has the legal responsibility for a healthy work environment, yet the responsibility for t

Denna uppsats undersöker huvudsakligen vad som händer med anställningsvillkoren vid en verksamhetsövergång. De situationer vi fokuserar på är då båda parter är bundna av kollektiv- avtal samt då ingen part är bunden av kollektivavtal. En diskussion om vilka förutsättningar som ligger till grund för anställningsvillkorens övergång förs. Detta leder till en redogörelse för vilka undantag som finns oThis essay will mainly investigate what happens with the working conditions for employees during a transfer of undertaking. The focus revolves around getting an understanding of applicable law and investigating which protection the employees are entitled to. To investigate the answers to the questions, the legal dogmatic method is used. To achieve the purpose of this paper, it contains a definiti

Title: Virtual Influencing: Uncharted Frontier in the Uncanny Valley Date of the Seminar: 4th June 2020 Course: BUSN39 Degree Project in Global Marketing Authors: Mary Caroline Creasey and Adrián Vázquez Anido Supervisor: Burak Tunca Keywords: influencer marketing, virtual influencers, social media marketing, opinion leadership, brand spokespeople, brand spokes-characters, source credibilit

Denna uppsats undersöker översättning och lokalisering av dataspel för den svenska marknaden. Studien utförs mot bakgrund av att engelskan har en mycket stark ställning i Sverige och inom dataspelsgenren. Uppsatsen bygger på en korpus som består av 104 dataspel som har sålts i Sverige åren 2009-2015, vilka har hämtats från försäljningsstatistik som finns tillgänglig från organisationen Dataspelsbr

Uppsatsen undersöker om hållbarhet påverkar aktieportföljsavkastning. Genom att skapa tre diversifierade portföljer med Sveriges 116 största publika aktiebolag kategoriserade efter hållbarhetsmått - jämförs avkastningar mellan portföljerna och ett marknadsindex. Data som används baseras på månadsbasis över tioårsperioden 2007–2016. Baserat på avkastningarna beräknas riskjusterade avkastningsmått f