Restrictions of future employment in the form of non-compete agreements (agreements that restrict an employee from joining, forming, associating, or starting a competing firm) are commonly used in the American labor market. Yet their effects on entrepreneurship is not fully understood. Specifically, the relationship between non-competes and entry of firms is somewhat neglected. Therefore, an attem

Runtom i världen arbetar människorättsorganisationer för att fler ska åtnjuta sina mänskliga rättigheter. Att aktivitet resulterar i långsiktig förändring är av intresse dels för organisationen ifråga men även för finansiärer och målgrupper. Att mäta effekt av insatser har dock visat sig vara svårt. Mot bakgrund av det är syftet med uppsatsen att undersöka hur tre organisationer (Amnesty InternatiThroughout the world, human rights organizations are constantly working to ensure more and more people can utilize their inherent human rights. These global organizations, along with investors and target groups, strive for permanent results. However, measuring the impact of these organizations’ interventions has proven to be very difficult. Therefore, the purpose of this bachelor thesis is to inve

Under de senaste decennierna har rörelsefriheten för barn minskat. Föräldrar är mer oroliga för deras barns säkerhet idag än tidigare och antalet föräldrar som kör sina barn till skolan har ökat. Barns rörelsefrihet är viktig för deras utveckling både fysiskt och psykiskt. Barn har speciella behov avseende trafikmiljön om de ska kunna använda det självständigt. De kan inte hantera trafiksituationeThere has been a decline in the independent mobility of children over the last decades. Parents are more worried about the safety and security of their children and the number of parents driving their children to school has increased. The independent mobility of children is important for their development both physically and mentally. Children has special needs concerning the traffic environment i

I den här uppsatsen kartläggs utgivningen av ungdomslitteratur i Sverige under åren 2013 till och med 2017. Detta görs genom en kategorisering av de utgivna titlarna, som är hämtade från bibliotekskatalogen ELSA, utefter genre, kön på protagonist och kön på författare. Även ämnesorden som tillhör titlarna är räknade. Vidare analyseras materialet utifrån genusteorier om läsning och ett litteraturso

African exports that end up in other African countries today is less than 20%, a low value compared to that of Europe, Asia and America, all above 50%. However, these intra-African exports are more diversified than African exports reaching other continents. Specifically, it is comprised of higher quality goods that stimulate stronger and more stable economic growth. To capitalize on this, various

Under de senaste decennierna har produktionen av plast ökat exponentiellt. Mellan 1950 - 2015 har 8 300 miljoner ton plast producerats globalt, varav 6 300 miljoner ton beräknas ha blivit avfall. Av avfallet beräknas nio procent ha materialåtervunnits, 12 procent förbränts och 79 procent lämnats till deponi. Med samma avfallshantering och produktionstakt som idag skulle det innebära att ca 12 000 The majority of plastic packaging is not being recycled today, but burned for energy recovery or sent to landfill. This leads to vast losses of recyclable material, as well as elevated emissions of greenhouse gases from the extraction of fossil oil needed to sustain the production of new plastics. To be able take effective measures to increase recycling, causes of the low recycling levels first ha

Market and policy pressures increasingly demand a shift towards sustainable means of production; thereby, the inconclusive and long-standing debate between the impact of environmental efforts and economic performance at the firm level has never been so relevant. However, companies who seek to prioritize sustainability on their processes and outputs still need to focus on their financial returns.

The aim of this paper is to examine the influence that social control has on one’s tendency to obey the traffic regulations, in contrast to the new amendment in Swedish law from 2018 that states that it is no longer allowed to use a mobile phone while driving a vehicle. A combination of Emilé Durkheim's sociology and Talcott Parsons ideas regarding socialization laid the foundation for who and

The shape of a Belleville washer ring is optimized with the purpose of tailoring its mechanical response. The optimization is carried out using structural shape optimization with regards to large deformations. In order to accurately model boundaries, B-splines are utilized as they are closely related to the de facto-standard used in most of todays CAD systems. Furthermore, the structural analysis

Arabinoxylan (AX) is a dietary fibre linked to positive health effects. An oat mutant population was screened for AX content and oat lines in the range 3,63-12,4% AX and a mean of 7.5% were identified. The mean of reference oat variety Belinda was 8,05% AX. 15 potential oat AX biosynthetic genes from four different genes families (UAM, GT43, GT47, GT61) were identified. A selection of six genes id

This Master Thesis, executed in collaboration with Assa Abloy Entrance Systems, addresses issues and desirable features with the currently used floor guide, and several final concepts, in terms of short-term and mid-term solutions, are presented after following the product development process. The floor guide's main purpose is to keep the door leaves of an automatic sliding door running smooth

Vision Goggle is a concept smart eyewear that can remind user to use their eyes reasonably by detecting real-time eye condition. This project is aimed at people’s eye discomfort caused by prolonged computer use, especiallyfor the user who spend more than 2 hours a day on computers. The symptoms caused by long screen time are referred to as Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS), and the two most common o

Syftet med studien var att undersöka äldre hbtq+-personers upplevelser och hanteringsstrategier ur ett minoritetsstressperspektiv. Detta gjordes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio deltagare i åldern 62–80 år som på något sätt bröt mot cis-/eller heteronormen. Datan analyserades med hjälp av tematisk analys och resulterade i tre huvudteman: Ett liv i en föränderlig kontext: att vara hbtq+ dThe purpose of this study was to explore LGBTQ+ elders’ experiences and coping strategies from a minority stress perspective. This was done by conducting interviews with ten participants in the age of 62-80 years old who identified as a sexual or gender minority. The data was analysed with thematic analysis which resulted in three main themes: A life in an ever changing context: identifying as LGB

Bostadsmarknaden har genomgått flertal förändringar sedan 1990-talet och haft en positiv trend under 2000-talet. De senaste åren har marknaden för nyproducerade bostadsrätter förändrats på grund av kreditrestriktionerna som införts. Fastighetsutvecklare har svårare att hitta köpare som är villiga att teckna bindande förhandsavtal och det råder en viss osäkerhet på marknaden för nyproducerade bostaThe housing market in Sweden has had a positive trend since the 1990s. In recent years, the market for newly produced condominiums has changed due to credit restrictions enforced by new legislation. To sell condominiums for new production, binding preliminary contracts (in Swedish: förhandsavtal) and special tenure contracts (in Swedish: Upplåtelseavtal) are used. In those contracts the seller und

Species richness estimation is an ongoing difficult statistical problem. Most of the research done in this subject focuses on biological data even though, a lot of the methods can be applied more widely. In this paper, we will focus on technological data and compare different known estimators (both, parametric and non-parametric) to see how well they work and compare in determining the total number o

The tumour microenvironment in Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) is underexplored. Through advancing understanding, it would be possible to stratify patients to the optimal immunotherapy. To enable analysis of more complex phenotypes, compared to single immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining, the aim of this thesis was to evaluate the novel overlay-analysis tool in HALO® using diagnostic MCL. This novel mod

Lojalitet är en viktig beståndsdel i alla komplexare IT-outsourcingprojekt. I ett outsourcingförhållande där parterna inte agerar lojalt mot varandra kan relationen dem emellan störas vilket i sin tur kan leda till stora kostnader. Vested är en amerikansk modell för bl.a. komplexare outsourcingförfaranden i vilken lojaliteten mellan parterna särskilt betonas. Vested-modellen är ännu relativt oanväLoyalty is an important feature in a complex IT-outsourcing, without it the relationship will deteriorate eventually resulting in economic loss for both parties. Vested is an American loyalty centered cooperation model designed to be applied on complex outsourcing procedures. Vested is still relatively unknown in Sweden today, but the model can be predicted to surge in popularity in the future. T

Studiens syfte var att uppnå en ökad förståelse för hur beslutsfattande personal med erfarenhet från Migrationsverkets asylenhet, upplever att de förhåller sig till, påverkas av- samt hanterar arbetsrelaterade emotioner i förhållande till asylenhetens emotionsregim. Syftet var därmed att genom kvalitativa intervjuer undersöka hur personal förhåller sig till en sådan emotionsregim vilken reglerar a