Abstract Bachelor´s thesis in financial economics, Department of economics, School of economics and management, Lund. 15 ECTS, Fall 2010. Questions at issue - Will a portfolio composed with value stock outperform a portfolio composed consisting growth stocks between the years 1996-2009 on the Swedish stock market? - Will any of the portfolios create a risk adjusted excess return with comparison to

The purpose of this study was to examine social projects that use hip hop as a youth activity and illustrate how staff members in such projects can reason about the importance of hip hop. The investigation was limited to three social projects in Malmö Sweden, and the study was based on interviews. The aim was to answer the questions: ·How does the project staff legitimize hip hop as a youth activi

I denna rapport analyseras flödet i en QB600 mixer från QB-Food Tech. Rapporten behandlar två olika scenarion om två simuleringar vardera. Målet är att identifiera beteendet hos flödet vid olika val av turbinbladsvinklar och viskositet för flödesvolymen. Projektet innehåller både framtagning av CAD modell för mixern samt flödesanalys av denna. Modellen har ritats i Pro\Engineer och flödesanalysen

Human trafficking is a transnational phenomenon and it has been one of the most hotly debated issues in the development agenda for the last decade. This thesis focuses the attention on the phenomenon of women trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and takes as a case study the Republic of Albania. Albania has been, especially during the 90s, widely touched by the phenomenon, and since

Diskussionen om allmän kameraövervakning i förhållande till personlig integritet når ett djupare plan än de rent faktiska omständigheterna. Att en kamera sitter på husväggen kanske inte stör den förbipasserande just i det ögonblicket. Inte heller stör det kanske att de lokala livsmedelsaffärerna övervakar butikerna med kameror och bevarar materialet en tid. Den som inte har något att dölja behöverThe discussion about video surveillance in relation to privacy does not simply concern the outwardly apparent circumstances. A camera on the wall may not bother the passer by at that very moment, nor surveillance in the local supermarket or the fact that the pictures are saved for a period of time. It may be claimed that those individuals who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. However, it

The purpose of this essay was to study power relations in social work and what happens when the client meets the system. The role of a social worker carries a two-sidedness, as to being a helper and a controller at the same time. Social work is often portrayed as an aid, and control and power is hidden. The study was done by looking into the care of adolescents with substance abuse problems. There

The aim of this work is to critically examine the multimodal aspect of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (the Rotterdam Rules), in order to determine if the Convention would, in practice, bring the long desired legal uniformity and an overall beneficial environment for the shipping industry. The focus is on the liability prov

Uppsatsen behandlar etnisk mångfald inom kommunal förvaltning, och har sin utgångspunkt i hur man genom ledarskap kan arbeta med etnisk mångfald inom organisationen. I inledning presenteras ämnet övergripande, för att i bakgrund sedan smalas av kring hur det idag arbetas med etnisk mångfald på olika nivåer. Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga chefers inställning till etnisk mångfald, vilket ligg

The aim of the study was to highlight the situation of children with disabilities. Previous research shows that these children are more vulnerable to different types of abuse than other children. Several studies show, due to the large number of unreported cases, that society is ill-equipped to detect cases of abuse against children with disabilities. The purpose of this study was also to examine h

Abstract This study aims to get an insight into the complex relation between welfare payments and social guilt and shame, asking questions about different evaluations of the experience of receiving economic support from the state. In what situations related to social assistance do guilt and shame become observable? Which are the experienced positive social effects from income support? The study wa

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the genuine problems face by female teacher of Govt. Girls Primary schools and Federal Community Girl Primary School in F.R Peshawar. The main theme of this study is to investigate female teachers’ work related issues in government primary schools and federal community schools?, also what are the available facilities to female teaching staff at g

How can national human rights institutions (NHRIs) socialize international norms of the rights of women migrant workers in a gendered manner? This is the main question of the thesis. With the thesis, I contribute to the theory on human rights norms socialization by shifting the highlight from states and transnational advocacy networks to NHRIs. By integrating a feminist perspective, I enrich the t

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the preconditions for implementing a sustainable livestock sector in Pakistan during the period (1960-2002). This study examines the economic policies related with production structure, technology and infrastructure available for livestock producers. The production and consumption patterns of meat and milk are analyzed for investment opportunities. The role

The objective of this paper is to examine the possibility of predicting the recovery of a distressed firm into a turnaround based on its current financial situation and a set of variables that are considered of having a significant impact on the turnaround probability. To assess this problem 150 firms are used that were distressed at some point during the period 1991 to 2001. These firms were all

Syftet med vår studie är att studera hur ishockeyföreningars strategiska arbete stödjer deras verksamhetsidé. Därför vill vi studera hur ishockeyföreningars verksamhetsidé vuxit fram. Avslutningsvis vill vi identifiera svårigheter som föreligger strategiskt arbete i ishockeyföreningar. Utifrån en abduktiv och kvalitativ ansats har vi genomfört en fallstudie av fyra stycken ishockeyföreningar. Vi h

Denna uppsats huvudsyfte är att beskriva och analysera vilka faktorer som är avgörande för hur anställda mottar förändringsprocesser till följd av förvärv, samt hur ledningen kan påverka dessa faktorer för att få medarbetarna att arbeta som medkrafter till förändringarna. Syftet är även att utifrån analys av teori och empiri att bidra med ett framställt teoretiskt ramverk. Undersökningen har gjort

Syfte: Vårt primära syfte med denna uppsats är att analysera och beskriva hur CSR kan implementeras i den övergripande företagsstrategin. Ett delsyfte är även att analysera i vilken utsträckning det är möjligt för företag, som inte uppfattas verka för ett hållbart samhälle, att arbeta med CSR. För att empirisk kunna studera implementeringen av CSR ämnar vi att göra en fallstudie av ett företag, vi

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a form of wireless communication technology enabling data transfer by putting two devices close to each other. The main idea behind NFC is to integrate wireless payment and tag reading in mobile phones along with peer-to-peer communication. An example of the benefit with NFC peer-to-peer communication is that it gives the possibility to quickly set up a Bluetooth

The Single Molecule Spectroscopy Group at the department of Chemical Physics in the Chemical Centre of Lund University conducts research involving spectroscopy on single molecules of organic dyes. Fluorescence microscopy using a wide-field scheme has been used and such a scheme has many advantages such as full image capture at once when using a high sensitivity CCD or CMOS camera. Using different