This report was made in order to evaluate the safety of persons within the hotel Scandic Arvika in case of fire. Except for the hotel rooms, Scandic Arvika is also arranging conferences and festivities throughout the year. The building was constructed in 1815 and has since then been updated with several changes which have made the evacuation situation of the hotel complex, and therefore this is th

This study examines whether shareholders are sensitive to corporations corporate social responsibility announcements. Using the event study methodology and applying it to 234 events of 66 US publicly traded companies in the time period from 2011 to 2016, we try to answer the question whether it is worthwhile for companies to implement social responsible corporate activities into corporation policy

Strict deportation policies have emerged as an increasingly popular way for more developed countries to tackle the issue of irregular migration. Estimations tell us that more that 3 million Afghan refugees will be deported in 2017 and it is argued that such massive returns to Afghanistan, despite the ongoing and escalated conflict, will risk contributing to severe human right violations as well as

Designing for the best combination of channel codes and the decoding algorithm has always been a popular topic in channel coding. As a decoding algorithm for convolutional codes, Viterbi algorithm provides the most reliable performance with high complexity. List Viterbi algorithm(LVA) is an alternative solution to provide a good tradeoff between performance and complexity, and is widely used for h

Supported Iridium pincer complexes were used to study gas-phase isopropanol dehydrogenation under continuous flow system at temperatures 200-260 °C with different flow rates. First supported catalyst was [Ir(C2H4)(p-tBu2PO-tBu4POCOP)] supported by covalent bonding to silica, the second one was [Ir(HCl)(p-HO2C- tBu4POCOP)] supported by adsorption to γ-Alumina. The highest activity of catalyst 1 w

In this project I attempt to press custom electrodes from Sm and Co powder using two different pressing tools. I investigate if custom electrodes can generate nanoparticles with tailored properties using a spark discharge generator (SDG). Three different sources of the nanoparticle material will be considered, pressed Sm and Co powder, pure Sm and Co electrodes and alloyed SmCo made from demagneti

The starting point for the modern pornography that exists today was after the first Playboy magazine was released. The rapid spread showed that there was a market for this. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the debate on pornography in Sweden. The survey is done through a content analysis that will analyze eighteen different articles. The theories that are used are Andrea Dworkins theory o

This thesis examines how sustainability is prioritised politically and integrated in the Danish municipal primary and lower secondary education. It consults representatives from the Ministry of Education, the unicipality of Copenhagen and ten lower secondary education teachers about their perceptions of sustainability and education and their experiences with integration of sustainability education

Digital literacy has become increasingly important. It's often linked to concepts like the information society, which we use to understand the complex changes in ways we socially and economically organize and run society today. The public library is faced with the task of ensuring that the professional skills of their workforce are in line with what is expected – and also interpreting what is

Humans have always been fascinated with and collected fossils, regardless of any pre-existing knowledge of their ancient origins. But, there is very little research on the subject, especially in Swedish archaeology. This thesis explores the relationship between people and fossils in prehistoric Scania through contextual analysis and the affordances of different fossilized organisms. What is reveal

Bakgrund: Sömn utgör en stor del av livet och skapar förutsättningar för en fungerande vardag. Det är därför oroande att människor sover allt sämre och mindre. Det finns få arbetsterapeutiska studier som undersöker hur en bristfällig sömn inverkar på aktivitetsutförandet. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att kartlägga vilken kunskap som finns gällande sömn och dess inverkan på förmågan att delta i ak

Hur påverkar Autoimmune Regulator (AIRE) tumör-associerade makrofager i bröstcancer Bröstcancer är den näst vanligaste formen av cancer, med fler än två miljoner nya incidenter årligen, världen över. I dagsläget överlever de allra flesta som drabbas av bröstcancer om tumören upptäcks i tid. Men, överlevnadschansen beror också på vilken typ av bröstcancer man har, ty olika former av bröstcancer svThe involvement of the immune system in cancer has been shown to be of greater importance than earlier thought. Tumours’ ability to evade immune surveillance and initiating immune editing, are essential hallmarks in cancer development and progression. Recent findings in the group where I performed my master’s project, suggested presence of the protein Autoimmune Regulator (AIRE) in Tumour-associat

This bachelor thesis addresses women's trust in the Swedish judicial system in regard to sexual offences with the ultimate aim of detecting any differences in trust between the age groups of 18-21, 22-25 and 26-29 years old as well as district and city location and size. The outset for this was an internet-based survey, which was shared in two of the biggest Swedish Facebook groups for women.

När EKS 11 publicerades blev det krav på att i Br0-byggnader göra en särskild bedömning av byggnadsdelars skyddsbehov med avseende på deras bärförmåga vid brand för att avgöra om det föreligger ett utökat skyddsbehov för byggnadsdelarna. I de fall där det föreligger ett utökat skyddsbehov ökar de brandtekniska kraven som ställs på byggnadsdelarna, medan i de fall där det inte föreligger ett utökatThe aim of this thesis is to investigate which factors that should be taken into consideration in the assessment of extended fire safety for building components in building class Br0. Problem areas have been identified through a literature study in this field. To solve the identified problems, interviews have been carried out with the National board of Housing, Building and Planning (Boverket) and

Unemployment has always been a fiercely debated topic in the social debate. Today's modern welfare societies have social protection networks aimed at protecting and helping individuals who, for various reasons, have fallen outside the labor market. These safety nets are aimed at maintaining a reasonable standard of living. Financial aid is the pis aller of the social protection network to prev

This thesis uses quantitative data to understand to what extend the society is divided on key issues regarding unification and culture. The analysis is based on a theory of new nationalism in Korea that was developed to describe changing attitudes of the young students, that stands in contrast to the ethnic nationalistic student movements of the 20th century. The 2018 KINU Unification Survey serve

Over the last few years, the user-generated video-sharing online platform YouTube has been recognized by the academia as well as mainstream media as an arena for predominately rightwing political content, and radicalizing far-right extremism in particular. This thesis introduces and explores the construction of a new digital left in the left-wing phenomenon LeftTube on YouTube. Through using criti

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka organisationskultur och belysa hur kommunikation används för att bygga en stark organisationskultur. Fyra svenska organisationer som bevisligen har en stark organisationskultur med medarbetare som trivs, används som empiriskt exempel för att visa hur framgångsrikt kulturarbete kan förstås i praktiken. Studien presenterar, analyserar och jämför dessa organisatThis study aims to investigate organizational culture and illuminates how communication is used to build a strong organizational culture. Four Swedish companies with proven strong organizational culture and high degree of employee satisfaction, are used as empirical examples of how successful culture efforts can be understood in practice. The paper presents, analyzes and compares the culture effor

The impact natural catastrophes have on society has become increasingly costly in recent years. This has led to a higher need for financing, which has historically been provided by (re)insurance companies. However, as these costs are slowly becoming too large for them to bear, insurance-linked securities such as catastrophe (CAT) bonds have been created to spread this risk to capital markets. The