This thesis provides insights regarding patentees’ motives to file and apply for patents. The respective motives are scrutinized in Austria, where interviews with patentees, as well as experts in this field were conducted. Furthermore, an extensive literature analysis provides an overview of motives identified in other international research projects. It got discernible that among the Austrian pat

This thesis draws upon social movement theory to explore the impact of the Ni Una Menos protest in Chile. In October 2016 thousands of people took the streets of the capital Santiago to protest the wave of recent femicides in Chile. The Ni Una Menos protest gained widespread attention and mobilized activists from all divisions in the women’s movement. The material of this case study was gathered t

Föreliggande uppsats undersöker översättning mellan svenska och engelska av språkhandlingsmarkören please, vilken är knuten till språkhandlingen request och i detta språkpar utgör vad Tirkkonen-Condit (2004) benämner unik enhet. Undersökningen avser att svara på vilken effekt språkhandlingsmarkörens status som unik enhet kan få på språkhandlingsassociationer i översättningen av dialoger. Materiale

In August of 2017, Chile lifted its total ban on abortion that had been in effect since 1989. The new abortion laws allow women to access safe and legal abortion in cases of incest, fatal fetal impairment or if pregnancy is threatening the life of the mother. This research will put focus on the process that led to the amendment of the Chilean abortion laws and will primarily strive to enhance the

ABSTRACT I detta arbete kommer det att belysas hur självbilden påverkas av grupper inom sociala medier på facebook. Syftet med uppsatsen är att genom intervjuer med några kvinnor från en tjejgrupp på facebook försöka bidra samt förklara hur dessa kvinnor framställer sig själva och hur medlemmarnas självbild påverkas utifrån andras framställning. Följande frågor har vi avgränsat oss till: Hur frams

Inspired by what appears to be a nationalist turn in cultural policy-making across Europe, this thesis is concerned with the recent upsurge in the canonisation of Danish culture as it seems to somewhat contradict the cultural policy priorities pursued by the supranational and intergovernmental bodies of which Denmark is a member. The purpose of the research is to investigate how collective identit

This thesis examines the recently implemented Swedish airline tax. It focuses on two areas surrounding the tax. The first being the dual objectives of increasing efficiency by internalizing the climate externality of aviation and reducing emissions to aid in the completion of Swedish climate goals. The second being the effect of the tax in relation to those objectives. Elasticity estimates for air

Gender Studies departments have struggled to legitimize their own space in the Swedish academia from 70´s. Even when the institutionalization of Gender Studies can be told as a success story, its departments continue to be quite paradoxical spaces in the academia, where the feminist oppositional tendency seems to collide with academic standards and requirements. Additionally, this clash is aggrava

The aim of this study has been to investigate how treatment staff perceive and relate to gender in everyday institutional practice. Throughout my study I examine how the treatment that aims at creating change and normalizing the young clients can be expressed on the basis of a gendertheoretical approach. My ambition has been to make it visible how the staff perceive and make gender in an instituti

Detecting lies is crucial in numerous contexts, including situations in which individuals do not communicate in their native language. This study investigated the influence of nonnative language use on lie detection in written statements. An online study prompted 100 native English speakers, referred to as judges, to assess the veracity of truthful and fabricated accounts of job experience written

The Danes’ have the highest municipal waste generation per capita in the European Union and it is estimated that 40% of residual waste is biowaste. Fortunately, it is possible to address environmental pressures and counteract resource loss from incineration by the process of bio-gasification of collected biowaste in Denmark. However, despite efforts to reduce barriers of convenience and accessibil

This thesis analyses development patterns in the BRICS from a long term perspective by focusing on key issues such as economic specialisation, GDP growth contribution and growth patterns. Moreover, it is also featured a discussion regarding human development indicators. In essence, this approach provides a thorough overview of the process of economic development in the countries analysed. Regardin

The purpose of this study is to gain insights on what evokes consumer trust for (environmental) sustainability communication and shed light on how this trust impacts consumers’ perception of sustainability. A literature review and qualitative data collection, combining four focus groups and nine interviews, were the basis for a discussion on this topic. This study found that what evokes trust in s

The purpose of this study is to reveal and enable a deeper understanding and provide a more refined view on the intersections of employer branding, and (dis)identification, through the empirical focus on Millennials, based in the hospitality context. This is investigated by asking two research questions: “how is the employer brand presented to Millennials in Hotels International?” and “how is the

Denna studie syftar till att öka kunskapen kring hur reklam med icke-stereotypa porträtt av mansrollen upplevs av unga män (16-24 år). Vidare syftar den till att undersöka relationen mellan dessa porträtt och dess avsändare genom att belysa hur varumärket bakom reklamen påverkar upplevelsen. Då tidigare studier främst fokuserat på kvinnors upplevelser av icke-stereotyp reklam bidrar denna studie mThe purpose of this paper is to increase the knowledge of how commercials depicting non-stereotypical portrayals of the male role is experienced by young men (16-24 years). The aim is also to investigate the relationship between these portrayals and their senders by shedding light on how the brands behind the commercials affects the experiences. Since previous studies mainly have focused on women’

Several researchers have investigated the relationship between credit risk and stock returns, but their findings are ambiguous. While some have found the anomalous relationship that investors pay a negative risk premium when investing in high credit risk stocks, others have presented opposing results. This non-consensus and intriguing results motivated us to further investigate this relationship b

The solar and thermal performance of window is subject to a wide range of parameters. To simulate the energy performance is therefore difficult, and limitations might occur depending on the complexity of each case. This study presents some of the current limitations related to the assessment of window considering solar and thermal performance into the policy framework (standards, regulations and c

Detta examensarbete ämnar undersöka en effektiv Asset and Liability Management (ALM) metod under Solvency II direktiv, med m˚alsättningen att etablera ett optimeringsramverk som hanterar komplexa interaktioner mellan tillg˚ang- och skuldsida. En stokastisk simuleringsmetod kallad least-squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) implementeras för att skatta en proxy funktion för framtida nettotillg˚angsvärden. LSMThis thesis aims to examine an efficient asset and liability management method under Solvency II regulations, and to find an optimization framework that takes complex interactions between assets and liabilities into account. The investigated approach consists of a least-squares Monte Carlo method, where least-squares regression is used to obtain a proxy function for future net asset values. A fair

Saving vultures from extinction: everyone’s business The eminent naturalist Charles Darwin once said vultures were “disgusting”. Well, we cannot argue that they are as cute as fur seals or cheetah puppies. However, these birds have an essential role in nature that needs to be preserved because, in fact, it ultimately benefits us. Vultures eat dead animals, either fresh or putrefied, and in that w

I en tid med hårdare konkurrens än någonsin, är det viktigt att hitta vägar att sticka ut. I ett tidigare projekt i samarbete med ledande kartong- och förpackningstillverkaren Smurfit Kappa AB utvecklades en display för gemensam exponering av kylda och icke kylda varor i livsmedelsbutiker. Systemet bestod av en modul kyld med peltierelement placerad i en golvstående kartongdisplay. Detta examensa