With the urban population growing exponentially the challenges associated with urban development are numerous. The urban heat island effect, rising energy demands and floods are only a few of the problems that large cities face today. With climate change it is becoming urgent to build climate smart cities. The objective of this research project is to identify how the design of a city, based on the

As trade liberalisation has become somewhat of a trend in the global trade environment, developing countries suffer from losses in government revenue due to continuously lowering of tariff rates. Trade facilitation could be an effective way of boosting trade, without having to reduce tariffs which could further lead to an increase in tariff revenue. This paper investigates the likely effects of tr

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att med utgångspunkt i kvinnors egna upplevelser studera hur kvinnor kan tänkas påverkas av och förhålla sig till normer och föreställningar relaterade till graviditet, förlossning och föräldraskap. Hur påverkas kvinnornas subjektspositioner då de utsätts för andra aktörers försök att utöva auktoritet och hur förhåller sig kvinnorna till sin omvärld, sitt föräldrask

This paper aims to explore Swedish Generation Y consumer perceptions of organic wine in Sweden and utilize the means end concept to probe young consumer motivations and goals toward organic wine purchasing. To achieve the aim, mixed methods were used involves both qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative method used one-to-one in-depth laddering interview, and the quantitative method

Föreliggande studie undersöker om den riskjusterade avkastningen mellan en momentumstrategi och en passiv indexförvaltning skiljer sig åt. Studien undersöker även om några slutsatser angående marknadseffektivitet kan dras utifrån resultatet. Avgränsningar är gjorda till att endast studera Nasdaq OMX och dess tre listor: Large Cap, Mid Cap och Small Cap. Tidsperioden för undersökningen är 2009-2014

In this thesis, I examine changes within the feminist discourse on Christology. I seek to answer the questions ‘how can we understand the gender of Jesus Christ and how it does affect our salvation’? To answer the question, I make a comparison between what I propose are two generations of feminist theology. I first present the theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether. Ruether’s Sexism and God-Talk is

In the fall of 2015 a huge amount of refugees has come from the Middle East to Europe. Sweden is one of the countries that embraced a lot of these refugees. This study is inspired by the volunteers in a small community in the region of Dalsland were a new refugee housing (asylboende) was established the year before. The main question has been how this change has influenced the community in terms o

Titel: En studie om januarieffekten på Stockholmsbörsen Författare: Jonathan Björkman och Alexander Gårdemyr Handledare: Bujar Huskaj Bakgrund: Att spara och investera i aktier blir alltmer populärt. För många är tanken att få en så hög avkastning som möjligt och gärna slå index. Inom finansiell ekonomi finns en känd teori kallad den effektiva marknadshypotesen där man antar att marknaden är efTitle: A study about the January effect on the Stockholm Stock Exchange Authors: Jonathan Björkman and Alexander Gårdemyr Supervisor: Bujar Huskaj Background: Saving and investing in stocks is becoming increasingly popular. For most people investing in stocks, the main goal is to achieve the highest possible return, wishing to beat the index. In financial economics there’s one famous theory cal

Bakgrund: Övervikt och fetma ökar globalt och orsakar stort lidande, ett flertal följdsjukdomar samt stora samhällsekonomiska kostnader. Fysisk aktivitet är en viktig komponent i omvårdnadsarbetet vid övervikt och fetma. Fysisk inaktivitet orsakar idag många dödsfall. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att beskriva sjuksköterskans åtgärder för att öka fysisk aktivitet för vuxna personer med övervikt eller

This thesis studies the ways in which the concept of honor is presented in the novels The Time of the Hero (1962) by Mario Vargas Llosa and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) by Gabriel García Márquez. After defining what honor is, an investigation of how this concept is presented in the novels and the role it plays in these two literary works will take place. Also, the portrayal of honor in the

With a novel path index design, called the Shortcut Index, we partially solve the problem of executing traversal queries on dense neighborhoods in a graph database. We implement our design on top of the graph database Neo4j but it could be used for any graph database that uses the labeled property graph model. By using a B+ tree, the Shortcut Index can achieve what we call neighborhood locality a

This study is concerned with the subject of the resource curse. When countries discover significant natural resource reserves they counterintuitively exhibit dropping growth rates despite its high world market price. Several researchers have studied this phenomenon and labelled it the “resource curse”. They have tracked it to a number of causes, including how massive mineral windfalls affect the p

The main goal of this master thesis project was to take a manually controlled consumer quality quadrocopter and build the foundations which allows it to be autonomously controlled. This was achieved by introducing a exterior frame of reference through the use of a webcam coupled with image analysis algorithms. The position and rotation of the quadrocopter was identified, and several control struct

Since the Washington consensus in the 1980s, economic liberalization has been seen as a panacea for increasing the economic development and the welfare of a developing country. By reducing trade tariffs and barriers, moving from a socialistic economic system and removing state monopoly on major exports, it is believed that a developing country will increase its income and economic growth while ben

Uppsatsens titel: Ekonomiska resursers påverkan på elevers prestationer - En jämförande studie av de svenska och finska skolsystemens resursallokering. Datum: 11 januari 2016 Kurs: FEKH69, Examensarbete i redovisning, 15 HP Författare: Emil Blomberg, David Malmgren och Martin Rudolfsson Handledare: Peter W Jönsson Nyckelord: Resursallokering, kostnadseffektivitet, grundskolan, utbildning, jämförelTitle: The impact of economic resources on pupil performance - A comparative study of the Swedish and Finnish education systems’ resource allocation. Date: January 11th, 2016 Course: FEKH69, Bachelor thesis in Business Administration Authors: Emil Blomberg, David Malmgren och Martin Rudolfsson Advisor: Peter W Jönsson Key words: Resource allocation, cost-effectiveness, compulsory school, education

The goal of condition-based maintenance (CBM) is to base the decisions whether or not to perform maintenance on information collected from the machine or component of interest. A condition-based maintenance tool should be able to diagnose if the component of interest is in a state of failure but the ultimate goal of a CBM tool is to be able to estimate time until failure, either in terms of remain

Denna uppsats undersöker hur vårt förhållande till krukväxter utifrån ett klassperspektiv kan spegla olika subjektspositioner. Syftet är att genom intervjuer med krukväxtägare visa på krukväxtens funktion i deras subjektspositionering. Materialet består av transkriberade intervjuer med sex olika informanter i deras hem. Till min hjälp att tolka materialet har jag använt mig av den franske kultursoThis paper examines how our relationship with potted plants from a class perspective can reflect different subject positions. The aim is that through interviews with houseplant owners show the function of the plant in the owners´ subject positioning. The material consists of transcribed interviews with six informants in their home. To my help to interpret the material I have been using the French