The purpose of this study has been to look at four peoples life stories about their experiences of drug use over time as well as to share their individual attitudes, and possible experiences, of drug-related support and treatment. The life stories of these four people were collected through semi structured interviews, after which they were analyzed based on narrative aspects conveyed in their stor

In this thesis we test the performance of hedge funds against several fund specific variables, mainly fund size. As a measure of the hedge funds performance we employ both excess and risk-adjusted returns. The first part the thesis employs unbalanced panel regressions where hedge funds excess returns are run on several fund specific variables. In the second part several financial performance measu

This bachelor degree project started out with the question of how future transportation is going to look like and what steps we need to take to ensure that the combustion engine will be in the past. The changes we need to do is evident; electric vehicles are a fast-moving industry, and a global adoption is just a few years ahead. The biggest holdback for accepting electric vehicles is battery capa

The dissertation examines the underpricing of sponsor-backed (private equity backed and venture capital backed) and non-sponsor backed initial public offerings (IPOs) listed on all US stock exchanges between January 1997 and December 2017. The authors identify 403 PE-backed IPOs, 179 VC-backed IPOs and 1469 non-sponsor (non-PE and non-VC) backed IPOs. Evidence suggests that PE-backed firms are lar

At the time for the starting point of this master thesis, the Electrolux Healthy Home department where at a high extent looking into how a system of products that could communicate with one another could give the user a better experience in the home. Products that where looked into for coupling where for example an air purifier with a robotic vacuum-cleaner, maybe also coupled with any other

This paper examines which asset classes that has given the highest risk-adjusted returns during the period of 1914-2013, with a focus on financial crises. The portfolios have been produced by calculation and optimization of the Sharpe ratio as a measure of risk-adjusted returns. The analysis included Sweden, the U.S and Japan and consisted of 9 different asset classes: global stocks, domestic stoc

När vi letar efter exoplaneter finns det ett antal olika metoder för att hitta dem. Den mest framgångsrika är transitmetoden där ljusstyrkan hos en stjärna studeras under en längre tid. När en planet passerar mellan sin stjärna och en observatör kan en minsking i stjärnans ljusstyrka ses. Uppreras detta i regelbunda intervall kan slutsatsen att det finns en planet runt stjärnan dras. Genom att stuA transit is a phenomenon where a planet passes between its host star and an observer blocking out part of the light from the star. This decrease can be measured and used to gain information about the planet. The Kepler and TESS telescopes are examples of space telescopes using the transit method to detect exoplanets. For systems with more than one planet around the same star variations between th

This project was based on a thesis about how product semiotics and aesthetics has defined a design standard for many products. Hence the development for those products may have stagnated. The proj- ect began by researching different products and domains to see how designers throughout the years had “thought outside the box”, to then try to see how much I could push towards that direction. The fi

This thesis explores from a student perspective, which factors contribute to school satisfaction among Finnish high school students. The study focuses on two main areas: the student-teacher relationship and student interaction that contributes to classroom connectedness, since research confirm that the two of them correlate with school satisfaction

Human communication is both polysemiotic and multimodal; it is comprised of ensembles of representations from different semiotic systems in different sensory modalities. These semiotic systems, such as language, gestures, and pictures consist of signs and relations between signs, with system-specific affordances (Kendon, 2004; Zlatev, 2009; Sonesson, 2014). These systems all have their unique stor

In today’s world, where viewing television is one of the most prominent leisure activities, it is only natural that the scenes seen on the screen can have an impact on the image that people have of certain destinations. While film tourism is not a new phenomenon, it is relatively young in academic research and many aspects and perspectives are yet to be examined. This paper makes use of the stakeh

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s conception of Hungarian identity was set out to be revealed by observing twenty-five commemorative speeches delivered by him in the last sixteen years. The speeches were assessed through thematic narrative analysis. Research questions concerning (1) the use of historical narratives to strengthen national identity and prove the nation’s right to existence and

This paper revolves around two case studies. The purpose is to show how victims with different backgrounds are presented by Swedish news organizations. An analyze of twenty-nine news articles from two Swedish news sources, SVT (Swedish Television) and Expressen is done. The study used qualitive content analysis as a method. This method uses meaningful units, coding, categorization and thematizatio

The housing question has been a core societal issue for centuries. Since Engels (1988) intervened in the debate in 1872, housing has become increasingly central as a commodity in financialised capitalism. Hong Kong has experienced some of the most problems with housing, as it has been the most unaffordable place in the world eight years in a row (Demographia, 2018). Yet, there is more than unaffor

Clay as a craft material has fascinated me for a long time. It is a very versatile material that can be so smooth and ductile but also, after firing, extremely hard and strong. Why is this material, with all its characteristics not used as an architectural material more often? I started looking at ceramic materials in architecture and found that they are somewhat related to the act of waiting. In

Den bioanalytiska plattformen är en produkt skapad av CapSenze för att detektera, identifiera och kvantifiera antigen i olika typer av vätskor såsom virus i blod, eller narkotika i avloppsvatten. Den bioanalytiska plattformen består av en biosensor som används för att analysera vätska, ett flödessystem som transporterar vätskan och en webbapplikation som används för att styra biosensorn och för at

This study aims to describe and analyze the interaction between one section of the Swedish Red Cross and the Swedish state in forms of a municipality, in order to show how motivation within an interaction can be upheld and consumed. The study problematizes the cross-sectoral interaction of collaborative governance. The study is analyzed through Emerson, Nabatchi and Baloghs (2012) integrative fram