Intellectual property is a very important type of asset in today’s business world. Since business in the Western World grows increasingly based and dependent on know-how and technological development, intangible assets such as trademarks, copyrights and patents plausibly represent greater economic value to economic actors here than other, physical, assets do. Although it is comparatively unknown

Sorg och kriser har de senaste årtiondena fått en allt större plats i det offentliga rummet, och samtidigt har internetanvändandet kommit att ta en allt större roll i människors liv. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att studera hur sorgen efter en närståendes förtidiga död förmedlas och bearbetas genom bloggande. Detta gjordes utifrån en hermeneutisk modell där fem sörjandes bloggar analyserades

Today the tradition of bathing is often reduced to a necessity rather than one of re-laxation, and the development of the bathroom has been slow compared to other as-pects of a modern home. The object of this thesis is to develop a product, designed for the bathroom, which in some way or another emphasizes the impression of recreation. The product is devel-oped in collaboration with sandellsandbe

Today people put more and more time, effort and money into renovating and improving their homes. It is no longer only craftsmen that do the work, instead there is an up coming trend which shows that a lot of the work is done by the private consumers themselves. According to the present study, products that by tradition have been targeted to men should be marketed for women since this is the growin

The purpose of this thesis was to examine and analyze the power within institutional care for adult addicts. Questions which were raised concern the caregivers' approach to power, what power they use, the reactions they face and ultimately the strategies they use to legitimize the power towards clients. The method used was qualitative interviews with caregivers at treatment homes for adult add

Uppsatsen handlar om den ryska nyhetssändningen ”Vremya” och bygger på en komparativstudie med Kristian Gerners artikel ”Sovjet TV News: Sobornost Secularized” som publicerades 1985. Betoningen läggs på sätten att leverera nyheterna, maktsymbolerna och deras transformation de senaste 24 åren i nyhetssändningen ”Vremya”. Även myten om det stora fosterländska kriget och den 9 maj (Segerdagen) behand

Syftet med uppsatsen är att beskriva det eventuella gapet mellan lågprismatbutikers profil och image och undersöka vilka preferenser som finns mot livsmedelskedjor med lågprisinriktning för att minska gapet efter dessa preferenser. Studien visade att vid utebliven lönsamhet är det viktigt för företag att ta reda på konsumenternas image till företaget, vilka konsumenternas preferenser är för att se

Företag väljer att i allt större utsträckning arbeta i nätverk med andra företag, vilket ökar behovet av styrning över företagsgränser. Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och analysera hur det svenska företaget EPiServer utövar styrning på sina partnerföretag, det vill säga så kallad interorganisatorisk styrning. Vidare avser studien att bidra med ny kunskap inom interorganisatoriskt styrnin

This Master thesis treats development studies of an elevated light fixture from Pre study to prototype. The project is carried out in cooperation with Safegate Interna-tional AB and the Machine Design Department at the University of Lund. Throughout the project a combination of the methodologies, Ullrich and Eppinger’s “Product Design and Development” and Pahl and Beitz’s “Engineering design, a sy

The assignment, provided by Healthydrinks, was to develop a concept on an automat that delivered healthy drinks. According to a survey many believed the choice of beverage affected the health directly or indirectly and the majority would pay extra if the drink contained the recommended daily intake of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. This indicated that there was an interest in healthy drinks.

Today user involvement is seen as an important part of social work. One popular form or method of user involvement is called user council, or brukarråd in Swedish. With the user council method, representatives from different user organizations meet together on a regular basis with professionals and/or politicians in order to influence decision-making concerning general issues pertaining to users a

Despite the worldwide importance of entrepreneurship, economic research on this topic has been only fragmented so far. Therefore, the goal of this study was firstly to find a common ground between the established neoclassical, endogenous and institutional growth frameworks on the one hand and the entrepreneurial school on the other hand. For this purpose the distinctive models developed by Solow,

Eleverna i dagens skola är de som i morgon är framtida medborgarna i den demokrati vi idag har i Sverige. Därför är det viktigt att eleverna förstår vad det innebär och kan praktisera demokrati i samhället. Jag har valt att studera elevdemokratin på två gymnasieskolor i Malmö Stad och skillnaderna mellan dessa i förhållande till elevdemokrati och hur detta praktiseras samt anledningen till varför

In this thesis a problem in modern social order and the problem of the order are discussed. The aim of the thesis is to present a well-founded hypothesis regarding a problem in the modern society, by answering the question ”In which situation does the problem of the order remain unsolvable?” The problem of the order incorporates the difficulty in getting a large number of individuals to co-operate

Sustainable Development is a widely acknowledged term in today's society. However, because of its vagueness and varying definitions, it is also a very contested term. This essay will focus on the World Commission on Environment and Development’s (WCED) Brundtland Report of 1987, which is also known as 'Our Common Future'. The report's analysis seeks to examine the underlying ideolo

The overall purpose of this thesis is to examine the motivational factors and causal machanisms behind the Islamist radicalization taking place in Europe among European Muslims. The ontological position is influenced by causal realism, and I have a strategic-relational approach concerning structure and agency. The thesis is divided into three levels of analysis. On the first level of analysis I c

The end of the Cold War marked the ending of an era of a bipolar rivalry, but it also brought about a new set of challenges for policymakers and national intelligence agencies. One of these new challenges is sharing sensitive information with states and actors outside comfortable alliances, whilst countering a myriad of asymmetric, often low-level type of security threats. Implementation of intell

Uppsatsen presenterar resultatet av en egen enkätundersökning genomförd i två ukrainska städer – Lviv och Donetsk. Studien hade som mål att undersöka huruvida det verkligen finns två skilda nationella identiteter i västra och östra Ukraina och formulera de viktigaste aspekterna som ger uttryck för dem. I västra och östra Ukraina valdes två regioner ut mellan vilka den största konflikten anses före

Over the last decades the Swedish disability policy has changed from institutional to individual care. As a part of this transformation the government passed a National Disability Strategy in 2000. The aims of the strategy are: to improve the accessibility for persons with disabilities, to make the disability perspective a part of all sectors of society, and to improve the way persons with disabil