In response to the outbreak Global Financial Crisis and European Debt Crisis, major central banks took very accommodative monetary policy stances. By slashing interest rates to the zero-lower bound and introducing unconventional monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing they hoped to boost aggregate demand and inflation. This paper investigates the workings of QE, money creation, potentia

The present study aims to contribute to the research-practice gap debate by addressing the understudied managers’ perspective. Based on a theoretical framework, it incorporates the managers’ stance on four dimensions previously debated by scholars, namely perceived relevance of the research-practice gap, stakeholder relationships, reasons for the gap and research utilization. The small-scale explo

The biological age (BA) equation is a prediction model that utilizes an algorithm to combine various biological markers of ageing. This model has been used to assess the ageing process in a more precise way and may predict possible diseases better as compared with the chronological age (CA). Here study focus on predicting BA as deviation from healthy state of aging and treats CA as known and unkow

Exponering för naturliga element och miljöer har utifrån Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989) visat sig ha positiva effekter på upplevd återhämtning av förmågan till riktad uppmärksamhet. Tidigare forskning har däremot i liten utsträckning undersökt om och i så fall hur denna effekt påverkas när en miljö innehåller information från olika typer av miljöer. Ett experiment med upp

Marriage is closely tied to economic status, and delayed marriage is often a sign of poor economic conditions for younger people. After a century of decline, marriage rates in Ireland appeared to turn a corner in the 1930s. This study examines this apparent period of transition using census data and finds that in reality marriage rates for men engaged in agriculture continued to decline at least u

Många människor har idag en privat digital fotosamling, i molnet eller på en dator. Sådana samlingar är ofta bara kronologiskt sorterade, även om mer intelligenta lösningar som t.ex. ansiktsigenkänning allt oftare används för att skapa smarta strukturer. Ett annat sätt att göra en fotosamling mer dynamisk och intressant skulle kunna vara genom att föreslå semantiskt relaterade foton till det foto Many people today possess a private digital photo collection. Such collections are often just chronologically sorted. One way to make photo browsing more interesting would be to suggest semantically related photos to a currently viewed photo, and if, in addition, such a relationship could be justified in words, that would create extra value for the user. To find a solution to this problem, the ap

Industrial gas turbines are widely used in different applications. These can be divided into two main categories; power generation (PG) and mechanical drive (MD). To be able to predict the performance of the system, Siemens has during the years developed simulation models for both steady state and transient operation. These models are mainly designed for PG, so there is a need for new MD models. A

Steg 1: Sätt mål. Steg 2: Glöm dem inte! Sverige och världen står inför en stor utmaning. Klimatet håller på att förändras utöver vad som är naturligt och sannolikt står världens befolkning inför en drastisk förändring som kommer att påverka samhället. Det krävs en anpassning till de här förändringarna på internationell, nationell, regional och lokal nivå och den här studien fokuserar på en av måThis study has been conducted in cooperation with the County Administrative Board of Halland and the results will be used as input for the Board in the upcoming revision of their currently working energy- and climate strategy. The study shows the importance of goal formulation in goal-oriented documents, in this case energy- and climate strategies belonging to the different County Administrative B

För att skapa ett obrutet informationsflöde har studien konstaterat två bidragande faktorer. ICE-projektering är ett steg att kvalitetssäkra information mellan aktörerna samt korta svarstiderna. Det viktigaste med ICE-projektering är även att informationen blir tillgänglig för alla. Den andra faktorn är en välfungerade projektportal. Detta åstadkoms genom en tydlig mappstruktur och en tjänsteman s

In past years, the demand for an indirect extraction of respiration and the interest in a joint study of respiratory and cardiac systems represented the driving forces for the development of Electrocardiogram Derived Respiration (EDR) algorithms. The main advantage of them consists in deriving a sufficiently reliable surrogate respiratory signal by only exploiting the normal electrocardiogram (ECG

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how consumers relate to coffee, and what the consumption means to them. Existing research is demonstrating two contradictory perspectives of coffee as a mundane product. Due to the inconclusive research results this paper seeks to generate a more advanced understanding of how consumers relate to mundane coffee consumption as well as to understan

Cognitive decline and subsequent dementia are known to be prevalent in PD (Parkinson’s disease) however, recently olfactory deficits have been found to be present in the majority of PD patients. Findings indicate that they precede the motor symptoms and could therefore be used as early clinical markers for PD. The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive value of olfaction and CSF (

Sammanfattning E-handeln ökar i Sverige och med detta följer även de returer som sker inom e-handeln. Särskilt inom klädbranschen är returer höga och kan ligga på nivåer upp emot 50 %. Förutom påverkan av lönsamhet, kundnöjdhet och lojalitet så kan returer leda till miljöpåverkan vilket resulterar i ett intresse att minska returerna. Forskning om hur företagen och konsumenter ser på returernas och

Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka vilken betydelse individer tillskriver olika orter, samt vilken inverkan deras sociala kontaktnät har för känslan av tillhörighet till både den ursprungliga och nuvarande orten. I studien inkluderas åtta informanter vilka flyttat från sin hemort till en ny bostadsort. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer tolkar dessa individer i retroperspektiv de olika orterna, der

Reformationen var en period av förändring, av vilka några hade stora konsekvenser. De förändringar som reformationen bidrog till var av många slag: politiska, teologiska, liturgiska och estetiska. Även kyrkorummet förändrades. Det finns några allmänna uppfattningar om vad detta innebar, men också en del förvirring. Syftet med denna uppsats är därför att förklara och genom mina begrepp "destruThe Reformation was a time of change, some of which had great consequences. The changes that the Reformation cause are of many kinds: political, theological, liturgical and aesthetic. Even the church room changed. There are some general perceptions of what this meant but also a lot of confusion. The purpose of this essay is, therefore, to explain and, through my concepts of "destruction"

This paper follows changes in US banking practices since financial growth de-coupled from the real economy in 1970s, a phenomenon referred to as financialisation in post-Keynesian and Marxian literature. It is argued that financialisation is a consequence of decades of financial deregulation and neoliberal policies, that has given rise to shareholder value-oriented management structures and comple

The thesis sets out to investigate how collective mourning on social media is perceived by online audiences and what motivates their participation in it. It is centered around examining the aftermath of the Beirut and Paris attacks in 2015 and how mourning and solidarity was constructed online in their aftermath. The closeness in time of the two attacks illustrates the differences between how the

The rise of private firms was vital for China’s coastal economic development, and this institutional change should play an essential role if the country wants to replicate its successes elsewhere. The first testing ground for such replication is the Go West Program. Aimed at the catching up of China’s interior, the program uses the city of Chongqing as a growth pole. Based on the coastal experienc

Hur ska en framgångsrik mobil applikation egentligen se ut? Ska de ha många funktioner eller bara har det mest essentiella? Ett exklusivt utseende eller ett enkelt? Detta projekts mål är att ta reda på svaren till dessa frågor och många fler. Målet är att utifrån detta designa en mobil applikation till ett e-handel system, som effektivt får användare att förstå och kunna köpa produkter i en e-hanHow should a successful mobile application look? Should it have many features or only the most essential. An exclusive look, or simple and clean? In this project these questions will be answered. The goal is to design a mobile application to an e-commerce system, which efficiently makes the user understand and be able to buy in the e-commerce shop. Also understand how the users think the first tim

Sophisticated ecosystem models make it possible to evaluate the potential future changes of the carbon sequestration capacity of the terrestrial biosphere, as a response to the rapid environmental and climatic changes. Accuracy of model estimates is however strongly dependent on the parametrisation of driving parameters. A previous study of Wang et al. (2012) suggests, that the knowledge of the re