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How we choose to invest in the future generations is becoming increasingly imperative as researchers learn more about the long-term consequences of early childhood. The early-life literature suggests that empowered mothers invest more into their children and that matrilineal females are more empowered than patrilineal counterparts. To further understand the role of female empowerment on early chil
This study aims to investigate individuals' trust to informed valid consent on digital platforms and enlighten the relation between trust and communication. The research question of this study aims to answer what communicative elements an organization should take into account to communicate informed valid consent in a trustful manner. With a positivistic approach and through a variable-oriente
This paper aims to examine the experience of evil and suffering. In our daily lives we experience different kinds of evil and suffering, some that we cause ourselves and others and some that we cannot understand. We ask ourselves questions such as, why does this happen to me? And who can I count as responsible for this? In this paper the theologian K.E. Løgstrups thoughts on evil, suffering and ho
This thesis investigates methods that estimate the Expected Shortfall correctly by passing the Acerbi-Szekely (2014) backtest in both stressed and calm periods. This backtest is added to in this thesis to test against both under- and overestimation of ES. This research is relevant due to the recent shift in the Basel’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book from using Value-at-Risk as the leading
Det finns ett behov av att fylla kunskapsluckor gällande psykologiska konsekvenser av rasism för personer med arabiskt ursprung. Därför var syftet med denna studie att undersöka relationerna mellan rasism, stressymptom och copingstrategier hos palestinier. Studiens frågeställningar beaktade skillnader i upplevd rasism och stressymptom baserat på kön och land, och hur stor del av variansen i stress
I stället för att se barn som offer i kriser skulle man kunna använda deras anpassningsförmåga och förändringsvilja som resurser i krisberedskapsprocesserna. Ett sätt att öka samhällets motståndskraft kan vara att lägga till krisberedskap i skolans läroplan (s.k. School-based Disaster Preparedness, SBDP). Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka uppfattningar om SBDP i Sverige genom en fältstudieChildren are valuable resources when it comes to disaster preparedness and they should no longer be seen as vulnerable. Since they spend about five days a week in school for almost the whole year, it is natural to consider preparing them for hazards while there. The purpose of the present research is to explore the perceived importance and feasibility of implementing school-based disaster prepared
This study sheds light on the connection between collaborative design and the qualitative aspect of ideas in the front end of innovation. The purpose is to showcase how subjective factors within collaborative design have an influence on the quality of radical selected ideas. This research prevailed that mutual understanding of initial set requirements among actors positively impacted the specifici
Title: Climate Change as Experience - A Study on Climate- and Sustainability Communication in Museums Public perception on climate- and sustainability issues is shaped by how they are presented in media and by other communicative actors - like museums. This thesis explores how museum activities can increase public engagement and awareness on climate change and sustainability. The research has bee
It is beneficial for a furniture company like IKEA to objectively and accurately evaluate what makes a mattress comfortable. But what defines comfort? IKEA currently investigates mattress comfort through extensive real-life user testing. Through which, six parameters of comfort have been identified. By measuring these parameters, one can get an idea of how comfortable a particular person will find
Examensarbetet går ut på att analysera elsparkscykelns funktion utifrån de tre delarna som ingår i begreppet hållbarhet, ekonomisk, ekologisk och social. Då trafikslaget är relativt nytt i Sverige, är det många brister i reglering och kunskap kring elsparcykeln i landet. Syftet med examensarbetet är att fördjupa sig i de tre delarna som ingår i hållbarhetsbegreppet, för att i sin tur kunna analyseThe purpose with the thesis project is to analyse the function of E-scooters from the three parts that comes with sustainability, which is economic, environment and social sustainability. Because it is a new vehicle, it comes with a large amount of deficits when it comes to regulation and knowledge. To get a deeper awareness about the consequences is the reason why sustainability is applied in thi
This paper is about how journalists report on teen robbery. Theories like moral panic and problem frame will be used to see how the media works. Those theories will be combined with research on media and on how newspapers reported on an actual teen robbery wave in Sweden during 1998-2002. The study will investigate how journalists working for the paper GT reports on teen robbery during the last th
Ett arbete om musik för luta skriven och publicerad under 1500-talet i Tyskland i en tabulatur som har fått namnet tysk tabulatur och som skiljer sig från de andra tabulaturerna för luta. I uppsatsen undersöks olika sätt att använda den tyska tabulaturen och hur musiken ska läsas. I arbetet kommer olika tabulaturer av tyska lutenister att jämföras och hur denna musik kan spelas på en klassisk gita
The aim of this study is to explore how child welfare social workers interpret Attachment Theory, how it is understood as a treatment tool in practice and what similarities and differences can be identified in those practices. The method chosen for this study was qualitative interviews with four professional child welfare social workers, from three different welfare organizations working with infa
Title: Virtual Influencing: Uncharted Frontier in the Uncanny Valley Date of the Seminar: 4th June 2020 Course: BUSN39 Degree Project in Global Marketing Authors: Mary Caroline Creasey and Adrián Vázquez Anido Supervisor: Burak Tunca Keywords: influencer marketing, virtual influencers, social media marketing, opinion leadership, brand spokespeople, brand spokes-characters, source credibilit
Machine learning has the potential to improve processes and revolutionizeeconomies on a global level and that is also true for the construction indus-try. Machine learning has started to get attention in recent years as computerpower have increased and the cost has reduced. The purpose with machinelearning is train an algorithm to process large quantities of data for essentialinformation. This can
This is a study with the aim to look into and illustrate the cooperation around the care for people with substance abuse in a city in the southern of Sweden. The study is based on a qualitative interview study with empiricism from five coordinators from two different rehab centers, one social worker working in a hospital and one nurse with coordinating tasks at the same hospital. The analysis is b
Denna uppsats utgör andra delen av ett magisterarbete vars första del är en översättning av utvalda delar av romanen Santi av Liu Cixin från kinesiska till svenska. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys, i vilken verket som helhet och i synnerhet de översätta delarna avhandlas. På källtext¬analysen följer ett avsnitt med en kort diskussion om de överväganden och ställningstaganden som varit av vi
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate and explore how personality traits of CEO’s affect the strategic decision of acquiring another company and whether the performance of the acquisition is affected by the examined traits. Methodology: The study follows a quantitative approach with a hypothetical deductive method. The data is primarily retrieved from transcribed earnings calls and
