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The purpose of this thesis is to examine how Aaker’s (1997) brand personality scale functions in a culture outside of its country of origin and develop a deeper understanding of how Swedish consumers ascribe commercial brands symbolic values in terms of human personality traits. The thesis applies a quantitative research approach where data aggregation and analysis is conducted in a total of thr

Julian the Apostate’s short rule has left in the historical records a clearly divisive picture. This thesis starts with that divisive nature of the reign of Rome’s last pagan emperor and aims to analyse some of the Apostate’s coinage iconography. Can the symbols used on the coins minted during his reign say something about his allegedly revolutionary rule? By choosing to focus on a set of ten symb

Automation: Optimering av din tid Tänk dig att du har fått en deadline på ditt nya projekt. Ditt arbete för projektet beror helt på din praktiska noggrannhet och tidsoptimering, samtidigt så ska du lämna in massvis med pappersarbete. Du har en tuff tid framför dig ifall du ska klara detta på egen hand inom tidsramen. Här kommer automatisering in i bilden. Det noggranna och tidskrävande arbetet soAutomated information flow is an important way of optimizing the time used for analyzing processes. Other added benefits are that in a well-made automated system, the probability of human error diminishes because less liability is put on the person to manually transport and utilize the data. This notion of automation can be applied to the field of chromatography. This thesis investigates the poss

The area of Business and Human Rights, applies to all enterprises, including corporate law firms, which have not been examined yet, as thoroughly as others. On the other hand, the profession of law is regulated by codes of conduct that limit the actions of lawyers when they are preforming their mandate. Through a comparative legal methodology this research seeks to find out if the human rights res

The genetics of choosing your own path The soil bacteria streptomycetes play a vital role in our modern society as key producers of antibiotics used to treat infections all over the world (Slonczewski, J. et al., 2017). As over 50% of the antibiotics produced for medical use originate from streptomycetes (Slonczewski, J. et al., 2017), it is fair to say that these bacteria make up an essential co

Juice homogenization is mostly done to create smaller fiber particles, which reduces the sedimentation velocity to a lower level. So far, fruit juice concentrate is diluted to juice before it is homogenized. The first aim of this research paper is a feasibility study regarding the homogenization of fruit juice concentrate before it is diluted to juice. That would save capacity and energy. Secondl

Solen är bara en utav miljardtals stjärnor i Vintergatan - vår hemgalax. Likt en myrstack kan Vintergatan som helhet vid en första anblick verka simpel. Men när man tar en närmare titt upptäcker man att varje invånare har sitt eget liv, vilket bidrar till en komplex natur. Därför blir det svårt att få information om Vintergatans omfattande egenskaper genom att undersöka enskilda stjärnor. Men precThe use of reliable distance estimates is key to derive accurate three-dimensional velocities of celestial objects. Systematic overestimation and large uncertainties in the distances will thus provide misleading information of an object's kinematics. In turn, astronomers will get a flawed understanding of dynamical properties of substructures in the Milky Way. In this paper, we employ the imp

Today, technology is everywhere in our everyday lives whether it is wanted or not. The world has become digitalized and this development continues for each year that passes. The Swedish government has now (2018) updated the curricula for both kindergarten and elementary school to include more digital aspects in the teaching. With this background, this thesis (project) set out to design a digital a

Abstrakt Författare: Hanna Fagerberg & Erica Törnkvist Titel: Bilden av politisk höger- och vänster extremism – olika yrkeskategoriers syn på brottsligheten och könsrollerna i politiskt extrema miljöer Kandidatuppsats: SOCK04, 15 hp Handledare: Anna Rypi Sociologiska institutionen, höstterminen 2016 Politisk extremism förekommer i dagens samhälle men det finns en problematik kring begreppet

Fretting is a complex set of mechanical and electrical mechanics that occurs at the contact surface between two vibrating objects. It is widely present in electrical connectors close to combustion engines due to the constant exposure to vibrations. Fretting is an extensive problem in the automotive industry but little research is done. In this thesis, a connector attached to a high pressure fuel p

I de centrala delarna av södra Sverige finns ett tektoniskt gränsområde som traditionellt sett har kallats Protoginzonen. Det har agerat som gränsen mellan bergarter vilka undkommit svekonorvegisk deformation och metamorfos i öster, och bergarter som upplevt den svekonorvegiska bergskedjebildningen till väster. Norr om Vänern kallas detta gränsområde numera Sveconorwegian Frontal Deformation Zone South-central Sweden hosts a tectonic boundary region which traditionally has been called the Protogine Zone. It acts as the boundary between rocks which have escaped Sveconorwegian deformation and metamorphism to the east, and rocks affected by the Sveconorwegian orogeny to the west. North of lake Vänern, the boundary zone is nowadays referred to as the Sveconorwegian Frontal Deformation Zone. Th

Data augmentation is a process to create new artificial data by altering the available data set. It has by many been considered a key factor for increasing robustness and performance of image classification tasks using deep learning methods, such as the convolutional neural network. This report aims to investigate the effect of data augmentation for the segmentation of magnetic resonance (MR) imag

Very little is known about the remarkable ability of humans to separate a single sound source from a dense mixture of sound sources in a crowded background, known as the cocktail-party scenario. Better understanding could lead to a breakthrough for the next-generation of hearing aids to have the ability to be cognitively controlled. A key finding in the field is that human cortical activity has be

Syfte: Syftet är att undersöka faktorer till varför företag i Sverige väljer att byta revisorer och även att bidra till tidigare forskning genom att bekräfta eller komplettera tidigare forskningsresultat. Metod: Studiens urval bestod av 94 börsnoterade svenska företag, från Stockholmsbörsens small-, mid- och large cap-listor där 47 hade bytt revisor mellan 2009–2015 och 47 utgjorde kontrollgruppenPurpose: The purpose of this study is to examine factors related to Swedish companies' choices to change auditors and also to contribute to prior research by confirming or adding to the results of prior research. Methodology: The study's sample consisted of 47 listed Swedish companies, from the Stockholm stock exchange's small-, mid- and large cap-lists, who've changed auditors bet

Background: Globalization is a phenomenon which has been around since the mid- 19th century, influencing companies to either expand existing markets or entering new markets, to seek new profits. For companies with a global supply chain, the total supply chain cost is a vital factor. It is of high importance to reduce the costs in the supply chain, as lower costs will increase the profit. The case

Utvecklingen går snabbt framåt och att vara ständigt uppkopplad har under många år varit vardag för människan. Men med ny teknik kommer nya möjligheter och det är nu även dags för industrin att koppla upp sig, vad som ofta benämns som den fjärde industriella revolutionen eller industri 4.0. På Assa Abloy vill man nu undersöka vilka möjligheter som finns med den nya tekniken och ett examensarbete mThis master thesis has been carried out to investigate the possibility to predict battery failure of Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries. Assa Abloy use these batteries as a back-up in their door solution systems in case there is a power loss. The main function is to be able to open doors that are part of an emergency exit route. Thus, approximately 200 battery packs were used to collect data re

High data rate is still the most crucial factor in cellular systems, and with 5g approaching new techniques are studied to achieve higher bit rates. Using MIMO technology, the spatial domain was exploited through beamforming and multiplexing multiple users’ data together assured more spectrum efficiency which resulted in higher bit rates. Reciprocity based beamforming is feasible in TDD systems du

Tauopathies belong to a group of neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles in neurons and includes diseases such as Alzheimer´s disease and frontotemporal dementia. Neurofibrillary tangles are insoluble deposits that are composed mainly of tau, which normally acts to stabilize microtubules. In disease, tau forms fibrillar and oligomeric species, wHelpers of helpers – co-chaperone proteins and protein aggregation Proteins are one of the essential molecules that make up our bodies and the bodies of all living beings. Chaperone proteins exist as a protein ¨helper,¨ folding, maintaining, and regulating other proteins. To help these helpers, co-chaperone proteins, ¨helpers of helpers,¨ regulate chaperone proteins and help them by carrying out

The objective of this dissertation, "Dress for Success" - A survey of the femininity creations linked to power dressing in the fashion magazine Vogue, is to analyze and compare John T Molloy ́s manual about power dressing to how the concept is represented in 3 different editorials in the fashion magazine Vogue. The analytical method that has been used are a semiotic analysis and intermed