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This purpose of this paper is to explain the long and short run development of the Net International Investment Position (NIIP) using age structure data. Following the financial globalization, the development of the NIIP has diverged from the path of accumulated current account flows. A subsequent consequence is that despite sustained current account surpluses, NIIPs of small developed countries r
I denna studie görs en livscykelanalys på en solfångare som Kristianstads Industri Service AB (KISAB) utvecklar. Även en mindre jämförelse görs med en solfångarstudie från Battisti, R (2005). KISAB:s solfångare har inga absorbatorflänsar utan den fungerar liknande en integrerad vattentank men med väldigt lite medium i den. KISAB:s solfångare består till 80 % av aluminium eftersom både absorbatorn This paper reports the result of a life-cycle analysis done on a solar thermal collector in Sweden. Kristianstad Industri Service AB (KISAB) is developing a solar thermal collector with a framework and absorbing plate made out of aluminium and no flow tubes. The aluminium is instead hollow and the whole area of the absorbing plate is therefore in contact with the coolant. The solar thermal collect
Denna magisteruppsats baseras på en svensk översättning av två italienska guidehäften med titlarna Itinerario Quattro Canti och Itinerario Fieravecchia. De publicerades 2013 av Palermo kommun och tar med läsaren på stadsvandringar i Siciliens huvudort Palermo. Analysen består av två huvuddelar: en källtextanalys och en översättningskommentar. Grunden för källtextanalysen utgörs av den modell för a
City branding består av den tunga uppgiften att marknadsföra en hel stad under ett enda varumärke. Stadsvarumärket måste tillfredsställa invånarnas behov av samhörighet utan att exkludera utomstående. Valet av värdeord måste återspegla populationens variationer och egenskaper samtidigt som det måste kommuniceras konsekvent och enhetligt till intressenter. Malmö stad har valt att i sin kommunsloganCity branding consists of the complicated task to communicate an entire city as one single brand. The city brand must satisfy the inhabitants’need to feel a sense of belonging without risking excluding outsiders. The choice of words of value must reflect the population’s characteristics, variations and capacities and at the same time be communicated consistently and coherently to stakeholders. Mal
The concept of the leapfrog, whereby developing economies ‘jump’ directly to adopting the advanced economy technologies without having to follow the development paths of their predecessors, is a very appealing theory. A leapfrog attempt is visible in the Chinese governments ambitions to react to the recent change of focus of the global auto industry to developing more sustainable vehicles to addre
Abstract This thesis work was performed at RUAG Space AB, Göteborg, Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to test the performance boundaries of SiGe based heterojunction bipolar transistor in designing a low noise amplifier meant for GNSS applications. After careful consideration of different alternatives for active components in SiGe HBT process, BFY640-04 from Infineon was selected as the active com
Att beskriva känslor med hjälp av text är ett av basbehoven som finns hos varje individ. Våra föräldrar har uttryckt dem i brev och dagböcker vilket till följd av Internets framfart har utvecklats till email, chatt och SMS. Symboler har funnits och använts långt innan den textuella kommunikationen och i takt med att samhället moderniseras har symbolanvändning nu nått dagens digitala kanaler. DennaDescribing feelings with the help of text is one of the basic requirements contained in each individual. Our parents have expressed them in letters and diaries, and as a result of the Internet's rampage this has developed to email, chat and SMS. Symbols have existed and been used long before the textual communication, and as society modernizes the symbolic use has now reached today's digit
Denna studie ämnar kartlägga faktorer som påverkar ett företag och deras internationella kommunikationsanpassning till olika kulturer. Studien har som utgångspunkt den anpassning de internationella företagen Barilla Group och Top-toy genomförde vid varsin kris på en nationell marknad. Studien är en kvalitativ textanalys med empiriskt material bestående av texter från både ett sändar- och mottagarpThis study intends to highlight factors affecting the tension between corporate values and international communication adjustments among cultures. This case study has its base when Barilla Group and Top-toy were adjusting their communication while going through separate crises. We conducted this study through a qualitative text analysis with a hermeneutic viewpoint. Collecting empirical findings f
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a part of the globalization process, a process increasing all over the world. These investments affect people, both in the home economy and the host economy. People in the host economy are, due to several aspects, affected in different ways. One of those aspects is gender. Gender inequality in the world is well known, women have less political, economic and socia
In this thesis the subject has been to investigate if there is any connection between government agency presence and tax revenue in the municipality. Previous studies in Sweden have more focused at the intergovernmental relation between state and local level and especially they have focused on government grants and the effects. But this thesis recognizes that the government can also shift the dist
Several researchers have asked themselves the question of why households do not diversify enough as according to theory, and why some households do not even enter the stock markets. This study looks further into this puzzle through a new angle where the focus is on house- holds’ risk appetite – their investment in stocks compared to funds stored in saving accounts. The study asks the question of w
This study examines possible causal relationship between investments in research and development (R&D) and economic growth of the European Union (EU) regions using R&D per capita as a measure of innovation. Given the importance the EU policies have put on innovation in creating better economic outlook, questions whether investments in R&D are growth enhancing and efficient in promoting
The objective of this paper is to determine the existence of temporal persistence in the homicide rates in the Colombian regions, or in other words, to determine the existence of a relationship between the past and present homicide rates. In order to achieve this objective, in this study was analyzed longitudinal data with annual observations for all the municipalities of the country. The results
Optical aberrations are the main cause for reduced focusability and low peak intensity in laser beams. All the applications that rely on high peak power and/or small focus spot size, loose efficiency when optical aberrations are present. They can be reduced by using specially shaped optical elements, but all aberrations cannot be avoided completely. In this thesis we used a new approach for reduc
Enhanced vision system attached to any industrial robot undoubtedly increases its accuracy and precision. Today, vision in industrial robots is facilitated almost exclusively via external or fixed cameras which may cause rather inconvenience due to obstacles in the line of sight. In this master thesis project, an Embedded Vision System is designed and developed to stream live video of a robot'
Using textual analysis based on a constructivist perspective, this thesis attempted to analyze how development cooperation policy builds the emerging donor identity. It did so by looking at foreign policy in the case studies of two small Asian donors, Thailand and Malaysia. In particular, it looked at the notion of heterogeneity which exists in the emerging donor identity, and Thailand and Malaysi
The Nuremberg Charter introduced the crime of aggression into international law. The American Chief Prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson gave a famous promise that offenders who commit acts of aggression shall be prosecuted and international criminal law would be applied against them. However, only at the first Review Conference of the ICC Statute in Kampala 2010, agreement on a universally accepted
There has been much debate about the Japanese management system and its changes as well as continuity. There is a consensus that the Japanese human resource management rests on three core pillars which are lifetime employment, seniority based salaries/promotions and unions. The purpose of this study was to investigate if these three core pillars have transformed after the 1990's when the eco
Molntjänster är en teknik som gör det möjligt för konsumenter att hyra och bruka IT-resurser via internet. I dagsläget ökar intresset för ämnet och molntjänster vinner mark från traditionell mjukvaruförsäljning, även bland Sveriges kommuner sägs intresset vara stort. I denna rapport ämnar vi utreda kommunernas intresse genom att försöka besvara frågan om vilka föreställningar kommunerna har av mol
