Search results
Filter
Filetype
Your search for "*" yielded 533008 hits
A room in the hotel Alphaville : An essay on surveillance and exposed bodies in Haruki Murakami's After Dark
This essay analyses the novel After Dark, written by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It examines, from a Foucaultian perspective, how the novel presents a modern panoptic society. It is discussed how surveillance and objectification are connected and how they behave within the panoptic structure. Also, it is discussed how certain characters in the novel, both male and female, respond with fear to
Kinesiska kvinnors idrottshistoria : Från fotbindning till OS-guld
Kina och tecknen : En studie av de kinesiska tecknens historiska, nutida och framtida roll
The Chinese characters are one of the world’s oldest scripts still in use today. They developed from inscriptions on animal bones into standardised logograms, to ultimately become the simplified characters used in China today. Throughout the history, written Chinese has served as a unifying force, bringing the various linguistic groups within China together. Thanks to the continuous use of charact
Lärares självförtroende i bedömarrollen och dess inverkan på samstämmighet i betygsättning
This study focuses on 6th grade Swedish teachers’ self-efficacy in the grading procedure, hypothesizing that high versus low self-efficacy will have an impact on the grade the teacher give an authentic short story. A total of 34 teachers answered the survey and the results showed that the teachers were inconclusive in their grading of the short story, and that self-efficacy and attitude towards th
A TYPOLOGY OF BRAND ORIENTATION - A CASE STUDY OF CORPORATE BRAND MANAGEMENT
ABSTRACT Title: A Typology of Brand Orientation Case Study of Corporate Brand Management Seminar date: 27/05/13 Course: Degree project in International Marketing and Brand management, Master Level, BUSN 39, 15 University Credit Points (15 ECTS). Authors: Christina Ericsson & Gustaf Holmblad Supervisor: Mats Urde Key words: Brand Orientation, CBIM Framework, Strategic Orientation, Market Orient
Vikten av roller för informationssystem i användning av små och medelstora företag
Informationssystem är idag i princip ett oumbärlig hjälpmedel för de allra flesta företag och det finns flera olika källor och teorier som behandlar frågan om hur företag bäst lyckas med implementeringen av ett informationssystem. Det finns dock betydligt mindre dokumentation vad det gäller system som redan är i drift och hur de bör hanteras, särskilt när det kommer till små och medelstora företag
“Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair”: A Phonoaesthetic Study into the Perceptions of Native English Speakers about Certain Speech Sounds
This essay explores four different aesthetic qualities (beautiful, ugly, soothing, irritating) on twoand- a-half dozen different phones as perceived by native speakers of English. Data were gathered by way of an online survey gathering 22 responses and which, when combined with several findings from previous research articles, reveal a number of tendencies both expected and unexpected. Respondents
Is there a resource curse in financial development?: Empirical study on Middle East and North Africa
This paper empirically investigates the impact of natural resource dependence and abundance on financial sector development in MENA for the period 1980-2009. The link established provides a new explanation for the different levels of financial development across the region, which may influence the pace of economic growth. Using fixed effect estimator, the model makes an explicit differentiation be
Att leva ett missbruksfritt liv - en studie om hur före detta alkoholmissbrukare upplever bemötanden av sina sociala nätverk
I have conducted a qualitative study based on five adult sober alcoholics’ life stories. The purpose of the study was to explore and gain more knowledge and understanding of the role the social network played for an individual, living a sober life. Furthermore, how “sober alcoholics” find themselves in the community, where alcohol consumption is widely accepted in different social contexts and whe
Styrning av Siemens PLC med Android applikation
This is a thesis that describes the procedure for setting up the web server on Siemens S7-300 and S7-1200. It also describes how to develop an application on Android to connect to the PLC and then read and send information. It is on the request of ÅF that the Method chapter is written as a step – by – step manual for easy repeat of the project and to get similar results. To communicate with the PL
Brandtätningar och brandcellsindelning - En fallstudie
The purpose of this diploma project is to identify what methods there are for fire sealing between fire compartments and to critically analyze the process and choice of fire seals in a specific construction project. The project is an apartment building belonging to Building class Br1, “Kvarter Frigg 1” in Helsingborg. The choice of which fire sealing method to use is controlled by Boverkets byggre
Vår bebyggda miljö - En granskning av kommunernas miljöarbete
The main objective of this study is to investigate the environmental work progress in Sweden with a focus on buildings. Variety of actions as well as investment programs have come and gone, likewise the public and political commitment to the issue. Today, there is a common knowledge about how our human actions lead to a negative impact on the environment. We need more coordinated actions to revers
There’s plenty of room at the bottom but is there room at the top? Nanotechnology in the Czech Republic: policy and barriers to innnovation
Due to the possibility of nanotechnology becoming the next general purpose technology, generating considerable socio-economic benefits, it has become popular with policy-makers and academics around the world, and led to massive investments in national R&D programmes. While in some cases nanotechnology is still in its early stages of research, in many others it has already resulted in innovatio
Att göra väl
Oavsett om man har ett fullt positiv eller skeptiskt inställning till välgörenhet så är det något som väcker det känslor hos de flesta. Genom mina egna erfarenheter har jag märkt att många gärna talar om vad för sorts välgörenhet de gör men ofta har jag också hört personer som försvarat sig och motiverat varför de inte gör välgörenhet. Den officiella definitionen av välgörenhet enligt NationalencyRegardless of one’s own attitude towards charity it evokes emotions among most people. Drawing from my own experiences as a volunteer for different organizations and causes, I have noticed that many are happy to, very openly, share and talk about how they do charity or if they are skeptical towards charity, defend why they do not do charity. Doing charity is commonly defined as an unselfish act al
Traditional Versus Revisionist: The Case of the Industrial Revolution in Sweden, 1830-1980
This empirical paper uses modern methodology and techniques to analyze old and ongoing scholarly disagreements about the nature of Industrial Revolution. It analyzes the Industrial Revolution in Sweden and to find out whether it supports the traditional or revisionist view of the Industrial Revolution through quantitative time-series methodology and techniques such as cointegration analysis, Vecto
Komponentavskrivningar - Större kostnader för fastighetsbolagen än nytta för dess intressenter?
Syfte: Syftet med studien är att analysera hur komponentavskrivningar på förvaltningsfastigheter påverkar redovisningens ändamålsenlighet gällande intressenternas behov av ekonomisk översikt och beslutsunderlag. Vidare ska undersökningen analysera huruvida de ökade kostnader som komponentmetoden medför, motsvarar en ökad ändamålsenlighet i redovisningen för intressenterna. Metod: Kvalitativ metod
Miljövänlighet i fordonsindustrin? - En studie om styrning av miljömål på Alfdex AB
Nyckelord: Miljömål, miljönyckeltal, ekonomistyrning, CSR, strategi, Alfdex Författare: Henrik Nilsson & Sandra Abdul Karim Handledare: Hans Knutsson Titel: Miljövänlighet i fordonsindustrin? En studie om styrning av miljömål på Alfdex AB Problem: Miljövänlighet och ekonomisk framgång har länge setts som motpoler. Det har lett till att många företag i fordonsindustrin har föredragit att beKeywords: Environmental goals, environmental KPI, management control, CSR, strategy, Alfdex Authors: Henrik Nilsson & Sandra Abdul Karim Supervisor: Hans Knutsson Title: Environmental friendliness in the automotive industry? A study about managing environmental goals in Alfdex AB Problem: Environmental friendliness and economic success has long been seen as opposites. This has resulted in
Securitising Kurdistan
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the Kurdish question in Turkey has affected the country‘s security policies during the time between 1984 and 2005. To do this, several different factors are analysed, such as the securitisation of the Kurdish question, the (non)involvement of the civil society, and several state institutions. These institutions are the armed forces (TSK), the National I
The European sovereign debt crisis: a debt crisis and a sovereignty crisis
With the eruption of the sovereign debt crisis, a huge threat and disaster had been brought to the European Union, the member states and the entire euro zone. The ongoing financial crisis has made it very difficult or even impossible for some member states within the euro zone to re-finance the government debt without the third party’s assistance. Greece being one of those states is experiencing t