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Problem/bakgrund: Censur av media är ett karakteristiskt drag för Kinas stat och ett verktyg för att bevara politisk styrning. Samtidigt är media betydelsefullt för att främja ekonomisk och social utveckling. Det är en delikat uppgift för statliga kinesiska censurorgan att finna en medelväg som låter media gynna ekonomisk utveckling utan att riskera omstörtning av den politiska makten. Media är enMedia censorship is a characteristic feature for China’s government in order to retain political legitimacy. Concurrently, media are crucial for a flourishing economic and social development. It’s a delicate task for Chinese governmental censorship departments to find a middle way that promotes economic development without any risk for subversion of power. Hence, media is an arena for struggle bet

Syfte: Studien syftar till att undersöka huruvida det föreligger några samband mellan styrelsens egenskaper och VD:ns ersättningsnivå, samt hur dessa eventuella samband ter sig.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the increased use of the communication channels provided by Internet affect production and distribution cycles of the fashion system, and what the consequences this development will have on the fashion concept. It is crucial for all producers in the fashion industry to take this development into consideration in order to anticipate the changes that migh

Förtroende inom outsourcing har granskats av flera forskare under de senaste decennierna. Den här uppsatsen ger en förståelse av faktorer som påverkar förtroende i en outsourcing relation, samt ger en praktisk insikt i hur det ömsesidiga förtroendet mellan kund och leverantör kan förbättras. Det empiriska materialet består av djupintervjuer med experter från olika branscher. Forskningen utgör värdTrust and outsourcing have been a profound object of studies examined by several researchers in the last decades. This thesis offers an understanding of factors that affect trust in an outsourcing relationship as well as it provides practical insight of how to improve mutual trust between client and supplier. The data was gathered through in-depth interviews with experts from different industries.

A knife is a tool which is used for both in- and outdoor purposes. Although wearing a knife in public areas is criminalized by Swedish law, the regulation includes several reservations about dispensations of judgement if the wearing is considered to be legitimated. The purpose of this study is to investigate and discuss the potential difficulties with the legal practice of the prohibition of knife

The so-called “Healthy Immigrant Effect” (HIE) is based on two complementary hypotheses: i) immigrants who recently arrived to a new country present a better health than the native-born population with similar socio-demographic characteristics; ii) immigrant´s health deteriorates faster than that of the native-born and converges towards native-born levels with the years lived in the host country.

What ? A glove concept in co-operation with Swedish glove manufacturer Hestra-Handsken AB. The gloves are to be used by freeskiers and other active people in cold climate with a need for regulation of the hand temperature and grip. Why and when? A project course giving 15 credits, within the bachelor of fine arts in Design. “Do what you want to do!” Except for my interest in creating, I have a gr

The aim of the thesis is to study how a segment of Generation Y perceives in-store recycling, a service coined by the authors of this thesis. In-store recycling is a service many fast fashion retailers have begun offering by placing collecting boxes for clothes that consumers wish to be recycled or re-used and in return consumers are rewarded with a voucher to buy new clothes at a discount. To ach

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy is a method that allows investigation of the chromophore composition of tissue. The objective is to explore if the composition can be used to determine whether the tissue is healthy or not. The measured diffuse reflectance is often modelled by a diffusion model. However, the diffusion model has some shortcomings, and therefore this project uses a Monte Carlo model

Abstract Title: Capital structure at IPO for corporations with or without private equity owners Seminar date: 4th June 2015 Course: FEKH89, Degree project Undergraduate level, corporate finance, 15 HP Authors: Carl-Johan Molin, Philip Karlsson, Viktor Hedström & Truls Törnqvist Advisor: Håkan Jankensgård Key words: Private equity, capital structure, IPO, debt level, financing Purpose: The purp

With a fuel consumption of up to 150 tons a day for a containership, fuel cost is the main expense for shippers. To decrease expenses, drag reduction is the most important topic to address. The biggest factor that influence the hydrodynamics of a vessel is marine fouling. A heavily fouled ship can consume an additional 40 % of fuel or more. The process of marine fouling is an extremely diverse and

Maja Lundgrens roman Pompeji (2001) analyseras utifrån Viktor Sklovskijs teori om främmandegöring. Första delen av uppsatsen är ett försök att förstå begreppet, sedan undersöks möjliga exempel på det i romanen. Med hjälp av främmadegörande grepp kan konstnärer framställa vanliga företeelser och föremål på nya sätt, vilket gör att vi ser dem istället för att bara känna igen dem. I Lundgrens roman m

Syfte: Studiens syfte är att bidra med ökad förståelse för i vilken utsträckning svenska revisorer upplever en prispress och hur Deras yrkesverksamhet påverkas av en eventuell prispress. Metod: Studien har genomförts med en kombination av kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod med en abduktiv ansats. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Den teoretiska referensramen har skapats med utgångspunkt i agentteorin. Vidar

In order for Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools to provide good traceability links there is usually a great deal of manual effort required. The result is that data becomes unreliable, inconsistent and in many cases nonexistent. The main focus in previous research in this area has been to make general tools which can provide traceability between any type of configuration artifact in any

Project Utsikter (2008-2010) was to offer educational actions and preventive work with children aged 5-8 years whose parents had had prolonged livelihood support for at least 6 months. The group was represented at three different schools in Helsingborg. Twenty families were invited to the project. In this follow-up project five years after the completion of the initial project, the focus lies on e