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The study derives from the concerns of climate change, the need for mitigation and adaption as well for more environmentally sustainable transport systems. A solution for reducing emissions from the transportation sector is to shift freight transports from road to sea- a solution for future environmental sustainability. As a foundation for how Scania should work with sea transportation as an alter

The aim with this paper is to investigate how children and youth librarians, the main persons in the selection process, in five public children departments discuss around selection. My ambition is by qualitative interviews and by text analyse (analysis of ideas) find out how librarians relate to the library collection from ethic, moral, censorship and freedom of speech. And also what they think of

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) represent the first sale of the firms’ shares to the public. By setting lower offer prices, companies going public create opportunities for investors to earn abnormal returns, making IPOs an attractive investment strategy. This is a well-known and widely discussed in academic literature the IPO underpricing phenomenon. There are different motives for the IPO underpr

The relationship between the stock market and the condition of a country’s economy is a relevant topic in the recent economic and financial studies. Therefore, the purpose of our thesis is to investigate in finding long-term and short-term relationships between the stock market and macroeconomic variables in the three Baltic countries and compare the results with three more economically developed

Vad: Kandidatuppsats VT 2016. Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg, institutionen för Service Management. Titel: Ett inkluderande ledarskap? Framställning av ledarskap i ledarskaps- och diversity management litteratur. Syfte och frågeställning: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur ledarskap framställs i dagens ledarskaps -och diversity managementlitteratur. Vi frågade oss därför vilka

This bachelor thesis examines how the Danish birthing and pregnancy culture is a dialectic one. It argues that nature and culture, in a classical understanding, gives rise to an ambivalence where a new type of discourse surrounding pregnant women occurs. This discourse focuses on a natural, vaginal birth, but this type of natural birth takes place at a hospital, which is everything but natural. Th

Syftet med studien var att undersöka om poliser som exponerats för hot och våld i yrket hade en högre grad av Posttraumatic Growth, PTG. Studien fokuserade på att mäta PTG i relation till hot och våld på följande parametrar; psykologisk hantering, reaktioner i form av hur rädda de kände sig i dag och psykisk påverkan. Respondenterna var 42 poliser från Skåneregionen. Åldrarna varierade från 26 tilThe purpose of this study was to investigate whether police officers who have been exposed to threats and violence in their profession have a higher degree of Posttraumatic Growth, PTG. PTG was measured in relation to threats and violence on the following parameters; psychological management, reactions which included current feelings of threat/anxiety and psychological influence. The respondents i

Cashew is a trending cash crop among many West African smallholders. The aim of my research was to investigate how the livelihoods of cashew farmers in central Benin are impacted by cashew production. I have selected a case study research strategy, using a mixed methods approach. Findings and analysis were based on four focus group discussions with cashew farmers from central Benin, and a quantita

Knuffas du mot ett mer hållbart transportmedel? Dagligen blir vi påverkade på olika sätt som ligger till grund för våra handlingar. Men vet vi verkligen alltid om när vi blir påverkade? Ibland blir du troligtvis påverkad till ett vissa val trots att du är helt ovetande om det. Detta kan med andra ord kallas för nudging, som är ett koncept för att leda människor och ge en ”knuff” i rätt riktning The purpose of this study was to find out how nudging can be used in mobility management for sustainability adaptment of people's travel patterns, and examine if there is measures in mobility management that can be interpreted as nudging. This thesis performed a practical qualitative test in which a mobility management measure in the form of a “ride an electric bike to work” campaign was intro

This master thesis contributes to the literature concerning the theoretical and empirical understanding of dividend’s change on company’s future earnings. The paper analyses if dividends have explanatory power over future earnings. Also, the analysis expects to provide more evidence of the relationship in Nordic region. This thesis is based on a quantitative study where we use a sample of 586 comp

The presented thesis focuses on dynamics of capital structure decisions of financially constrained and unconstrained firms listed on Stockholm Stock Exchange. It examines the effect of the global financial crisis on the corporate financing decision. The first chapter introduces the topic, discusses its importance and outlines the contribution to the empirical research. The second chapter the relev

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to study the concept of learning environments in relation to research libraries and their physical environments. Formerly related to classrooms or lecture halls, a learning environment can now include a wide range of locations. A successful learning environment should support collaborative and social activities, as well as quiet and individual work. This broa

Nya behandlingar har implementerats i Sverige för att minska antalet personer med självskadebeteende. En av dessa behandlingar är Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT). Syftet med denna studie var att utforska sex patienters upplevelser av att genomgå ERGT och vilka förändringar i såväl mående som psykiatriska symptom (mätt med Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory, Depression Anxiety Stress Scale och New treatments for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) have been implemented in Sweden to decrease the number of people with self-injurious behavior. One of these treatments is Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT). This study aimed to explore six patients’ experiences of undergoing ERGT and the changes in well-being as well as in psychiatric symptoms (measured with Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory, D

A fire barriers are widely used in the industry as a passive fire protection system. Fire barriers are built according to specifications from manufacturer after the construction was tested in full scale furnace in accordance to the appropriate codes. Those tests are made private and the test results are not published apart from the failure/success of the tested sample. In order to accurately prote

The primary objective of the present study is to evaluate the effect of the fire source elevation on the main fire parameters, by implementing laboratory experiments. In modern Fire Safety Engineering practice, it is often assumed that fire always commences at the floor level. However, it is not always the case. For instance, many residential fires were initiated by the ignition of ovens and stove

Abstract Several international instruments including CEDAW have recognized every human being to be free from any form of violence including being free from inhuman and degrading treatment. Equality of men and women is also recognized starting from the establishment of UN in 1945 under its charter. UDHR, ICCPR and ICSECR are the major international human right instruments which recognized the appl

The procedure within the administrative field of law is ruled by norms and principles. The framework governing differs from the procedural law in civil court. The grounds for administrative claims and appeal are established in 29 and 30 §§ FPL. There are also a number of other procedural laws with their own rules for appeals, to which FPL is subsidiary. Amongst the other laws is the law that regul

Environmental law is an area of law that has been under constant development in the European Union especially over the last decades. This has resulted in a variety of legally binding instruments. At the same time the European Union has also improved its fundamental rights regime with tools like the now binding Charter of Fundamental Rights. This Charter also contains an article on “Environmental P

Denna framställning redogör för beskattningen av derivatinstrument i inkomstslaget näringsverksamhet. I inkomstskattelagen delas derivatinstrument upp i lagertillgångar eller kapitaltillgångar baserat på vilken typ av aktiebolag som äger tillgången. I bolag som huvudsakligen bedriver handel med värdepapper anses sådana tillgångar vara lagertillgångar. I alla andra bolag är derivat kapitaltillgånThis thesis describes the taxation of derivatives in the business income tax act (“Inkomstslaget näringsverksamhet”). The Income Tax Act divides derivative instruments into inventory assets or capital assets based on the type of company that owns the asset. Assets held by companies engaged primarily in the trading of securities and derivatives are considered to be inventory assets. In other compa