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Turkey has made countless tries to join the European union in the past. They are member of all the other European organizations but the question about a full EU membership has always been controversial. However during the last year great steps forward were made. And in this year (2005) Turkey will initiate membership negotiations. The aim of this thesis is to try and find out what has led to this
Abstract Ky words: crack spread, mde oil, heating oil, mz,tLtivariate GARCH This thesis was performed using daily one-month future prices from 1996 until 2004; on the two assets that make up the heating oil spread i.e. crude oil and heating oil, traded on the New York mercantile exchange (NYMEX). The goal of the study was to, by designing future strategies and predicting the variance and volatilit
This essay explains the relation between the return on a company’s stock and the implicit volatility in its call option on one hand and the impact new information has on these on the other hand. The purpose with this essay is to explain how the Swedish Share Market and Option Market react on new information in the context of quarterly reports and investigate if there is any abnormal return on the
Due to the proliferation and specialisation of international regulations and organisations, public international law has become more fragmented. International environmental law, human rights law, labour law and trade law have all developed in different fora. This fragmentation of international law can lead to conflicts between norms. Since many multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) use trad
Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to describe and analyze the use of management control systems in the hospitality industry. Methodology: The study is mainly a descriptive, multiple case study based on deductive reasoning. However, explanatory elements occur. The nature of the study is to a large extent qualitative and is primarily based on interviews and analysis of current management control
Abstract Increasing the share of renewable energy for covering our energy demand is central to the energy policy of the European Union. Despite the acknowledged importance, renewable energy has not yet reached the favoured wide-spread utilisation throughout Europe. Wood pellets, cylindrical sticks of 10 to 30 mm length mainly made from wood processing residues, are a renewable, cost-competitive, l
It has been argued that the choice blindness effect is only present in quick and intuitive tasks such as preference decisions for faces or shapes, and not when it comes to more important and deliberative decisions involving issues like moral, political or religious beliefs. To answers this criticism, using a method inspired by close up magic, we investigated whether participants would notice chang
The cerebellum is important for the control of movements, speech as well as mental activities. In the molecular layer of the cerebellum there exist interneurons which role in the cerebellar neural network is not yet fully understood. In this thesis, these interneurons are simulated by mathematical models in order to investigate their connectivity attern. Further, the input/output behavior of a del
The sediment composition of drumlins in the Åsnen area in Småland, south Sweden is poorly studied. Excavations are being planned with intention to study the internal architecture and composition of these drumlins. As a preliminary investigation this thesis was done to determine the sediment depths in the tail of a drumlin at Rörvik gård, situated on Vemboö in Lake Åsnen. To determine the sediment
History was an important notion in constructing an industrial capitalistsociety in the nineteenth century. This article deals with the manifest use of history atthe Stockholm Exhibition of 1897. At this exhibition, history was ubiquitous andwas most fully expressed in the model of medieval and Renaissance Stockholmcalled "Old Stockholm." The history of nineteenth- and twentieth-centuryexhibitions
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it became possible to believe in the existence of life on other planets on scientific grounds. Once the Earth was no longer the centre of the universe according to Copernicus, once Galileo had aimed his telescope at the Moon and found it a rough globe with mountains and seas, then the assumption of life on other planets became much less far-fetched, and,
Based on first-hand ethnographic insights into Shi‘i religious groups in the Middle East and Europe, this book examines women’s resistance to state as well as communal and gender power structures. It offers a new transnational approach to understanding gender agency within contemporary Islamic movements expressed through language, ritual practices, dramatic performances, posters, and banners. By l
In the European Commission people with different cultural backgrounds are working together to achieve common goals. This thesis is an explorative study of the impact the different cultural backgrounds of the staff have on the work in the administrative Commission. By analyzing interviews conducted with staff in Directorate-General for Education and Culture and in Directorate-General for Economic a
Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om Feldenkrais-metoden kan vara till hjälp i sångutövande, och hur man kan använda Feldenkrais-metoden i sångundervisning. Jag har valt att använda mig av en kvalitativ undersökning där jag utgått från litteratur, en intervju samt deltagande observation ur ett emiskt/etiskt perspektiv. Som sångare eller utövare av något musikaliskt instrument är det av stor vi
Greek islands face a series of problems that can put their sustainability at risk. Overexploitation of natural resources, limited waste and wastewater management practices, and energy shortage are such problems. Lack of cyclic behaviour in resource flows is a factor tightly linked to these problems. Here, the concept of industrial symbiosis appears to offer an important potential in addressing som
Abstract The need to conduct more research on identity differences arises as Turkey gets closer to becoming a member of the European Union. Aware of this demand the aim of this thesis is to examine the modernization efforts in Turkey and find out if these have led to a Europeanization of the Turkish identity, an issue of significance in integration. The dissertation is carried out with a social c
For a very long time the municipal fire services in Sweden have been formed due to tradition and different laws. This design does not take the actual risks in the municipal into consideration. The purpose of this report is therefore to create a model for designing municipal fire services. This model will take more factors into consideration than the population structure as has been done before.
