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This thesis work presents thermal decay rates for several reactions calculated within the framework of the real-time formalism. Processes considered are those of a neutral (pseudo)scalar decaying into two distinct (pseudo)scalars or into a fermion-antifermion pair. These processes are extended from earlier work to include chemical potentials and distinct species in the final state. A hypothetical
This paper aims at investigating the polynomial relationship between income and income inequality as described by Kuznets (1955, 1963). In order to investigate this relationship, data for 35 European countries are used for the period 1980-2017 and a long-run relationship between these two variables is found, as the initial Kuznets curve hypothesis is. The results indicate, the existence of the Kuz
The process of organizational change will inevitably have an impact on the employees within when converting from its status quo to a hoped-for future state. Strategic goals are often coming to the fore while creating a workforce that helps evolve the change is easily forgotten or deprioritized. Moreover, the frequency of change tends to aggravate feelings of fatigue or organizational change cynici
The Member States of the European Union push hard to address modern environmental challenges they face and achieve their environmental targets. However, in doing so, they need to comply with European Union law: the State aid policy and the ‘polluter pays’ principle often seem as obstacles before the Member States to implement their national environmental policies. On the one hand, State aid contro
The initial mass function (IMF) describes the stellar mass distribution for a population of stars at birth. This parameter represents a topic of long standing discussion within astronomy due to its apparent insensitive nature to environmental conditions. However, in the last decade, significant evidence suggesting the contrary has been presented. Due to the role of the IMF as an input variable for
Title: Mobile Social Commerce in China: The interactive role of platforms Date of the seminar: 4 June 2019 Course: BUSN39 Degree Project in Global Marketing Authors: Jiewen Cheng & Svenja Sabrina Tänzer Supervisor: Tommy Shih Keywords: mobile s-commerce platforms, interaction, communication, community, commerce Thesis purpose: This thesis aims to give a better understanding of the intera
Title: Making sense of Sustainability-oriented Innovations in the Front-End of Innovation - A single case study on the role of organizational sensemaking for decision-making in the front-end of innovation Research Question: How is the decision-making in Front-End of Innovation (FEI) for Sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) influenced by an organization’s sensemaking to engage in SOI ideas? M
Purpose: This study aims to explore the phenomenon of social influence in driving environmentally friendly tourist behaviors. Methodology: To obtain deep and diverse insights about the phenomenon, 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with respondents representing 13 nationalities. Results: This study revealed that contemporary tourists obtain two conflicting messages from their social en
The environmental movement is a fixture of the political landscape, but our empirical understanding of its ideology is still lacking. In this thesis I examine ideological divides in the environmental movement. This is done through categorising ten areas where earlier discussions on green theory have argued that the movement is divided. To test these ten divides a survey has been created and spread
The digital age we live in is in constant development and the public libraries have had to adjust to this change partly by providing ebooks, digital audio books and web pages with information for their users. Digital books keep gaining popularity among Swedish citizens. The Swedish Library Act states that in terms of language the public libraries shall pay extra attention to the five national mino
As the demand for meat grows, meat analogs have been positioned as a way for consumers to switch their dietary protein sources to help reduce their global climate impact. Today, several meat analogs on the market can compete with traditional meat products in total impression, despite being made of various plant proteins. However, challenges to mimic mouthfeel and texture surrounding meat analogs c
Chlorophylls comprise one of the most important families of molecules for the photosynthetic process. Chlorophyll-like molecules have been classically interpreted under the Gouterman model, being thought to feature two independent transitions, Qy(S1) and Qx(S2). Recent studies on the matter provided a new interpretation, assuming these states to feature strong vibronic coupling and to be inseparab
Identification of high-biomass sites can lead to further studies on their ecology with the purpose to inform climate change mitigation decisions or give an indication to which sites need stronger protection. The purpose of this study was to, via a remotely sensed data set of tree biomass, identify the locations with the highest biomass in Sweden. As biomass varies across the extent of a stand or
This thesis examines multiple ARCH-family models' volatility forecasting performance on the London Bullion Market Gold price, the OMXS30, and the USD/EUR exchange rate. Further, this thesis uses two different time periods to exploit differences and similarities in the forecast accuracy among the conditional variance models. The models we examine are the ARCH, the GARCH, the IGARCH, the EGARCH,
Several findings show that dark matter makes up 27% of the universe. The goals of this thesis are to understand some of the most important evidences and candidates for dark matter, as well as how dark matter is searched for. The ATLAS and LDMX experiments are reviewed to give a greater insight into the search for dark matter. Two papers from ATLAS are studied more carefully and the data from these
“Between the tracks” builds upon the concept of reclaiming a brownfield. It explores what can happen when industrial activity vacates valuable land in the city center. Through urban recycling, the project unlocks the value of an underutilized railyard and reimagines the last, such a large, and free area in the center of Gdynia in Poland. In 1926, when the first plan of Gdynia was created, the mai
Exposure to high levels of noise may affect a person’s health and behavior. A lot of education in Swedish preschool occurs outdoor, which makes having good sound environment important for the children and the teachers. Today, Swedish preschools use equivalent sound level Leq24h and max sound level Lmax for outdoor sound environment benchmark values. These standardized sound level indicators have s
