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The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding of the dynamics behind Chinese-Western buyer-supplier relationships. The study takes on a partially inductive approach by commencing with exploratory in-depth interviews. The main body of the study consists of a cross-sectional survey. Data has been collected through an on-line questionnaire. The theoretical review consists of industrial re

Striving to contribute to research on child- and youth spirituality and African theology with a contextually grounded, non-western, qualitative youth perspective, the aim of this study is to seek an understanding of the spirituality of male youth that live on the streets in Nairobi. To fulfil this aim, the research task carried out is an analysis of the source material from six focus group intervi

This essay investigates the impact of a bank’s local economic environment that on its overall bank risk. Balance sheet data of Germany’s regionally-active savings banks (Sparkassen) and credit cooperatives (Kreditgenossenschaften) is matched with data from regional statistics to construct a dataset spanning the time period from 2000 until 2013. Bank risk is measured by time-varying Z-scores, an in

Background. Lower tract respiratory infections are one of the most prevalent health problems worldwide. Influenza A is a main contributor to these infections, and infants are one of the risk groups for infection and developing serious lower respiratory tract complications. Better treatment for infants is needed, but little is known about the immune response that occurs in the lungs during infectio

In the 21st century more states are realizing the benefits with hosting “Sports Mega-Events” such as the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup. These events create an opportunity for a country to spread a carefully selected image and to gain influence and attraction in the international arena, or in other words, to exercise soft power. This thesis investigates how the Chinese government, through mas

There has been a large critique towards NPM in Swedish media during the past couple of years. This study analyzes what the problems and solutions associated with NPM are represented to be. The material is collected from three areas: The Swedish Government, elderly care and social services in Stockholm City and the Swedish academic community working with public administration. The overall conclusio

Det finns i detta nu en pågående debatt inom den offentliga upphandlingen kring huruvida det är en för samhället positiv sak att i samband med upphandlingsprocessen ställa krav på att leverantören lever upp till vissa sociala åtaganden. De senaste årens utveckling har resulterat i att EU i allt större utsträckning uppmuntrar upphandlande myndigheter att använda sig av sociala hänsyn i sina upphandThere is, as we speak, an on-going debate within the area of public procurement, about whether the society has something to gain by setting social requirements on suppliers in the procurement process. The last years’ development has resulted in that the EU in a wider range encourage government bodies to take social concerns in public procurement, with the purpose to reach the common goals that the

Inom omsorgsverksamhet uppstår ibland situationer där personalen ser en frihetsberövande åtgärd som nödvändig för att fullfölja sin omsorgs- och tillsynsplikt. Denna uppsats syftar till att utreda hur gränsen dras mellan brottsliga och icke brottsliga frihetsberövanden inom nyss nämnda kontext. I avsaknad av särskild reglering med relevans för bedömningen är allmänna straffrättsliga regler och priIn health and social care services situations may arise where the staff considers deprivation of liberty to be a necessary measure to fulfil their supervisory and care duties. This essay aims to examine how the line between criminal and noncriminal deprivations of liberty is being drawn in the context of health and social care. Whereas no specific regulations of relevance for the issue exist, gene

Thesis purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to (1) investigate if product attributes relevant for early stages of the product life cycle enable the survival of disruption and (2) to further examine if there are any specific product attributes related to later stages of the product life cycle enabling market innovation. Methodology: For the purpose of this thesis, qualitative semi-structured int

On the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, two countries share the same environmental and climatic pre-conditions, but show monumental differences in current forest-cover. While tropical forests are covering almost half of the Dominican Republic, Haiti is down to just a few percent. In this thesis, political ecology and earlier research is combined to formulate four hypotheses: colonial history, human

Cultural differences in emotion recognition have been found numerous times in the literature, especially when emotions are presented in social context (Masuda, 2017). However, we need to find a socioecological difference that explains such differences as current theoretical viewpoints fail to explain why these differences only arise later in life. This study aims to see if friendship habits, how w

Denna avhandling analyserar erfarenheter och förväntningar hos amerikanska studenter som genomför master studier på heltid i Sverige och hur deras monetära värdering av utbildningen, demonstrerat genom betalning av undervisning, påverkar deras studier. Undersökningens syfte är också att utforska hur eleverna anpassar det specifika akademiska habitus som de tar med sig från sina amerikanska utbildnThis thesis analyzes the experiences and expectations of American students conducting full-time master’s studies in Sweden and how their monetary valuation of education, demonstrated through paying tuition, impacts their studies. This thesis additionally aims to explore how students adapt a specific academic habitus during their US educational experiences that they, in turn, bring with them to stu

Introduction: This study is focused on the development and comparison of different extraction methods for vitamin D (VD) analysis in liver samples. Background: VD deficiency is related to several diseases, so it is crucial to correctly detect and quantify its concentration in the human body. Despite the existing methodologies for VD analysis, the selectivity and the sensitivity of the methods for

The relationship between public spending on health and child mortality has been inconclusive in literature. Discussions about significant associations have largely depended on specific periods and countries studied. This essay focus on the effects of public spending on health on child mortality in the Mexican poorest states. Public spending on health for the population without social security was

Background: In order to decouple from carbon dioxide, alternative, renewable energy sources need to replace traditional fossil fuels. The fastest growing renewable technology has for the past years been solar, more specifically in the form of photovoltaics (PV). With the support of policy schemes, solar systems are being installed on rooftops of private houses and corporations - and are incre

The heated debate about the future of the lignite industry in Germany manifests itself around two major issues: CO2 emissions and jobs. While there is a growing mobilisation of the climate justice movement which demands an immediate phase out of lignite, the mining union IG BCE is a vocal opponent of a lignite phase out in the near future. The conflict confirms the often conjured antagonism betwee

This thesis presents an application of machine learning techniques in a search for a high-mass resonance particle decaying into top quark pairs in high energy dijet events using the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Top tagging is applied to the dijet events to select the events with top signature and suppress the background, increasing the sensitivity of the search. All the data used

The present study employed an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach aimed at exploring the lived experience of non-heterosexual women regarding concealment and self- disclosure of their sexual minority status. Participants were recruited through known LGBT networks in the Washington D.C. area. Interviewees were five women between the ages of 24 and 32 years of age. Data was colle

Celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune disease which affects about 3 % of children in Sweden where most of them have an asymptomatic form making it difficult to detect. The bacterial composition in the gastrointestinal microflora can affect the intestinal barrier properties and the immune systems response to various dietary components. An unfavourable composition of the microflora can activate par