Inter-frequency measurements are needed to determine when user equipment should make a handover to the best available base station in a cellular mobile network. The measurements are expensive from a resource point of view and therefore there is a need for optimization of this kind of measurements. In this work both this optimization and a way to predict the future of the measurements have been eva

The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces towards second-hand shopping for clothing. Though literature on this topic already exists, there is still room for further examination, especially when adding other perspectives to it. Therefore, this project is especially concerned with gaining a deeper understanding of the underlying motivations for shopping second-hand, looking into

Denna kvalitativa studie syftar till att undersöka hur medarbetare i Helsingborgs stad upplever organisationens externa kommunikation. Mer specifikt undersöks hur organisationens Instagramkonto @helsingborgsstad upplevs och hur dessa upplevelser påverkar den autokommunikativa processen. Denna process uppstår då interna publiker tar del av den externa kommunikationen. Genom semistrukturerade intervThe aim of this qualitative study is to examine how employees in Helsingborg’s stad percive the organizations external communication. More specifically the aim is to examine how they feel about the organizations Instagram account @helsingborgsstad and how these experiences affect the auto-communicative process. Said process occurs when internal audiences come in contact with the external communica

Impaktiter är bergarter som har bildats av ett eller flera meteoritnedslag och delas in i tre grupper: chockad berggrund, nedslagsbreccior och nedslagssmältor. Den här studien strävar efter att redogöra för de olika typer av impaktiter som finns beskrivna från jorden, och att beskriva tidigare ostuderade prover av impaktiter från nedslagsstrukturen Mien i Småland, Sverige. Proverna kallas: MIE15_0This study aims to describe the different types of impactites that are present on Earth and to characterize previously undescribed samples of impactites from Mien, an impact structure located in southern Sweden. Impactites are rocks that are generated from one or several meteoric impacts and they are divided into three groups; shocked rocks, impact breccias and impact melts. The impactites that ar

Title: Employee Motivation through Higher Purpose: A double edged sword Authors: Petra Erkkilä & Thekla Welp Supervisor: Sverre Spoelstra Submission Date: 20th of May 2016 Keywords: Non-profit organisation, employee motivation, higher purpose, social responsibility Purpose: To critically review the impact of organisational purpose on employee motivation and to understand employee motiva

Utmattningssyndrom är ett växande problem och något som skapar stora bekymmer och kostnader för såväl individer, organisationer som samhälle. Denna studie undersöker det samband som finns mellan prestationsbaserad självkänsla (PBS) och stressfaktorer i arbetslivet och dess relation till utbrändhet. Genom en webbenkät (N=184) undersöktes deltagarnas prestationsbaserade självkänsla, skattning av arbBurnout is a growing phenomenon and is causing large problems and costs to individuals, organisations and society alike. This study examines the relationships between performance based self-esteem (PBSE), work related stress factors and burnout. Through a web survey (N=184) the participants PBSE, work related stress factors and degree of burnout was measured through the Pbse scale, Areas of Work S

Temporarily unavailable products in the grocery retail environment cause problems for multiple parties, resulting in possible sales losses for retailers and high dissatisfaction among consumers. With price promoted products being twice as often out-of-stock (OOS) as regular-priced items, the need for a further understanding of reactions to price promoted products is evident. The purpose of this th

This thesis has been pursuing an objective to investigate the recent developments in the field of high oxygen barrier materials for the dairy based medical nutrition portfolio. The main goal of this research was to identify the materials and/or approaches that would allow the decrease of oxygen ingress with resulting shelf-life extension. Both flexible (pouch) and rigid (bottles) packaging has bee

Den här uppsatsen bygger på en översättning av två amerikanska krönikor om dataspel, skrivna av Ian Bogost och publicerade i antologin How to Talk About Videogames (2015). Uppsatsens inleds med en textanalys av källtexten som baseras på Lennart Hellspong & Per Ledins analysmodell (1997). Textanalysen följs av ett antal överväganden inför översättning där den globala översättningsstrategin funk

The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore multicultural violence work at shelters in Finland from a feminist postcolonial perspective. The main interest of this study is to analyse the shelter workers’ ways of speaking about multicultural clients, on their own position and on their working methods. The study is based on four semi-structured interviews with shelter workers and on six observatio

Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på varför vissa konsumenter väljer att handla ekologiskt och vad som är deras drivkrafter. För att undersöka dessa motivationsfaktorer används en kvalitativ metod där tio ekologiska konsumenter har djupintervjuats och en fokusgruppintervju med fyra konsumenter har genomförts. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av kunder som kontinuerligt handlar i butikerna Sju

Sambandet mellan mognaden av immunsystemet och mag- tarmkanalen Mognaden av mag-tarmkanalen tros vara sammankopplad med mognaden av immunförsvaret efter födseln. Nyligen gjorda studier indikerar att immunceller, framförallt T-celler, kan ha en roll i detta eftersom behandling med immunhämmande mediciner kan fördröja mognadsprocessen hos unga råttor. Råttor föds med en omogen tarm anpassad för uppBackground: Rat pups are born with an immature intestine adapted for the effective uptake of milk nutrients and with high permeability for bioactive molecules from the maternal milk until weaning. During weaning the immune system is activated after stimulation with e.g. dietary antigens, leading to an inflammatory response in the gut. This response is believed to be important for progress of gut m

Gröna tak – en samhällsekonomiskt lönsam lösning för att bibehålla viktiga ekosystemtjänster i städer? Den växande urbaniseringen är en global trend och idag bor åtminstone 54 procent av världens befolkning i städer. År 2070 förväntas 70 procent av världens befolkning bo i städer och Sverige är idag det land med näst högst urbaniseringstakt. Precis som i flera andra länder används i Sverige förtäCity densification in Sweden has decreased the amount of green areas in Swedish cities. This undermines the existing ecosystem services that could for instance provide climate change mitigation and adaption. Green roofs are considered to be a product that can strengthen or substitute the urban ecosystem services produced by natural vegetation. This paper investigates whether retrofitting green roo

Notwithstanding the increasing environmental awareness among consumers, researchers do not witness a substantial shift in consumption and disposal behaviour of textiles. Since research on disposal behaviour of home textile products is currently limited, it is relevant to explore consumers’ decision-making when handling no-longer-wanted home textiles. This thesis aims to better understand consumers

Speed and visual influence on fashion trends – a study of Snapchat’s impact and significance on the spread of trends in the fashion system through visual images. Today’s fashion system has reached its climax due to technological advances and increasingly speedy nature of how fashion trends are conveyed to consumers. The tool used to examine the thesis of this study was a qualitative text analysis

Det är vanligt att bedriva ett mångfaldsarbete i organisationer idag, men dess omfattning och definition är ofta otydlig. Jämställdhetsarbetet tenderar att läggas till som en del i mångfaldsarbetet. Därför är det intressant att undersöka hur jämställdhets- och mångfaldsarbetet fungerar ihop, och vilken plats jämställdhetsarbetet får i mångfaldsarbetet. För att ta reda på det undersöktes tre kommun

In this work aMatlab model of a simplified LTE system has been implemented. The PUSCH and PDSCH signal chains has been used for reception and transmission of data and DM-RS symbols are used as pilots. Moreover, the model supports communication and interference between multiple users and base station antennas. The wireless channels are modeled as multi-path Rayleigh fading and are continuous in tim

Background. The United States has been a diverse country since it is establishment. The effects of socioeconomic characteristics including immigration, age, employment status, educational attainment on total fertility rate have been discussed in the previous studies. Objective. The objectives in this study are to explore whether the difference in the timings of first childbirth among Hispanic wome