Cryonics is the process of freezing legally dead humans in the hope that future science would one day restore them to life, youth and health. The cryonics field is thus seeking a solution to death. This controversial practise has given rise to a heated biopolitical debate on life, death, suspended animation and ethics. My analysis maps out the occurring ideas that constitute cryonics, ideas reachi

Studiens syfte är att bidra med en ökad förståelse för drivkrafter bakom kreditspreaden för europeiska utilityföretag. Syftet med studien är därmed att empiriskt undersöka hur utvalda företagsspecifika faktorer samt en makrovariabel påverkar kreditspreaden. Vidare kan uppsatsens resultat tänkas ge en ökad förståelse för hur förändringar i företagsstruktur samt landsspecifik risk påverkar kreditsprThe purpose of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of drivers of the credit spread for European corporate bonds issued by utility companies. The aim of this study is therefore to empirically examine how selected company-specific factors, as well as a macro variable, effect credit spreads. The results might also provide a better understanding of how changes in company structure an

Studies on accentual tonal alignment of intonational languages suggest a segmental anchoring of tonal targets, more specifically that L in rising (LH) pre-nuclear accents anchors with a specific point in the segment, while the timing of H varies. This study tests if lexical accents, too, exhibit a constant alignment by testing the South Swedish word Accent II using speech rate as an experimental t

Bakgrund: Generellt bland industrivärldens lager är denhuvudsakliga uppgiften försörjning av material mot montering och tillverkning. Så är fallet även på ABB Swedewater. När en produkt ska tillverkas plockar personalen på lagret ihop de komponenter som behövs och skickar dem till tillverkningen. Materialet till anläggningen ”kittas” för att underlätta arbetet i produktion. Detta betonar vikten avBackground: Generally among industrialized warehouses, the main operational task is to supply the assembly or manufacturing with material, so is also the situation at ABB Swedewater. When manufacturing a product, the warehouse personnel pick necessary components requested by othersections of the production. This stresses the importance of a correct performance when picking, as this forms the base

The purpose of this thesis is to study and model the term structure of Swedish government bonds. The emergence of the bonds market in Swedish is described and a brief introduction to interest rate theory given. For completeness, linear and dynamic time series models including state space representation and the Kalman filter are also described. The term structure of Swedish government bonds is mode

The existing studies have shown that the algorithmic trading has been playing an ever-increasing important role in both the U.S. and E.U. capital market. Many papers pay great attention on the high frequency trading, a special class of algorithmic trading, focusing on the impact that high-frequency activities have on the market quality. Investors engage in high frequency trading and interact with

Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa hur musiklärarstudenter ser på genus, identitetsskapande och musik, hur de påverkas av lärares normer och värderingar samt om utbildningen ger dem metoder att som framtida lärare motverka traditionella könsmönster och låta elever oavsett kön få samma möjligheter, då detta står i styrdokumenten för grund- och gymnasieskola. Sjuttionio lärarstudenter har svarat på Title: Gender equality taken for granted? A study of how music teacher students view gender, identity and music. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how students at the music teacher program view gender, identity and music, the influence of teachers' standards and values, and if the training gives them the methods they need in their future roles as teachers to counteract traditional gen

Denna studie, som bygger på den kvalitativa metoden, avser att skapa förståelse för hur pedagoger arbetar med undervisning i ämnet svenskundervisning för invandrare genom användandet av sång och musik i språkinlärning. Mitt intresse för ämnet förstärktes när jag blev kontaktperson till en tjej som hade invandrat till Sverige från Chile. Studien är menad att ge läsaren inte bara en bild av hur man Swedish through singing: a shortcut to language learning? This study, based on the qualitative method, is meant to give an understanding of how pedagogues perform their teaching of the subject “Svenska för invandrare” (eng. “Swedish for immigrants”) by using singing in language training. My own interest in the subject was enhanced when I was appointed contact for a girl who had immigrated to Swede

Min uppsats, Iscensättning av vardagen – en undersökning av genremotivet i det holländska 1600-talsmåleriet, handlar om hur hemmet skildras i det holländska 1600-talsmåleriet. De s.k. genremålningarna visar hemmet och vardagen, och i uppsatsen förklarar jag hur målningar med vardagliga motiv fick genomslag i Holland under 1600-talet. Kyrkan och adeln var inga stora beställare av konst, och det fan

The purpose of this study was to explore the head coaching through greater understanding of clients' experiences of the coaching process. The study should be classified as a qualitative study with phenomenological approach. All participants in the study were middle managers and were employed at a company that is a leading Austrian supplier with headquarters in Vienna (Austria). The company als

Solar power clearly has one of the greatest potential among renewable energy but a big setback is that it is still relatively expensive. Engineering of materials on a nanoscale, e.g. the growth of nanowires makes it possible to make semiconductor-materials with better optical properties while using less material than for traditional bulk semiconductors. This means that nanowire based solar cells h

Titel: Digital Marknadsföring – en värdeskapande process. Seminariedatum: 2013-01-17 Kurs: FEKH29 Företagsekonomi: Examensarbete i marknadsföring Författare: Ina Farag, Nick Hercberg och Nathalie Lameri Handledare: Lars Carlman Bakgrund: Utvecklingen av internet har både skapat nya trender hos företagen och konsumenterna, där digital teknik på senare år har fått en stor betydelse i vardagen.

Det relativt nya fenomenet reality-serier blir allt populärare och upptar en stor del av dagens tv-tablå. Fenomenet tillsammans med övrig massmedia har större inflytande och påverkan på samhället och oss människor än någonsin tidigare. Man diskuterar alkoholens roll i samhället, dess konsekvenser för relationer, hälsa o.s.v. Sedan TV kom har även alkoholens representation i TV kommit att bli en he

The city of Lund updates the handling plan of garden waste with the desire to use it for biogas production. Garden waste works best as biogas substrate when it is separated in two fractions. Today, however, there are no sorting of the residents’ garden waste. The aim of the thesis is to explore how private households can sort out a fraction of garden waste that can be used to produce biogas. First

Slope failure has resulted in significant disruption to the Scottish road network in recent years and failure processes are widely considered to pose a very real risk to both infrastructure and road users. The manifestation of proposed regional climate variations could increase the hazard posed by landslide and debris flow activity within upland environments. It is therefore in the interests of de

Time-geography is one of the earliest analytical perspectives to study human activities and movements in space-time. With the increasing availability of geo-referenced individual level data and more powerful computational capabilities, more and more studies are implementing time-geographical constructs in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). This research evaluates the importance of different v

The main goal of this research was the development of GIS and Remote Sensing based methodology for environmental monitoring of bio- restoration activities of disturbed vegetation cover along oil pipeline corridor. For the achievement of the main goal, high – resolution multispectral IKONOS and FORMOSAT satellite images acquired during vegetation peak seasons in 2007 and 2008 were processed by poly

The majority of approaches for mass appraisal are based on global statistical models that take into account property characteristics, and, in developing countries, location variables are not often explicitly considered. The present study uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as an analytical tool to develop a number of location variables and to analyze their impact in the value of properties.

Jag har i denna uppsats studerat hur stereotyper för manligt och kvinnligt kommuniceras i tre av de podcastprogram som under hösten 2012 tillhörde Sveriges mest nedladdade. De tre program som jag studerat är Filip och Fredriks podcast, C/O Hannah & Amanda och Alex & Sigges podcast till följd av att alla dessa program utgörs av två medverkare av samma kön. Med utgångspunkt i att medietexte