This thesis investigates whether the stock market in the Baltic countries exhibit herd behavior during the period 2006-2014. A quantitative approach is used to see if investors show group oriented mentality in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and in the Baltics as whole. This is further complemented with a qualitative approach. The quantitative part is based on a market wide approach. The models pr

The thesis investigates the overlap between trademark and patent law and the extent thereof and whether the overlap poses a threat to competition. The first part of the thesis concentrates on the legislation on the matter and the relevant case-law, the second part investigates the possibility of registering patented subject-matter as trademarks constituting a competition infringement. Both the reg

Studien syftar till att förstå hur personalen resonerar kring den kategorisering som följer det integrerande arbetet med nyanlända ungdomar inom skolan. Studien är baserad på sex kvalitativa, semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Intervjupersonerna är anställda och arbetar med nyanlända unga inom skolan och har olika yrken. Studien utgår från fem teman: tankar kring kategorisering som fenomen, dominerandThe aim of this study is to understand how staff reason about the categorization that follows due to the integration work with newly arrived youth in school. The study is based on six qualitative semi- structured interviews with employees with different professions who all work with newly arrived youths in school. The study includes five themes: thoughts about the nature of categorization, recurre

The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes among adolescents toward people with psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression. Mental illness is an increasing problem in society, not just among the average population but among the adolescents as well. A person who suffers from a mental illness is seen as different compared to the rest of society and therefor are being treated in a

Capital inflows can have beneficial effects for the receiving country, such as fostering economic growth. But they can also have severe negative effects, such as increasing financial vulnerability and overall macroeconomic instability. There is a widespread perception among academics as well as policymakers that capital inflows are correlated with asset prices. This essay aims to examine if there

The aim of this study has been to scrutinize how Swedish media portrays computer, -and video games in debate articles. This study will therefore define our interpretations of how debate articles in Swedish press describes computer, -and video games and whether or not they are depicted as originators of social problems or tools of development. We have also chosen to analyze debate articles from 200

Inom forskningsområdet livslångt lärande är generations-överskridande lärande ett populärt tema och många projekt i Sverige och Europa organiseras för att skapa möten och lärande mellan generationer. Vad detta lärande innebär är sällan specificerat och syftet med denna uppsats är därför att ur ett pedagogiskt perspektiv undersöka generationsöverskridande lärande som koncept utifrån tidigare forskn

This is a mixed methods study employing a grounded theory framework with the network organization Global High Schools Denmark as a case. The study aims at understanding how teachers in the network conceptualize global education. Data was collected through in depth semi-structured interviews with teachers as well as through an online self-completion survey. The thesis finds four main conceptualizat

Buller i förskolan undersöks utifrån syftet att genom en diskursanalys urskilja hur bullerbekämpning i en skrift om förskolan förändrar och styr barns aktiviteter och vilka antaganden om barn och buller som det grundar sig på. Med den diskursanalytiska metoden där språk och ting är en del i att iscensätta flera buller som samverkar urskiljs mekanismer för styrning av barns aktiviteter för att kont

This thesis presents the two hypotheses that airlines use their frequent flyer programmes (FFPs) to introduce switching costs to combat competition by increasing the percent discount of the value of the points their FFP members receive, and that they use their FFPs to support price discrimination by offering business travellers more value for their travel choices. Economic theory to support these

This thesis aims to explain how and why the representations of transit forced migrants in Indonesian major print media were vastly different within two time spans: (1) during the arrivals of the Indochinese refugees in 1975-1996 and (2) in the period of the new generations of refugees from Middle Eastern and South Asian countries in 1997-2013. Employing media content analysis of 216 news articles

This thesis explores discourses surrounding the concept of diversity in the city of Malmö and how the municipality addresses diversity issues in policy and practice. The study is based on 17 qualitative interviews with eight politicians and nine civil servants on their understanding and experience with diversity in their respective roles. The informants define diversity as differences between soci

Många företag idag vill göra simuleringar i en dator innan de börjar bygga fysiska prototyper. Fördelen med detta är att det är billigare att simulera produkter än att bygga prototyper, och det går snabbare att göra ändringar.For the modeling language Modelica, there is no standard for the testing of Modelica models. In this thesis we investigate a new way to create and run tests by developing an external test authoring tool. Our tool was developed by first examining existing testing practices, and then trying to improve upon those by iteratively developing our tool. This was done while continuously performing user stu

Lotta Lotass Fjärrskrift is a work that makes use of three different media, a 50 meter long teleprinter strip and two filmed versions, distributed in cinemas and published on internet, which are portraying how the strip is made through a teleprinter. The purpose of this study is to investigate by the use of Lars Elleström’s theory of intermediality the different connections between the three diff

Bakgrund: Neglekt är ofta en kronisk invalidiserande komplikation efter stroke, som kännetecknas av omedvetenhet om stimuli på motsatt sida av kroppen eller utrymmet. Den är svår att identifiera i tidigt skede och anses vara ett allvarligt hinder för rehabilitering. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att belysa vilka krav som sjuksköterskor ställs inför för att identifiera och rehabilitera patient

Have you ever wondered why there are ribs on bottles or cans? Perhaps you can guess that ribs are applied to the packages because of some technical functions. In fact, ribs carry more value than you can imagine. According to the literature review and the research on 100 Swedish consumers, ribs have both pros and cons but the former surpasses the latter. Originated from the demand of preventing def

Tidigare forskning har visat att KBT behandling inte är verksamt när det gäller patienter med utmattningssyndrom, varken för att förbättra måendet eller förkorta sjukskrivningstiden. Föreliggande studie har undersökt om detta överensstämmer med hur en grupp yrkesverksamma KBT behandlare på primärvårdsnivå uppfattar resultatet av terapier med dessa patienter och hur detta kan förklaras. BehandlarnaPrevious research has shown that CBT treatment is not successful for patients with stressrelated exhaustion, neither to improve the wellbeing nor to shorten the sick leave. The study has examined if this is accurate to how a group of CBT-therapists on primary care level perceive the results of therapies with these patients and how this can be explained. The therapists have also described which int

APIer över HTTP anpassas sällan för olika klienters behov vilket medför krånglig kommunikation och reducerad prestanda. En API-gateway kan placeras mellan klienter och APIer för att åtgärda detta.This thesis investigates the benefits and complications around working with API (Application Programming Interface) gateways. When we say API gateway, we mean to proxy and potentially enhance the communication between servers and clients, such as browsers, by transforming the data. We do this by examining the underlying protocol HTTP/1.1 and the general theory regarding API gateways. An API gatew