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Utility theory and Monte Carlo simulations are used to calculate optimal allocation for long term as well as, risk averse investors with a portfolio consisting of one risky asset and one risk-free bank account. The problems solved in this thesis are divided into two types, static and dynamic. A strategy is given for a static problem, such as Buy and Hold (B\&H) or Constant Weights (CW) and op

This master thesis explores options for efficient simulation in the product development process ofa composite part. It’s method is a result of observation of the development process within twoleading companies, both renowned specialists in their respective domains. Koenigsegg Automotive,is probably the most famous and carbon fiber intensive supercar producing company in the world.Altair Engineerin

Pollinating insects are important, not only to wild flowering plants, but also for crops. But the number of pollinators is decreasing all over the world. This is thought to happen mainly because of the lack of suitable habitats but also of diseases and pesticides. The decreasing number of pollinators have led to an increased need of managed honeybees and bumblebees for pollination of crops. This c

Explores the origins of suburban expansion and identifies 9 key ‘symptoms’ of urban sprawl – including car dependency, social isolation and monofunctional neighbourhoods. The research is based on a site location of Deer Park in Melbourne, Australia. By making proposals at the metropolitan, district, neighbourhood and block scales the aim is to challenge these symptoms, thereby improving the functi

This bachelor’s essay is about how social workers as street-level bureaucrats are dealing with addicted clients and how the process continues in order to find the most optimal treatment for them. The aim was to study which factors, according to the social workers, that were considered as most important and how they affect their task to find an adequate treatment for these clients. Furthermore, the

In this study, a physico-chemical analysis of the Rocha River was performed during the beginning of the rainy season 2018 in order to examine the current state of the water quality in the river at six different locations. The river, located in the Cochabamba department, Bolivia, was examined from upstream in Sacaba to downstream in Sipe Sipe. An additional aim was to determine social and environme

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur mediepubliken uppfattar dagens klimatjournalistik samt vilka positiva och/eller negativa känslor klimatjournalistiken kan skapa. Analysen görs utifrån ett sociologiskt perspektiv. Uppsatsens metod är blandad och innehåller en kvalitativ intervjuundersökning och en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Uppsatsens intervjuresultat av den kvalitativa intervjuunders

Japan lies on an area frequently hit by typhoons while city functions are clustered along the flat coastal areas, hence Japan has experienced lots of storm surge disasters up to the present. Coastal areas along the Suo-nada Sea also have the vulnerability against storm surge and in the past Typhoon 18 in 1999, Typhoon 16 and 18 in 2004 made remarkable damages in the areas. Furthermore, due to glob

The purpose of the study is to examine the attitudes towards criminal records, presented in Flashback in order to gain greater knowledge and understanding of how the criminal record can affect (re)integration. The material consists of posts from the forum Flashback with content about how the criminal record can affect an individual's opportunities in the society and to integrate. The method pe

This paper evaluates the diversification possibilities in emerging markets for a Swedish investor. Two investors with different objectives, one seeks to minimize her risk and one seeks to maximize her risk-adjusted return, are examined. We investigate how non-normal distribution of returns affects the investments and if the benefits of diversification are decreasing over the time period 2006-2018.

In 2012, the Government made an amendment to the Act of alcohol, which meant an exception to the licensing of alcohol on special housing, including for elderly people. The aim of this study was to gather experiences among nursing staff about when elderly’s alcohol consumption becomes problematic and how they argue to solve a problematic situation. Although how the staff of nursing home for elderly

While career-related motives are not given much attention in studies on party membership, there are strong reasons to believe that such professional factors are important for young party members. This study is the first comprehensive investigation of how career-related motives impact the willingness of Swedish leading young party members to become politicians in the future. A unique survey among t

The aim with this essay was to study how professionals within the social services describe collaboration between the different various actors in regard to people with dual diagnosis. This study relies on four qualitative, semi structured interviews with professionals who work with the dual diagnosis target group. The theoretical frame which this study is based upon consists of Berth Danermarks (20

Convolutional Neural Networks impressed the world in 2012 by reaching state-of-the-art accuracy levels in the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. The era of machine learning has arrived and with it countless applications varying from autonomous driving to unstructured robotic manipulation. Computational complexity in the past years has grown exponentially, requiring highly efficient

Finding the expected number of generations it takes before every individual in a population (of constant size) only has one type of gene at a particular locus of a chromosome, can be formulated as computing the mean absorption time in a Markov chain. However, the Markov chain approach is inappropriate when the population is large. This is commonly solved by approximating the Markov chain with a di

The modern society is getting more and more digitalized and the concept Internet of Things is growing. The data being collected and digital services require a place to be accessed and sold, thus setting the demand for a new kind of marketplace; an online IoT focused marketplace. The large EU supported open source platform for Smart Solutions, FIWARE, has created such a marketplace, namely the Busi