This bachelor thesis aims to apply an actor oriented social networking theory to analyse a letter collection written by Olga Johnsson, a young Swedish female immigrant to the USA between 1895 and 1900. Its main question is what her social network looked like, what was exchanged within it, and the content and meaning of her social relationships. This approach to "letters from America" has

The purpose of this bachelor thesis was to study the experiences that children had growing up in poor living conditions due to their parent's substance abuse. The children included in this study are in adult age describing their childhood in relation to their parents substance abuse and the effect it had on them. The consequences both short-term and long-term, as well as the mental health of t

The purpose of this study is to examine how the US media has portrayed the Kurdish female fighters in Syria. Since the battle of Kobane the fighters of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) have been sensationalised and received immense attention in western news media. Previous research has shown that female combatants are portrayed differently than their male counterparts, and this assumption is the

Purpose The thesis examines the use of Big Data Analytics by audit firms. The purpose of the study is to establish the impact of this new audit technology in practice. Three research questions are developed. The first question investigates how BDA is impacting the audit process. The second research question analyses how the use of BDA is affecting the application of professional judgement by audit

This article takes Shanghai as an example and attempts to empirically investigate the effect of local public goods supply on housing prices and regional differences based on the Tiebout model. The paper uses the panel data of Shanghai's 16 administrative regions from 2010 to 2017. The results confirm that local public goods have a significant positive impact on the overall housing prices in Sh

Studien undersökte vilka bakomliggande faktorer som kan påverka en individs flygvanor, där frågeställningen avsåg att ta reda på om ett förändrat flygbeteende kan förklaras utifrån personlighetsfaktorer, skam eller need for cognition. Data insamlades genom en webbenkät där 107 respondenter deltog, och som berörde frågor samt påståenden gällande personlighetsfaktorer, need for cognition och skamkän

Bakgrund: Arbete är en högt värderad aktivitet i dagens samhälle. Effekten av arbete har en betydande roll för individens hälsa och ur ett samhällsekonomiskt perspektiv. Nationella riktlinjer rekommenderar arbetsrehabiliteringsmodellen Individual Placement and Support för personer med allvarlig psykisk sjukdom och har god evidens för arbetsåtergång inom diagnosgruppen. Primärt har studier undersökIntroduction: Work is a highly valued occupation in today’s society and plays a significant important role for individual’s well-being and also out of a socio-economic perspective. Individual Placement and Support is an evidence-based model for vocational rehabilitation developed and standardized for people with severe mental illness. Studies show that the IPS-model have been implemented for new p

På grund av den ökade miljö- och klimatmedvetenheten har övergången till förnybara material påskyndats, och detsamma gäller intresset för träbyggande. Med att bygga högt i trä kommer dock ett flertal konstruktionsmässiga utmaningar, där en av utmaningarna är dynamik på grund av träets låga egenvikt jämfört med andra mer konventionella byggnadsmaterial. Vissa av dessa utmaningar kan avhjälpas med iDue to the increasing environmental awareness, the transition pace to renewable materials has increased, and the use of timber in construction is no exception. However, using timber in high rise building applications comes with structural challenges, e.g dynamic issues originating from timber being lightweight compared to conventional building materials. Some of the structural challenges with timb

Coronaviruset sprids nu över hela världen, vilket skapar utmaningar för både individer och samhället i sin helhet. Pandemin påverkar personer på en psykologisk nivå, även om de kanske inte vet om det själva. Inspirerade av Tversky & Kahnemans (1981) Asian Disease Problem, så syftar den här uppsatsen till att undersöka hur effekten av framing påverkar människors beslutsfattande under en pandemiThe world is currently facing the coronavirus, which causes challenges to individuals, as well as society as a whole. The pandemic affects people on a psychological level, even if they might not know it. Inspired by Tversky & Kahneman’s (1981) Asian Disease Problem; this paper aims to investigate how framing effect in time of a pandemic affects decision making, how this could be linked to fear

DNA profiling is evolving in the forensics community towards introducing massively parallel sequencing (MPS) as a complement to capillary electrophoresis (CE). Obstacles remain however before this technology can become routine in forensic casework, such as the development of more efficient bioinformatics solutions and recommendations concerning data analyses. Additionally, there is a need to devel

It is of interest to design a methodology in predicting the fillability of non-Newtonian viscoelastic product such as meat batter by analyzing its rheological properties, reducing the need to perform pilot plant scale tests. Meat batter with different added water produced in laboratory and pilot plant were analyzed to represent meat batters with different rheological characteristics and filling

Most companies organize their employees into different functions based on their main activity. The performance and output of the company is often strongly correlating to the level of collaboration between these functions. When communication between the functions becomes hindered, they have become so called functional silos, as information is kept within them. The purpose is to identify how the fu

Sammanfattning Titel Beställning och lagerstyrning av råvaror hos AR Packaging Systems Författare Hedda Trönnberg och Hedvig Orvenholt Handledare Ph.D. Jan Olhager, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, avdelningen för Teknisk Logistik Max Ivarsson, Supply Chain Specialist, AR Packaging Systems AB Examinator Ph.D. Louise Bildsten, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, avdelningen för Teknisk Logistik Bakgrund AR PackagAbstract Title Ordering and inventory control of raw materials at AR Packaging Systems Authors Hedda Trönnberg and Hedvig Orvenholt Supervisors Ph.D. Jan Olhager, Lund University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics Max Ivarsson, Supply Chain Specialist, AR Packaging Systems AB Examiner Ph.D. Louise Bildsten, Lund University, Faculty of Engineering, Depart

Bygg- och fastighetssektorn är en av de sektorer som släpper ut mest växthusgaser. Under ett enskilt år så svarar byggbranschen för utsläpp av växthusgaser på 21 miljoner ton koldioxidekvivalenter, vilket motsvarar 21 procent av Sveriges totala utsläpp. Av det totala utsläppet på 21 miljoner koldioxidekvivalenter så kommer 12,8 miljoner ton från inhemska utsläpp av växthusgaser och 8,2 miljoner toThe building and real estate sector is one of the sectors that emits the most greenhouse gases. For a single year, the construction industry is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions of 21 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which corresponds to 21 per cent of Sweden's total emissions. Of the total emissions of 21 million carbon dioxide equivalents, 12.8 million tons come from domesti

By using data to generate insights, Data Science has increased in popularity and has become a substantial part of many companies. However, Data Science efforts often result in failure, leading to companies not having the expected outcome of their Data Science investments. There seems to be knowledge lacking to why, therefore, this thesis aims to describe what may influence the expected outcome of

Female drivers operating in the public transport sector are underrepresented in the literature on women’s mobility which largely addresses the fear of crime among female riders. Alternative modes of transport, as well as job opportunities, have nevertheless started to emerge as international and local ride-hailing firms mushroom across the globe in urban cities. The World Bank Group International

Big Data Analytics är processen som används vid analyser av stora mängder data i syfte att upptäcka samband och mönster av värde som kan ligga till grund för framtida beslutsfattanden. En av de främsta utmaningarna som omnämns i litteraturen är att säkerställa kvaliteten på den data som används vid analyser. Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva organisationers hantering av utmaningar med datak

Organizational decision making is a challenging task that tends to be impactful. Decisionmakers have for more than 50 years been using different types of computational support to enable for more accurate and faster decision. In today’s business context, there is an increasing volume of data available for the decision-maker. However, humans are limited in their capacity to consume and manage data a