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Riskkapitalmarknaden kan härledas så långt tillbaka som till 1940-talet då de första private equity-investeringarna genomfördes i USA, och sedan dess har branschens utsträckning ständigt förändrats i takt med det rådande ekonomiska klimatet, både hög- och lågkonjunkturer, och är idag ett starkt etablerat fenomen även i Sverige. Private equity är den investeringsform som inom samlingsbegreppet risThe risk capital market can be traced as far back as the 1940s when the first private equity investment was made in the United States, and since then, the industry has constantly changed along with the current economic climate, and is today a strongly established phenomenon even in Sweden. The term private equity covers all investments that are made in unlisted companies and they typically involv

When diagnosing acute coronary syndrome, time is of the essence and electrocardiography the most effective method to obtain data about the patients condition. Artificial neural networks can here be used to assist medical doctors. In this text the wavelet transform is introduced as a signal processing method for piping ECG-curves to ANN’s. The performance of this setup (ANN performance is measured b

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka och diskutera om the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) är en rättskälla i svensk rätt. Detta görs genom att redogöra för argument för och emot referensramen som svensk rättskälla. Denna fråga är viktig att utreda då det finns skilda meningar om detta bland den svenska juridiska doktrinen. Detta skapar ett osäkert rättsläge som kan ge upphov till osäkerhet infThis thesis deals with the question of whether or not the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) is a source of law in the Swedish legal system. This is done by outlining the arguments for and against the frame of reference as a Swedish law source. This issue is important to investigate because of the disagreement among the swedish judical experts whether it is or not. This legal uncertainty creat

Global disease transmission is an important area, since knowledge of the time of the onset of an epidemic in a region might help authorities to save many lives. In this thesis I have used a deterministic model with eight parameters, of which two were time dependent, for spreading of the SARS disease. My model is an extension of a model by Colizza and co-workers, where I have added a Heaviside step

Vi undersöker strukturen och stabiliteten hos fixpunkter i en modell för transport av auxin. Arbetet bygger vidare p*a tidigare arbeten av Anders Svensson och Patrik Sahlin m.fl. Svensson undersökte 2008 en modell för transport av auxin, den s.k. skalningsmodellen. I detta arbete kompletterar vi dels denna undersökning, och dels så generaliserar vi modellen till två dimensioner och undersöker den

A selection of the latest and most frequently used PDFs is incorporated in Pythia8, including the MC-adapted PDFs from the MSTW and CTEQ collaborations. This thesis examines the differences in PDFs as well as the effect they have on results of simulations. The results are also compared to data collected by the CDF experiment.

This thesis describes methods for treating servo-induced vibrations in robotics. The focus lies on portal robots (also called linear robots) that partially consist of hardware manufactured by Bernecker & Rainer Industrie-Elektronik Ges.m.b.H. It is of interest in many industrial applications that there is some kind of vibration treatment in the control strategy. The main reason for this is tha

Chinese orthodox philosophy is often described as communitarian and characterised by the concept of positive freedom, which, defined by Isaiah Berlin's two concepts of liberty, deems it necessity to curb individual freedom for the good of a community. Still, some orthodox Chinese writers also use aspects of negative freedom, insisting on a sphere of individual freedom that no authority can cur

The purpose of the thesis was to introduce the general process of the Modern Guide Dog Movement in Japan. The research was conducted by the fieldwork in Tokyo, spring 2011, under a main contribution from the Japan Guide Dog Association through interviews and participant observations. An in-depth study of the three-stage Modern Guide Dog Movement in Japan is presented and discussed in the thesis. D

Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka om metaemotioner, experientiellt undvikande och medveten närvaro kan förutsäga partillfredsställelse skattad med Couples Satisfaction Index. Dessutom undersöktes om specifika metaemotioner och parternas metaemotionsfilosofier kan förutsäga partillfredsställelse. Samband för ovanstående har visats eller antytts i tidigare studier. Dessa studier har dThe aim of the present study was to investigate the role of meta-emotions, experiential avoidance, and mindfulness in the prediction of couples’ satisfaction, estimated with the Couples Satisfaction Index. Additionally, the study examined whether individuals’ meta-emotions and partners’ meta-emotion philosophies could predict couple satisfaction. A connection between the above-mentioned constructs

By use of a lattice random walk algorithm we model diffusion in a many-body system and study the mean square displacement (MSD) for a tagged particle for different distributions of crowding particles, with particular emphasis on obtaining the correlation factor which contains the corrections to the mean-field result in such a system. The MSD in such a crowded environment is investigated and we fin

Studien undersöker om en riktad manipulation kan påverka en försöksdeltagare att aktivt korrigera sin responstid vid ett implicit test gällande fördomar. Manipulationen gavs som falsk feedback efter ett SPF test (Sorting Paired Features task) och hypotesen var att personer som erhåller ingruppsfavoritism som feedback främst korrigerar sin responstid för sin ingrupp medans personer som erhåller fee

This paper examines the potential decrease in Swedish green house gas emissions as a result of a more ecologically sustainable household consumption. The consumption changes modelled are; a vegan diet, reduced household electricity use and changed private traveling patterns. To do this, the Swedish version of the software programme Resource and Energy Analysis Program (REAP Sweden) is being use

Kan man förutspå en finanskris? De amerikanska ekonomerna Reinhart och Rogoff har gjort en studie1 över historiska finanskriser. I deras studie utgår de från fem olika ekonomiska variabler. I den här uppsatsen görs en utvärdering av de fem ekonomiska variablerna. Beroende på vilket värde variablerna hade åren 2004-2007, så är utgångspunkten att olika länder hade olika risk att drabbas av en finans

This thesis seeks to reveal the relationship of language and content in a Moroccan short story. These relationships are defined as such by pointing out single linguistic elements in the story’s language which reproduce a certain component of the story’s content. The main question hereby asks for the effect of the author’s language on the message itself – for, as the carrier of information, languag

Varumärkesrätten är territoriell, till skillnad från Internet, en av våra idag viktigaste marknadsplatser, som är globalt. Ett resultat av varumärkesrättens territorialitet och det faktum att rättigheterna till ett varumärke följer registrerings- eller inarbetningslandets gränser är att det är möjligt för ett varumärke att ägas av olika innehavare i olika länder. Vilket kan leda till problem när sTrademark law is territorial, contrary to one of today’s most important market places - the Internet, which is a global medium. Since the exclusive right to a trademark follows the boundaries of its country of registration or incorporation, it is possible for the same trademarks to be registered by different owners in different countries, something that can lead to problems on the Internet. The bo

This thesis analyzes the workings of the natural resource curse in Bolivia through a comparison between two periods with different institutional conditions and under dependency on tin and natural gas respectively. First the conditions for handling the resource curse are analyzed and a hypothesis is presented, suggesting that both periods are likely to have suffered from the natural resource curse