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Today, Swedish police authorities nationwide collect data of traffic accidents. The information is stored in a national database managed by the Swedish Transport Agency and is an important resource in the process of analysing and improving road safety. Literature studies in this thesis, together with earlier work by the author have suggested that the data collection process is in need of an upda
Generella skatteflyktsregler, eller GAARs (general anti-avoidance rules), är legislativa åtgärder mot skatteflykt. GAARs typiska struktur består av två förutsättningar: skattebetalarens syfte och lagstiftarens syfte. Om det huvudsakliga syftet med en transaktion är att minimera skatteutgifter på ett sätt som lagstiftaren inte hade avsett får transaktionen bortses ifrån vid beskattningen. GAARs potGeneral anti-avoidance rules, or GAARs, are legislative measures against unacceptable tax avoidance. The typical structure of a GAAR refers to two prerequisites: the intent of the taxpayer and the intent of the legislator. If the main purpose of a transaction is to minimize tax expenses in a way unintended by the legislator, the transaction can be disregarded from a tax perspective. The potentiall
Green technologies are essential to the development of sustainable economy and environmental protection. Stimulating innovation in green technologies requires environmental policies, regulations, public awareness, and more importantly intellectual property protection such as patents. This thesis explores the significance of patents in the green innovation process, and how patents affect the firms’
With the underlying idea that vocabulary is seen as an essential part of language studies, this essay sought to find out how teachers of English in upper secondary schools in southern Sweden perceive of vocabulary teaching and learning, what methods for working with vocabulary are used in the English classroom, and how they relate their teaching of vocabulary to the syllabus for English. The data
Spårvägen is a neighborhood in Malmö that is being transformed from a bus depot in an old industrial area to an attractive residential neighborhood. The thesis investigates the role of greenery and biodiversity in the changing urban landscape in Spårvägen. The research analyzes how tensions between political demands on biodiversity in relation to economic structures are forming the urban greenery
Abstract The idea of the spread of life through the galaxy is, in most minds, considered science fiction. Yet, scientists argue that most galaxies have had more than enough time for civilisation development and space travel. In this thesis I simulate how civilisations can spread through the galaxy via close encountering stars, assuming they travel at sub-relativistic speeds. A defined region arou
Financial inclusion, defined as access and usage of formal financial services, has several positive micro and macro-level socio-economic implications. Due to decades of vigorous policies aiming at lowering barriers to formal finance, 80 percent of Indians now own a bank account. However, there is a significant gap between account take up and usage. One reason for low usage rate is persistent infor
The purpose of this thesis is to study complex analysis, the Bergman space and Korenblum's conjecture. This is done in three parts. In the first part the proofs that the conjecture is true are studied, giving lower bounds of Korenblum's constant. The first proof is explained in detail, to make it as accessible as possible to more people. The main differences for a couple of later proofs th
To investigate the differences in experienced stress and how this was moderated by the personality factors of work locus of control (WLOC) and extraversion between open plan-offices and activity based-offices (ABW), a questionnaire was sent out to the employees of nine different offices. 171 participants answered the questionnaire which consisted of five scales that measured perceived stress, dist
The objective of this study was to assess the influence of user behaviour on the Smart Grid performance and to identify possible interfaces between end-users and the energy network. In order to get an image of the electricity customers attitude to Smart Grids and energy-efficiency, a questionnaire was conducted as a first step. Afterwards, a combination of thermal building simulations and the deri
The insurance industry is notoriously conservative and has seen comparably few technological improvements in the last fifty years. A wave of new technology- driven insurance firms, or insurtechs, is changing that. By leveraging new technology and offering more customer-centric and innovative products, these firms have captured shares in many insurance markets. One technology — yet to be broadly a
Abstract The care for the environment in investment situations is rising among different groups of investors, due to social and psychological factors. Existing studies on nonpecuniary preferences for the environment are focused on measuring the proportion of individuals with green agendas, whereas we focus on measuring also magnitudes, i.e. how much future wealth are people actually prepared to gi
Dependence on fossil fuel is an issue for the many countries, it is particularly challenging for Small Island Developing States. Reliance on fossil fuel is becoming for many SIDS an economic burden. Due to the constant fluctuation in oil prices which leads to high fuel prices, high cost of living, and high electricity bills when the price of this commodity is high. This results in constant pressur
Klimatförändringar har under de senaste decennierna blivit ett allt hetare forskningsämne och man har då även studerat hur klimatet förändrats genom årmiljonerna. Ett spännande kapitel i jordens historia är ordovicium som karaktäriserades som en växthusvärld med koldioxidhalter nära tjugo gånger dagens. Denna varma period avslutades med en global istid som resulterade i ett av de största massutdöeClimate change has become an increasingly important subject in geological research as past climates can teach us about the global climate systems. This thesis is a literature study on natural climate archives with examples from the Late Ordovician Boda Event. The Ordovician Period represented a greenhouse world with atmospheric CO2 levels almost twenty times higher then today. The climate became c
Development and how to reach economic growth have been discussed and talked about since the Industrial revolution in Europe pushed productivity and wages up but the models have changed over time and space. The most successful ones seems to build on traditional patterns of agriculture and growing domestic markets, but with a growing global market and new players on the world market can it be that t
