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En or ett, un or una? A comparative study on the assignment of grammatical gender to borrowings in Swedish and Spanish

In recent years, experimental studies on gender assignment to borrowings in languages such as German and Dutch have observed variation in gender assignment in relation to dialectal areas, among other factors. However, many issues related to gender assignment have yet to be fully understood, and the sociolinguistic variation has not been properly investigated. The objective of the present study is

Internal Stresses in Wood Caused by Climate Variations

This thesis is the result of a series of investigations on the hygro-mechanical behaviour of clear wood in the radial and tangential directions. Approximately half of the effort put into the investigations was concentrated on laboratory tests while the remaining effort was concentrated on modelling the observations made in the tests. The results from the investigations are published or submitted f

No Woman, No Cry? - A study of board members’ gender and its impact on company performance

In recent history, gender diversity has become a frequent subject of discussion in the context of company boardroom and performance. Affirmative action is debated and some countries, like Norway in 2003, have chosen side and taken concrete legal action. The arguments for and against gender quotas range from qualitative ideological reasoning to more quantifiable statements. However, it seems that

Multinationella företags organisation : ett nyinstitutionellt ekonomiskt perspektiv på samordning

During the 1980s and the 1990s several researchers have described new organisational features and a new organisational form in multinational enterprises, linked to a variety of theoretical approaches. Can the new organisational features be analysed from a consistent theoretical basis, and can, hereby, a new organisational form be distinguished from earlier forms? The purpose of this dissertation i

Skillnader och likheter mellan japanska shinrinyoku och svenska rekreationsvärden i skog: En litteraturstudie

Stress and anxiety related illnesses havebecome more present in our society and as a result it has become more important to find ways to combat this growing issue. Quite a fewnature-related practices have proven themselves useful for this.This study aims to examine the positive health benefits from recreational activities in Swedishforests and the Japanese activity shrinin-yoku (roughly translated