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This paper is focused on two phenomenons that is called excess comovement and financial contagion. The excess comovement is defined as the comovement, or correlation, between normally uncorrelated assets, that can not be explained by economic fundamentals and financial contagion is the occurrence of excess comovement. Excess comovement has been observed on several stock markets by economic researc
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 has been hailed as a groundbreaking achievement. It was the first time in which the Security Council addressed women’s issues and a gender mainstreaming strategy was through the agenda introduced to the security domain. National Action Plans or NAPs have been developed in conjunction with the agenda to legitimise, spread and speed up the implementati
Globally, aviation biofuel (biojet) technology has reached a degree of progress that allows immediate substitution of conventional fossil fuel in commercial air travel. However,numerous factors constitute an impediment to its large-scale use and deployment: a diagnostic analysis identifying key obstacles to biojet development is needed. For this reason, an examination of actors, institutions and a
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading in microgrids is an innovative solution to local energy problems where consumers produce and sell their energy to their neighbours. The idea of a microgrid-based local energy trading enables decentralised energy system and strengthens consumers' participation. In the context of developing countries, microgrids play an important role in securing the mere access
Two variants of what looks like disagreement between a subject and a predicative adjective are explored: (i) Senap är gul-t. mustard.COMMON is yellow-NEUT ‘Mustard is yellow.’ = Construction NOM(inal) (ii) Två älskare är omoralisk-t. [two lovers]COMMON.PL is immoral-NEUT ‘To have two lovers is immoral.’ = Construction PROP(ositional) Having shown how Construction N
Haemophilia is an X-linked inherited recessive disorder affecting males. The increased risk of hemorrhage is explained by the deficiency in either coagulation factor VIII (haemophilia A) or IX (haemophilia B). The severity of haemophilia A and B is characterized by the bleeding pattern. For severe haemophilia bleeding is often spontaneous, mainly in muscles and joints. Since the 1950s the manifest
The aim of the present thesis was to explore reading comprehension and narration in children and adolescents with different degrees of hearing impairment (HI). In Study I, reading comprehension was investigated in 16 children with cochlear implants (CI), aged 7-13 years. Over 60% of the investigated children performed at the level of their hearing peers. Reading comprehension was better than expec
